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Re: Facebook – who, what and why we should care

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:38:24 -0000

I think people tend to go where their friends are spending time and sharing stories. I dusted off my years-old Facebook after a half dozen extended friends started sharing stories through Facebook. Now some of the nicest pop-ups I get from my system tray come from the Facebook community. In fact, every Facebook notification that bubbles into my browser makes me smile. I like that and hope the feeling lasts.

Re: Mobile Web sucks — or maybe it doesn’t

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:19:45 -0000

I've learned a lot about mobile technology over the years from Russell Beattie and I have also learned to read the voices of the experts I trust. The colourful language employed by many at the bleeding edge of technology can infuriate and fluster those who have never read or met those leading lights.

That said, Russ Beattie raises issues that revisit the concept of the mobile web. His awareness of how quality data services are structured, from their code base to display devices, offers me important clues about the way my mobile internet usage will change in the years ahead.

Re: The mobile phone is the social camera

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:32:30 -0000

I think if Apple really wants to disrupt in this camera space, a stable video application would be folded onto the next generation iPhone. Do it right, and Apple could siginificantly disrupt all sorts of streaming software services currently running on Series 60 devices.

Re: Video Podcast 17 from Covent Garden

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:01:18 -0000

Looks like a bad link pointing to the 3GP file for MIR 17.

Re: Twitter Kills Important Features on the API With Just a Few Hours Notice

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:54:51 -0000

I wonder if the Twitter staff have commissioned an externally-evaluated code audit on both the core processes and the API calls because from the outside looking in, I doubt that any amount of new hardware will boost Twitter reliability.

Re: @username on Twitter

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:54:48 -0000

Say what you will about its banality. Twitter has written my last two technology news submissions for me and that means real money in my pocket. When tech pays, it's fine with me.

Re: AIB and your personal information

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:48:56 -0000

AIB is not the only bank passing details concerning debt limit into dealers who are part of their financing networks. With a name, birth date, current address, current employer name, and home phone number, I can get current debt levels of people who may not appreciate the reach of the persuasive tone of voice by trusted accomplices.

In most cases, you never know that your records have been accessed by the curious eyes of another.

Re: Photo tracking via GPS

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:14:59 -0000

Your image shows the Photofinder working with CF cards and I am curious about how well that works in real life. It seems most people transfer their images to SD first and then into Photofinder for geotagging.

Re: What to do with a Flickr invitation

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:30:32 -0000

I have the same issue--close family members who want to see our new-born but don't understand how Flickr works. Yet there are more than 24m active users of Flickr who get it.

Re: Are you tired of Twitter errors?

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:24:55 -0000

So you probably love the new Jaiku channel:

#istwitterdown

Re: Are you tired of Twitter errors?

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:58:20 -0000

You pitch your socnet tent where you find most of your friends but you follow the flow when your tent starts to leak. I'm once-a-day on Twitter, then I read what Google Reader scrapes from friends of friends. But I'm always-on with a Jaiku text flow coming directly to my phone. It's like USENET in my pocket and at the moment, it's exceptionally high-signal, low noise.

Re: Twitter tip for lost tweets and vanity searches

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:19:41 -0000

I also recommend setting these name-oriented keywords into a Google Reader search string as well. Then read the results as Google Reader often removes their contextual permalinks.

Re: Are you lonely in Twitter?

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:56:07 -0000

Unfortunately, my experience has been that many of my wannabe Twitter friends are just into building networks containing thousands of followers and that does nothing for the value of conversation.

Re: 5 reasons why I hate Twitter

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:39:38 -0000

I've got more than 6000 tweets to my name and I've shed more than 200 followers through various maintenance routines used by Twitter HQ. Those kinds of things are part of growing up in a web 2.0 world. In that world, I've always seen Twitter as a "social comms play" not a "communications utility" because when you have a utility, you have pipes that work all the time. And if there's a clogged drain, there's a team fixing the problem and sometimes digging up a place to lay another pipe.

Twitter appeals most to people who have never sat next to a green screen on USENET. Twitter provides the greatest invigorating punch to people who have never joined a discussion board. If you haven't bonded to a group powered by a LISTSERV, then Twitter must seem to be the bee's knees. In all those other places, reliability and accountability have been paramount. I don't feel the same community concern on the part of Twitter's developers or funding partners.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Philips LivingColors Lighting System

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:45:41 -0000

Mood lighting works. I'm curious about the warmth (literal warmth) of the Philips LED products.

