Patrick C. Price

This is one of the reasons I like Google.

This corporate movie, as most are, is a bit glorifying, but when in comes right down to it, I think the main difference between Google and print publishers is, that Google really enables people to speak, where as print publishers believe they are entitled to speak for the people. Being among the few people with a printing press has really corrupted many publishers making them think, they are the authority, where as it is the people, and they should be voicing that.

After the Simpsons recently declared newspapers as dying, now also the Daily Show produced a movie called “End Times”.

My favorite quote of the movie: “Show me one thing in there, that happened today.”

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
End Times
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I’m curious to see, how long it will take, till we don’t have any printed newspapers any more.

During the Sept. 2007 Swiss National Publisher Event in Lucerne, I placed a bet with Ursi Klein, that by 2013 we wouldn’t have any printed newspaper in Switzerland with a circulation of 20’000. Well, I guess we still got 4 years till then. Let’s see, what happens

Mad Magazine just brought a great cover. I think, this is how I would feel, if I where Barack Obama right now.

The internet contains many channels, one of them, the predominant one, being HTML -> the web.

HTML stands for Hyper-Text-Markup-Language and is the Code, with which your browser is told, how to interpret the page and make it visible. To see a websites HTML click CTRL-U in your broswer or right-click on the page you want to check and select “show page source”.

HTML is a nice language, as it is rather simple to understand.

Everything starts with a and ends with a .

The “/” marks the end to that “command” started earlier. With this, you can always see from where to where a certain command, function, script, font, etc. goes.

Here is a simple example, I hope you will be able to follow the code:

You can learn more about HTML on HTMLcode-Tutorial or on Wikipedia

Well well well, ho ho ho….Many people, many things to thank for. Many nice events during this year. So let me cut it short and send you this unique card… 

War dieses Wochenende zuerst an einem Geburtstagsfest und anschliessend bei Freunden Pokern. Am Sonntag morgen, um CHF 30.- ärmer… gings zurück zum Auto und da konnte ich mir nicht verkneifen, das letzte Bild des Herbstes einzufangen, bevor es dann gänzlich Weiss wird hierzulande.

 I really like Sushi. And during my last visit in Salzburg, I was at Restaurant Nagano, a really nice sushi place. A bit hard to find, as in Salzburg, there seem to be thoursands of little squares and places in between the buildings of the old city center.If you are looking for a nice romantic get away for a weekend in Europe, Salzburg is certainly worth the trip and the Nagano, a nice place for great sushi.

Manchmal finde ich es schlicht und ergreifend zum Kotzen… Dieses ewige Blogger vs. Journalisten Thema.So schreibt in der aktuellen Welt-Woche, Kurt W. Zimmermann seine Kolumne über  «Das Blogismus-Problem» in der er bemängelt, dass es keine bissigen deutschsprachigen Blogs gebe.Pro-Blogger Peter Hogenkamp geht da natürlich sofort und mit viel Power und Elan drauf ein. Kurt W. Zimmermann, Du alter Medienwichser! Gratulation!Bei solchen Posts find ich Hogenkamp wieder richtig gut.Was ich an der Diskussion aber müssig finde, ist das ewige Hin und Her, wer jetzt den besseren Journalismus macht, oder diese ewige Rollen-Zuteilung. Bist Du Blogger? Bist Du Journalist, bald kommt noch, bist Du Twitterer?Hallo? Wacht mal auf!Bei Blogs gehts um Meinungen! Blogs, Tweets, Leser-Briefe, SMS, Flugblätter, Flyer alles Formen der freien one-to-many Meinungsäusserung.Wir leben in einer Zeit in der die Meinungen nicht mehr nur von einer kleinen Zahl von Leuten publiziert und damit auch kontrolliert werden, sondern in der die Vielzahl der Meinungen zunehmends steigt. Es findet eine globale Diskussion statt, and der sich jeder beteiligen kann, darf und womöglich auch soll!Denn nur durch die Betrachtung aus vielen Blickwickeln wird etwas wirklich transparent. (Beispiel Spion-Spiegel, ist nur einseitig transparent)Liebe Medienschaffende, lernt, dass nicht ihr die Meinungen wiedergebt, spiegelt und kontrolliert, sondern wir, die Menschen dieser Welt. Zeitungen, Filme, TV, Blogs, Youtube, etc. alles sind nur Kanäle der Meinungsdistribution. Und je offener diese Kanäle, desto mehr werden sie genutzt und “embraced”.@Weltwoche: öffnet Euer Archiv und teilt Eure Meinung mit, anstatt sie den nur bezahlenden Menschen zugänglich zu machen und allen anderen vorzuenthalten. Startet Diskussionen und lasst die Leute daran partizipieren. Das ist die wahre Aufgabe zukünftiger Medien.Im übrigen empfehle ich: www.blognews.ch – unsere Social Media News PlattformUnd wer selbst noch keinen eigenen Meinungsäusserungs-Distributionskanal hat, der kriegt hier seinen eigenen! www.blog.ch@ Peter: Das C. bei mir ist kein Doktor-Titel, sondern stammt aus dem amerikanischen Teil meiner Herkunftskultur  Gerne wiedermal auf ein Bier!@ Kurt W.: unter www.blogverzeichnis.ch findest Du viele gute Schweizer Blogs zu über 32 Themen!

