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I actually read, for the first time, the copyright warning at the begining of a movie when I watched a bit of Fight Club for the umpteenth time late last night. Apparently they don’t want people watching movies that have been purchased for home use in places like prisons or oil rigs! Seems like a bizarre choice of examples of unlawful use. I mean how many people do you know out on oil rigs? Even more importantly how likely is 20th Century Fox going to try and stop some oil men from watching the Hollywood hit when it comes out on DVD. And remember, no lending your Fight Club DVD to you friends!

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Interesting email came in this morning. The OpenAjax alliance had been invited (to our greatest surprise and dismay) to take part in a podcast series about Ajax with the analyst firm ZapThink. At first thought it seems very reasonable. However, when you actually read the small print (ok it wasn’t that small) they wanted people to pay $5000 for the chance to talk on their podcast! Of course they are gracious enough to give people referred by IBM - who are a driving force behind OpenAjax - a whopping $1000 discount. Well sign me up!

They try to sell the idea to us by saying that they have literally _hundreds_ of downloads per podcast! I mean come on. Even the no good useless pukes that are Dave, Andre and Alexei were able to quickly pass the century download mark with our little audio recording about Ajax.

The real icing on the cake comes when they try to justify the price by saying:

There is a cost involved - in part to defray the costs of producing and distributing the podcast, and in part because as sponsors they get marketing visibility and leads.

Oh that’s right - the large costs associated with podcasting like that $29.95 for the headset and maybe some sort of opensource recording software. If it weren’t for the high cost I am sure that more people would be flocking to podcasts … It reminds me of the talk we had with ZapThink a while back. No wonder so many people are happy to talk to Redmonk. The greatest part about them is that we did a podcast with Cote (granted it was the podcast from hell) and we didn’t have to pay with anything but our time!

I think we will try charging the next people that come on our podcast

technorati tags:ajax, podcast, redmonk, zapthink

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For those that have not had Samuel L. call them from the Snakes on a Plane website then get on it!

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

This has to be the best viral marketing campaign I have heard (pun intended) in a long time.

Technorati Tags: marketing, snakesonaplane, business

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