Re: Document formats and policy making

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:11:59 -0000

In my academic circles, the arguments against Microsoft document standards seem obtuse because in the minds of some of my colleagues, if a Word document opens on a workstation where it wasn't created, all is grand. The ooxml battle is an important one and I'm watching and reading as the battle lines form.

Re: Document formats and policy making

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:11:59 -0000

Re: Document formats and policy making

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:11:59 -0000

Re: Welcome to the United States!

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:14:15 -0000

Whoa! I had forgotten half of those things since leaving the States 20 years ago.

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:46:52 -0000

Ride Aircoach in Ireland after receiving a scannable image on your mobile phone. You have to use the web interface to buy the ticket unless you have a very robust web browser on your mobile phone.

Re: About Not Reading

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:27 -0000

We often run workshops on a Friday for conferences starting on Saturdays so people can get a day away from work and then decide whether to burn up part of their weekend with the conference sessions. We also monetise conferences by charging profitable rates for the workshops.

And I'm yet another person who has not read all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques.

Re: A fellow American blogger in Ireland

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:32:45 -0000

It might be fun to bring all the Americans in Ireland who are blogging together at some national blogging meet-up. Several of us will be in Dublin's Alexander Hotel on Saturday, March 3rd.

Re: Deport a 4 year old child?!

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:57:12 -0000

Good luck!

Yours is not an unfamiliar story. GNIB is the hammer used to chisel out welfare scabs all across Ireland. As I have learned from first-hand experiences, you cannot expect a free ticket from Irish immigration once you've answered more than four or five questions.

We worked the issue of an American on a PhD programme in Cork who was refused leave to land with his TY daughter and wife. They received no joy, returned to the States and are now headed to postgrad work in New Zealand. I'm not sure Irish interests are best served in that treatment as I know you're certainly convinced that no one benefits from disrupting a 4-year-old from school routines.

May you have better luck than those I have known who have gone before.

Re: Twitter isn’t all about conversation - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:01:55 -0000

I generally agree with your take on the cacophony After I wrote my post about "conversations" yesterday, wise sage @lexia told me in Twitter, there are no rules. Since I agree with Alexia, the paragraph you cite from my blog is admittedly wrong.

I can also see @chrisbrogan's point that Twitter, like Facebook, is best used to attract people. Other tools are better suited at connecting with them and then nurturing long-term relationships.

Re: Twitter isn’t all about conversation - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:13:24 -0000

I have to turn off comments on my blogs when I'm away for more than three days at a time because battery hens using internet cafes often run amok on the thousands of posts I've written since 2001. I don't feel I've converted my blog into a web site, however.

Russell Beattie defiantly turned off his comments when he resurrected his notebook and no one dares say he's running a web site instead of writing a blog.

It's all down to naming convention and some bloggers defy convention. Just like Twitter defies the general structure expected in microblogging (e.g., Jyri's seminal description of microblogging and the one generally endorsed by Nokia).

Re: Stop crying and get out there - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:59:05 -0000

You're banging a familiar rhythm while exposing a reality of any system. Those closer to the feeding troughs often find the going easier when the portions of (money, connections and services) venture food are served. The lesson shared by the Collison brothers at a recent Limerick OpenCoffee is worth hearing in that regard:

http://podcasting.ie/podcast/inside-ebay-ecosys...

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:58:24 -0000

I'm in Dublin from the 9th through the 12th of January and would be interested in sitting at the academic corner of the table.

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:04:29 -0000

I don't mind sitting in the lobby with jmcc on the other end of an OnlineMeetingRooms connection.

Name: Bernard Goldbach
Company: Tipperary Institute http://www.tippinst.ie
Position: Creative Multimedia Programme Developer
Contribution: Connections to European Framework initiatives designed to enhance collaboration in among creative European developers.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:10:08 -0000

May I extend a warm invitation to everyone here for Limerick OpenCoffee, also scheduled for the third Thursday in January. You don't have to drink coffee to attend in the Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry's Mall, Limerick.

Re: Lets create the Ireland Inc. brand and stop talking about it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:25:17 -0000

I would like to play but do not want to be invited to the Jaipur discussion meeting.

Re: Lets create the Ireland Inc. brand and stop talking about it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:21:16 -0000

I do best when making lagging contributions and have issues when boxing out time away from home at the moment. I can give Dublin four days a month and already have committed three days to the Big Smoke by the 11th of January. We're looking at ways to juggle a weekend calendar at the moment and haven't ruled out an Indian on the Saturday but I'm not going to jostle for a seat when I know I have a diary conflict at the start.

