"my own position is we ought to have a temporary moratorium until we finally resolve the issue of how the states are going to support public services with an eroding tax base predicated on the growth of e-commerce."
"How would a market for ideas work, in any case? How could you prevent someone from listening to a bunch of ideas and just walking away with the ones they like?"
-- your blog post
If something is worthless because people will not give you money for it ("make something people want"), then there is nothing inherent in ideas that makes them worthless.
It is simply the fact that most people would not pay you for ideas that make them generally not a profitable endeavor.
You're fine with information being given to thieves and murderers but not to a company that wants to improve your experience so you'll voluntarily give it more money?
It looked like a pretty neat product, but when I tryed to examine it more closely, it would't let me register.
I have some vague ideas about why they wouldn't want me to, but from a business standpoint, if someone is inquiring about your product shouldn't you want them to be able to?
"if I were launching a new website, here's what I'd do. Instead of hiding the Feedback link in the upper right hand corner, I'd place a form right on the main page. A big form. And I'd bend over backwards to get people to use it."