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tag:dcurt.is,2014:/feed Dustin Curtis 2016-02-29T13:03:39-08:00 Dustin Curtis http://dcurt.is email@example.com Svbtle.com dcurtishttps://feedburner.google.com tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/svbtle-promise 2016-02-29T13:03:39-08:00 2016-02-29T13:03:39-08:00 The Svbtle Promise
Today, we're launching a new feature for Svbtle members: it's a promise that the Svbtle service and your published content will remain available on the web forever. You can read the details here: Svbtle Promise →

One of the biggest downsides of investing time and energy into using a new startup's service is the nearly inevitable fact that, at some point, that startup will likely be acquired and shut down, transitioned into something entirely different, or even completely fail. The data from millions of users ends up being either lost entirely or the users themselves are forced to waste countless hours transitioning to a new service with similarly questionable longevity. I've always considered this one of my top hesitations for trying cool, innovative new services. As it turns out, that's a major concern of many potential customers of Svbtle, too.

Hopefully, with the Svbtle Promise, we can allay that fear. And we hope that our public dedication to your online presence will encourage you to join us if you haven't already.

When I started Svbtle a couple of years ago, I built it for myself. I was sick of using other blogging services that were incredibly slow, contained endless lists of unnecessary features, had egregious security bugs, and which required me to be heavily locked-in to proprietary networks with little sense of my own identity. Svbtle has always aimed to solve these particular problems. We're close, but we are still working to improve in a few of these areas. Here's a quick update on our near-term product roadmap.

Design Customization
 One of the best things about Svbtle is its simplicity, and we want to retain that quality while also allowing for some more customization. This is a very hard design problem, but check back in a couple of months for some progress on this front. We want Svbtle to be your place of ownership and identity on the web.

Support For Companies
 Svbtle is designed for individuals right now, but we're working on Svbtle for Companies, which will provide a dead-simple, complete solution for companies to run their blogs on the Svbtle platform. (One of my biggest company blog pet peeves will finally be solved: the top left company logo will link to the company's main website instead of the blog's homepage!) If you're interested trying this product out, please let us know: email@example.com.

Exposure and recirculation
 This is something I have been personally obsessed with for years, and we are working on several projects to address this problem. Svbtle now has thousands of dedicated members who are publishing awesome stuff every day, and we're building features to expose that writing–your writing–to more people. Svbtle is a network, and we haven't yet done enough to bring readers and writers together.

In a sentence: more is coming. The Svbtle Promise is just the first step in a series of features and releases we're working on for 2016. I hope you'll join us for the ride.

Sign up →

And as always, you can say hello at any time by emailing us: firstname.lastname@example.com or by texting/iMessaging me directly: (415) 971-3229. I genuinely want to hear what you think.
  http://dcurt.is/svbtle-promise tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/vintage 2016-01-10T20:58:54-08:00 2016-01-10T20:58:54-08:00 Vintage

The minute you believe that the past was better, your present becomes second-hand, and you yourself become vintage.

– Karl Lagerfeld
  http://dcurt.is/vintage tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/it-drives-itself 2015-12-26T18:22:59-08:00 2015-12-26T18:22:59-08:00 It drives itself

Over Christmas, I was lucky enough to spend some time with a brand new, fully-loaded Tesla Model S P90D. I picked it up in the middle of San Francisco and drove it uneventfully through the city and across the Golden Gate Bridge. As I entered the open highway, a new icon appeared on the car's minimalist dashboard–a little steering wheel. When I pulled back on the cruise control stick twice, there was a pleasant beep, and then, as if by magic, the vehicle was driving itself. It perfectly turned with the curves of the road, and slowed and sped to maintain a perfect distance from the cars in front of it. It even handled stop-and-go traffic perfectly. I took my hands off the steering wheel and watched. The car was driving itself.

I remember reading the initial reviews of Tesla's "Autopilot" functionality and thinking that it sounded cool. Even the review videos looked cool. But actually experiencing it–literally feeling the car's computer make decisions as it approached curves and obstacles–was one of the more profound experiences of my life. For only the second time I can remember–the first time was while using the original iPhone–I muttered under my breath, "I am experiencing the future".

There are some obvious limitations to Tesla's Autopilot as it exists today. A couple of times, when the car's computer lost sight of lane markers, it loudly told me to take over immediately. But at the very least, Autopilot is an intense taste of the future… it is a great demonstration of the state of art in autonomous driving technology, and in so many ways, it reminds me of the first iPhone. It isn't very hard to extrapolate from today's Autopilot into a fully self-driving future. And after experiencing it, the future feels a lot closer than I had expected.

If you can, I highly recommend finding a Tesla Model S with Autopilot and feeling it for yourself. It really is a profound experience.

(And I didn't even mention the P90D's Ludicrous mode, which is quite an experience on its own.)
  http://dcurt.is/it-drives-itself tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/twitter 2015-09-06T20:44:49-07:00 2015-09-06T20:44:49-07:00 Fixing Twitter
Tech analyst Startup L. Jackson believes that Twitter's Product is Fucking Fine and that the company's next CEO needs to simply give the current team some room to get stuff done. No. I think Twitter badly needs to do at least five things to address imminent existential threats–things which its current team has tried and spectacularly failed to accomplish. Investor/cowboy Chris Sacca recently wrote about What Twitter Can Be; below I outline what I think Twitter should have been yesterday–and how its team has proven an inability to address or even identify these threats over the past three years.

First, for normal users, Twitter feels too much like a one-way broadcast system. It needs to feel more like a community, with meaningful two-way interaction. Right now, a reply to Justin Bieber by a 16-year-old fangirl goes into the ether, never to be seen again. There is zero incentive in the product to interact with celebrities on Twitter, because no one will see the responses. Instagram at least gives the illusion that other people will see interactions, and its UI even feels like a realtime chat room. Twitter responses are difficult to read on the website–with that weird accordion expansion UI that only shows 5 responses and makes it impossible to follow a coherent conversation. It is insane that Twitter has not improved the reply/conversations system.

Second–and this one is obvious to almost everyone–Twitter needs to focus on realtime events. When I open Twitter during a major debate in the US, or when a bomb has exploded in Bangkok, there should be a huge fucking banner at the top that says "follow this breaking event." It shouldn't just search for a hashtag–it should use intelligent algorithms to show me all of the relevant content about that event. It should be the place you go to learn about what is happening in the world right now. When something major happens in the world/your country/your city, you should be trained to immediately and automatically think, "open Twitter to get updates." This is so obvious to me that I wonder what Twitter's product team has been doing—are they over-designing a solution to this? It's so simple. 90% of the UI and 80% of the search functionality is already in the app.

