Onlydarksets » Fuzzy Concepts

How to increase blog traffic 20x in one day with three easy steps

onlydarksets — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:05:59 +0000

Blog about a relatively obscure fix for a consumer electronics device.
Wait until a catastrophic bug requires everyone to utilize that fix, and Google sends ‘em your way.
Ka-ching!

Disclaimer: Results generally good for one day only…

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Market cap? Seriously?

onlydarksets — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:05:51 +0000

Why would anyone talk about reduced market cap as an indicator of anything in this market?

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Pandora shutting down in 2010?

onlydarksets — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:21:58 +0000

According to an interview with its founder in the Washington Post, Pandora is getting close to shutting its doors:

“We’re approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. “This is like a last stand for webcasting.”

Basically, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to double the royalty payments for Web radio by 2010 (see page 6). Pandora currently spends $17 million of it’s $25 million on royalties as it is, so, obviously, the “math don’t work.”

This seems incredibly short sighted of the recording artists lobby. Of course, the big player here is SoundExchange (a RIAA puppet), so that shouldn’t be too surprising.

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Congrats Art Monk!

onlydarksets — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:37:00 +0000

The enshrinement for such a classy and dominant player is long overdue. Congrats!

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Thank you, AT&T, for doing your job

onlydarksets — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:50:40 +0000

My AT&T account has a corporate discount on it, so last week I called AT&T to find out if I needed to remove it before adding an iPhone as a new line.

The nice lady reviewed my information, told me I did not, in fact, have a FAN discount (although she couldn’t identify what type of discount I do have), and that I would be perfectly fine getting setup with an iPhone (after waiting in line for who knows how long).

Of course, when I got there, my account was “ineligible”, so I had to create a new account.

I called AT&T today, and they merged the new account into the old account and activated the Family plan, all within about 10 minutes. I got off the phone thinking, “Wow, great work, AT&T!” Then I remembered why I had to call in the first place…

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