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Re: Blogger of the Year

andrewbaron — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:05:40 -0000

I said I don't like Facebook because they censor which is something I said other than I see it differently from you. That's a specific reason. Censorship. Blogging and censorship do not mix. I also said I think you are confused about the meaning of friendship vs blogging. These are my comments and I would prefer not to edit them. You can of course delete them if you would like, just as Facebook deletes what it likes. But a blog is something different than commenting or posting on FB where I can be free without fear of being deleted or hidden.

Re: Blogger of the Year

andrewbaron — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:25:16 -0000

I read this the other day and had a bad reaction but decided not to post about it. After a couple of days of thinking about, I decided I needed to say something but I am afraid you will not like it. I feel you have confused friendship with blogging and the ability to speak your mind freely. Facebook is not a place to speak freely or be in control of your thoughts (or freely reach your audience).

I nominate Facebook as the most antibligging platform of the year. They rounded things off nicely by deleting the post of a Chinese writer for talking about Tibet: http://mobile.nytimes.com/b...

Re: 'Syria Hero Boy' Video Outed as Fake

andrewbaron — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:40:26 -0000

Note also: https://twitter.com/Syriano...

Re: Did Marco Polo "Discover" America? | History | Smithsonian

andrewbaron — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:51:40 -0000

No mention of Leif Erikson who discovered America before both of these people?

Re: Angry Nerd: Need an Idea for a TV Show? Just Steal a Classic Story!

andrewbaron — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:55:07 -0000

Re: What would news do?

andrewbaron — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:38:24 -0000

...which is why it may not last, for the best businesses thrive on efficiency and will thus need to be elsewhere.

Re: What would news do?

andrewbaron — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:55:33 -0000

Though granted, it was news+blogs they wound up with, and then decided wasn't worth it I guess.

Re: What would news do?

andrewbaron — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:03:06 -0000

On just this topic, wondering myself why Google killed their Reader, its kinda interesting that Google hasnt provided any significant rationale. Especially after so many people have spoken up.

From what they have said, it seems clear that Google thinks RSS is dying because its looking at usage stats from its Reader, but the problem is that Google's reader sucks so bad, its the product that is dying, not the medium. This is obviously why so many other companies are jumping in.

Re: Google's perspective, I figured it ultimately had to do with G+. For just that reason, Ive been going back to G+ to try to understand how they expect that to work, but so far, they have not provided a feature set that is an adequate replacement. On the contrary, I asked the folks who circled me on G+ to let me know if they are receiving my updates, and in fact, the majority are not receiving my posts. Its the same for me too. I am following a lot of people on G+ who put out updates, links, news, etc. that are literally invisible to me. If I dont think to go look for them, I will probably never see them again.

But as we know from Twitter, which is still in the news, Twitter is not a useful tool for doing the kind of activity we do when we publish and read news via RSS either. This is because, of course, people who publish on Twitter, also chat, and the noise is practically gone 10min later.

Imagine if we still had a good Technorati. That would prob be considered a more influential place to be marked than by the number of RT on Twitter you get. Because after all, Twitter prefers to promote the Mashable and HuffPo versions of everyone's blog posts.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Update!

andrewbaron — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:42:40 -0000

I wish there was someone who could convince me that Digg really cares about this after just 90days. If all the developers left the main Digg product behind, when will they leave this one behind? Seriously, people feel burned by Google shutting down Reader, why should we assume Digg will not pivot again when a new, bigger hole needs to be filled? This is too opportunistic of a brand for my taste.

Re: http://www.dronejournalismlab.org/post/34363827984

andrewbaron — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:30:21 -0000

Cool stuff. Reminds me of this story re: the once-secret Apple store roof in NYC: http://www.ifoapplestore.co...

Re: Yahoo’s Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO

andrewbaron — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:52:57 -0000

Kara this is your fault for not noticing a problem at Yahoo before they knew themselves. I guess there is a first for everything.

Re: Partnering up with Apple

andrewbaron — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:19:03 -0000

Loved the book, really inspiring! We shall see. I think Jobs may have left behind at least a decade worth of potential designs.

Re: http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/21404683553

andrewbaron — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:33:20 -0000

Thanks Leah! Wish you were here helping to produce!!

Re: World's most distracted driver?

andrewbaron — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:19:22 -0000

They tried really hard to make a video story out of this headline, but besides repeating the headline, and then creating a visual story to explain the headline again, and then going on more to reiterate the headline, not sure why the video was so long. Not much else going on besides the headline.

Re: On The Economics of Publishing To YouTube: Frequency

andrewbaron — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:02:13 -0000

Hm....

Re: On The Economics of Publishing To YouTube: Frequency

andrewbaron — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:01:32 -0000

It seems you have created a meme onto itself! Soon it will be like Kleenix and everyone will want it.

Re: On The Economics of Publishing To YouTube: Frequency

andrewbaron — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:15:35 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. I think we will indeed try to keep releases early in the morn, though we prob will shift to fewer episodes per week.

Re: On The Economics of Publishing To YouTube: Frequency

andrewbaron — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:09:22 -0000

fousey?

Re: Should Apple Buy Twitter?

andrewbaron — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:45:21 -0000

Just go to twitter and type "apple" into the search, and you will see that apple already owns twitter.

Re: http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/15570223711

andrewbaron — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:31:27 -0000

MORE MOVIES ARE COMING VERY SOON!

Re: Oh, Charlie, you should have been here for Christmas

andrewbaron — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:13:30 -0000

Thought you were talking about Charlie The Unicorn. Both use a similar approach to logic: http://mag.ma/reddit/26494

Re: http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/14619615057

andrewbaron — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:12:13 -0000

Image by yourse truly, created with the reddit animal memegenerator http://memegenerator.net/in...

Re: Scripting News: Facebook drones in the sky?

andrewbaron — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:49:59 -0000

Who needs a hanger? RC video planes are just fifty bucks at ToysRUs: http://www.toysrus.com/prod...

Re: THE GREATEST BIGGEST MOST IMPORTANT FURTHEST REACHING MEMES OF 2011

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:08:38 -0000

Turns out Time's "Person of the Year" for 2011 is "The Protester", lending more support to "The Most Important Meme", for sharing the same story:

http://www.time.com/time/sp...

Re: http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/14174891118

andrewbaron — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:51:17 -0000

I was having fun just remembering remembering them all. If you were alive during that era, the distribution of music was so tightly controlled and elite, it was practically inevitable you heard all of these tunes, no matter what your taste.