Disqus - Latest Comments for Shawn K

Re: Amen.

Shawn K — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:08:21 -0000

Hmmm, Is it too late to tweak the photo? I think Mona Lisa would make an excellent Starbucks lady.

Re: Retooling CommunityGuy.com

Shawn K — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:44:58 -0000

Looks good, clean and simple, easy to find stuff.

Re: Rediscovering the Barbershop

Shawn K — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:07:01 -0000

You really make me want to visit a barber RIGHT NOW! I can remember visiting one on a rare occasion when I was a kid, but he soon retired. At college, the small town I was in had a barber who came to town twice a week, it really is a manlier place. I am now going to put forth the effort to find a barber who can cut my hair, and hopefully, pull out a straight blade too!

Re: Debating Disqus - Seems Stupid

Shawn K — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:48:31 -0000

While I understand where you're coming from, and I haven't implemented it myself yet, I think Disqus is a step away from comment fragmentation. They are making a comment service with enough leverage to integrate into sites like friendfeed and social thing, thus making it easier to find some comments. Currently, if somebody comments on one of my posts outside of my blog, I have to hunt it down. With Disqus integration into other services, it makes it much easier for me. They're still young though, so I am highly curious what their next steps will be.

Re: Give Me A Sign

Shawn K — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:13:38 -0000

Fabulous post! This is a great reminder that we all need to hear.

Also, you made a future youth group lesson VERY easy for me to plan. :)

Re: 50 Blog Road Trip! Nominate your Favorite Blog in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Canada(lol)!

Shawn K — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:06:03 -0000

Looks like a fun endeavor, I just dropped you a donation, sorry I can't give more. I'll try to pay attention for when you make your way over to ND!

Re: Announcing Complete City Guide of our Summer Roadtrip!

Shawn K — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:32:18 -0000

Cool! Bismarck works for me, it's 'only' 90 miles away. Looks like I've got a loooooong wait though. :)

Re: Steve Jobs Still Hates North Dakota

Shawn K — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:40:29 -0000

Actually, for about 6 months now, AT&T; has had native coverage in ND, but only if you live in the likes of Fargo/Bismarck/Dickinson. There is still roaming available up and down the interstates, but anything in a rural area is still out of luck. So not all of North Dakota is out of luck, just those who don't live in a large city.

LTE can't get here fast enough.

Re: Do You Feel Blogger Vibes?

Shawn K — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:22:20 -0000

Blogging, much like radio, is a difficult medium to effectively get our point across. We don't have our facial expressions to help convey meaning, and even radio can use voice inflections. All a blogger has are words, conveying anything beyond straight fact is difficult, especially when being sarcastic. I like to think I've been gifted with wording, but I also think that what I like to think is probably inaccurate according to others.

Re: 2008/01/26/online-social-networking-does-it-make-you-happy/

Shawn K — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:30:44 -0000

This seems like a clear cut case of less is more. Sure the social networks make it easier to keep in touch with mass amounts of people, but it still doesn't compare to close relationships with friends done primarily face to face.

Re: 2008/01/31/titantv/

Shawn K — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:09:07 -0000

I LOVE TITAN TV!!!!! After I installed Vista and discovered Media Center's Guide couldn't find our local listings, I poked around. Titan TV is the ONLY place that had most of our listings, I only had to add a couple of channels. I only with I could integrate it into Media Center.

Re: 2008/02/19/gmail-antispam-filters-leaking/

Shawn K — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:56:35 -0000

Just in this last week, I've gone from maybe 6-8 spams a week in the gMail filter, to about 6 a day. So far, I've only had one make it into my inbox, ever, in 3 years of gMail use, so it's still working better than anyone else I use, but is mildly disturbing.

Re: 2008/03/29/what-would-you-ask-robert-scoble/

Shawn K — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:10:15 -0000

Scoble - What do you think of blogs that talk about or offer a rebuttal to something a fellow blogger said, but don't link back to it?

