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nirgrahamUK:

is Lilburne the new Hazlitt ?

Even asking such a question is a staggeringly generous compliment.  Thanks man!

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Whoa.  Lew Rockwell just blogged my comics.  Right after, I got like 20 hits in 5 minutes.

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filc replied on Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:32 AM

Dude remember the little guys when your famous!

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LewRockwell.com blog references are usually good for 800 ~ 1000+ visits.

Nice of him to do that.  The real benefit will come when other people re-blog and re-post your link.  When it goes viral.

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Santtu replied on Mon, Oct 19 2009 8:43 AM

The next, and obvious, step for this project is to make these into youtube videos. Now that would be rad.


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Congratulations! Beer

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Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
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Arvin replied on Mon, Oct 19 2009 2:13 PM

Lilburne:

Whoa.  Lew Rockwell just blogged my comics.  Right after, I got like 20 hits in 5 minutes.

Awesome dude! You deserve it!

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Thanks filc, LS, Santtu, Daniel, and Arvin.

Santtu I tried to export them from Keynote (Apple's PowerPoint), which is what I use to make them, into Flash, but without success.  I will keep trying.

By the way, in order to support this project, since the system here doesn't support embedding, I'm moving Summa Anthropica over to Blogger.  (It's new home is what is linked to by Mr. Rockwell's post.)

The new address is anthropica.blogspot.com.  I've started the long process of transferring my content over there.  My Mises Community Blog is still up, but the new stuff will be on Blogger.

Thanks for all the support and advice!

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Okay I've got #1 up on YouTube.  How is the timing of the frame advances?  Is it okay with no audio?  I also made some formatting changes to #1 and added a "Further Reading" bit at the end.  Feedback would be much appreciated.

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AJ replied on Mon, Oct 19 2009 8:27 PM

These are really great!

For the video, make the frame length shorter when there is less text to read, and longer when there is more. Fade-out transitions would also give the reader a moment's warning before the slide changes.

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AJ:
These are really great!

Thanks AJ.

AJ:
For the video, make the frame length shorter when there is less text to read, and longer when there is more.

I figured out how to use iMovie to adjust the frame lengths.  I also added narration.  Unfortunately now the text is all blurry. Sad

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Try uploading it to YouTube as a high definition video. If the text continues to be an issue, you might have to use a different font.

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Daniel:
Try uploading it to YouTube as a high definition video.

It's not YouTube.  It's blurry on my computer too.  It's just that the next highest video quality available in iMovie is over 3 GB, which is too big.  I need something in between.

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Lilburne:

Daniel:
Try uploading it to YouTube as a high definition video.

It's not YouTube.  It's blurry on my computer too.  It's just that the next highest video quality available in iMovie is over 3 GB, which is too big.  I need something in between.

Really? iMovie sucks for that. Do you have access to Premiere or Final Cut Pro? Or can you export the slides into a flash file?

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No, I don't have either of those.  Maybe I'll try Flash.

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Conza88 replied on Tue, Oct 20 2009 2:06 AM

Lilburne:

No, I don't have either of those.  Maybe I'll try Flash.

Might have to do with the resolution of the pics, or their quality? Something better than jpg surely. lol

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Here's Issue #2 with narration...

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I finally found time to finish issue #5.  (Note: read the Adam Smith part with the thickest Scottish accent you can imagine to get the full effect.)

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Le Master replied on Thu, Oct 29 2009 9:59 PM

Your link sends us to issue #4.

Here's the link to #5.

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fakename replied on Thu, Oct 29 2009 10:00 PM

when the history of the libertarian renaissance is written, I will be able to say that I knew it's petrarch.

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Le Master replied on Thu, Oct 29 2009 10:06 PM

I'm still going through it, but on slide 16, you have Turgot as being born and dying before Christ. Haha. Everything else is great so far.

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Conza88 replied on Thu, Oct 29 2009 11:47 PM

Epic. Hahah @ Krugermon

Great as usual.