Third, Twitter has fucked up multimedia integration. Why the hell does adding a photo or video use up some of the 140 characters I want to use for my description? Why does it crop my photo? Why does it not show full-width images in the feed? The answer to these questions are easy to dismiss by anyone who has been using Twitter for eight years, but it makes no sense to the 16-year-old Belieber, who will inevitably get frustrated and use Instagram instead. Twitter is competing directly with photo sharing apps like Snapchat and Instagram, and it is clearly worse than both of those platforms for normal people to share anything. It doesn't let me easily direct things to certain people and it doesn't let me write meaningful descriptions. Worst of all, and most perplexing, photos and videos still don't feel native to the platform. They feel like afterthoughts–which they are–bolted on to a text platform. Twitter needs to step back and think, "What would Twitter feel like if it wasn't originally based on text?"

Fourth, let's talk about third party payloads/integrations on Twitter. They have never felt native, and they are still–after three years–in a bizarrely dire state. When I add a link to a YouTube video, Twitter should obviously expand the video in place and let me add some commentary to it. It has only recently started to automatically expand things like this, but it does so inconsistently–sometimes and on some platforms it's just a link and other times it's an awesome, fully interactive module. It is unpredictable and I can't preview it until after I publish the Tweet, which makes me wary of posting external content. Good product design should remove anxieties like these.

And that leads to me to the final thing I want to talk about, which is also the most important: Twitter has fucked up its platform. Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text. That's it. Nothing great is Built On Twitter, even though it should be the most powerful realtime communications platform on Earth. There are simply no developer integration features for building stuff on top of Twitter as a platform, and that is absurd and disappointing. The fact that automatic tweets from apps are considered rude is one of the biggest failings of Twitter's product team–Twitter should be the place for apps to broadcast realtime information about someone. And yet the culture around the Twitter community has effectively banned such behavior because the product doesn't have features to filter/organize such notifications.

The fact that Twitter has fucked up its platform, more than anything else, is why I think Twitter's next CEO needs to be more of a visionary, a person who can walk into the room and say, "What the fuck have you been doing for the past three years?" The last thing Twitter needs is to sit on its ass, twiddling its thumbs, while the product team continues to completely fail at addressing its most dire imminent existential threats.

Disclaimer: I own Twitter stock.
  http://dcurt.is/twitter tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/twitter-cfo-anthony-noto-on-facebook 2015-04-18T14:57:29-07:00 2015-04-18T14:57:29-07:00 Twitter CFO Anthony Noto privately analyzes Facebook
I'm surprised that more of the fascinating emails revealed by WikiLeaks about Snapchat have not been publicized. Below is one of my favorites. Twitter's future CFO Anthony Noto sent a fairly detailed analysis of Facebook's Q1 2014 earnings to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in April, 2014. Noto became Twitter's CFO two months later.

From: "Noto, Anthony" firstname.lastname@example.com

 Date: April 24, 2014 at 9:01:27 AM EDT

 To: "'firstname.lastname@example.com'" email@example.com

 Subject: Perspective on FB

Like we discussed last night the headline growth rate of 72% yoy with ad revenue accelerating to 82% yoy growth is remarkable at this scale and should be a real positive for the sector.

Just finished doing a deep dive on FB results

The exact opposite trend drove results than what we discussed last night. # of ad impressions actually decline by 17% year over year and was off set by revenue per impression being up 118%. FB is seeing declining ad impression due to mix shift from desk top to mobile. On mobile there are fewer ads since there is no right hand rail. But mobile monetizes better which is rare….a key question here is why does mobile monetize better? Is it due to higher prices per click or higher click through rates. If its the latter ie click through rates than its enormously positive because higher click through rates are highly correlated with better ROI which leads to ad spending. If its due to higher prices per click I would be concerned and want to understand advertiser cohort analysis ie of those that advertised last year on mobile how much did their yoy spend increase this year. If the growth in spending on a same store basis (ie holding the # of advertisers from last year constant) is single digits yoy than once everyone tries mobile ads on FB the growth rate of ad revenue yoy will plummet from triple digits to high single digits over night (aka Groupon; priceline in circa 2000).

Second key question about the decline in the number of impression due to mix is what is the change in impressions on each platform on a stand alone basis ie desktop vs mobile as opposed to overall change in ad impressions. It might be the case that desktop ad impressions are growing at a huge rate solely due to a significant increase in ads per page. If this is the case than the decline in ad impressions due to the mix shift from desktop to mobile is actually way worse than the reported 17% yoy year decline. I can explain live but in essence the yoy decline in ad impressions if the number of ads per page on desktop was held constant might be much much worse than 17% and if so once the ad load on desktop doesn't keep increasing than the real decline in total impression will come through and be worse than a 17% decline. Similar to the scenario I made earlier if the # of advertisers is held constant yoy what's the change yoy in revenue growth.

All of that said if desktop ad load is not increasing and the same store advertisers on mobile are growing their spend significantly vs being masked by spend from first time advertisers than FB is crushing it. Specifically if the growth in Ads is primarily all driven by higher click through rates due to better relevant ads on mobile than all of the private mobile companies that have a great medium from advertising will be viewed much more favorably and be more valuable (ie think u have a great medium for ads) Specifically if ads on mobile are more engaging for consumer and more relevant than desk top ads than the addressable ad market for mobile will be bigger than desktop ad market and the valuations of mobile companies will be greater than desktop all else equal on audience size etc etc. Ie this would be a very positive factor for Snapchat

If Facebook knows this to be true it would result in them being willing to pay higher valuation for mobile companies than other acquirers because google won't know nor will yahoo msft etc because none of them have scale in mobile to understand these powerful secular trends and in essence they under value mobile vs FB and thus under invest and fall farther and farther behind.

Last point on ad trends for FB…the actual revenue on FB desktop grew only 6% yoy vs last qtr that had 10% yoy growth. Once desktop FB revenue growth turns negative which is likely to happen in 2014 without any innovation (ie a successful desktop ad network or something else in the works) it will create a real drag on overall revenue growth and if any of the negative scenario trends I outlined earlier are true (significant increase in ad loads on desktop significantly offsetting the mix shift issue to mobile and price driving monetization instead of click thru rate driving monetization) vs the positive scenarios (ie click thru rate is the driver and ad loads on each platform are flat) than facebook is heading for an air pocket on growth.

Users

 Mobile Mau's grew 34% yoy to 1bn….that growth rate at such scale (in absolute terms given 1 bn is a big # and more importantly on a relative basis to its overall user base mobile is already 85% of its current WW user base) is remarkable and a clear indication that facebook is still in early days on mobile penetration and there is a lot more room for growth in mobile MAUs for everyone in mobile….this is great news for Snapchat as you are mobile first and mobile only and if the user base on mobile is bigger than desktop (which I think it is by a magnitude or more) than you will be valued more favorably than before in absolute terms and long term at scale you will be more value than desktop companies at scale. I would note the FB's mobile only MAU # reached 341m which is outstanding for Snapchat when you think about where your MAU number is vs 341mm and you have only been available for 2 years and don't have a desktop user base of 1+bn plus to target or the same geographic footprint or brand awareness!!!!