Re: 2008/03/30/pete-cashmore-gets-scobleized-video/

Shawn K — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:04:18 -0000

I discuss the Calacanis attempt at overtaking Scoble on my blog. http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/03/hey-ja...

Re: 2008/05/14/plaxo-comcas/

Shawn K — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:00:47 -0000

Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of hundreds, possibly thousands of people who can't stand Comcast, and they're abandoning Plaxo in droves.

Re: 2008/07/15/ori-brafman-introduction-sway/

Shawn K — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:32:28 -0000

I finally received my copy of the book today, thanks Mashable! I haven't had time to dig into it yet, but I anticipate lots of free time to read it tomorrow. It sounds really good from everything I've heard, I'm excited to be part of the discussion.

Twitter @thattalldude

Re: 2008/08/28/good-riddance-to-albums/

Shawn K — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:17:32 -0000

The album isn't dead, yet. There is still hope for it to survive, but we need to break out of a music culture thriving on one hit wonders.

See more of my thoughts about this at: http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/08/shut-u...

Re: 2009/01/23/adcause/

Shawn K — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:19:41 -0000

An intriguing idea, but before I'd do it, I'd need a greater frequency range for ads, I don't want 5% of my tweets to be an ad.

Re: 2009/01/25/notetaking-alternatives/

Shawn K — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:35:55 -0000

Did you intentionally leave Evernote off the list?

Re: 2009/01/25/notetaking-alternatives/

Shawn K — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:23:38 -0000

Wow, I completely spaced out the 1st paragraph mention.

Re: When is it Time to Jump Into Yet Another Social Network?

Shawn K — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:05:52 -0000

I just love diving into things early on. It used to be less enjoyable, but since Twitter, it's much easier for me to find others to connect with in new services, making it easier for me to find out just what the new social network can (or can't) do for me.

Many of them I wind up using for a couple of months and not paying much attention to after that, but if somebody asks about them, I have first hand experience to share with them.

Re: When is it Time to Jump Into Yet Another Social Network?

Shawn K — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:05:52 -0000

Re: Small Business is the Economic Bailout

Shawn K — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:42:49 -0000

Actually, I discussed this a bit a couple weeks ago. http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/09/that-7...

Small business now faces a brighter future than it has in some time. With big biz faltering, having overextended themselves, the opportunity has presented itself for reliable, friendly, creative people to step in and fill the gap.

Re: Yahoo Should Buy Twitter- Yes or No

Shawn K — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:44:16 -0000

Alright, wrap your head around this. Twitter is very simple and easy to use. What if Apple bought Twitter? Seamlessly integrate it into iChat, make it default on the iPhones, and find a way to make the whole Twitter experience even easier. Is it really so far fetched?

Re: Blog Comments Need to Be Simple

Shawn K — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:59:04 -0000

Great post. Lately I've been finding the worst offenders to be Wordpress blogs. I'll have a comment formed in my head, go to comment, and BAM!, you need to be registered with Wordpress to comment. I'm sorry, but I'm using Typepad right now. Grrrrrrrrr.

@thattalldude

Re: New Site Design Launched

Shawn K — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:03:37 -0000

I like it, a lot. This is a beautifully designed site, your guys did great.

Twitter @thattalldude

Re: Making Business Sense of Social Media

Shawn K — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:01:14 -0000

It is definitely important. The problem is that small businesses can't afford anyone dedicated to this task. Big business has money to burn, they'll jump right into it, but the business owner in the town of 1,000 people, the guy who can make the most use out of realizing the new trend before anyone else, can't afford it. They're already struggling to make it work in a rural area, and they simply don't have the resources. However, as time moves along, and somebody has a business that is hugely successful because they had a guy on Twitter constantly keeping a community informed about their developments, everyone else will be in a mad scramble to get up to speed. At which point something will replace Twitter.

