Disqus - Latest Comments for ccheath

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

ccheath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:51:47 -0000

You're exactly right. Photo tagging should be opt-in not opt-out.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

ccheath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:50:10 -0000

Well, like victor was saying, he's on a private mailing list. They're probably not going to change, but could have a real-time private channel over on friendfeed. I do kind of get what you're saying about the WTF factor, but I would explain it as a backchannel for the backchannel.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

ccheath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:39:51 -0000

friendfeed has private rooms - i would bet that there's a lot of very interesting stuff going on in private on friendfeed

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

ccheath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:37:36 -0000

you're referring to the "eternal september", right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

ccheath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:16 -0000

FriendFeed is still the best platform online for communication (IMHO). This problem you're just now re-discovering can be dealt with on friendfeed as you explain (but as one of the reasons you were blindsided: "For two, we had decentralized moderation (I can delete any comment underneath my items, and I can hide any items that come into my view)."

So the feature that can fix the problem kept you from seeing the problem? Isn't that the point of the feature? This problem isn't one that can be cured with a vaccine. And you're right that with sufficient control you can engineer it out of your site, but on a public forum you can't be friendfeed.

Sounds to me like you want a large private friendfeed room, but you can't get everyone over there so you're just giving up and going back to twitter where they are (mostly).

Re: Scoble, Stop Trolling FriendFeed

ccheath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:52 -0000

Thanks for that Holden... just what i wanted to read after getting to the bottom of that post ... i had been putting it off since i knew what i would be in for

Re: Digital iPhone cheapskates

ccheath — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:13:27 -0000

I guess it's a good thing I never paid for Tweetie 1.0 then...

Re: Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter, Raps About It [YouTube Video]

ccheath — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:54:46 -0000

this just confirms for me why i'm glad that i don't care about ms. cyrus - so she wants to keep her private life private? then why was she typing private things into twitter? dumb if you ask me... dumb all the way around. And shouldn't she be in school right now?

Re: I am uncomfortable when math has actual numbers in it

ccheath — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:22:35 -0000

Exactly.

A prime number conversation turned to code last night as my friend decided to post his prime check function in 8 lines of C (in 23 total lines). The computation is fairly easy to check if a number is prime (for a computer).

I am tempted to ask him to run 2^43112609-1 and 43112609 through his algorithm and time how long it takes to confirm the prime.

Re: I am uncomfortable when math has actual numbers in it

ccheath — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:54:26 -0000

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=largest+kn...

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

ccheath — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:45:22 -0000

They are (to an extent) on a level playing field. Disqus can create a toolbar/browserplugin that 'enhances' sites that don't have the Disqus plugin already.

It seems to me that you're objecting to something because Google is behind it and that means that it will have a greater chance of becoming mainstream. If SideWiki was a greasemonkey script you wouldn't have a problem with it because not a whole lot of people would be using it, right?

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

ccheath — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:14:24 -0000

Google should allow for a meta tag so that you can opt-out of this 'service' -- but they probably won't.

Like a friend of mine says: "Google is the new Microsoft"

Re: The post iPhone world

ccheath — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:35:04 -0000

i don't like the idea of an IV machine being on twitter... just doesn't seem like the right way to do it

Re: I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore

ccheath — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:37:10 -0000

twitter has NOT won robert... they've definitely got something - but what that is has yet to be seen

Re: I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore

ccheath — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:15:18 -0000

but what about drupal mailing lists? but more seriously tracking twitter is really where is think the value is - i know that's gillmor's line, but it's one of the few things i'm pretty sure he's right about --- a drupal dev can get a lot more out of keyword tracks on twitter, friendfeed, and the federated (status.net formerly laconi.ca) microblogs than just twitter --- tracking ads value because you don't have to follow people -- businesses that only want a mailing list of contacts 'don't get it' -- twitter allows for the interaction with that mailing list which is some value, but twitter's 'monopoly' on the microblogging 'market' isn't a good thing in the long run (IMHO as usual)

Re: I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore

ccheath — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:49:40 -0000

#8 is why you don't 'need' twitter as an rss reader - techmems's rss is all you need to stay informed about tech - for that matter, substitute mashable, thenextweb, technologizer - twitter's only 'needed' unless you want to get that info 30 seconds faster.

I do think that twitter serves a purpose, but in my opinion an open and federated microblogging system is better than the twitter silo. That doesn't mean twitter should go away, but if they won't federate, then i hope they become myspace to the federated system's facebook.

Now wouldn't that be nice?

Re: FriendFeed Not Twitter, Is The REAL Real-Time Search Engine

ccheath — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:09:21 -0000

so... you have a tweet and stumble 'share this' but not one for friendfeed... oh the irony! - but not to worry, friendfeed has a very sweet bookmarklet that i can use on any page

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

ccheath — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:08:08 -0000

Robert, another thing i've just been noticing since using the 'new' diqus today is that the comments don't seem to come into my email in the order that they were posted.. maybe i'm wrong here, but it's not nearly as smooth as friendfeed's email notifications.

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

ccheath — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:06:47 -0000

no way should we get paid for commenting on robert's site - that's just ridiculous and makes me wonder about the rest of your comment

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

ccheath — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:50:21 -0000

I like this disqus theme too, but the real-time comments are too 'thick' or tall... works better on FF where you can fit a lot more comments into the same amount of space

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

ccheath — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:36:42 -0000

interesting idea there robert... and i understand your logic - the average joe (like me) however, will turn these features on without a thought - and there's many many more of us than those who have page view business models

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

ccheath — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:39:02 -0000

I like this new version of disqus... it will definitely keep me from moving to Echo (for now)

Re: FriendFeed Comment Widget

ccheath — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:49:41 -0000

somehow i missed that bar across the top of the page... doh

Re: FriendFeed Comment Widget

ccheath — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:28:58 -0000

disqus and backtype aren't available on blogspot are they?

Re: Facebook To User: Your Life is Empty [Pic]

ccheath — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:21:13 -0000

yeah i'd bet that it's a setup/staged as well... kind of obvious