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Re: Borat and Paris Hilton have something in common AND it makes them web 2.0 celebrity monsters!

engtech — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:25:15 -0000

So what do Paris Hilton and Borat have in common?

They like making love explosions, yeees?

Re: Digg is being gamed – big woop

engtech — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:08:28 -0000

My take:

digg - full of morons, unfortunately that's the social site to use for tech related posts
reddit - better group of tech people, a highly ranked post will stay on the front page longer
netscape - seems to be normal adult people
delicious - great for howtos, software, etc. not so good for news.
stumbleupon - bored cubicle dwellars looking for a 20 second flick

Getting popular on any of those sites will generate a one time spike that might last around a week, week and a half. Stumbleupon could last longer, but again is focused more on instant gratification.

I think what trumps all is getting mentioned on a top web site with the same audience. If you get that then the other sites will follow.

Re: Google acquires Feedburner for $100 Million

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:12:33 -0000

Actually, I said goodbye to Technorati. :)

Still love feedburner, and I welcome my google overlords.

Re: My Love Hate Relationship With Technorati

engtech — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:37:33 -0000

Technorati's latest bug for about a month has been indexing my blog comments instead of my blog.

Instead of having my blog posts show up nicely, it's showing my comment feed.

http://technorati.com/blogs/internetducttape.com

Technorati is fundamentally broken in they scrape your blog homepage for posts instead of using an RSS feed. So depending on what template you use you can really screw them up.

Re: Technorati Link Exchange

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:39:10 -0000

I'm in.

http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://eng...

Re: Technorati Link Exchange

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:30:21 -0000

I thought I'd make everyone's life a little bit easier:

Here is a program that will automatically favorite back everyone who has favorited you

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/technor...

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

engtech — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:22:31 -0000

awesome awesome awesome

Re: my head hurts - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:11:26 -0000

He's not missing much.

The B&W games are kind fun, but horribly, horribly written. They'll put your system into tailspins even when you're massively over the specifications.

Re: sync, sync, sync - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:22:41 -0000

You can add contacts to your address book even if they don't have email addresses.

I'm storing ALL of my addresses in one place this way. Even if it's only a phone number, only an email address, only a *gasp* street address.. or a mix of the three.

Re: from WordPress.com to WordPress.org - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:56:24 -0000

Found ya.

How's the weather over on the non-WP side of things?

You switched just to get access to Barthelme, didn't you?

Re: Google Reader gets revamp - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:59:40 -0000

That's pretty funny.

Re: blog editors - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:38:55 -0000

Hit Shift-Enter on the lines where that starts happening.

Re: browser upgrades - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:02:56 -0000

I can't believe the debian guys are forking Firefox because of the friggin' logo.

Re: my new job - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:48:01 -0000

Congratz on the new job! We'd love to have to back at the old job. :)

Re: cementing my place in blog history - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:50:02 -0000

Want to hear my dirty little secret?

My blog shows on techmeme if I comment on a story. So sometimes I post a really inane comment on a story just to show up on techmeme.

Examples:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/paul-gr...
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/iceweas...

Re: flowery twats - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:12:37 -0000

Post the address / telephone number so that this will show up in google searches.

The power of the internet makes complaining actually hurt businesses.

Re: How to get dugg, increase readership and earn lots of money - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:15:01 -0000

I didn't really explain why the title is important, but one reason is search. Your title is transformed into your post slug, and having the keywords you're looking for show up in the title/url is the easiest way for search engines to find stuff.

Re: power dressing in reverse - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:54:06 -0000

Surprising.

I don't usually wear the dress until after the Christmas party is in full swing.

Re: thin line between truth and humour - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:58:53 -0000

:)

(a single comment with :) breaks 1, but covers 2 and 3)

((the aside to explain the comment clearly breaks 2 and 3 though))

Re: fun with disaster recovery - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:01:04 -0000

This is why I stick with wordpress.com :)

Re: partial versus full fe… - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:21:15 -0000

hey, I found a search term you're #4 on google for

"partial feeds" vs "full feeds" statistics

Re: questions and answers - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:25:48 -0000

re: #1

I wish the rest of the world adhered to this as much as I do.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/there-i...

Re: Web 2.0 - am I infected ? - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:13:28 -0000

Outlook work / Gmail everywhere else.

XEmacs.

Gave up on newsgroups.

Blank homepage.

Furefix 2.0.0.1.

WinXP -- although you've just convinced me to use Vista.

Emacs / Wiki / Word / Wordpress hybrid.

Employment: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/how-to-...

Re: am I a Google whore yet ? - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:38:49 -0000

I started playing around with new blogger on the weekend (http://techilicious.blogspot.com) and I'm struck by one thing -- lack of XMLRPC support.

Sure, you can post by email but that means running everything through an RSS to email gateway of some such. Kind of frustrating.

Re: how to display Google shared items on WordPress - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:12:06 -0000

And this is why I use del.icio.us instead of Google Reader Shared Items for sharing stuff like that. :)

http://del.icio.us/engtech/linkblog

Re: don't believe the truth - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:09:24 -0000

Never trust anyone.

I've gotten burned so many times from trusting that what people I work with were telling me was a fact, rather than their assumption.

Re: Vista installation complete - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:39:06 -0000

How's VPN? I've heard they've cut out some VP support that was present in XP and that's causing issues with firewalls.

Re: Vista installation complete - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:34:50 -0000

heh, I totally missed that it was for your son. :)

Re: goodbye last.fm - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:18:24 -0000

I've had a lot of trouble with it lately as well.

back to itunes.

I think by using the rating systems and playlists you can get last.fm like functionality in itunes.

Re: migration of photo blog - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:24:59 -0000

You can resurrect it, you just have to create a Yahoo Id.

That's what I did.

Re: my worst nightmare - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:02:36 -0000

I think you'll enjoy this.

http://ninjapants.org/files/index.php?image=air...

Re: Facebook versus LinkedIn - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:48:02 -0000

I'm kind of doing a Facebook week for the next bit. It is highly overrated. It can be good when you have a lot of real friends on it... event planning, group private messages and photo sharing are all very well done.

Re: helping people write things down - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:56:29 -0000

Moleskin notebooks are handy and pocketsized.

I have the handwriting problem as well.

Re: people are strange - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:55:53 -0000

always put your money on "complete idiot"

you'll never go broke

Re: FAC51 - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:19:53 -0000

I'm guess you've watched 24 Hour Party People?

Re: comparison of coComment, co.comments and commentful - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:09:05 -0000

I'll have to give co.mments a try. When I wanted to do this before, the frigging extension was so slow I never used it.

Which I should have, because it's by my internet-friend Assaf: http://blog.labnotes.org/

I love how all the services have the same name.

Re: 8 things - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:28:18 -0000

re: one stone

I think I've got it.

want it back?

Re: Is Technorati’s return to its roots enough to save it?

engtech — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:39:33 -0000

Yeah, I'll give them a thumbs up once they stop indexing my blog comments instead of blog posts: http://technorati.com/blogs/http%3A%2F%2Fintern...

Re: Introducing - Mr. Gorgeous

engtech — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:13:57 -0000

This is something I can support.

Re: Tech Geeks don’t get the real world users

engtech — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:32:14 -0000

I think Jeff hits it on the head with this post from 2004: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00011...

fundamentally everything we have to go through with antivirus software and firewalls is a workaround for the only security system that has ever worked -- user access security and not running as administrator in normal usage.

The concept of having one account for installing stuff, and another account for running stuff is probably the simplest user habit to adopt -- so long as running as non-administrator isn't completely unusable.

Re: Goofing off without any guilt

engtech — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:50:46 -0000

RSS feeds: I usually have about 100+ unread
Games: usually have an xbox/nintendo ds/pc game on the go
Books: usually have 1-2 library books sitting around the house
Movies/TVs: my fiancé is a big time movie buff, so this is always an option

Re: Could Web 2.0 be the death of web porn?

engtech — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:10:26 -0000

I don't think that adult sites will have any problem surviving.

I don't think the internet would have reached the massive popularity it now has if it wasn't for the allure of 'free porn'.

That's the one industry that's really cutting edge when it comes to finding new ways to use and abuse technology.

Selling sex is the oldest industry and it still hasn't gone anywhere even though the same product can be had for free elsewhere.

Re: Is it really about the conversation?

engtech — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:05:32 -0000

Try using http://www.googlealert.com as the source instead of Technorati. It'll work better because it's looking for the words anywhere on the page -- not some specific kind of tagging format.

I wish the "real" Google Alerts supported RSS.

Re: Could FriendFeed give Twitter a run for the money?

engtech — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:38:21 -0000

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

what's interesting is that friendfeed outputs RSS

I just set up a test blog to see what happens if I try to go from friendfeed to tumblr (and maybe overcome the 5 feed limit tumblr added)

Re: Is the Long Tail really all it is cracked up to be?

engtech — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:33:12 -0000

While I completely agree that most long tail markets will not have enough traffic to justify their existence, the guy is smoking something if he thinks storage/bandwidth will be a problem.

Storage is cheap, cheap, cheap and only gets cheaper. Bandwidth not as much, but now traffic no bandwidth.

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:26:00 -0000

Wow, for a blog post about commenting I had a really hard time finding out how to comment. There was two screen worths between the post and the comments, and there is another screen worth AFTER where the comment box should be. It made if very hard to see the sections where it says you have to read the comment policy to enable the form.

Just a though, do a "fake" comment form that is read only input where the real form should be that clearly indicates the comment policy info -- that will make it jump out.

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on to my comment!

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One thing I'd *really* like Akismet to start doing is be "less binary". I'd like to more easily ignore the stuff that is guaranteed spam and focus on reviewing the stuff that may or may not be spam.

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:26:00 -0000

Re: Technorati Favorites

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:31:28 -0000

Matt Mullenwag had a good comment on being in the Technorati top 100: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/wordpre...

He said that being in the Technorati Top 10 only drove around 200 hits a day.

I've been in the #1 position on Technorati search for the top search term before and seen only 40 hits/day.

Technorati doesn't matter.

Re: Technorati Favorites

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:31:28 -0000

Re: Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:34:00 -0000

You left out the social network they already own -- Orkut.

:)

https://www.orkut.com/

Re: Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:34:00 -0000

You left out the social network they already own -- Orkut.

:)

https://www.orkut.com/

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:41:17 -0000

meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"

Some people write private blogs, or friends only blogs and don't want stuff showing up in search. The old blogger didn't have any mechanism for making a blog private other than deleting it, so blocking the spiders was the best you could hope for.

One thing I've noticed is that DOFOLLOWed comments contribute to Technorati ranking... If the DOFOLLOW trend takes off then it will be the next "2000 bloggers".

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:41:17 -0000

Re: Technorati Favorites

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:48:54 -0000

True, looking at it from the long term point of view. Anyone who ends up reading your blog from Technorati or MyBlogLog is a blogger, which means they're more likely to subscribe and they're more likely to link/interact/engage.

I hadn't thought of it that way.

Re: Technorati Favorites

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:48:54 -0000

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:50:10 -0000

I wonder if the guys with NOFOLLOW/NOINDEX who *want* traffic cut-and-pasted a Blogger theme without looking inside?

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:50:10 -0000

I wonder if the guys with NOFOLLOW/NOINDEX who *want* traffic cut-and-pasted a Blogger theme without looking inside?

Re: Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:51:08 -0000

Orkut is definitely more "Friendster-era" social network (social media 1.0?) then what we're used to now.

Re: Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:51:08 -0000

Orkut is definitely more "Friendster-era" social network (social media 1.0?) then what we're used to now.

Re: MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:13:57 -0000

There's a little hack you can use to improve performance. By temporarily changing your blog name to wordpress.com you can get a no-javascript / image-only version of MyBlogLog.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/myblogl...

Re: MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:13:57 -0000

Re: Best Wordpress Plugins – Nominations and Results

engtech — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:58:48 -0000

Awesome idea, Andy.

Re: Best Wordpress Plugins – Nominations and Results

engtech — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:58:48 -0000

Awesome idea, Andy.

Re: Reciprocal Favoriting Gives Benefits & Adds Value

engtech — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:24:13 -0000

Importing OPML - I want to pre-assign tags when I import, thus I could for instance grab a list of 400+ SEO blogs, and import it under an SEO tag immediately. Duplicate entries would just get a new tag

Weird, maybe it's your source? When I imported my OPML file from Google Reader to Technorati all of the tags were imported properly.

Re: Reciprocal Favoriting Gives Benefits & Adds Value

engtech — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:24:13 -0000

Importing OPML - I want to pre-assign tags when I import, thus I could for instance grab a list of 400+ SEO blogs, and import it under an SEO tag immediately. Duplicate entries would just get a new tag

Weird, maybe it's your source? When I imported my OPML file from Google Reader to Technorati all of the tags were imported properly.

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

engtech — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:43:04 -0000

Ah, popstumbler is so easily replaced by keyboard short-cuts though (I agree with your assessment that keyboard short-cuts scare the crap out of Average Joe).

Ctrl-` to stumble
Home top of page
End bottom of page
Ctrl-W close tab
etc

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

engtech — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:43:04 -0000

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

engtech — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:29:34 -0000

If you're stuck with Akismet as your only solution, turning off comments on older posts really seems to be working at cutting out 90% of spam.

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

engtech — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:29:34 -0000

If you're stuck with Akismet as your only solution, turning off comments on older posts really seems to be working at cutting out 90% of spam.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

engtech — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:49:42 -0000

Trust me when I say that it doesn't make one lick of difference.

The referral traffic from having all of those links out there trumps the Technorati search traffic on any day of the week.

As long as they still list your authority via their API (which it looks like they do for PhotoMatt) then it shouldn't hurt any of the paid review scorecards either.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

engtech — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:49:42 -0000

Re: Akismet – Auntie Spam

engtech — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:33:07 -0000

Hi Drew,

Auntie Spam isn't a spam removal tool. It's a helper for Akismet that makes spam maintenance a little bit easier.

Re: Akismet – Auntie Spam

engtech — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:33:07 -0000

Hi Drew,

Auntie Spam isn't a spam removal tool. It's a helper for Akismet that makes spam maintenance a little bit easier.

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

engtech — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:19:41 -0000

I wonder if Akismet takes the amount of time on the page into consideration like how Spam Karma does?

That might be the source of my problems... I'm a very fast commenter :)

I wrote a piece for Lorelle On WordPress where I talked about two things you can do if Akismet is always marking your own comments as spam.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/help-ak...

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

engtech — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:19:41 -0000

Re: Answers.com Answerlinks Plugin – How Much Are Those Links Worth?

engtech — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:22 -0000

I wouldn't be surprised if there were money deals behind some of the WordPress.com sidebar widgets as well.

Re: Answers.com Answerlinks Plugin – How Much Are Those Links Worth?

engtech — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:22 -0000

I wouldn't be surprised if there were money deals behind some of the WordPress.com sidebar widgets as well.

Re: Why Have Blogs At All? – The Race To Kill Blogging

engtech — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:43:41 -0000

One thing I like about Disqus: for some blogs it's very convenient to be able to access them as if they were a discussion forum.

But you're dead on with the javascript issue. I saw the exact same thing happen with Haloscan + Blogspot. You really want to have your comments as part of the blog and getting them out of external sites is a pain in the ass.

Re: Why Have Blogs At All? – The Race To Kill Blogging

engtech — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:43:41 -0000

Re: Who killed Dead 2.0? It’s a mystery

engtech — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:14 -0000

I'd say it's bandwidth.

Enough sites picked up the story and threw links at him that he could have had a traffic spike.

