Disqus - Latest Comments for neuraxon77

Re: When molecules go viral

neuraxon77 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:17:35 -0000

Awesome idea. Unfortunately the rendered image didn't appear in my feed.

Re: Twitter API for the social graph (Scripting News)

neuraxon77 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:05:01 -0000

You are officially a number Dave. :)

People actually do change handles and it does break things (including trust and reputation). A number of times I've wondered who the heck I was following was before realizing they may have changed their handle.

Re: Linux and the Inauguration - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:35:51 -0000

Agreed, this was a special case as the original UI for the player was built using Silverlight 2, and we have not shipped that support yet.

Re: Linux and the Inauguration - Miguel de Icaza

Sandy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:27:46 -0000

Maybe you were having stream issues. I had that happen to me a couple of times as the ceremony wore on.

As for your other point, Moonlight just doesn't have Silverlight 2.0 compatibility yet. It is coming. :-)

Re: Linux and the Inauguration - Miguel de Icaza

neuraxon77 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:10:37 -0000

It didn't work for me Miguel. It would buffer, play for 30 seconds or so, and while still transferring data, the player would freeze and I'd have to reload the page - eventually I gave up.
While the "Linux-compatible Silverlight Player" is good in helping publicize the cross-platform work Novell and others are doing, I'd rather I never saw that and the player worked with the "Default Silverlight Player".

Re: Alex Bosworth's Weblog - Lately on del.icio.us I’ve noticed that I always...

alexbosworth — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:38:17 -0000

I think really del.icio.us shouldn't give me the choice of private vs non-private. Non-shared links rob the community of valuable metadata.

I'm not really sure why I am marking things as private, I've just noticed that I do.

Re: Alex Bosworth's Weblog - Lately on del.icio.us I’ve noticed that I always...

neuraxon77 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:05:48 -0000

Hmm. See; I don't like this idea because it robs me of valuable metadata about topics I'm interested in following (I subscribe to a number of delicious tags and popular items).

If by default your bookmarks were set to anonymous, such that your name and account weren't associated with them, but your tags (& an option for notes?) were displayed within the community as a whole: Would you still set your bookmarks to private?

I realise some internal network and local links, notes or URIs with user identifiers may be ultra-sensitive... but perhaps filters for your name and other personal identifiers could be used in those cases to catch and mark as 'private'.

Yay or nay? Would you use something like this instead?

Re: 2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog

neuraxon77 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:04:15 -0000

Replace uber "blog" with "service" and then I'll like this article more.

I have four pillars of industry stereotypes I like to use when referring to the maturity of markets: Anxiety-driven, fashion-driven, utility-driven and the fringe-dweller aka innovator.

Starting at the end, some years ago blogs went from fringe-dwellers into the utility and more recently into fashion segments. I can now see uber blogs moving towards the anxiety-driven(mainstream brand-driven) sector that news sites have traditionally had a strangle hold on. ALL my favourite science blogs are being snapped up as evidence of this.

All I can say is: hasta-la-vista baby blogs. your now all(most) grown up.

ps. faux pas. Your link of the graph compares The Inquisitr with CrunchBase and not CrunchGear...

Re: Tim Berners-Lee has lost the plot

neuraxon77 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:26:50 -0000

Duncan's lost the plot. Tim's desire for rating content has merit so long as there is an audit trail along with annotations for necessary citations. That's how the peer review process works in any field that matures, eventually professionals get given more weight and the good content rises to the top... most of the time. It's not that different to Techmeme. :)

Re: Tweets kill that blogging urge - RussellBeattie.com

neuraxon77 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:17:30 -0000

For a while I felt sucked into the Twitter void. A number of times I've deleted my account only to recover it later. When I tweet, I rarely blog. When I blog, I rarely follow tweets. Since my blog died in the arse I'm tweeting again but in a limited capacity while I focus on other more directly rewarding things. Getting streams of information, while useful to keep up-to-date, doesn't lead to task-centric productivity I find. Only social-centric productivity. When I just want to sit back, relax and read/comment on current events with others, it's great. Otherwise; I prefer having a blog/tumblelog/twog all-in-one-space I can customize that spits what I'm doing to places like Twitter or FriendFeed - without sucking me into the "what others are doing all the time" void that can be so distracting unless your doing similar.

As for tweet archival quality. I tend to use it like a social bookmarking service, and some others seem to appreciate my quote snippets and comments. A number of times I've searched myself for those tweets.

I'm beginning to see distinct layers of communication I can use based upon my current mental bandwidth, and for me, being able to apply that to whatever context I find myself in is where I think this is headed.

Re: Constraints and Rules

neuraxon77 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:48:03 -0000

"they need to build an api early on so others can take up where they left off."

I don't agree with 'build <en>an API' but do with early. Most APIs are evil, they add unnecessary constraints for many applications. What they should be building in are dataset query languages used to create 'views' of the data. APIs that define semantics early, often hinder innovation when 3rd party developers can't get the data they actually want.

Constraints are everywhere, it's choosing the right constraints for a specific task that's important. Forth programmers call this Thoughtful Programming. There's a book by Leo Brodie available online called Thinking Forth that exemplifies this. Forth could also be thought of taking constraints too far. ;)

Re: twitter - Roomatic

neuraxon77 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:23:49 -0000

i hate discus. :)

Re: Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments

neuraxon77 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:37:33 -0000

Yeegads! Has anyone looked at the page source? An entry for every comment and search engine unfriendly... *runs and hides*

Re: Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments

neuraxon77 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:34:03 -0000

Hi Marshall. I'm attempting to break this one too. ;)