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Re: Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight Review

Jack — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:25:01 -0000

I think Leave Out All The Rest is one of the most moving songs on the album. You say the lyrics aren't worth mention, I disagree. Also, how many boybands sing about how they'd like to be remembered after they die? Listen to the lyrics and I think you'll realise this is a very moving song with extraordinarily well thought out lyrics.

Re: Cake Anyone? What About A Hat?

Jack — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:17:28 -0000

That cake does look good. And I actually LOVE fondant cake! But hey, I love icing too, with or without cake!

Re: Cake Anyone? What About A Hat?

Jack — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:17:28 -0000

That cake does look good. And I actually LOVE fondant cake! But hey, I love icing too, with or without cake!

Re: Yea Right!

Jack — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:22:37 -0000

You know, I didn't even realise that WAS Bill Clinton until I read the whole article and then took a second look. Nice pic!

Re: Milan

Jack — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:44:24 -0000

I love that phrase "destructively pooing puppy". Really quite stunning!

Re: 2007/02/01/mydesignin/

Jack — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:12:12 -0000

I think this is a really good idea. Home makeover shows are still really popular, as is DIY. And if the only problem is the Flash room designer thing, I wouldn't mind betting that in a while they'll get it fixed and it could be something huge.

I do agree it doesn't have the wow factor, and I'd be inclined to mark it as a failure rather than a success, at the moment, but it does have potential.

Re: 2007/02/03/youtube-valentines-day/

Jack — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:33:47 -0000

I think this is a really nice idea. Especially for those people who are far away from their lover over Valentines day

Re: 2007/02/27/youtube-oscars/

Jack — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:03:03 -0000

The movie industry are just going to have to learn, like the TV industry already has, that people do not want to watch things at x o'clock. They want to watch stuff when THEY want.

Sites like YouTube are not going to go away. The sooner the industries involved understand this, the better.

Re: 2007/03/02/bbc-youtube/

Jack — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:30:31 -0000

Very interesting news. The only thing that troubles me is that the BBC are supporting this with advertising. Us in the UK pay our license fee to pay for the BBC, and they are using YouTube, a supposedly free medium, to get advertising revenue - something they're not allowed to do on TV...

Re: 2007/03/05/socialurl/

Jack — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:02:44 -0000

This site does sound pretty interesting, although I'd have to agree with Mr Cashmore that it's not really ready for the mainstream. You need something that automatically collects all your media from social media sites.

Re: 2007/03/06/friendster-google/

Jack — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:11:27 -0000

It may be growing like crazy, and may be well known inside the US, but I haven't heard anyone in the UK talk about Friendster much. It's all MySpace.

Re: 2007/03/07/zannel-hispanito-mtv-zannel-ploud-iconnecte-flurry-free-the-fan-iconix-rockyou-uusee-peer39-newscribe-c-span-livemansion/

Jack — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:33:11 -0000

I think Free The Fan and Zannel have big potential personally. Sports is big in Europe, as are camera phones. Think about it. In Europe people swap videos from their phones using Bluetooth, now they can use the net instead. Far better distribution model.

The Internet is not just US specific, and should be kept in mind when discussing social media, IMHO.

Re: 2007/03/09/youtube-ban-turkey/

Jack — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:18:06 -0000

This is really childish. You'd expect this sort of argument in a playground, not between countries!

Re: 2007/03/11/gotzapp/

Jack — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:51:22 -0000

This is a stunning idea that really needs to take off. The applications for it, in my view go beyond "mobile youtube". Surely this would be an excellent platform for mobile blogging. And surely smartphones are the ideal way to blog on the go. See something cool, take a photo, upload it to your blog.

Re: 2007/03/13/gamervision/

Jack — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:29:30 -0000

I have to say, I really don't like the design of this site. Especially the updates at the top.

I realise that a gaming social network is niche, and niche is good, but i'm not so certain this is going to work.

Re: 2007/03/14/1-in-6-brits-use-bebo/

Jack — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:57:55 -0000

I'm British, and I don't use Bebo. I'm not sure I've even been to the site before...

Re: 2007/03/16/flickr-china/

Jack — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:27:56 -0000

The real question is will Yahoo censor this like Google did with their search engine?

Re: 2007/03/19/frengo/

Jack — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:28:19 -0000

I think that this will succeed too. Look at how XNA from Microsoft has driven people to want to create (albeit) basic Xbox games. Now combining social networking and game creation cannot be a bad thing!

Re: 2007/03/26/kickapps/

Jack — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:42:11 -0000

Love the idea of being able to set up a webcam on your site! That's just very very cool. Also has much potential for other startups, as you mentioned.

Re: 2007/04/01/facebook-poke/

Jack — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:01:13 -0000

Haha...nice april fool. This said...if anyone could develop a way to send someone to poke one of your friends, I could see potential in that. The number of times my long distance girlfriend is ignoring me for the tv...