Also mobile dau to mau is higher on mobile than desktop at 60% vs 50% for FB. 60% is a good benchmark target for you to want to achieve on Snapchat.

Let me know if you have any questions

Anthony

Via WikiLeaks.
  http://dcurt.is/twitter-cfo-anthony-noto-on-facebook tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/in-mobile-disruption-comes-from-above 2015-02-26T17:33:06-08:00 2015-02-26T17:33:06-08:00 In mobile, disruption comes from above
The always-amazing Benedict Evans on patterns of disruption in mobile:

You can see this basic story over and over again in the history of the technology industry. The future always comes looking like a toy. But right now the tech industry is being reset by the mobile, and in mobile, disruption tends to work the other way around. The new thing tends to arrive looking like an expensive luxury for rich people, doing far more than any normal person would need. But over time it gets cheaper, and the new, unnecessary characteristics turn out to be very necessary, and the the old, cheaper, less capable model gets squashed.

This kind of 'reverse disruption' also happens with other advanced, expensive hardware technology products like the automobile, the computer, the television, etc. But the bottom-up disruption pattern is way more common, and almost universally true for applications of those expensive products, especially apps, services, and the industries built on top of them.

See also: Ben Thompson on "obsoletive" technology.
  http://dcurt.is/in-mobile-disruption-comes-from-above tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/dick-costolo-in-the-nyt 2015-02-25T19:26:36-08:00 2015-02-25T19:26:36-08:00 Dick Costolo talks to Farhad Manjoo
Dick Costolo "talked" to Farhad Manjoo today, who was only able to ask one tough question:

In a recent earnings report, you said Twitter had 288 million active users a month — only a few million more than in the quarter before. Do you worry that Twitter doesn't have a broad appeal?

Everyone wants to know and stay up-to-date on what's happening in their world and be connected and know what's going on. That's what Twitter provides. So I think that irrespective of whether you want to tweet, everyone can get value out of Twitter right away.

Interesting question with unfortunate phrasing. The answer is definitely true. But I wonder what he really thinks.

Also strange that Costolo continues to reference Twitter's bizarre run-on strategy statement with, "Everyone wants to know and stay up-to-date on what's happening in their world and be connected and know what's going on." You'd think they would have thought of a more eloquent description after the negative attention in November.

(Source: DF.)
  http://dcurt.is/dick-costolo-in-the-nyt tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/fashion 2015-02-16T15:15:16-08:00 2015-02-16T15:15:16-08:00 Fashion
Most revolutionary new technologies follow a similar evolutionary path from utility to fashion.

When the automobile was first mass produced in the early 1900s, it was practically impossible to use and literally impossible for most people to purchase. It was horribly underpowered by any comparative standard except the horse. For the first thirty years or so, the car slowly improved in style, power, and comfort. Each new model was principally defined by its technological improvement–slightly better performance, more comfortable interior, or lower cost. By 1935, the car was more or less feature-complete. By then, the entire Oldsmobile line had electric starters, comfortable transmissions, and a well-sealed passenger cabin.

It was in the mid 1940s that something remarkable happened: buyers of cars transitioned from focusing on features–like horsepower and suspension design–to exterior styling that reflected their personality. The car buying experience became more about the external expression of the buyer than the practicality of the car as a device for transportation. The car became a fashion accessory.

I think the same thing is happening right now in the computer and mobile devices industry. Computers and phones have historically been sold based on performance, screen size, and battery life. The slow march of technological progress through the 1990s and 2000s was obvious to anyone who knows the word "megahertz". But in the past couple of years, I think we have finally reached the 1945 equivalent in automobiles: all devices sold today can do everything any reasonable customer would want. The computer is now feature-complete. Almost all model segmentation is now based on the personality of the customer.

While phones have begun to pave the way, the first device to truly embrace fashion is the Apple Watch. Every Apple watch is the same–the software is the same, the hardware specifications are the same, and the basic functionality is identical for every model. The only pricing segmentation is based on style and material (and screen size, presumably based on body type). Colors, bands, precious metals–the Apple Watch is sold as a fashion accessory rather than a piece of technology. It's something far more personal and intimate than any other piece of technology that has come before it–maybe since original mechanical watches themselves. Buyers of Apple Watch will have no choice but to use their personality to differentiate between models.

From a technological perspective, the car had transformed human society well before 1930. But it didn't truly feel human until the 1940s, when the raw technology was infused with cultural significance in the form of fashion. Computer technology is on the same path–we're at the inflection point where our devices transition from being objects that are very utilitarian and mechanical into things that we want to integrate into our bodies. I think watches are just the beginning.
  http://dcurt.is/fashion tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/nick-denton-crisis-letter 2014-12-10T11:48:35-08:00 2014-12-10T11:48:35-08:00 Nick Denton's Crisis Letter to Gawker
Nick Denton runs Gawker Media, one of the last bastions of truly independent online media in the world. And despite healthy traffic growth during the past year, Denton thinks 2014 was a year of vague regression for Gawker: not true growth, but rather a slow devolution of voice and rigor. Denton wants to see Gawker as the leader of truth and honesty in online media, but his competition is Top Ten Nip Slips from Buzzfeed. When your product is ostensibly intellectual, how do you compete with hits of cocaine? Gawker finds itself today in a tough place, where the challenges are new and unusual.

The letter below, which Denton sent to all Gawker Media employees today, faintly reminds me of the ones sent by Jeff Katzenberg to Disney in 1991 and John Walker to Autodesk in 1983. Every once in a while, you have shake things up. And the announcement has to be as inspiring as the shakeup itself. I think this one definitely qualifies as inspiring.

Source of the letter: Re/Code.

 2015: Back to blogging

"I have some important news." Usually, that's how I start a conversation with someone who is being promoted, or fired. This time, that conversation is about me: my solo leadership of this company, and the collective management that is going to replace it.

Here are the highlights: I am announcing the formation of a managing partnership of seven people which will make key decisions together. Among them, Heather Dietrick will take over my position as President. Having helped lift gross commerce revenues to $60m, Erin Pettigrew will head Strategy, including responsibility for the Kinja software product. Deadspin's Tommy Craggs is the new Executive Editor over all eight flagship titles. And we will return to our mission: more linebackers with fictional dying girlfriends; less pandering to the Facebook masses. In 2015, Gawker will be the very best version of itself; I will be the best version of myself. We will be bloggers again.

Don't get me wrong. I am not stepping down as CEO. And department heads will continue to report into me. I am proud of my management track record of the last decade. I am proud of what we have made together.

Gawker Media is the only truly independent media company to achieve lift-off on the web. Even this year, not one of our best for stories, our U.S. monthly audience has grown healthily, up a fifth, a growth rate that many media companies would be thrilled with. We have plenty of momentum.

