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Re: DigitasLBi Welcomes New Creative Lead in Chicago/SF

JMaultasch — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:28:42 -0000

Sad to lose Morgan. Great creative equally capable of great TV or digital ideas and often both!

Re: Scripting News: How to share a bucket on S3

JMaultasch — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:13:58 -0000

New install and new bucket name. Think I am getting the hang of blork. bucket name: /static.jaymemaultasch.com/ URL: http://static.jaymemaultasc...

Re: Scripting News: Getting started with Blork

JMaultasch — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:29:42 -0000

Is it OK to use elastic IP through Amazon and an A Name for DNS records with your blork server?

Re: Scripting News: How to share a bucket on S3

JMaultasch — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:35:43 -0000

My bucket name is radio2. URL is http://Radio2.s3-website-us... I gave your long id read/write access permission.

Re: HowTo: EC2 for Poets

JMaultasch — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:12:15 -0000

Curious if anyone has had issues after the initial use? I stopped mine and then when I restarted I can't get in via remote desktop. I figured maybe I needed to get a new password so went back to the tutorial to start over. Instead of it letting me generate the password I get this error message:
No password was found.
There does not appear to be a generated Administrator password for this Windows instance. It is likely that this AMI has a built-in password known only to its creator. Please check the Log Output for details or contact the AMI owner.

Any tips on how to move forward? Worst case I could start again but not sure what happened so not sure it wont occur again! What's weird is this looks like a repeat of the problem had with the earlier tutorial?

Re: HowTo: EC2 for Poets

JMaultasch — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:21:33 -0000

Very cool - appreciate the tutorial and it worked for me.

Re: Scripting News: Who was lining up at the Apple store today?

JMaultasch — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:35:53 -0000

I actually had the exact same experience today at the Apple store on 9th Ave and 14th street. A manager told me they line up, buy 2 and then resell them overseas. Apparently it happens often enough they recognize some of the regulars!

Re: Scripting News: Followup on Apache/Dropbox/Windows

JMaultasch — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:24:19 -0000

Come on Dave - what's the fun project that this work was done for?

Re: Imho, the OPML Editor is not hard (Scripting News)

JMaultasch — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:08:22 -0000

Dave,
This post caused me to download and try the OPML editor for about my 5th time. While it isn't difficult to use, it isn't dead simple and the UI feels very basic. From reading your feed for years and seeing you role out new tools, I get the power but for me I'm not sure I care. For example, I definitely want to backup my tweets. I installed the OPML editor and your new tool and I'm all set. However, I see from the notes below that the editor needs to be always on for the backup tool to work. For most software, that means they would pre-set the program to load on bootup. For OPML, I would need to manually launch it each time. I think your programming background and tinkering nature leads you to leave things totally open and customizable but most of the software I use sacrifices some customizability for ease of use. Just one opinion and want to be clear that I appreciate your work. I am an average computer user - very active on social networks and have maintained a weblog on and off for about 10 years but never learned how to program.

Re: Agencies Should Teach Brands How to Fish

JMaultasch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:53:51 -0000

Thanks for the comment Tom. I agree that big agencies should do this and yet we've got a long haul before we start doing it well. I wonder if part of the issue isn't that social media stars are becoming traffic drivers and therefore hiring one sort or pre-determines the succcess of your SM activity. For example, Pistachio gets paid a consulting fee and then uses her huge following to promote the social media effort she's consulted on. Does this make her a better guide to social media or just a good source of traffic? I think I may explore the notion of SM experts as the new key opinion leaders in my next post.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/being-transparent-is-fine-but-please.html

JMaultasch — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:30:38 -0000

The degree of transparency and filtering really is important and something we all need to wrestle with. While I'm conscious about transparency, I also think alot about audience selection. One thing you don't address which I find myself doing is sharing different information with different audiences. Twitter and FF and GReader are largely professional tools for me. I share things that I think are of value to others and are in the general sphere of my day job. I use Facebook for my personal life. I am much more selective about who I friend on Facebook and who's invites I accept. While I would never #location on Twitter, I do share that type of information and sentiment on Facebook.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

JMaultasch — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:12:55 -0000

Just posted to Twitter a question for Dave - does his search for this in between solution get solved by the newest evolution of Facebook which handles multimedia and pushes it closer to twitter? I think the new Facebook may be the easy, mainstream solve for users who want more multimedia than Twitter can handle.

Re: HowTo: Creating a server on Amazon EC2

JMaultasch — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:11:58 -0000

What are the advantages to hosting your sever in a cloud versus a hosted solution? I currently use Dreamhost to run my blog. The blog really only exists to maintain my lifesteam. i guess I am such an average user that I dont know the difference?

For the average user won't it get very expensive, very fast to use amazon? If I wanted to leave the server on 24/7 would I pay for that time or only when me or someone else tried to use the server?

Despite all these questions I fully intend to try the instructions this weekend just for the knowledge! Thanks for creating this.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/can-microblogging-power-blog-community.html

JMaultasch — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:13:40 -0000

I am concerned about this idea. Does it create new walled gardens? One of the things I love about Twitter is that it is default public. I hate not being able to find what's said on a topic - I think that was the problem with blog comments until Disqus, backtype, etc opened those up.

I guess I don't understand the problem with using Twitter to talk about a particle blog or blog post?