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Re: My new job: Project Manager at Condé Nast - Officially Lucky, a blog by Clint Ecker

Scott McNulty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:56:02 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Auto Fail

Scott McNulty — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:05:42 -0000

While clever, it is a little unfair since Ford is actually in the best shape out of the Big 3. Those in the know agree that Ford's plans for the next few years are the most solid out of the bunch, and they might not even need any money from the government (though they are asking for $9 billion just in case... that must be nice).

Anyway, I know facts shouldn't get in the way of a good joke.

Re: I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends

Scott McNulty — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:06:11 -0000

Thanks, Frank! I'm just a jackass trying to make sense of stuff in this wacky world or ours (and sometimes I am sooo close to doing it).

Re: Fork You Season 2 Is On the Air

Scott McNulty — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:52:25 -0000

I second Marisa's gladness that you're enjoying our silly little show. Fork You is supported by Viewers Like you. ;)

Re: And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon

Scott McNulty — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:03:16 -0000

Glad you had a good time, Frank. I was great seeing you!

The secret to my success: heavy drinking before the show.

Re: Scott’s on CNBC

Scott McNulty — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:14:51 -0000

Thanks for uploading it! :)

Re: This Week In Philly - 7/22

Scott McNulty — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:21:02 -0000

I'll be at the Junto. Woo.

Re: Philadelphia Meetups

Scott McNulty — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:17:12 -0000

The Philly Bloggers' Meetup is very laid back. Just an excuse to get together with some bloggers and eat a little, and drink a little. We hardly even talk about blogs (but some blog talk does sneak in).

The Wordpress group tends to be a little more on point because Owen is just better at damn near everything than I am. :)

Re: Live from Viddler HQ, again

Scott McNulty — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:56:32 -0000

Hey, did anyone on the Viddler team go to Lehigh? I'm class of '99. :)

Re: Live from Viddler HQ, again

Scott McNulty — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:27:47 -0000

I have not worked with either of those fellows. I'm something of a cyber hermit.

Very cool about Viddler starting at Lehigh. Go Engineers (or Mountain Hawks, if you must)!

Re: My blogroll is up to date

Scott McNulty — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:40:07 -0000

How sad, Blankbaby is no longer on your blogroll. :(

Re: Scott McNulty wants a press pass to MacWorld

Scott McNulty — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:38:23 -0000

That's true John, though I am interested in how they pick the sites that do get press creds. TUAW meets all the requirements that Macworld outlines, and we also get much more traffic than say... Macsimum News does and yet Macsimum News got a press pass.

It most likely has to do with the fact that we have 'blog' in our name. Ahh, well what can ya do? Well, other than write a snark filled post about it (I'm a blogger after all!).

Re: Scott McNulty wants a press pass to MacWorld

Scott McNulty — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:49:58 -0000

I might point out that no where in my post did I say Dave shouldn't get a pass. In fact I said, 'hurrah for bloggers, right,' thereby equating Dave and myself since we're both bloggers. It seems to me that if Macworld wanted to issue pass badges to bloggers they would want to give one to a site that is focused entirely on Mac news, gets tons of traffic, and meets all of their requirements for 'Online Media.'

So we're not getting a pass even though we get more than 1.5 million pageviews a month (of course, traffic has little to do with it, because why would IDG want a website there that gets lots of hits?) and have a paid staff that posts original content (along with pointers to other folks). It is IDG's party and they can invite whom they want and so of course folks like Winer and Sellers will get passes. I'm just saying that I think I should too, but when you boil it all down they can do what they want. I'll be at Macworld either way 'just blogging' it and it will be loads of fun. I might even get to go into the press room after all the big media types leave after the keynote.

And the only snarky thing about my post was the word 'hell' in the title, at least to me.

Re: Scott McNulty wants a press pass to MacWorld

Scott McNulty — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:34:53 -0000

Yes, I'm not Pogue, Winer, the Pope, or anyone other than me which means I don't get special treatment, which is cool. However, I still don't think I should meekly accept the fact that TUAW, a site that meets all the requirements, didn't get a pass. I contacted IDG before I posted and they didn't get back to me so I posted something since that's what us snarky bloggers do. :)

Anyway, it doesn't really matter does it? I'll be going to Macworld, and I may get a press pass yet (since I am doing more to get one than just posting a silly old post about it).

Oh, and TUAW isn't 'my blog,' but rather a blog that employs me. If you want to check out my blog click on my name here. :) I didn't request a press pass for Blankbaby... but maybe I should.

Re: Blog networks changing history?

