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Thread: OOTS in the Media
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2012-02-28, 09:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-02-28, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-02-28, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS in the Media
I'd say it's more lack of ads = lack of ability to draw advertisers. And frankly, if you believe that, you've missed the point of this pledge drive entirely.
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2012-02-29, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Porthos; 2012-02-29 at 02:21 AM.
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2012-02-29, 05:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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I am a chessplayer of some skill and fo that I ended up on local newspapers on occasions, and that tougth me one thing: journalists have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe big newspapers will have specific experts for politics or other big stuff, but when it comes to those kind of secondary news, the guy who do the writing simply don't know the argument and will do the best he can with what he have, making a lot of mistakes in the process.
From my experience, you're lucky they at least got your name right: a good third of the times I was mentioned in papers, my name was misspelled.In memory of Evisceratus: he dreamed of a better world, but he lacked the class levels to make the dream come true.
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2012-03-01, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be honest, I can see how they made that jump from what you've said publicly about not adding ads to the site (partly) due to your update schedule, and your update schedule being (partly) defined by your illness.
On the other hand yeah, it does suggest that the barrier is the advertisers rather than your own ethics.To the guy responsible for Belkar, Haley and Vaarsuvius. Thank you for providing over 800 comedy gems.
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2012-03-01, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-01, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-01, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-01, 09:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-02, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Nice sentiment, although you're somewhere between 3 and 4 zeroes off for reaching superbowl viewership.
That said, I didn't understand the article to be making any argument about the proper cost of advertising, but rather the risk of advertising, which was apparently misunderstood due to the journalist not knowing how forums work.
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2012-03-02, 01:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-02, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rich --
I would like to blog a retrospective on the Kickstarter Drive. Would it be all right to use two of the images from the drive? I was thinking of the original Kickstarter (everyone kicking Belkar image) and either the image from Kickstarter Update #4 or Kickstarter Update #5.
Thanks so much for your answer.
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2012-03-02, 02:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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The advertising part is not about the forum, it's about the main comic site.
The comic is completely ad free, not because of Rich's illness, not because of the nature of a regular website vs a forum, but because it is Rich's bussiness decision.
The fact that the comic has an irregular schedule is a PART of the reason for that bussiness decision, at best, and Rich's illness is a PART of the reason for the irregular schedule, and the writer overestimated both effects to create a causal link between Rich's illness and the fact that the comic doesn't do ads.
His (the writer's) mistake had nothing to do with how a forum works, because he never looked at a forum, this is not about the forum, it's about the main comic site.
And actually, the forum does feature ads.Nothing to see here, move along.
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2012-03-02, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-03, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Same thing happened to me once. When I was younger (Nine or ten years old, IIRC) I was the headliner of the local newspaper (beating a homicide and the first birth in the area after New Years) because I wrote a 120 page book. The news-reporter wasn't even close to spelling my last name right.
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2012-03-05, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-06, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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I was in the local newspapers for foiling an international act of terrorism, winning every Walkley award and being awarded the title of 'World's Most Beautiful Person' on the same day. But they spelled my name wrong as well.
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2012-03-06, 07:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not sure if this thread is also to be used for OotS in foreign media, but a big Dutch newspaper has put out a story on the OotS kickstarter:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2694/...kstarter.dhtml
It's a very basic story, but if translations are needed, just holler!
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2012-03-10, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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The link to The Globe and Mail in the first post has a bad url, looks like it somehow starts with www.=http.com//. Deleting that part made the link work fine, though.
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2012-03-13, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Singularity Hub did a Q&A with me about the future of media that you can read here. Bonus points for including the first time I've ever been called "conservative" in my life.
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2012-03-13, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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According to this Q&A you're referencing something from #294 in #845. To the archives!
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I think your summary of why your Kickstarter triumphed reflected my own thoughts: You engaged with us and turned into an event, and always had new stuff to keep drawing us in.Last edited by RMS Oceanic; 2012-03-13 at 03:47 PM.
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2012-03-13, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Maybe not personally, but I'm kind of surprised nobody's used the word for your merchandising strategy before.
Irregardless (*dodges fruit*), it's a good interview. Hooray for more coverage!Originally Posted by The Giant
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2012-03-13, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-13, 10:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-14, 01:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's not regarding politics. "Conservative" in this usage means simply not as willing to predict the overthrow of all existing distribution channels in favor of an egalitarian patronage model that puts no one work of art ahead of any other. Basically, he's saying my feelings about what will (or should) happen in the future regarding art and media are not as radical as his own predictions.
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2012-03-14, 01:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also, I have a Twitter now. www.twitter.com/RichBurlew More info to come on that later.
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2012-03-14, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-14, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-14, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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A story about a young detective and his friends investigating the mysterious shut down of a candy factory.
Basically, my teacher at the time was friends were a reporter. I showed my teacher the story, she showed it to the reporter, and the reporter decided to interview me for the paper.
The article also got posted on the newspaper's website. I even have the article in my Favorites.