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Re: Where were you?

COD — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:40:23 -0000

I was working from home that morning. I was at the kitchen table with my laptop with the TV on watching the coverage. I eventually went in to the office and we could see smoke from the Pentagon from the office. Right after I got there corporate called and said they were closing all offices for the day and sent everybody home.

Re: The Social Impacts of Facebook going public

COD — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:06:54 -0000

Or, you can opt out on Facebook, thereby keeping your LinkedIn profile primary in the search engines. In my case, I'll always be second fiddle to the actor in Google. Right now, my blog is #9 for my name. 18 of the top 20 in Google are links related to the actor.

You probably don't have that problem ;)

It's not like the Facebook public profile provides any useful info. If they are searching for you, they already know your name, and probably know what you look like. The LinkIn public profile can provide a lot more info about you if you so choose. I imagine Facebook will eventually have a way to customize the public profile view.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Middle Class

COD — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:07:33 -0000

The reality is middle class people working in SF don't live anywhere near there. They live in Sacramento, or whatever the equivalent is to the south of the city, and endure 90 minute commutes each way. It's the same in DC. I live 50 miles south of the city, and most of my neighbors commute 90+ minutes each way daily into the Pentagon or DC.

Re: Salesforce Professional: Not so "full-powered"

COD — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:08:54 -0000

//it only works with the set of APIs that Salesforce makes available to its Enterprise and above versions//

So that's why Griffin won't work for me. We are on the Professional edition of SFC. Just another reason to hate salesforce.com. Oh well...

Re: Are schools necessary?

COD — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:48:45 -0000

I hate to sound like a fanboy on my first visit here...but I agree on all 10. Neither of my kids have ever seen the inside of a classroom, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what they are missing.

Re: A Mother’s Day to remember

COD — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:10:08 -0000

I think if the Orioles let the kid go for the complete game we lose 5-0. I'd say they'll be asking questions in Baltimore...but that would actually require somebody there to care about baseball :)

Re: 10 things we learned from Pats-Steelers

COD — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:13:42 -0000

Wasn't it 5 straight completions to Welker on that drive that started at the 1?

Re: ESPN.com report: Teixeira signs with Yankees

COD — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:51:16 -0000

Not upset at all. The Yankees now have the 4 highest paid players in baseball, and I'm guessing the highest payroll in the history of professional sports. The NY press will go bonkers the first time they hit a 3 game losing skid. That much ego on one team is doomed to self-implode. I'm looking forward to watching it.

Re: ESPN.com report: Teixeira signs with Yankees

COD — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:05:54 -0000

The press and NY fans will care a lot. The expectations will be unbearable, basically anything less than 1110 wins and a 4 game sweep in the World Series will be a failure. You think playing for Atlanta and Texas prepared Tex for that kind of pressure?

Re: One possible benefit from disabling comments

COD — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:33:47 -0000

I'm not so sure I agree with your thesis on the benefit of no comments. Guys like Zeldman and Kottke were popular and well read before blogs were really even in existence. I can remember being on a mailing list with Zeldman back in 1998 or so. Some blogs may outgrow comments in that they get so popular that managing the comments becomes a full time job by itself. However, very few of us will ever consistently write stuff that will motivate a lot of people to link back to it. People that are that good probably would have been well read regardless. I think the vast majority of us need comments.

I consider the comments at my site, and at a few other places where I comment frequently, and little self contained social networks. It's the best part of the web for me.

Re: I’ve deleted my MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts

COD — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:51:24 -0000

I've been considering doing the same thing. My web site has been online since flashing text was considered cool. If people want to find me, it's not difficult. I may hang on to MySpace only because a couple of friends in bands use it as their primary blogging platform so I need access to keep up with them. Facebook is definately in danger of going bye-bye. LinkedIn is useful for me. I get fairly regular job inquiries via my profile there. I'm not job hunting right now, but you know, I could be again some day.

Re: MD – Big math dork

COD — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:36:15 -0000

It could also stand for Major Dork

Re: NASCAR vs the Space Program

COD — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:05:53 -0000

Painting beer company and auto part logos on the Space Shuttles might be a decent start :)

Re: What’s normal to you is probably not normal to me

COD — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:48:38 -0000

//Couple that with the fact that the threat from Canada is pretty minimal//

That's exactly what they want you to think ;)

Re: American Knowledge Workers are in Trouble

COD — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:54:39 -0000

Thinking out loud here...maybe he has already done something very similar and is repurposing the data for you? Not that there is anything wrong with that, but he may only be spending a couple of hours to tweak something that already exists. Even at that though, $100 is a bargain if the data is good.