Re: News flash: Andrew Keen still a moron

engtech — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:38:32 -0000

Thanks for pointing Andrew Keen out. Makes for a fun read. :)

Re: Is Robert Scoble stealing or marketing?

engtech — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:49:20 -0000

"(mine is here)" -- missing link

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I was very tempted to go on a nastyrant when I read this one at Scobles blog. If you are putting out an RSS feed with no ads, and someone shares it, then IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHO THE SOURCE WAS. The only way this could be an issue is:

- if they're taking a feed with embedded ads and removing the ads then sharing
- adding ads to a feed

Neither is the case. (I've yet to see Google embedding adwords in Google Reader shared feeds)

The only reason I can see for Andy Beard's initial post is either
a) it's an attempt to link-bait/generate contraversy for Feed Magic (Read this an tell me that doesn't seem the most likely case: http://andybeard.eu/Recommends/Feed_Magic.html)
b) He's pissed he spend money on FeedMagic that is inherently flawed.

With FeedMagic every subscriber gets a unique RSS feed -- but that's just an RSS feed with a unique address. All someone has to do is mark that feed as public in their Bloglines/Google Reader and it is accessible. This is what the hoopla about Bloglines exposing Gmail accounts was about -- people were using Bloglines for their Gmail as RSS but not realizing that they had it publically shared so anyone could read it.

The real issue in this story is that whoever is selling FeedMagic (that Andy Beard recommends) is misdirecting their potential customers to the public nature of RSS feeds.

"Now you can charge your subscribers for your RSS feeds on a recurring basis!" -- FeedMagic promo on Andy Beard's site

Funny, I didn't think the protocol allowed for that.

Re: Is Robert Scoble stealing or marketing?

engtech — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:19:45 -0000

Andy and I are discussing this via email at the moment, but one of the things I was looking at is this post on RSS Authentication and a paid subscriber only feed (Daring Fireball)

[post is here]

It looks like if RSS Authentication is used then that blocks out Bloglines/Google Reader which ensures that the content isn\'t shared... so there\'s no issue here so long as a proper copyright protection mechanism is used?

Re: Is Robert Scoble stealing or marketing?

engtech — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:53:44 -0000

Matt - you might want to edit that last comment to show that it's from Andy

I'm impressed with the dialog Andy is generating on this subject.

I feel like a real idiot for my first comment. :)

Andy, I think contacting the Daring Fireball guys for their POV might be another good source for your argument. They've been effectively selling RSS subscription for a while.

http://daringfireball.net/

Re: Me on a “future of media” panel

engtech — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:24:23 -0000

Mark Evans link is missing a "c" (.om instead of .com)

Re: … and advertise with me, Mark Cuban

engtech — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:37:16 -0000

I wonder what Mark thinks of the XBox Live announcement bringing Videos over the Internet to TV?

Re: Warning: this is off the geek-o-meter

engtech — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:49:21 -0000

We will burn down your White House and crash your Slashdot. Fear us.

Re: Oh yeah, and the food sucks too

engtech — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:34:18 -0000

Ignorance is bliss.

Very, very smart people have a tendency to be unhappy.

Re: PikSpot wants to help tame the Wild West

engtech — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:28:38 -0000

Have you seen fanpop? http://fanpop.com

Re: PikSpot wants to help tame the Wild West

engtech — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:27:20 -0000

fanpop is a well done site, there's just a distinct lack of traffic.

Re: TV is dead — long live TV

engtech — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:18:14 -0000

my only problem with Heroes (the only show I watch on TV, too) is that they've created too many characters and that is slowing the plot to a standstill as they try to give face time to everyone.

Re: Verizon: Stupid, stupid, stupid

engtech — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:11:23 -0000

The cellphone industry has their head up their arses in an amazing way when it comes to everything.

Case in point: rogers.com still charged by the KILOBYTE for data usage. With EDGE phones.

Re: Andy Rutledge thinks you’re a moron

engtech — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:05:50 -0000

I haven't read the link, but I'm starting to become more of a believer about the mediocrity of crowds. Some startups like cambrianhouse.com are trying to get into crowd-sourcing as a business model and I'm not sure if it's going to work (disclosure: I won a $400 prize in a contest from them).

The probs with "social web" are:

- Tagging is useless if it's from a single source. It only starts to become a relevant way of adding semantic information to documents if crowds can tag a document (this is a key point that some people have missed when they add tagging support to their apps).
- User voting is meaningless if people can see how other users have voted before them. More info on the game theory behind it: http://www.shmula.com/197/digg-as-a-game

Re: Why newspapers are like CDs

engtech — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:21:05 -0000

Good thing you're diversifying with this blog :-)

Re: Linked In just doesn’t get it

engtech — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:15:36 -0000

I liked linkedin except for two things:

- results were searchable via API from other sites
(IE: Internet Address Book lets someone find your information on myspace, flickr, linkedin, etc -- http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/interne...)

- recruiters phoning me by looking up my company phone number and then looking up my name instead of trying to contact me through linkedin.

Re: Linked In just doesn’t get it

engtech — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:44:21 -0000

That's a very good point. I'm not a linkedin power user, but it is very useful for keeping track of old co-workers who I would otherwise lose contact with.

That's pretty much my only use for it. :)

Re: TV networks should take Google’s money

engtech — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:04:15 -0000

engtech's simple guide to starting a content network:

If there already is an existing hugely popular service in that space then you're going to have to treat your customers better, not worse than them to succeed.

Re: Digg — worthless, or just misunderstood?

engtech — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:10:11 -0000

Yup, it's all about finding good filters. Is Digg a good filter? Not really. Is Digg a good source of traffic? Yes and no. I find that both Digg and Slashdot can bring in a swarm of commenters who are there for a flamewar more than anything else. The only time I didn't get a bad taste from comments was that Great Firewall of Canada post. Maybe it's me. :)

The traffic is great, and blog links that come afterwards are great... but maybe it's a good idea to turn comments off for the initial part of the flood. I find the later commenters are much more respectful than the initial wave.

Re: Remaking the charity biz, Web 2.0-style

engtech — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:40:46 -0000

Those Cambrian House guys have the best ideas. I really hope things pan out for them in the future.

Re: Is Digg getting better, or worse?

engtech — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:47:19 -0000

My biggest issue is the commenters. I like the quote from the lifehacker people that describes online communities:

“Also, netiquette in public forums has a lot to do with the content around which the community is centered. Lifehacker’s posts set out to help folks, so in kind, our readers want to help us and each other back. Digg is a popularity contest of oneupmanship. Gawker is all about making fun of things, so its readers mock each other and it right back in the comments. Karma’s a boomerang.”

but I can't help but notice that Lifehacker also restricts who can comment. :)

I wrote on the subject of trolls today, nothing that insightful although I did find interesting foreshadowing on the Natali del Conte / TechCrunch split.
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/the-int...

Re: How do I get into these things?

engtech — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:26:59 -0000

In order to win I think you need to chose an animal mascot that could defeat a horse, pig or cow.

Re: Okay, I want one — are you happy now?

engtech — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:39:16 -0000

It just hit me. Steve Jobs doesn't have finger prints.

All of a sudden everything makes sense.

Re: Blog payola, round three (or four)

engtech — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:24:22 -0000

I'd love to see Tony write a "week in the life of Tony" blog post.

I'm *really* curious as to how he manages his time. :)

Re: Newspapers and local - who owns who?

engtech — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:38:33 -0000

I don't think anyone can compete with Google for search. So far their local searches haven't taken off as well as would be hoped, but I think they still do more local search traffic than any independent site could hope.

I know I routinely use maps.google.com with Find Businesses to find restaurants or stores.

Re: Is streaming Netflix TV good enough?

engtech — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:51:30 -0000

Much like with YouTube it will be the customers who decide who wins this one.

They have to come up with an alternative that can compete with piracy. DRM will always be cracked eventually. Give people something useful and gain enough mindshare are the only ways to compete.

Re: Be careful what you Facebook

engtech — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:07:22 -0000

Yup, this is the 21st century. I think it'll be quite a while before people get it in their heads that the Internet is a permanent, easily searchable archive.

Re: Does Google need more fiber in its diet?

engtech — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:46:49 -0000

Spot on.

Google is very smart about details like power and bandwidth that other companies that don't deal with data centers of that size would never even think of.

Re: Jonathan Schwartz, up close and personal

engtech — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:57:45 -0000

I still have huge issues trying to get into watching vlogs.

I keep hitting fast forward if I don't see something interesting.

Too used to speed reading, I guess.

Re: Digg, Stumble and the madness of crowds

engtech — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:09:12 -0000

I do like me some StumbleUpon.

Digg can really establish a blog though. pronetadvertising and violentacres come to mind as two sites I saw go from zero to an audience by writing content that got Dugg.

Re: Scoble’s Achilles heel is video

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:30:15 -0000

Like I've said before, I don't watch a lot of video online.

What would make video more attractive to me?

- Integrated table of contents
- Searchable transcript that links directly to clipmarks
- Pop-ups to more info

I have to agree on the attention span thing that I'm much more like to watch a 3 minute video than a 10 minute video. Even if I'm looking at a photoshop tutorial video I have a tendency to skip forward through it because I find it's going too slow.

Re: Microsoft still wants to control your wallet

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:22:11 -0000

So true.

This is one way Microsoft burned their bridges with their cut-throat business practices... you know that if there was a business advantage to them, they'd do something with the points system to steal business from you without a second thought.

Re: Scoble’s Achilles heel is video

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:24:03 -0000

Maybe Robert needs to do trailers for his video :)

Re: Scoble says he’s biased — does it matter?

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:50:48 -0000

I think that's a very good point ^^^^ that everyone is biased, and it is more about the audience becoming more aware of that.

At what level does disclosure kick in?

If I had a bad experience with Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000 do I have to mention that when ever I talk about Windows Vista? I

If I mention Marshall Kirkpatrick and TechCrunch in a post do I have to say how excited I was that Michael Arrlington comments on one of my posts the week before that?

We're all biased, and sometimes we don't realize it. It is obvious that you're biased when money (or items of monetary value) have changed hands... but there are plenty of other influencers that can come into play... do I mention when covering a start-up/software application that they put a prominent link to my blog on their site? I made no money of it (I don't have ads) but it definitely influenced my opinion of them.

Re: Everyone wants a “Google killer”

engtech — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:09:25 -0000

I would immediately switch to whatever search engine is powered by the guy in the photo.

Without even stopping for a second to think about it.

Re: Are Canadians copyright pirates?

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:26:59 -0000

I'm waiting until having a 56" tv is considered showing the movie for public display and I'll have to get a licensing agreement to have friends over to watch rented movies.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:44:21 -0000

I really enjoy the service and I think it's a great idea to have a centralized avatar system like that.

If they thought about it they could easily compete with OpenID.

But I wish they were a little more security minded. They need to hire some good testers who break stuff like this before lunch.

Re: Is Digg the future or just a feature?

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:45:42 -0000

I think we'll see more and more nichification as it becomes easier and easier to create sites like digg.

I saw a great post a while back that interviewed some of the people who create these social web20 apps and they were all only using 3-5 different sites themselves... so with further nichification it'll get to the point where the rate of new users is greatly diluted by the amount of competition for their attention.

Re: Today’s interesting link: the Mundaneum

engtech — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:51:31 -0000

the idea was to collect all of the world’s knowledge on 3″ x 5″ index cards organized by topic.

Just like Wikipedia!

it eventually wound up being housed in a refurbished parking garage in Belgium, and closed in 1934.

Just like Wikipedia!

Re: A very Canuck PC case-mod

engtech — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:59:08 -0000

How often do you get to mention your psycho girlfriend and a stuffed beaver without having your wife kill you?

Re: Kurt Vonnegut — so it goes

engtech — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:00:37 -0000

Strange coincidence -- I was in Victoria on vacation, completely disconnected from any news and buying several used Vonnegut paperbacks at exactly the time this happened.

Re: Rubel vs. PC Mag — bizarre

engtech — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:56:59 -0000

The sad thing is that it's always little comments like this that get blown out of proportion. Whenever I've had internet postings come back and bite me it was over something as inconsequential as Steve's remark.

Re: Media bites: fewer words, same great taste

engtech — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:19:30 -0000

What's interesting about the new media is that it offers all kinds of positions in becoming one of the new gatekeepers/promoters of new media.

And that's really all any of the old boys like the RIAA, MPAA, broadcasters etc are good for -- gatekeeping/promoting.

Re: Where are the cliffs of insanity?

engtech — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:27:14 -0000

I love XKCD so much. I should support them by buying some t-shirts.

I think the Facebook mountains are too small though.

Re: MySpace, YourSpace and Politics 2.0

engtech — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:50:39 -0000

I saw this story the other day and found it so interesting. One nice thing about being a Canadian is to be able to objectively look at the issue without getting caught up in my actual feelings towards Barack Obama (or I should say, one nice thing about being a Canadian who lives under a rock when it comes to politics).

Clearly it sounds like his campaign people are weasels, and trying to smear him by claiming he was exploiting. Some of the naysayers have a good point that he was doing it all on a volunteer basis and volunteers should be paid.

What struck me about the resolution was Andrew got to take is 160,000 MySpace friends to a new name while the Obama campaign gets the now-friendless name.

I understand why they wanted the specific name, it's what they had been (idiotically) using as their official MySpace page. But I'm pretty sure they wanted the user accounts as well and I find it so hard to believe they didn't try to negotiate with him more over the $39,000.

Of course, it was all further muddied by the fact that the people Andrew was negotiating with were most like the people whose jobs he had been doing for free for two years.

Re: Studios sing chorus of “Blame Canada”

engtech — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:34:26 -0000

Such idiots.

If they had a clue they would hire teenagers to make crappy camcorder copies of movies to distribute over the internet. Crappy cam copies are so inferior to DVD/HD-TV rips that it gives the consumer an incentive to buy the higher quality product.

If you target the inferior pirated product, then you remove the competition to DVD/HD-TV rips. So when Joe Shmoe goes to pirate a movie he doesn't have to sift through tons of crap cam copies to find a good release.

Killing Napster got rid of all the inferior MP3 rips out there and pushed people to BitTorrent and piracy groups that pride themselves on releasing "as good as CD" quality rips. Now they're doing the same thing with movies when instead they should be flooding the pirate channels with bad rips and mislabeled downloads.

Re: Covering Pasadena from 9,000 miles away

engtech — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:20:36 -0000

and that explains everything that is wrong with press releases.

Re: Bruce Willis hangs out in chat rooms?

engtech — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:10:31 -0000

Even better than Kevin Smith's blog is his Evening with Kevin Smith DVD series.

Re: Community is the hard part

engtech — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:29:34 -0000

I'm excited about avanoo.com

I got in the beta today, and I like what they're doing over there. Something different than other social sites.

Re: Helprin on copyright is copywrong

engtech — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:06:30 -0000

A Winter's Tale is still at around #23,000 on amazon.com even though it came out in 1983. It's biggest threat to relevancy is it's age and competition against itself with easy availability at libraries and second hand sales. I got my copy for free through bookcrossing.com, and I didn't care for it.

The problem most authors face (Stephen King aside) is staying in the public eye and keeping your works from getting passed aside by the throngs of newer books; the hype machine doesn't focus on older books.

If only there was some way to easily draw attention to yourself and your previous works...

Re: This Just In: We’re just not that funny

engtech — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:38:00 -0000

http://nobodycomeshere.com/ is a blog :)

Re: Video: the bizarre stylings of Tay Zonday

engtech — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:47:41 -0000

4 chan is perhaps the most evil thing ever invented.

You find yourself laughing at the most inane things, and then someone comes over and asks why you're laughing.

And then you have to try and explain.

Re: Freakonomics gives trolling lessons

engtech — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:31:18 -0000

I think that's a great, great, great way to try and get themselves distanced from their new corporate overlords.

