tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post5665931043099836287..comments2010-02-11T19:48:28.840-05:00Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059Binky.Tabby@gmail.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-27145275886345557042009-10-30T18:47:14.733-04:002009-10-30T18:47:14.733-04:00@tao - if you don&#39;t get the email i sent you twenty or so minutes ago, there is officially no god/pavement will cancel their reunion tourchernobylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07166195535454661969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-57679227782631440542009-10-30T17:06:13.667-04:002009-10-30T17:06:13.667-04:00@chernobyl i searched and saw no email, can you email me again, i would like to mail you a free &#39;sfaa&#39;Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-58616258233212662662009-10-30T13:13:50.310-04:002009-10-30T13:13:50.310-04:00@ ^- :<br />whatever it takes, i guess, but i&#39;m kinda against the knife thing<br />would you consider a water pistol ?<br />i do like the storming the dean&#39;s office idea, thoredpencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06448650959367630044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-87884812561777680992009-10-30T12:56:57.858-04:002009-10-30T12:56:57.858-04:00vainlinkeyou, I like your postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-56981928444103585522009-10-30T01:48:44.302-04:002009-10-30T01:48:44.302-04:00I am going to use the money I saved by getting SFAA from the blog post to buy a knife and make my friends read SFAA and I suspect they will all like it enough that we will be able to storm the Dean&#39;s office and convince them to pay you money to come give a speech.^ -http://www.blogger.com/profile/00181641054900414968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-72936737513698488232009-10-29T21:26:23.432-04:002009-10-29T21:26:23.432-04:00i wrote about you Tao but its too late<br /><br />http://vainlikeyou-taolin.blogspot.com/vainlikeyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573830040775006777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-39387641746574186302009-10-29T17:28:53.519-04:002009-10-29T17:28:53.519-04:00also @tao: since you are not made of free books, i do not expect you to send me one now that the campaign is over<br />i&#39;m just happy my &quot;work&quot; did not go unappreciatedchernobylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07166195535454661969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-46346334338362875532009-10-29T17:24:37.425-04:002009-10-29T17:24:37.425-04:00i am glad you enjoyed it<br />and i am quite sure i am emailed you a link, as well as my home address and &quot;postal code&quot;<br />i even created a special subject line for the occasion<br />it reads: &quot;&gt;2000: I have a blog: the movie&quot;<br />you should look for that in your &quot;binky tabby&quot; account<br /><br />@ anonymous - i am not dyslexic, though i have been very dizzy for the past three days<br />thanks for your concernchernobylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07166195535454661969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-54129332842489646732009-10-29T17:04:49.640-04:002009-10-29T17:04:49.640-04:00Hey &#39;Anonymous&#39;, that was really mean. Nice use of inverted commas, though. Well done.<br /><br />I&#39;ll definitely buy your book, Tao. But we&#39;re still mortal enemies.<br /><br />Just sayin&#39;...Gavin James Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821305931160724063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-78929825631915116112009-10-29T16:05:18.960-04:002009-10-29T16:05:18.960-04:00Tao, you should send free books to chernography and Gavin James Bower and not &#39;penalize&#39; them for &#39;technicalities&#39; or &#39;use&#39; your &#39;discretion&#39; to be &#39;unfair&#39;. <br /><br />It discriminates against them if they have dyslexia.<br /><br />You should send free books to 62 people to be fair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-75304510332619824632009-10-29T12:00:43.563-04:002009-10-29T12:00:43.563-04:00Dear Tao,<br />I am slowly working my way through these posts and am thoroughly enjoying them. (Fuck, &quot;thoroughly enjoying them&quot;, that sounds so grown-up and lame. Also, I am using capital letters and correct punctuation. What the fuck?) (Okay, now I feel better).<br /><br />To repeat myself, I think this was a great idea.<br /><br />I am going to do a two-person grassroots thingie. I am going to loan SFAA to a friend who otherwise would never read it, ask them please to really read it, and have a nice conversation with them about it afterwords. This makes me feel good. This makes me feel like &quot;I am only one blade of grass in this great wide world but that&#39;s OK&quot;. What can I say, my parents are old hippies and &quot;grassroots&quot; is a &quot;buzzword&quot; I grew up with.redpencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06448650959367630044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-11956646648342068602009-10-29T08:42:15.066-04:002009-10-29T08:42:15.066-04:00p.s. I really like number 26.Gavin James Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821305931160724063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-74230879856302909672009-10-29T07:07:53.384-04:002009-10-29T07:07:53.384-04:00http://dexterity97.blogspot.com/2009/10/tao-lin-is-now-my-mortal-enemy.htmlGavin James Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821305931160724063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-63960123191107495252009-10-29T04:06:25.387-04:002009-10-29T04:06:25.387-04:00@chernography i enjoyed your post<br /><br />if i had known about it i would have posted it<br /><br />i think you didn&#39;t email me a link, did you email me a linkTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-56868088686618116082009-10-29T01:30:22.111-04:002009-10-29T01:30:22.111-04:00did you even read mine?! judging by my high-tech internet web page hit counter, you did not read my blog post, Tao. I&#39;m fairly disappointed. So disappointed that I am going to post the link to it here: http://notapartypixsite.