Is the Internet Killing Christianity or Helping to Save it? JesusPhish co-founder Dean J. Hartmann Says He’s Determined to Battle the Evil Influences by Providing Good Influences on the Internet

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Stop Data Snoops, Give Your Kids a Brain
Boost, Protect Young'uns From Internet
Influences

Stop Data Snoops, Give Your Kids a Brain
Boost, Protect Young'uns From Internet
Influences 08/02/2004 12:53 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 2 2004 5:14AM GMT

Helping Save the Internet

Helping Save the Internet 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
Last week, I was contributing to Jason Kottke's Remaindered Links, unleashing some of my now-rusty Daily Links skills on Jason's unsuspecting audience. As Jason's chart reveals, my best efforts were only capable of slightly diminishing his number of readers, not destroying his audience completely. I'm still working on completely eliminating...

My business influences

My business influences 03/14/2005 04:23 PM

As you may have noticed by reading the site in the past year, I've been reading and thinking a lot about companies...how they succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a holistic sense so they make sense on a human scale and not just from a business perspective, that sort of thing. In deciding to start my own little company of one, here are a few things I've run across that have influenced how I'm approaching it.

Coudal Partners is a design studio based in Chicago. Like many blogs (their site is a little more than a blog, but we won't get into that now), their site features advertising in the form of text ads in the top left corner of the page. But they only accept advertising from companies whose products they have used: "sell us something then we'll sell you an ad." I love this because it ties advertising back into its word-of-mouth origins, makes it more human, personal, and believable. (More on advertising stuff in a few days.)

I don't have many heroes, but Craig Newmark is definitely one of them. He's had offers to sell craigslist for millions of dollars, many offers from VCs, he could charge for all listings on the site, or he could fill the site with advertising, but this is what he wants out of craigslist (via Wired): "get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world". The many article s I've read about Craig have really reinforced for me that you need to let your values drive business decisions and not the other way around.

I've mentioned this a few times on the site before, but Ludicorp, the makers of Flickr, has the one of the best quotes about business I've ever read on their about page. It's an excerpt from Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action and the Cultivation of Solidarity by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores & Hubert Dreyfus:

Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no opponent.

The popularity of Flickr has put Ludicorp in a tight spot and it seems like they'll need to get big somehow in order to keep up with it (rumor is they've been purchased by Yahoo!). It's a reminder that you may succeed beyond your wildest dreams and you need to be ready for it to happen. Whatever their path is, I hope they can keep true to the values that have guided the company thus far.

When Google decided to pursue their IPO, the filing included an "owner's manual" written by Larry Page, one of Google's two founders. Google is aiming high -- focusing on the long term, trying not to be evil, taking on risk, not giving too much control of the company over to shareholders -- and it will be interesting to see how they fare over the long term. Google's gotten a lot of shit for aiming so high, especially about the "don't be evil" stuff, just like the NY Times gets criticized for attempting to produce objective journalism, but I think that's unfair. I'll choose a company with ideals they're trying to live up to over a business that's aiming for the status quo any day of the week.

TextDrive, a hosting company, eschewed venture capital and went right to their users and asked them to pay their startup costs (in exchange for lifetime hosting). They raised $40,000 in 75 hours from the VC200. That's what's called "creative thinking".

Dave Eggers gets a lot of crap, but I like the way he's trying to run McSweeney's:

But the way that McSweeney's is run is, "Can there be a way that what they call mid-list authors, people who don't sell in the Danielle Steel category, can still have an audience and still make a living?" McSweeney's has very little overhead, to the degree that we can sell 6,000 copies of somebody's book, and he can still get a decent amount of money, because he's getting more per book because of the low overhead. That's still our goal. I was just sort of going along with the same business model, like, "If we sell 50,000 copies, then everyone will do fine, and life will stay quiet."

Not trying to take over the world, just doing something in balance with the lives of everyone concerned.

David Bull is an artist who makes fantastic woodblock prints. He doesn't number his prints, doesn't sell through collectors, doesn't even offer individual prints, and yet he's been making a living from his art for more than 16 years. He sells subscriptions of his prints through his site and here's a bit of his philosophy on that:

I like making prints, and am not afraid of the physical work of printing them. Unlike many artists, who prefer to keep their edition sizes small (to save work, or to keep things 'exclusive') and who must thus charge high prices for their prints, I prefer to make more of them and keep the cost to each collector as low as possible.

There are lots more people other there doing wonderful things with their business lives (37signals, the independent Mac developers like Ranchero, Delicious Monster, and Panic, etc.) but that's enough for now.

Tim Oren heckles us about the Internet
not helping Dean close the popularity
gap

Tim Oren heckles us about the Internet
not helping Dean close the popularity
gap 01/09/2004 10:12 PM

Tim Oren cites a poll by the Washington Post showing that the Internet has not helped Dean close the popularity gap with Bush. He says:

Tim Oren @ Due Diligence

But those who think the removal of big media means the newly empowered wil start singing 'Kumbaya' and turn into anti-Bush, anti-war 'emergent democracy' citizens are indulging in wishful thinking, and we now have evidence to that effect. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Joi.) These newly empowered participants actually have to be persuaded. And that's a very good thing, too.