Re: Sifry out, layoffs galore at Technorati

engtech — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:21:50 -0000

I'm not that surprised about what's going on over there. Aside from the Google lunch eating, there's been technical issue after technical issue to the point where I've tried not to care about the service, whether I'm being indexed/ranked, etc... I found I was writing rants about the poor service all the time.

One thing is certain though, the domain is worth a heck of lot of money. So many incoming links to it...

Re: Can you say "Facebook bubble"?

engtech — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:48:58 -0000

Why do I go into work in the morning?

I really need to start thinking about the opportunity costs of holding down a day job.

Re: Does my butt look big in this avatar?

engtech — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:30:36 -0000

It is true that anything can be a game, even in real life.

Those synthetic corks in wine bottles bounce as well (if more unpredictable) than rubber balls.

Surprisingly fun.

Re: Want some Quechup on your Rapleaf?

engtech — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:39:35 -0000

Have we learned nothing from sixdegrees.com?

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

engtech — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:51:16 -0000

It's funny though how Yahoo has some killer properties under their umbrella in Flickr and Delicious, not to mention hiring the guy who wrote Firebug. Yahoo Pipes is actually pretty cool.

They need to spread the mojo, and learn from their successful startups and apply that everywhere.

Re: Will the real Dave Winer please stand up?

engtech — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:14:24 -0000

I'll take reasons why I don't read TechMeme as often as my RSS feeds for $10.

Re: Will the real Dave Winer please stand up?

engtech — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:29:07 -0000

(to be fair to techmeme, a large percentage of the blogs I subscribe to are the "edge" cases I discovered through TechMeme)

Re: Let me know what you think

engtech — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:55:16 -0000

ditto the "meh, I read it in Google Reader" :)

Re: Me on CBC’s The Current show

engtech — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:47:45 -0000

Looking forward to waking up to the sound of your voice tomorrow :)

I can't believe EA bought Bioware. :(

Re: The Techmeme pile-on — good or bad?

engtech — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:15:32 -0000

Techmeme is great for finding edge blogs.

I find reading the edge blogs is more useful than reading the ones that front page -- because they'll pick up and add to anything interesting the front pagers say.

Re: Quit reviewing us online, café says

engtech — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:40:00 -0000

That's a genius way to get people talking about them.

Did you see the reviews on yelp from people who only checked the place out to see what the fuss is about?

Re: In ur Facebookz, AdSensing ur widgetz

engtech — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:18:22 -0000

I'm this close to getting a 'lulz 4 lyfe' tattoo.

icanhascheezburger helped me run a lolcat competition for my cat a while back, here's the winners out of the 300-some participants.

http://internetducttape.com/2007/05/18/friday-f...

Re: CDBaby CEO comes clean on Snocap debacle

engtech — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:35:11 -0000

Fanning always seems like a it of an idiot to me. Napster's success was always that it was "giving away other people's stuff for free" -- not anything in the business model or technological side.

I'm always surprised that people expect success from him.

Re: MediaPost: Is print doomed or not?

engtech — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:59:20 -0000

epaper needs to get the convenience and DPI down pat before print has a shot at dying.

Print will always be a little more convenient for bringing with us. epaper might hold tons of content, but never underestimate not needing a battery.

What scares the crap out of me is as we adopt more and more technology we are effectively guaranteeing that information will be lost to future generations. Which might be a good thing because we create so much of it now, but still.

More thoughts on that subject

Re: Mozilla Prism: Don’t really get it

engtech — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:00:40 -0000

I've been using it for a few weeks.. All it is good for is for those web apps you "need" to have all the time... even when you shouldn't be surfing the web.

I use it for my todo list and that's it.

Re: Gphone: Third time lucky for Andy Rubin?

engtech — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:29:50 -0000

I think WebTV failed because it was before HDTV took off.

I find web text very hard to read on the low resolutions provided by older TV sets. But HDTV? No prob.

Re: Amazon’s S3: Almost free storage

engtech — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:14:28 -0000

I'm going to have to give that a try for photos.

I've been thinking about doing it for mp3s as well. Restoring is so time consuming.

Re: Video: Me talking about Facebook

engtech — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:34:46 -0000

You had at least one viewer that night :)

Re: News flash: Wikipedia is run by people!

engtech — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:07:11 -0000

it really strikes me how the wikipedia power corruption is a lot like local politics.

People get so wrapped up in it when the stakes are so low.

Re: News flash: I agree with Seth Finkelstein

engtech — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:47:23 -0000

does this only happen if you have your web browser set up to use rogers as a proxy (ie: the default setting with their install CD)?

I've never seen this one, because setting them up as a proxy is way slower than using the net directly.

Re: Yahoo enables music in browser

engtech — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:27 -0000

"Yahoo’s solution is kind of cool, and an interesting first step towards what Rogers seems to have in mind for the future: a distributed web of content tied together by Yahoo tools."

I read that as rogers.com, not Ian Rogers the first time around :)

Re: Apple keynote, Daring Fireball version

engtech — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:24:54 -0000

McAir makes a lot of sense, you can get 4 GB USB keys for a reasonable price, so why do you need a DVD drive?

(other than to play DVDs :) )

Re: FriendFeed: Like a news feed on steroids

engtech — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:51:41 -0000

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

Re: ruby, eh? - Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out

engtech — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:37:17 -0000

thanks dcadenas :)

Re: 4 Things I Hope the FriendFeed API Enables | Charles Hudson's Weblog

engtech — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:42:38 -0000

I want me some friendfeed.com/popular real bad.

Re: Another killer feature for FriendFeed: Reply to Twitter

engtech — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:19:01 -0000

beer me

Better Twitter integration with Friend Feed:
http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/27/greasemo...

Re: Q&A with BioWare founders on "Mass Effect" and life at EA

engtech — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:06:26 -0000

Good interview, but it could use some white space between each person talking. It got hard to read in a few places. :)

Re: Filter Your FriendFeed Services Via Greasemonkey

engtech — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:34:51 -0000

Heh. The script isn't doing anything that smart... all I'm doing is using features on friendfeed that are kinda hidden

Re: Ten Blogging Mistakes I’ve Made

engtech — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:34:31 -0000

I hear ya on #3, last week I wrote an unresearched rant that made it onto Slashdot. Whoops.

Re: Digg Destroys Webomatica

engtech — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:17:48 -0000

Same thing happened to me last December. Those diggers sure do love their movies:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/81-movi...

I find you get better results if you don't submit your own content to digg. People are really anti-blog (understandably).

Re: Interesting: Techmeme

engtech — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:21:16 -0000

I started showing up on TechMeme once I got a Technorati ranking of under 20,000 and had appeared on Digg once.

There's some human filtering going on as well...

Re: Return Of The Tech Coffee Mug

engtech — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:00:42 -0000

I find I have a high turn over rate for this swag. T-shirts seem to do well if they're high quality, interesting, and not-white-with-company-logo-on-left-breast-and-slogan-on-back.

Re: How To Not Compete With Free

engtech — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:58:33 -0000

DRM has 10 more years before they realize it's causing them to lose customers.

Re: Second Life Parting Thoughts (And Shots)

engtech — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:13:08 -0000

I've been planning to start a web comic for about a month now, but I'm not a good artist.

I was thinking that Second Life might be a good tool, but after trying it I came to the same conclusion that it was a much wiser investment of my time to pick a medium where the designs had more value. It wasn't like I'd be able to pick up all the various objects I'd need for each strip for free in SL... they all have to be designed or bought.

Re: 1,000 Spam Comments

engtech — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:24:45 -0000

Technorati Rank is really easy to acquire until the sub-10,000 range. Once you get beyond 5,000 you pretty much stop checking since it changes in a positive fashion so infrequently.

I have some old stat pages from when I started. Kind of funny, looking back. http://engtech.wordpress.com/tag/stats

I'm up to 4000 akismet spams a month now. The !@#$ers.

One solution to slow MyBlogLog loads is to use the image mechanism instead of javascript... since it will just show empty space until they're loaded. http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/myblogl...

Re: Webomatica in VOX Talk Podcast

engtech — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:55:50 -0000

For some reason I think the plot line of Ferrets has something to do with gerbiling.

Richard Gear for lead?

Re: 1,000 Spam Comments

engtech — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:07:16 -0000

I deal with the spam by using Akismet and outright blocking .info and .biz. Have to check comments once a day, but not that bad. Real popular sites get like 100,000s a day.

I have no doubt that you'll do well on Technorati. You've got a really good blog going on here.

Re: A Peek At My RSS Reader

engtech — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:46:28 -0000

"I havenâ€™t found the â€œAAAAAAAAAATechblogâ€ trying to get top listing as in the Yellow Pages."

What are you talking about? I'm right there.

//engtech

:)

sure, it's supposed to be a code comment but it is also a fully function jump to the head of the line

Re: A Peek At My RSS Reader

engtech — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:51:39 -0000

That's ok. We'll form a blogging network of "Tech Bloggers With Cat Icons" and all their links will belong to us.

Re: Just Upgraded to WordPress 2.1

engtech — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:53:16 -0000

The visual editor can be a complete bitch with paragraphs sometimes and trying to prevent orphan sentences.

Re: Blogging About Blogs, The Bloggers That Blog Them, And Gaming

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:56:20 -0000

I think most people have been in Robert's shoes before... this argument would have been much better served if he'd used an example OTHER than himself.

I know I've seen a story on TechCrunch/Scoble before where I was thinking "I covered that a month ago!" and wishing I'd gotten a juicy link. But all you have to do to restore humility is do a little digging and find the guys who had the scoop a month before you did, and realize that you're being hypocritical because you didn't go through the extra effort to find previous links either.

Re: Full Article Feeds Vs. Excerpts

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:16:52 -0000

There's only a few partial feed sites I stick with... actually, lorelle.wordpress.com might be the only one now.

I had to give up on Nicholas Carr's roughtype because I found myself saving it until last all the time because of the partial feeds.

Re: Bloggers Blogging, Negativity, and Disclosure

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:07:29 -0000

That link to my About Me usually works, except wordpress.com is having a major hiccup right now and 404ing all Pages.

http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=7298&a...

Re: Bloggers Blogging, Negativity, and Disclosure

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:07:53 -0000

Yay, bleeding edge :)

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:16:19 -0000

Putting a word count before the more would be good as well.

This is essentially what I do with posts that fall off the front page:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/page/3/

Making the read more obnoxiously big helped as well.

Re: Blogging About Blogs, The Bloggers That Blog Them, And Gaming

engtech — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:58:17 -0000

Humility is always a hard target for blogging though because blogging by nature is an egotistical activity. What I found help me was when I realized that if you write crap about someone they'll usually end up reading it[1]... it isn't a soapbox into nothingness.

Now I try to at least make good points if I'm going to rant into something...

[1] If only because they're searching what people are saying about them / their product.

Re: Yahoo! Annoying Its Flickr Users

engtech — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:28:17 -0000

The other thing is the "squeeky wheel" syndrome. The most vocal users don't mean they're the majority. Take a look at Snap Preview -- I hate it but I don't know that I'm in the majority of people.

There are a couple of perfectly valid reasons for the Flickr switch, one of which is to stop having to support a small anomaly in the user base (the other of course is to get people using Yahoo IDs).

What I really hate about this though is my every day Yahoo ID is tied to another flickr account -- so I'm going to have to create a specific one. Argh.

Re: Music Notes: Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah!

engtech — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:57:46 -0000

I couldn't listen to the entire album... there are a lot of very choice remixes out there though.

Re: Should I Sign Up With Blogcritics?

engtech — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:11:37 -0000

I'm part of blogcritics. In terms of getting review material they are top notch, in terms of getting traffic to your blog, not so much. It's hard to get the really popular review material, for the obscure stuff that no one else is interested in it's good.

Being part of blogcritics will keep you out of 9rules.

In terms of getting the free review material -- library + bit torrent works much better. :)

Re: Tailrank Indexes Webomatica

engtech — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:39:20 -0000

Using a fading nofollow would be a great way to encourage commenters.

Basically, if the comment has stayed live for a week or so then they get a real link to their website on their comment.

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-22-...

Spamming won't be any more of an issue than otherwise... spammers absolutely don't care about filtering sites based on issues like these. They are completely indiscriminate and lazy.

Re: Should I Sign Up With Blogcritics?

engtech — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:40:51 -0000

I don't remember seeing comics/graphic novels on Blog Critics.

I've had really good luck getting graphic novels from my local library or by downloading CBZ/CBR files off of bit torrent and then using CDisplay to view them.

Re: Movie Notes: Art School Confidential

engtech — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:42:20 -0000

I saw this last weekend and I couldn't get over how horrible it was. The plot was so stupid, which was too bad because they had a very good concept in the beginning.

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

engtech — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:53:11 -0000

What's funny is that I joined the 2000 bloggers project. :)

//el punta de linkos

Re: Disclosure Policy Plugin (WordPress)

engtech — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:31:06 -0000

You know, this could be a lot of fun.

Keyword: Avatar

Disclosure: That's not even my cat.

Keyword: Digg

Disclosure: Digg commenters are a bunch of morons. It's wisdom of the mobs at it's finest.

Keyword: Sex

Disclosure: It's been months. They were right about marriage.

Re: Paris Hilton Finds MyBlogLog

engtech — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:09:17 -0000

She's one of my more popular posts as well...

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/chartre...

Re: MyCatBlogLog Public Alpha

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:22:33 -0000

Sweet!

Re: MyCatBlogLog Public Alpha

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:28:43 -0000

I am so impressed that you did this.

This is excellent.

Re: Added Polls, Stock Photography

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:26:47 -0000

I've been using flickr CC and wikimedia commons for Harold. Followed up with a Google Image search for something more obscure.

I have to accept the fact that Harold will never legally be a book. :)

There was another stock photo site I tried that had free images but after using it for a week I never found anything good from it.

Re: “Beme” Inspires Some New Blog Vocabulary

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:15:17 -0000

clog - as in the sink is clogged
IE: http://catsinsinks.com/

masterbating: me thinks you meant to include an i between the ba and t?

One I coined was blogamaggedon.

That's when we hit the full tail swing of push button content publishing... everyone who wants to try blogging has tried it, but most people have given it up because it's too hard to try to get an audience when attention is split so narrowly amongst all the bloggers.

Re: “Beme” Inspires Some New Blog Vocabulary

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:16:53 -0000

Sorry. I meant to write "Blogamageddon"

I guess you can't take credit for a beme if you can't spell it properly.

Re: Webomatica’s Top Love Movies

engtech — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:36:42 -0000

You just knew I would post my list in a comment: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/top-rom...

I'm surprised we didn't have more movies lining up. I think that might be because of my personal prejudice against Julia though.

Maybe I'll watch Roman Holiday tonight.

My only strong disagreement was Room with a View, but I have a trouble with staying awake for all period movies other than Dangerous Liaisons.

Re: Cat News Via Google Reader

engtech — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:38:07 -0000

Before I started Harold is a Robot my girlfriend and I were seriously considering writing a photocomic about our two cats called "A Tale of Two Kitties".

Then we realized that was the name of the Garfield 2 movie.

Re: Webomatica’s Top Love Movies

engtech — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:39:07 -0000

I'm going to have to see the P&P remake then as well.

Re: Link Sharing: 2/15/07

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:33:25 -0000

Have you seen Mega 64? http://www.mega64.com/

Re: Questioning NoFollow

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:40:46 -0000

nofollow tag is only good for the search engines... doesn't do anything to prevent spam, it's just an attempt to prevent spam from contributing to search.

The Wordpress guys were some of the early proponents of it 2 years ago, but Matt says now that it doesn't do anything: http://photomatt.net/2007/01/22/wikipedia-nofol...

