The Pitch Drop Experiment
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The Pitch
The Pitch
09/19/2004 08:03 AMI got a msg from the Bush campaign (I'm a member of GOP TeamLeader)
touting an HBO movie, 9 Innings from Ground Zero. The msg links to a
clip about Bush throwing out the first pitch. In it, W lets us know
the pressure on him not to "bounce" it. I can see why the Republicans
are circulating it. It's a good piece of tape, in a
patriotic-cum-Riefenstahl sense. And, on the other hand, it's maybe
the most absurd reduction of a serious issue I have ever seen. You
want to see American political cynicism at its worst? This is...
The climateprediction.net Experiment
The climateprediction.net Experiment
06/02/2004 05:29 AMThe climateprediction.net Experimenthttp://www.climateprediction.n
etThe climateprediction.net experiment has been
developed to allow a state-of-the-art climate prediction model to be
run on home/ school/ work computers. By getting data from thousands of
climate models, we will generate the world's largest climate
prediction experiment.
Experience Experiment
Experience Experiment
02/05/2005 09:57 PMThe Brand Experience Lab links cool technologies with cool companies.
MT Comments Experiment
MT Comments Experiment
04/27/2004 03:59 PMOkay, everybody out there in blogland, here's an open invitation to
post whatever the hell you want in the comments thread of *THIS*
particular entry. The ONLY requirement is that you post as ME. So, use
*MY* name (Chris Pirillo), *MY* e-mail address (chris@pirillo.com),
and *MY* blog address (which, in case you're too to have noticed, is
http://chris.pirillo.com/). At the end of the day, everybody has to
guess who the *REAL* Chris Pirillo is. So, go ahead - post as "me,"
and then guess who "I" am. All non-me comments will be deleted and
banned permanently, so play by the rules or GTFO. This experiment is
only valid for this entry....
The great experiment
The great experiment
07/26/2004 08:54 AMI'd like to welcome both the new Technorati website design and Politics Coverage into the
world. We're still working out some kinks and bugs, so don't be
surprised if there's an occastional problem - please let us know and we'll fix
things ASAP!
Here's the press release announcing the launch. I'd just like to
reach out and give HUGE thanks to the Technorati team. I'm so lucky
to be working with you. You guys rock.
More to post later when I get to the Fleet Center for the DNC
coverage today. As soon as the CNN coverage launches, I'll post as
well. I sure hope the Wifi confinues to work after they turn on those
ISM wireless video cameras (they both run at 2.4GHz)!
"thought experiment"
"thought experiment"
01/16/2004 10:58 AMThought experiment
Thought experiment
01/16/2004 11:05 AMThe client is the wrong place to enforce data integrity. It's just
the wrong place. If you want to do it, of course I can't stop you.
But think about who it will hurt. (1116 words)
Another Thought Experiment
Another Thought Experiment
01/16/2004 01:04 PMMark Pilgram
expresses his concerns about how some aggregators plan
to handle invalid Atom feeds. Mark believes that rejecting
invalid XML on the client side is a bad idea, and proposes a thought
experiment in which all web browsers use strict XML parsers and refuse
to display XHTML that isn't well-formed.
This is a bit of a bait-and-switch, though. XHTML has the whole
sordid history of HTML on its back, and since browsers have generally
been forgiving of even the most convoluted HTML there's a substantial
backwards-compatibility issue. The XML-based Atom, however, is brand-spanking new, so it doesn't
have the same baggage as XHTML.
So, let's try another thought experiment. I've copied Mark's Atom
newsfeed and made it invalid XML by adding a single &
character, then uploaded it to my site:
http://www.bradsoft.c
om/feeds/badatom.xml
Mark asks us to "imagine that all web browsers use strict XML
parsers," but rather than use our imaginations, lets see what happens
when we browse this feed in Internet Explorer:
Hmmm...IE appears to be doing client-side validation, and it shows
an error instead of displaying the feed's contents. Okay, so let's
try Mozilla:
Looks like Mozilla does the same thing. How about Opera?
So, the most popular Windows browsers all perform client-side
validation, and fail to display the contents of the invalid Atom feed.
There's nothing surprising here, of course - any validating XML
parser will reject this feed.
Consumers of RSS feeds have had to code around all sorts of
validation problems in order to be backwards-compatible with existing
feeds. Atom, however, is new, so customers aren't already subscribed
to hundreds of invalid Atom feeds. Being well-formed is a requirement
of XML, and Atom is defined as an XML format, so why not expect Atom
feeds to be well-formed? Let's get it right this time.
MIDI-Pitch-0.2
MIDI-Pitch-0.2
04/10/2005 08:47 PMMIDI-Pitch-0.3
MIDI-Pitch-0.3
04/10/2005 08:47 PM+8% pitch & tempo
+8% pitch & tempo
12/31/2003 02:39 AM Morrissey is Debbie Harry at +8% pitch & tempo (MP3). More
high-pitched artists
here.
