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Re: Why I’m Done with “The Walking Dead”

jangro — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 10:56:00 -0000

It was disturbing for sure. Took us a while to recover.

I'm not quitting. The second episode was back to normal WD.

Re: The new “liquid” model for content marketing strategy

jangro — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:02:14 -0000

The concept of building content and publishing in places other than your blog is particularly hard to stomach when your website is where you earn money.

But, is publishing full content on Facebook and LinkedIn really that much different than a newsletter? Your audience is where your audience is. Unfortunately, many of them will be somewhere else tomorrow.

Re: Apothic

jangro — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:39:09 -0000

I don't think you understand. It's 11.99 + 13.99 for a total of $25.98.
(I did that math in my head.)

I'll come up with another way to get you that $0.37.

Re: Apothic

jangro — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:08:25 -0000

It's $11.99 for me. And 13.99 for shipping. Fortunately, I can get it down the street. Love this wine.

Re: Wanted: Medium for Product Reviews

jangro — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:29:04 -0000

Indeed, Andy. We built niche retail community sites and met modest success. We switched gears three years ago and turned the tech into Shareist, a service for easy content marketing, rather than a blogging/writing platform. It still has some of that product-related DNA in it, handing products well, automatically getting prices from the merchants, etc.

Maybe we were ahead of our time, or maybe we did it wrong. But I still love the idea. Maybe next time. :)

Re: What can I do to improve my old road bike?

jangro — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:26:13 -0000

Hi Glenn. Thanks for the info and advice.

A lot has happened since I made this post. After posting this a year ago, I upgraded the seat, bars, and wheels and told myself, if I can call myself a cyclist after a full season on this bike, then I'd upgrade to a new bike over the winter.

I proceeded to ride this bike right through the 2012 season, and then indoors on rollers over the winter. I logged about 3000 miles on it last year.

Over the winter, I built an all carbon bike (Parlee frameset, SRAM Force drivetrain), which I ride now. It is about 10 lbs lighter than the Schwinn. And I'm about 30 lbs lighter than I was 18 months ago just before I started cycling seriously.

I've ridden 3000 miles already this year, including 4 century-plus rides. The most recent was yesterday: http://app.strava.com/activ...

I enjoyed riding the Schwinn, and I still ride it to tow my youngest around on a trail-a-bike. It's a great bike.

Re: Getting Control of Multiple GMail Accounts

jangro — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:57:03 -0000

I agree, the mail app on iOS is actually really good. I wish they'd make the desktop version work exactly the same way.

The biggest problem for me with the desktop OSX Mail app is that it gets really slow with lots of email accounts and email. Plus the other disconnects with standard Gmail features.

I like to delete lots of mail (not just archive), and you cannot do that with a single action, I think on either. If you delete, say with the delete key, it actually just archives it in Gmail.

Lots of little annoyances add up.

Re: Affiliate Summit East 2013 Has Raised $2,217 So Far to Fight Breast Cancer

jangro — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:45:40 -0000

I've said it many times already, but I can't say it enough... Thanks Shawn and Missy for doing this. This is the incentive that gets me exercising every day. Raising money for a great cause and some friendly competition is what it's all about.

Re: Reversed Red and Blue After Changing Samsung DLP Color Wheel

jangro — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:32:23 -0000

Thanks Scott. I fixed it in the post too.

Re: Affiliate Summit Acquires Revenews

jangro — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:00:21 -0000

three syllables. definitely.

Re: The Power of Awareness, and Fitness

jangro — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:46:52 -0000

Hi Mike,

I linked to the original because that's what I've got. :)

I honestly didn't know there is a newer one!

Re: Commit to your Art

jangro — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:56:19 -0000

The hat was impressive, Karen. I imagine that she knitted that over a few subway rides while the rest of us are busy worrying and second-guessing. :)

Re: Shawn Collins Was Invited to Celebrate Baby Joshua

jangro — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:35:02 -0000

Everything. I feel bad for Baby Joshua who may never get to know Shawn Collins.

Re: Shawn Collins Was Invited to Celebrate Baby Joshua

jangro — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:50:08 -0000

That is sad.

