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Re: Blog commenting: I guess I’m wired differently

TDavid — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:11:18 -0000

Duncan - just curious here: do you have a regular plan of backup for the third party hosted comments "just in case" Disqus/FF melts down? So many third party sites come and go, just check the Google 2001 database. This is the primary reason to stay away from these third party hosted systems. I know the comments left 5+ years ago at my blog are still in tact and still searchable. Do you envision that will be the case for Disqus and FF?

Re: What are they hiding? (Scripting News)

TDavid — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:50:20 -0000

NItpicking here but Palin didn't really "lie" about putting the jet on eBay. She did list it there three times. She conveniently (intentionally?) left off the fact that it didn't sell there and needed to be sold to a private party in Alaska.

Re: Asking My Readers – A Poll

TDavid — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:32:41 -0000

I don't care what the results of the poll turn out to be (and no I wasn't one of the people who emailed), these link posts do not provide significant value on any blog, not just yours. I skip past them and/or filter them in some cases with third party tools. There are plenty of sites for sharing bookmarks for those interested, save your blog for saying something worthwhile and fresh that will live beyond a few nanoseconds.

And might want to fix this gremlin, FYI: "I don’t use GReader and have absolutely no intention of *every* using it."

Re: Techmeme fails the tech community again

TDavid — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:01:57 -0000

Left on your FriendFeed post as well. The story is on TechMeme now: http://www.techmeme.com/080802/p19#a080802p19

Re: Comcast shut me down again (Scripting News)

TDavid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:31:01 -0000

Dave - your second use of fcuk made me laugh. You need to get a domain with fcuk in it for some future project :)

Re: 14 Podcasts To Help You Through Your Commute

TDavid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:10:31 -0000

Thanks for sharing this list. I like it when folks make lists like these! I checked the Zune Marketplace where I've been helping with podcast submissions and only two of these are not listed in the marketplace: The Web 2.0 Show and Things That You Can't Say About The Internet. I'll contact these podcasters.

Re: Off the Cuff: Who needs destinations

TDavid — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:34:22 -0000

Any separate podcast feed (with decent sized image) for Off The Cuff, Steven?

Re: Search isn’t about buying stuff

TDavid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:42:42 -0000

Not saying the following statement is untrue, but it seems a bit far-fetched:

"I know myself I have never used any search engine in order to find something I wanted to purchase. "

Never? *Never*? How much shopping do you do online? You *never* have heard about a product or service from somewhere other than the internet and used a search engine to find out where to buy it?

We do a considerable amount of shopping online and while that 10% figure seems high even to our household, it's a long way from "never."

Re: From the Pipeline – 6.24.08

TDavid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:26:40 -0000

Congratulations on your new Mashable gig, Steven.

Re: Bringing Yahoo back from the grave

TDavid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:36:35 -0000

I understand your early adopter affection for FF, but it's still a long way from mainstream -- it's barely tech mainstream. Y! doesn't need more early adopter, whiz bang stuff, they need some serious leadership and focus. Yang is a terrible CEO. Buying FriendFeed or Twitter or anything like this at the present time would take them in yet another direction rather than enhance and strengthen their existing services.

Y! should consider *SELLING* some of their prized, but less financially viable assets and fortify their strategy for the future. I doubt as long as Yang is at the helm this will be possible, so let's hope that dream suggestion of yours for him to get the boot comes true.

Re: Bringing Yahoo back from the grave

TDavid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:09:43 -0000

"3. Tell Carl Icahn to go sit in the corner and STFU"
Umm, you do realize Carl Icahn is a part OWNER of Yahoo, right? Sure you do. As a major shareholder -- like it or not -- Icahn does have a say in Y! operations, He paid for that right. When Yahoo! decided to go public the company lost the ability for the execs, both current and future, to go tell shareholders to go pound sand -- without severe consequences. Icahn is simply sticking up for the rights of himself and all other shareholders for Y! to be fiscally responsible. I'm a Y! shareholder and am disgusted with what's happening there lately. I don't want Icahn to STFU, I want him to make more noise.

The way Yang handled the Microsoft deal doesn't seem to be in the best interest of shareholders, at least from the heavily filtered information we see on the outside.

And putting the Friendfeed people in charge of Y! is one of the oddest suggestions I've seen yet. You can't be serious on that one, are you? If you are, let me laugh out loud. The owners of FF came from Google, remember, I don't think they want to become any part of the walking abortion Y! currently is operating as.

Re: What every blogger should be using

TDavid — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:25:50 -0000

Hey Ave, who is David?

Re: What every blogger should be using

TDavid — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:29:13 -0000

Disagree with the "every blogger" label as it sounds lemmingesq to me. I like some of what Disqus is doing, but what if Disqus goes under or gets bought and shelved by a bigger fish? What happens to your comments then? I hope they continue to develop their API so one could use their system and yet backup all comments to future proof their service.