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Le Master:

Your link sends us to issue #4.

Here's the link to #5.

Oops!  Thanks for the correction!

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Le Master:

I'm still going through it, but on slide 16, you have Turgot as being born and dying before Christ. Haha. Everything else is great so far.

LOL, with the lifespan I gave him he'd have been rough contemporaries with Hammurabi.  Talk about pre-Austrian!

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Conza88:

Epic. Hahah @ Krugermon

Great as usual.

Thanks Conza.  Big Smile

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fakename:

when the history of the libertarian renaissance is written, I will be able to say that I knew it's petrarch.

I guess that means you liked it?  Smile

Thanks for the overwhelmingly generous compliment!

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Lilburne:

I finally found time to finish issue #5.  (Note: read the Adam Smith part with the thickest Scottish accent you can imagine to get the full effect.)

It's up on Facebook now too.

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Esuric replied on Fri, Oct 30 2009 12:44 AM

I almost died when I saw Paul Krugman. WE'RE SCIENTISTS! You should add a "LOL" before that comment, in my opinion.

I think you should do something with Say's law. It would give you another opportunity to include Keynes, which is always good.

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Esuric:
I almost died when I saw Paul Krugman. WE'RE SCIENTISTS!

Big Smile The Krugman photoshop job BK Marcus did for my Second Coming of Keynes article was perfect for that slide!  The spirit of Keynes from issue 4 is also from that same image.

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For my next issue, can anyone direct me to Mises' fullest refutation of cardinal value and "utils"?

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Esuric replied on Fri, Oct 30 2009 11:26 AM

Lilburne:

For my next issue, can anyone direct me to Mises' fullest refutation of cardinal value and "utils"?

Theory of Money and Credit, chapter 2 (ON THE MEASUREMENT OF VALUE), parts 1, 2, and 3 (the immeasurability of subjective use-values, total value, and Money as a price index). There's some stuff in Chapter 7 (THE CONCEPT OF THE VALUE OF MONEY) as well.

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Esuric:

Lilburne:

For my next issue, can anyone direct me to Mises' fullest refutation of cardinal value and "utils"?

Theory of Money and Credit, chapter 2 (ON THE MEASUREMENT OF VALUE), parts 1, 2, and 3 (the immeasurability of subjective use-values, total value, and Money as a price index). There's some stuff in Chapter 7 (THE CONCEPT OF THE VALUE OF MONEY) as well.

Awesome.  THANKS!

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Lilburne:

I finally found time to finish issue #5.  (Note: read the Adam Smith part with the thickest Scottish accent you can imagine to get the full effect.)

Let me know if you want me to edit together the video.

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Lilburne:

For my next issue, can anyone direct me to Mises' fullest refutation of cardinal value and "utils"?

I recommend a terse explanation of ordinal and cardinal values beforehand.

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Daniel:
Let me know if you want me to edit together the video

Thank you, Daniel, for editing the Human Action Comics videos #1 and #2.

For issue #3, I've updated the slides and narrated the head-to-head match between Smith and Menger and uploaded it to YouTube.  If you could work your resolution-improving magic on that one too, that would be awesome.  Thanks SO much.

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Krugman:
Ooh boy, now we're scientists!

GOLD

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I've added 15 new slides on economic growth to Issue #4 (slides 35-50), and renamed it "Capital and Economic Growth".  Please let me know if it gets across the concepts well.  Thanks!

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I've loved all the comics and the addition is great. It makes the point you are making much more clear. Thanks much for putting these all together. I hope to use them to get some family and friends interested in economics.

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Jonathan Nebel:
It makes the point you are making much more clear.

Excellent, thanks!

Jonathan Nebel:
I hope to use them to get some family and friends interested in economics.

Music to my ears!

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Krugman:
Ooh boy, now we're scientists!

GOLD

Or, as Krugman's hero Keynes would have said, "BARBAROUS RELIC".  Stick out tongue

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