Disqus - Latest Comments for Jay Andrew Allen

Re: Let Them Eat Cake!!

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:51:32 -0000

I shave my head every day, so I can't say I'm an expert on shampoo. But...damn. That cake looks mighty fine.

Re: Congress is at it again

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:41:00 -0000

Hey, what's a little erosion of precious civil liberties between friends? :-/

Thanks for the heads up. It's like we're being ruled by the Marx Brothers.

Re: How to handle getting buried on Digg

Jay Andrew Allen — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:31:23 -0000

Ha! Nice work indeed. :-)

Re: And Now, A Word To Our Sponsors…

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:04:16 -0000

Ask the daddy bloggers what they think of the "mommyblogger index". Not such a wise move as it might seem at first glance, IMO.

Re: Anger, Vendettas and Name-Calling

Jay Andrew Allen — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:36:48 -0000

Point taken. I'll save my venom for the religious fundamentalists and gay-bashers instead. ;-)

Thanks again for the discussion.

Re: Anger, Vendettas and Name-Calling

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:59:44 -0000

Agreed with kmilyun. Your writing is excellent. Keep it up!

Re: Trainwrecks wrecks, breaks links

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:23:27 -0000

Bastards!

Re: Willful or Unlawful Acts

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:41:31 -0000

"Utter hogwash, which is how I feel about most of About.com’s content anyway."

There are a few goodies. But as with any large network of that fashion, 90% of it is dogshit.

Oh, sorry - can I say that over here?

:-p

Re: MySpace Blogs

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:01:35 -0000

Anything that gets people into the world of self-publishing is good, IMO.

One thing you don't mention here: MySpace is HEAVILY used by musicians. It's a great way for many up and coming bands to get their work heard by a wide audience. So the textual content on MySpace may be no great shakes, but it's proving an excellent platform for other types of media. Other people, like ZeFrank, have made great use of MySpace to spread the word about their vblogging.

Re: Team Venture scores again

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:12:41 -0000

Totally agreed. Sharp dialogue, great punchlines, and characters you won't find anywhere else.

Oh, and Brock Samson smashing backwards through a car windshield. Always worth a "booyah!" in my book.

Re: BlogBurst Announces Reward Program

Jay Andrew Allen — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:24:40 -0000

I'm nonplussed. Blogburst hasn't done anything for my work - probably because a lot of what I write isn't "family friendly". There are better ways to promote your content, IMO.

Re: Where the hell is Matt?

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:27:11 -0000

Totem Lake IS depressing, dude. Deal with it.

Of course, I like off of 172nd Ave. down from work (next to a REAL lake), and it's just as depressing here. They're building three luxury houses up the street, so close together you don't need to leave your house to have an affair. Asking price? Why, they start from the low $1 millions!

Sigh.

Re: I’m a Second Life Lawbreaker

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:14:12 -0000

Yes, it's important to break dumb rules - when it matters. History has been redefined by people breaking dumb rules about race, sex, and class divisions.

But this? Sorry, but it's a video game. More than that, it's Second Life's private property. However dumb the rule may be, SL's dominion ought to be respected.

Re: “A series of tubes” remix

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:58:38 -0000

Gee, thanks, Scoble, for encouraging people to stick things in their tubes. If the Internet gets clogged while I'm working this affternoon, I'm blaming YOU!

Re: Bad hosting day blog

Jay Andrew Allen — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:30:12 -0000

I'm willing to forgive them the downtime, hard as it's been on my blog. They have EXCELLENT customer service, and great services for the little they charge. In particular, they were kind enough to forgive me $260 in disk overages when, like an idiot, I let a cron job that backed up my mySql databases run amock.

Re: The first 60 days of PopCurrent

Jay Andrew Allen — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:08:20 -0000

Megan: Digg may cover it within its scope, but the site still seems very tech-centric in its user base to me. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to overcome that, and diverse into the mom and pop crowd. Especially when so many people in the current Digg user base are...well, assholes.

By focusing on *just* entertainment right out of the gate, PopCurrent attracts a completely different user base.

Just ask yourself: Can you see the MySpace crowd on Digg?

Yeah. Thought not.

Re: The first 60 days of PopCurrent

Jay Andrew Allen — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:57:40 -0000

Megan: It's about creating a new user base. Digg is hopelessly geeky, and will always remain so at its core. PopCurrent is starting off fresh, and can thus accrue a totally different audience as its base.

Just ask yourself: Can you see the Digg and the MySpace crowds intermingling?