Re: Cork and Dublin, here we come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:40:58 -0000

@paulwalsh If you used Twitku you could be bi-textual and no one would know you weren't actually in the main J-space.

Re: Facebook vs LinkedIn in 2008 - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:49:26 -0000

I'm glad you ported your Facebook v. LinkedIn comparative advantage argument here and I've Linked Into it. In fact, I think this blog post will be on the LinkedIn blogging mailing list next week.

It's all horses for courses, this FB vs LI debate. In my case, the guys I knew in the 80s only see Facebook over the shoulders of their college kids. They're the ones with the numeric e-mail addresses I cite, including several general officers in the military, an assistant secretary of a major US government department and three Executive Office staffers. Those are the ones in the "silent LinkedIn generation" I inferred and on further investigation, several of them did not know their names (nothing else) were on LinkedIn. I sent them a short note and we're back in touch.

It will be good to see Facebook evolve into this kind of community too. But for the moment, I cannot handle the Facebook noise nor do I have the energy to meaningfully engage in Facebook groups when I'm tapped out in real world committee work. So I'm planning on using the Scoble Scraping Script to enjoy the fastest ejection from Facebook available.

Re: Facebook vs LinkedIn in 2008 - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:50:57 -0000

One's social network most certainly deserves to remain of their own culling. In my case, I've got more real favours due me through people in my immediate LinkedIn network than I could ever expect among the several hundred Facebook friends I've collected. In my mind, a friend isn't worth the title unless he or she can offer at least a couch for a late night, short-notice stay. Everyone has their own well-thumbed Filofax (Daytimer, address book, name your flavour) entries. In my case, the most-cherished one aren't on Facebook. But it's horses for courses and there are certainly people who have just as valuable a set of linkages on Facebook.

Re: Do you think Twitter will see mass adoption in 2008? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:52:57 -0000

Twitter needs a major architectural overhaul before it scales to the next level. Otherwise, it lacks real enterprise strength and you need an enterprise toolset if you expect to survive the next wave of really simple groupgab.

Re: Google search result for Segala is a little strange. Do you know why? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:10:07 -0000

Google seems to be serving up sitelinks when Googlebot can find and follow a sitemap. The sitelinks are pretty standard--I think they're useful. In my experience, if Googlebot's automated process discovers a sitemap with sitelinks that point to one another, you have a good prospect of getting the link list displayed on a search for your site.

Re: Why Qwitter is likely to do more damage than good - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:46:47 -0000

Then there's the systemic problem many of us have where Twitter inexplicably unfollows people we have followed. Add that system issue alongside my preference to occasionally unfollow when I'm not within 3 time zones and you have the potential for people to read way too much into following and being followed.

Twitter will never be the only backbone of vibrant social networking so it's hardly worth thinking about the psychological impact of Qwitter.

Re: Friendfeed has a great future

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:35:34 -0000

I like Friendfeed because it helps me thread Twitter, just like Jaiku natively threaded posts.

Re: Yet another reason to love Google Latitude

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:23:36 -0000

I am waiting for the upgrade that lets me mark myself as a point of interest, then let the POI become a contact in my address book that can be texted to someone's GPS unit and appear as a valid navigation destination.

Re: Friendconnect

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:33:43 -0000

On a related front, what's the story with your twitter account?

Re: 2008/04/18/twitter-get-out-of-jail/

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:47:16 -0000

Fair play to the Twitter posse for bailing an American but from my Flashmob and street protest experience, it's more a story of how effective group texting helped in a crunch. When I got detained in Egypt, I lost my watch, my phone, and my camera. I don't know Buck's specifics but it sounds like he had his phone after being arrested. That's interesting because it's highly unusual to get put into the general prison population in the Middle East where you keep electronic gear on your person.

Re: 2008/07/01/friendfeed-podcast/

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:36:41 -0000

Thanks for spotlighting the look of audio in FriendFeed rooms.

Being able to scrub forward is important with any audio content.

Being able to bookmark a specific time-coded part of the audio would be very special.

Re: 2008/11/01/wireless-video-usage/

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:51:37 -0000

Living in Ireland where I can upload around an hour of video every month (and download around 4 hours monthly) for around $50 monthly, I think it's a matter of high-speed network availability. I can get up to seven megabits per second in most Irish cities but I doubt that's the rate most American carries offer. On top of that, I'd never buy a handset that didn't offer a wifi option. I'm not sure it's easier to get a wifi handset as a network upgrade on many network plans offered Stateside. You need speed and high spec handsets to bring video into the purses of people on the street.

