Disqus - Friends of afhill

Re: Are We Just Jumping On The Social Media Bandwagon?

colinwalker — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:59:09 -0000

Chris,

Exactly, as I said, just with anything it gets absorbed in to the public psyche and we then move on leaving it just as another tool at our disposal. The difference is that for the first time we have the ability to influence the direction it takes.

Mainstream is perhaps the wrong word but it is one people understand. I am thinking of the time when social/open/new media is everywhere and we no longer think of it as special - it's just another choice. The question is, how can we help it get there.

I'm planning a follow up on this at the normal blog.

Re: Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

colinwalker — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:18:24 -0000

Thanks for linking to this Corvida, think I'll give it a try.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:01:00 -0000

Hi Glenn,

I've got this installed on a WP2.5 blog (http://colinwalker.me.uk) but for some reason it doesn't look like the template tag is being triggered on every post. Some of them have the FF section but others don't, even when there are likes and comments.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Re: Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

colinwalker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:38:13 -0000

I've removed this now as I thought it made the section below the post too cluttered.

Re: Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

colinwalker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:47:12 -0000

It's not just the amount of tags but the fact that you've got so many sections: FF Tag This and actual comments all fighting for attention.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:06:24 -0000

Thanks Glenn but still no dice I'm afraid. Checking the debug info it definitely pulls the info from FF for those posts but will still not display the DIV so is it an issue when it checks what it should be displaying rather than the check on FF?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:43:27 -0000

Thanks, I appreciate it. Do you want me to send the debug info?

Re: The danger of Social Media falling in on itself

colinwalker — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:44:00 -0000

Part of the ecosystem is the key. As you say, without the services it aggregates FF is nothing. There is no way FF could kill something like Flickr unless FF changed its model and allowed you to store your pictures on its servers instead. Even if this happened Flickr would still remian dominant as it has become ingrained as the place to put your photos, and this goes way beyond 'social media' users.

OK, anyone who uses something like Flickr is technically a social media user but the majority don't see it that way - they are just looking at a way to share their images. Until the 'concept' of social media becomes ubiquitous web sites will remain isolated services with only a limited subset of users making use of sites like FF

Re: The danger of Social Media falling in on itself

colinwalker — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:14:38 -0000

Absolutely agree, sites like FF would make it much easier to switch between services without disruption. People do switch but once established on one site tend to stay where they are due to the disruption you mention.

That's a great angle on this.

Re: Of course Twitter isn’t mainstream and won’t be for some time

colinwalker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:56:54 -0000

I don't think it's about individual apps going mainstream but more the concept of social media/social networking going mainstream. Using Facebook, YouTube and MySpace as examples, yes the sites have become amazingly popular but that is because they fulfil a function or because of the coolness factor as already said. Ask the average person who has an account if they use any social media/social networking services and you are likely to get a blank stare.

Just saying social media etc. is the next big thing and must go mainstream doesn't work - there has to be a WHY factor. Why should I use this site? Why will it help? Why will it improve my life? It's the old WIIFM thing.

The chances are that the current apps won't be the ones going mainstream but it will be next gen services that take off after piggy backing on the likes of Twitter etc. to gain popularity. It is the natural evolution of an organic industry. Eventually something has the right spin and just clicks with the masses.

Re: What I Learned Without Twitter and Friendfeed

colinwalker — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:10:35 -0000

This is why we need the facility for conversations to be gathered in one place so that we can track them. The more service that pass the comments they hold back to the source the better - we may not respond at the actual blog but at least the blog will have a way of getting to them all.

If Rob can further develop YackTrack and maybe even have it passing it's results back to the blog then I think we'll be getting somewhere.

Re: It’s OK To Ignore Social Media

colinwalker — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:25:49 -0000

This is what I was trying to get to with the discussion about being a social media role model. People have their normal lives with families, kids etc. and encouraging them to be online means that something else is going to suffer.

Yes, we can encourage the use of social media but it has to be responsibly otherwise we are not setting an example that people will want to follow.

Re: What I Learned Without Twitter and Friendfeed

colinwalker — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:49:10 -0000

In it's current form maybe, but once it has evolved it could be some much more. Or how about if Disqus extend their remit.

Re: This week’s bitchmeme has relocated to FriendFeed

colinwalker — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:01 -0000

The Scoble Juice started becoming diluted when Robert left Microsoft, plain and simple. Although he has access to far more resources and companies now than he ever did at MS the fact that most people started following him in the first place was because of the effect he was having opening up MS and letting us regular folks have access to stuff we could never dream off.

Whatever your opinion on MS as a company they are BIG news and once you disassociate yourself from that the magic is bound to fail.

Re: Get Facebook’s Wall-To-Wall Functionality On Twitter

colinwalker — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:12:02 -0000

Also, don't forget the "Show Conversation" link in the search results that shows when you have an @reply - a quick way to get the current conversation thread.

Re: Twitter: Are You Old School? - Joe Lazarus

colinwalker — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:38:46 -0000

I joined in Dec 06 and my feed url is 258513.rss - that's a LOT of accounts in just two months!

Re: Twit-Out: 24-Hour Twitter Boycott

colinwalker — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:01:54 -0000

Exactly my concerns. Scoble says he can comment using both his N95 and iPhone but I can't with Pocket IE, NetFront or Opera on my Windows Mobile. I've put a poll up on FF.

Re: Twit-Out: 24-Hour Twitter Boycott

colinwalker — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:09:18 -0000

Might help ;)

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

colinwalker — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:25:14 -0000

Glenn, I'm getting an error "toggleFriendFeedDiscussions is undefined" with this version. It's been completely removed/reinstalled and still happening.

Gone back to 1.4.7 for now

Re: Who is the sidebar for?

colinwalker — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:40:53 -0000

This is something I've been thinking about myself recently as I look to modify the appearance and impression my blog gives - it's a gradual process.

I have just removed the Clustrmaps map as I don't think it adds anything - it's essentially a vanity check for the blogger. It will be replaced with something else but I don't know what yet - was toying with the idea of a small bio a la Chris.

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

colinwalker — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:14:52 -0000

Yes, the wp_head call is there. Everything else works just not the show/hide toggle.

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

colinwalker — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:37:28 -0000

I wonder if it's something to do with my theme. 1.5.1 isn't working either

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

colinwalker — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:24:01 -0000

Yep, that's sorted it :) Thanks.
You go and design a new feature and I don't even use it - typical ;)

Re: Disqus comments now enabled here.

colinwalker — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:54:09 -0000

Definitely, I could imagine going off half-cocked and saving the settings before choosing the correct option. Looking at the bigger picture I just think it makes sense to go this route.

Re: Social media experts - it’s all relative.

colinwalker — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:27:19 -0000

All very good points and go back to what I was saying about an expert being 'best placed to educate and inform'. It's not about the technology on it's own but what we can do with it that matters.