[Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability

[Jason McCabe Calacanis]

I believe ceos and management teams of tech firms aren't the only ones who should get paid. :)

Editors do real work and should--if the choose--be paid for it. Working for free as a hobby is fine (ie wikipedia), but why anyone would work for free to make venture capitalists and ceos right is beyond me.

Re the top 10k, we can keep them updated and make a living I think. :)

J
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Aerik Sylvan" <aerik at thesylvans.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:36:32 
To:jason at calacanis.com
Cc:search-l at wikia.com
Subject: Re: [Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability


<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason McCabe Calacanis</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jason at calacanis.com">jason at calacanis.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, the approach at mahalo is to use humans--paid ones with health care and all--to hand write the first 10,000. Check it out at <a href="http://mahalo.com">mahalo.com</a>.<br><br><br></blockquote></div>Well, yes, I got that much.&nbsp; Are you going to constantly revisit those 10,000, and look for &quot;better&quot; results?&nbsp; That&#39;d be fine, you know, but but I&#39;d imagine it would come at a high overhead.&nbsp; Don&#39;t get me wrong - I&#39;m a big fan of benefits and health care, and personally I have a few doubts about the how well volunteer developers working for a for profit entity is going to work out - I&#39;m just trying to ask questions that get behind the marketing into some of the actual meat of your search engine.&nbsp; On the surface, it sounds a lot like dmoz.
<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Aerik<br>