Re: 2007/04/01/magnify-2/

Jack — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:16:12 -0000

This sounds like a really good idea. I like the features it has over YouTube. Problem is, it's becoming a crowded market right now...

Re: 2007/04/11/yoono/

Jack — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:32:19 -0000

Yeah, I don't really get this either. If I need to create a live bookmark (only when I am not at my PC), then I use Yahoo My Web. Apart from that, I don't get it.

Re: 2007/04/24/tripit-nearbynow-casttv/

Jack — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:42 -0000

I love the idea of NearbyNow. Comparison engines are all well and good, but the amount of times I have looked for something, and found the best price was in a bricks and mortar shop...200 miles away!

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:49:44 -0000

I don't think YouTube's content is poor, I spend a lot of time on there, and there are people with really interesting opinions (Blunty3000 for example).

I do think, however, that this is a getaround for YouTube. Now they can say "We pay our content producers" when actually, they're only going to pay those that get the most views, not everyone.

Done properly, this could have been amazing. Instead, it's just a cop out.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:21:02 -0000

Couldn't they create a title filter? If you can't find the copyrighted material, there is little point uploading it. Thus getting around the problem of paying people for uploading copyrighted content.

Re: Michael Bay talks Transformers 3, 4 and 5

Jack — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:55:12 -0000

I personally disliked the film because:

1: No transforming noises (nee-neh-nah-naw)
2: Pretty sure Optimus was WAY bigger than the other Autobots, definetly was as a toy
3: I couldn't understand their damned voices apart from Optimus's
4: I couldn't see who was fighting who clearly
5: Since when did Transformers fist fight?
6: Where was the "Transformers, robots in disguise!" theme song?

Bah. No more sequels thanks.

Re: Stop Dane Cook: A Campaign to Protect Our Children

Jack — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:10:39 -0000

I have been asked whether Dane Cook is as deadly as AIDS, or as dangerous as breast cancer, or as emotionally crippling as autism. That I cannot answer. Let history be the judge.

As emotionally crippling as Autism? EXPLETIVE DELETED you. I am Autistic, and I cannot believe you compared someone who's comedy you don't like, to Autism which affects people profoundly. I liked Employee Of The Month and I like his stand up. Just because YOU don't like him, don't assume you can make idiotic comments like is a comedian as deadly as AIDS or Cancer. Think before you type.

Re: The Cost of No SEO Migration Plan

Jack — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:31:54 -0000

I agree with you. Keeping URL structures the same is important. Not just for search engine visibility, but for keeping readers. If I go to a blog or even a site, and I can't find what I am looking for, I won't bother using that site any longer, I will go to Google or Wikipedia for the information.

Also, how unprofessional was the designer to use a Google search box? I would write my own thing, personally...

Re: Search Marketing Blogs Update 031607

Jack — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:08:05 -0000

Not to toot my own horn, but I'd have said these are absolute basics for any blog to have. I think the only things I don't have are catagories, or subscriptions (no RSS yet).

On another subject, and not spam (promise!), for a donation to Comic Relief UK, get a free test drive of any Mazda in the range. It's for a good cause, so please don't be too harsh on me!

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Jack — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:31:09 -0000

My blog is only small, so comment spam isn't an issue for me. If it was, I wouldn't care. If people want to spam, let them. Personally, I have enough faith in my readers to trust them not to click dumb links.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Jack — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:26:09 -0000

Gotta admit, I heard of this blog getting hacked and thought "april fools prank" immediately.

Re: Our New Web Hosting Company

Jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:12:21 -0000

I agree totally with moving. I've moved from MSN Spaces because they couldn't fit in with my ideas of creativity, then from Tripod because they didn't support Layers, and finally from Freewebs because I wanted my own domain name, and found the name and the hosting cheaper than Freewebs could provide it for.

My motto in life is - "If it's not working for you, try something else"

Re: Are Search Engine Rankings Dead?

Jack — Sun, 13 May 2007 04:38:52 -0000

I think you're right. Traffic and especially conversion is far more important. If you're ranked number 1 in every search engine, but the number 2 is more relevant, people won't go. And if what you are selling is trash or poorly described/displayed, you won't get conversions. Personally, I am interested in traffic, not rankings for my site...

Re: Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight Review

Jack — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:25:01 -0000

Re: FLOSS Chick of the Month

Jack — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:24:11 -0000

Ok, very late reply, but, I for one would be very interested in seeing regular women semi naked like in the Dove Campaign For Real Beauty ads here in the UK.

Remember, beauty is subjective. In my eyes, a redhead with a million freckles and a podgy stomach is infinitely more attractive than a plain blonde with a flat stomach. Also, has anyone considered that maybe celebrities use Linux? What if we could get them onboard?

As for the WOW campaign, I found myself thinking about some of those things that's more wow(!) than WOW. And once I did use Vista (forced to, was on the new laptop which replaced a dead desktop) I quickly found a LInux Live CD and rebooted.