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1 year ago
in Amazon’s New Subscription Service on Zatz Not Funny!
I'd love to see them offer this on their electronic products, particularly Unbox. If they can build a video equivalent to Rhapsody, I'd seriously consider adjusting who I pay my TV dollars to. A number of the network shows I watch are already on Unbox, and we've rented a number of movies through the Unbox/TiVo integration. If they can get HD content in there and a reasonable subscription model (I know, pie-in-the-sky dreaming), they'd have a winner.
1 year ago
in I Joined A Startup To Help Bring Some Simplicity To Our Complex World on AttentionMax
Max - Congrats on the move. Sounds like a tremendous opportunity, and one that'll keep you challenged. Good luck - can't wait to read about the journey.
1 year ago
in Joining Yahoo! on Participate Media
Al - huge congrats to you, this is terrific news. Look me up in the Bay Area when you get out this way - Yahoo's only a few miles down the road from our offices. Congratulations!
1 year ago
in Feed Troubles on AttentionMax
I took the liberty of checking it out, and though I'm not positive why it'd be an issue, it appears that using wp-rss.php as your source feed (which outputs an RSS .92 version feed) was causing the hiccup. Switching the source feed to /feed/ (which spits out RSS 2.0) appears to have resolved the issue, and you should be all set. Let me know if it looks ok on your end.
1 year ago
in Facebook: It’s Far Easier To Befriend Versus Solicit Reasons For Befriending on AttentionMax
Curiously, this post keeps re-appearing in Google Reader... any idea why?
1 year ago
in Reader Poll on A VC
Fred - Not a major issue, but the Quibblo code gets garbled when viewed in Google Reader (and, presumably, other aggregators that don't like javascript). Not sure if there's an easy work-around for them, but it means that feed readers can't participate in the poll without coming to the site...
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Jason Preston
Also true for the Google home page RSS widget.
2 years ago
in Your FeedBurner Data To Google: What Does It Mean? on AttentionMax
Max - Thanks for raising this point. (Now you know why I've been out of touch for a few weeks!) The translation for this is hopefully pretty simple: now that we've been acquired, Google is now the corporate entity providing the FeedBurner service. Rather than move everything over on day 1, we wanted to make sure publishers had an opportunity to opt out completely. While we're very excited about this process, and think that being part of Google has tremendous advantages for us and for our publishers, if anyone felt uncomfortable with Google being the provider of the service, they could remove their account from our system and no information would be shared.
Let me know if you have any other questions, and keep in touch!
Regards,
Rick Klau
Google (FeedBurner)
Let me know if you have any other questions, and keep in touch!
Regards,
Rick Klau
Google (FeedBurner)
2 years ago
in Review of Feedburner on Technosailor
That's Barack with a 'c'. Get the name right, already. He'll be your president before you know it. ;)
On the feedback front, really appreciate the candor. We strive to excel in every aspect of what we do, yet there's always room for improvement. You guys have definitely pushed the envelope, which is helping us improve.
Here's to a long and productive relationship! (Who knows, maybe even well into an Obama administration!)
;)
--Rick
On the feedback front, really appreciate the candor. We strive to excel in every aspect of what we do, yet there's always room for improvement. You guys have definitely pushed the envelope, which is helping us improve.
Here's to a long and productive relationship! (Who knows, maybe even well into an Obama administration!)
;)
--Rick
2 years ago
in Bloglines or FeedBurner Problem? on TonyMorganLive.com
Tony - Thanks! I continue to see erratic polling results from them, this is a useful data point. I'll let you know what we find out...
--Rick
--Rick
3 years ago
in The motherly instinct on Scobleizer
Robert -
All of us at Syndicate next week would not only understand if you stay by your Mom's side, I think we'd all encourage you to do so. Obviously you're in the best position to know what's right, but there's always going to be another opportunity to evangelize. If it is your Mom's time, then take advantage of the gift to be by her side, holding her hand, helping her prepare for whatever comes next.
You're in my thoughts and prayers. Be well, and thank you for helping us all appreciate our Moms a little more this Mother's Day weekend.
--Rick
All of us at Syndicate next week would not only understand if you stay by your Mom's side, I think we'd all encourage you to do so. Obviously you're in the best position to know what's right, but there's always going to be another opportunity to evangelize. If it is your Mom's time, then take advantage of the gift to be by her side, holding her hand, helping her prepare for whatever comes next.
You're in my thoughts and prayers. Be well, and thank you for helping us all appreciate our Moms a little more this Mother's Day weekend.
--Rick
3 years ago
in Corporate and political blogging — get rid of the fear, be yourself! on Scobleizer
Fair point.
Have you listened to the Obama podcast, or read his blog? He's even posted at dailykos periodically, and is actively engaging the community in person and online. (Like I said above, I did some work with them last year, but just keep in touch with them now, no ongoing work.) Good stuff, and I think he's the real deal.