Re: The Facebook Debate - some thoughts

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:35:18 -0000

And there are those of us who tag Facebook with the dubious distinction of being the first entity at the faultline of the Web 2.0 bubble. As good as it may be, Facebook's overvaluation gains much of its bounce from careful observers who do not know the real numbers behind Facebook's membership and cannot see audited figures relating to Facebook's time-on-site. Both of those numbers have jumped dramatically during 2007 but I question the staying power of any network that relies on a closed control point for entry to its content. Facebook needs to open more than its applications to the outside world if its promoters hope to ensure its use by the mainstream public.

Re: The Long Tail of Community

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:59:59 -0000

I wonder how closely Neville Hobson's conversation at Podcamp Ireland will follow your conclusions here. We're asking Neville to explain the way the FIR Community sustains its energy and much of what you say would be solid reasons for the growth and development of a business communicator's community.

Re: Moving On

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:28:40 -0000

Wow, Chris! You're moving up and taking your posse with you. On a logistical note, I think you should get a MaxRoam SIM in your phone. It takes Grand Central to another level.

Re: A Sample Social Media Toolkit

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:33:13 -0000

I couldn't live without Backpack either. And I listen to Eventful, Upcoming, Last.fm and Dopplr for specific user names.

Re: Twitter Hooks Me Into Louis Gray

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:02:36 -0000

I just wonder how in the world you'll manage the flow in FriendFeed because you've shoveled a boatload of contacts into your feed mix from the first go.

Re: FriendFeed- The Hidden Conversation

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:42:16 -0000

Like many other things, FriendFeed is a wide-open spigot that needs some careful consideration. I think if it's well-managed it can be a valuable early warning radar for journalists.

Re: Why Twitter Still Wins

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:14:08 -0000

The way I see it, Twitter planted its flag on top of a mountain of people who like to use their desktop browsers as a water cooler. And some of those people also like to buy accessories like teal-coloured tee shirts with flying whales. Twitter wins big in these two camps, having built a lazyweb ecosystem on the basis of simplicity, not scalability.

But I interact with the web most of the time while mobile. It's relatively easy where I live in Ireland because I'm hit by 3G signals coming from at least three different directions on the course of my daily 80 mile travels. In that kind of working environment, I get what I need from Jaiku but more importantly, I don't have to rely on Twitter for companionship, research, social networking, or brand-building. For those who need these kinds of by-products, I hope you can get an opportunity to see how a Jaiku clone runs on the Google App Engine. The alpha I've seen offers a kind of telepresence and location-awareness that extends my productivity.

I cannot say that I've become more productive with Twitter, although I'm less bored when I swim with its socialable whales.

Re: 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:49:54 -0000

I'm with genieyclo and could not imagine the world before Qik. I run it as my storylining technology, capturing video and audio moments that my creative multimedia students later consult when crafting two minute video clips of their own. Qik upstreams from my Nokia phone, in private or public streams, interactive when they're being made.

Re: Thinking About Trust Agents

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:28:15 -0000

If you want to achieve global reach, you need to ensure "agent" sounds trustworthy to German, French and Japanese audiences.

I understand "Trust Agent" and award it positive vibes when associated with "Chris Brogan" but I've been hard done by other agents (commercial and Stasi) so I have to peel back the onion to award the meaning. However, that's just me--unless you discover others speaking English as their second language have the same hesitation.

I like "Trust Developer" better since it connotes positive vibes, etymologically speaking.

Re: Here we go!

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:35:50 -0000

Scoble launches scobleizer.com and at least three maggots create hoax sites on the derivative spellings of the scoble URL. But they don't have RSS feeds so you know they're fakes.

Re: Correcting the Record about Microsoft

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:59:44 -0000

We'll always have a place you can recharge in Ireland if you and Maryam decide to drop in sometime again. Please consider making podcast pointers to the showcase of Microsoft bloggers in your blogroll.

You make tech accessible. You deflate some of the most acerbic detractors on the planet. Those are big shoes to fill.

Re: The joy on her face

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:13:31 -0000

I know this podcasting thing might feel like a bubble to some people but the trend I see at the freshman year of college is the arrival of as many MP3 players as mobile phones. Some of my data are skewed because I teach a multimedia degree program. Those incoming students already know how to subscribe to podcasts and they rip their own takeaway media on laptops in the cafeteria before they get their network log-in details.

