Steve Oliphant’s Musings

An interesting thing has been happening between James Brausch and CD Baby.

CDBaby has been running a contest for the top selling CD, and James Brausch has been promoting his CDBaby CD’s from his blog. He has achieved top spot, but it seems that CDBaby is trying to cheat him out of it.

James has the option of suing CDBaby, or ignoring their behaviour. He has asked his blog readers what they would do. I would ignore them and take my business elsewhere. Here is why:

The amount of money gained suing CDBaby would be miniscule compared to the amount that could be gained putting that same time, effort, and energy into creating and promoting – two things that James does very well.

Also, while I do believe in justice, I don’t believe in vengence, and often lawsuits end up being more about vengeance then justice. It is just bad energy that hurts all parties involved.

In my opinion, the bottom line would be better served by forgiving, and moving your business elsewhere. As for justice, why worry about giving CDBaby what they deserve? They haven’t worried about giving James what he deserves, so what should it matter if CDBaby gets their punishment/reward now or later? CDBaby is being short sighted and losing valuable online goodwill. A lawsuit might even help CDBaby fix their actions and profit them more in the future. If this is the case, and the lawsuit is done at the expense of James Brausch’s emotional energy and time (much more valuable then any money involved,) then is that justice? I don’t think so.

-Steve

What if you hate your life? Or maybe you don’t quite hate it, but you’re just not happy with your current situation? Perhaps you’re depressed, bored, or apathetic. Or maybe you just don’t see the point in living at all.

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I have too many clothes in my closets and drawers. I think I will use
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I need to get more organized. When I google’d around for ideas, I came across this post:

read the 27 tips to getting and staying organized

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http://50.lycos.com/ – top 50 searches at lycos.com

http://hotsearches.aol.com/

http://www.foia.cia.gov/Top25PhrasesMonthly.asp

http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml

http://technorati.com/pop/

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

http://pulse.ebay.com/

http://buy.ebay.com/

There are plenty more – I found most of these by googling “top searches”