Our business became profitable without venture or corporate capital. Our writing style has permeated the English-writing online world. Manti Te'o and Rob Ford: those scoops are of legend, and they are ours. Our blogs are read by 1 in 3 of those readers that tackier media companies would lump together as millennials, a demographic to be traded by advertisers, capitalists and dealmakers. By contrast, we think of them as individuals with interests as unpredictable as our own. We are beholden to no one. That is a precious thing.

That independence is guaranteed by me. I am the largest shareholder in the company. I choose to stay, and I believe we can be better. I am excited for 2015. I believe you still need me, to set a broad direction, and shake the company up if it's drifting (but to leave it alone when it's humming).

We are transparent by virtue of what we do, opinionated journalism. Of course this memo will be leaked, and it will likely cause us some problems. The truth hurts. And though most of the criticism is self-criticism, I'm sure I've said something that will offend, inadvertently. But the needs of open internal communication trump external messaging and internal quiet. I'd rather be slightly embarrassed, and open with you. By our natures, we can't stay quiet.

The problems I'm going to identify are common. Excellence in software development is elusive; no online publisher has yet succeeded in transforming itself into a platform. As a company grows — Gawker is approaching 300 employees in New York, Budapest and around the globe — an upgrade of management is inevitable. The thing that marks us out from more tightly controlled corporations: we're able to recognize our handicaps, and address them. This organization is more than ever designed for continuous improvement.

I feel free to show vulnerability here because of my overwhelming confidence in our company's underlying strength and mission. Yesterday's sensational emails between the head of Sony and Scott Rudin: that's how good our editorial can be every day. We will be the first online media company to create its own technology, rather than be reduced to a content provider subject to someone else's algorithm. And our Sales team is the best in the business, defying market trends to lift up revenue per page for the third year in a row.

Our future opportunity — to host the most lively and informative conversation on the web — is too great to fumble. Boldness is required not just of me, but of the organization. And the excellence of our execution is directly related to the honesty of internal communications.

This memo is long. If you're in a hurry for the full set of names and promotions, you can skip ahead to the bullet points. But there's a lot to go through. The organization has long made most big changes at the end of the year, to start the new one with maximum energy and a clean slate. Better to get changes out the way in one fell swoop. (And yes, this will wrap up the swoop for 2015.)

So many of you are here in New York this week for the all-hands and the company party; it's a good chance for you all to meet the new team in person. And you know me: I'm a showman; I do like to make a splash.

But before we fill in the rest of the news, here's the story behind the story.

The eight flagship blogs — Gawker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku and Lifehacker, oh, beloved Lifehacker — are fearless and uninhibited, dedicated to putting truths on the internet and out to the world.

Yet in our internal communication, as a company, we didn't act that way. The current principles of software product development hold that candid conversations–with developers, designers and users–lead to a better web experience. We lacked that necessary candor. We left too many opportunities on the table, too many known problems unresolved. And in our external communications, in our stories, we sometimes shied away from controversy, fearful of online critics. We weren't ourselves.

We all understand how this works. Editorial traffic was lifted but often by viral stories that we would rather mock. We — the freest journalists on the planet — were slaves to the Facebook algorithm. The story of the year — the one story where we were truly at the epicenter — was one that caused dangerous internal dissension. We were nowhere on the Edward Snowden affair. We wrote nothing particularly memorable about NSA surveillance. Gadgets felt unexciting. Celebrity gossip was emptier than usual.

We pushed for conversations in Kinja, but forgot that every good conversation begins with a story. Getting the stories should have come first, because without them we have nothing to talk about.

And the development of Kinja itself was a challenge. Our Tech department proclaimed a new era of multi-disciplinary cross-functional teamwork and collaboration. The reality: the best tech teams in online media in both New York and Budapest, with too many developers grinding away at re-factoring (thankful though we'll be next year for that prep work). And a product manager on the 2015 design refresh had barely talked to the consultant who had driven the other major new project of the forthcoming year. Open collaboration in theory; the opposite in practice.

Who raised the alarm? Would I have even heard it? For a good 12 months from the summer of 2013 I was variously betrothed, distracted, obsessed by Kinja, off on honeymoon, obsessed by Kinja, off on sabbatical. I'm not sorry for that. For ten years, I've danced with this octopus. That's what one person on Twitter calls Gawker: an octopus armed with chainsaws. I deserved a break.

When I was disengaged, I didn't leave any real authority in place. In my absence, the company ticks along nicely; with the challenge of Buzzfeed and Vox, ticking along nicely is no longer enough. Even when I'm here, if I'm obsessed by something, other parts of our common project can spin off in unpredictable directions, causing me to overlook developing risks and opportunities. As Joel said, I am the company's greatest asset — and it's greatest liability. To be saved from myself, like many of us, I need partners in the fullest sense of the word, to take up the slack or keep me on focus. And I didn't have them.

During this period I made a mistake in Editorial, hiring a talented guy whose voice and vibe I loved, who represented nerd values, and whom I thrust into a job which changed under his feet: he was competing with Lockhart Steele of Vox and Ben Smith of Buzzfeed, two of the most effective editorial managers in the business, each with the funding to go after the very best talent. I was so obsessed with the design of Kinja discussions, I didn't even think to warn that Gawker is always first about the story. I took that for granted. I was in so much in a hurry that I didn't even look at other candidates, a cardinal sin. I made a mistake, and I'm sorry to Joel, and I'm sorry to those to whom he is a friend.

And during this time too, we embarked piecemeal on a software project whose eventual scope we barely imagined. Tom told me years ago he did not want to run the department beyond 30 people, that he wanted to get back to coding. Tech is now at 55 people. Tom didn't push me. I didn't want to mess with what was comfortable, the best relationship with a CTO by far that I've ever had in my career. And no other views were solicited.

So we attracted impressive technical talent — with our culture, audience testbed, and idea — and then we let those people down. We embarked on the Kinja expansion before we'd recruited the management; each major hire was reactive, each to fix a problem created by the last. Hire engineers. Now manage engineers. Oh no, we need product people. Lean, what's that? I had to learn fast. It wasn't quite that bad; but not that far off.

That was down to me. Tom and those who didn't speak up: them too. But mainly me, because not only do you have my mistake, you have the silence of others, and that too is my responsibility. If people are afraid to be candid, that is my responsibility. I need you each to point out my errors, or at least to throw in your own idea without fear it might be impolitic, and I need you to do that with your manager, too. (You'll have your first chance of many at the Q&A that Annalee Newitz will moderate this afternoon at the Sunshine at the end-of-year all-hands.)

And if the organization depends so heavily on my full presence for action, then that's on me too, for failing to recognize and fix that. Until now.

It's okay for all of us to make mistakes, especially when we're moving fast — so long as we learn from the experience, and we don't repeat the same one twice. That's all we're doing here: iterating endlessly, through words and software, to make the world a more open, hopeful and tolerant place. This is my new iteration.

