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Re: Best LTE Ever

Shoq — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:18:17 -0000

I've been spreading that quote for 15 years. It's on my "About Shoq"page. Says a lot, too :)

Re: Wally

Shoq — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:38:13 -0000

Thanks L. Simple overflow:hidden issue. Making the photos smaller would work better, but I don't expect these to last much longer. I need a new camera, so Unc here doesn't remain upset with my cruely to animals.

Re: Liberal Media Myths Primer

Shoq — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:08:05 -0000

Thanks. I didn't forget. I just haven't decided how I want to handle the books yet.I put Noise Machine there to remind me to do the books. I really want articles that are more easily digested than books, which might be better served on a related list. Still mulling this over.

Re: Liberal Media Reading List

Shoq — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:15:26 -0000

That's the plan :)

Re: Liberal Media Reading List

Shoq — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:17:11 -0000

Excellent List. I have my own, which I was going to put on its own page. Would you like to be an editor of it? Email me?

Re: Liberal Media Reading List

Shoq — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:13:05 -0000

Where is your "class?" Many media professors are increasingly pimping a middle of the road meme that paints the 'corporate media' as if were markedly different from the right wing agendas of the the largest shareholders of those corporations.There is no difference, except in the degree to which those agendas are concealed by layers of profit taking from programming that exploits both right wing and progressive markets.(i.e.MSNBC, which will swing back hard right the minute their meager ratings falter further).

Thank you for the book ideas. I am holding back on books and many other items until I have a more interactive tool to use (in the works). I have added them to the mix. (Media Monopoly needs a serious edgy update).

I don't suppose you once used "Sarcasmo" on AOL, about 7+ years ago, did you?

Re: Rants & Primers

Shoq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:16:57 -0000

I don't know which to LOL first.

1) Floppy disks. FTW!

2) Fighting back. So you'll be bringing your plastic spork!

3) LINO has been Liberal in Name only, probably since before you were born.

4) The word is "duped." Spelling, like evolution, and critical thinking, counts.

5) Will you be posting soon? We "racists" need the giggle. We can assume there will lots of Beck and Dr. Paulisms? Always fun. Try and throw in some John Galt references, will ya?. I miss the ninth grade so much.

Re: Shoq’s Tips

Shoq — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:17 -0000

The very first link on this page (Tips and workarounds), takes you to it.

Re: The 7 Biggest Lies About “Climate Gate.”

Shoq — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:15:35 -0000

Well said, Martin. I'm delighted you found your way to my little "emerging caldron of hate" (as it was recently termed by a former Bush official). I am going to refer your post to a few thousand others, right now :)

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:55:56 -0000

Nah.. merely a few thousand. The rest follow the herd.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:59:52 -0000

Followfriday was invented in January. I don't accept any 11 month old tradition as sacrosanct behavior merely because people do it for a few months. They do it until others show them they can do something else. Again, there's not pressure to do anything differently, nor is any possible. I just think if heavy users adopt a new strategy, it will gain currency.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:03:57 -0000

With all respect, I really don't follow your post or point. It sounds like you're gaming FollowFriday in some way for your purposes, and that's another reason I really cant' stand it. It was designed as a simple way of recommending friends to friends. It's grown into this gigantic marketing and name harvesting tool for business or personal use and it's completely destroyed both its original purpose, and Fridays. I don't even like to use Twitter anymore on that day, and that's just absurd. I wouldn't dream of telling anyone what to do with their hash tags. I just hope we can migrate to a more rational use of #ff over time. Merely moving to #ff proves change can happen.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:08:10 -0000

There is no difference in the point of the tag. Only the density and time of usage. If people get used to making casual recommendations on any day, it decouples the concept from list pimping that happens only on Fridays. It will take time, but if enough people just stop the Friday listings, eventually, netiquette takes over and people just look out of touch and a bit tacky if they keep doing things the old way. Not unlike how "A/S/L" became gauche in chat rooms, after a few years :)
All change is incremental. Social networks are herds. Where leaders go, the rest follow, eventually.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:13:39 -0000

Reading is fundamental. I never claimed "followFriday" was my idea (which I take was the intent of your little mini-rant). That was Micah's bad idea in January, 2009. Mine, a few weeks later, in February, was to take his bad idea and use a shorter signal to denote it. That's it. I don't claim it was inventing the Internet. It was simply a rational notion appended to a bad idea.

Anyone in my stream last winter will tell you that I prosed it and started using it exclusively, and urged others to do so openly. We also poked into search often to be sure "#FF" was not in use, and it wasn't (except by some odd little society in NYC that posted with it twice). I stopped using it only because I stopped making #followfriday recs altogether. I hope that clears things up... Averypoo :)

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:16:01 -0000

Yep,and #progressiveTuesday, and all sorts of wannabe pretenders. But #ff is still the alpha dog of recommender tags. Kill its current form, and the copycats should die with it.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:19:59 -0000

And I appreciate it (as explained). There's nothing wrong with recommending people we get value from. I want to do it too. I just want to do it with a more rational system that didn't originate with a one paragraph blog post from a well known developer who didn't really think it through. He just did it, and a really poor idea took flight in less than a day. It's now more annoying than spam for a LOT of people. But what is done, can sometimes be undone, but only if we try.