This podcasting bubble concerns personal control of personal media. It might be small and nerdish but it's in the personal entertainment space and that's the place where people hang out without knowing they're surrounded by technology.

I think Scoble's feet-first landing in that space will only boost its profile. That makes my lecturing job easier because wobbly-cam podcasts and personal podcasts will continue growing. While there's no denying the small sector that personal entertainment represents, it's a big chunk of change when you look at the money needed to ramp up into it and to sustain the habit. Advertisers sense that's a sector with discretionary income to burn and they're booking media campaigns into it. Those paid placements, sponsorship packages and personal subscriptions sound more like the development of a new media industry instead of the yammering of thousands who drank the Kool-Aid.

Re: .NET Rocks folks recommend podcasting gear

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:15:18 -0000

We deploy college students into live venues (art galleries, product launches and street vox pops) with the Sony ICD MX-20, a Binh bag, two AAA batteries and their shownotes. In more than 50% of the time, they often return in under an hour with edgy content that's suitable for release at http://www.podcasting.ie -- after they drag-and-drop their audio into a sound editor. We use SoundForge and Audacity.

They do not use a computer to create the files because that would tie them down to a fixed point. They need the computer to convert audio bit rates, embed the ID-3 tags, and FTP up to the server.

Some of the episodes are 100% Sony Digital Dictaphone like this one made on the streets at the Kilkenny Arts Festival:

http://podcasting.ie/podcast/30-minutes-in-kilk...

The academic term starts with studio work where we use a $195 mixing desk to slot in tracks from different student MP3 players (e.g., iPods, iRivers, and Walkman phones). We also jack in their mics (we have multimedia students who have their own gear), and let it rip. They've limited post-production time and the course training standards restrict outputs to no more than four minutes of post-pro for every one minute of final content. By the end of the term, most are consistently delivering content at better than 3:1 and that standard will get them interviewed for jobs here in Ireland and the UK.

It's horses for courses, but we're doing the business with a $260 recorder, no external mic, a $195 mixing desk for some sessions, and a beat-up (no cash value) laptop we snagged from a past graduate. We also have a wide variety of mics, one valued at $2100, that we can jack in as needed for voiceovers and studio work.

Thanks for sharing.

Re: New York Times for your mobile phone

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:39:53 -0000

If your habits have you harvest stuff first for offline reading later, you might find FreeNews your cup of tea. It's a mobile aggregator that I've used for more than a year. It works better than I expected.

http://podcasting.ie/podcast/freenews/

Re: What would you ask Jonathan Schwartz?

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:28:48 -0000

I'd like to know when Jonathan gets time to blog. Does he set aside time to blog or annotate things he wants to write about? Or is he a free-form blogger and blogging just happens?

In Ireland, most CEOs won't blog because of competing time pressures or insecurity about the results. Seeing Sun's top gun with a blog challenges some of those hesitations.

Re: HP story keeps getting worse

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:13:59 -0000

What amazes me is how quickly this dirt on the boardroom floor is being covered in the Google and Yahoo blog reports up by press releases on products and services.

It seems to me that as soon as there's an utterance about ethics from Scoble or another blogger, there are two or three press releases churned out about an HP product and they percolate into the news flow, effectively diminishing the discussion of responsible corporate behaviour.

Re: HP has major ethical problem, day 4

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:23:29 -0000

Pat Dunn has been a go-to fixer in the corporate governance circle for several years now and one would think she fully understands the need for every action to survive a reading on the front page of business papers. She's having her reading now.

Re: I’m sorry to Patricia Dunn

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:11:44 -0000

An invasion of personal privacy hurts, perhaps as much as the pain of an invasive disease. I'm not a cancer survivor but I have felt the pain of having my personal privacy violated, my personal emails spawned into the reading files of bureaucrats and some of my private photos photocopied and passed around for laughs. Most of these data were compromised through pretexting.

It takes a long time to recover from cancer. And it took me a long time to recover from an invasion of my personal life. In my case, it meant moving out of the country away and living through some of the darkest days I have ever survived.

Perhaps Pattie Dunn does not know the pain she has caused when she authorised the tactics used to chase down leakers. I doubt she wants those tactics used on herself. Certainly the Attorney General doesn't want that to happen and it's good the matter is being investigated to weed out the miscreants.