Re: Webomatica’s Top Love Movies

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:41:50 -0000

It's a long story that I can't go into, but that would get me into more trouble than if I fell asleep during the movie. :)

nice Paris Hilton disclaimer, btw

Re: Battlestar Galactica: The Woman King

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:56:14 -0000

*covers hands over ears*

I'M NOT LISTENING

*waits until Season 3 is complete to watch it*

Re: “Beme” Inspires Some New Blog Vocabulary

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:11:12 -0000

Some good ones here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/16/dell-pays-...

wypo - web typo
weblogism - new web neologism

Re: Strange World Of Website Reselling

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:24:58 -0000

When buying sites you're usually doing it for the backlinks, but if you get all the content as well it can be a great deal.

What's interesting is the metrics provided on the auctions that do well:
existing revenue / month
uniques / month
page views / month

so $50,000 for around 750,000 page views a month.

I think I'm in the range of 100,000 to 350,000 page views a month. I did 61,000 views on Valentine's Day -- but that was my highest day ever (previous was 44,000 in a day).

Re: Strange World Of Website Reselling

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:25:59 -0000

the first comment could be nuked. I don't get uniques listed in my stats so I have no idea what a high number of uniques is.

Re: Strange World Of Website Reselling

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:43:33 -0000

I can't use Google Analytics with Wordpress.com because they use it globally... so I get a watered down version of it.

Kinda sucks.

Re: Strange World Of Website Reselling

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:50:17 -0000

Psst. She'll sell it for a Nikon D200.

I've got the inside scoop.

Re: Movie Notes: Ten Must-Haves in Any Romantic Comedy

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:51:44 -0000

Have you seen Stranger than Fiction?

There is a good part where they try to figure out if it's a romantic comedy or a romantic tragedy.

Re: Webomatica Dugg: The Aftermath (Die Another Day)

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:05:21 -0000

I really want to find out how to quit smoking with Kirk and Spock.

Titles are 80% of writing a good post. You could write anything about Kirk and Spock, include some references of satiating your oral fixation with green-skinned aliens, and it would be gold.

Disclosure: I own a tiny amount of Apple stock and I toured Thailand with Steve Jobs.

Re: New Blog Vocabulary: Fatblogging

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:38:17 -0000

Yeah, I do a 15 lbs swing ever two years or so and I'm on the fatblogging side of the scale now.

I've been thinking of writing a fatblogging how-to and an anti-fatblogging how-to based on my previous experience.

So many ideas, so little time.

Let's do a "You Know You're a Fatblogger When..." post!

You know you're a fatblogger when you buy a Nintendo Wii for exercise.

You know you're a fatblogger when you install the "One Click Pizza Delivery" plugin for Wordpress.

Re: I Have To Get A Wii

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:08:26 -0000

Ok, that's funny. I hadn't read this before I left that comment on "fatbloggers want to buy a Nintendo Wii" http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2007/02/20/...

I've been enjoying the 360, but overall there's a big issue with lack of games.

Re: I Have To Get A Wii

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:09:05 -0000

Wii blogging where you have to type out all your posts using 5lb weights.

Re: New Blog Vocabulary: Fatblogging

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:11:22 -0000

I've been thinking about it and I should order groceries on the Internet. I had going to the grocery store, so I never have any food in the house, so I always end up eating out. It's a vicious cycle.

The Google 15 widget is a good / simple weight to track weight.

Re: The Prisoner: I’m Hooked

engtech — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:11:50 -0000

I quite liked the first season of this one: http://imdb.com/title/tt0112104/

Re: Strange Search Phrases

engtech — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:28:59 -0000

This is from another blog I co-author:

gong show popsicle twins 4
popsicle twins 3
suck my balls 2
gridhouse 2
celebrity video scandal 2
scandal sex tape celebrity 1
suck my balls video 1
strathcona art park 1
celebrity sex tape 1
Celebrity scandal 1
3-D model trains by abacus 1
lose battle with entropy 1
what movies were released on the 29th Se 1
Abacus 3d model trains 1
"Popsicle twins" 1
inurl:2006 released erotic movies 1
potter twins video 1
national holidays of the year 1
south park suck my balls 1
silvercity gloucester map to 1
bring-your-kid-to-work day 1
uganda rising imdb 1
pans labyrinth trailer 1
sex sat .coc 1
view celebrity sex tape 1
The Popsicle Twins 1
jetsons cartoons 1
Harry potter and south park 1
gridhouse movie 1
Art in Strathcona 1
bring your children to work days 1
bring your kid to work day 1
twins video 1
pan's labyrinth trailer 1
what kind of food would bring to the par 1
Bring your kid to work day 1
celebrity video sex scandal 1
bikini fight video 1
you can suck my balls mr. garrison 1
south park & harry potter 1
best song ever made 1
the popsicle boy 1
"cool chicks" 1
the popsicle twins 1
THE MAIL OF DAY 1
kane and abel real story 1
postal mail bag straps 1
aj sex tape 1
doa bikini movie 1
confused man cartoon 1

Re: Strange Search Phrases

engtech — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:37:50 -0000

@web: it's a group blog I do with some real life friends (http://beatsentropy.com)

I think this post got in the top ten on google for Scooby Doo Mystery Van Bestiality searches at one point.

Re: Buying Yourself A Front Page Digg

engtech — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:57:54 -0000

Conversely, setting the scale to be ten pounds heavier and completely forgetting about it works even better for weight loss.

Re: The Future Of Computing: Brains In A Jar?

engtech — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:33:43 -0000

I call this "reality challenged".

Re: Comic Book Hunt At Wondercon

engtech — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:03:48 -0000

Heh.

My take is completely different, those are the kind of comics I can't stand.

I read around 10-15 of the various Darkhorse Star Wars series and I couldn't stand how awful the writing was. There were a couple of almost decent series like Knights of the Old Republic and the Crimson Guard one... but most of them.. ugh.

Re: How To Use The Computer To Do Absolutely Nothing

engtech — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:36:06 -0000

#1 - RSS

:)

Re: My Digg Link-Bait History

engtech — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:08:49 -0000

What's funny is the catchy headline aspect is so important to everything.

People judge books by their covers.

The headline doesn't even have to be correct... I've gotten good traction from inflammatory headlines when the post wasn't that bad.

If I look at the five posts that were made popular, four of them were digg-bait. And the 5th was Slashdot bait. :)

Engtech's Dugg History

Re: Calvin Klein: R U Technosexual?

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:02:25 -0000

I was given one of those jinx.com technosexual t-shirts as a gift last year.

I'm wearing "there's no place like /~" right now that I got free from dirtymicrobe.com

Re: Calvin Klein: R U Technosexual?

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:03:31 -0000

Also, what's funny about this is most tech-types fall into the same symptoms as mild autistics which includes an aversion to scented products.

Re: Music Notes: The Polish Ambassador, Diplomatic Immunity

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:24:47 -0000

Give the Katamari Damacy soundtrack a download for some video game music you'll never be able to get out of your head, ever.

More fun music videos:
http://beatsentropy.com/2006/11/12/never-trust-...

Re: Link Sharing: 3/8/07

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:28:52 -0000

On the subject of Milli Vanilli -- check this out:

http://beatsentropy.com/2006/12/03/kenjis-art-s...

Re: What’s In Those Snacks and How Are They Made?

engtech — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:04:44 -0000

I always thought Twinkis begat themselves through some paradox in the space time continuum?

You eat a Twinki, it goes through your digestive system and ends up in some kind of land fill, where it eventually reconstitutes itself. A hostile alien race that has taken over the earth sends them back through time as a declaration of war.

That's why they have such a long shelf life.

*goes back to watching Dr. Who*

Re: Bedouins In San Francisco

engtech — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:34:24 -0000

It's all about having the right kind of cubicle.

I have a coffee machine beside my desk that lets me make lattes and cappuccinos.

Re: Web Design Tips From Eyetracking

engtech — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:35:28 -0000

Brings new meaning to the term 'hairball'

Re: Narcissism: Apex of Web 2.0?

engtech — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:18:45 -0000

I'm pretty sure the woman in that picture is looking at a photo of herself she just took with her cellphone.

re: BlogOMatic

Blog Herald: The Future Of Blogging: Computer Generated Or Human Generated Blogs

Re: We Is Takin Over Der Feed

engtech — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:22:25 -0000

Ack!

they're on yur intertubes writin yur blogz!

Re: We Is Takin Over Der Feed

engtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:22:04 -0000

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/

Re: Why Geeks Should Live In Japan

engtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:23:51 -0000

I've been meaning to ask if the tentacle sex anime references ever have any basis:

http://beatsentropy.com/2007/03/22/passive-depr...

Re: Japan Trip: First Day In Tokyo

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:38:32 -0000

photos!

Re: Japanophilia: Four Japanese Albums You Should Have In Your Collection

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:39:25 -0000

I heartily recommend Fantastic Plastic Machine

http://www.fpmnet.com/

Re: For Yet Another Perspective On Blogging Class Warfare…

engtech — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:10:40 -0000

So true about technical know how. I've done a fair share of free wordpress.com support on the forums and there's so much stuff I take for granted as common knowledge that isn't. People freaking out because someone sent them a trackback and how do they stop that. Not understanding that if a post isn't password protected it can get indexed by search engines (without getting into robots.txt). Not understanding that your IP address is tracked by every web page you read.

And those are the fairly complex ones that I take for granted after using the net for 14 some years.

Re: Muvie Notz: Cat Filmz

engtech — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:17:23 -0000

Don't get artistocats and artistocrates confused.

Re: Link Sharing: Feed Reader Evisceration

engtech — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:47:03 -0000

don't forget http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/

Re: Link Sharing: Feed Reader Evisceration

engtech — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:16:59 -0000

I like how the Paris Hilton disclosure shows up when you mention Paris Lemon.

Re: Getting Philisophical On Blogging

engtech — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:22:57 -0000

I hit this a while back (probably just around when I found out about your blog). The echo chamber thing is fun, but if I want to write about Yahoo Pipes it'll be after spending 20 hours using it to build some application I really want, like displaying my Technorati rank as an RSS widget... not because a press release came out on TechCrunch 5 minutes ago.

Chasing traffic is always annoying in the long term because you end up with crap posts.

Re: My Fluffy Side

engtech — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:54:33 -0000

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/how-to-...

Re: 412 Precondition Failed, Technorati, Twitter, and Bad Behavior

engtech — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:52:57 -0000

pffft.

I think it's a great domain name.

Re: 412 Precondition Failed, Technorati, Twitter, and Bad Behavior

engtech — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:24:38 -0000

*seriously considers how many organic searches 412preconditionfailed gets*

Re: Link Sharing: 4/5/07

engtech — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:23:43 -0000

Ah, BBSes. I used to be part of iCE in the day.

Re: Technorati = Nice Folks

engtech — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:42:21 -0000

I 100% agree that they are nice folks. But I've still find I get a lot of headaches from their service. It used to be 1-2 weeks before you'd hear back from support (since fixed with their support forums).

I'm particularly displeased with how they lock you in to your blog URL. I screwed up my Technorati rank about a month ago when I changed the front page of my blog into a landing page and put my blog posts in /blog. Changing my domain name would mean looking my rank of 2000 and having to build it up again with new content.

Re: Technorati = Nice Folks

engtech — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:43:15 -0000

(to be fair, they helped me fix my blog rank once I realized there was a problem and switch my blog settings back to the way they were)

Re: MySpace Party: The Wisdomless Crowd Shows Up

engtech — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:41:21 -0000

I've seen this before on regional message boards long before MySpace was around... there's even a cellphone commercial alluding to the phenomina (one of those walkie talkie things).

Great analogy with getting the Digg commenters to visit though.

Re: The Complex World Of HD TV And Ensuing Confusion

engtech — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:14:26 -0000

I got a 56" 1080p Samsung HD over the xmas holidays. Came with an upconverting DVD player.

The biggest consideration for size is your viewing distances when seated. I should have gone for max 48" because of the size of that room.

I rip DVDs with DVD Decrypter + DVD Shrink (old school) and they all look fine (I usually got for ripping out all of the extras + non-english audio tracks to have minimum impact on video quality).

Watching XViD is a little wonky when it comes to action sequences.

Normal analog cable signals are unwatchable because of noise and distortion.

Re: Google Reader + Twitter + MyBlogLog + This Blog + Your Blog = Social Network Site?

engtech — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:52:11 -0000

My twitter "check this link out" feed is available at http://twitter.com/et for anyone looking to subscribe.

Re: Movie Notes: Movies Based On Non-Superhero Comics

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:10:55 -0000

Would be a great entry for this contest:

Engtech: Contest For Bloggers: Group Writing Project :Tshirts, Movies

:)

Re: Movie Notes: Movies Based On Non-Superhero Comics

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:14:43 -0000

You left out History of Violence

From this list

Favs: Constantine, Sin City, 300, V for Vendeta, Tales from the Crypt, From Hell

God that was horrible: Art School Confidential, Popeye, Howard the Duck, Josie and the Pussycats, Fritz the Cat, Dick Tracy, Tank Girl

Want to see: Ghost World, American Splendor

Re: Movie Notes: Movies Based On Non-Superhero Comics

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:19:40 -0000

I have a dirty little secret.. I can't stand Robert Crumb. I've tried to get into his books again and a again, but it's just a no go.

Found another post on the same subject:
12-days of cinematicalmas 7 comic book movies for people who hate comic books

Re: Meme: What’s Your Web 2.0?

engtech — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:59:51 -0000

Thanks for tagging Baron and Corey, I meant to add them when I started this!

Re: Meme: What’s Your Web 2.0?

engtech — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:24:30 -0000

I wish more people used Fanpop. It's a very solid site.

Re: Digg: Social Media Consumer Revolt

engtech — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:25:20 -0000

Armchair activism at it's best. Copy and paste a 32-digit key all over the internet versus preventing something like the DMCA from becoming law.

All of us tech types are guilty of this.

Re: Comic Notes: Hot Mexican Love Comics 2006

engtech — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:45:17 -0000

Heh. I thought this was going to be all about Love and the Rockets when I saw your tweet.

Re: Analog Productivity Experiments: Fighting Blog Fatigue

engtech — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:52:14 -0000

The biggest problem with blogging is that it never ends. There is always the blog to feed, always new posts to write, etc etc.

When I bailed out of the Tech News game and decided to focus on original content -- that was a huge relief from time pressures.

But then I wanted to hit a posting schedule of 5 posts during the week and my linkblog post on saturdays. Still too much work, I don't get time to write every night and sometimes something will take more than a day to write.

So now I'm aiming for 2-3 original content posts a week, and the linkblog on the weekend. Should be maintainable.

Re: Content Conversion to WordPress

engtech — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:17:20 -0000

My first post was on setting up categories in Blogger.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/how-i-s...

:)

Re: Content Conversion to WordPress

engtech — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:18:18 -0000

Followed by:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/04/17/switchi...

Re: BusinessWeek: The Poverty Business

engtech — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:03:04 -0000

Person B gets a worse credit rating because they're living beyond their means. Person A is living within or close to their means.

A gets a much better rating because A is so much less risky to lend to. The extra interest B pays (in theory -- in reality they're being gouged) is to make up from the money lost from the other people B who default on their loans.

Insurance is the same way, if you're high risk you pay more for insurance than if you're low risk.

I completely agree that there are inequalities, but I don't think lending money is ever a charitable action... it's a business that you do in order to make interest on the money being lent.

Re: BusinessWeek: The Poverty Business

engtech — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:18:09 -0000

It's the same thing with how banks move out of poor neighbourhoods and those Money Market type places move in.

Money is never ethical.

Not letting people who are in debt get into more debt is a great idea, but you know there'd be people arguing about how the man is keeping them down from expensing their college education on credit cards or something.