Re: Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Congratulations! - #ASW13

jangro — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:48:06 -0000

If there was an award for best smile, Amy would win that every year. And I've never seen it as big as when she was holding that well deserved award.

Congrats to everybody, except of course the Schaaf's, who were barely there to receive it. I'm not sure Forrest's ass even hit the chair before his name was called.

Re: Cycling Changed My Life

jangro — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:30:54 -0000

Thanks Vinny. There's no secret. Just dress in layers, keep the core warm, good hat, gloves, and shoe covers.

Re: How To Replace the Color Wheel in Your Samsung DLP Television and Save $400

jangro — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:00:44 -0000

Six years later, it's still helping out people like you. Awesome.

Thanks for the note!

Re: My Switch to Android in 2013

jangro — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:29:40 -0000

I started to implement the email-to-inbox, but got stymied because Postmarkapp.com doesn't properly handle base64 encoded attachments.

Attachments are a must-have, and OSX Mail and Sparrow send base64 attachments. If Postmark doesn't get it resolved soon, I'll be switching over to another service like sendgrid to handle inbound emails.

It's definitely on my mind to get that implemented!

Re: My Switch to Android in 2013

jangro — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:40:00 -0000

You realize already, I'm sure, that with this post you have caused me to need to charge up my HTC incredible again and give it an update to see what's new.

They're probably on an old version of Andriod still. I haven't rooted this phone, nor do I have the time to devote to that exercise -- another problem with Android, that the providers feel the need to hack it up and release updates years late.

And to connect to AT&T, I'll have to chop up an old SIM card to act as a holder for the microSIM that the iPhone uses now.

Re: My Switch to Android in 2013

jangro — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:05:55 -0000

Wow Sam. I saw you were messing around with Android, but a full on switch?

I was in this place a few times over the past few years, and swore off the iPhone. Each time I gave it a real effort, spending stretches of months without the iPhone. I always came back.

To me the biggest issue was app quality. The bar is so much lower on Android, this was reinforced last night when we were at dinner at a Japanese Steak house, all sitting around the grill at a giant table, and someone pulled out their iphone to do a panoramic picture of everybody. My dad pulled out his Android phone to look for where he could do that, which he couldn't.

So I jumped on Google Play to find one for him, and there were many of them. Tried two of them (granted, free ones) that had 4+ star ratings, and they were total crap. That's not a fun experience.

So how do you capture bookmarks and photos, and to which services? Flickr, obviously. Which bookmarking service? (I'm thinking getting stuff into the Shareist streams, of course.)

Re: What Google Reader Might Have Been

jangro — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:24:18 -0000

Thanks for the reminder. I just got my own fever running again and I'll be looking at integrating it as an external stream in Shareist.

Though it already has Instapaper and Delicious support. The latter is supported, the former soon.

But It'd be really cool to see the fever stream right in Shareist.

Re: What Google Reader Might Have Been

jangro — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:38:50 -0000

For flickr, is now soon enough?

Instagram is in the works.

Wordpress importer too, but not as high a priority, at least until more people are banging down our door for it.
You count as an important vote.

Re: What Google Reader Might Have Been

jangro — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:26:10 -0000

I don't know your specific requirements for group curation, Joe, but have you looked at Shareist recently from this angle?

You can almost share direct from Flipboard. Flipboard saves to Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) which you can connect into Shareist. Then everything in your Pocket account (or Pinboard.in, Delicious, Readability, Flickr, Instagram, and more) is right there to drag into a page you're curating. http://blog.shareist.com/ne...

You can invite collaborators in to work on a notebook with you.

And if you don't want to publish on Shareist, you can keep your Shareist notebook locked, connect up a wordpress blog and publish the content there (like MarsEdit, Sam.)

Re: Taking Screenshots in OS X

jangro — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:16:31 -0000

Thanks Neal, I added it in.

Re: Taking Screenshots in OS X

jangro — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:08:52 -0000

Oh yeah, I got that in a MacHeist bundle once. I couldn't get past the name. :) I'll fire it up and add it. thanks.