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Re: Charles Frith - Punk Planning: Jon Bercow, Keith Vaz & Frith Manor

LloydDavis — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:12:47 -0000

Charles, old pal, the monthly archive for April is there, you just have to scroll a little.

https://web.archive.org/web...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean... etc :)

Re: WordPress meandering

LloydDavis — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:27:51 -0000

I've had a look through my notes and I can't see anything obvious. You may need to decide what to do with shortcode macros like [audio] and [youtube]

Re: WordPress meandering

LloydDavis — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:37:26 -0000

Sorry! My mistake/misremembering - I just checked and the script-created opml files all do work in Fargo.

The problems I did have came from odd html entities and tags in the WP content, which itself had originally been imported from a posterous.com archive.

Apologies for the distraction.

Re: WordPress meandering

LloydDavis — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:22:29 -0000

"2. effectively fool it into believing it had created it too." This is the wall I hit when trying to pull WP content into Fargo. I could create OPML that looked *to me* just the same as something produced by Fargo, but it would always choke. I look forward to hearing how you overcome this.

Re: Students Clash with Police in London

LloydDavis — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:15:48 -0000

Good work here Lee, but I just want to point out that the shots currently captioned as being in "Tottenham Court Road" appear to be in Gower Street outside Euston Sq tube.

Re: Two questions about Fargo :

LloydDavis — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:39:05 -0000

use the "Add Feed" command on the Outliner menu - type a (human readable) name for each feed as a separate line in your outline, then select each line and "Add Feed" which asks you for the URL of the feed.

I'm not sure about fiddling with your outlines like that at the moment.

it's a good idea to search site:worknotes.smallpicture... for these kinds of questions

Re: This is a second post

LloydDavis — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:23:43 -0000

I wasn't sure what I felt about this, so I wrote a post to find out :) http://lloyd.smallpict.com/...

I know Dave B, I'm pretty sure he'll notice that we're talking here...

Re: This is a second post

LloydDavis — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:53:21 -0000

No, "publcation" is when the file is saved. If you start a new post and just write a line and then go off for a cup of tea, I will see your one-line post - your feed is built at the same time too. There's a setting on the Insert tab of the Settings menu (under your name, top right) to make all new inserts/blogposts a comment and therefore not show up on your blog or in your feed - which effectively gives you a draft->publish model if you want it.

Re: The Fargo-WordPress connection

LloydDavis — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:39:06 -0000

Great! Thanks for making that clear.

Re: The Fargo-WordPress connection

LloydDavis — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:27:21 -0000

yup, I saw that, but I read it in the context of that paragraph which talks about entering my blog details. Now I think about it, I can see that a server has to be involved *somewhere* - just noting that it wasn't obvious to me from the docs.

fwiw I don't think you can emphasise too much that a key differentiator is the way my data passes through rather than being stored

Re: The Fargo-WordPress connection

LloydDavis — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:58:49 -0000

Fantastic, love it, something I've been eagerly waiting for. Thank you.

It may be worth explaining how the list of new posts gets generated, it felt marginally creepy to see that it happened automatically - how do you know I posted?

Re: Musings of a mobile marketer

LloydDavis — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:22:09 -0000

Helen, I'm sorry to read this, but thankyou, it is a beautiful piece. I can't say I ever met Ollie unless it was at one of those parties. But they were crazy days and one of things I find reassuring is that there are more of us still around (albeit some more bruised than others) than you might have thought at the time.

Re: London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog

LloydDavis — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:45:17 -0000

Leyton I'm guessing

Re: Crowd-funded epic journey across America by train

LloydDavis — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:47:16 -0000

I did a similar trip last year http://t2t2.posterous.com and the same thing was said to me when I sought crowd-funding. Didn't stop me doing it and it shouldn't stop Erik either :)

Re: Scripting News: Edd says I should write a book

LloydDavis — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:53:44 -0000

sorry, may not be a good term to use - I was referring to your point about NPR and O'Reilly ie that you might bootstrap your tour and be ready for others to pick up on it.

Re: Scripting News: Edd says I should write a book

LloydDavis — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:20:23 -0000

So, I'd guess that the two key themes for me would be your experience of being part of the demand-side supplying itself and your long-term perspective on the cycles in the software industry. Those are the things I keep reading you for, that's what grabs my attention first when I'm browsing feeds. I do think you could make a decent fist of a self-organised tour until the big-boys get interested, if that's what you're after...