More about Morrissey
here)
Did Apple pitch a fit?
Did Apple pitch a fit?
03/17/2005 03:19 AM
GoogleX :
Homage,
lat
e night idea or
somethi
ng more?
(via a comment @ Mofi) "Fever Pitch"
"Fever Pitch"
04/08/2005 09:28 AMJimmy Fallon and the ever-luminous Drew Barrymore bunt their way
through this Farrelly brothers ode to baseball.
Offshoring where do we go next and my
run in with a pitch man
Offshoring where do we go next and my
run in with a pitch man
07/07/2004 07:21 PMI felt really sorry for the guy that called the office last week. I
get the holler from across the hallway hey some guy wants to talk to
you about offshoring wanna take it? Hmmmmmmm those of you that have
been reading here for awhile know my stance on offshoring. (When Hell
freezes over) So I take the guys call. The least he could have done is
called me via a real land-line instead I get the common static buzz of
a net based call. We talk for about 30 minutes while I pick the guys
brain nothing really brain shattering came out of the discussion.
He ask to send me some info and I say sure, I would be happy to
look at their promotion material. A week later what finally shows up
in my inbox, his pitch material curious read to say the least. Call me
traditional, "Made in the USA" and "Support Stays in the USA". If any
of you would like a copy of what they sent me drop me a line, I'll
forward it to you. Companies are now weighing the backlash of their
customers before offshoring some say it makes up at least 50% of the
decision level process. [ZDNet]
Understanding Dot Pitch
Understanding Dot Pitch
07/22/2004 08:14 PMWebDevInfo Jul 22 2004 11:08PM GMT
how not to pitch a bl0gger
how not to pitch a bl0gger
08/27/2004 02:15 PMi got these emails, and a couple more from the same list, and felt the
same way
Skip the pitch
Skip the pitch
12/28/2004 09:12 AM
Jim Grizanzio, OpenSolaris Community Manager: "I
spent nine painful years pitching messages in PR. But I'm out now, and
I have a different perspective. Why must everything be a pitch to
deliver a message no one believes? And why pitch bloggers? Why
perpetuate the bad PR that the PR industry so richly deserves? Why not
simply read blogs to understand the issues and the communities trying
to interact with a company. And why not simply blog right along with
those communities and join the conversation? In other words, skip the
pitch."
Jim is commenting on Fortune Magazine's recent article
Why There's No Escaping The Blog.
3D Pitch Deluxe 2.3
3D Pitch Deluxe 2.3
02/19/2004 12:00 AMPitch card game with Internet play, interactive on-screen opponents,
voice control.
The Underclocking Experiment @ PCStats
The Underclocking Experiment @ PCStats
06/05/2005 11:36 PMBBC - BBC Four Drama - The Quatermass
Experiment
BBC - BBC Four Drama - The Quatermass
Experiment
04/05/2005 04:07 AMThe Quatermass Experiment live on BBC Four this Saturday .. a live
remake of Quartermass ..
update
bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/quatermass.shtml
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Experiment Shows You Really Should
'Sleep On It'
Experiment Shows You Really Should
'Sleep On It'
01/22/2004 02:11 AMAn Experiment in Group Editing
An Experiment in Group Editing
05/03/2004 08:50 PMJD Lasica posted the first chapters of his new book Darknet: Remixing
the Future of Movies, Music and Television: Check it out at the
Darknet wiki. Much of the book has to do with participatory media, so
I hope many...
Database Design Experiment
Database Design Experiment
12/02/2003 03:44 PMInitial release of the Database Design Experiment
The File Sharing Experiment
The File Sharing Experiment
08/05/2004 12:38 PMThe File
Sharing Experiment is a project with the goal of demonstrating how
file sharing actually helps the music, movie, and software industry.
Folks are encouraged to post purchases they've made and a short
explanation of how they learned about the band/movie/game and why they
ended up buying something for it. All the evidence is anectdotal, but
when taken together, it's already over a quarter million dollars in
reported sales and the site has been up for one week.
Personally, this was the point I tried to make in the heyday of
Napster. You could find anything on Napster, but rarely could you find
complete albums, so the service had the effect of promoting CD sales.
I would often surf others' music lists whenever I noticed things I
liked, download the things I hadn't ever heard of, then I'd end up
buying CDs from Amazon.
OpenCourseWare in worldwide use and
experiment
OpenCourseWare in worldwide use and
experiment
03/13/2003 10:16 AM MIT 's recently
released OpenCourseWare (
OCW ) is
being used by people around the world , who are putting its
materials to different uses.
Mr. Cooper, who describes himself as "a lowly tech-ed guy" at Pacific
University, in Oregon, says that he envisions a future in which
professors and students, using free course materials like MIT's and
open-classroom sites on the Web like Tapped In, will exchange their
teaching services through a kind of online barter system.
"I could volunteer my hours [to teach] at the high-school level and
that would give me credit to then get other hours from somebody else,"
says Mr. Cooper, an education-technology specialist at Pacific.