* podcast: http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/
* blog: http://obama.senate.gov/blog/
* post to dailykos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/102745/165
Took him a while, but I think he's heading in the right direction... (and btw, in case you're interested: Senate rules prohibit the inclusion of comments on the site - so it's not that they don't want to listen, but in the case of comments left on the site, that'd run afoul of Senate rules. Unreal.)
Have you listened to the Obama podcast, or read his blog? He's even posted at dailykos periodically, and is actively engaging the community in person and online. (Like I said above, I did some work with them last year, but just keep in touch with them now, no ongoing work.) Good stuff, and I think he's the real deal.
* podcast: http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/
* blog: http://obama.senate.gov/blog/
* post to dailykos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/102745/165
Took him a while, but I think he's heading in the right direction... (and btw, in case you're interested: Senate rules prohibit the inclusion of comments on the site - so it's not that they don't want to listen, but in the case of comments left on the site, that'd run afoul of Senate rules. Unreal.)
3 years ago
in Corporate and political blogging — get rid of the fear, be yourself! on Scobleizer
Hey Robert -
Forgive me for steering this back to the topic of politicians and blogs (!), but your last statement in the post about Dean not blogging and not talking to us after Iowa caught my attention. As you know, I was pretty involved with the web team in the Dean campaign, and subsequently worked with the Obama campaign (including the Obama blog), and still chat with candidates from time to time about how to use the technology.
And I wonder whether it really matters that Dean (or, more broadly, any candidate) uses the platform to talk to us. The success of the Dean campaign was that it let supporters find and talk *to each other* - so that the campaign became, in a very real sense, about the supporters and not about Dean. Dean certainly could have used the technology to better effect (though his own attempts at blogging, like when he guest-blogged on Lessig's site, were pretty weak), but the creation of a real community was the legacy that campaign left.
Re: Darcy's campaign, I'd tell her to make it easy for her supporters to interact with each other. No candidate has enough time to give each supporter the one-on-one they'd like - it just doesn't scale (as you alluded to). And face it, most voters will make their decisions about whom to support based on fairly superficial assessments of the candidates... you say turn on comments, I say turn on the blogs.
That Dean ultimately ran a failed campaign doesn't diminish the power that was 600,000 Americans actively engaged in a Presidential campaign. Many are still involved in the local parties that they'd never visited before (I'm a great example; before the Dean campaign I'd never been to a local party meeting, now I'm the local party chair), running for office, working with other candidates to bring about change at all levels of government. They do that when they feel listened to - but the listening doesn't just have to be by the candidate.
Thanks for raising this, and for your advice to Darcy. Can't wait to see how her campaign plays out.
Forgive me for steering this back to the topic of politicians and blogs (!), but your last statement in the post about Dean not blogging and not talking to us after Iowa caught my attention. As you know, I was pretty involved with the web team in the Dean campaign, and subsequently worked with the Obama campaign (including the Obama blog), and still chat with candidates from time to time about how to use the technology.
And I wonder whether it really matters that Dean (or, more broadly, any candidate) uses the platform to talk to us. The success of the Dean campaign was that it let supporters find and talk *to each other* - so that the campaign became, in a very real sense, about the supporters and not about Dean. Dean certainly could have used the technology to better effect (though his own attempts at blogging, like when he guest-blogged on Lessig's site, were pretty weak), but the creation of a real community was the legacy that campaign left.
Re: Darcy's campaign, I'd tell her to make it easy for her supporters to interact with each other. No candidate has enough time to give each supporter the one-on-one they'd like - it just doesn't scale (as you alluded to). And face it, most voters will make their decisions about whom to support based on fairly superficial assessments of the candidates... you say turn on comments, I say turn on the blogs.
That Dean ultimately ran a failed campaign doesn't diminish the power that was 600,000 Americans actively engaged in a Presidential campaign. Many are still involved in the local parties that they'd never visited before (I'm a great example; before the Dean campaign I'd never been to a local party meeting, now I'm the local party chair), running for office, working with other candidates to bring about change at all levels of government. They do that when they feel listened to - but the listening doesn't just have to be by the candidate.
Thanks for raising this, and for your advice to Darcy. Can't wait to see how her campaign plays out.
3 years ago
in Finding a Job with Your Blog on thevirtualhandshake
Interestingly, my job after Socialtext (with FeedBurner) also came about as a result of my blog: after talking about setting up FeedBurner on my blog, one of the founders reached out to me, and we got to know each other. A year later, FeedBurner got funded and asked me to join them as they grew the company. Leaving Socialtext was a tough decision, but the combination of a local opportunity (as opposed to telecommuting) and the fit for what was needed was too good to pass up. I'm having a blast, and can't imagine how these connections could have happened without my blog...
--Rick
--Rick
