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Re: I’m gonna be a HackStar! Part 1: Founder Dating 2010

Zack Shapiro — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:21:16 -0000

Congrats Danny. See you in the Bunker!

Re: 11 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer

Zack Shapiro — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:20:51 -0000

Thanks Pescatello

Re: Stay N Alive: RSS is Not Dead. The Concept of "Subscribing" Is.

Zack Shapiro — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:35:07 -0000

Good article Jesse.

RSS is a great technology that has been undermined in 3 ways: by publishers and by RSS readers themselves and by the users of RSS.

1) Publishers truncate their content so you go to their site to read the rest of the article and they made ad money off of your eyes. Completely understandable but undermines the use of RSS in a sense.

2) RSS readers are almost all the same thing. It's different packaging with consistent elements like Unread Counts and poor organizational methods.

3) Users - It makes no sense to subscribe to publishers who push content in high volumes because you can so easily fall behind and become apathetic. RSS readers are perfect for sources that publish in medium or low quantities (less than 30 posts per week per source) because you can keep on top of that, at least until you have too many sources.

Readers are a fantastic idea but we need to innovate in that area 100%. There needs to be a better way to consume content in one place.

Re: Figure Out Your Content’s Flow

Zack Shapiro — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:02:39 -0000

Test

Re: Why Websites Are Slow & Why Speed Really Matters [INFOGRAPHIC]

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:04:41 -0000

Torbit.com baby! Speed up those internets!

Re: Not Found

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:46:47 -0000

Thanks Mike

Re: http://www.thestartupstudent.com/post/1432993754

Zack Shapiro — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:59:28 -0000

Thanks Richard! Send me a pic!

Re: HOW TO: Share Your Vacation With Online Pals –Without Annoying Them

Zack Shapiro — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:16:24 -0000

Use Everlater.com

Re: http://zackshapiro.com/post/574863232

Zack Shapiro — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:00:58 -0000

Thanks Stewart. I'll be sure to look them up!

Re: What I learned at TechStars Day 1

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:08:48 -0000

Great post, Al. I'll look forward to these updates.

Re: http://zackshapiro.com/post/564168971

Zack Shapiro — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:45:10 -0000

@mled I'll definitely let you know if I make it across the Atlantic.

Re: What VC's Really Want to Know

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:27:52 -0000

Great post, David. I'll keep this in mind as I go forward into entrepreneurship.

Re: Listening to Coaches

Zack Shapiro — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:19:40 -0000

Great post, Andrew. I really enjoyed it. My plan for after college is to head to Europe...or maybe Japan.

You're right though, traveling exhaustion is a terrible, terrible feeling.

Zack

Re: ShutUpInternet, leeshiebean: spanishcoffee: Holiday lights on...

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:34:50 -0000

Credit added. Didn't mean to strip you if I did.

Cheers
Zack

Re: Ignite Boulder 7 is 24 Hours Away!

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:22:52 -0000

Wish I could come. I'l be at the next one!

Re: Crowdsourcing our blogroll: Suggest your favorite journalism blogs

Zack Shapiro — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:37 -0000

I'm a journalism student at the University of Colorado who is trying to figure out new journalism as it evolves, on my own terms.I post about new technology, startups and advances in the journalism industry. I would love for you to follow my blog.

http://www.shutupinternet.com is my blog.

Re: Video of the Day: Time Inc. envisions the future of magazines

Zack Shapiro — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:15:53 -0000

Hey Old Media, New Tricks,

I just discovered your site and I'm already a big fan. Keep up the great work.

I featured this video on my blog and linked back to you guys. The laptop and the tablet have huge futures in terms of distribution of magazines to computers. That's the next step: digitizing not only newspapers but magazines too. And with that comes the critics who will scream, "Magazines are dying!" but that's not true, just like newspapers aren't dying. They're just migrating.

http://shutupinternet.com/p...

If you'd like to follow me on Twitter you can find me here: http://www.twitter.com/zack...

Re: Sports in Stilettos

Zack Shapiro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:26:59 -0000

He's not playing now! Dixon's playing. But Ray and Reed might not play since Ray's got a bad ankle and Reed's sick.

Gonna be a great game though, as always
Z

Re: Submissions:

Zack Shapiro — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:04 -0000

Hey Karishma, I just submitted two of my photos for Black & White. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing them on the blog.

Thanks,
Zack

Re: There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr

Zack Shapiro — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:47:06 -0000

First of all, my claim is NOT that there are no writers, just the fact that there are few of them that I follow (and maybe I'd like some more).

Second, the word count section of my post was not in any way trying to say that you need long posts to be a good writer or even a writer period. What I'm trying to communicate is that the person ranked as the #1 writer by the Tumblr Directory was in fact, not a writer. That's fine. I wholly recognize that their rank has to do with their audience's participation and reaction to their content, writing or otherwise. I get how Tumblr works.

Instead of your usual dry humor, why not recommend me a few of your favorite writers on here, people who provide good text content? That would be an example of a constructive post, something you're not a fan of when it comes to replying to my posts. But that's you, that's fine.

I realize that my complains aren't going to suddenly spring writers from every corner of the Internet and Tumblr but I feel that it's important to express my opinion. I'd like to see more writing, frankly. I was hoping that someone would provide me with some writers as they reblogged my post but only Tristan has.

I can't change anything with one post but I can encourage and inspire thought so that maybe someone chooses to write a little something next time in favor of another type of post.

Again, I'm not asking for long breathy posts. Word count isn't important; I don't care if you write one thousand word posts. I'm asking for quality in writing and if you've found that, feel free to share it. But for the masses that read my post that maybe aren't thinking about if they write or how much the write, maybe I've inspired a few posts of self expression through writing.

Re: There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr

Zack Shapiro — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:43:10 -0000

In response to your 100 words comment, I didn't mean that 100 words or more auto-qualifies it as a good or brilliant. It doesn't by any means.

What I'm saying is that whoever is tagged in the #1 writer spot is not, in fact, a writer. I could write 15 brilliant words that convey a point across quickly and efficiently or a 300 word post that's muddled and crappy. Quantity doesn't equal quality.

Sure people subscribe to Tumblelogs via RSS, what I'm saying is that most Tumblr users use it for their immediate Tumblr audience. Most don't aim for others outside of the Tumblr platform therefore the RSS problem doesn't effect Tumblr users nearly as much, I'd argue, as a Wordpress or TypePad blogger.

Re: There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr

Zack Shapiro — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:26:25 -0000

Thanks for this reblog and your comments. I look forward to following you.

-Zack

Re: Killing Facebook Slowly...

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:26:32 -0000

Very true

Re: Killing Facebook Slowly...

Zack Shapiro — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:25:01 -0000

Thanks for your kind words.
-Zack

Re: Hardcore for Nerds - fleetfootedfox: matt-t: shutupinternet: The...

Zack Shapiro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:16:11 -0000

Just to clear it up, the lyrics are

"Did you hear The '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio"