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Re: Joe Lieberman and Democrats are breaking up?

mrshl — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:00:25 -0000

No, no. Libertarians are relatively dogmatic in their belief that government
should have almost no regulatory role in the lives of its citizens. I don't
believe that at all. I do believe in paying our bills with sensible taxes
and sensible spending. I also believe the federal government should
generally abstain from regulating the sex lives of consenting adults. Where
I differ with libertarians is my belief that some federal regulation is
required in the financial, environmental, and healthcare sections of the
American economy. I am a man in the middle, my friend.

Re: Thoughts on Tumblr Explore & Open API’s In... - Joe Lazarus

http://joelaz.com/post/48609964 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:50:47 -0000

Yep. I don't so much blame them for not building better recommendation / discovery tools themselves - I'm sure they're busy. Rather, I think they're missing a huge opportunity to have other people build that stuff for them by offering robust API's.

Re: Bookmarking in Google’s Chrome Browser

mrshl — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:50:10 -0000

Well, I think it's got a lot of impressive features that have been amply
covered on other sites. I'm covering one particular aspect of the browser.

Re: Thoughts on Tumblr Explore & Open API’s In... - Joe Lazarus

mrshl — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:50:29 -0000

Agree 100%. I originally found your blog and Tumblr sites when I began wondering why Tumblr didn't have a more robust recommendation engine the way Delicious or StumbleUpon do. Sure Tumblr's a blogging site, but it's one that gets a ton of standardized content submissions from its bookmark as well as a treasure trove of reblog data.

Unfortunately, they haven't done much to leverage all that data, and the lack of an API keeps anyone else from using it either. Bummer.

Re: The Dark Knight won’t be Heath Ledger’s last film

mrshl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:12:23 -0000

I loved The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, but it's still regarded as one of the greatest flops of all time. I tried to get my friends to love it, but provoked the opposite response. This happens a lot for me, though. It's not really limited to Terry Gilliam movies.

Re: Test post

mrshl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:01:01 -0000

this is the alternate comment system i mentioned. obviously, the downside is that we'd have to have a separate login for the comment system.

the upside is that we get threaded comments on the same page, better spam protection, and a comment system we can alter using CSS if we want to.

we can still use the built-in comment system if we want. but if we want to use a custom template (like this three column version) we'd have to use the old-style blogger comment system rather than the one that updates on the same page.

Re: Test post

mrshl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:56:46 -0000

once we decide on a template design, we can just convert the existing site to the new template. we won't use this test site. so all the posts will remain undisturbed and with their original owners.

Re: Test post

http://nonalignmentpact.blogspot.com/2008/08/test-post.html — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:11:52 -0000

This is what a reply looks like.

Re: Test post

mrshl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:11:52 -0000

This is what a reply looks like.

Re: Test post

mrshl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:11:34 -0000

This is a test comment

Re: Songbird 0.7 An iTunes replacement + music... - Joe Lazarus

mrshl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:56:09 -0000

The lack of a folder-watch feature is killing me. Adding folders manually is a drag. Same problem iTunes has, but for different reasons, of course.

Re: Using Evernote Mobile in the real world

mrshl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:56 -0000

I still use Google Notebook. It handles text notes better than any other notebook I've seen. It's speed and ease of use that matters to me, and Google Notebook is faster and easier than Evernote.

Re: Diigo loses me again.

mrshl — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:10:54 -0000

I should emphasize that my problem isn't only with the downtime. It's also with the much slower speed at which I can access my bookmarks.

I'm hopeful you guys can address this issue, as its crucial to whether I can even use the service. Social capabilities are impressive, but I need quick, responsive reference to my bookmarks in order for your service to be useful.

As for your Firefox addon, I remember upgrading to Firefox 3 and checking whether your service was compatible. From what I remember, Delicious was faster in releasing a Firefox 3 compatible addon than you guys were. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

Either way, I have been testing your latest version, and it's still much slower than Delicious. Part of this, I know, is that the Delicious addon is using a client-site query to speed up searching while you guys are using the Web. Still, even for a Web query, the Diigo addon has been pretty slow.

Finally, as I said in the post, I REALLY want to like Diigo. But I keep running into bugs and performance issues. Iron those out, and I'll definitely give you another shot.

Re: AOL buys SocialThing — but why?

mrshl — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:46:38 -0000

I love SocialThing!, but it serves a completely different purpose than FriendFeed. It's genius is the ability to collect all your friends from the multitude of services you use without having to bug people to join up with ANOTHER social media site. Since most of my friends are NOT on FF, SocialThing works as a kind of social Google Reader for pals who use Flickr and Twitter, but are unlikely to join FF.

