Sean’s Rant

I know this seems silly but Seth Godin was talking on an audio clip with Timothy Ferris about the fact that if you aren’t in the top ten results on Google you don’t exist. This seems to be true so the whole point of this post is to try and lure the Google spider. Here Spidey Spidey….. crawl this. So I’m pretty sure that by dropping Business and other Marketing keywords sporadically through my post maybe I’ll get more Search Engine results. I’m bolding and italicizing so that it’ll be obvious to the human reader. So now maybe I’ll blab. Interest Rates are headed down again. I think I might do a Home Loan Refinance because It would drop my payment by about $150 and raise my principal payoff on the Amortization Schedule.

Isn’t the only reason I left but seriously. There was a form to request a label for a manilla Folder. An alternative: an e-mail to the label maker. Or since the time it takes to fill out the form the label could be made just make it. No hard feelings though. Thanks for the opportunity.

Seth Godin talks about charging for online movies and how the convenience of paying outweighs pirating. I fully agree and have been thinking this for a while now. I think the threshold is higher than $.50. I think we could start as High as $1.99 and get the same effect. Who would pay $.50 and not $.99 or even $1.99? I was thinking of this concept when considering selling an idea. If you could get a million people to spend $1.99, that is a huge profit and a very low cost. With the low cost of online media like Seth was speaking of, it is cheaper and easier to just buy than to pirate. I mean $.99 an album or book, not a song or a chapter. Charging per song is just another way of getting more money out of people, unless the songs are cheaper on average than in the store.

It has been way too long since I posted. I did have a broken ankle though, which explains why I had so much time to write all of those. So this time it is about Fox.com on demand. I’m not praising their idea of on demand though. Instead of TBS, which provided a perfect quality product with commercials, Fox provides a product which has predictable glitches. about every 30-45 seconds you can count on it stopping and skipping a few seconds. And no its not my connection. I’ve repeatedly tried the same part over again and its not just one episode. Every Family Guy episode I have watched has done it. Also TBS’s on demand is actually on Cox cable, so it has to be better. I know why they do it. they don’t want people to substitute the watching of that to not buying dvds. Of course if I wanted to pay another 10 bucks a month I could have DVR and wouldn’t have to worry about any of this. Then my cable bill would be $115 instead. That is a freakin lot of money. Maybe I’ll drop down to the lower tier of internet, a modest 1.5GBit connection instead of 7.