Disqus - Friends of mikebrittain

Re: I told you so’s have to suck

felix — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:16:55 -0000

I feel your complaint and I think it's odd that while the world of mobile telephony is moving towards all you can eat/unlimited plans, broadband is moving to tiers. The not-outraged part of my brain, though, would be ok with tiers if there was a reasonable unlimited plan. Since, while, me and many tech savvy folk I know dl all our stuff digitally, there's still huge portions of the general populace who use their access for surfing and email - and maybe it's ok if they pay less than me. I'm nervous at all these moves, but keeping my fingers crossed.

Re: How do I import comments?

felix — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:23:14 -0000

I'd just like to throw my wish in for importing from wordpress. :)

Re: It’s about respect

felix — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:52:23 -0000

I agree with this - I think under circumstances where some content is objectionable and really should not get any link juice should tactics like this be employed. In general, even disagreements should still point to the original especially when the anchor text suggests that that's what you're pointing to. For all the reasons cited above, accuracy, courtesy and respect. It's simply the way the internet works. Can't we all just get along?

Re: Can the wordpress plugin selectively apply disqus by date?

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:08:37 -0000

Thanks! And that was the deal maker! It's now happily installed on my blog. Thanks a lot!

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:04:49 -0000

I think the difference is that if you own your comments (as well as your software stack) you are in control of your backups. That you may not back up your comments is completely within your control, Disqus is completely outside of your control. If they decide to shut down tomorrow, there's not much that could be done to salvage your comments unless they provide a way.

Having said that, I just rolled it out on my blogs, so I guess we'll see! :)

Re: Why People Are Passionate About Perl

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:40:02 -0000

Nice. I can see how Google might confuse Yoda and Stroustrop. :)

As for Wordpress and MT. Well just because I like one language more
than the next doesn't mean the products all have to be better! I
think, I actually tried installing MT first, but had troubles. I think
I'm glad though, I like wordpress.

Re: Rolled out Disqus for #comments commenting

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:05:07 -0000

The best part is, and I can't stress how awesome this is, your post got flagged by spam as Disqus as well. Apparently, it's just you - the internet is rejecting you.

Re: Maybe It’s Time For Twitter To Go “Freemium”

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:12:02 -0000

I agree completely. I think it's a great model - if they added on some additional features available to paying folk as opposed to hobbling it for non-paying. I would probably be ok with an add flowing into my stream every now and again if it behaved like a regular tweet and rolled down the timeline.

Re: Google AppEngine & Amazon AWS

felix — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:40:59 -0000

That's a pretty interesting idea, I hope someone's working on it already. Another thing that would be most awesome is coming at the same idea from a different angle - if Amazon could just let EC2 instances grow arbitrarily gigantic, so you get one instance and it simply can use more and more compute cycles as necessary - or if it's a logistical effort, instead of adding more instances you add more "cpus" to a given instance. I suspect that would be workable for many but the top 1% of super cpu suckers like twitter - you'd end up with a massive instance but not mind bogglingly so.

Re: Get Facebook’s Wall-To-Wall Functionality On Twitter

felix — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:23:03 -0000

It would be great if some of the desktop apps like Twhirl would support this ad hoc wall to wall feature! That is it would run those two queries for you sort the results and display them right in the app. Now, that'd be a *great* feature.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

felix — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:47:08 -0000

1) It's a tradeoff you take - I haven't seen much turning off of javascript on my site - nor would I expect it as more and more sites are web2.0ified, surfing without javascript becomes kind of web breaking.

2) comment ownership is a specific thing to say, since you can export those comments at will I'd say you are co-owners of the comments.

The real issue is the fact that you will lose all the comment text that crawlers will normally see and index. This could potentially have real long term SEO impact.

On the flip side, what you gain is the ability to reply to comments and replies via email. This is a significant benefit since it makes it very easy for people to continue a conversation. This helps increase the engagement with your site and can increase traffic. I'm not really clear how it's taking traffic, especially a *lot* of traffic away.

It's also nice to be able to see all your comments across discus enabled sites in one place (as well as to see it feed into things like FriendFeed).

All in all, it's not an unambiguous win, but the tradeoffs are good enough that a lot of people go for it.

Re: 3G iPhone imminent?? I guess no.

felix — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:24:10 -0000

David, nope, you're not missing anything, sadly the iPhone mail app is pretty limited - no search among many other limitations. :(

Re: url in Recent Posters instead of title?

felix — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:32:04 -0000

Daniel,

I guess it is *possible*, but pretty unlikely, the first thing I do
when writing posts is type in the title - and it definitely had a
title when he posted it.

felix

Re: KISS Roll’d??

felix — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:34 -0000

That's my favourite part, too! I think he's reenacting squeezebox.

Re: KISS Roll’d??

felix — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:08:13 -0000

Man, I want to *see* these KISS projects you guys did!

Re: SEO effects of my blog being down for a month

felix — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:09:10 -0000

Thanks, poyla. In its absence I found myself doing the same thing. :)

Re: Breakfast Links: Marvel v DC, Scott Pilgrim & Apple

felix — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:58:01 -0000

Why because brand loyalty is embedded deeply into the fiber of our being at a very young age! Or because my cousin didn't like DC and I did whatever he did. One or the other. :)

Re: Breakfast Links: Failing, Gas & Power

felix — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:35:53 -0000

Guys, yeah. I mean, it isn't like a good education is important! I mean, we're doing just great! sigh. It seems like a lot of policy these days is done simply to mask the symptoms instead of tackling the problems. And sadly, education is just policy to some folks.

Re: Still missing titles sometimes

felix — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:41:28 -0000

Huh, I had a theory after looking at your site that perhaps Disqus didn't like entities or non-latin characters - but I tried posting on another post of mine that had an & and it went through ok. Disqus, any ideas?

Re: Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook & the Web

felix — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:40 -0000

Yeah, that sucks that things have gotten all riled up there! Ah well, it's fun to live in interesting times, eh? :)

I dunno about refilling that $30billion! I heard somewhere else (heh) that they were actually going to go into some debt to finance the purchase. I mean, they gotta lotta cash rolling in, but I don't think they got $30billion surplus in a year!

Re: Breakfast Links: SciFi TV, Telectroscope & Stewardess Uniforms

felix — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:13:30 -0000

I did *not* know they had a casino... I feel a sudden urge to go west. You know. For research.

Re: Utilizing Google Reader

felix — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:26:40 -0000

I use GR and FF and like them both just differently. GR is my go through top to bottom all the time. It's designed for it. FF I read to see what's currently buzzing around the technoweb, definitely don't try and keep on top of it.

I love the notes feature of sharing on GR, too - my main frustration, now that I've played with FF especially, is that there's no way to subsequently comment on a piece that someone else has shared with a note. Or to get any feedback in general on things I've shared.

Sigh. But I totally see your point on FF noise. That's why I'm an FF dilletante. :)

Re: Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator

felix — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:29:09 -0000

Heh! Ok, I upped it to 100, but I don't want to abuse the API - is it ok to shoot it to 300?? It's easy enough to do... :)

Re: friendfeed.py Patch for use on Google App Engine

felix — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:30:16 -0000

This is great! Thanks a lot. My own hacked up version was barely functional. :)

Re: Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator

felix — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:35:08 -0000

Ok! I moved it to 300, I think, Tamperdata is being temperamental with me so I didn't actually see the request go over, but a shift-reload ought to bring up the big numbers. :)