First, I recognize that I need a backup. I intend to be fully engaged next year — in the helpful-to-others-at-work sense, rather than about-to-get-married and distracted. But you don't know that absolutely for sure. I need someone who can act with my authority if I'm not contactable at least by video call.

Now there will be a permanent deputy, someone who can represent the company in public and who sits above the big departmental interests — the barons, I call them. This person must be universally regarded as fair. A tall order, but I think we have the candidate.

Second, I need to share power more broadly. I need a team, a group I can trust to act in the best interests of all of us. I need to be edited. I need advisors with whom I can be fully candid, and who can be candid with me, even when it's uncomfortable. I'm told seven is the perfect number for a team (or an online conversation, for that matter).

So I am naming the first six managing partners — seven, with me included — with whom I will consult on major matters such as tech investments and the reassignment of department heads. The partnership will make decisions by consensus, or majority vote if any managing partner dissents. We are collectively committed to the company's independence. Alphabetically, ending with myself:

Executive Editor: Tommy Craggs

Tommy inadvertently sparked this whole reshuffle, but not out of any personal ambition. If anything, I feared he wouldn't take a position that a friend had so recently occupied. It's only because of his sense of obligation to colleagues that he's accepting the appointment.

What Tommy did was simply to set me thinking, through something he said during a conversation just as Gamergate was subsiding. "I just want to break a fucking story." Or maybe it was "I just want to fucking break a story." One of the two.

Anyway, it got me thinking. Yes, that's exactly it. That editorial freedom we're so proud of: just do something with it. Something meaningful, more meaningful than a toxic flame war that showed only the internet's capacity to divide, and none of its capacity to reconcile.

Then I went off the rails, as I do, and asked myself: damn, is Gamergate really our story of the year? You are only as good as your last story, that's what they would say on Fleet Street. Yes, we do need to break a fucking story, or fucking break a story, whichever it was. And we need to grab hold of our own company narrative, change the conversation in the only way we know how, through sensational scoops and unfettered opinion.

Anyway, the only person telling me this is Tommy, and then comes the realization that we'd have a better chance of being great, of breaking fucking stories, with his inspiration. Even Harry Potter reads Deadspin, for God's sake. What more endorsement do you need?

Supporting Tommy will be Lacey Donohue as Managing Editor and John Cook running Investigations. Other appointments will be made before Tommy starts officially on January 1.

Editorial management's mission for next year is simple. Here's your budget. Break some stories. Expose the story behind that story. Say what others cannot or will not. Make us proud. This is the one of the greatest editorial openings of all time. Don't fuck it up!

President: Heather Dietrick

Heather will be my deputy. She's perfect for this, a much better official representative of the company than a half-Hungarian homosexual could ever be. Heather will arbitrate, especially when I'm out of the office. And she will propose decisions to the managing partners. That's what few people understand about Heather: she's about the most decisive person at the company. Also, there's this: she prepares most of the documents that I sign; I'd rather she be the one signing off on them too.

Heather will retain responsibility for legal affairs. She will take on internal and external communications. For programming of the new space on 2 West 17th Street, to turn it into a hub of real-world and video-ready discussion to complement Kinja's online, Heather has tapped someone from within the company: James Del, who will be joining her as head of programming. Moving with James to Heather's department: Victor Jeffreys, who will handle events for all departments.

President, Advertising & Partnerships: Andrew Gorenstein

A promotion for Andrew Gorenstein. Richly deserved: Andrew has grown revenues by more than 30%. Actually, Andrew would never say that. Let me get that right. We have grown revenues by more than 30%. With Andrew, it's always a We. Go, team!

And I have to thank Andrew too for warning me we were headed in the wrong direction — gently, artfully, menschily. Not just in the wrong direction, but toward an iceberg, with the captain in his quarters, and that was actually the dream he had that set all this off. Andrew is the very best head of advertising sales and e-commerce that I could possibly imagine for Gawker; he is my business partner. He has made us all better. Andrew will stay until he has enough money to retire; I am happy he has expensive tastes.
 Among those reporting to Andrew will be Michael Kuntz of Sales, ascending head of Business Development Ryan Brown, and starting this week as head of Studio, Paul Sundue from the agency world, specifically DDB New York.

Chief Operating Officer: Scott Kidder

Scott is essential. Nothing would work without him, from finance to people and culture to facilities. (The gorgeous buildings we're moving into next year, in both New York and Budapest, are his projects.) Beyond overseeing these key functions, Scott works with me and the other Managing Partners on our most important initiatives — Scott knows everything. And everybody knows that Scott knows everything. That is all. Scott is being promoted to COO.

Chief Strategy Officer: Erin Pettigrew

Erin has been at this company, and immersed in online media, almost as long as I have. By the testimony of her staff, she is the most respected unit head in the company: scarily organized, scrupulously fair, and wholly logical. Even before she's formally started, it's clear Erin will have a transformative effect on product strategy and management, which will fall under her. The mood on the second floor is palpably more light. Erin will be a more open partner to the engineers; that will be eased by shared palinka in Budapest, which Erin knows as well as any other American at the company.

CTO: Tom Plunkett

As the Tech team learned on Monday, once Tom has helped identify a suitable replacement, he will be shedding the CTO role to lead a product innovation team of five people. Tom and I have shared a vision — intimacy at scale — for better discussions on the internet for half a decade. We can keep talking, but it's time to do so as a group, including others, and it's time to actually build.

It is my hope Tom will join the Gawker Media board and he will be a permanent member of the Product steering group, which decides on priorities. He continues to be vital to the culture: Tom was the one who got us all to read Ed Catmull's book on his light-touch management techniques at Pixar, a book that had a powerful effect on my thinking.

But he may now finally have the time and the resources, the managerial support and the freedom from administrative distractions to fulfil our longstanding dream: such filtering and personalization that discussions feel like a friendly debate or exchange of information.

No, headhunters: he is not in the job market. As I said, Tom wants to write code, he wants to keep together this Tech family we've built. The culture of our development teams — both pleasant and talented — reflects Tom and Keki's character. I think of them like a couple, and in a sense they are, both essential to the connection between Budapest and New York. We will all retire together to Lake Balaton.

CEO: Nick Denton

Yep, I end up with a title I don't even like. For the longest time I called myself Publisher. I was once a magazine guy, and I liked the archaic ring. CEOs seemed like such douches. If I was going to be a douche, I'd be a douche with a different title.

The fact is that I would like to end my career as a behind-the-scenes powerbroker, a Deng Xiaoping of Gawker Media, exerting discreet influence through obscure committees. It's more my style. Or maybe I can merge with the benign AI that will evolve from Kinja discussions.

But my fellow partners won't let me do that just yet. The chainsaw-wielding octopus scares off not only potential acquirers; it scares even the most competent of executives. Just look what happened to Pierre Omidyar when he wrestled with John Cook and company at First Look. Or that accidental Facebook founder so injured by The New Republic, a lightly-armed squid, if that.

