Author Archives: Nick Dynice

Drama 2.0

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Nick Dynice

My girlfriend and I attended the TechCrunch/PopSugar meetup last night. Well, Mike Arrington had to give Valleywag something to talk about. He, along with 6 bouncers escorted Bonny Pierzina, (a vlogger who was hired to photographer the event …

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Do you want to be like Billy or like Trent?

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Nick Dynice

We now have two great examples to point at in the music industry on adapting to change.

On one end, we have Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who ditches his label, does his own production, marketing and sales, and …

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Mahalo and 37 Signals: Apples and Oranges

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Nick Dynice

I am taking issue with the way Stilgherrian has characterized the working style of Jason Calacanis by comparing Mahalo to 37 Signals. Yes, they are both startups, and they are both in the “web 2.0″ space, but are …

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3 Moblogging Tools Reviewd: Twitxr, ShoZu, JuiceCaster

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nick Dynice

For moblogging, you need to camera phone with e-mail capability. So, I just upgraded to a Motorola W490 specifically for the photo and video features. I was eager to connect it to my Flickr account. Flickr …

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Free e-books

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Mike at Techdirt points to some half-hearted efforts at free e-books. The books will only be available for a limited time, and they cannot be printed. It is all posturing by the book publishers who still believe …

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You can buy technology, but not culture

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Arik Hesseldahl at Business Week has some great points for Steve Ballmer: don’t try to be all things to all people. Then you spread yourself too thin, you know, like peanut butter.

If and when this Yahoo-Microsoft deal happens, …

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An analysis of Google’s Social Graph API

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Despite the valid concerns that some have with Google’s Social Graph API, I thought I would talk about the technical possibilities. My social graph may be of particular interest becuase I had used my Wordpress blog’s XFN feature …

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The Networks Effects of Creating Value Networks with Derivative Creative Works

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Nick Dynice

There is some talk of Fair Use reform to define it as: “work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use.”

So, what are some examples of adding value? …

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To Big Media All Media is Commercial, to Normal People Media is Part of a Conversation

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Nick Dynice

All forms of media and broadcasted conversations were at one time only producible by Big Media companies. And most of it was for commercial use. This is the broadcasting, music selling, book selling; the licensing and permission …

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Comments on the TV and Movie Writers’ Strike and New Media

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Update 12/9/2007:
I actually met a striking writer today and although we did not speak at length on this topic, she made me think that maybe I don’t totally know all of the details of how the business works. …

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