Re: Microsoft needs an intervention

TDavid — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:57:44 -0000

Here's something you might want to read, if you haven't already (and Zune is mentioned in a positive light, imagine that):
http://www.dailytech.com/Xbox+360+Drives+Micros...

You also skipped refuting the corporate angle. Little competition there.

Re: Microsoft needs an intervention

TDavid — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:26:55 -0000

Steven - what about the Xbox Live angle? I'm guessing you didn't mention it because you haven't followed what's happening there(?)

Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero are redefining music distribution online.

The Live marketplace is growing, dominating and *the* place to be for the younger gaming generation. Don't be surprised if this division becomes the future for Microsoft. Can't underestimate the power of gaming. Look at the history behind solitaire.

Also, there is the corporate side of Microsoft and they still have massive penetration in that market.

Re: How to handily tell tech bloggers to STFU

TDavid — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:31:46 -0000

Well said. I'd add to this post -- and Karoli's -- that people should first donate to their local communities. If not by opening their wallets than by volunteering their time. If everybody helped in their own communities their would be less need for global assistance. Think about it.

Re: Microsoft - the 10,000 pound chicken with its head cut off

TDavid — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:06:22 -0000

You're not thinking hard enough on this one, Steven. There are several synergies that could exist between these two companies not to mention an eyeball and engineer grab.

Re: They just don’t get it

TDavid — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:53:37 -0000

I'm happily part of the 30% and nothing Robert says -- no matter how persuasively in a live blogger press conference ;) -- is going to make me switch camps.

Re: I just realized something (Scripting News)

TDavid — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:43:00 -0000

What about Valentine's Day, Dave? That's nary a month away :)

Re: Facebook: Whose data is it anyway?

TDavid — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:17:15 -0000

If you have to scrape it (and OCR the email addys) without permission that's a pretty good sign it's not kosher activity. Add that to Scoble's history of violating the TOS because he disagrees with things and I'm surprised that's not a bigger part of the coverage here.

Yes, more data portability would be great, but I'm seriously questioning the tactics employed in this case.

Re: Hey Robert - I was only kidding

TDavid — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:12:40 -0000

The deeper question here that few are addressing is, given Robert's TOS violating history (good seeing you mention the SL incident, because few are), how many TOS does he violate before he gains a reputation of not being trustworthy?

The end does not always justify the means.

Re: Social networks are destroying blogging

TDavid — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:18:30 -0000

The 140 character fast food nature of Twitter at least doesn't lend itself to much more than a link with limited description and/or quote dump (or the answer to the usually less useful "what are you doing?"). A collection of messages might equal something of greater value if one follows closely enough. Like what is this person into ... where can I see more details of these kinds of things (their blog presumably)?

I'm positive there will be times that would-be bloggers will be frustrated by the microblogging limitations and want to branch out. That's where we'll see their work on the blogs of the future. I do see your concern, but respectfully I don't think it's anywhere near as alarmist as the title of the post suggests.

Good example is if what if we tried to have this full conversation in Twitter. It just wouldn't work as well and wouldn't be available to others readers here. I wanted to come here and leave these comments because this was a good fit for the conversation.

I'm finding Twitter frequently doesn't allow me enough space to share my thoughts and perspective and thus my blog is where I end up -- or in the comments section. Win-win-win for other blogs each way because if I blog about it I'll probably link to them (win #1) and/or if I use their comments I don't know many bloggers who have comments who don't like seeing more (win #2). If I should write about it on Twitter, it's an additional or supplemental mention to the people following me (win #3).

I don't know if other would-be bloggers will use these tools the same way, but I know they will feel contrained by 140 characters and that's a good thing for blogs, not a bad thing.

Re: Social networks are destroying blogging

TDavid — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:21:03 -0000

Just followed Jefr0 on Twitter, looks like William Meloney hasn't updated in the last 2 months so no add there (yet). I already knew Paul and to a lesser extent Rick (following both).

I think social networks supplement, not destroy. Could they reduce the amount of blogging some people do? Sure. That's not necessarily a bad thing in these watered down blogging days, Steven.

Re: Does Twitter do enough? (Scripting News)

TDavid — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:15:30 -0000

In light of the fact that their API is currently broken (which they freely admit if you follow the developer group) because their new equipment isn't ready -- and won't be until after the first of the year -- I'd think the answer is they are struggling to meet current demand with the existing feature set.

It's a difficult thing to add new features like Linden Lab has been doing with Second Life when there are problems that have users (and devs) rightfully concerned. Careful balance needed.

Re: Amazon's database (Scripting News)

TDavid — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:29:42 -0000

Hopefully this limited beta will be brief. I remember another Amazon limited beta that dragged on for a long, long time. Lost a lot of interest before getting in.