Re: Productivity Tips from Merlin Mann

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:23:36 -0000

You have a gift of the glib so don't feel you need to be soft and fluffy when you reply to emails. You don't have to bark when you type but brevity is the mark of a focused and active person.

No one will mind if you reply with the single word "noted" and let your signature element do the pleasantries.

If you don't deal with niggling backlogs, you will lose sleep, increase stress, eat comfort foods and be nasty to those in your personal space. So be nice to those who care and just follow a plan.

Good people declare email bankruptcy all over the contact map. That's a real option you should consider. All good mail comes back. All good collaborators understand how to orbit.

Re: Dave Winer was right about river reading

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:53:24 -0000

The only place Google Reader doesn't work well is on a five-year-old computer. You need processing power and bandwidth to render Google Reader fast enough to swim in the feeds.

I get the River of News experience when I scroll through "Robert Scoble's Shared Feeds" and I also get exceptional satisfaction reducing my unread items to below 100 by simple clicking and marking all those shared items as read.

After reading the comments here, I need to figure out how to filter my feeds. I didn't realise you could do that.

Re: Too fast for Google Reader?

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:00:08 -0000

Doesn't the "too fast" metric vary as a function of the number of text lines you have available vertically on your screen reader and your word-per-minute reading rate?

I've learned to keep my posts at 40 lines or less (around 400 words) to ensure they appear concisely inside each of the Ajaxy screen items sketched by Google News.

Re: I love reading feeds

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:56:03 -0000

I consider your link blog to be a daily river that you create for those who need to know what it feels like when reading less than 3000 words per minute.

I forcefeed your link blog to college students new to blogging so that they understand the research imperative. Part of that imperative comes by glancing over the shoulders of others. I appreciate you sharing the stream you create because it's so much fun purging it ruthlessly from my Google reader. I can be ruthless because I know it comes right back in full force! In a twisted way, marking your link blog as "read" consistently produces the satisfaction I need from trying to manage my incoming mail. When I need a boost, I open your link blog, mark it read, and translate the satisfaction over to my unread mails.

Thanks, coach.

Re: I screwed up twice … trip very expensive

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:39:46 -0000

If your bad luck is out of character, you might consider the pace you're keeping and the loose items you're carrying around in your head. I tend to misjudge important things (like poles in parking lots or the condition of carry-on luggage) when I'm distracted by too many things.

From experience, I know that for every actual unwelcome collision, a half dozen near misses have occurred just before the one that I noticed.

Being careful sometimes means enforcing your time out periods.

Re: 2007 Scoblecars

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:31:35 -0000

You probably know this already--don't store your BMW keys side-by-side. Close proximity for hours on end will flatten their charges to a point that they won't recharge in the ignition.

I discovered this little issue after buying two BMWs and running each of the more than 150,000 miles. In Ireland, I can get them recharged for free. You need to recode (recharge) both of them together if you want their remote unlocking to work following this simple maintenance.

Re: TechCrunch, German “Digg,” language barriers on Freiburg’ers minds

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:55 -0000

When living in southwest Germany in the 80s, I was surprised to find the names of deceased German Jews and gypsies carved into the underside of cobblestones in a pedestrian zone near my home. The project took years to complete and seeing some familiar surnames made this hidden monument more memorable than any war memorial I have visited.

Re: Kind compliments about ScobleShow (why don’t historical videos get watched?)

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:08:32 -0000

I think if you produce shows with strong historical content, you're filming in the same space as mainstream documentaries. People who like those kinds of productions aren't your regular subscribers. To get to that niche audience, you have to get a MSM review of the historical richness of several of your recent productions.

From inside the halls of an academic institution, that's how I think it would work. You have to be listed as a virtual library asset and that kind of reach is normally outside the social media network.

Re: PR people don’t use real phones…

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:04:27 -0000

Most PR people have cell phones on expense accounts. If they used them to ring cell-to-cell, they would avoid the voice mail disconnect. It seems so obvious yet so difficult for some to do.

Re: Code of conduct or not?

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:15:08 -0000

Codes of practise fall over in tightly-joined organisations like Public Relations institutes so I've got little faith in a community effort like blog labelling ever getting meaningful traction.