Re: For the love of projects: Quadruptychs

LloydDavis — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:41:04 -0000

I love these - I was talking to someone yesterday about using the energy of street-corners in art - I'd love to see a shot in each direction where streets cross.

Re: Exclusive CEO First Look: Klout’s +K influence vouching

LloydDavis — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:58:11 -0000

It's a great reminder that this is all just one big game - so easy to take it too seriously! I do think there's an interesting bit at the moment where you can just see the people like you and Chris Pirillo who love playing these sorts of games getting to be winners - it's when the snake-oil salesmen come in telling me they know something because they've got a big orange number, that I start to yawn :)

Another point - do you get notification when someone +K's you (like who and what for?) - that's an interesting social gesture in itself. I didn't find it at all difficult to get rid of my 5 +K's today already.

Re: Exclusive CEO First Look: Klout’s +K influence vouching

LloydDavis — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:27:49 -0000

I don't think it's entirely BS but it's also not necessarily accurate. The place all of these algorithm-based systems fall down most is that they're easy to cook, if I want to. So it's quite easy to understand what the main drivers for scores are - a combination of numbers in your network and interactive activities of one kind or another. Now we know that you can increase both of those without actually being more influential. What's interesting is that the creation of these measures is becoming a game in itself - so Klout, PeerIndex, EmpireAvenue etc create something, users respond and try to play the system and then the providers come back with some improvement, like bringing in measures like this to try to improve it. I'm hopeful that we'll get somewhere this way.

But my experience of performance measurement in large organisations over the years tells me we're fooling ourselves if we think we can reduce the huge complexities of human behaviour on the social web to just one or two key metrics.

Also, you've shifted the furniture around in your den! :)

Re: Scripting News: A blogger's store in NYC

LloydDavis — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:38:34 -0000

It might be an offer that works at a coworking space every now and then but I know the feeling that it would be nice to have a space of your own for this sort of stuff. My question is "What else would it sell?" I've written a bit more about this and my experience of running The Tuttle Club in London for the last few years here: http://perfectpath.co.uk/20...

Re: What's the root list of Twitter? (Scripting News)

LloydDavis — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:44:11 -0000

No there is no home page, so it has to be based on the logged in user.

How about the set of people that you are following that have set up at least one public list?

Re: Twitter Lists- Im Not Down

LloydDavis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:35:26 -0000

It's not just exclusion that can be hurtful, it's also an oblique method of criticism and name-calling - see here: http://twitter.com/patroclu... though I'm sure twitter will be looking out for things this extreme or illegal it will take time to get used to this. As I said earlier, there's an important difference between tagging your friends' content and actually tagging your friends.

Re: Reflections on #tedxtuttle

LloydDavis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:29:26 -0000

Hi, it was good to see you today and hear what you thought - and see it laid out here too. I'm only sorry that we didn't have the chance to talk more. My suggestion that you start something yourself came mostly from identifying with what you were saying in your last paragraph, I used to do and feel like that that too and it really helped me to make something that I wanted to attend.

btw the only reason I mentioned Leicester was because that's all I knew of you - if there's enough going on in Leicester then why not do something in Loughborough? This isn't a big city thing, it's a people thing - I'll be most chuffed when there's people doing this sort of thing in somewhere like Shepshed :)

I can see while you're working on your PhD why you might want to step back and study and analyse. I'm more interested in understanding through participating fully even if that makes me a biased observer - but then I'm probably twice as old as you - I envy you your time and your patience.

Do come along on a Friday morning anytime I'd love to keep talking about this.

Cheers :)

Re: Volunteers wanted, must be willing to lock up their old mobile

LloydDavis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00:32 -0000

Alex, thanks for getting back to me promptly, for explaining, apologising and withdrawing gracefully.

Look forward to seeing you back at Tuttle in the morning.

Re: Volunteers wanted, must be willing to lock up their old mobile

LloydDavis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:06:58 -0000

Alex, I recognise you haven't been to Tuttle for a while but the 3mobilebuzz people should know better.

We've a well established way for commercial organisations to do promotional work at Tuttle, it involves the payment of a sponsorship fee up front and agreement with me beforehand. We are not unaware of the value of being able to present things to the Tuttle community and neither our previous sponsors nor many members of the community will appreciate having someone drop in like this for nothing.

If you want to do something I'm easy to find either by e-mail or phone. Please just ask.