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Re: A Very Short Fairy Tale

Eyebee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:15:15 -0000

It couldn't last longer than one day could it? LOL

Re: A Very Short Fairy Tale

Eyebee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:14:53 -0000

ROFL!

Re: Stella Awards

Eyebee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:16 -0000

Oh yes, I already mentioned above that it was for entertainment only.

Re: Come Learn About SocialToo At LaunchUp

jessestay — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:20:29 -0000

Thanks Holden! Feel free to watch on Ustream tonight.

Re: Not having time is a choice

MarkDykeman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:28:47 -0000

Great points, Bill. I like the idea of making recommendations "opt in".

Re: Hey Toronto, Want To Reduce Traffic? Invest In Telecommuting

shey — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:36:23 -0000

Thanks Shevone, do you have a link to that article?

Re: 10 Crucial Social Media Widgets To Improve Content Traffic And Awareness

Corvida — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:39:04 -0000

Thanks for the tip Mark. I added into the post.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:34:52 -0000

ha. okay.

http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/1492179025
http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/1556315672
http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/1556275545
http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/1559893823
http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/1742287373

there are more. need I go on? I didn't think so.

just in case you go ahead and delete some of these i'll highlight the text of the first tweet included here:

"Imho, no one from TechCrunch should comment on Twitter or their competitors, without disclaiming their business relationship with Twitter."

Re: 10 Crucial Social Media Widgets To Improve Content Traffic And Awareness

jessestay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:00:15 -0000

Thanks Mark! Corvida, if you decide to try it out let me know if you have any troubles.

Re: Ebay Suggests Identity API – Can They Do it Alone?

jessestay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:59:16 -0000

Andrew, great to know. The talk at Paypal X Innovate didn't mention
anything about utilizing your involvement in OpenID, etc. It was very much
a talk about how Paypal was going to take an approach to identity - I don't
recall any mention of involvement with the community or standards
foundations in that effort, but I may have missed it. I was simply going
off of the talk itself and audience reaction I was seeing on Twitter, and
wanted to be sure it wasn't the case that Paypal was trying to do it alone.
This wasn't intended as conspiracy theory, nor critique in any form. I was
simply stating an observation and hope that the perception of the audience
wasn't true. Glad to hear that perception was wrong.

Re: New FBFoundations Features and Updates

jessestay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:21:09 -0000

Bruno, no PHP - it's just CSS. You should just be able to edit the
style.css file in your theme's main directory and set the style for the
share button accordingly. I haven't looked at it enough to be able to say
which class or id you need to change though.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:24:29 -0000

it's coming.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

krynsky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:26:54 -0000

Ileane, thank you for the kind words and sharing the story.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:07:14 -0000

many people definitely don't know how to integrate these new technologies into their lives in reasonable ways, i'm one of them. i go way overboard (checking twitter every 5 minutes, for example).

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:05:22 -0000

yeah i thought about how things have changed for the better too - but overall, i don't know, i still suspect that we are going to keep getting worse and sadly, new technology may play a pretty big roll in that, as paul brings up.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:49 -0000

i'm generally thanking you guys for this wonderful thread.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:03 -0000

reminds me too much of 'citizens on patrol' from one of the police academy moves (4?)

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02:39 -0000

yeah i dont like 'citizen journalism' either.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02:15 -0000

some rational thoughts. thanks francine.

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:17 -0000

i still have nightmares about elvis shaking his hips

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:20:45 -0000

well this is going to make me sound like even more of a dick, but i am sorry, there were just too many to respond to each one while trying to work that day. that said, i am very appreciative of the wishes, I did see them all (i think), and i do thank you for yours!

Re: Bye-Bye, Amazon: Why I Won’t Write Reviews For You Again

PurpleCar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:06:56 -0000

Peter, thanks for your thoughtful response.

Amazon does, in fact, sell your reviews. This is a different system than affiliate selling.

Amazon charges sites to access their catalog. Along with the catalog, they include some reviews. I'm not privvy to the formula (or what coders call "algorithms") that choose which reviews get packaged along with the catalog, but be assured that the user reviews are offered as a part of that catalog. Amazon would sell less catalog rentals if people stopped writing free reviews for them. The reviews are what set them apart from other ISBN/product code catalogs.

This really comes down to how one views the internet and how to use it. Reviews are work. Getting the "freebies" of which you speak is now a forbidden practice, as per new FTC "guidelines."

I'm not in it for free books. I can get my books from the library or buy them myself. The amount of "freebies" of stuff I don't even want or have space for doesn't compensate me for the work of reviews. You obviously don't have the same opinion about that, and that's cool. Lots of people enjoy seeing their name in the Amazon review areas, even if their reviews end up on the back pages. The thrill of that for me faded a long time ago.

-PC

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Re: Very disappointed with Sprint - Benjamin Golub

bgolub — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:48:28 -0000

How do I check that the fee is gone on my account?

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

PurpleCar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:27:41 -0000

MIke: I KNOW! Back in 2008! Isn't that a shame that this Adam Slaney hoax on Facebook is still making the rounds?

I don't watch my blog stats, but whenever I pass my Wordpress Dashboard, this post is always at the top. It's gotten, literally, thousands of views. I keep adding the new names that get put on the spam email, so people can just search on the name and find out it's hoax. Snopes is wonderful, but they can't keep adding every new name that comes down the pike. If you see any new names in the hoax, please come back to purplecar.net and let me know, or find me on facebook as facebook.com/christinecavalier/

And don't worry too much about your friends. Everyone is in a learning stage right now. It's only been 10 years or so of widespread internet access, and it's a scary place. There is very little regulation, protection or education about it. Try to have some patience with the end users. (Of course, I say this, but I rip my hair out over their inane behaviors on a weekly basis.)

Thanks for checking in!

Peace!
-PurpleCar
http://www.purplecar.net/

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Re: Scribkin’s WordPress Plugins - Let Me Show You Them

eng1ne — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:42 -0000

I actually wrote this post over a year ago (5-17-08 to be precise) so the site has undergone many changes since then. Onle of the last changes I made was to go with a very light theme with no CSS so that people could choose their own font via their browser preference.

However, that doesn't mean I'm not using *any* plugins now.. In fact, I currently have 33 active plugins, including: Add to Any, Akismet, All In One SEO, Disqus and more.

Hm, I could probably stand to get rid of some of the older ones, though.