Re: Some thoughts on Dollhouse

COD — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:00:21 -0000

I'm in the same quandary. The writing on Dollhouse has not been up to typical Joss Wheadon standards so far. Then again, the first year of Buffy was fairly cheesy - it took a while for him to get that show dialed in. Maybe the same will be true of Dollhouse.

There is always 24, which is so unrealistic that it might as well be Sci-Fi.

For now, I'm catching up on Dr Who via DVD as I never watched consistently enough to follow the story until this year.

Re: Netflix To Offer ‘Streaming Only” Plans

COD — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:37:16 -0000

I'll care when I can stream movies from Netflix.com on my Linux box.

Re: Web Communication Experiment: Blog vs. Facebook vs. Twitter

COD — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:54:11 -0000

In an odd coincidence, I did a somewhat similar post yesterday at http://www.odonnellweb.com/?p=3579

I find the "I'm too popular" whining of people like Scoble and Calacanis amusing. After all, it was their obsessive embrace of these technologies that led to their visibility in the first place. Nobody pushed it on them, They asked for it. Of course, they don't just quietly stop using a platform. They make a big scene of quitting, thereby perpetuating the cycle of attention that they claim to be trying to avoid. If they really wanted less attention they could simply shut up for 90 days! I think what they want is more control, a way to enjoy the benefits of notoriety without the downside. I can't say I blame them, but the "I'm too popular" game doesn't help in that objective.

I don't read either one regularly, so I'm doing my part to help by trying to ignore them ;)

Re: Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc.

COD — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:37:28 -0000

I was just thinking about an hour ago how annoying it was that I was essentially getting RSS notifications of new blog posts (note just you!) in Twitter. I'd like to see people use Twitter for stuff that is either too timely for the blog, or maybe of interest only to the follower community and not the blog readership. Although I would imagine those communities overlap quite a bit.

Re: Does Kevin Rose have the Next Big Thing in Social Networking?

COD — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:53:35 -0000

So it's a combination of IM and email to enable sharing stuff with a defined group of people in near real time. It's almost a listserv for real time messaging. Sort of neat - but I'm having a hard time seeing it as revolutionary.

Re: Does Kevin Rose have the Next Big Thing in Social Networking?

COD — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:45:15 -0000

OK, but as a logged in and known user, doesn't that immediately damped the file sharing utility? Of course, there are plenty of legal reasons to share a file, but if Pownce is going to take off as a file sharing platform, it'll be because of non-RIAA approved sharing. Now if the RIAA somehow woke up and got a clue...but that simply isn't going happen anytime soon.

Also, there are already plenty of ways to share files with those you know and trust. The magic of file sharing ands recommendation services is tapping into the expertise and knowledge of those you don't know.

I might be wrong, (it certainly won't be the first time) but I'm not seeing it yet for Pownce.

Re: The Web’s Link-Driven Attention Economy

COD — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:54:03 -0000

It seems like the big cry baby act over a fair use of her photo in a video is getting her far more attention than a link buried in a list of credits for the video ever would have.

Re: The Scourge Of Blog Comment Spam

COD — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:27:30 -0000

The Word Verify plug-in for Wordpress is your friend. It adds a text captcha to your comments form. I don't even have Askismet turned on. The text captcha stops the spam without the annoying squiggly lined impossible for any human (let alone bot) to read image captchas that some blogs use. Ans since it is just a text form the browser can remember it so your regular commenters don't even notice except for the first time.

Re: Making Time for Date Night

COD — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:39:05 -0000

I'm still waiting to meet that first married couple that actually has a consistent date night in their schedule. It's great advice, I just don't know anybody online or offline that actually manages to pull it off that way. With two teenagers, it's easier for us these days as we don't need to plan ahead for childcare. But we've never managed to get it on any sort of schedule, and it often ends up being a combination date / errands trip. Dinner out, and stop at Target on the way home.

Re: (Snow) Globe Trotter

COD — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:56:34 -0000

Have you had any problem with security? It seems like the liquid in the snow globe would be an issue for some of the more obstinate TSA agents.