I run blogs that teach Chinese students how to burrow out of censorware proxies and show them how to connect to social media that does not meet with approval of The Great Firewall. If another avenue through the censors is to use the logo of the blogging code, I'll do it. I'll hang the logo to help people through the censors but I won't abide by the anonymous posting restrictions because I need my Irish trolls to stir up discussion. And when I violate the code of conduct, what happens? I doubt that Mena Trott will pull down my blog because she didn't censor herself when baited by the back channel on stage.

Visit www.sluggerotoole.com and witness the cross-talk and jabbering so essential to across-the-pub discussion about community issues. What appears to be rude and unhelpful to one set of eyes appears authentic and engaging to another.

If you don't like the tone, don't listen.

Re: Facebook Hotel?

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:28:58 -0000

The biggest mental obstacle I have with promoting my use of Facebook is the nagging thought that it's like CompuServe's fenced pastures used to be in a world before Windows. Although I trust the business logic behind the way most of Facebook is cloaked from Google, I distrust anything that looks and feels like a vanity mirror and Facebook's legacy as a college campus club evokes that reaction from me.

Nonetheless, as a college lecturer, I know I increase my reach to students who need the repetition by extending conversations from the lecture hall. I bake some of those conversations into take-away thoughts that fold into Facebook groups. That seems to have pedagogical merit.

On the operational side, I cannot justify clocking up two hours a day while following Facebook Zeitgeist inside Facebook itself. I need to read stuff that's relevant to me on the RSS devices that have proven they can serve up content faster than me stumbling upon it. So we're developing a harvester to burrow into Facebook masked as a web browsing session and then aggregates the information back out as an XML feed. That way, I can enjoy the fenced pastures of Facebook without walking through the land myself.

Re: Nokia tries to get leadership position back from iPhone

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:11:38 -0000

I've used the new Nokia music phones with Bose earbuds and with my Bluetooth streaming system. The sound coming from my Nokia setup is as good through earbuds as through my iPod Sennheiser buds. The iPod doesn't stream to my Bluetooth SCART system out of the box and it doesn't do a lot of other things that a Nokia phone/music combo can do. And if comments above are to be believed, the iPhone doesn't have the on-board capabilities to deliver a long work day of calling, texting and browsing without a topping up its power. I need that kind of business connectivity to convince an accountant that an iPhone is a business expense.

You're not going to convince long-term Nokia users that the iPhone will fit their needs. But you can convince people who did not grow up texting that the iPhone is the best tech on the planet. Here in Europe, you need to depend on your phone for things like text connectivity and file sharing across the table. Those are very tactile activities and they are tough for my fat fingers to do using only a touch screen. All the new mid-range to top tier phones in Europe let you share your content over Bluetooth and High Speed wireless data connections. Those things aren't on the feature set of the iPhone. But Apple is smart enough to follow Nokia's lead on these things so I expect iPhone v2 will start to remedy its first generation shortfalls.

Re: Steal my content please, Part II

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:47:00 -0000

I know several professional photographers who electronically tag their images with Digimarc. Then they merely invoice the places where the images appear. It's a simple work process and more than pays the cost of Digimarc services.

People will always lift images without attribution because they don't understand copyright. If it right-clicks and saves, there's no issue, right?

Re: The Blue Monster CES express

Bernie Goldbach — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:52:41 -0000

Without sounding pedantic, I'd like to revise the claim of "social object" as one first expressed by Jyri Engestrom in PhD research that I read more than three years ago. The details validate when using scholar.google.com to cross-check lingo.

Re: Google’s Jaiku vs. Twitter?

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:34:54 -0000

It's really difficult forcing Twitter into a hole cut by Jaiku. The two services have many different wrinkles. For starters, Jaiku actually works in your pocket if you run it on a Series 60 third edition Nokia phone. Twitter doesn't even have a back button that works but it has plenty of cross-talk so it seems alive and even helpful in a lazyweb way.

I can cut time between telephone tag sessions when my workgroup all uses Jaiku's client because their phones tell me where they are and whether they're available. That functionality was never designed into FriendFeed or Twitter and perhaps never should be.

Jaiku had a team of network engineers bought out by Google. You might see their handiwork in Android but from the feel of Jaiku at the moment, only the hardcore complement still hang out and chat in Jaikustan. For many looking in from the outside, it must look like a tumbleweed town. But that kind of signal-to-noise works best for me.

Re: What do the freaking tech bloggers want?

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:43:44 -0000

Until mainstream PR and Journalism schools teach the art and technology of engaging social conversations, your main points will continue to ring true for most of the world. We're still training new entrants whose highest goal involves arriving with their company, product or service on the first page of a Google search. Many of their textbooks and college lecturers don't explain the dynamics of social networking.

