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{"commentId":98016,"authorDomain":"budi"}
Somehow, at least to me, it came out like one of those one-million-pixel web site. I am not sure what to make out of it.
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#1 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:19 PM EDT{"commentId":98027,"authorDomain":"ilyanep"}
Wow
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#2 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:54 PM EDT{"commentId":98037,"authorDomain":"mcornes"}
It's all bit googlewhacking by that chap whose name escapes... am I Dave Gorman ?
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#3 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:10 PM EDT{"commentId":98041,"authorDomain":"marqmike2"}
That's amazing
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#4 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:12 PM EDT{"commentId":98048,"authorDomain":"ronaldlewis"}
Interesting story, and his journey isn't complete. Maybe I'll try to arrange an interview with him.
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- 1 vote
#5 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:28 PM EDT{"commentId":98056,"authorDomain":"collegestudent"}
Is it me, or is everyone too lazy to get a job and outsourcing themselves as a cheap avenue for advertisements.
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#6 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:43 PM EDT{"commentId":98062,"authorDomain":"ronaldlewis"}
Why be a slave to an employer, when you can make a life for yourself? His story is interesting, and it's a better read than other things which have gotten press.
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":98068,"authorDomain":"emeraldskies"}
I read this as some people focus on creativity, whereas others (arguably a majority) focus on productivity. It's not a pandemic of laziness you're seeing - most wouldn't call writers, painters or sculptors drains on society, and yet their sole source of income depends on other people having the same response as they do to this guy - "hey, that's cool. I wish I had thought of that!"
If he can make it work, more power to him. The other thing to bear in mind is for every guy you see like this, there are upwards of 30 others who don't get anything for their creativity. As much as it may not seem like it to us, who work mainly in the concrete and real, artists get a bum deal from our economy most of the time. We just tend to only see the mega-successful ones, and hence, the misconception.
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{"commentId":98317,"authorDomain":"grey"}
Is it me, or is everyone too lazy to get a job and outsourcing themselves as a cheap avenue for advertisements.
Is it me, or is that a comment with, umm, zero up votes?
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":98573,"authorDomain":"yammosk"}
Is it me, or is that a comment with, umm, zero up votes?
That means he didn't even vote for himself :(
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{"commentId":98629,"authorDomain":"petiejoe"}
Last I checked, you can't vote for yourself.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":98630,"authorDomain":"petiejoe"}
Then again, maybe you can now.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":98632,"authorDomain":"yammosk"}
You've been able to for a while now. Well before the 'vine went public.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":98645,"authorDomain":"petiejoe"}
When I first joined (about three days after it went public), it didn't let me. I actually don't think it should (or it should automatically give one vote like digg does), but this is starting to get off topic.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":98065,"authorDomain":"brianford"}
This is very similar to the book Round Ireland With a Fridge which was the story of a person who took a bet which stated that he could not hitchhike around the perimeter of Ireland with a mini-fridge in tow. He had the benefit of similar media interest -- a radio station reported on his travails -- but he eventually made it.
The best part was that he only won a small amount of money -- it didn't even cover the cost of buying the mini-fridge. The author is Tony Hawks, not to be confused with Tony Hawks, who has never travelled 'round Ireland with -anything- so far as I know.
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- 5 votes
#7 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:05 PM EDT{"commentId":98815,"authorDomain":"brianford"}
Heheh - that is... not to be confused with "Tony Hawk"...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":98073,"authorDomain":"sliktek"}
Wow!
This is amazing!
I wouldn't try so hard at this. I would just give up, but he kept trying. I wouldn't have the patience.
Good Job!
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#8 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:23 PM EDT{"commentId":98222,"authorDomain":"petiejoe"}
I question the validity of his statement that he will avoid making lop-sided trades. If you look at some of them made so far, they seem rather extraordinary. Like the radio guy who traded a snowmobile for an IOU of for beer, a keg, and a Budweiser sign? It seems like the guy just wanted to drum up publicity for his station.
Don't get me wrong, I wish him the best of luck, but I really don't think this could happen a second time- the main reason why he's *this* successful is because it's a novel concept. Don't expect to pull something like this off with as few trades as he currently has.
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- 3 votes
#9 - Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:50 PM EDT{"commentId":98238,"authorDomain":"mark"}
This is recycling at its finest. I applaud his and others' efforts.
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- 3 votes
#10 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:21 AM EDT{"commentId":98322,"authorDomain":"link"}
"anti consumerist views"? Ha...this kid was born for his 15 mins of fame...enjoy it while it lasts...if its on here, its already over.
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#11 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:00 AM EDT{"commentId":98461,"authorDomain":"flloyd"}
Actually he's already been on BoingBoing.net twice (which has hundreds of thousands of readers), this April and last November. So his fame has been for slightly longer than 15 minutes.
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{"commentId":98328,"authorDomain":"leestone"}
I personally think it was a good achievement at the start, but now he has a lot of publicity it's going to be a lot easier for him to get trades as people are going to be more willing as they think it will get themselves some publicity, or companies step in and do something similar.
So congratulations for the first part - probably up until the snowmobile - but I don't think he'd of got much further, or at least not as quickly, without the publicity after that point.
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#12 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:33 AM EDT{"commentId":98358,"authorDomain":"soundscape"}
Good story, but I missed the part where it qualifies as "technology". I see a few mentions of his blog and a website here and there, but hardly a tech-related story.
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#13 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:11 AM EDT{"commentId":98362,"authorDomain":"ronaldlewis"}
It's probably for the role which technology played ... it started on Craigslist
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":98456,"authorDomain":"mckone"}
I'm impressed that it hasn't taken more trades for him to get as far up in value as he's gotten. Depending on how nice that duplex is and how nice a house he wants, MacDonald may not be far from his goal.
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#14 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:40 AM EDT{"commentId":98458,"authorDomain":"ronaldlewis"}
I don't think so either, he's doing well.
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{"commentId":98653,"authorDomain":"mendyourfuelishways"}
It's an interesting story, but does this rank up there with the please help me get out of debt by paypalling me $1.00?
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#15 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:51 PM EDT{"commentId":98692,"authorDomain":"ronaldlewis"}
No, this story is unique, as its a great example of bartering -- hell, it's the best I've seen yet. He really used this to his advantage.
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{"commentId":99232,"authorDomain":"soundscape"}
This story actually made national news headlines, in Australia!
Not enough war to report on?
I guess stories like this are a little better than constantly reading about death, destruction, murder, illness, poverty, famine, etc...
A balance is always good.
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- 3 votes
#16 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:38 AM EDT{"commentId":100189,"authorDomain":"scr"}
Oh yeah fun story. What about taxes? Can I trade a house for a Ferrari just like that? We should start a "happy friendly international trading club" then. : )
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