Comments for Greg Maletic's Blog

Comment on The Meaning of Disneyland by C McMahon

C McMahon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:17:01 +0000

I love your article and agree with most of it whole heartedly. Yes we have progressed with technology and some of the older attractions seem outdated however they are not outdated to all the new young children who explore through the parks daily. For example the adventure through inner space ride taught basic biology concepts. I personally would love to see it return. The people mover could incorporate advance science such as the human genome project and be completely educational. As for the Tiki Room I don’t think it is a dead end at all. Where else can young children sit and listen to birds and tiki totems come alive and a tropical rainstorm to boot! It is wonderful. Yes new technology is great but reviving the basics can still be entertaining if done properly. For example bring back the Mary Blair tiles in tomorrowland. Education needs to be brought back to the park to continue the “charm”. If it continues on it’s current path as one big advertisment for Disney movies what is the point. Too much commercialism gets really boring after awhile.

Comment on It’ll be trivially easy for Twitter to make money. Or not. by Greg Maletic

Greg Maletic — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:55:29 +0000

It’s just that I think the phrase “trivially easy” understates the problem of monetizing Twitter by a good order of magnitude.

Sure, they could turn on ads, start charging high-volume tweeters, or any of the other potential schemes that have been tossed around on the web. But the truth is, all of the proposed revenue generators will damage the Twitter experience. Not fatally, not irrevocably…but they will damage it, in a significant way.

I would suggest that the problem of monetizing Twitter isn’t trivially easy. It’s quite complex, otherwise they would have done it already.

Comment on OpenDoc by Pavel Lahoda

Pavel Lahoda — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:56:03 +0000

There is one thing, that is even more “OpenDoc-ish” than Wave..Google’s mobile OS, Android. Application can publish “intents” that get intercepted by third party software which actually executes them. It is great feature that gives Android a lot of flexibility and I think it position it well in the “battle” against iPhone.

Comment on It’ll be trivially easy for Twitter to make money. Or not. by Steve Broback

Steve Broback — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:44:29 +0000

The monetization switch would be trivially easy to flip to “on.” They have chosen not to (yet.) Is that a difficult concept?

Comment on It’ll be trivially easy for Twitter to make money. Or not. by Mitza_003

Mitza_003 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:30:59 +0000

Tweeter making money…sounds interesting.

Comment on Why Amazon Did the Right Thing by Pulling Content From Kindles by Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:33:32 +0000

Amen. I am a Kindle user and yes, it does bug me that Amazon can virtually break into my virtual bookshelves – take a book off the shelf and leave the purchase price behind. But as a writer, I agree with what they did completely.

Comment on Space Mountain Attraction Poster by Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:17:18 +0000

Thanks for making this available! I’d love to see what you could do for some of the old forgotten EPCOT attractions.

Comment on The Meaning of Disneyland by Disney World curriculum | MisterW

Disney World curriculum | MisterW — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:32:53 +0000

[...] And every day, science and progress march forward.” Actually, a blogger captured it in Walt’s own words in his Disneyland [...]

Comment on Space Mountain Attraction Poster by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:42 +0000

Greg, your work is awesome! I can’t wait to see what you might come up with next. You capture the feel of Disney and provide a unique look that is entirely it’s own kind of cool. Thank you so much for sharing your work with us…and for FREE! You are a true gentleman. Now, let’s see some more great work!

Comment on You should buy a Mac by brenry

brenry — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:45:42 +0000

I havent gotten around to watching your documentary yet on pinball. There’s a really good one going around now called
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com that you could find at regular torrent sites.

What’s funny is listening to people tell their stories on how sysops would ban users if they did not have a specific computer. I was always a C=64 user myself.

Do you have a game room? I don’t like the idea of virtual pinball machinese using lcd displays in a cab. The bright lights of the actual machines are mesmorizing, but they are still pretty expensive. I’m just starting collecting arcade cabinets myself because they are affordable