Scott McNulty — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:24:02 -0000

Since I am the lead blogger on TUAW, I thought I would chime in. No one WIN has EVER told me to link network blogs before outside blogs. We post like crazy about Apple stuff and every once and awhile we link to Engadget or Hack A Day, but it isn't like we are a link farm for other WIN blogs.

With that said, I am in talks with the blogger who posted the bit about the iTablet to see what's what.

Re: On plane today: testing offline blog editors

Scott McNulty — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:52:23 -0000

MarsEdit for the Mac, without a doubt:

http://ranchero.com/marsedit/

Almost every post at Blankbaby was written using it (though I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing).

Re: The geek blog I hate to love

Scott McNulty — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:45:38 -0000

Perhaps it is time to re-subscribe to Blankbaby? ;)

Re: Anil has a post every blogger should read

Scott McNulty — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:38:21 -0000

I read Anil's post the other day and meant to talk about it. Blogging has always been about making connections to me, whether it be with friends or with my mom (who reads my blog everyday). Even though I know that everyone I work with, hang out with, or am related to reads my blog I just write what I feel. I let it flow, because when it comes right down to it I am writing for an audience of one: me.

Re: Anonymous Apple blogger starts up

Scott McNulty — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:55:03 -0000

Did you just call Scoble a pig? That's not very nice. :)

Ahh, I love adding to the conversation.

Re: Watching the game with Dave and my link blog is back

Scott McNulty — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:06:56 -0000

Could this mean that you will, once again, become a reader of Blankbaby? :)

Re: Apple’s PR is "blame it on Microsoft"

Scott McNulty — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:57:58 -0000

You're right about Apple's response being ill phrased, but the Apple problem child is the MacBook, not the MacBook Pro. So far I haven't heard anyone having big problems with their MBPs (i.e. 10% of them don't randomly shutdown).

Re: Blog cause you want to (and include sex in your headlines)

Scott McNulty — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:17:50 -0000

This may be silly... but have you considered just blogging for yourself? It doesn't even cross my mind that other people are reading my personal blog, that's just for me (though others do read it. I don't know what they think about it).

Of course my work on TUAW is entirely for others to read, good thing it is about a subject I am passionate about.

Re: Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista

Scott McNulty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:20:54 -0000

As a Windows sysadmin and a fairly well known Mac blogger, this seems a little silly to me. Other OSes have their strengths and their weaknesses (and which version of Windows would the Windows folks be demoing? Vista? XP? Media Center? 2003? @003 64 bit?

Re: Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista

Scott McNulty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:21:53 -0000

Doh, you answered my version of Windows question in the first line of the post. If only I knew how to read. Though, which version of Vista? Enterprise, Business, Ultimate?

Re: Never piss off a 12-year-old

Scott McNulty — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:28:37 -0000

It does seem like you are asking for special treatment here. This is Apple's standard why of handling issues like this. They did it for my MacBook (though it only took one day to fix that). I also have a MacBook Pro that has never had an issue, as well as 2 iMacs, a Cube, a Titanium PowerBook and an Aluminum Powerbook all that were problem free.

Whenever an expensive piece of equipment malfunctions you always feel like the company that is responsible is doing a bad job.. that's just human nature. Is it worthy of being covered by the Wall Stree Journal? Not so much.

Re: Never piss off a 12-year-old

Scott McNulty — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:37:27 -0000

Businesses probably spring for Pro Care:

http://www.apple.com/retail/procare/

Though I wasn't talking about you getting a replacement on the spot (a lot of that is left to the discretion of the Genius) but rather to the idea that an Apple rep would call/email you personally. That may happen since you're a well known blogger, but most folks don't get that kind of treatment.

Re: Bad PR for Dell but not for Apple?

Scott McNulty — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:56:28 -0000

I would point that you could have returned the MacBook Pro:

http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salesp...

Apple charges a fairly standard 10% restocking fee which is actually cheaper than Best Buy's 15% fee:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?type=p...

Of course I think restocking fees are lame, they are an industry standard.

Re: The 40 things I link to the most

Scott McNulty — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:09:01 -0000

Great to see TUAW near the top there. :)

Re: What should I put on my Apple TV?

Scott McNulty — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:23:50 -0000

If you like food (and who doesn't?) I would suggest you check out:

http://www.forkyou.tv

The fact that I am a co-host/co-creator has nothing to do with this suggestion. ;)

I don't have an Apple TV yet... I would be curious to know what it looks like displayed on your giant TV.

Re: What the hell is up with our kids today?

Scott McNulty — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:30:15 -0000

He sure is a motivated kid, though a lot of his podcast seems to be reading TUAW stories... which my bloggers wrote. Not sure how I feel about that.