Found this in my drafts:
Yay it has been like 6 months or something since I last posted here. In that time I've become an iphone fan, RIM imploded and the Blockbuster down the street turned into a gym. I am still Dad more than entrepreneur. [My little dudes need me so I am okay with that dilemma.digression] The recession is still on and Scott Walker is still gov'nah of Wisconsin. A lot has changed but some things stay the same like the repulsively attractive power of a freak show.
What is it about the oddities and abnormalities in life that so many find fascinating? Why is it that the less than ideal life is so entertaining? Why are we paradoxically repulsed, excited and attracted to "freak show" moments?
I was thinking about a tweet I read regarding sensors in cars that detect bad roads then share the inputs with the great big, bad ass cloud. Somehow this data storm would lead to good-road/bad-road data viz and the life of the automobile driver would magically become all better because municipalities would fix the bad roads (ha, that's the funny part right). At the same time a friend says he needs a crowd sourced idiot detector app for our locally owned side show attraction, Woodman's East market. Basically people could post when the idiot factor was high and my friend could decide to go or avoid based on the data.
Now, that market is known for it's own slice of Wiscona Americana. Sometimes it is an excellent people watching experience while other times a complete debacle, F-a-roo. One thing is for sure Woodman's East has never let me down in the entertainment category. It is a rich slice of Wisconsin life including the good, the bad and the ugly. Oh the ugly!!!
Now, the six of you who read my sporadic blog will know that this is the time when I jot down new business or value model ideas based on my utterly normal life. It has been awhile but here is the gig...inspired by a stranger's tweet about accelerometers gathering road conditions and my friend's hope to one day avoid mass idiocy at a grocery store on the East side of Madison. -Crowdsourced Freakshow documentary/app. This would be a little bit of the Walmart Shoppers Site and Police Mug Shot Sites combined with Pinterest, Path and FourSquare. A person would check in at their fav freakOrama and post the happens, unsightly, ill-formed train wrecks that are AmericanSideShows. Once checked in you can post a link, date and time spotting everything from the small obese child who ate CoolWhip off the floor after it cracked open from a fall, to "Missy" that loveable heroin addict who finds herself stubling around aisle 4 every Thursday at 9pm.
Exploitative? Probably. Entertaining? Maybe...for the right person anyway. Revenue? Who cares, this would be done for fun. If it made money, great. Regardless let's assume it is the same old, tired and hopeless ad based revenue model.
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Yay it has been like 6 months or something since I last posted here. In that time I've become an iphone fan, RIM imploded and the Blockbuster down the street turned into a gym. I am still Dad more than entrepreneur. [My little dudes need me so I am okay with that dilemma.digression] The recession is still on and Scott Walker is still gov'nah of Wisconsin. A lot has changed but some things stay the same like the repulsively attractive power of a freak show.
What is it about the oddities and abnormalities in life that so many find fascinating? Why is it that the less than ideal life is so entertaining? Why are we paradoxically repulsed, excited and attracted to "freak show" moments?
I was thinking about a tweet I read regarding sensors in cars that detect bad roads then share the inputs with the great big, bad ass cloud. Somehow this data storm would lead to good-road/bad-road data viz and the life of the automobile driver would magically become all better because municipalities would fix the bad roads (ha, that's the funny part right). At the same time a friend says he needs a crowd sourced idiot detector app for our locally owned side show attraction, Woodman's East market. Basically people could post when the idiot factor was high and my friend could decide to go or avoid based on the data.
Now, that market is known for it's own slice of Wiscona Americana. Sometimes it is an excellent people watching experience while other times a complete debacle, F-a-roo. One thing is for sure Woodman's East has never let me down in the entertainment category. It is a rich slice of Wisconsin life including the good, the bad and the ugly. Oh the ugly!!!
Now, the six of you who read my sporadic blog will know that this is the time when I jot down new business or value model ideas based on my utterly normal life. It has been awhile but here is the gig...inspired by a stranger's tweet about accelerometers gathering road conditions and my friend's hope to one day avoid mass idiocy at a grocery store on the East side of Madison. -Crowdsourced Freakshow documentary/app. This would be a little bit of the Walmart Shoppers Site and Police Mug Shot Sites combined with Pinterest, Path and FourSquare. A person would check in at their fav freakOrama and post the happens, unsightly, ill-formed train wrecks that are AmericanSideShows. Once checked in you can post a link, date and time spotting everything from the small obese child who ate CoolWhip off the floor after it cracked open from a fall, to "Missy" that loveable heroin addict who finds herself stubling around aisle 4 every Thursday at 9pm.
Exploitative? Probably. Entertaining? Maybe...for the right person anyway. Revenue? Who cares, this would be done for fun. If it made money, great. Regardless let's assume it is the same old, tired and hopeless ad based revenue model.
Sent from my iPhone
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