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Re: Smallville Review - "Pariah"

seanreiser — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:37:37 -0000

Re: Nooooo!!!

And Tom did a great job with the emotional Clark too. What happened?! It's like he flipped a switch and has made Clark more like a real person now instead of the usual robot he's played him for all these years.

I really don't think Tom has done a bad job with Clark. He's playing a person who's always holding back (in fear of hurting someone) and trying to hide something major about himself. I think playing that honestly would make you seem wooden. That's what makes Kal so intense, Kal doesn't hold back or hide. That's why he was so good when he was playing Lionel. And that's why he as good last night... for most of the episode he wasn't hideing.

Re: Doctor Who: Aliens of London

seanreiser — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:50:22 -0000

Re: All I can say is...

Piiiiiiigs iiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaaaace!

4 legs good.. 2 legs better

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?

seanreiser — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:46:07 -0000

Like others I've written up my thoughts on the twitter vs. pownce debate here. I'd also like to point out the lack of an API on pownce's side to be a major drawback. Part of twitter's charm has been apps like twitterview, twittfeed, etc.

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?

seanreiser — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:46:07 -0000

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce

seanreiser — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:59:11 -0000

It's interesting to see where this goes. I've mused on the twitter vs. pownce topics here and here.

I understand that the instability of twitter is something that scares anyone building such a service.. but as Calacanis said if twitter down time is any indication they are going to be 2x as big as EBAY. We all remember how ebay was back in the day.

At the end of the day, without an open API, pownce is far less useful to me. Not having SMS support makes pownce less interesting, I'm not always in front of my machine, and find the ability to tweet while out and about part of its charm. Not being about to automagicly send links from del.icio.us and my shared google reader stories as links in pownce limits the uses I have of that feature.

For Leah's and Kevin's sake I do hope she's right, I'll be keeping an eye on it but suspect they'll be less interest until it's opened up.

Re: Post to Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr at same time

seanreiser — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:41:34 -0000

I've seen the hack, and where it would work for some folks, it's got it's drawbacks. Some of my posts are service specific.

The main thing keeping me from hoping on the Pownce bandwagon is the lack of an API. At some point they are going to have to open things up. Until then I fear I'm only going to use Pownce to pimp blog posts, etc. All my day to day conversation is still happening over on twitter.

Re: iPhone+v.+BlackBerry%3A+Side+By+Side%2C+Two+Week%26nbsp%3BComparison

seanreiser — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:12:07 -0000

So, I do have a question... If you're not using BES, what's so great about a blackberry? Wrote a blog post about it this morning http://seanreiser.com/node/102

Re: ISPs inserting ads on webpages.

seanreiser — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:21:38 -0000

I agree this is worst then copyright and I think like a programmer and not a lawyer but I'm looking at the tools in our arsenal to fight this. I'm sure that integrity is something that would work in court here in the USA. Assuming that changing the content is creating a derivative, the DMCA would apply. Either way if I were to pursue it, there would be a lawyer involved in the planning.

Re: Why the “You Dont Need a Business Plan” meme is Crazy Talk

seanreiser — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:33:39 -0000

For over 10 years I've owned a computer consulting company, most of the time I've been the only employee, never needed to raise any capitol. The company exists mostly to provide liability protection and tax benefits.

As times have changed the company has moved from home tech support, to some subscription software development to, now, contract programming. Over the years I've always had a business plan. As projects can get "scope creep" businesses can get "business creep" and you can wind up doing things outside your business's goals. My plan might not be as detailed as a traditional plan, but it spells out my business's goals for the next 3-6 months, and I revisit it every quarter.

Re: Business plan obfuscation: Twitter style

seanreiser — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:36:40 -0000

To Copy what I said in Charlie's Blog:

For over 10 years I’ve owned a computer consulting company, most of the time I’ve been the only employee, never needed to raise any capitol. The company exists mostly to provide liability protection and tax benefits.

As times have changed the company has moved from home tech support, to some subscription software development to, now, contract programming. Over the years I’ve always had a business plan. As projects can get “scope creep” businesses can get “business creep” and you can wind up doing things outside your business’s goals. My plan might not be as detailed as a traditional plan, but it spells out my business’s goals for the next 3-6 months, and I revisit it every quarter.

Re: An Open Letter Regarding NYC's Proposed Changes To Permit Requirements for Photography

seanreiser — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:10:01 -0000

I agree with everything you're saying. However writing a letter saying those things would probably be negative. You get filed into the "wacky ACLU letter" folder that all politicians have.

By taking the "I'm just a regular guy who wants to take pictures of his friends and family" approach I show that this issue impacts a good deal of NYers and tourists.

Re: An Open Letter Regarding NYC's Proposed Changes To Permit Requirements for Photography

seanreiser — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:14:43 -0000

Interesting, I didn't have any issues. Perhaps it's the /. effect, one degree removed? Although it would be rather ironic if NYC's servers had issues and my shared hosted account didn't (although it's been a little slower).

