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Re: 10 rules for a better conversation

k1v1n — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:19:24 -0000

Loved this post John! Definitely something I need to work on-- I'm going to keep this post front and center. This book has helped me a lot with #3 _Simple Habits for Complex Times_ (It's been a great read.) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...

Re: The first course & certification program for Working Out Loud

k1v1n — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:05:27 -0000

John, I would love to do this! We're embarking on a major effort to make WOL a movement in our organization of 15k. We're starting our first four learning circles right now. I could see a lot of our people being interested in certification going forward. Thank you!

Re: Vegetarians Less Healthy Than Omnivorians

k1v1n — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:55:29 -0000

"But one could imagine"? That is where you jumped the shark. The study clearly stated that they were not claiming that vegetarianism caused these people to have poorer health, and that it may be that people in poorer health might have chosen vegetarianism to mitigate preexisting health issues.

Re: Google and Samsung Unveil a New $249 Chromebook

k1v1n — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:26:05 -0000

My spouse glomed on to my Chromebook the first week it arrived, and hasn't used her Macbook since. The best part is I haven't been asked to do a single bit of support in over a year. People may not realize why they would want this device, but for the average person a Chromebook makes everyday things ridiculously simple. (BTW, she also had an iPad which she just sold in a yardsale.)

Re: Exercise 21: Functions Can Return Something — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition

k1v1n — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:19:02 -0000

Zed, I have purchased a hardcopy, the epub, and the pdf. I still prefer to use the HTML version for learning. The comments and discussion are very helpful. Thank you for making it available!

Re: What Will We Do With Influencers

k1v1n — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:40:41 -0000

Everyone is an influencer at some point. Everyone has a social network. They don't even vary in size all that much. So who is an influencer vs who is the influenced all depends on the context.

Re: Cubicle Farming

k1v1n — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:05:53 -0000

Cubicles are an idea that came directly from the world of factory farming. They're inhumane and no way to treat workers.

Re: So I finally tried Wave...

k1v1n — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:33:50 -0000

Good post, and good suggestions.

Most people who take a cursory look at Wave miss its true potential. It's one of those things whose power escapes you until you've done some real work.

I suspect that we will see Gmail integrated into Wave rather than the other way around.

Kevin

Re: More RSSFAIL

k1v1n — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:16:54 -0000

Where I worry about where FriendFeed might be headed, I would think this is something they would better understand. So rather than present it as finding more stuff-- you present it as an aggregation and filtering tool. It's all about making sense of the flow. FriendFeed adds just enough intelligence and social filtering that without too much work people can see the power. (Hopefully it will be taken into Facebook pretty much as is and become a default tool for everyone.)

Re: Choices

k1v1n — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:35:43 -0000

There's nothing quite like a FriendFeed group (used to be rooms) for live blogging a conference. Seriously it's a great way to go. No one cares that your spewing stuff out like mad, where with Twitter you'll have people unsubcribing.

The other nice thing about FriendFeed, re your typing, is that you can edit them later and clean them up.

Kevin

Re: The trouble with statistics #uolstats

k1v1n — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:40:44 -0000

It makes perfect sense to me. Teaching them an open-source tool that they can use for life seems like a tremendous strategy. When they get out ot school what are the odds that they'll have a copy of SPSS to use unless they do statistics for a profession? Everyone, however, will have some times when they need to get a handle on some data set. Having experience with R would seem to be invaluable.

Re: Lewis Gray on Why Friendfeed Will Fail

k1v1n — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:47:14 -0000

FriendFeed does so much that it easily confuses new users. The marketing message is simple: FriendFeed is the easiest aggregation and filtering application to be found. This is the only reason people need it. Filtering and aggregation is not a space where Twitter is competing.

Re: OpenID Organizes the Organizers While Facebook and Google Start Letting Users Login

k1v1n — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:58:30 -0000

>Without that there is no way OpenID can compete with Facebook Connect and other new standards.

And those "other new standards" would be?

Re: My Quill Pen

k1v1n — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:28:47 -0000

Interesting post. You might enjoy Andy Clark's new book: Supersize the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (2008). He basically argues that our thinking extends out into the world through the tools we use, and that they play an active role in cognition.

I'm thinking you'd find it of interest for business reasons as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Could This Be The End Of URL’s?

k1v1n — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:05:21 -0000

I think they're toast-- they just don't matter anymore. People aren't visiting sites they're visiting pages.

Re: louisgray.com: With FriendFeed Lists, I Start to Organize the Noise

k1v1n — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:26:51 -0000

This was a very helpful post. I followed your lead and have set my lists up accordingly. It would be nice if the Home list was treated like every other list. Would be nice to me able to remove people in bulk.

Re: Is Hosted Search Really Ready for Prime Time?

k1v1n — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:17:20 -0000

Those are interesting numbers.

How do your local site searches compare to those directly from Google/Yahoo/etc?

Re: Is Hosted Search Really Ready for Prime Time?

k1v1n — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:36:22 -0000

"Just remember, search is possibly the single biggest tool on your website behind maybe your portal, and it deserves due process to get the treatment and attention your users expect and deserve."

Really? You have the numbers to support this?

Re: My Blog Leaderboard – It’s All About the Sharers

k1v1n — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:05:58 -0000

http://www.feedly.com/feedl...

Thanks for pointing me to Feedly. Very cool!

Re: Era of blogger’s control is over

k1v1n — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:03:26 -0000

Robert, see my comment on Twitter...

Re: What Does Facebook Actually DO for Me

k1v1n — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:58:36 -0000

You're right.

That it does all these things in one place means that people don't have to leave. Facebook reduces the friction to making all these things work.

And it does work. Why fight it?

Re: The RIAA is right

k1v1n — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:02:21 -0000

You can never go wrong with snark. Funny!

Re: The MacMini HDTV revolution

k1v1n — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:39:10 -0000

A MacBook Pro with an HDMI cable works pretty nicely too. Why would I need a Mini?

Re: Could Google Reader team have done a better PR job?

k1v1n — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:48:30 -0000

It seems to me that their first response was pretty lame. Had they done their 2nd release as the 1st it might have played-out completely different. Seems like most of what people were asking for was already there-- and taking a little more time to explain that would have helped immensely.

Re: Interesting Debate About Times Select

k1v1n — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:03:17 -0000

I'm in agreement with you. I think the Times lost readers that won't be coming back.

Another point on this study is that it was done in 2004, yet it didn't appear in print until June 2007. The study was done at at time when the consumer shift was on to search. So in 2004 the two, online and print, might have complemented each other. By 2007 the concept of a destination Web site was clearly toast.