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Re: So much iOS 7 frenzy, so little time

Jared Smith — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:14 -0000

Oh yes, but think of how much money Microsoft pumped into marketing the Windows 95 launch -- I was but a wee lad then, and am not sure how much of that excitement was generated by the behemoth promotional machine that was MSFT at the time or if it was genuine grassroots excitement. I can't imagine Apple's ad spend for iOS 7 is anywhere even close, and yet I see so much passion and excitement around it (and most other operating system launches they do) that seems to be much more organic in nature.

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Jared Smith — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:42:33 -0000

This. All of this. Too bad I don't have more upvotes!

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Jared Smith — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 22:15:25 -0000

I don't understand how we let it get this bad, but it is far beyond time for things to change.

Re: ReadWrite – Apple Releases iTunes 11, A Complete Overhaul For Mac & Windows

Jared Smith — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:46:24 -0000

Did the upgrade as soon as I could, and I'm really glad I did. iTunes 10 was getting very sluggish on my mid-2009 Mac; this is a breath of fresh air. I do miss inline album art on the Songs view but I think I'll get over it pretty quickly for the speed gains.

Re: Charleston Tech News

Jared Smith — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:39:49 -0000

I believe it's Tom Wilson at Jack Russell software.

Re: …and we’re back.

Jared Smith — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:52:13 -0000

The shelf life on third-party services is just too terribly short for good ideas to last.

Re: …and we’re back.

Jared Smith — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:00:43 -0000

Thanks Ad! Glad to be back. Now it's just a matter of making sure I stay there...

Re: Time to replace the #CHS hashtag on Twitter? (Update: Hold steady)

Jared Smith — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:44:25 -0000

For consistency's sake, we need to stick it out with #CHS. It's the longest-standing local tag and is (and will remain, I hope) the prefix to all the topic-specific tags.

I'm not sure how best to filter out the high schoolers. Maybe we just have to live with it. (The high schoolers are coping fine given how many different CHSes are represented.)

We are already starting to cause lots of confusion and fragmentation of relevant Charleston-area Twitter info. This is much, much worse than having high schoolers talk about their lockers in our streams because not only do I now need to monitor #CHAS, #CHSSC, #CHSC, I still have to monitor #CHS for the people who have learned far down the chain and may be less-connected to the local Twitter scene...so I'm still stuck with high schoolers.

Re: Experimenting with LESS

Jared Smith — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:11:47 -0000

Totally. I looked at SASS and think LESS is easier to pick up.

Re: Missing the Point of WordPress Entirely

Jared Smith — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:06:45 -0000

The beauty of the GPL, which WordPress is licensed under:

If you don't like it, fork it.

Something tells me that won't happen here, though.

Re: WordPress over IM

Jared Smith — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:38:28 -0000

Doesn't look like Disqus hooks into this yet, even with comment sync between D and WordPress. Worth looking into.

Replies by XMPP are the next logical step, but would probably run into problems with third-party comment solutions (like we're seeing with Disqus comments).

Re: Why Tumblr Fan Mail Will Beat Facebook Messages & Twitter DMs

Jared Smith — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:33:37 -0000

Given the recent debates over blog commenting, it seems email is just fine (and preferred, even) for a growing number of bloggers.

Re: 7 Ways to Love Blog Comments Again

Jared Smith — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:37:51 -0000

Most blogs (not just the political ones) are in a very hard position from a community management standpoint. If they allow too many inflammatory comments, their community very likely will devolve quickly into a flamefest. If they start removing a lot of comments, the community will cry "censorship" and turn the flames on the site owners. It's a hell of a tightrope that takes a lot of talent to walk.

In the end, though, it's on the site owner to set the tone for their site. Anil Dash's take on this from last summer is fantastic: http://dashes.com/anil/2011...

Re: Farewell, 2011

Jared Smith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:32:05 -0000

Thanks Mike! Looking forward to crossing paths again soon.

Re: Farewell, 2011

Jared Smith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:31:49 -0000

Hope to see you at some point in 2012, Patrick -- let's see if we can get that number to three times after seeing you twice in 2011!

Re: I need to up my game

Jared Smith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:30:57 -0000

What's wild is that a majority of my top posts were from 2005-2007 -- impressive and completely unintentional SEO. :)

Re: I'm Jealous of WordPress for Android 2.0

Jared Smith — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:40:58 -0000

@IsraeliteIndeed In addition to Jon's advice, if you are on WordPress.com, you can use the [tweet] shortcode to embed tweets.
A plugin is available for WordPress.org installations to bring the shortcode in (and it's probably a pretty good bet that the shortcode will be in Jetpack pretty soon).

Re: The Kindle Fire: Yet Another Device For Web Developers to Worry About

Jared Smith — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:23:28 -0000

Some of Nielsen's recommendations on how to handle this are rooted in the last decade, including the suggestion for sniffing the user-agent -- seriously? Web developers who properly implement responsive design techniques can serve up a page that works beautifully on a 3.5" smartphone, a 7" Kindle Fire, a 10" iPad, and a 27" iMac without having to sniff a spoofable user agent or create a separate mobile site.

Re: Run ChromeOS with a Hint of Lime: ChromiumOS Lime Builds (Finally) Available

Jared Smith — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:25 -0000

This might be a fun project for a virtual machine. Don't quite have the old hardware hanging around to run it natively.

Re: It's Carrier IQ's World, We Just Live in It

Jared Smith — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:43:54 -0000

Willingly living life in public and having every keystroke you make on your phone logged without your knowledge are totally separate things. One is your right, the other is potentially a violation of federal law.

Put another way, you wouldn't publicly post your SSN and your credentials to your bank accounts, would you?

Re: Survey Says: WordPress Leads Open Source CMS Market

Jared Smith — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:43:15 -0000

Makes sense. I know when I SVN update my WordPress install it doesn't get counted.

Re: Survey Says: WordPress Leads Open Source CMS Market

Jared Smith — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:20:11 -0000

Curious if that download tracker also takes into account one-click installs, which many popular Web hosts employ nowadays to help users quickly install WP and other software.

Re: Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead

Jared Smith — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:10:41 -0000

IE 9 does not entice me one iota to switch away from my Mac. Kudos to MSFT for trying (I think), but Safari is still light-years ahead of IE 9 in the rendering department.

Mac users would probably resoundingly reject a Mac version of IE again. Remember Macworld '97...

Re: Rush to Upgrade to iOS 5 Strains Apple's Servers, Causes Headaches

Jared Smith — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:46:38 -0000

Have to say I'm a little worried about what the first OTA software update will look like after yesterday's upgradefest, especially if the update is significant. I can already see AT&T's network throwing in the towel when 5.1 comes out.

Re: Facebook, You're Not a Newspaper

Jared Smith — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:13:12 -0000

More and more I'm wishing Facebook would make its ticker the main news feed view because of its agnostic approach. I want to see everything unless I explicitly say I don't (by viewing a list).

Being able to see everybody's updates again, though, has been a revelation. I'm hearing lots more from old friends lately. (Kind of sad when you think about it.)