Re: A Crash Course in Comments

Shawn K — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:37:54 -0000

I'm a BIG sharer. I'm often in a rush to read the mass amount of content I'm subscribed to, but sharing is super easy and takes less than a second.

Re: Inc Magazine- A Video Review

Shawn K — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:33:54 -0000

I've had a subscription to both Inc and Fast Company for the last year, both are phenomenal, inspiring and informational. They are quite simply, the best entrepreneurial content I have found in print. I look forward to each issue.

Re: The really interesting FriendFeed page to watch

Shawn K — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:11:08 -0000

Great post, thanks for the heads up on this. I'm sorry to say I don't utilize friendfeed as much as I should. I mostly just scan it for interesting stuff I didn't see on Twitter. I'm still in the mode of 'sharing' things from my feed readers.

Re: Why did Facebook tell Google “stay off our lawn?”

Shawn K — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:59:10 -0000

Nice post, I've heard rumblings about Media6 for awhile, wasn't sure exactly what it was they did. I'm curious what, if any, response Facebook has to this.

Re: What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year?

Shawn K — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:18:50 -0000

For me, it has to be the still very new offering from Google Labs: Multiple Inboxes. It's absolutely decimated the time I spend in Gmail.

Re: New Facebook Layout

Shawn K — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:46:45 -0000

Since I gained access to the new layout of Facebook, I've never used it more. I'm communicating way more than I did before. I suspect a large part of that is simply being able to find where to comment though. I had so many friends with a dozen different walls, in addition to all their other apps, and I simply didn't want to spend 3 minutes of scrolling to find the wall. Now I go to their profile, and it's right there, it's never been easier!

Re: Some of my Twitter friends look like this

Shawn K — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:56:43 -0000

Oooh! Look! I see me! :)

~Shawn (@thattalldude)

Re: Mean Girls

Shawn K — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:52:02 -0000

So true. I may be a guy, but the same stuff happens. You confide something, and the next thing you know, the whole town knows, though it doesn't help there's only 300 people here, and EVERYBODY knows EVERYBODY. Great post. :D

Twitter @thattalldude

Re: Toyota iQ: The Smallest Four-Passenger Car in the World

Shawn K — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:36:32 -0000

I think if you took out the front seat I'd fit in there well enough to drive short distances.

Re: Portland Drivers On Ice

Shawn K — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:40:02 -0000

Seriously? Are they slow? Obviously, if you're sliding sideways, flooring it is not going to help you. Coming outside and seeing all that ice, seeing the wreckage that's already occurred, and hearing the fire engine getting closer should be a sign that you need to go back inside. Not even chains on the tires would help them.

Re: Thanks To Bush, Obama Able To Accelerate Troop Withdrawal From Iraq

Shawn K — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:23:19 -0000

@crshedd

If "poppy bush" had finished the job back then, we wouldn't have wound up there doing this now.

Re: Fargo Vs. New Orleans

Shawn K — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:20:43 -0000

Fargo/Grand Forks - Bad floods, city/state reinforce and improve the dikes so it doesn't happen again. Disaster happens, Governor gets on the phone with FEMA to get the process started.

New Orleans - poorly cared for levee system 'protecting' a city built below sea level. Disaster happens, FEMA doesn't get a call until much later, federal government gets blamed for not helping.

FEMA can't step in and help out until the state asks for their help. I remember reading reports after Katrina that FEMA actually called the LA governor and got hung up on.

Yes, a hurricane and a flood are 2 completely different disasters, but New Orleans has had THREE years. If you really want to do something, it doesn't take 3 years. Grand Forks hasn't had severe water problems this year because of all the work they did on their dikes since 1997. Fargo had problems this year because the water level in the Red River had never been that high before, but you can bet they'll plan for it now, and the work will be done this summer.

Someone should find some of the Katrina evacuees that wound up in eastern ND and stayed here, ask them what they think of the matter.

~Shawn K (@thattalldude)