DISQUS

Hope your first rule is kicking along .. would be a hard one to live, but i imagine well worth it.

Kick that Andrew right in the goolies for me :).

Colin,

Must have taken some work to put this post together. Kudos for all the hard work. It's a good read, inspires me to do better.

Hope the new design will be glorious and full of awesome.

Oh sweet broken candy teeth! What a marvellous looking piece of art .. food .. mmmm .. { goes off in search of food }

no fool.

What you say above is so very true. But in my mind, I'm constantly linking back to the face that you _know_ through experience, not just head knowledge.

Businesses make money. I've been given the best of advice by a dev guru, saying the same thing. Don't spend your energy on the vacuous when the substance is what makes money.

That being said, some people don't seem to care about money. And a portion of those don't have to, because it just comes to them. It's these that spur on the rest. I _could_ possibly become a rockstar, so I'm gonna blog like a frenzy of pirhanas on flesh.

Tortoise and the Hare.

The Hare is cool for some people. He's fast and sexy and always getting attention.

The Tortoise is slow and steady. Rock-solid, but perceived as boring.

I'd like to think there's nothing stopping the Tortoise merging with the Hare in a freaky glorious mashup.

For many years I've not pushed my Identity, partly because I wasn't aware of _how_ to do it, but mostly because I wasn't up to snuff. Now I am. I've never had a Rockstar life, never run off the rails. The Business projects (no startups in the web sense) I've invested time and effort into are not making me rich and wealthy right now. But I push on, dreaming of the Hare and walking like the Tortoise.

Phew. Apologies for the crazy long comment. I think I'll turn it into a post :).

I'm in. I like hype, being a monkey myself, and you are the master of hype Gary :).

Kudos Chris .. nice stuff.

1. Having a picture just makes sense. We are hardwired (most of us) so that our eyes veer straight toward it.

2. Love the final question. Does it work? It's such a simple but so important question for the nature of this post, and of blogging really in general.

I'm glad to hear your community is increasing organically. Hey! I guess that makes me part of that :).

Wow, that picture is kind of eerie. Scary almost.

Very cool!

I'm glad you are making the right choices Micah .. Kudos! Here's to another 730 days of the discipline of such direction :).

Although a newb to the video arena, I'll be sticking with Viddler for the moment. If the message is good enough, it'll get around.

Robert,

I've an idea about the idea of a single web Presence. I read anything like it yet. This could be because it's so stupid that everyone but me realises. It could be I just haven't been reading the right places.

Anyway, it's a combination of Desktop and Web working together.

Practical Community Identity.

I know your FriendFeed and Twitter conversations are bearing more fruit, so I'll hit you up there as well.

Paul,

Thanks for the post. New reader, just fed your blog.

Your use of _humility_ rang a cord with me. Thanks for putting into cohesive understanding what is mostly fragmented in the wider community.

Colin: Thanks for the heads up, much appreciated.

Colin,

Thanks for the update on WP 2.5 upgrade. I like the two reminders, backup and unplug :).

Did you have any other trouble (since coming from 2.2) with the Category/Tag changes? I didn't realise it was as easy as importing. An old blog i recently brought across had a bunch of tags that I just left behind because of Tag Warrior not being available. Should have looked deeper.

A search for "friendfeed" on this place revealed everything :).

Robert, can you give us a quick post about what you believe to be the reasons we should invest our time into Friend Feed?

I'll check through the archives, might have missed it if you've already done one.

Cheers

Patrick,

That's freaking awesome! Congratulations on kicking through to the next level.

Gary,

Inspirational. Thankyou for showing me another medium for getting across the/a message!

Colin,

You could get tricky and only Twitter certain categories, or certain tags .. Could write a little "update Twitter" checkbox in the Wordpress Post page (i guess that'd have to be a plugin).

Or you could not, heh heh.

@Patrick: (this @ thing is new for me, but I see everyone doing it, so it must be right, right? :))

I do understand. I've been on it for only a couple of days, and the conversation paradigm is a real shift, but a great one.

Cheers

Not sure why my comment is indented .. did I press the wrong secret handshake code?

Colin,

Nice site, I really like the contextual photo in the "About Me" in the sidebar. Kudos.

All the best with Viddler, hope your dreams for it come to pass with speed and minimal train-wrecks :).

Micah,

Cool post, I like that you gave some good examples of how Twitter is being successfully used in the community. I've added new folk because of you :).

Patrick,

Glad to hear you are having immediate success with Twitter. I'm one (ish) day in, and can see both awesome potential (expanding web presence) and big pitfalls (more time sinking than Diablo 2, heh heh).

Kudos

Micah,

Ha ha .. Awesome Post, Awesome Site.

Love the writing, fantastic. As a member of the exclusive tech/dev club "We live in Australia so a Startup is what you do with the Dirtbike in the backyard" it's great to get to join in on conversations like this ..

So kudos for the post, and for this site. Fed and Read.

Robert,

Ditto for the "55 minutes inside Microsoft Research’s new “#99″ building" post (thought i'd just comment here again instead of there as well).