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Re: Google Plus YouTube: Search For Videos

Bryce — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:52:33 -0000

We're way ahead of Google on the idea of Thought Search, according to this reputable news source: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30522

Re: Music Notes: The Decemberists, The Crane Wife

Bryce — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:13:10 -0000

Did you see the whole "Green Screen Challenge" thing play out with them? It was quite hilariously done.

As for the band, they're just fantastic. I saw them while in Minnesota in November, and the number of instruments they went through was amazing. Everyone in the band played more than one instrument during the show, ranging from normal pop/rock instruments like guitars and various piano/organ/keyboards instruments to more obscure things like violins, accordions, a pedal steel, banjo, and a hurdy gurdy (yes, a hurdy gurdy). I found The Crane Wife to be the most accessible album, but if you dig it, I definitely recommend a trip through their back catalog.

Re: Yahoo! Leveraging What It Already Has

Bryce — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:37:16 -0000

Since you mentioned Y! Music.... Unrelated to the minisites (which I think sound quite cool), have you ever used Yahoo! Music Jukebox (the subscription service app)? I've been really happy with the recommendation engine on there, and have discovered a lot of great music through it.

Re: Yahoo! Annoying Its Flickr Users

Bryce — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:11:07 -0000

I would take what Thomas Hawk says with a grain of salt, since he has this silly Zooomr thing (which is such a horrible domain, IMO). He's looking to find problems with Flickr.

As for the move to a Yahoo! ID, maybe it's because I'm a hardcore Flickr user, but I don't get it. Having a standard login makes sense, since Flickr content is being shared across other Yahoo! sites (like those microsites).

Re: Yahoo! Annoying Its Flickr Users

Bryce — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:33 -0000

I hardly have enough time to be a blog commenter, let alone a blogger (hence the tumbleweeds rolling through my blog right now), so I can only imagine the time it takes to be a "real" blogger. Plus when I blog, it's not the sort of things that gets noticed by PR companies. They tend not to care about what I think about "24", or why it seems my entry titles contain an equals sign way more often than normal.

Re: The Beatles’ Apple And Steve’s Apple Make Nice

Bryce — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:01:54 -0000

Disney has been doing that with their stuff for as long as I can remember. They used to do it with the VHS tapes as well, which is part of why they didn't want to go to DVD initially. They liked that the tapes would wear out, and the consumer would rush out to get a new one during that limited window. Tricky monkeys.

Re: The Prisoner: I’m Hooked

Bryce — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:25:08 -0000

One of my college roommates discovered this series and bought the DVDs. I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it.

Also, I read last August that Christopher Nolan was in talks to direct a movie version based on a script by the same people that wrote 12 Monkeys. I haven't heard anything new about it, but I still have my fingers crossed. That could be really awesome.

Re: The Prisoner: I’m Hooked

Bryce — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:39:41 -0000

I'm going to see if I can borrow the DVDs from my friend so I can rewatch. It's been so long that I don't remember details, so this may be a good excuse to refresh my memory.

Re: USAToday: Anti-Social Readers?

Bryce — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:32:04 -0000

This seems like a common trend. The people who make sites forget they aren't typical users of the sites they make. Web 2.0 is great for those on the bleeding edge (such as teenagers with too much time on their hands, as evidenced by Digg and Slashdot), but does your mom get it? Probably not. Web 2.0 is still in beta (or gamma, perhaps) and probably isn't ready for a site like USA Today.

Re: We Is Takin Over Der Feed

Bryce — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:33:37 -0000

You went all the way to Japan to do THAT? ;-)

Re: Joost: All Over The Place, Want An Invite?

Bryce — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:46:51 -0000

I feel left out, so I want an invite too. ;-)

Re: Webomatica Contest: Write The 2,000th Comment

Bryce — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:18:13 -0000

It would have been great if I'd won via my trackback. Alas.

Re: People Used To Hate Flash

Bryce — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:53:29 -0000

"It has come a long way in terms of utility and web designers have figured out appropriate uses for it."

I think that's the root for why many people (myself included) hated Flash. I didn't hate Flash itself so much as the complete misuse of it. It really shouldn't take 15 seconds of animation to transition to one page to the next on a dentist's website. The user shouldn't have to guess whether the backflipping bear or the steaming coffee cup links to the "Contact" page. I still hate unusable Flash, but also hate unusable HTML. When I was working on band websites, I had many many conversations with clients about making their sites usable rather than full of moving garbage. "But it looks cool!" "Would you rather it look cool the one time a potential customer shows up and leaves in frustration because the menu is a bunch of unlabeled rectangles, or would you rather have a site where they can find what they are looking for?" It's a little disheartening how hard a decision that was for some clients (and that some still chose the former).

Re: Movie Notes: Ocean’s Twelve

Bryce — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:43 -0000

I remember reading that this was based on a script that was floating around Hollywood that was adapted to be a sequel to Ocean's 11, which may explain why it felt like some of the characters were completely unused.

Re: Changing The Disqus CSS

Bryce — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:17:36 -0000

You can avoid using !important if you just use a more specific style definition by adding an ID or two to the beginning. !important can turn your CSS into an arms race.

Re: No Beatles On iTunes: I Don’t Feel Fine

Bryce — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:17:55 -0000

I would have been shocked if they had announced the Beatles on iTunes on the same day as all the reissues come out. For every person like you that would be buying a handful of choice tracks while waiting for their box set to arrive, there would probably be tens or hundreds who would buy a couple of tracks INSTEAD OF buying the albums or box set. There's no reason to cannibalize the market for the new albums. Plus, if there is any band where you should have to listen to albums in their entirety, it's the Beatles.