I agree. There is still a lot we need to do. I think we have to look at our successes and try to repeat them and amplify them. We have to acknowledge our failures and try not to repeat them. I never said this was going to be easy. Also, "emergence" sounds a bit lazy, as if it will "just happen." I never asserted this. Emergence is much harder. It is about creating technical and social systems that allow emergence and these can not be designed literally like most hierarchical system, but require active feedback, architectural tweaking and lots and lots of iterations before emergence really happens. I'm excited by the progress and not surprised that we haven't hit mainstream yet.

I would also like to add that I think big media still has a huge role and figuring out the role of blogs in the context of big media is one of the things that I am actively thinking about right now.

Moore Hopes 'Fahrenheit' Influences
People (AP)

Moore Hopes 'Fahrenheit' Influences
People (AP) 05/17/2004 11:44 AM
AP - As promised, Michael Moore lit a powder keg Monday at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary "Fahrenheit 9/11" riled and disturbed audiences with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.

Free WiFi influences 40% of Schlotskys's
customers

Free WiFi influences 40% of Schlotskys's
customers 02/18/2004 12:00 PM
Schlotzky's is a deli chain that gives away free WiFi -- they were among the first to do so, in a bold expeeriment at one of their flagship restaurants on the main drag in Austin, TX, after Starbucks set up shop directly across the street (Schlotsky's also took the incredibly canny step of renaming their coffee sizes Tall, Grande, and Venti and putting a starbusian combinatorial explosion of caffeine-delivery systems on the menu). The company has released new market research showing that free connectivity is a selection-factor for 40 percent of its customers.

Glenn writes,

I've met the CEO and the marketing director when I invited the CEO to speak at a panel I moderated at Wi-Fi Planet last year, and the most interesting aspect of the Wi-Fi is that they're not excited about the technology but its uses. There's a financial aspect to this, of course: the average purchase price of a Schlotzsky's customer is about $7.

But the CEO wasn't a geek; he liked seeing entire families or sports teams or groups of parents and kids come in and spent time using the high-speed connection. It's important to recall that a small but significant minority of Internet users have broadband; for the rest, Schlotzsky's offering is a profound (and free) pleasure.

Link (via WiFiNetNews)

Microsoft influences Oracle-PeopleSoft
case

Microsoft influences Oracle-PeopleSoft
case 06/21/2004 04:28 AM
Cyber India Online Jun 21 2004 8:39AM GMT

XQuery from the Experts: Influences on
the design of XQuery

XQuery from the Experts: Influences on
the design of XQuery 01/07/2004 06:42 PM
The first major XML language that takes advantage of the benefits of strong typing provided by XML Schema, XQuery has the versatility to manipulate both XML and non-XML data and connects the world of XML and relational databases. Here, select members of the W3C's XML Query working group discuss every facet of XQuery. By Addison-Wesley. 1124

"CNN.com - Dean: Bin Laden guilt best
determined by jury - Dec. 26..."

"CNN.com - Dean: Bin Laden guilt best
determined by jury - Dec. 26..." 12/27/2003 09:04 AM

CNN.com - Dean: Bin Laden guilt best
determined by jury - Dec. 26, 2003

CNN.com - Dean: Bin Laden guilt best
determined by jury - Dec. 26, 2003 12/27/2003 06:39 AM
PRESIDENT DAMN! says Osama should not be PREJUDGED! .. Dean: Bin Laden guilt best determined by jury .. To the Concord Monitor .. foot and mouth

cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/26/elec04.prez.dean.bin.laden
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Boston.com / News / Nation / Seeking a
new emphasis, Dean touts his
Christianity

Boston.com / News / Nation / Seeking a
new emphasis, Dean touts his
Christianity 12/26/2003 10:21 PM
Boston.com / News / Nation / Seeking a new emphasis, Dean touts his Christianity .. adapt

boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/25/seeking_a_new_empha sis_dean_touts_his_christianity
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Mediatti is asked to explain delays in
providing high-speed Internet on Okinawa

Mediatti is asked to explain delays in
providing high-speed Internet on Okinawa 08/11/2004 03:11 PM
European and Pacific Stars and Stripes Aug 11 2004 7:03PM GMT

Pegasus Solutions Providing Global
Internet Distribution Services for Accor
Hotels

Pegasus Solutions Providing Global
Internet Distribution Services for Accor
Hotels 06/28/2004 05:25 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Mon Jun 28, 07:59 am GMT

Helping You View The Internet Easier

Helping You View The Internet Easier 09/19/2002 09:57 PM
Stickysauce Sep 19 2002 8:34PM ET

Helping develop wireless Internet
services

Helping develop wireless Internet
services 08/13/2004 07:22 AM
PhysOrg.com Aug 13 2004 11:19AM GMT

Launch of Online Tool Puts US Consumers
in Control by Providing Comparisons
Between Highspeed Internet Offerings For
Home and Business