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-i-have-free-book-now.htmlchernographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115414185936934567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-9710684859177785042009-10-28T19:29:56.219-04:002009-10-28T19:29:56.219-04:00@matthew sweet<br />@ben sweet<br />@redpencil swee<br />@buttercup sweet<br />@abrupt sweet<br />@thomasplevy can you elaborate more<br />@brook damn<br />@panoptican sweet<br />@sarahspy sweet<br />@gavin sweet<br />@taolinsuperfan sweet<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@andrew damn<br />@anonymous seems effective to me<br />@anonymous search &#39;green smoothies&#39; on youtubeTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-39785151016680684422009-10-28T15:13:16.315-04:002009-10-28T15:13:16.315-04:00hey tao what healthy food would you recommend?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-59481656330597317202009-10-28T15:02:58.432-04:002009-10-28T15:02:58.432-04:00difficult to &#39;compete&#39; with megan boyle i guess. your html table skills are impressive.panopticanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08796280386201508493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-49048136166573363892009-10-28T13:21:08.629-04:002009-10-28T13:21:08.629-04:00&amp; I will do my part by paypaling you some money now. I go to Harvard, my parent&#39;s are rich!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-29100355728635324892009-10-28T13:18:02.273-04:002009-10-28T13:18:02.273-04:00Hi Tao, I am a student at Harvard Business School. Indubitabily this promotion is not cost-effective. You are subsidizing people who would have already bought your book, thus you are not making sales money that you would have made otherwise. So this will end up costing you money unless the sales generated by the promotion makes up for that and exceeds it. Is there any way to measure your sales day to day to check on it? You do not want to be giving charity to people who may be rich and inclined to pay for the book. How much will it cost you to send out the copies of the book? I hope you got all these copies for free, otherwise you are acting as Santa Claus to people. But then there is postage, I don&#39;t know what it cost&#39;s to send each book, but I think for packages it is depending on how far it is going and then you have to send some to Auatrailia and sign these stupid things, I think, and it cost&#39;s even more. I think you should just tell everyone that you are happy they blogged or gmailed about you but if they agree, you will not send them the free book because you need and deserve the money more then that they do. I think everyone who posted this will be happy just to have written about you, you really deserve to keep the money,, or maybe you could have a contest like a reality show with all the 26 people and make them write another blog post and then pick the 5 best one&#39;s to send books too. This whole contest really seems like you are just being goodhearted and generaous and doing a good thing to reward your fans. You are a great guy but if you&#39;re goal is to make money, will this work? I hope so. But then I bought my copy last month and I reread it already. There has to be a twist on this where you can get a better cash flow from it immeditatley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-71989987303953727562009-10-28T13:15:14.226-04:002009-10-28T13:15:14.226-04:00maybe we could vote for best blog post and/or gmail chatAndrew James Weatherheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170181843269053825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-48693712827348017722009-10-28T11:18:15.116-04:002009-10-28T11:18:15.116-04:00wow, Everett Bogue&#39;s post is really good.<br /><br />i don&#39;t think anyone writing like Tao Lin can be as successful as Tao Lin at what he does, but this doesn&#39;t mean his models on information and business can&#39;t be used to promote other kinds of writing (including blogging and journalism), music, and other individually-run ventures. <br /><br />kudos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-280430195346853882009-10-28T10:37:04.579-04:002009-10-28T10:37:04.579-04:00&#39;damn&#39;<br /><br />&#39;forgot&#39; about this<br /><br />seems like it is a competition for the final two spots<br /><br />seems like you should put it up to a &#39;vote&#39; to create more &#39;grassroots promotional buzz&#39;<br /><br />i vote for thomas p. levy and panoptican if you do hold a vote<br /><br />other possible ways to determine who &#39;deserves&#39; the final two spots:<br /> - &#39;write off&#39;: seems self explanatory but i&#39;m not sure what it is<br /> - &#39;rap&#39; battle<br /> - twitter &#39;battle&#39;<br /> - ebay auction<br /> - american apparel &#39;off&#39;: i imagine this would involve modelling whatever american apparel clothes they own and then selecting the &#39;hottest&#39; persons or else might involve taking clothes &#39;off&#39;<br /><br />anyway, good luck in selecting the winners tao.taolinsuperfanhttp://readerofheheheetc.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-44426125568496973632009-10-28T09:55:44.906-04:002009-10-28T09:55:44.906-04:00I &#39;feel like&#39; I would&#39;ve won a book, if only I&#39;d commented here first...<br /><br />Admittedly, I could be in denial.<br /><br /><br />Gavin aka Your Mortal EnemyGavin James Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821305931160724063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-9264104525550901602009-10-28T07:27:41.850-04:002009-10-28T07:27:41.850-04:00greater than 1,500 is &gt;1,500 not &lt;1,500. far less attractive, unfortunately.panopticanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08796280386201508493noreply@blogger.com