Re: Book Notes: The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:44:59 -0000

Stick with the old sci-fi. Another really good one is The Mote In God's Eye.

Re: TechCrunch Pricks The Wrong Bubble

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:10:40 -0000

very, very good point.

It's funny how people pay for the location / weather and then spend all the time working at start-ups.

At least in Silicon Valley North we have an excuse. We only have two months of good weather each year :)

Re: Book Notes: The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:06:15 -0000

Yeah, Titan and Wizard are ok but weird. I really recommend anything Varley did after that though. Especially Blue Steel. Read that one three times.

I love that I can reserve books online using my local library system and then use http://libraryelf.com to get email/rss updates of it.

Re: DVD Player Craps Out, Grey’s Anatomy, Taking Action

engtech — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:32:05 -0000

I hope you didn't get a DVD/TV combo. Those combos are HORRIBLE.

The player will always crap out before the TV, and because they use the same power switch it means you might not be able to turn on the TV (although, for $25 a local electrician can usually rewire it).

Re: Link Sharing: 5/24/07

engtech — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:29:58 -0000

Hiya,

the linko del muy blogo has a double http:// which is bringing it to http.com

cheers

Re: Movie Notes: My Ten Favorite Star Wars Moments

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:17:35 -0000

Check out this list:

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/0...

I like that they do a top 10 movies and top 10 from the comics.

Re: Link Sharing: 6/20/07

engtech — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:21:46 -0000

I use del.icio.us, and I have a program I wrote that does a weekly post of them all.

I will be releasing to the public at some point.

Re: I Don’t Like The Idea Of Fake Comments

engtech — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:29:09 -0000

It depends on the nature of the blog. I have a friend who routinely posts about really outrageous stuff, then he create a fake comments that calls him out on his outrageousness in the original post... to which he replies in greater depth to the ideas he didn't want to fully flesh out in the original piece.

It works really well on keeping a post concise and interesting, while still addressing the additional points that you want to cover.

On Beats Entropy (4 authors) we also played with the idea of the four of us pre-commenting on our posts before they are published so that more ideas are covered before it goes live. It might have worked, but we never ended up doing it because we're too lazy.

Re: Flash Project: Fanpop Widget

engtech — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:35:03 -0000

You should give the Sandbox css design competition a lookie.

http://internetducttape.com/2007/06/20/win-cash...

Sandbox may become the default theme for Wordpress, so it can make for some really good exposure.

Re: Desktop Tower Defense: Addicting Time-Wasting Procrastination Aid

engtech — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:33:06 -0000

I block off both entrances and herd them to a corner where I concentrate firepower... upgrading is SO important, as is putting slows in early... I put a slow down every 4-5 when I'm building a path

the center is reserved for a building anti-air

Re: Movie Notes: Ratatouille

engtech — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:03:27 -0000

Just got back from seeing it. Much agreement that this was way better than Cars, although I think I prefer the subject matter of Incredibles.

My only fault with it is in seeing the late show so I couldn't go out to eat some fine cuisine afterwards.

I really like how they tied the plot together.

Re: The Art Of The Pitch: Ron Popeil And Steve Jobs

engtech — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:32:08 -0000

If it wasn't for my hawking of my flavour injector, I don't think my girlfriend would be dating me.

Re: Is Fake Steve Jobs Dave Winer?

engtech — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:20:48 -0000

Can't be. FSJ is writing on a blogging platform he didn't create himself.

Re: My Blogging Reality Check

engtech — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:19:08 -0000

I yam what I yam.

uhg guhh gug.

Re: Second Webomatica Contest: Bad / Good Movies

engtech — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:51 -0000

So bad it's bad: Envy

So bad it's good: Tombs of the Blind Dead, 1971.

Watch the Spanish version with subtitiles though, the american version is re-edited into a different plot and not as good.

Re: Movie Notes: Tombs Of The Blind Dead

engtech — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:45:06 -0000

man, am I ever an asshole. :)

Re: Movie Notes: Freddy Got Fingered

engtech — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:09:32 -0000

I went to high school with him. He's a pretty strange dude.

Re: Movie Notes: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

engtech — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:05:31 -0000

have to say I'm loving this series... bad movie reviews are always so much more fun

Re: Some Web 2.0 Bubble Signs

engtech — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:13:08 -0000

I'd watch a vlog with a sock puppet.

Re: WinExtra Podcast

engtech — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:13:34 -0000

Steve and Morgan should do a podcast together! :)

Re: Movie Notes: Seventies Sci-Fi

engtech — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:55:25 -0000

A Boy and His Dog is so amazingly cheesy.

I'd read the graphic novel adaptation as a kid, so it was kind of weird to watch and go... wait a sec.. this seems familiar.

Re: General Webomatica Update

engtech — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:15:10 -0000

Don't worry about contest prizes.

Having you watch all the crappy movies we suggested was prize enough :)

Re: Third Webomatica Contest: Bad Video Game Ideas

engtech — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:05 -0000

AJ Valliant in Cubicle Land

Re: Third Webomatica Contest: Bad Video Game Ideas

engtech — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:59:33 -0000

I like the idea of Crooks and Grannies

it's a mugging simulator.

Re: Blog Paranoia And Constipation

engtech — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:42:16 -0000

I submitted your Gilmore Game to stumbleupon... not sure if that accounts for the weird traffic.

Re: Third Webomatica Contest: Bad Video Game Ideas

engtech — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:25 -0000

airplane rider would be awesome, especially if the graphics were similar to line rider. :)

Re: Yahoo! Mash

engtech — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:24:20 -0000

I liked Yahoo Avatars better than Mash as well.

And apologies at how spammy the invite looked. I had created a custom invite explaining the service and why I was inviting people but they replaced it with that profile crap.

I can't even post and explanation and retraction on my blog because WordPress.com is having an epic failure and suspended the accounts of some of their well known bloggers like Lorelle Van Fossen and myself.

On the flip side though, I'm having a great time playing Age of Kings on my Nintendo DS instead of blogging :)

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

engtech — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:28:54 -0000

Technorati is a complete waste of time. Enjoy the traffic they send you, but do nothing to promote them -- you'll get the same result.

It'll be 80 visitors vs 120 visitors if you don't promote them.

Being on the top 100 favorited list does absolutely nothing for traffic. Matt Mullenwag said that being in the top 10 popular was less than 200 hits per day.

Re: Blog Question: Why So Many Canadian Bloggers?

engtech — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:47:37 -0000

I think there's so many canadian bloggers because we have six months of the year where going outside sucks. :)

Re: Link Sharing 10/4/07, September Summary

engtech — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:13:18 -0000

I really enjoy uncov.

Re: There Is Definitely A Web 2.0 Bubble Going On

engtech — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:42:08 -0000

Don't develop a product that can be done by a kid in his basement.

Re: Connecting A MacBook To A Big Television = I Want Apple TV

engtech — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:41:42 -0000

definitely hold off on AppleTV. From what I've heard having a mac mini hooked up to your TV is such a better experience.

give the software some time to mature... usually 1.0s for consumer electronics devices really suck hard compared to 2.0 or 3.0

wil shipley has a good read: http://wilshipley.com/blog/2007/10/open-systems...

Re: Movie Notes: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

engtech — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:10:09 -0000

Great movie.. I watched it a while back. Sydney Poiter's daughter starred in Grindhouse. What was kinda weird.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is another great one from around the same era.

Re: Facebook Ads: You Will Be Monetized

engtech — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:53:32 -0000

Something that works well for Facebook:

searching the Marketplace gives you ads for exactly what you were looking for on amazon.com that look very similar to marketplace results.

Re: Some Favorite Blog Posts Of 2007… On Other Blogs

engtech — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:33:58 -0000

Kitty does know he's on the Internets.

Kitty is pretty full of himself.

Kitty has also been a stress ball for the past week because we've had painters coming into the house every day and he has severe people phobia.

Kitty is most likely sitting in a lump in the middle of the bed under the covers right now, wonder when this cruel torture will ever end.

Re: Some Favorite Blog Posts Of 2007… On Other Blogs

engtech — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:37:46 -0000

review in haiku is a pretty awesome concept

I usually see the same flicks within 1-2 weeks of MG (don't know why, some kind of weird internet mind meld) and have the same opinions.

Re: Movie Notes: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

engtech — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:10:04 -0000

I watched the Man from Earth last night... you should give it a looksie (might only be able to get it via bittorrent)

Re: What I Do When Not Working Or Blogging

engtech — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:38:36 -0000

Juno was good, but not as good as the trailer made it out to be.

Re: Interesting: FriendFeed

engtech — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:37:45 -0000

it really is no work required

i haven't logged into it since i signed up :)

Re: Movie Notes: The Fountain

engtech — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:27:03 -0000

the graphic novel is a big load of crap as well

Re: Board Games That Scarred Me For Life

engtech — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:30:21 -0000

I still play D&D once a week :)

(actually didn't start until pretty late in life... had the rule books but never found a good DM as a kid)

Important life lessons I've learned from D&D:

The most logical result of invulnerability is to become a complete asshole because no one else can do anything about it. Superman? It would never happen.

All it takes is one chaotic evil guy in the party and next thing you know everyone's trying to use "eat the evidence" to cover up the accidental murder of the town guards. This applies to cube dwelling office politics in a way I don't want to think about right now.

re: Operation. The modern day equivalent is trying to give your cat a pill.

Re: Movie Notes: MirrorMask

engtech — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:35:49 -0000

I've been avoiding this one because of all the negative reviews.

Re: Web 2.0: Please Make It Easier To Quit

engtech — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:57:40 -0000

Tell me about it.

People often sign up for accounts using the wrong email address -- mine (my personal address).

Trying to get out of that is next to impossible. I've been able to cancel orders, transfer money, cancel business trips and even turn down housing offers because people don't enter the correct email address.

Re: FriendFeed: Open For Business

engtech — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:51:52 -0000

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

Re: Link Sharing: 2/27/08

engtech — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:07:29 -0000

Best Buy will usually tell people to use credit cards instead of debit because of that issue.

You can (and should) call your bank to increase the limit temporarily when you're doing something like buying a car or buying an engagement ring (both things I've done with my debit card).

Re: Again: Why I Like FriendFeed

engtech — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:29:41 -0000

interesting idea... a wordpress plugin to reimport meta comments from delicious/digg/ff back into WP.

Re: Webomatica DVD Give Away #1

engtech — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:51:33 -0000

Being John Malkovich

I have the movie, so I don't want to be entered in the draw :)

Re: Webomatica DVD Give Away #2

engtech — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:31:21 -0000

Doctor Strange Love

(again, don't want the prize, I already have it :) )

Re: Link Sharing: 3/27/08

engtech — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:00 -0000

Actually.. I don't use the API at all in any of those scripts.

I've yet to successfully be able to write anything interesting using public APIs only. They're always so limited.

Re: Twitter Quitter Fitter Happier?

engtech — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:47:24 -0000

That's the secret to any social app... subscribing to the right people. You have to be ready to unsubscribe if they noise is overwhelming the signal.

Re: Zealous Gadgeteers - Just how many Gadgets do we need?

engtech — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:04:06 -0000

I carry my smartphone that is my "poor man's" camera/mp3/note taker, although I rarely use it for anything but phone. I usually leave my iPod near the computer for listening to music, and will grab it if I'm commuting somewhere and need tunes.

I'm trying to get in the habit of always having a moleskin notepad on me since that's hands down the quickest way to write down ideas, but I still haven't made it a habit.

I'm subscribing more and more to the "paper + pencil" is more productive than gadgets.

Re: http://laughingsquid.com/open-source-project-hosting-via-google-code/

engtech — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:40:21 -0000

I put together a list of the Google Code Project Hosting features here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/google-...

Re: Roll Your Own LOL, Not Just For Cats Anymore

engtech — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:17:11 -0000

You forgot lolgoths

http://raincoaster.com/tag/lolgoth/

Re: A Cat Playing The Theremin

engtech — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:54:57 -0000

Too cute. Love it :)

Re: Scraping Starts from the Very First Post

engtech — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:11:46 -0000

I think you're misinterpreting your data source. The wordpress.com feed stats always follow the ebb and flow of your posting frequency.

I have a popular wordpress.com blog, and my feed readers are split between the wordpress.com feed (http://engtech.wordpress.com/feed or http://internetducttape.com/feed) and the FeedBurner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/engtech). Wordpress.com doesn't let me redirect to my feedburner feed.

About 624 of my readers are in FeedBurner, there's another 400-700 who grab the feed directly.

Here are screenshots of my stats from wordpress.com and from FeedBurner. As you can see, there are serious discrepancies. I trust the FeedBurner stats much more.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n296/engtech...
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n296/engtech...
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n296/engtech...

To make it worse, the wordpress.com stats seem to be pretty dumb in that they count feed reader hits even if it's just someone clicking on your link from another feed. Not an issue for this experiment, but something to note.

Bottom line: no conclusions can be drawn from using wordpress.com feed stats. Set up a blog somewhere that let's you use FeedBurner stats and you'll have a *much* better data sample.

Interesting idea, but the data you're basing it off of is so questionable to start with.

Re: in which it becomes clear that scoble is, in fact, a freeloader.

engtech — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:14:03 -0000

Hi Adam, you might find this interesting.

I'm playing around to see if the wordpress.com community is interested in a post-voting/promotion feature like digg/reddit/etc. I've got a test site set up at FanPop, feel free to try it out/submit your posts.

Re: Garland: A Chronology in Point Form

engtech — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:27:04 -0000

Quite the story there.

Re: Exposing the Lurkers

engtech — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:22:42 -0000

It actually looks pretty good without the CSS at all.

I'm just using the raw codes at http://beatsentropy.com

Re: Akismet Excerpts

engtech — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:10:31 -0000

Wow, that is simple. :)

I still haven't gotten my head around CSS enough that I think "oh, I'll just do that in CSS".

Re: Akismet Excerpts

engtech — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:12:16 -0000

I think the optimal solution is the CSS hack above with an additional link of javascript to toggle the overflow setting.

Re: Exposing the Lurkers

engtech — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:34:26 -0000

I think this code might be required for tracking to work properly:

<img src="http://ipub.mybloglog.com/i/vUNIQUEID_req.jpg" alt="View My Profile" title=""View My Profile">

Re: Buckshot, EP. 2: Social Networking sites

engtech — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:47:37 -0000

Last.fm is such a great service. I really hate that I can't listen to it at work (bandwidth), otherwise I'd be using it all the time.

Some guy came up with a player for mobile phones, but unfortunately I live in the crappy world of $0.05/kb data rates.

Re: Promised Land

engtech — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:52:53 -0000

I'm really looking forward to digging through your designs and learning from them. Particularly the stuff about Template: Sandbox, etc.

I'm especially excited about learning about grids.

Re: Walk in the Shadows

engtech — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:49:48 -0000

There's a problem with category headings overriding category descriptions in FF.

Re: This is the last time, I swear

engtech — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:57:12 -0000

The biggest problem I've had with wordpress.com after blogging there for so long is that it completely cuts out what's easily the two absolutely strongest features of wordpress:

- plug-n-play themes
- plug-n-play plugins

Complete pain in the but most of the time.

Re: This is Amazing

engtech — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:10:42 -0000

have you ever played Electroplankton on the DS?

Similar idea... fun game but the inability to save keeps you from getting into it.

Re: MT4 and the WXR data silo

engtech — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:30:16 -0000

The prob with regexps is that they're tied to whatever text editor you're using. Each text editor changes the syntax slightly, which is a complete pain in the ass.

Re: Dammit Sony,

engtech — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:40:07 -0000

Can I run my laptop by plugin it into my belly button? That would be so cool.

