Andrew Baron

"Thanks for the useful feedback." - Andrew Baron

"Come at me bro!" - Andrew Baron

"You are doing the world a much larger favor by being critical. Let them know what sucks about their things so they can consider the feedback and make improvements." - Andrew Baron

"This is an interesting question to revisit today a couple of years later. Now TV Stations are all available to be bought for under a $1M too, sometimes coming along with even less in liabilities and even more in real estate value (they sometimes own their own building, trucks, equipt, etc). I like the idea of preforming an experiment in a small town in America to see if you can convert the newspaper readers and local tv stations to consume their news online, and stop that waste of newspaper printing *NOW* and move everyone more towards tv over i.p." - Andrew Baron

"I'm going to post this to my own ACCT tomorrow, but wanted to get it up here first: Imagine you have a group of influential people who, representing their companies, are all on Twitter. They all work hard, all contribute immensely to their field and they all compete against each other in the same business. In terms of their success, they are all neck and neck because they all share the same space and are all so good. Then one day, Twitter has one single guy who comes along and points to one and puts that lucky person on a new suggested user list. Boom. That guy suddenly wins out over the others but not by merit. Now they get more attention, more ad partners, more money, more business. They didn't work for or earn the reach based on value, they just got lucky because someone from Twitter pointed. In so doing, Twitter destroys the natural ecosystem. The rest are losers because the winner gets a boost that is impossible for the others to compete with. The others simply have less overall..." - Andrew Baron

"Just a guess, but at this point, I think it may be the press that is getting duped all over the place here." - Andrew Baron

"Almost tenso too." - Andrew Baron

"Thanks for the reference. Sorry you feel RB is not as good. I wrote the Google Plus script as more of an information piece. It could of been funnier, granted. You should check out our episodes with Joanne, and also it's a shame you missed Know Your Meme before we sold it a few months ago. Despite not making your radar for years, Im glad to hear at least we made it on again. Check back in in a few months, we've got some major in-the-works programming being built up behind the scenes. You might also like our site http://mag.ma too!" - Andrew Baron

"This is my last comment about Know Your Meme, but sorry, KYM did not pick up on the fake quality of the story. There is noting anywhere in the article even still that suggests its a forced meme and there was no question of the authenticity." - Andrew Baron

"Update: Chris Menning posted to his blog & admits its a joke and that Buzzfeed manufactured the meme. Chris sees it as a joke and feels as though it's me that is being embarrassed here. He's thinks this kind of lying is acceptable and par for the course for Buzzfeed - this is what they call "humor".  I guess I didnt get the joke but there ya go folks, Buzzfeed has no problem manufacturing news stories and making fools out of their audience." - Andrew Baron

"The point is, most people as you say, don't have time to cross reference who's couch shows what is real or not. When we read articles from NYT or Washinton Post, we don't usually stop to ask if the writer was making up the atory or favoring a sponsor, eg. Don't you see that now it's clear Buzzfeed will lie on some stories, and claim truth in others? Do you have to be an intern or insider to know when a story on Buzzfeed is true or false? Do you sometime make up facts?" - Andrew Baron

"No, sadly, Know Your Meme failed to notice this too. At the time of my posting KYMs article had no mention of the meme being forced. The old photo and the old trend were written as granted. Note also another star Buzzfeed staff member - ahem, Greg! - has been keeping the article trimmed too." - Andrew Baron

"BTW, is that Chelsea Peretti in the original photo??" - Andrew Baron

"I scrolled all the comments but none showed 1 Millions frames per second in action (most are in the thousands). I found a good example of a video that demos 1million fps pretty well: http://mag.ma/m6i90a" - Andrew Baron

"Regarding Mahalo, I certainly had a different take than you around the same time. Also from 2007:  "Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed" http://dembot.com/post/1930529..." - Andrew Baron

"Bill Gates has the same problem, but saus "Uh" instead of "Um": http://www.rocketboom.com/extr..." - Andrew Baron

"Looking back at this article today at the end of June 2011, I'm feeling more and more that disruption of the money industry itself is indeed what's on the horizon. Look no further than bitcoins, pretty decent iphone banking apps, ways around banks, international $ transfers, internet sales tax laws, etc" - Andrew Baron

"Would like to credit author, anyone know the source?" - Andrew Baron

"Sweaty hands prob work great for some auto-salt." - Andrew Baron

"It's great for kids....in their 30's and 4o's." - Andrew Baron