Anyway, I've negotiated a compromise deal. I will continue my duties as CEO. I will be relaxed and confident in the knowledge that I have a capable deputy. I will be able to participate in editorial, product and advertising brainstorms, without so overpowering the conversation. I really hope that. And in the new year, give me a few days, I want to resume the activity that brings the best out of me: blogging.

As a company, we are getting back to blogging. It's the only truly new media in the age of the web. It is ours. Blogging is the essential act of journalism in an interactive and conversational age. Our bloggers surface buried information, whether it's in an orphaned paragraph in a newspaper article, or in the government archives. And we can give the story further energy by tapping readers for information, for the next installment of the story, and the next round of debate.

The natural form of online media is the exchange, not the blast. Tommy's ethos gives us the best chance of recapturing the honesty of blogs, before their spirit was sapped by the tastes of the Facebook masses. "We put truths on the internet." That's Tommy's motto. I can subscribe to it. Dauntingly, it's down to our writers to provide a constructive but critical voice in an American culture. And it's down to our product managers, designers and developers to encourage a similar tone in the discussions sparked by stories.

This company was founded by a gay man and two women. I have never been comfortable with the role of a traditional CEO. And for obvious reasons I have never been comfortable in a company dominated by territorial men. I hope I have made space for others who don't fit the mould. And I pray that my information networks are still good enough to identify those leaders too busy being capable to promote themselves. At Gawker, despite the reputation of our journalism, nice guys finish first. And women.

I have now a balanced team of partners whose capabilities are widely acknowledged. These are six people I can confide in. I am happy to share power with them. We will be candid with each other. The drift this year: it will never happen again.

And you should be straight up with us, too. If you know something's wrong, if you're not proud of the work you're doing, or if you have an idea that's not being recognized, bring it to your manager, and then if need be, your manager's manager. Or just tell someone.

Speak up. It's what we do. Do it today at the all-hands; do it at the bar at the party on Friday. I started Gawker, a blog which read like a conversation between journalists, because I learned at newspapers that the best story was the story behind the story. And the real story, the deeper truth, that you were most likely to hear at the bar with colleagues, after deadline. I'll be by the bar. See you there.

Most of my motives in making these changes are for the good of us all. But I am being selfish in one respect: just as Tom wants to spend more time with his code, I want to spend more time with my blog.

It's a little daunting. The last time I was writing regularly was 2008, when I ran Gawker, and I'm out of practice. I'm sure any blogger knows the feeling.

But I still believe that writers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. I am a politician, just not the analog kind. I could never win election. But I can play the system. And I can exercise most influence now through writing on my blog, and in the comments on others.

The way out of every mess is candid exchange of opinion and the search for the common ground. Truth and reconciliation. That's what this memo is all about, all the conversation that led up to it, and the conversation that will continue between us this afternoon, and for the broader conversation we're sustaining on the platform. My goal as a blogger for next year: the radical transparency, . Live what we preach. Show, don't tell. But regular posting would be a first step. Hold me to it.

I will be a user of our platform. User-in-chief. My feedback will be from real experience. Our software should be what we want ourselves to use. I am going back to blogging. As are we all.

In the New Yorker profile in 2010, Anil Dash said. "Who has more freedom in the media world than Nick Denton?" I haven't always felt that, this last half decade. I do now. I hope you share that feeling. Let's make use of it.

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I used to give Amazon's consumer hardware strategy the benefit of the doubt. I liked the original e-ink Kindles, even though they were made out of cheap plastic. I kind of understood the first Kindle Fire tablet, even though it was a piece of junk. But as Amazon has released more and more pieces of junk over the past couple of years, I've lost faith. The Fire Phone, for example, is not just bad; it's so terrible that it's dishonest of Amazon to sell it to anyone. There are zero people on Earth who would be better off owning a Fire Phone instead of an Android phone. I'm not exaggerating–go find one to play with, and you'll understand. The hardware is abysmal and the software is embarrassing. You would have to be delusional as a manager to launch it and tell people that it is a well-made phone. What does that say about Amazon's consumer-side brand and strategy?

It's extremely hard for me to understand Amazon's consumer hardware strategy. Usually, when a company has a strategy I don't understand, I can look deeper, ask employees, or analyze the greater market to get a faint idea of what is driving the company's behavior. But with Amazon, I can't. There is simply no rational explanation for its products. The only thing I can come up with is this: Amazon continues to make hardware because it doesn't know that it sucks, and it has a fundamentally flawed understanding of media. With Amazon.com, it can heavily and successfully promote and sell its products, giving it false indicators of success.

It's an echo chamber. They make a product, they market the product on Amazon.com, they sell the product to Amazon.com customers, they get a false sense of success, the customer puts the product in a drawer and never uses it, and then Amazon moves on to the next product. Finally, with the Fire Phone, customers have been pushing back. You can't buy a phone and put it in a lonely drawer, never to use it again, like you would with a Fire Tablet. You can't dupe your customers by selling them a shitty phone, because a phone becomes a part of its user's identity.

The media strategy that seems to be driving Jeff Bezos to make mobile consumption devices (with Amazon's media stores and Prime video/music) is flawed. No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore. That market is quickly and brutally dying. The media market is now so efficient that all profit is completely sucked out of the equation by the time you get to the consumption delivery system, to the point that it is barely possible to break even. You can only make money with media by selling the device itself at a huge profit (Apple) or by providing a greater media experience (a movie theater or a nice set of speakers). A cheap, shitty tablet or phone does not fit into that equation anywhere.

Even if Amazon's goal is to sell tablets and phones so people buy more retail stuff from Amazon, I don't see how that can work in any reasonable future. That strategy would only work at tremendous scale, when you have millions of people using Amazon devices to buy Amazon retail stuff. The investment Amazon has made in its hardware strategy totals millions upon millions of dollars. Without any retail profit in the first place, how would they intend to recoup that investment? First, you'd have to make something people want. And given Amazon's past performance, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that.

Amazon's retail strategy of being allergic to profit does not translate well into hardware manufacturing. People buy hardware that fits into their lives, and becomes part of how they identify themselves to the world. If you want to sell hardware, you have to be in fashion, like Samsung was two years ago, or like Apple has always been. Amazon is incapable of understanding fashion, because it has no taste, and its hardware is completely unfashionable and tasteless.

