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Re: Gordon in commanding position over Driscoll in early LD38 money race

optionshiftk — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:29:01 -0000

I'm not sure if liberals simply fabricate information for fun, or whether they are far detached from reality, but the fact of the matter is that Driscoll has made real cuts. The Bergen County Freeholder budget has been cut significantly. It seems clear that Driscoll is one of the few officials who approaches things pragmatically, rather than with unachievable fantasies.

See for yourself:

http://www.northjersey.com/...

Re: Was Scripting News really born on April 1? (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:48:41 -0000

And let us hope that it continues for another 13 years and beyond in the future. Dave, I think this is a good time for me to say thank you, for your insights on all of the subjects you discuss here on scripting.com

Re: Early podcasts, second try. (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:53:16 -0000

Worked well for me. Thanks so much for making them available. I'm going back and listening to old episodes of the Daily Source Code. Boy, Adam has changed since the early days.

Re: Indiana Holmes. (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:43:17 -0000

Dave, I am incredibly happy to finally here someone else who agrees with me that Sherlock Holmes sucked. Went to see it with a friend of mine and was frustrated when he kept raving about it. I suppose he is easily satisfied, but I loathed it. I'll tell you why ; the film simply did not have that "Sherlock Holmes" feel to it. It felt like some generic detective film. ugh.

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:05:18 -0000

Dave, you mention in your post that scripting.com runs on a static back end, I'm curious as to why you choose to operate the site in this way versus using a CMS of yours such as manilla. Would you ever consider using a dynamic wordpress back end for scripting.com?

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:13:48 -0000

Now I'm just imagining what Dave Winer the teenager was like. It is sort of interesting that you chose to be drinking wine, I would think that some hard liquor, or just plain old beer, would be more "cool". Nonetheless, I think it is fantastic that you are putting all of your dad's photos and content online, a great thing to do so we can all appreciate what he did.

Re: RSS has no Fail Whale (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:49:41 -0000

I get really irked when I see these "tech journalists" parading around and proclaiming "RSS is Dead" when they seem to not grasp the very concept of RSS. As you've said Dave, a good portion of them confuse RSS with Google Reader.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

optionshiftk — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:44:19 -0000

Dave, I'm loving River 2 so far, but I wanted to know when you think the "Share" feature will be implemented and made operational. I'd sure be nice to be able to shoot a story right out to twitter, facebook, or friendfeed. Thanks.

Re: Bad Hair Day #1

optionshiftk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:58:24 -0000

I see what you mean. Anyway, you seem like the type of guy who likes to build his own open system. The problem with laconi.ca is that it tries to imitate twitter too much, rather than making any real innovation on its own.

Re: Bad Hair Day #1

optionshiftk — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:09:20 -0000

Dave, regarding your desire to have a twitter community for your blog, why can't you just set up a laconi.ca server? This would allow you to play with the design and customize it to your heart's content. Leo Laporte has one running for his twit community on army.twit.tv

Re: Rebooting the News #18

optionshiftk — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:59:58 -0000

Regarding twitter's desire to own all of the user content: It would be best for twitter to license the content in one of two ways 1) make all content public domain like other sites(i.e.digg) 2) Make the content property of the user under the creative commons license.
The issue with the latter is the fact that if the user owns their content, then twitter is limited by that license and may encounter difficulties.

Re: The longest day (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:46 -0000

Dave, it was truly incredible to follow your journey across Europe. The magic of technology allows for such wonderful connectivity and rich sharing of content.

Re: twdsc.us: @Scobleizer. "Dell's new Z: I am throwing away my Mac when this comes out: [pic] http://ff.im/49p8a"

optionshiftk — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:38:29 -0000

I'd have to agree Dave. Scoble tends to get very excited about products upon first impression ; however the true question is whether that excitement is sustainable. Personally, I don't think so.

Re: Rebooting the News #10

optionshiftk — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:33:55 -0000

Jay's point regarding the rising insignificance of TV during a news event such as the protests and riots in Iran was eye opening. TV news has become irrelevant. Love the show, thanks for the great conversation.

Re: Iran streets after election (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:53:27 -0000

One thing we can agree on is that the entire situation is a mess.

Re: Iran streets after election (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:04:02 -0000

It seems futile for the Iranians to protest the "results". It all boils down to the supreme leaderAli Khamenei , not the president.

Re: The end of analog (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:35:17 -0000

It's a shame to create so much confusion and difficulty for people when this entire plan is mostly about money. Analog signals take up a tremendous amount of valuable spectrum, where as digital TV signals are able to pack multiple channels on the typical one channel analog band. The cable companies are going nuts over this transition and using it to their benefit to trick unknowing customers into thinking they must upgrade to payed cable.

Re: tumbléo

optionshiftk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:40:12 -0000

Party!

Re: User data ownership on Facebook and why it doesn’t matter

optionshiftk — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:23:05 -0000

Robert, what about the professional photographers, and other content creators who want to share their work, but still maintain the rights? Should they just silo all their content on their own servers? That seems kind of retroactive. It's not prudent to be nonchalant about a major issue like this.

Re: Kettle Chips (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:38:57 -0000

There is nothing more I crave than a good bag of crunchy, salty kettle chips! :)

Re: tumbléo

optionshiftk — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:12:21 -0000

Wow! That's great...I bet Amber Mac would like this especially, seeing that she has some sort of obsession with graffiti.

Re: Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying

optionshiftk — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:53:45 -0000

Facebook is a glorified address book, something Jason Calacanis has harped on quite frequently. The demographic of facebook users is very unsophisticated computer users who can't even seem to manage to delete "is" when writing a status message. The twitter crowd is a different breed.

Re: Don't boycott Kellogg (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:13:16 -0000

It's goes to show that these companies that sponsor Phelps are vicious and care only about profit and ego. Granted, Phelps did make a dumb move, but he should not be ostracized about it. It's not like pot affected his athletic abilities, in fact it would have made theme worse...the bigger concern in all o this is steroids...which luckily he did not take. I think the song "Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35" would be appropriate.

Re: A sad day for humor

optionshiftk — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:35:47 -0000

When I first heard the news, I was shocked. Immediately, I though "Oh, no! What will happen to Dick De?" Luckily, Dick confirmed he was still going to write in each issue, but only 4 times per year. Like Leo said, it is the end of an era. I wish Gaines were still alive, he knew what was best for MAD, Time-Warner only cares about profit.

Re: 25 With A Bullet

optionshiftk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:18:34 -0000

I am sort of perturbed with this list. For one thing, Leo sort of nurtured Kevin Rose to stardom. Leo, is a classy broadcaster, not just podcaster. He respects his audience and understands that content is most important, not expensive sets(i.e. techtv, Rev3). Maybe my outrage is due to my heavy bias; twit in my mind is what will survive in years down the road, not just some dumb meme like tech crunch, or diggnation. Then again, who know if Forbes will make it another half a decade.