Well, maybe not cool for people who have to watch.

Re: Music and Graphs

engtech — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:22:22 -0000

What I'm looking for is a way to integrate lastFM into my iTunes -- specifically I'd love to create smart playlists of music I have using lastFM's similar artists. The whole idea is to make your portable music player lastFMable.

I should build this.

Re: FriendFeed Adds Search, I Still Don’t Get It

engtech — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:04:29 -0000

I find it's the commenting feature that I like most.

They are sitting on a goldmine though. They're inches from becoming a very competitive news aggregator.

There's so much metadata about what people are sharing and liking that they can do things with.

Re: Help With AllFacebook Video

engtech — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:26:08 -0000

I like the idea of Facebook in the workplace. Here's some links I've come across on that subject:

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/24/12-ways-to...

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2007/07/...

http://compsci.ca/blog/my-job-is-more-addictive...

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/how-to-...

Re: Facebook’s Most Important Feature

engtech — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:15:50 -0000

That book just showed up on my reserve list at the library today :)

Re: Notes, WYSIWYG, and Clutter

engtech — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:11:09 -0000

Couldn't you embed a WYSIWYG editor into the notes using a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey?

Looks like this Greasemonkey extension would do it:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11065

Re: Facebook Gives Application Developers a Taste of SEO

engtech — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:49:49 -0000

this is really huge if you have a non-facebook audience / promotion already.

it also makes it easier for people to write about apps and link to them on blogs.

Re: 3 Ways To Make Akismet Even Better

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:05:55 -0000

I sent the same feedback to the Akismet team about trackbacks.

One thing I've made is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that let's you see 5x as much info in your Akismet spambox per screen of text.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/ak...

Re: 3 Ways To Make Akismet Even Better

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:11:36 -0000

Yup, that's correct.

The first link should work as well, except Wordpress.com has a bug at the moment where all pages are 404-ing (just started tonight).

The joy of running on the bleeding edge :)

Re: 7 Ways To Avoid Pointless Meetings

engtech — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:41:48 -0000

Thought you might like this post that sums up the kind of people who inhabit meetings:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/11/1...

Re: 6 Steps To Getting Back Into The Blog Saddle

engtech — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:06:25 -0000

That's a hard one, but there truly is something to be said for having less/better content. There are some great blogs I subscribe to that only post once a month or so...

Re: Develop Your Productivity Rhythm For Success

engtech — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:50:08 -0000

Another good tip is to leave email/RSS/etc until after you've achieve some goals. They can be distracting to your mental process and lead you off on tangents and down windy passage ways.

Re: Universities Need To Develop Entrepreneurs

engtech — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:00:40 -0000

I did co-op in Ottawa and I think part of the problem is that there isn't an abundance of jobs where being plugged in would matter.

I feel that there's always this stagnancy that prevents trying out technologies that aren't at least 5-10 years mature.

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Join a Startup

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:49:11 -0000

Ten Reasons Not to join a Startup
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/top-ten...

:)

Re: Startups Can Be Very Stressful, But…

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:11:47 -0000

Complete agreement that culture starts on day 1.

Which is something workers should always remind themselves... if the culture is already bad, when why would it ever improve?

I sometimes feel like I'm the only one complaining about issues and deficiencies I see... maybe a sign of a bad fit?

Re: Help Me Win a Blog Tournament!

engtech — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:52:28 -0000

Thanks for linking the post! I'm in that competition as well and I didn't know it started up.

Re: Warning: Do You Know Your Best Customers?

engtech — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:54:25 -0000

Have you read Made to Stick yet?

That's one of the things they highlighted -- that successful companies know exactly who their customers are, and even have names for them. So when it comes time to design features, or change something they can put themselves in the mindset of the customer.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

engtech — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:30:32 -0000

My tricks:

Having a single start page:
http://internetducttape.com/2007/09/25/blog-mai...

Posting to delicious and stumbleupon at the same time:
http://internetducttape.com/2007/09/14/deliciou...

Doing weekly round ups from my saved delicious links (saves a day of writing)

Commenting is essential to building relationships to other bloggers though.

Re: Standout Jobs Chosen as One of Canada’s Hottest Startups

engtech — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:00 -0000

Wrong url on cix.com

Re: My Technorati Favorites Exchange Program

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:00:06 -0000

username = engtech

http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://eng...

Re: My Technorati Favorites Exchange Program

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:42:07 -0000

I thought I'd make everyone's life a little bit easier:

Here is a program that will automatically favorite back everyone who has favorited you

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/technor...

Re: 2006/11/14/yourpitch-on-mashable/

engtech — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:31:40 -0000

That's not a bad idea.

cut-n-paste promo

----

But you can get that for free right here: link

Re: 2006/12/28/2007-predictions/

engtech — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:13:11 -0000

The trackback didn't seem to go through (and I probably screwed up the tag), so here's my predictions:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/tech-an...

Re: 2007/04/30/technorati-favorites/

engtech — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:22:51 -0000

I'm glad someone else sees that the real culprit here is Technorati making a system that is so easy to game.

Re: 2007/07/13/tagging-tools/

engtech — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:50:46 -0000

Here is a standalone program that works with any WordPress or WordPress Multiuser blog (including WordPress.com) to create tag clouds from your categories:

Tag Cloud Generator

Re: FriendFeed and 8 Other Lifestreaming Services

engtech — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:56:42 -0000

I've been hacking together some Greasemonkey scripts to add more features to Friend Feed. The better Twitter integration mashup is pretty good, as it lets you use Friend Feed as your Twitter client without going back and forth.

http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/27/greasemo...

Re: ReviewMe: First Impressions » Ajay - On the Road called Life

engtech — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:37:06 -0000

Hi AJ,

I agree that more work is needed. I wrote about it here.

I had the same N/A technorati 2 star problem you had, and submitted a bug report. My guess is that Technorati was "temporarily unavailable" (as usual) when we added our blogs.

Re: Technorati Authority in Free-fall

engtech — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:11:53 -0000

Yup, it is pretty bad.

I ended up giving up on them completely. My old url is still at around 1100 authority while the new one is only 300 authority.

Re: Technorati Authority in Free-fall

engtech — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:11:53 -0000

Yup, it is pretty bad.

I ended up giving up on them completely. My old url is still at around 1100 authority while the new one is only 300 authority.

Re: Wiki: the Beauty & the Beast. Usability & Functionality (Event)

engtech — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:33:47 -0000

Thank you for linking to me.

It's too bad wiki culture didn't adopt something like Markdown instead of their nonstandard, ever differentiating syntax. Markdown gives the ease of concise markup coupled with understanding and degrading to HTML.

Re: Wiki: the Beauty & the Beast. Usability & Functionality (Event)

engtech — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:33:47 -0000

Re: Become a Better Blogger With Free Goodies From Seth Godin, Aaron Wall and Yaro Starak!

engtech — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:22:45 -0000

Here's my comment in the post, and a link to my blog post about it:

http://internetducttape.com/2007/09/28/when-is-...

Re: Who is Technorati Trying to Reach

engtech — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:24 -0000

Yeah, they've been pretty useless since early 2007.

Re: Alert Thingy Helps Make FriendFeed Indispensible

engtech — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:17:52 -0000

Try the scripts at http://ffapps.com

You'll be surprised at some of the added functionality.

Re: What are Your Social Media Tasks

engtech — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:25 -0000

First in the day: netvibes which I have set up as a quick "check out the blog" as outlined here: http://internetducttape.com/2007/09/25/blog-mai...

Then it's usually Friend Feed to see what's new.

I have a few aggregator sites I use to check into communities.

I'm probably part of 5-6 distinct communities.

I use social media for personal use and to keep myself entertained.

Re: Sourceforge has new competition from Google

engtech — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:25:05 -0000

Thanks for the compliment!

Re: Sourceforge has new competition from Google

engtech — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:19:21 -0000

Check out the photos in his blog, esp. the cat. All you have to do is identify the cat, and cover is blown…

I'll drown him before you ever find me!

You'll never get me alive!

Re: The Geotagging evangelist

engtech — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:15:16 -0000

I can't wait until two things:

a) all cellphones have GPS built in

b) flat rate mobile internet plans are ubiquitous

Things are going to get pretty cool when you have mass instantaneous photoblogging with geotagged locations and time.

Went to a concert? Put in the time and the location and surf photos from strangers who were there.

Took a picture on your vacation? Surf photos of the same location.

It'll be even neater when photo auto-face tagging and auto-object tagging (much later) comes into play.

Re: Does Kiko predict more Web 2.0 failures?

engtech — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:19 -0000

I finally figured the secret to getting all my calendars to synchronize using Outlook, and open source software (Funambol).

I wrote up a guide on how to do it.

Re: Why I won’t use PayPerPost (and if I do, I will disclose)

engtech — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:50:19 -0000

I take the swag, I always list full disclosure that I was using a free sample. I even keep a page that lists all of the stuff I've received for free and links to the reviews.

I don't have the same moral qualms about it that you do. If I don't like something then I'm going to say it. On my reviews for my free Nokia phone I give lists of the people I think should be fired because of poor design decisions.

My rule of thumb is that all a "free sample" guarantees is a mention, and that's if I end up using it.

Re: Where’s the bloggers on new Acrobat?

engtech — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:28:01 -0000

I'm in the FoxIt camp as well.

Acrobat Reader is a bloated piece of dung I gave up on a long time ago. I don't want a PDF reader that tries to install toolbars, crashes my browser, and takes up 30+ MB of ram to read a 250kb file.

Re: How to beat Scoble on Wordpress.com

engtech — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:34:17 -0000

The Wordpress.com blogs of the day page is age and traffic based. In order to hit the top 100 you need a popular post that was written in the past month or so.

My blog is at 6600+ page views today because an older post got picked up on lifehacker.com, digg.com etc. But it isn't showing up in the top 100 (or rather, I just sneaked in position 85 because of side traffic) because the post is old.

Which is as it should be, but a side effect is that stuff will only show up on the Top Blogs if you have an immediate audience for new posts.

Re: How to beat Scoble on Wordpress.com

engtech — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:10:20 -0000

Does anyone else think it’s odd that Scoble actually tracks whether or not he is #1 on Wordpress.com all the time?

Not really. Wordpress.com has some great statistics features and they're ridiculously addictive to check all the time.

Re: How to beat Scoble on Wordpress.com

engtech — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:57:07 -0000

Blatant self-promotion on

A lot of people are talking about how great Wordpress.com is, and I agree. I've got a collection of Wordpress Tips you might find interesting.

Of special note is a project I've been working on to create a spreadsheet of all the features for the available Wordpress.com themes (you can't install Themes on wordpress.com, you have to use one of the default ones).

You also might be interested in the Alt-B trick in the Wordpress.com rich text editor that let's you cut-and-paste from Word documents without having any formating issues.

I've also got some greasemonkey/perl scripts in the works (not yet released). That's how I do things like have a tag cloud and a list of all posts by title even though Wordpress.com doesn't support those features.

Blatant self-promotion off

Re: More about finding good stuff from Demo

engtech — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:34:02 -0000

I think that part of the problem is that "demo" is a common word.

This was the reason why I hated the scripting language "expect". Very common word, very hard to direct your search towards it.

Re: PS3’s go on preorder sales tomorrow…

engtech — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:12:35 -0000

I'm pretty annoyed that these game consoles that are now also "networked media players" are so restricted in what they can play.

There's absolutey no reason that I should be able to listen to internet radio or play any frickin' video format I want to on my X-Box 360.

Re: Scrybe gets you organized

engtech — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:04:45 -0000

I've got some comments with the author of Scrybe here.

Re: New audience metric needed: engagement

engtech — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:54:12 -0000

I was thinking about this the other day from the point of view of blog promotion.

Social networks are fine and dandy, but the ideal audience for a blogger is other bloggers because they can link, they are likely to get involved, and they have their own audience.

Re: My thoughts about Zune vs. iPod

engtech — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:48:26 -0000

Nothing to add, I just wanted to say kudos to a really good comparison.

Re: "Vox"ing our private blogs

engtech — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:02:18 -0000

Wordpress does have private blogs.

You can set your blog to private and then add users who can read it, or set up a password so that anyone with the password can view the posts.

Re: "Vox"ing our private blogs

engtech — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:06:02 -0000

Dashboard >> Options >> Privacy >> I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose

Then you can add up to 35 users (or unlimited users with a yearly fee)

Re: "Vox"ing our private blogs

engtech — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:07:42 -0000

Oh, okay.

Yeah, per post would be good. Like the flickr Friends/Family thing.

The closest WP has is Post Passwords.. so you can password protect individual posts.

Re: Dave Winer was right about river reading

engtech — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:57:48 -0000

There's a really annoying Google Reader bug where you can't delete a feed.

One prob I have with the "river of news" style is that I really need to be able to make some feeds as "more relevant" than others.

There's stuff you browse, and stuff you devour.

Re: Dave Winer was right about river reading

engtech — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:56:19 -0000

@scoble(#2) - multiple accounts becomes a headache because of trying to keep them open at the same time (at least it can with multiple Gmail accounts).

@jay(#26) - I'm going to try that.

Re: Dave Winer was right about river reading

engtech — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:36:09 -0000

update to #49

Using tags for river-of-news works well. I had to throw away the Reader-in-Gmail Greasemonkey extension because it only allows all tags.

I still have problems with that one feed I can't delete. I can't change tags on it either. GRRR.

Re: Add Microsoft Live to your blog

engtech — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:52:20 -0000

The reason why WP.com doesn't allow external javascript is because it would be trivial to read login cookies.

Someone could embed javascript on their blog and get the accounts for any wordpress.com user who visited it.

I like to look at it this way: no javascript means I avoid all that blogger bling that piles up and makes your site look like crap.

Re: Why I do long videos and tell mass audiences to go elsewhere

engtech — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:34:22 -0000

“Surfing porn shootout: Firefox 2 vs. IE 7″

Didn't Techcrunch already post that?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/11/porn-brows...

;)

Re: A "Sphereiment" — what do you think?

engtech — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:14:21 -0000

I really like the UI for it. It's hidden unless you want to click on it... the only problem is the results suck. :)

Too big too soon, they might want to try this on smaller blogs until they get the "relatedness" algorithm right.

Re: Too fast for Google Reader?

engtech — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:39:53 -0000

I've found some moments where I get nothing but the red "Oops, try again later" that means nothing is being saved.

Which means that the great Google Overlord has decided it's time to walk away from the computer and do something productive.

Re: Cool Wordpress.com feature (tag pages)

engtech — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:03:48 -0000

my fav tags:

http://wordpress.com/tag/engtecharticles
http://wordpress.com/tag/engtechblogging
http://wordpress.com/tag/engtechcommentary
http://wordpress.com/tag/engtechlinks
;)

I also have a greasemonkey script to make it easier to deal with lots of tags/categories: http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/wp...

Re: The difference between TechCrunch and Valleywag

engtech — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:14:48 -0000

Nice summary of the two sites.

Re: Zuma champion on ScobleShow

engtech — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:38:41 -0000

Oh man.

I have a very similar version this game for MAME and my girlfriend went nuts with it.

I have to get this.

Re: I love reading feeds

engtech — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:39:08 -0000

I had to give up on your linkblog. Too much. I did see cool stuff in there while I was subscribed though.

I'd like to share mine, but I don't like the fact that Reader publicizes my name.

Re: Matt Cutts wins my “corporate blog of the week” award for Google

engtech — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:38:26 -0000

I read 14 of those "good blogs you aren't reading."

Not that obscure of a list, really.

Re: Niall sends Microsoft team a porn message

engtech — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:37:18 -0000

Just a reminder to read the comment #68, Niall's response.