Amazon is slowly destroying itself from the inside out, through its own echo chamber, by focusing on a strategy that will never work and does not even make sense.
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Hello all,
I've been attempting to create a plugin options page which allows the end user to upload images (and eventually other types of files) using the in-built media uploader. I've tried following several tutorials (including : http://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/01/08/using-the-wordpress-uploader-in-your-plugin-or-theme/#comment-11610 ) and have nearly got it working perfectly.
I have managed to get the media uploader to pop up in the thickbox as per 'usual' (I'm trying to get the plugin to feel native to WordPress, hence my desire to get it working like this).
The code worked as expected in version 3, apart from one small thing - when the thickbox opens, the 'insert into post' button isn't present on the 'From Computer' tab. If I go ahead and upload something and then switch to the 'media library' tab and then click on 'show' the 'insert into post' button is displayed. However, on the 'From Computer' tab only the 'save all changes' button appears.
The reason why I'm needing the 'insert into post' button is because I'm hijacking the window.send_to_editor function which is called when someone clicks that button.
If you follow the link above you'll see the entire code I'm using and it seems that this used to work prior to version 3.0.
I've tried playing around with the URL that is used to call the thickbox and have found the following things:
tb_show('Test', 'media-upload.php?type=image&TB_iframe=1');
When this is clicked, the thickbox opens on the 'from computer' tab. Intermittently the 'choose files' button doesn't display and a click on the 'From Computer' tab is needed to get this button to display. When that is clicked a file can be uploaded. Once a file is uploaded the information about the image is displayed and at the bottom of that information (where normally, when using the media uploader in a post, there is 'insert into post', 'use as default image' and 'delete permanently' ) there is only an option to 'delete'. Below that, at the bottom of the iframe is the 'save all changes' button.
tb_show('Test', 'media-upload.php?type=image&tab=library&TB_iframe=true');
When this code is used the iframe loads on the library tab as you'd expect. The reason I tested this is because of the problems with the seemingly intermittent display of the 'select files' button. The same problem as described above persists whereby the 'insert into post' button is not displayed.
tb_show('Test', 'media-upload.php?post_id=9999&type=image&TB_iframe=1');
Finally, I tried this whereby I noticed that when you're using the media uploader in the posts screen (normal usage) there is a post_id parameter - so I tried putting in an arbitrary number.
This loads the thickbox as normal, on the 'from computer' tab and functions exactly as the first chunk of code above. The only difference is that, when an image is uploaded, when the information about that image is displayed the 'use as featured image' link is now present as well as the 'delete' and 'save all changes' button below those. However, the 'insert into post' link isn't displayed - much to my dismay ;)
Apologies for the long post, I wanted to be as thorough as possible and explain what I've done as clearly as I could. If anyone is able to shed some light(box ... har har) as to why the 'insert into post' button is not displayed I would be very appreciative.
Alternatively, if someone could tell me how I can hijack the function that runs when the 'save all changes' button is clicked instead, that would do the trick although from a brief look at the code, it looks like that button actually processes the form and doesn't run a js function.
I've tried injecting some html into the overlay but had absolutely no luck with that at all as I was unable to determine when the thichbox had finished loading (if you run some js on the click handler for the 'upload image' button, the thickbox hasn't loaded so you can't inject anything into the iframe as it doesn't exist in the DOM yet)
Thanks very much in advance for a) reading all my drivel and b) any answers that are forthcoming.