Launch of Online Tool Puts US Consumers
in Control by Providing Comparisons
Between Highspeed Internet Offerings For
Home and Business 09/02/2004 02:06 AM
Demand for Highspeed Internet Access via DSL, Cable and Satellite Drives New Comparison Service [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Evil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good Guys .. Permalink

chrisabraham.com/2005/04/evil_man_in_bla.html
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Helping Enable E-Government Through
Stronger Security for Internet
Transactions

Helping Enable E-Government Through
Stronger Security for Internet
Transactions 08/16/2004 01:48 PM
Techzonez Aug 16 2004 5:12PM GMT

Grants, Internet Helping Improve
Oncology Workforce Shortage

Grants, Internet Helping Improve
Oncology Workforce Shortage 08/27/2004 07:11 PM
Medical News Today Aug 27 2004 11:26PM GMT

Internet Providers Band Together to
Fight Evil

Internet Providers Band Together to
Fight Evil 03/30/2005 09:13 AM

Queen knights Internet founder

Queen knights Internet founder 07/16/2004 11:52 AM
The Mercury Jul 16 2004 3:34PM GMT

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents 03/25/2005 11:13 PM
London News Review Mar 26 2005 3:07AM GMT

Interview with Michael Kimsal, founder
of Tap Internet

Interview with Michael Kimsal, founder
of Tap Internet 10/09/2002 11:48 AM
Michael Kimsal runs a company that does PHP training. I thought it would be interesting in finding out how other people learnt PHP, so we agreed to an interview.

What do students (of PHP) find hard to learn?

The hardest areas of functionality we used to try to cover in detail were PDF generation and using GD. Every student *wants* to know how to do these things, but usually when they start to see how difficult it is to build PDFs and graphics by hand with the individual functions, they want to skip it! :)

We've begun introducing JPGraph and HTMLDoc overviews which help demonstrate the practical benefits of graphic and PDF generation while giving them an easier way to get those benefits.

In terms of PHP itself, many students trip up over single quote/double quote issues, variable name case-sensitivity and basic variable name typos. Variable scope is something which catches people offguard too, but is normally covered and drilled into them by the second day - usually no problems with scoping after day 2.

PHP OO, limited as it is, is also mixed. Some students find it quite straightforward, some struggle, and some reject it outright. Just like the PHP community at large. :)

"zeldman.58"

PHP Magazine: How PHP is Helping to Save
Lives

PHP Magazine: How PHP is Helping to Save
Lives 06/24/2004 09:33 AM
PHP Magazine has a new posting today about an article from David Signoretti showing how "the power of PHP is helping to save lives".

Canadian-Chinese girl lured by Internet
evil cult

Canadian-Chinese girl lured by Internet
evil cult 02/06/2005 01:10 AM
China Economic Net Feb 6 2005 5:42AM GMT

RE: [ISN] How To Save The Internet

RE: [ISN] How To Save The Internet 03/22/2005 05:13 PM
David Gillett (Mar 22 2005)

Internet is killing mail order
catalogues

Internet is killing mail order
catalogues 04/18/2005 10:51 AM
Uh huh

Internet fight led to killing of
classmate, says girl, 11

Internet fight led to killing of
classmate, says girl, 11 06/04/2004 05:36 AM
Indystar.com - Fri Jun 4, 08:16 am GMT

Internet pharmacy founder says
streamlining is sign of the times for
industry

Internet pharmacy founder says
streamlining is sign of the times for
industry 09/21/2004 09:08 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Sep 22 2004 1:54AM GMT

save internet radio...

save internet radio... 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
if you visited my blog before, you know i had to shut down shwango radio due to licensing issues. well...

101 Ways to Save the Internet

101 Ways to Save the Internet 12/31/2003 06:13 AM
Worried about spammers and slammers, industry thugs and identity thieves? Never fear. By Paul Boutin from Wired magazine.

101 ways to save the Internet

101 ways to save the Internet 12/31/2003 03:42 PM

wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/internet.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
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101 Ways To Save The Internet

101 Ways To Save The Internet 12/31/2003 03:46 PM

Many-to-Many: Dean and the Last Internet
Campaign

Many-to-Many: Dean and the Last Internet
Campaign 02/15/2004 10:40 AM
coda for the Dean campaign .. Many to Many .. Clay Shirky .. Shirkey

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Pittsburgh neo-Nazi admits killing woman
he met over Internet

Pittsburgh neo-Nazi admits killing woman
he met over Internet 08/06/2004 10:22 PM
CNEWS Aug 7 2004 2:30AM GMT

Internet video shows Turkish hostage
killing

Internet video shows Turkish hostage
killing 08/02/2004 01:44 PM
Hindustan Times Aug 2 2004 5:12PM GMT

Japan Eyes Internet as Culprit for
School Killing

Japan Eyes Internet as Culprit for
School Killing 06/03/2004 05:10 AM
Newshub.com - Thu Jun 3, 08:59 am GMT

Internet phones can save cash

Internet phones can save cash 01/04/2004 09:33 PM
bizhot Jan 4 2004 7:48PM ET

Wired 12.01: 101 Ways to Save the
Internet

Wired 12.01: 101 Ways to Save the
Internet 01/01/2004 02:17 AM
101 formas de salvar Internet

wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/internet.html
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