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Re: Ν. Αναστασιάδης: Μία καλή σχέση Ελλάδας- Τουρκίας θα συμβάλει και στη λύση του Κυπριακού

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:52:10 -0000

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Re: ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ СИТУАЦИИ НА УКРАИНЕ 11.01.2021 — Открытый клуб единомышленников - противников свидомо-бандеровских фашистов

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:52:08 -0000

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Re: Kuruc.info - Maruzsa: ahol csak lehet, nyitva maradnak az általános iskolák és az óvodák

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:51:56 -0000

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Re: Colin Powell: 'I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican'

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:51:54 -0000

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Re: Rep. Hank Johnson: If Trump Supporter Wasn’t Shot ‘We Would Have Been Swinging From Those Railings’

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:51:52 -0000

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Re: The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 2

DeweyQ — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:51:49 -0000

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Re: Get Down with The Get Down: 15 Things to Know about Netflix’s Newest Drama

DeweyQ — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:50:42 -0000

Stranger Things with Winona Ryder. This one is about the origins of hip-hop. Totally different but both great shows in their own way.

Re: Get Down with The Get Down: 15 Things to Know about Netflix’s Newest Drama

DeweyQ — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:47:48 -0000

The show is great. It is very stylized, so the people complaining about how it is like a cartoon are right, but that's part of its originality and power.

Re: CRTC regulators seem to be confused what century it is | Full Comment | National Post

DeweyQ — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:15:26 -0000

The beautiful thing about the way the Internet enables "the long tail" is that the market no longer drives the lowest common denominator. Pure markets can now support incredibly niche offerings. This is true for hyper-local content as well as global content.

I am not arguing that there is no room for any public money in content creation and distribution. But the changes that technology have brought should allow far more efficient production and delivery. It really does help to think in terms of the way things currently work and will work in the future instead of clinging to anachronisms.

Re: The 5 Best Actors in Mediocre TV Shows

DeweyQ — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:49:32 -0000

I read the joke and asked "who's Tom Wellington?" Something sounded slightly off, then I realized it was Tom Welling. I appreciated your comments about Life. The acting was pretty darn good from Lewis, Shahi, and Arkin... as well as supporting actors Brent Sexton and Donal Logue (who is perennially underrated and his show Terriers was the most heartbreaking cancellation of last year).

Re: Current TV Dramas

DeweyQ — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:11:01 -0000

My personal opinion is that Dr. House is not redeemable in any way. It would be a spoiler to say what he did at the end of last season. I just want my characters to be on a path that leads upwards, not a downward spiral. I think the only downward spiral I ever liked was Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas.

Re: Yet another ode to the NYT (Scripting News)

DeweyQ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:30:35 -0000

Every time I hear a story like this, I cringe. It is the ponderous nature of corporations and government that absolutely gets in the way of progress. Even if your hour-long "dabble" didn't prove to be the perfect solution, iterating on it would have produced successful results (I strongly suspect) in well under three months, let alone three years. For some reason, in addition to choosing pondering over action, complexity is preferred over simplicity. Is it to justify technologists existence? After all, if it is simple, anyone could do it. (Was it Mark Twain who said: "sorry this is so long but I didn't have time to make it shorter"? The same goes for complexity versus simplicity.)

Thanks for the insight, Dave.

Re: twdsc.us: @davewiner. "A friend is launching a site that says: "Only contributors can log in because we don't care what anonymous Internet commenters think." :-)"

DeweyQ — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:41:59 -0000

I like responsible comments and I tend to see more of those from identified sources. The anonymous ones are often (as Dave points out) "attack" oriented or (as SoItsComeToThis points out) lacking in depth (the "you suck" comments being bad for both reasons). I like the approach of having all contributors identified. I can't do that yet because I have nowhere near critical mass on my site -- but I also have low enough traffic that I can personally moderate comments still.

Re: twdsc.us: @jayrosen_nyu. ""It's not about saving newspapers, it's about saving journalism!!!!" Tim Rutten didn't get that memo http://tr.im/mTRD"

DeweyQ — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:15:52 -0000

Pelosi said the antitrust law needs to be adjusted to "reflect current market realities"? Allowing collusion among newspapers is only a very temporary fix and doesn't address any of the core issues. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." --Albert Einstein

Re: Comfort in media

DeweyQ — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:46:53 -0000

Thanks for the comment and the links, Brian. The work being done to improve readability through typography without increasing resolution is fascinating. In addition to the resolution, what bugs my eyes on an electronic device is the light (either from the screen itself or glare from the room's lights), which is why I still prefer to read from paper. However, I sometimes wonder if the readability really was better on newsprint than today's hi-res screens. That's because I find the bleeding of the ink into the newsprint fibres often makes a newspaper's font look fuzzy.

Re: Cold wind and tragedy

DeweyQ — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:42:33 -0000

Thankfully we did not see it happening and I am basing my post on knowledge we gained from people who also probably didn't see it firsthand. I would not consider it factual.

Re: What is news?

DeweyQ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:54 -0000

Raw news is pretty depressing. The network news did a lot to clean it up and make it more like entertainment. But still my wife calls it "the body count" because they do tend to focus on the bad, never the good. I think the success of shows like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition prove that overcoming adversity and the generosity of the human spirit can make for compelling entertainment. Maybe they won't say "everything is fine" but they might say: "Things got really bad but look how people overcame it." I'd love that.

Re: Last-Ditch Resort

DeweyQ — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:39:30 -0000

I agree! As soon as you see a euphemism like "assisted colonization" you know someone is trying to hide the downsides.

Re: louisgray.com: Seeing The Web's Racist Underbelly Is Saddening and Shocking

DeweyQ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:18:54 -0000

Ross... speaking up is very important. However, I am not sure you can use the standard procedures for constructive conversations (to wit: assume positive intent, listen and observe non-judgmentally, connect to your own feelings, then reflect honestly on the intentions and needs involved). Your suggestions seem to follow these rules and I just can't get past the first one: I don't think there is positive intent in some of the hateful things I see and hear. On the other hand, I am blessed with a very diverse work environment and it is only on the Internet that I am exposed to hateful and divisive crap.

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed's Changing Tapestry of Users, Nine Months In

DeweyQ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:37:23 -0000

I am one of the people who joined the party late. While the technology focus is diluting, to me it is still a comfortable place where people who share similar technology interests can interact and discover new interests (like sports, cooking, and families). I agree with some observations that boundaries actually have value, but FriendFeed is addressing some of that by implementing your suggestions, Louis: filtering and rooms for example. Thanks for the history lesson too! I actually didn't know that FriendFeed was brought to us by ex-Googlers.

Re: VOIP? Nope!

DeweyQ — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:48:53 -0000

A well-preserved 103. Still get misty about the telegraph.

Re: Revenge of the nerds part two: Fame sucks

DeweyQ — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:49:48 -0000

You must have misread your contract. It says the geeks shall internet the Earth.

Re: New playlist

DeweyQ — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:40:34 -0000

Thanks for the suggestions, Brian. Funnily enough, a friend of mine from Switzerland was just visiting last night and we talked about some of these alternatives. Here was our roundup: last.fm was just bought by CBS. I do not hold much hope for their ongoing "coolness". :-) Pandora.com is supposedly working with the CRTC on getting licensed in Canada. Launchcast at yahoo.com is another alternative, and one that I use occasionally. I find I discover most new music through the galaxie satellite radio network (sponsored by the CBC).