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Michael's Minute Meter Report

Each week, readers of Michael's Minute let us know how they feel about that week's message (Agree, Disagree, or Mixed). The below report shows how readers have voted for each Michael's Minute since the introduction of the Meter. Which messages did readers agree or disagree with most? Which ones generated the most votes? It's quite interesting to see the response generated from any particular topic.

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% Agree % Disagree % Mixed Title Total Responses Date
98.3% 1.0% 0.7% Court Ruling Denies EMI Access to Millions of Personal MP3 Files 725 03/26/08
97.3% 1.5% 1.1% RIAA and EMI - All Your Music Are Belong To Us 263 01/11/08
96.9% 1.6% 1.6% EMI vs Google, AOL, Microsoft (The Entire Internet) 192 03/14/08
95.8% 2.5% 1.7% Behind The Scenes - EMI Sues MP3tunes 528 11/14/07
95.3% 3.6% 1.1% Defend Your Digital Rights - Support MP3tunes 278 04/23/08
95.0% 2.9% 2.1% You Own Nothing 2578 04/28/05
93.5% 5.8% 0.7% The Record Labels Want My Minivan 431 06/11/08
93.4% 4.5% 2.1% Would You Send Your Mom To Jail To Make Money? 778 09/22/05
93.4% 4.5% 2.1% The Secret Behind Windows Media 243 11/17/04
93.3% 4.6% 2.1% Why Linspire 5.0 may be outlawed in the United States 285 10/07/04
92.7% 4.1% 3.2% Why the Supreme Court is Irrelevant on P2P 436 03/31/05
91.3% 3.3% 5.4% The Man In The Balloon 483 03/09/05
91.0% 6.1% 2.9% Google and SIPphone Lead The Way To Saner World 312 01/18/06
90.7% 4.7% 4.7% Get out those dictionaries! (Plus 4 other ways you can help) 129 01/26/05
89.6% 7.0% 3.3% Diet Soda and Your Music Going Flat! 483 06/29/06
89.3% 6.9% 3.9% Five Reasons Why Sony Rootkit Is Good For You 596 11/23/05
89.3% 7.4% 3.4% Wi-Fi Waves Bouncing Everywhere 149 07/19/06
88.6% 5.0% 6.4% Linspire in EU (No lawsuits this time) 299 04/21/05
88.3% 7.1% 4.5% Open Bid For Netherlands Government (Or how to save 150 million euros) 2042 12/14/04
87.9% 8.1% 4.0% I Want My MP3! 321 02/07/05
87.7% 7.9% 4.4% Join the Federation To Take Back IM! 318 10/10/05
87.4% 6.5% 6.0% MR's Response To Steve Jobs' Call For MP3 2262 02/08/07
87.3% 5.4% 7.3% DVD Jon and Oboe 1065 10/18/05
87.1% 9.3% 3.6% All About GUPS 194 08/17/05
85.7% 11.6% 2.6% Getting Zuned 2007 10/05/06
85.5% 9.8% 4.7% Letter to College Board Asking For Clarification/Corrections 193 02/14/08
85.0% 6.6% 8.4% My Business Failure - AnywhereCD 1411 09/24/07
84.8% 6.4% 8.7% 3 Years and $20 Million to Linspire Five-0! 343 03/16/05
84.7% 10.4% 5.0% #$%@ Kill Google! 665 09/07/05
84.5% 13.5% 2.1% Imeem Gets License And Death Sentence 193 12/19/07
84.2% 12.0% 3.8% $20 Million Dollar Experiment to See if You'll Rent a Song for 10 Cents 659 05/27/08
83.6% 4.8% 11.6% 10 **MUST SEES** at the Desktop Summit Feb 9-11th 2005 293 01/05/05
82.7% 4.0% 13.3% Thanksgiving Day Leftovers 1310 12/02/04
82.6% 8.4% 9.0% My Date With IRMA 442 12/08/04
81.9% 12.5% 5.6% Area775 - Free US Telephone Number Links Mobile and VoIP Worlds 160 02/15/06
81.6% 9.7% 8.6% GizmoCall.com and My Strategy for Zero Cost Calls 185 01/30/07
81.2% 11.4% 7.4% Wal-Mart Selling a $498 Linspire Laptop 351 12/13/04
80.9% 11.2% 7.9% Michael's Minute: Phone Calls Want To Be Free 429 01/19/05
80.0% 13.2% 6.8% Gizmo Project 2.0* (That's the GOOD kind of Asterisk) 190 05/18/06
79.8% 11.9% 8.3% Your Christmas Gift Inside - 1¢ Per Minute Calling 193 12/12/05
79.5% 12.7% 7.8% TiVo Becomes A Music Machine Courtesy of MP3tunes 166 05/09/06
79.2% 8.5% 12.3% Watch a Linux TV Commercial 351 04/07/05
79.0% 14.1% 6.9% $100 Muffin Stumps 1044 05/12/05
78.9% 15.2% 5.9% Google Opens Talks To The World 630 08/23/05
78.8% 14.5% 6.7% My Hero Dies 372 11/20/06
78.2% 18.5% 3.3% Freespire 2.0 - Finally Multimedia Friendly Linux 211 08/16/07
77.6% 12.0% 10.4% The Boy Who Couldn't Ride A Bike 241 11/08/05
77.4% 14.6% 8.0% I'd Like To Teach The World To Sync, In Perfect Harmony 336 07/27/05
76.5% 15.4% 8.1% Cracking the Monopoly Like A Walnut Using OOoFf! 371 11/22/04