Just came accross an article on: onstartups.com about 10 great tipps for startups:

1.  You don’t need office space:  Plenty of startups do just fine working out of a basement or spare bedroom.2.  Don’t Bargain Shop For Small Things:  Resist the temptation to find the best deal on cheap things (like computers).  It may be personally satisfying to save $50 on a printer, but you’re wasting valuable time.

3.  Think Of A Good Name:  Spend at least a few hours thinking about a name for your business.  Read a couple of practical articles on the topic.  Talk to other people to test your names.  Most entrepreneurs spend too little time (as in almost none) on a company name.  A good name won’t make your startup successful, and a bad one won’t make it fail, but some simple guidelines help.  And, a name is hard to change later.

Reference 1 (Guy Kawasaki): The Name Game

Reference 2 (Dharmesh Shah):  The Startup Name Game

Note:  Unsurprisingly, Guy’s article is better, but I wrote mine first (did not copy his “Name Game” title).

4.  No Fancy Titles: Don’t waste time coming up with fancy titles for the founders.  Simply use “founder” for your title and get back to real work.

5.  Forget Business Plans:  Instead of laboring over your business plan, labor over your business.  If you do work intensely on your business plan, assume that you are the only person that will ever read it.  Even your mom and you spouse won’t read it.  Potential investors will definitely not read it.

6.  Avoid Pontificators:  Early team members all need to do something.  Don’t recruit pontificators.  Beware the pure “idea people”.  You want “get things done” people.  There will always be more ideas in your startup than there are people to execute them.

7.  Venture Funding Is Hard:  Raising venture funding is actually harder than bootstrapping — especially if it’s your first startup.  Try and figure out a way to get going without funding.  Take the hundreds of hours you’ll save and go help customers solve problems.

8.  Allocate Most Time To Customer Value:  Act as if someone is paying you $1,000/hour for every hour you spend making life measurably better for your customers — and $10/hour for everything else.  In the long-run, the ratio will be about right.

9.  Part-Time Is Sub-Optimal (but OK):  Many people will tell you that you are unlikely to succeed with a startup if you’re working on it just nights and weekends.  They’re probably right.  But, better nights and weekends than waiting forever to get things kicked off.

10.  Get Started!  I have yet to meet someone that took the leap, quit their job, started a company and regretted their decision (regardless of outcome).  Most people that have great jobs over-estimate the risk of leaving them.  Great people can almost always find another job if things go really, really poorly with their startup.

What do you think? Any additional tipps and recommendations?