Yeah, 'swhat I thought. :)

Re: Feedless bloggers frustrate

Jay Andrew Allen — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:52:00 -0000

Blogger blogs are really bad about this. About a quarter of the ones I go to don't have their feeds turned on. It drives me nuts.

Sometimes, however, autodiscovery doesn't work well from your chosen feed reader tool. I and others are running into problems with adding feeds to Google Reader that are hosted on FeedBurner. Several users have complained that GR grabs one of my OTHER FeedBurner feeds, and not the one I supplied. I've noticed this happen on Weblogs, Inc. blogs too, which also use FeedBurner. I attempted to add http://www.thatsfit.com/ this morning, and Reader brought up TVSquad's blog.

Argh.

If feeds are going to work for the masses (and I see them as the future of content consumption), autodiscovery must work SEAMLESSLY.

Re: Is Akismet down?

Jay Andrew Allen — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:33:04 -0000

Noticing the same thing here.

I guess the phrase is true: ya don't know what ya got until it's gone. Hopefully I'll wake up in the morning to a functioning spam filter, and not 100 moderation emails.

Re: Metavideoblogging

Jay Andrew Allen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:23:12 -0000

Dude, were you at MS today in building 42, 3rd floor? I walked past that and thought with a laugh, "Maybe that's Scoble doing a vcast." Then I thought, "Nah...he'd never have gotten past the guard dogs and the snipers."

Re: I love reading feeds

Jay Andrew Allen — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:29:04 -0000

I've added short "Sugar Rush" posts to Zero Boss. At the bottom of every block of Sugar Rushes is a link to my items tagged "zeroboss" in Google Reader, so that people can read what I don't have time to publish.

Ye Gods, do I love Google Reader.

Adding your link blog to my feeds, Robert. :)

Re: I love reading feeds

Jay Andrew Allen — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:30:00 -0000

And not to gloat? But I was doing this MONTHS before you realized it was cool.

Okay, I'm gloating. Sue me.

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

Jay Andrew Allen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:23:22 -0000

Gee, I'd love to, Robert. But with 105 comments already, what's the point? :-)

Re: Google Reader taking the day off?

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:12:49 -0000

Haven't noticed a problem on my end, Robert.

Maybe Reader is slacking off for President's Day. :)

Re: The tech industry in slow period…

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:06:53 -0000

In the day job, I'm developing an application in Windows Forms that will help large ships protect the environment. Which is about all I can say about it until we launch the beta. It may not be as sexy as Web 2.0, but it's sure as hell important (and entertaining) work.

Re: “Blogging Down to the Metal”

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:22:57 -0000

Just got the word from ~C4 that the dev guys at Zaadz support the Blogger API, so I'm trudging forward with the plugin. I told ~C4 to give me a month, as I have to familiarize myself with the WordPress Plugin API fist. Should be cool once I'm done.

Re: I’ve been thinking…

Jay Andrew Allen — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:04:00 -0000

Great observation, Tim. EVERY event in life is an opportunity to examine our reactivity and our shadows.

Re: … and then he appeared… In Seattle!

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:58:47 -0000

W00t! Welcome, my friend. Looking forward to seeing you.

Re: Wei Wu Wei

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:53:29 -0000

Reading Presence right now. What a great book.

Re: New Browser Should Not Mean Redesigning a Website

Jay Andrew Allen — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:19:25 -0000

If the end result is that more sites work correctly in any standards-compliant browser without platform-specific hacks, then that's all I care about. I'll gladly redesign a little to hit that mark.

Re: Yahoo Groups: Give Me Subscriber RSS Feeds

Jay Andrew Allen — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:49:10 -0000

As I found out when I worked for Weblogs Inc. and we had team wikis with secured feeds, most RSS readers don't handle basic HTTP auth well. That's probably why they haven't bothered.

Re: Andy Beard tells Scoble He’s Stealing Content via Google Reader

Jay Andrew Allen — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:19:48 -0000

It's not "stealing content" unless you're slapping your own ads on it. It's advertising for other bloggers that you think are wonderful.

Re: Google Reader Now Reports Number of Subscribers

Jay Andrew Allen — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:00:04 -0000

I gained slightly over 200 to my count. It's Christmas come early! :)

Re: Want to Know What the Most Popular Videos of the Day Are?

Jay Andrew Allen — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:54:41 -0000

The thing is, I really don't care what the top 10 vids are. I'd rather find some of the overlooked from the top 100 - or find a diamond in the rough that no one else has discovered. But maybe that's just me. :)