76.1% 11.5% 12.4% College Myths 113 05/06/08
75.6% 5.5% 18.9% Infinity Times Infinity - Telephone Numbers Should Be Free 127 05/31/07
75.5% 14.7% 9.9% 8 Observations from Live 8 477 07/08/05
75.3% 8.2% 16.5% March of the Penguins 182 07/14/05
73.6% 11.1% 15.3% ajaxTunes - The Everywhere Mini Music Player 261 04/28/06
72.9% 21.8% 5.2% Moving from Geekland to the Mainland with CompareSoft 591 11/17/05
72.9% 11.1% 16.0% Michael's Minute: Predictions for 2005 343 01/12/05
72.6% 14.5% 12.9% CES 2006 Picks and Pans 124 01/12/06
72.4% 22.7% 4.9% GizmoSMS - Free SMS To Any Mobile Phone 203 03/08/07
72.1% 21.3% 6.6% Everyone Shouldn't Go To College 122 03/06/08
72.1% 18.9% 9.0% Unfinished Business - Oboe 333 11/30/05
71.2% 20.8% 7.9% What's our purpose in life? 629 06/15/05
71.0% 23.4% 5.6% Why "My Yahoo" Ain't Really "My" 107 02/25/08
71.0% 9.8% 19.2% $4 Billion In Savings For Businesses 193 09/12/05
70.6% 22.7% 6.7% 9 Things an iPhone Can't Do 568 09/06/07
70.5% 11.0% 18.5% Desktop Summit - Highlights and Lowlights 146 02/17/05
70.3% 19.8% 9.9% Halfway to ajax-Excel. Introducing ajaxXLS 0.5 202 04/13/06
69.8% 17.8% 12.3% No Nonsense Linux 325 05/26/05
69.7% 18.3% 12.0% 502,174 Documents Can't Be Wrong. Next Up ajaxSketch 208 03/29/06
69.1% 18.3% 12.6% What the world is saying about Linspire Five-0 175 03/24/05
69.1% 12.1% 18.8% Defying Gravity 570 04/14/05
68.9% 24.6% 6.5% Legal Battles In VOIP: Vonage and e911 615 06/24/05
68.6% 21.6% 9.8% Unlimited Storage Free Music Lockers 153 02/12/07
68.3% 17.2% 14.5% A Christmas Story 186 12/29/04
68.2% 21.7% 10.1% Bye Bye Microsoft Word, Hello ajaxWrite 2235 03/22/06
67.6% 26.9% 5.5% My $100K Offer to Floyd Landis 2020 07/31/06
67.2% 19.6% 13.2% Introducing MP3beamer! (Get a $399 unit for free if you're first to identify one of 3 songs!) 189 02/24/05
65.7% 21.3% 13.0% More on Oboe 108 12/07/05
65.4% 11.8% 22.8% Where I'm Spending My Time 136 02/09/06
64.5% 22.3% 13.3% Seven Sexy Summit Secrets 301 02/01/05
61.4% 31.1% 7.5% Apple Wiffs With iPhone, 'er aPhone 676 01/19/07
60.1% 25.1% 14.8% Brother, Bonds, Title, Lance 203 09/30/05
60.0% 34.1% 5.9% Battle of the Buttons - Will the iPhone Succeed? 918 06/28/07
59.0% 29.5% 11.4% Why Buy CDs From Amazon When You Can Buy MP3 Albums?? 105 06/07/07
59.0% 28.1% 12.9% Gates at my Alma Mater 217 05/27/03
58.4% 33.0% 8.6% Before You Order Office 2007, Try ajaxPresents 185 12/15/06
57.0% 29.3% 13.7% Your Computer. Leave Home Without It - ajaxWindows 621 09/10/07
56.6% 31.2% 12.1% Editing video in your browser? Try eyespot - the AJAX video editor 173 04/05/06
53.6% 42.7% 3.8% Forcing Honest People To Be Dishonest 211 04/27/07
52.8% 19.8% 27.4% 2008 - Year of MP3, Demise of Windows Media, TuneWatch 197 10/10/07
52.1% 38.2% 9.7% Why It's A Mistake For Brazil To Build Their Own Linux 791 05/05/05
49.2% 49.0% 1.8% MP3 is Back! 398 04/12/07
47.3% 37.2% 15.5% BudgetBeamer and Mystery Songs Revealed 129 03/03/05
47.0% 44.6% 8.4% The Biggest Gamble of Your Life (Is College Worth it?) 2006 12/07/06
46.4% 35.3% 18.3% Sideload 101 153 02/23/06
45.4% 50.2% 4.4% Skype Bad, Gizmo Good 1476 06/30/05
41.7% 37.0% 21.3% Locker Envy 108 01/05/06
38.3% 54.9% 6.7% Get Creative to Snag Some Swag 253 06/02/05
18.9% 70.8% 10.2% Xandros Buys Linspire 322 07/02/08

  
Cloud Video Is Legal, How About Cloud Music?
Preparing for a life after Pandora with PiMP
It's Getting Cloudy in the Technology Business
Xandros Buys Linspire
The Record Labels Want My Minivan
$20 Million Dollar Experiment to See if You'll Rent a Song for 10 Cents
Napster Goes MP3 With a Big Catalog But 8 Years Too Late
College Myths
World's Smallest Wifi Phone - Nokia 6300i (and yes, it runs Gizmo5!)
Defend Your Digital Rights - Support MP3tunes
Fast IM, SMS, and Email on ANY mobile phone/PC in one program - Gizmo5
Court Ruling Denies EMI Access to Millions of Personal MP3 Files
EMI vs Google, AOL, Microsoft (The Entire Internet)
Everyone Shouldn't Go To College
Why "My Yahoo" Ain't Really "My"

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