Disqus - Friends of jasminsmith

Re: A fimme blog dis

Shey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:25:42 -0000

Thanks for the feedback guys.

@Dave Yeah I ran out of steam at the end :P Would love to hear your suggestions. You did an awesome job on your blog BTW, excellent!

Re: A fimme blog dis

Shey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:15:21 -0000

Thanks for the tips and compliments!

@Cryssi: I'd like to try Photo Blogging eventually, soon as I get a new phone.

Re: When a Sport Isn’t a Sport (and no, Figure Skating isn’t a sport)

Shey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:01:02 -0000

If Chess is a sport, then where do you draw the line? Are card games sports? Hearts, Bridge, Spades are all card games that require strategic thinking (of course nowhere near the level of Chess).

I think a sport involves a combination of both intellectual and physical battles — the complete athlete must possess both the hard skills and the soft skills.

Chess is a great game, but I don't think it's a sport. It's completely intellectual. Which is great for a game, but not a sport in my opinion.

Re: Fixing the Twitter Skew on FriendFeed

Shey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:22:33 -0000

That's true, but I think a lot of people like myself are even more frustrated with RSS readers — boring plain text with badly formatted images (if there are any) and more subscriptions than we know what to do with.

FriendFeed definitely has it's issues, it's still early but it has potential.

Re: We Need Social Media Interpreters, not more Evangelists

Shey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:26:01 -0000

That's a great analogy, it captures the essence of what I'm trying to say.

The social media community needs to stop playing in the sandbox — the beach and ocean are just a few steps away.

Thanks for stopping by Robs :)

Re: We Need Social Media Interpreters, not more Evangelists

Shey — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:29:05 -0000

Exactly. I think this also ties it to Rob's comment — we all jump on the latest Web 2.0 app / Social media community because we love the excitement of exploration, discussion, and debating the use brand new technologies and communities.

But the very nature of the early-adopter mentality means that they move on to the next fad very quickly. This produces a huge problem if you're trying to a decent product lifetime. The reason why Facebook and Flickr are so successful is because they've maintained sustainability by getting the general population hooked — early adoption and widespread/general adoption.

The gen. pop. has adopted because someone told them where the value was — how using these tools can help them solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. That's where the real potential lies.

Re: Over Four Years of Turmoil is Soon Ending

Shey — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:54:48 -0000

@Beth I know you'll be looking forward to finishing it — that's quite an accomplishment! Thanks!

@Rick Thanks for the compliments! Yes, it's very hard to stay on track with "the plan". But I try to remind myself of the rewards of getting to those goals and that usually helps. Anytime you need something, just let me know :)

@Ehren You're right I think I will enjoy the memories. Now when I receive a challenge, I'm sure I can use the same drive to overcome it and anything else that comes my way.

Thank you all for your well wishes!

Re: We Need Social Media Interpreters, not more Evangelists

Shey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:17:22 -0000

Thanks guys, glad to hear others are thinking along the same lines.

Rick, it's definitely hard to get to "non-technical" folks to understand our techie stuff. I have an upcoming post that should make that a little easier, stay tuned.

Re: The Conversation is Evolving

Shey — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:43:26 -0000

Tony, thanks for stopping by.

I apologize that I gave the impression that you have a problem with comments not belonging to you. I wanted to acknowledge that you actually recognized the fact that bloggers have no rights on reader comments.

I'm neutral on Shyfter as I haven't used it yet and am not entirely clear on its implications.

Re: The Conversation is Evolving

Shey — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:52:10 -0000

Hi Rob,

I really like your idea of comment trackbacks, that sounds excellent.

@Rick Thanks!

Re: The Conversation is Evolving

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:05:11 -0000

Hey Corvida and Colin,

That sounds like a really cool FriendFeed plugin, I'll need to try that out.

I've been contemplating Disqus, heard both good and bad about it, especially the lack of ability for commentors to add code. Still mulling it over.

Thanks for coming by :)

Re: The Techmeme Disaster

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:26:04 -0000

Great post,

I think part of the problem is that the community only pays attention to the big names and not necessarily to the unknowns even if they have really good ideas and posts.

Perhaps the onus is on the influencers to encourage folks to look around and experience a diversity of opinions? Of course, I'm sure that seems kinda self-destructive.

Re: Reduce Twitter’s Level Of Distraction While You Work

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:03:37 -0000

Shutting down Twitter is the best way for me to get stuff done. Leaving Twhirl running in the background helps, but still slows me down.

Thanks for the link to Twitter Karma, that makes managing my followings a lot easier!

Re: 12 Motivational Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs Inspired by the NFL

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:08 -0000

Thanks for visiting Mike, I appreciate the feedback!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:10:34 -0000

Nice post Phil,

Didn't know Magnolia saved the pages too, that's pretty sweet!

Re: Twhirl Integrates Friendfeed: The Chaos Begins

Shey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:33:15 -0000

wow, exciting times for Twitter and Friendfeed users! But next, I really need a client that can let me tweak the feeds: http://tinyurl.com/2vw2cg

Re: Twhirl Integrates TwitPic and TweetScan

Shey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:10:17 -0000

when did this happen? i may actually use twitpic now - thanks for the update!

Re: It’s Your Twitter, Tweet How You Want To

Shey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:32:01 -0000

@Trula @Zoe thanks!

@Colin You're absolutely right; you've got to think before you tweet — you never know who you may piss off next!

Re: It’s Your Twitter, Tweet How You Want To

Shey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:19:55 -0000

That's a great tip Ike, I try to do the same.

Re: Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

Shey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:23:40 -0000

How social! This sounds great -- can't wait to see how it works out. Do you plan on installing it?

Re: Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

Shey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:50:48 -0000

I would give it a test run and see how it goes.

My concern is if you have an SEO plugin installed like All-In-One SEO or Headspace that automatically generates keywords based on tags. From what I've heard, it's best to have a decent # of relevant keywords than a whole big lot of them. Of course, this doesn't matter if you can limit the amount of tags that go popular.

The great thing is that you're able to moderate it so spammers / mischievous people don't go messing anything up purposefully.

Re: Top 3 Reasons Why Jamaicans Shouldn’t go Camping

Shey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:16:05 -0000

@Ehren trust me, its a good thing! What's funny is that my parents and siblings LOVE camping. But then again, I always thought I was adopted.

@Andre Rice and peas with gravy is all a man needs :)

Re: Video: Train in Japan

Shey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:48 -0000

haha yeah that's a good point! lol

Re: FriendFeed Hand-Wringing

Shey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:52:08 -0000

I think most of us, at one point or another, are guilty of this.

But I think you came to the right conclusion: If it's good content, it will get spread out there. And if you keep creating good content, your personal brand equity will grow.

Re: YackTrack: A Tool To Quiet Bloggers’ Whining About Distributed Comments?

Shey — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:50:10 -0000

No problem Rob, it's a great tool, thanks for that. Let me know what happens with the WP plugin, I'll be happy to test it out for you.