I also sent a copy in the mail (to the Mayor's Office as well as Ms. Oliver's).

Re: An Open Letter Regarding NYC's Proposed Changes To Permit Requirements for Photography

seanreiser — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:55:59 -0000

located here http://seanreiser.com/node/112

Re: Spam, Contact Information and Contact Forms

seanreiser — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:06:36 -0000

I know (and someday I'll write it up).

One of my posts were on slashdot yesterday, and as I filtered through the machine generated comments trying to sell viagra I decided to implement it. I'll probably turn it off in the next day or 3.

Re: An Open Letter Regarding NYC's Proposed Changes To Permit Requirements for Photography

seanreiser — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:02:19 -0000

I'm pretty sure that they will be enforcing the rule selectively. Someone at the protest today pointed out that the police aren't enforcing the parade rule yet either. I suspect they're waiting for some big (a la the RNC) to enforce it.

Re: Ellen's Birthday Party

seanreiser — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:19:47 -0000

Yes it was... BTW if you need higher resolution versions of the pictures for printing, feel free to email me.

Re: No one asked this question (Scripting News)

seanreiser — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:16:36 -0000

You know what's funny? I don't use flickrfan on the mini hooked up to my TV, as I haven't upgraded my TV yet, it's still an old school, SD tube and I don't want to have power running to it when I'm not watching TV. However having photos from the AP wire, flickr and other sources on my machine at home and work is great. it makes my desktop and screen saver interesting, fresh and relevant.

Re: exclude filter to make AP feed SFW?

seanreiser — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:19:47 -0000

I was just going to make this request, so consider it seconded.

Re: Podcatcher for FlickrFan users (Scripting News)

seanreiser — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:20:39 -0000

Interesting... one question... Any shot we can move the Podcatcher and AmazonS3 folders? I try to keep my desktop relatively empty.

Re: Podcatcher for FlickrFan users (Scripting News)

seanreiser — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:49:27 -0000

Thanks Dave, you're the best! I'll play with the podcatcher tonight.

Re: Love It Or Hate It? - TWiT 134

seanreiser — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:26:12 -0000

Leo-

As I said in a comment on friendfeed, "Leo, I'm one of the folks that listened to 134 Live. I found it interesting informative and educational. Sure it was different that normal TWiT episodes (as with last week's with J.C.) but I've come to expect that from time to time".

The personality of TWiT changes each week depending on who's on the panel, and what's going on in the world. As you said it's a slow news week, that's when it's time to break the mold a bit, which you guys did.

As far as the audio issues are concerned, I've gotten used to it and appreciate it. It's the clearest symbol that this is different then traditional media,. The rawness of podcasting is part of the game we know it.

As far as OSC is concerned all I have to say is he has the right to believe anything he wants as long as he doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights. I disagree with him violently but that's a different issue. I doesn't effect his work, as far as I've seen, so I see no problem in recommending him.

Re: Just email us your credit card information...

seanreiser — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:14:59 -0000

You guys are great, it was Ustar that was the problem, sorry about the unclear pronoun (I have cleaned it up).

Re: The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?

seanreiser — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:15 -0000

It's changed my behavior but not entirely.

I see to have separated personalities from business. On google reader I still have my more traditional news sources (NYT, Digg, Slashdot, etc) where people have spots in FF either as real feeds or imaginary feeds.

I use google reader to determine what I find important. I use Friendfeed to see what my contacts are doing, what's important to them and what they they thing about it. 2 different concepts and 2 different apps.

Just my $.02.

Re: The Next Chapter

seanreiser — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:47:52 -0000

I really think some big things are ahead for you... Good Luck and more importantly, have fun with this! That will make everything you do worth it.

Re: ISPs inserting ads on webpages.

seanreiser — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:50:48 -0000

I think your missing the point...

1) you don't need cookies, javascript, etc... there's nothing preventing an ISP from using this to alter the HTML and insert advertisements directly.

2) I am not aware of google inserting advertising on any site where the content provider isn't benefiting. If I spend hours designing a site so it's visually appealing why should a random ISP insert code that destroys it? Also, am I, from the end user's point of view, endorsing the products or services that have been added to the page I'm serving? There's nothing that says the ad comes from your ISP.

3) I thinking your setting the bar too high here.. all of your planed solutions require a level of knowledge beyond someone's grandmother (the example I use from time to time). Heck, the issues you outline are beyond 90% of the users of the internet. THis isn't 1996 anymore, everyone's on the net now.

4) The end user is paying their ISP... if the ISP isn't making enough money they should up the rates (I have no problem with the approach, btw).

5) I'm pretty sure that adding advertising is against the NonComercial-NoDerivs portion of my license.