...
At a Unesco forum about the project in Paris in July, Alain Senteni,
director of the Virtual Center for Innovative Learning Technologies,
at the University of Mauritius, said his institution had an interest
in translating and adapting the content of MIT courses for
French-speaking developing countries.
And Mohammed Dahbi, a professor at Mohammed V University's Agdal
campus, in Morocco, said faculty members and administrators might use
OpenCourseWare as a model for course structure and pedagogy when they
recast their courses during the next few years. University courses, he
said, are being rewritten as part of a broad reform movement in
Morocco.
The high-profile, positive reception of OCW has prompted
other institutions to pursue similar initiatives of Webbing up
course content for world usage.
(via The Chronicle )
Other News: eBay Experiment
Other News: eBay Experiment
07/16/2004 10:00 AM
EBay's music download program is strictly a trial run, so far.
"experiment with one of the
screenwriting applications"
"experiment with one of the
screenwriting applications"
03/16/2003 08:25 AMAn experiment in Internet
self-regulation
An experiment in Internet
self-regulation
11/06/2003 03:53 PMThe research of Elisabeth Staksrud may determine what additional laws
European governments think are necessary to regulate cyberspace.
Sun's identity pitch
Sun's identity pitch
12/16/2003 12:30 PM
At SunNetwork 2003 back in September, Jonathan Schwartz made the case
that the Java card is the most strategic piece of Sun's whole
technology stack. Actually, I'd say per-employee pricing is the real
strategic innovation. But I've always hoped to see movement on the
identity card front, so
this
clip, in which Schwartz stresses something I've been harping on
for years, got my attention:
Java card support will be built into the desktop that we offer. It is
the fundamental way we will help people to understand that if there
were a menu item in your mail app that said, 'Show only mail from
people that have been strongly authenticated,' then spam would
disappear. 'Show me only content that has been strongly
authenticated,' viruses would disappear.
...Father, Son Pitch No-Hitters on Same Day
(AP)
Father, Son Pitch No-Hitters on Same Day
(AP)
04/28/2004 07:27 AMAP - It seemed all too familiar when Mike Rickert pitched a no-hitter
for Bowler High School.
Sun makes financial pitch
Sun makes financial pitch
09/21/2004 02:19 PMThe server maker plans to hold a series of technical workshops geared
for developers that work at financial institutions.
Relief Pitch for Eli Lilly
Relief Pitch for Eli Lilly
04/15/2005 01:07 PMA ruling upholding the Zyprexa patent is good news for Lilly, but
promising drugs in the pipeline are even more encouraging.
collaborated on a pitch to Paramount
collaborated on a pitch to Paramount
06/22/2004 04:37 AMSci Fi Wire .. don't do it ..
details
scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-06/21/10.00.tv
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Near-Perfect Pitch (Forbes.com)
Near-Perfect Pitch (Forbes.com)
06/30/2004 12:35 PMForbes.com - Victor Grillo Jr. has been selling gadgets on television
for 15 years, though you probably couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
If you watch late-night TV you certainly know the products he's
introduced, including the Ginsu 2000 knife (20 million units sold,
says the 38-year-old Bostonian), the Buttoneer, Liquid Leather and
Triple Edge Wiper Blades. He also claims to have unveiled the first
national prepaid cell phones. Grillo has been content to stay behind
the camera, buying and tracking media, producing TV commercials and
organizing fulfillment operations. "Too fat," he says. ...
Red Sox fan site has fresh pitch
Red Sox fan site has fresh pitch
04/11/2005 05:46 PMZDNet Apr 11 2005 9:53PM GMT
XTech, Time to Pitch In
XTech, Time to Pitch In
01/05/2005 02:04 PMThis is the
big European
summer XML event; the
call for
papers is closing in a couple days. Edd Dumbill, the chair,
tells me that the submissions are excellent on the server side but
there’s room on the
client side, so all you XULoids and .NET-hacks and SVGers and
XFormlings, get with it. Lauren and I are going to try to go
(haven’t been to Amsterdam in ages); I’m particularly interested
by the
Open Data track, which sounds like something new in the
world.
Microsoft needs better sales pitch
Microsoft needs better sales pitch
07/08/2004 03:30 PMosOpinion Jul 8 2004 7:55PM GMT
Mac Vs. PC, A Small Cost Comparison
Experiment
Mac Vs. PC, A Small Cost Comparison
Experiment
05/17/2004 01:13 PMNext time someone tells you that Macs are expensive, you will have a
few numbers to put into the conversation! By Francois Joseph de
Kermadec, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)
Frank Gehry Gives M.I.T. Its Newest
Experiment
Frank Gehry Gives M.I.T. Its Newest
Experiment
05/12/2004 09:53 PMFrank Gehry, the architect, says his new computer science and
artificial intelligence building at M.I.T. "looks like a party of
drunken robots got together to celebrate."
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