Re: Why create a custom search engine out of your bookmarks?

http://www.cloudnotes.net/2008/08/why-create-custom-search-engine-out-of.html — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:41:07 -0000

Now that you mention it, there is a way to add people to a CSE - as contributors. Of course, you would initially need to share the CSE URL with them in order for them to even know of its existence. It's not as "social" as one of today's bookmarking services, but it is possible. I've just never invited anyone to join mine, so I'm sketchy on the details. However, I have seen the option there.

As far as the "Awesome Bar" - I have to agree with you, that is a handy reference for recently visited websites, but if I ever cleared my history, it's gone. Google Web History is certainly a good alternative - if it's switched on. I have switched mine on because I have indeed welcomed our new Google overlords, but some people like to draw the line there for privacy purposes.

Oh, and I'm just kidding about the "whooping up" :) in case you didn't guess - I just like a good debate/convo and I couldn't resist throwing my 2 cents in...again.

Re: Why create a custom search engine out of your bookmarks?

mrshl — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:02:59 -0000

Actually, web based bookmarking purely for reference MIGHT be over for lots of people. If indeed it ever began. So many people just type things into Google nowadays. But as I think you said, many people use bookmarking services as inputs for their blogs or FriendFeed or for other social reasons.

As I understand your suggestion, using a CSE consisting of your own bookmarks doesn't have any social uses: it's purely for reference. If I understand correctly, I can probably do the same thing you're doing using either Google's Web History OR Firefox's Awesome Bar, and I can pick and choose when I want to add a bookmark. That is to say, my Web history's being captured anyway, but I can actively bookmark (or star) something if I want to leave an extra breadcrumb for myself. But neither option is particularly shareable.

Now, if you tell me that other folks can access and contribute to your CSE, I would say THAT is starting to get interesting. Even I might consider using your method for collaborative situations where group reference might be necessary. A lot of startups are trying to solve the same problem (e.g., Twine).

Honestly, I've wondered how relevant personal reference bookmarking is, even for myself. Why? Because I use both Web history and Firefox as a kind of passive notebook, with great results. The "Awesome Bar," in particular, is incredible in its accuracy even after typing only a few letters. I supplement them with Delicious, of course. I love Delicious. But I wonder sometimes if Delicious will remain relevant for me as a pure reference tool (as opposed to a sharing tool).

Oh, and thanks for commenting. It's never my intention to sound like I'm whooping on anyone. But I give credit when I talk about someone else's ideas. And I guess credit can cut both ways.

Re: Tumblr might be fumbling its new release

mrshl — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:01:17 -0000

Yeah, their phased update plan seemed pretty clear to me, but I can see the potential for confusion. Overall, I'm pretty stoked to see some new features added to what might be my favorite blogging platform.

Re: Social|Median was not a good experience

mrshl — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:34:30 -0000

I found the concept incredibly useful. Perhaps when they get it all worked out, I can reactivate my account. I'm just reporting my relatively poor first impression.

Re: life is a thrill

mrshl — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:38:20 -0000

I think that's the second time I've bookmarked the League here. This time to your custom domain name.

Re: life is a thrill

mrshl — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:37:09 -0000

Jeremy, since you're the only one who ever comments here, you really should register with Disqus. That way your comments will actually tracked. Registering can even help you associate your old comments with your new ID.

Oh, and did you know you could use this same threaded comment system (and spam protection) on your Blogger install? I use the same comment system on my other blogs: mrshl.net & cloudnotes.net.

Re: My wife is awesome

mrshl — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:21:07 -0000

excellent. i'd like to start posting here more often, so definitely come back.

Re: Evernote. Why it will make it & 20 Awesome Ways to Use It.

mrshl — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:12:18 -0000

Evernote's incredibly well done and has tons of features. But it's still not optimized for handling basic text. Even though its Web-based version recently added rich text editing, neither the Web version or the Windows clients allows you to use simple keyboard shortcuts (e.g., ctrl-B, ctrl-I).

And there's too much friction in the editing process. Why do I have to click "edit" just to edit something? I want to click in a text field and start typing. I want to be able to click on a note and type new tags directly into the tags field.

Evernote is loaded, but it's not fast. It misses the mark on the most basic features: editing my texts and tags. I hope it gets better. But until it does I'm sticking to OneNote and Google Notebook.

Re: louisgray.com: Take a Google Reader Shared Item Viral Using Notes

http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/08/take-google-reader-shared-item-viral.html — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:11:07 -0000

It's not clear to me what horrible thing will happen if you refuse to continue the Google Reader shared items chain, but do you really want to risk it?

Re: louisgray.com: Take a Google Reader Shared Item Viral Using Notes

mrshl — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:12:59 -0000

And what terrible thing will happen to me if I refuse continue the "chain"?

Re: Clip web pages to OneNote with new Firefox add-on

mrshl — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:35:03 -0000

Yeah, I agree. It's not too useful right now. But I want to encourage further development, so I don't want to sound too harsh.