One salient point:

A few months ago Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake swapped one of her Flickr photos after improper use on Om Malik's blog, placing the word "GOATSE" in big letters in place of her picture of an awning of the Brickhouse restaurant in San Francisco. Photo swapping is a definite way to grab the attention of the site misusing your content. The Goatse meme is particularly apt for cases of direct or attempted IP theft.

Re: Signs you’ve been blogging too much

engtech — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:08:49 -0000

There was a good postsecret a few months back on blogger's remorse:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/wordpre...

Re: Getting kicked off of Wikipedia for “not being notable”

engtech — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:06:14 -0000

I hope they don't delete Ze Frank.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/on-wiki...

Re: Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog

engtech — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:14:06 -0000

first three are completely on point.

I'd like to add: buy your own domain name ASAP. So that when you eventually change blog domains, etc, etc you can just move your domain and keep all of your backlink history. I took me about four months to get under 10,000 on the technorati rank, and that would all be wiped out if I moved off of wordpress.com

I have some title resources here: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/the-sec...

Re: The geek wedding of the decade

engtech — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:49:51 -0000

Someone should pay him to write something on his chest for the honeymoon: http://rentmychest.com

:)

have fun!

Re: Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog

engtech — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:57:20 -0000

Further comment on #2:

I think niche is the secret to getting a lot of RSS readers.

If you stick to your niche, people will read your feed religiously because they're interested in the subject. If you write all over the place (like I do) then you'll constantly lose subscribers as your focus changes from things that interest them to things that don't.

I started in a small niche and then got addicted to traffic and started writing content/how-to guides for search traffic -- specifically info I thought was hard to find on the net. While I find all my posts interesting, I think the average reader is probably only interested in every 1 out of 5. So even though I get around 3,000-4,000 page views a day, the actually number of engaged returning readers (which is the most important metric) is much lower.

Re: HDTV’s flying off store shelves…

engtech — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:26:49 -0000

Anyone have good resources for someone looking to buy a widescreen HD-TV?

(IE: can I use your research? :) )

Re: HDTV’s flying off store shelves…

engtech — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:00:15 -0000

the reason to get HD-TV is xbox 360 :)

Re: Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog

engtech — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:01:22 -0000

holy friggin trackback from hell!

Re: The new definitive Web 2007 blog

engtech — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:22:53 -0000

I've given up on the idea of tracking web 2.0 companies. There's too many of them, and who knows which ones will be important in 5 years time?

Re: I’ve been Stumbling through the Web

engtech — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:26:37 -0000

I like what they've done.

It has some rough edges, but it is fairly low entry. buzz.stumbleupon.com always shows some cool stuff.

Some things I'd love fixing:
- if you cut and paste from a wordpress.com blog post to your stumble page you'll get escaped characters for all of the "' etc
- handle images wider than 715px. So frustrating.

I think I've gotten somewhere around 50,000+ page views on my blog from stumbleupon.

Re: My head hurts from hanging out at Google all day

engtech — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:31:26 -0000

Two interesting uses of google co-op:

#1: make a customized search engine of all the websites you visit (ie: your OPML file or something). Then when you know you read something somewhere, it's easier to track down.

#2: make a customized search engine of your various web presences. easier to track everything you've written on a subject.

Re: PodTech moves on Ryanne and Jay

engtech — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:34:02 -0000

Hiring cool people is the first step to starting a successful company. You know that. :)

Re: The link blog effect

engtech — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:15:54 -0000

Re: partial feeds vs full feeds

It's an argument between "slightly inconveniencing spammers who don't care" and "grossly annoying your readers".

It makes perfect sense that RSS linkblog content would translate immediately to subscribers -- it's an audience that already uses RSS.

I'm interested in seeing how "A VC's" experiment in advertising his blog through the Feedburner network works.

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/01/a_feed_subscr...

Re: Hey Microsoft: look to Krugle for your search woes (at least for your developers)

engtech — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:46:44 -0000

I question the amount of traffic going through Technorati search. I've been in the top results on the top search term this week and I'm seeing less than 30 referral clicks a day.

Do people still use blog search or do they stick with aggregators?

I wrote about it here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/does-te...

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:35:32 -0000

Robert was the first "big" link I ever got, when my blog was only a couple of months old.

The fact that I was hosted on wordpress.com also and my article had been popular enough to show up in the dashboard helped him discover me, but quite a few times I've found smaller blogs because of his links.

Re: Pissing off the blogosphere…

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:39:05 -0000

How Not To Throw Yourself Under a Bus:

If you think there's a story here, ask someone else to read/investigate it, or use someone else / a company you aren't affiliated with as the example.

Using yourself as the example is always going to come across as naval-gazing / self-obsessed on some level and will put an immediate negative spin on what may be a valid issue.

Re: Comparing blog search engines for Seagate news

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:45:23 -0000

I posted some thoughts on Technorati search last week:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/does-te...

Re: I removed Snap’s previews from here

engtech — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:42:41 -0000

I'd hate to be in their shoes right now. So few people like their widget.

The only good use I've seen of it is hovering over an image preview to see a larger version of it.

If you have a tendency to read blogs as their published it's doubly useless because the preview is never there.

Re: What videos cause you to comment?

engtech — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:14:56 -0000

People will comment when they can find something to get angry/opinionated/rant about.

True about blog posts too.

Re: Signs blog is boring: cute cat photos?

engtech — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:42:02 -0000

Robert, your post cut me like a knife.

Re: Signs blog is boring: cute cat photos?

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:25:34 -0000

Way to let the "cat" out of the bag. :)

http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2007/02/12/...

Re: Signs blog is boring: cute cat photos?

engtech — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:42:23 -0000

Cats pretend they have a lot of dignity, but they’re more prone to silly situations than one’s drunk uncle at a wedding with a loose belt.

Which explains why I have a cat as my mascot. :)

Re: What is social media?

engtech — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:42:38 -0000

The only thing the term Social Media has going for it is that the abbreviation is S&M.

But very good post.

Re: Adobe enters feed reader race

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:22:41 -0000

I've got my link blog at http://del.icio.us/engtech/linkblog that I repost weekly on my main blog http://engtech.wordpress.com/tag/engtechlinks

I'm playing around with republishing it immediately on blogger at http://techilicious.blogspot.com but I haven't gotten the kinks worked out yet. I'll probably also republishing choice diggs there as well.

Re: Dow Jones VP on search industry

engtech — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:26:38 -0000

So the dip is your fault.

:)

Your video isn't showing up in the RSS feed. Might want to send some WP feedback.

Re: Meeting the geek behind TwitterVision

engtech — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:54:15 -0000

Twittervision is cool. I wonder if Twitter will end up banning RSS broadcasts once it becomes more popular?

Re: Smilebox makes me smile

engtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:58:28 -0000

Another thanks for the shorter videos.

I'm still not watching them, but it makes me smile that they're there.

:)

Here's a link to smilebox: http://smilebox.com/ (love the mascot)

More about pair programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_Programming

If everyone pair programmed then programming.reddit.com would not exist.

Re: Does Twitter make you a better blogger?

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:45:39 -0000

It's a better place for asides than in a blog, that's for sure.

http://twitter.com/engtech

Re: What a lens!

engtech — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:48:13 -0000

robert: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/27/w...

Re: Taking the week off

engtech — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:46:31 -0000

@Jeff Hume:
"You say “The fact that there are places for assholes to post on the Internet helps this stuff fester”, but how can this be realistically stopped without having a significant and unreasonable screening process for any website that allows comments?"

Lifehacker does it with a large user base. The secret to implementing it is that if someone gets Digged down enough they should get banned from commenting.

"To call for a boycott on Digg is furthermore ridiculous. Why should Digg be boycotted because a few idiot users have said these things and their comments have already been dugg down, demonstrating that the vast majority of digg users are against this kind of thing."

Yes, but every Digg story has commenters like that. They're drawn to Digg like a month to flamewars.

Re: Taking the week off

engtech — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:21:49 -0000

@scoble: Some thoughts on ways to "fix" the Digg comment system to be less abusive.

Re: Lots of interesting technologists on ScobleShow

engtech — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:31:45 -0000

The Spolsky video is really good. I highly recommend it.

Re: Lots of interesting technologists on ScobleShow

engtech — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:32:20 -0000

Especially the the long version of the Spolsky video.

Re: I finally get “semantic” Web

engtech — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:42:59 -0000

This is how I look at the semantic web: it's all Legos.

With the current web your individual blocks are things like posts, comments, bookmarks, etc. You have tools like RSS, XML and JSON to put the blocks together (ie: Yahoo Pipes)

These blocks are big and they only come in a few basic colours. They are the Legos of the 1970s.

With the semantic web it is like modern Legos. The blocks are smaller, and come in many more different sizes and shapes. It makes it easier to build more detailed and complex structures.

Re: Google to penalize bloggers selling links?

engtech — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:37:36 -0000

Anything that requires human intervention ultimately won't work (nature of the beast)... but from the sounds of it they are just looking for samples -- this isn't the solution, they are just grabbing data points to further tweak their algorithms.

Tony is right in saying that underhanded link selling will always go on in some form. I always think of SEO as "socially engineering others" -- finding ways to convince people to link to you so that the search engine ranks you higher. But Google has to crush the current crop of PPP's and ReviewMe's and keep it underground.

Re: Blogging burnout

engtech — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:57:51 -0000

It's all Twitter's fault.

http://twitter.com/et

Re: Blogging burnout

engtech — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:59:45 -0000

But more seriously, don't worry about it. When you're busy take the time off the blog. The fact that the Internet keeps going without you is one of the hardest things to remember, but it's very true.

Don't worry about keeping on top of everything and put your attention where it is warranted.

And congratulations on the success with your video show. I finally checked it out for the first time (the Spolsky interview) and I really liked it.

Re: Everything is Miscellaneous, great read

engtech — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:10:41 -0000

I just starting diving in to Made To Stick last night.

So far I'd recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-...

Re: If I wanted to have lots of traffic…

engtech — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:22:09 -0000

The other option is to embrace our new cat overlords.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/contest...

Re: If I wanted to have lots of traffic…

engtech — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:42:36 -0000

@colin: icanhascheeseburger is a VIP site with ads allowed.

Re: Am I getting “blog fatigue?”

engtech — Sat, 12 May 2007 17:29:30 -0000

Ivan: I agree. I’ve been pouring most of my heart into the video show. That requires me to be away from the keyboard. Doing good blogging requires you to be at the keyboard.

Don't feel bad about ignoring blogging for what is essentially your job.

Re: What will Steve Jobs kill next?

engtech — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:34:13 -0000

The founder of Palm carried a block of wood the size of a Palm with him in his pocket. Every now and then he'd pull it out and pretend to use it. If someone asked him about a new feature then he'd pull it out and ask where would it fit.

This is how Palm was able to succeed at a time when all the other competitors were trying to create a miniature computer. Because they got that portability was what was important and you could leave out features if it meant that you fit in a pocket.

Re: The Wii isn’t hurting Xbox? Really?

engtech — Sun, 13 May 2007 09:44:50 -0000

Xbox360 and PS3 are handing over marketshare to the Wii -- they have almost 0 "living room multiplayer" games [1]. Everything is multiplayer over Xbox Live.

It's bad when a friend considers buying a second Xbox just so that he can play games with his roommate.

Wii is the only console that gets that playing video games can be a social activity.

1: I own Small Arms, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Lego Star Wars 2, Rockstar Pingpong... but what other good games are there for playing with a friend sitting beside you?

Re: I’ve lost control of my comments…

engtech — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:28:15 -0000

I was trying yesterday to write a program to automatically turn off comments on all posts that are older than 60 days just to make managing spam less work.

I'm at 1500 spam in akismet a day now.

Re: I’ve lost control of my comments…

engtech — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:25 -0000

@robert:

So I just wrote a program for Wordpress.com blogs that turns off comments for all posts older than 60 days (using XML-RPC). I'll do a study over a few weeks to see if that drops my spam levels (1500/day right now) to something more manageable. If it is worth doing, then I'll release the program.

Cheers.

Re: The counterpoint to Mike’s post…

engtech — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:25:08 -0000

If I could go back to 2002 I think I should have taken that job at Bioware.

Re: If Technorati can beat Google, why can’t Microsoft or Yahoo?

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:39:25 -0000

Technorati Favorites and Favorites RSS feed still doesn't list all the updates from blogs you've favorited.

It picks a handful of your favorites and those are the only ones it shows:

http://technorati.com/faves/engtech
http://engtech-favs.tumblr.com/

Re: 24 hours of comment spam: 6,607

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:44:09 -0000

@chrisg: this is a Firefox extension that does something similiar.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/ak...

Re: Google beats Technorati in uptime

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:27:15 -0000

Thanks for the link, Robert.

You were one of the first to link to engtech.wordpress.com and now you're the first to link to my new domain, internetducttape.com

---

Your ending reminds me of a quote from billg:

"Features are kind of crummy in a way, because the more features you have, the bigger the manual is. And features are only beneficial if people take the time to use them, wheras speed — if you can print the pages faster, or show it on the screen faster, or recalc it faster — that’s worth an incredible amount. If you can give the users a few simple commands and make the program efficient enough to do what they want with those few commands, then you’re much better off. One sign of very good programs is that even internally they follow that philosophy of simplicity. If they want to do something complex, they call the code with simple operations internally, rather than doing the complex operation from scratch." Bill Gates, P78, Programmers at Work

Re: Another reason I use Google Reader…

engtech — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:30:50 -0000

There is some issues with occasional gmail outages, though.

Re: Is Facebook worth the hype?

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:08:56 -0000

Something like 1/3 of Canadians are on Facebook. It's ridiculous here. You can't go anywhere without overhearing a conversation about Facebook. It's been like this for a few months.

---

Robert, I think you'll like this. It's a Yahoo Pipe that'll give you some nice links to the latest items from your link blog that you can cut and paste into a post.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=fsgC...

Re: Is Facebook worth the hype?

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:11:45 -0000

Ok, just saw the real numbers for Canadians and it's only a meager 9% of our population on Facebook.

Re: Flickr Ticker and more from the feeds

engtech — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:00:14 -0000

I closed comments on all posts over 60 days old on my wordpress.com blog (or rather, I wrote a program to do it for me).

I went from 1500 spam per day to 10 spam per day.

Re: Do Pageflakes and Netvibes have any chance against Facebook?

engtech — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:12:27 -0000

I put together a handy dandy guide explaining the various privacy settings associate with Facebook applications:

http://internetducttape.com/2007/07/23/howto-co...

Re: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 a month later

engtech — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:46:42 -0000

This is a common problem I've had with Nokia phones.

They need to sit their butts down and draw a map of the user interface. Then they'll realize how many friggin' clicks it takes to do anything.

Another pet peeve is that I can't turn the Loudspeaker on until AFTER the phone call has connected to a tower. WTF? That's precisely when I want to use the loudspeaker -- while waiting to connect.

Re: Danah is confused by Facebook’s fans

engtech — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:35:23 -0000

Definite agreement that the Facebook privacy settings are too damned hard.

Re: The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?

engtech — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0000

I haven't been in Google Reader this week.

FriendFeed all the way.

Re: The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks

engtech — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:56:17 -0000

I think Friend Feed is going to provide a better open social network than OpenSocial ever will.

Re: I’ve redesigned

engtech — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:17:11 -0000

I haven't tried to kick the tires, but I do like it.

Re: The First FriendFeed Event: MSFT and YHOO

engtech — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:23:35 -0000

possibly related posts at it's best: Hey Hog, Stay Away from the Chunky Chews!

Re: The First FriendFeed Event: MSFT and YHOO

engtech — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:25:14 -0000

I find with all this stuff I'm less interested in the news/speculation, and more interested in how this impacts my life.