Re: The future of the blog with Matt Mullenweg

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:24:29 -0000

I browse with a Nokia E90 so I need a 3GP video option.

Mechanical Turks do transcripts well.

Re: Yahoo to Add Video Hosting to Flickr

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:54:24 -0000

If videos are as easy to upload to Flickr as images are through add-ons like Zonetag, I will use the service more than I use YouTube. And I wouldn't mind paying for privileges like I do with two Flickr Pro accounts currently.

Re: What you do on MySpace does not stay on MySpace

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:45:58 -0000

Funnily enough, my eyes saw the drugs but I frowned when I saw the apostrophe because I think administrators who push paper should know proper English.

Re: Mitch Joel Explains Twitter

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:00:46 -0000

I wonder if Mitch permits incoming tweets on his Blackberry. When your personal communicator starts getting duplicates or triplicates from Twitter, your perspective on group texting can sour quickly.

Re: Web2Ireland Blog coverage

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 08 May 2006 00:39:58 -0000

I think that that a live blog of the event would have been well-read.

Re: The grand plan by Patrick Collison

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:25:44 -0000

I lived in Palo Alto for a year and saw the easy military research contracts that percolate into Berkeley and Stanford. When you can depend upon multi-million research funding for your meal ticket, it's a lot easier to commercialise other products in your company. Some start-ups that I watched used those military contracts like Irish entrepreneurs use nixers.

In his commentary above, Joe Drumgoole makes salient points better than I have raised in this short comment of mine.

Re: The grand plan by Patrick Collison

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:18:54 -0000

I'm an external examiner with HETAC.ie where I know several other externs who are trying to imbue entrepreneurship into elements of the third level curriculum in Ireland.

Ireland has a long way to go towards nurtuing a Stanford start-up culture. I think you have to create a cluster dynamic in only a few Irish cities and fund only those clusters with State aid. Anybody with a box closet and a college librarian can get State funding nowadays. You cannot cultivate a cluster dynamic that way.

Re: I shouldn’t really be excited about a kids movie but….

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:40:24 -0000

John Lasseter makes some of the best films on the planet and his "Cars" take me back to a lot of California miles.

Re: Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:11:15 -0000

Just wondering if you would consider optimising your site for display on a mobile phone screen. There are excellent tutorials floating around that show the appropriate CSS structures.

Re: Podcasting Predictions in 2007

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:30:31 -0000

I believe that someone will specify a combined podcatcher/player that is smart enough to listen for updates over WiFi or 3G telephony in addition to accepting updates through cable. It will come in several flavours, from Flash-sized to 60 gig storage capacities. As it evolves, this podcatcher/player will cut into iPod market share.

Re: I’ve put up a 1.1MB file with the podcast at http://tinyurl.com/2a4×6v – if you decide to have a listen, please be harsh – I’m doing it for a laugh and nothing too serious

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:28:12 -0000

Your bumpers rock!

Nice editorial touch on how Ireland is trying to catch up in the broadband stakes.

It would be cool to make a biodiversity podcast or one just dealing with saving money or minimising one's carbon footprint.

Re: Arriving this July, the N97 and…?

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:28:06 -0000

Please take a picture of your virgin N97 when it makes its first carpet bounce. If it survives that simple test, I'm onto the upgrade path.

Re: I quit, I just can’t take it anymore

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:24:31 -0000

The unstreamed life is no life at all.

Re: Digital Homes Are Here to Stay

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:04:38 -0000

I think you're right--the hub of one's digital essence should be their own blog and anything porting out from one's blog should nurture the place where it flows.

Re: Podcasting Predictions in 2007

Bernie Goldbach — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:30:31 -0000

Re: Digital Dublin

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:38:10 -0000

You guys could have all your hospitality and entertainment graciously provided by members of the Irish blogging community if you connect over Twitter, Jaiku or by perusing the chatter at http://www.irishblogs.ie while you're in Ireland. Your readers know ways to minimise headaches encountered by unsuspecting tourists and business travelers.

Re: Kara and Walt Stroll the Techie Streets (and Pubs) of Dublin

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:45:28 -0000

There's some interesting chatter coming from mainstream Irish bloggers that you could integrate into any conference offering. The conversations among Irish techies about the rise of effective social media in Ireland would enlighten the gray hairs who typically drive the outward facade of Ireland, Inc by using only traditional channels of communications.