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By N R Madhusudhan - BANGALORE
Published: 30th December 2013 07:34 AM
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A day after 26 people perished in the fire that broke out in an AC coach of the Bangalore-Nanded Express, forensic experts, who on Sunday inspected the compartment to probe the cause of the blaze, said they have reason to suspect sabotage behind the incident. According to official sources, a team of forensic experts inspected the burnt compartment, which has been towed to Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh to collect samples for chemical analysis.
The investigators noticed a four inch-wide hole near Seat No. 7, which could have been caused by some explosive or other combustible material. The fire seems to have erupted from the floor of the train as it was completely burnt in the area where the fire started, the investigators said.
Moreover, 22 of the 26 bodies in the bogie were found on the berths in which they were sleeping.
Therefore, the experts have reason to believe that the fire spread very quickly, giving little time for the unfortunate passengers to escape, which, they said, would not have been the case if the blaze had occurred due to a short circuit as presumed earlier.
"If the fire was caused due to a short circuit, the blaze should have erupted from the top of the coach as all the electrical wiring of the train are fixed to the roof, but that is not the case. It is very early to come to any conclusion. We are drawing inferences after examining the burnt bogie. We can clearly determine the cause of the fire only after the chemical analysis report reaches us", an official said.
The forensic experts took photographs of the different spots in the bogie and have collected around 50 samples of different materials.
The samples will be sent for chemical analysis to a laboratory in Hyderabad, which is expected to submit its report after seven days.
Meanwhile, as many as 19 of the 26 bodies have been identified so far.
The deceased who have been identified
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Mad-Magazine styled parodies of beloved Christmas stories and their characters by star talent Bam Margera (JACKASS, MTV's Viva La Bam) and a parade of special guests. Imagine "A Christmas Carol" re-done with Ebeneezer Margera, Ziggy the Red-Bellied Zorse - a mythical creature with a bad rash on its stomach that glows, etc.]]>
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I bought this DVD for my girl for Christmas and she could not have been any happier, she is absolutely in love with Bam. So it was a big hit with her which made me a big hit with her, nice. Any way I watched this with her that night which was ok because I am a fan of Bam and all them so it was cool. It has been a while since anything new has come out from these guys so I was excited to watch it, I knew it would good.
The movie is all about Bam and company taking a trip to the Arctic Circle some where in Finland trying to find the real Santa Claus. Apparently the only thing left for Bam to get his wife Missy since she has everything she could possibly want he decides that the real Santa is the only logical gift. Accompanying him on this trip is his brother Jess and Chad I. Ginsburg from CKY, Mark Hanna, Joe Frantz, and a personal favorite of mine Brandon Novak. Back at home Missy and Bam's parents have to put up with not only two members of The Bloodhound Gang [including the ever funny Jimmy Pop] but also S***Goose, and Mark the Bagger. One of the main driving points behind this film is the two bets that are going down with the Bagger, one with Novak and one with Bam. With Novak is a bet to see who can get the most girls, and with Bam it is whether or not the real Santa is in Finland. The prize for the Bagger against Novak is a sexy robot and with Bam it is none other then Bam's wife Missy, yes he bets her.
In Finland the boys harass each other and by that I mean mostly Bam messing with Novak pretty hard, I feel so bad for this guy all through the entire film. Also along the way they decide that they need a map so Hanna is volunteered to get a horrible map tattooed on his stomach.Read more ›
I STILL laugh my ass off watching this film. There's so many non-stop hilarious things all going on at once. I was TOTALLY shocked to see JOnne (singer from Negative) in the bar in Helsinki. Also The 69 eyes ... and more.. of COURSE HIM -- can't have a film without Ville, especially in Finland.. When Bam listens to Andy McCoy I almost fell out of my chair after they had a hella treck up to Lapland with the Dudesons (omg I LOVE them!) and themn when they can take the train back --and Novak is so shocked and kinda pissed lol and Bam says "When Andy F*&^%@g McCoy says to do something.. you DO IT! BAhahaa!
In the beginning I feel so bad for how Bam treaks Novak, and have to keep reminding myself that he knew it from a script and got paid good for letting Bam do all that he did.. I DID THINK OMFG! when the whole stomach tattoo map of how the F@&%$ to get to Santas happened..when Ville sand spftly in his ear I melted, not just because it was Ville, but because of the act of kindness... To get someone drunk then do THAT is crazy. I do have to wonder if that was in the script because he was honestly like WTF am i going to tell people!? and he was drunk.. Bam did a number on him for sure.. WOW! Still I can't help but lol after I cringe inside because everyones all full of such different emotions, manic drunken Jackasses looking for Santa in FInland..
I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE The Dudesons so they were a highlight for sure! Also the fact that Santa ended up a drunk in the bar and not the real one then kinda woke up from a black out in California at a huge ass party made me laugh my ass off.
Bam has gotten so much better with his directing skills than when he started. It's impressive. I alwas have wished Ryan was in this and now even more than ever. But it is worth every penny and even more... You'll watch it way more than once, you'll watch it on repeat..
*** Get ready to laugh until your stomach hurts! ***
I had wanted to watch this movie for a few years and just never got the chance. Wouldn't you know that literally 2 days after it arriving it was on MTV. I would have been much happier watching it for free. Its not to say its the worst thing ever, as it did have its good moments, just not really what I was hoping for.
My friends hated it WAY more than I as they were expecting basically another Jackass movie, which it really is not, saying its just too forced and disingenuous. Their top 3 favorite things about the movie (and basically the only three things really) were:
1: Bam's woman in bed in panties
2: The map of Finland tattoo
3: Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks
I'm not saying "do not buy this movie", just that you may want to check it out as a rental. If you do purchase it I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
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I hope to see more from Bam, he has been touring around meeting and greeting people, I wish he would get back to creating, unless I am unaware of his projects or something. Read morePublished on February 27, 2013 by Agiftforyou
I wish this movie was less set up, and the plot was retarded. Santa? Really? This movie was really funny, though. Read morePublished on February 26, 2013 by Scott
Most funny christmas movie ever!!! Bam and Dunn and Novak are hilarious!!! Worth it!!! Ghetto raunchy! Hangover better watch there back!Published on December 20, 2012 by Sloankkia
Fun Bam Margera film to watch on Christmas or around Christmas but the big problem with the movie is it's missing Ryan Dunn, Brandon Dicamillo, Raab Himself, Rake Yohn, and even... Read morePublished on November 21, 2012 by xchrisxmanxgx
Ok, the plot of the film is Bam and Co. head to Finland in search of the REAL Santa to surprise Bam's wife, Missy, on Christmas Day. Read morePublished on October 18, 2012 by Amazon Customer
Movie came in great shape and was as hilarious as I remembered it being! Love the bam crew and my product came on time.Published on November 28, 2011 by Crystal
Whether it be the CKY films, Haggard, or the more recent Minghags (to name a few), this was by far my favorite. Read morePublished on October 26, 2010 by Poe
I bought this movie because I was told that Jussi69 and Jyrki69 from The 69 Eyes were going to be in it, as well as shots of Finland, where a friend of mine and I want to go and... Read morePublished on October 19, 2010 by Janalyn Robnett
love this movie. i couldnt stop laughing, cant wait for more movies i own most his moviesPublished on August 8, 2010 by rev_billdoza
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In a vote that stands to forever change the public agency it leads, the North County Transit District Board of Directors decided Thursday to privatize the agency's roughly 325 bus workers, a move that will reduce the workers' pay and benefits but also help keep the financially wounded district afloat.
The 9-0 vote awards First Transit of Cincinnati, Ohio, a seven-year, $178 million contract.
The private company ---- the largest transit operator in the United States ---- will employ the workers and run NCTD's fixed-route bus line, which snakes across the region, from Torrey Pines north to Orange County and east to North County's backcountry.
"This is a historic day for the North County Transit District," board member Sam Abed said as district staffers, First Transit executives and about a half-dozen bus employees watched the mostly subdued proceedings inside the agency's board chambers in Oceanside.
"We are saving $10 million a year for the taxpayers," Abed said just before the vote. "We are saving jobs. Our action today is to make sure we ensure the long-term financial viability of the district."
District leaders for much of this year have discussed the agency's crushing financial straits: A projected $16.1 million deficit for the 2010-11 fiscal year, the loss of $30 million of expected state transit assistance since 2003 and the region's plummeting sales tax revenue, which is used to cover much of the agency's operating expenses.
"We've thought about this," board member Carl Hilliard said. "We've gone through every alternative."
More personnel moves are expected next year.
The agency predicts that it will need to lay off about 40 percent of its administrative staff, including payroll, human resources, marketing and customer service workers to creep closer to solvency.
With all the moves, the district's work force will drop from 523 employees to just 85 in coming months, reshaping it into a "contract-management" agency, its general manager has said.
Private companies already operate NCTD's commuter Coaster trains and its light-rail Sprinter line.
Leaders believe that the changes give NCTD the best chance to maintain a high level of service, given a still very dark financial forecast.
Officials this summer discussed districtwide pay cuts that they said could have kept the bus drivers, mechanics and maintenance workers as public employees.
But the board would have needed to slash wages 30 percent for everyone, a cost NCTD executive Director Matt Tucker said the board and the workers union agreed was too high.
Several bus workers have said pay-cut options were never brought directly to them. Some workers at Thursday afternoon's meeting said they understood the agency has huge financial problems. But they noted that now they do, too.
"I have a mortgage, I have car payments, I have insurance (payments)," said Rita Meriwether, who said she makes the maximum a driver can make with the agency, $21.65 per hour, and has worked there nearly 11 years.
NCTD drivers start at $14 per hour. They make up nearly 240 of the agency's 325 bus workers.
"To have that (wage) reduced by a couple dollars, I don't have a problem with," she said after the meeting. "To have it drop to, let's say to $15 per hour, I would have to look at that."
The district will achieve some of its savings by no longer having to contribute to the workers' California Public Employees' Retirement System.
New wages and benefits for the workers will not be known until their union, Teamsters Local 542, negotiates a deal with First Transit.
Several of the company's executives pledged Thursday to "take care" of the district's workers.
First Transit expects negotiations to take place in March and April with recruitment and hiring of "current" and "new" employees from March through May, according to a timeline the district released.
District officials said all current bus workers will be given priority in First Transit's hiring process.
Under terms of the contract, they required that First Transit to recognize workers' seniority in structuring new pay and benefits.
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Few showed up, their fellow workers said, because they had to either work or believed the result was inevitable.
"This was considered a done deal," said Jessie Perez, their union representative.
Perez said morale is low for the workers who now "are uncertain about their future, where they're going to go."
"The contract was awarded to First Transit," he added. "But the thing is now, what is First Transit going to offer the employees?"
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