Re: About the #FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:20:38 -0000

I have probably had discussions with 500 people about FF over the past 8 months. I think that's a pretty good sample. I have also read countless essays and postings about it. I rarely see your point of view expressed, so I think you're the exception, more than I am.

Any technology that creates such an intrusion into people's data streams is a fundamentally bad idea. Very few people fine tune their lists, as you say you do. And those that do, usually have some career or commercial reason for doing so. And that's fine. But if your recs are so valuable to your stream, why not simply put them in a list, and tweet a link to that? Or just put your recs on a Posterous page, Twitlonger record, or some other "paste bin?" There's nothing wrong with recommending people. But there is something wrong with doing it in such a way that it trashes up everyone's stream with marginally useful messages. And I didn't even cover the copycatting that is now going on, where every special interest is creating their own special day (#progressTuesdays,etc).

It's just out of control, and it will only get worse. But all many online behavior fads can die off as more people learn to despise them. In the mid 90s, in chat rooms, "ASL" was so popular, even Steve Case would use it. Today, it's guaranteed to get you banned from the room.

I predict that in a year, FF (as presently conceived) will be considered bad form to do regularly on a particular day, whether my compromise catches or not. Until then, of course, you should do whatever works for you :)

Re: The reviews roll in: New Retweet= #FAIL

Shoq — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:33:30 -0000

Very interesting. But now you have to test to see if the doppleganger is generated if you are the 2nd retweeter of the same item. If you're correct, I would think it must be, thus, that's a huge amount of replication. It could also be an interim bug, or a test. I would try it again in a few days.

Re: Continuing dialogue with Micah Sifry: Hope, health, activism and results

Shoq — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:09:52 -0000

So Sad: Of course, after conservatives spend 30 years discarding any respect for pluralism, turn most of our economy over to a handful of monopolies, and sit back while our infrastructure crumbles, our educational system slides into the sea, some wingnut like you will always stand up and bloviate about YOUR exceptionalism, YOUR country, and YOUR desire for anyone that doesn't agree with you to just leave. We've heard this refrain since the "love it or leave it" losers who defended the Watergate burglars, the Iran contra criminals, and the idiotic tea partiers who seem to love Dick Armey and billionaires more than their own children. And some wonder why we're in this fucking mess. It's because of deaf, dumb, blind, and STUPID sheep like you who elect people that make you FEEL empowered, but who actually strip you of any and all of it. I want my fucking country back, and it's up the ass of people like you. The faster regressive dinosaurs like you die off, the faster a really progressive society might one day emerge in this feeble shell of a country that you and your heros have decimated.

Re: Year Zero for Journalism. (Scripting News)

Shoq — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:56:16 -0000

Congratulations Dave. I think you're right about where journalism is going, and you're just the one to help it get there.

Re: Top 10 reasons why Massachusetts Democrats should vote on Tuesday:

Shoq — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:17:19 -0000

Correct, Beaver,

For the same reason most voters, and #teapartiers didn't know Scott brown a month ago. This isn't about Martha Coakley. It's about the direction of a country after 30 years of ruinous, supply side greed and rampant stupidity under conservative guidance. And honest people admit it.

Re: Top 10 reasons why Massachusetts Democrats should vote on Tuesday:

Shoq — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:25:15 -0000

Our agenda is yours. That's the funny thing. But you're having too much fun cheering in a game you barely understand to grasp that core concept. Maybe when Coaches Beck and Armey have a billion dollars, you'll start to get it. But I doubt it. You'd have to actually read something.

Re: Our Real Enemy: Progressive Passivity

Shoq — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:23:39 -0000

We need more of you. Keep the faith. Fire up the friends. A leader will emerge who can give us the same zeal as the fanatics.

Re: American Fascism: Yeah, Really

Shoq — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:42:23 -0000

Yes, I know Theocracy watch, and many of the other resources you mention. All good. I also have a fair knowledge of Barton's Christian Nation nitwittery. I am trying to decide how best to fork the three related issues here. I am also painfully aware of how the left (and concern troll right) like to deflect from any investigation, by labeling those even mentioning these things. But I think some people are finally starting to see that we live in extreme times, and perhaps they need to start listening to those paying attention to the extremists.

Re: About

Shoq — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:28:21 -0000

Amazing. One of those things I read again and again, and still missed. I remember actually restructuring that section, and trying to remind myself to clean that up, and forgot. Of course, the period must come before the @sign, as I explained in the second example. I simply messed up the first example.

Here's the corrected page: http://bit.ly/9bx8KV

It's funny, but Twitter co-founder, @ev once snarked that "Shqo's article was wrong." I asked him why, but in typical Twitter style, he never responded. I think you may have found the error he was speaking of. Fortunately, most people use it correctly after reading the post, so they probably got the gist of the tip anyway. But thanks for catching it. I love crowd intelligence, don't you?