What does this mean for Flickr, Delicious, Pipes and Firebug? Those are the pieces of Yahoo that have an impact on my life.

Unfortunately, only time will tell.

Re: Spammers Force MyBlogLog to Update Features

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:14:58 -0000

By switching your blog name temporarily to a wordpress.com blog you can get a no-javascript / image only version of the MyBlogLog widget.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/myblogl...

Re: MyBlogLog a Bunch of Schmoes?

engtech — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:59:12 -0000

What is the advantage to the user for tagging other blogs?

I can view my communities sorted by tags?

I'm confused.

Re: Reviews and Predictions

engtech — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:49 -0000

Don't forget to check this list at the end of 2007 :)

Re: The Long Tail of Commenting: Never Blog Alone

engtech — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:34:56 -0000

Cool stats, what is the time period? (hits since the blog started?)

Re: RSS: Make your Feed Link Obvious

engtech — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:48:20 -0000

I've had mine at the top, but now I'm wondering why I never put it in the bottom before.

Good thinking!

Re: Blog Jargon: What’s a Trackback? Permalink? Post slug? Ping?

engtech — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:29:34 -0000

My outgoing trackbacks have been broken on my wordpress.com blog for awhile.

Does anyone know of a third party tool I could run on the blog to automatically generate trackbacks?

Re: Blog Jargon: What’s a Trackback? Permalink? Post slug? Ping?

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:12:47 -0000

It's something that's borked for specific WP.com users.

I've done testing and it looks like my trackbacks ARE working if I send them manually, it's the automatic pingbacks that are broken for me.

Re: Post Links from Del.icio.us to your Blog Automatically

engtech — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:21:19 -0000

And the next step is to change the CSS for the del.icio.us links :) http://engtech.wordpress.com

I also set it up so that they don't show up in my feedburner feed, only in my site... then I do a weekly recap on saturdays.

Re: 2,000 Bloggers Gaming Technorati? Waaaaah!

engtech — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:06:47 -0000

My post on the subject:

In Defense of 2000 bloggers

Re: links for 2007-02-19

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:41:55 -0000

I'm a huge stumbler as well -- http://ninetimessix.stumbleupon.com

Re: Using Technorati’s API and PHP

engtech — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:44:32 -0000

I wonder how the Dapper guys are doing it? Maybe they only check once a day and cache the results.

Dapper Screen Scraping for any Site

Re: Why am I on BlogBurst?

engtech — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:14:13 -0000

Blog Burst turned me down. :)

Re: WordPress: How to Build a Tag Cloud Page

engtech — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:16:23 -0000

If you're running a blog on Wordpress Multi-user (where you don't have the ability to add Javascript or Plug-ins) there is a 3rd party program you can use for tag clouds:

http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/ta...

Re: Customize your Firefox Search Box (with your own Blog!)

engtech — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:50:16 -0000

I find that google site searches (using the site: keyword) usually gives a better result than using the Wordpress internal search.

Re: They’re doing what?!

engtech — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:12:51 -0000

One thing I've noticed when when taking over internal software projects is that there's rarely anything to indicate where to get started. If it's well documented there might be 20 documents but none of them say "READ ME FIRST!"

I always end up converting all of the word/pdf docs to text so that I can grep.

Re: Technorati Rank WordPress Plugin Version 2 Released!

engtech — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:40:01 -0000

Isn't bittbox awesome?

Man, that site is an inspiration.

Re: What a difference a Smile makes!

engtech — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:58:40 -0000

I got the same thing from the picture of my cat. :)

At what point does it reach cult status?

Re: Took a Blog Break!

engtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:28:02 -0000

Guest blogging is still work. The thing is that you're not as likely to get as experience of a blogger as you are -- it's usually newer bloggers who want to guest blog. There's more communication to deal with as well.

Re: links for 2007-03-23

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:06:35 -0000

Someone is going to get dumped when they start wearing a "2 Diggs" t-shirt.

Re: Google Blogbar

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:40:21 -0000

Might want to add some space underneath it... it's running into the Related Posts title under Firefox 2.0.0.3

Re: I Know Who I’m Voting For

engtech — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:40:53 -0000

Old Christopher Walken or New Christopher Walken?

He's done so many bad movies in the past few years.

Re: Kiss Theory Good Bye: The Five Crippling Habits of Companies

engtech — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:47:56 -0000

dang. my local library doesn't have it.

I'm 100% with you on that top 5. I'm going through a "let's ignore our last post mortem and repeat the same problems" at my startup right now. ugh.

Re: NoIndex your Feed on FeedBurner

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:02:47 -0000

Feedburner is also a PR 8 site so those links are some nice juice. Although, I'm not sure how click-tracking comes into play.

Re: Import your Google Reader Feeds into Technorati Favorites

engtech — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:37:08 -0000

GREAT tip!

I've been wondering how to do this, and I was thinking about doing an app.

My only thought is that this probably doesn't handle Feedburner feeds properly?

Re: Even the Big Boys forget Usability!

engtech — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:37:28 -0000

little known fact: I'm the reason why the delete button turns red.

because I don't know how to read the difference between delete and save :(

Re: No Better Birthday Present! 500 Feed Readers!

engtech — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:52:16 -0000

gratz on lvl

Re: links for 2007-04-21

engtech — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:42:42 -0000

Hi Doug,

you can get an RSS feed of all stories submitted and then put that into an RSS widget in your sidebar.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=pMb8...

Re: Autographed Book Giveaway!

engtech — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:31:43 -0000

Thanks Doug, looking forward to reading it.

Re: Jaiku or Twitter

engtech — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:36:33 -0000

Interestingly enough, I think it's the ability to republish feeds that make these new apps interesting. Jaiku has native RSS republishing, while Twitter needs a 3rd party like twitterfeed.com or rss2twitter.com

My money is on Tumblr for the win though. Tumblr does a very good job of microblogging, and they just added friends lists and mobile texting options.

Re: Jaiku or Twitter

engtech — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:36:49 -0000

http://engtech.tumblr.com

Re: No Parking

engtech — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:42:53 -0000

The reason why they do it is simple. Like most abusive relationships the regular customers keep on coming back.

Things like this unfortunately happen all the time, some restaurants give priority to delivery/pickup versus their in house customers (I once had a 2 hour wait because of this).

As a customer the only thing we can do is vote with our feet, and be very vocal about it. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

The sad thing about the parking garage situation is that they usually are the best option (price or location) so they have you over a barrel.

Re: Seeking: Online Email Preview Tool

engtech — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:07:02 -0000

That would be a really simple Greasemonkey javascript

You're almost there, just insert the alt tag as the nextSibling.

then put it on userscripts.org :)

You could also use Greasemonkey to XPI or whatever it is called to make it a proper standalone Firefox extension.

Re: Does Keeping Up Mean Staying Home?

engtech — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:28:56 -0000

This is why I'm "anti-breaking-news".

There's always breaking news, trying to keep on top of it at all times is nigh impossible. Focusing on learning, skill development, and what you can take away from it makes much more sense in the long term.

Re: Please Tell Me Why I Suck!

engtech — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:21:08 -0000

You may have hit the six month barrier.

Technorati only counts links in the past six months, so that means in order for your rank to keep increasing you need to always surpass whatever rate of links you were getting six months ago.

I found that things got really slow between 1900-2100... then 1450-1900 went pretty fast.

Then I got sick of it all :)

Re: Blog-Tipping: Technical Itch

engtech — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:57:09 -0000

I'm really loving your new series on blog tipping, Doug.

Re: links for 2007-07-24

engtech — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:51:48 -0000

Yeah, Digg used to be good for secondary links because big blogs like LifeHacker would patrol digg for good stuff... but not so much anymore.

StumbleUpon... meh, never really seen it useful for anything other than traffic.

Re: links for 2007-07-22

engtech — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:14:52 -0000

Regular expressions are probably the best thing I've ever learned (which is sad in a way).

I remember writing my own string tokenizers in C in university... what a waste of time.

Re: Browser Wars: Internet Explorer continues to Lose to Firefox, What’s Safari?

engtech — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:13:37 -0000

I was recently reading on Lifehacker comments that the w3schools stats aren't that good because they're all focused on people who do web design -- which is a much higher rate of firefox adoption than other demographics.

Haven't dug enough into it yet.

Re: Do you fear The Number 23?

engtech — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:15:50 -0000

Is it a US only contest?

Re: Why Are the Top Technorati Blogs Still Dominated by Tech/Geek and Politics?

engtech — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:07:12 -0000

How many people do you know who read blogs regularly who aren't interested in tech/politics?

How many people do you know who have a blog they can link to other blogs and aren't interested in tech/politics?

Technorati is all about links. If you write content that other people link to you will go far. If your audience doesn't have a blog of their own then they can't link to you -- you are doomed to be at the bottom rung of the technorati ladder.

Re: Google’s Video PlusBox May Be Its Most Disruptive Feature Ever

engtech — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:51:56 -0000

I think this is a good move by google. Why should they sent traffic to blogs/sites that are just displaying the same videos as YouTube/Google Video but with ads?

This is good for Google, good for the user who is trying to find the video, but not so good for the person trying to make money off of someone else's video.

oh well.

Re: AS3 Flash9 Commodore 64 Emulator

engtech — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:28:40 -0000

I've seen at least one blog that completely emulates the C64 layout... I wonder if this is what they use?

Re: 11 Tips to Enhance Your Digg User Experience (and Hopefully Bring You Front Page Fame)

engtech — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:22:52 -0000

Definitely a great post.

One thing I've noticed is no mention of soliciting diggs via email/twitter/other sites?

Is this an ok thing in digg culture or is it considered a no-no?

I've tried it maybe 5-6 times, but then again I've also been autobanned on digg. I've seen other people do it with great success.

What I've come up with as a happy medium is a sidebar widget that mentions if any of my posts are on digg/reddit at the moment... so users can check them out if they want.

Re: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose

engtech — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:32:38 -0000

Good luck getting the message through, unfortunately I think the issues with burying are locked in stone. If you're a content creator then that's as good as being a spammer in some people's books.

Re: How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

engtech — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:35:00 -0000

(this is rapidly turning into its own blogpost)

If you read Twitter somewhere else, click Hide under a Twitter link and choose Hide Service. Twitter accounts for 50% of the traffic in your Friend Stream, and it becomes much more manageable without it.

I manage Friend Feed information overload with the help of several scripts in Firefox:

Remove visited links:
If I've visited a site before, it'll get hidden in Friend Feed. This way if I go to digg/reddit/SU before Friend Feed, I don't see duplicates.

http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/27/greasemo...

Show the domain:
You can't underestimate HOW something as simple as showing the domain name beside a link makes it easier to scroll through the information.

http://ffapps.com/showdomains/

Filter By Service:
Puts handy links for filtering by each service in the sidebar.

http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/20/greasemo...

Persistent Searches:
Save searches so you can revisit them. Here's a secret, it's a great tool for tracking your favorite users too.

http://ffapps.com/stickysearch/

Pagerization

Infinite scroll!

http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/28/friendfe...

ok, I'm probably going to be flagged as spam now. I'll write a post about it :)

Re: Should Wikipedia Be Removed From Google’s Results?

engtech — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:33:16 -0000

I'm ok with it showing up in the search results, but only for real articles, not stubs. The easy way to handle competing on a stub would be to delete the stub on Wikipedia :)

The wikipedia nofollow plugin is a good idea... what's crazy is the amount of Page Rank social bookmarking sites get from all those "Digg This" etc links -- adding nofollow to them as well is a good idea.

Re: Full Feed Or Partial Feed? What’s Your Flavour?

engtech — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:11:00 -0000

I end up unsubscribing from partial feed blogs after a while. Too much of a pain in the butt to read.

Skimming with full feeds is quite easy with Google Reader. You just hit "J" to go to the next post.

If full feeds are hard to skim that's more of an issue with the feed reading software.

Re: Feedburner To Include Google Reader And Homepage Subs

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:06:12 -0000

I had a 33% increase.

Re: How To Remove “On Behalf Of” Messages From Gmail

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:08:44 -0000

I hate this too. I'll see what I can come up with and if I find anything I'll email you.

Re: Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Problogger?

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:14:47 -0000

I'm happy that I've gotten myself into the top Technorati 2500, but I know that if I "went pro" I'd lose a lot of the mojo I get out of doing this as a hobby.

Re: NSFW: BioShock Xbox 360 Trailer

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:15:52 -0000

I was playing the Crackdown demo like crazy over the weekend, and picked it up yesterday.

So many of my 360 games have been duds... looking forward to getting into Crackdown.

Re: Xbox 360 To Be Silenced Through Software Update?

engtech — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:28:37 -0000

I hope so. I was up late playing Crackdown with the sound off and I couldn't get over how loud the thing was.

Re: Guide To Reducing WordPress Trackback Spam And Comment Spam

engtech — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:10:33 -0000

Banning .info and .biz really reduced my list of false positives.

Re: Do You Moderate Comments?

engtech — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:00:26 -0000

I use Akismet, and on top of that I hand-moderate all comments with links.

I will delete comments by trolls. Some people are just rude, especially if a post got a lot of traffic from Digg or Slashdot.

Re: Which Social Networks Are You Active In?

engtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:22:06 -0000

MyBlogLog and Facebook.

Playing around with Twitter a bit.

Active on StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit but you didn't ask that. :)

Re: It’s Computer Shutdown Day Today…So I Bought A Playstation 3!

engtech — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:16:20 -0000

Better than me. I rented Viva Pinata, and then ended up using the computer anyways. :)

Re: Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment

engtech — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:50:47 -0000

Does the Firefox SearchStatus extension work for increasing Alexa rank of the sites you visit, or is it only the IE toolbar?

date: 26/03/07
Rank: 40,456

Re: Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment

engtech — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:57:39 -0000

I think it would count as a link to alexa -- but that doesn't really matter because all of the comments are usually nofollowed anyways.

Re: Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment

engtech — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:06:36 -0000

encouraging your readers to use the Alexa toolbar increases your rank because, well, they're reading your site with it.

If they don't use the toolbar then your rank doesn't benefit from those readers.

The redirect thing is to tell Alexa "look, I'm getting traffic!!!" (it doesn't use the toolbar), which only goes to show how dumb the entire Alexa traffic rating system is (much like Technorati rank).

Re: MBL Community: Dan & Jennifer Dating Channel

engtech — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:42:56 -0000

Awesome stuff.

Re: Congratulations Daniel On Becoming A Full-Time Blogger

engtech — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:09:04 -0000

Definite congrats are in order. Daniel has a great, great blog.

I sometimes think that the boredom of traditional jobs is what fuels a lot of bloggers.

Re: Google Cartoon

engtech — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:46:46 -0000

Good idea.

Where you wouldn't want someone to cut-and-paste several of your articles for your blog, you'd be fine with them hosting some of your cartoons with a link back.

Re: The MyBlogLog Avatar Contest!

engtech — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:31:04 -0000

you can resist the kitty

Re: Ultimate Technorati Faves Exchange

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:37:08 -0000

I'm in.

http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://eng...

Re: Technorati Most Faved List

engtech — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:57:54 -0000

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Re: The MyBlogLog Avatar Contest!

engtech — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:31:04 -0000

you can resist the kitty

Re: Ultimate Technorati Faves Exchange

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:37:08 -0000

I'm in.

http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://eng...

Re: Technorati Most Faved List

engtech — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:57:54 -0000

Re: Technorati Favorites exchange

engtech — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:49:15 -0000

username = engtech

http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://eng...

Re: Technorati Favorites exchange

engtech — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:34:42 -0000

I thought I'd make everyone's life a little bit easier:

Here is a program that will automatically favorite back everyone who has favorited you

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/technor...