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Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Thank you for your support and looks like we made...

ralphthemagician — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:29:23 -0000

Are you posting from a bathroom?

Re: Prologue Theme

Acryliccowboy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:58:16 -0000

Thanks, glad you dig the theme! :)

The icons are custom made (except for the description silhouette). Some used photos as references and the rest were based off some old dingbat fonts I had. I only made as many icons as I needed, it's likely I'll reuse them for future themes as well, but maybe redrawn at a higher resolution if needed.

Re: Prologue Theme

ralphthemagician — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:23:36 -0000

I would like to thank you for your hard work and excellent theme. You have saved me hours of work. I was looking for a clean theme that supported tags, notes and would be easy to integrate with Disqus, and you took all the work out for me. Bravo.

IMO, a version of this with the AJAX stripped out should be the new default template for Tumblr.

Also, did you make the icons or get them from somewhere else? I rather like them. They remind me of the PICOL set. If you got them from somewhere else, or have any more, I'd love to see them!

Re: Google Asks Common Man “What is a Browser?” Common Man Has No Clue [Video]

ralphthemagician — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:16:31 -0000

yeah, i'm using the yahoo!

Re: Twitter Spam: 3 Ways Scammers are Filling Twitter With Junk

ralphthemagician — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:18:37 -0000

It's not just Twitter. It's the whole realm of, "social media". You've got clowns like that annoying asshole Bill Crosby who go around spamming about the, "Twitter Traffic Machine" and all sorts of other crap; and because it's an affiliate marketing pyramid scheme, you get spam from like 1,000 other people as well.

What really amazes me is that there are enough dumb people who buy into that shit ... I guess making it not so dumb after all.

Re: Why twitter should fear the new facebook design

ralphthemagician — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:35:00 -0000

IMO, these "companies" don't need to be worried about each other, they need to be worried about their own existence.

The reality is that neither of them actually make any profits. Facebook at least makes /some/ revenue. This idea that these companies have real value based on how may users they have is kind of deluded. Both of them are still riding the fun bus with investor money.

Microsoft will eventually buy Facebook. Twitter will either get bought by Google or a traditional media agency like CBS, or Google will invent their own decentralized version of Twitter based on XMPP, or who the hell knows what, and integrate it into Gmail/Gtalk and then everyone will be like, "Twitter who?"

Anyway, rant over. Keeps it real home slice.

I really like this theme by the way. Simple, yet effective.

Re: Is Social Media an Industry?

Tech why? — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:57:18 -0000

If all newspapers started making losses, would it lose its industry status? An industry is an activity that employes people to produce something. It need not be manufacturing alone.
Social media does have a lot of trouble in creating a business model as users are used to sites without ads. Yes, they struggle for profits. Textiles is an industry. Producing cotton clothes alone is not a new industry. Placing ads in facebook is no way different from placing ads on any other website. Social media is just a subset of e-commerce. They do employ people.

Re: Is Social Media an Industry?

ralphthemagician — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:25:31 -0000

Gold is a commodity. Social media is a buzzword.

Re: Is Social Media an Industry?

Aaron Richard — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:23:51 -0000

Anyone who claims to be a "social media expert" is no such thing. Being able to use Twitter is not a "skill". Knowing how to communicate with an audience or an individual *is*.

Just because a lot of people are on Google searching for the keywords "social media" doesn't mean it's an industry.

Social media is a buzzword. It's the new "e-commerce", only without the profits.

Re: Is Social Media an Industry?

Aaron Richard — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:17:45 -0000

Billions in revenues? Perhaps, but built on the backs of an overinflated bubble economy.

Revenues are one thing, profits are something else.

Most "social media" projects are loss generating business. Not all, but most. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Blogger, Last.fm, etc... these things don't make profit. At the end of the day the big players like Google, Microsoft and traditional media agencies and networks have to come in and absorb these companies.

Social media is an idea. It's a supplemental media and communications channel. It's not an industry.

Re: Credit where credit's due

antderosa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:30:50 -0000

I believe Jacob Bijani designed Gary's theme...

http://blog.jacobbijani.com/post/79462258/gary-...

Re: Credit where credit's due

ralphthemagician — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:27:41 -0000

Who designed your theme? It looks great. Could use a bit more color, but I really like the layout.

Re: Facebook Responds to Concerns Over Terms of Service

Aaron Richard — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:20:48 -0000

Seems to make good business sense to me. Facebook has literally turned the pictures and videos that people submit into hard assets.

Since they own your photos, they can now sell them. Should they ever choose, Facebook just became the largest supplier fresh stock photography in the world. Fresh stock video too.

Re: 2008/12/19/how-to-win-twitter-friends/

Aaron Richard — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:23:29 -0000

This American Life #198
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.a...

Re: Something’s amiss.

ralphthemagician — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:27:51 -0000

That's what she said!

Re: Just Like A Magician

ralphthemagician — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:02:54 -0000

Whoa. That sounds like a cool place. No pictures! I shall have to correct that.

Re: Just Like A Magician

Miranda — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:22:00 -0000

http://www.yelp.com/biz/fourth-coast-cafe-kalam...
fourth coast downstairs...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/crows-nest-kalamazoo
crows nest upstairs.

Crows nest serves food 24 hours on weekends, but stops serving at 8 m-th. I practically live at this place.

Re: Just Like A Magician

ralphthemagician — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:50:35 -0000

Woot! Sounds good!

Yeah, I'll be doing it on weekends, as soon as I can form some kind of schedule. Shoot me an email with a link to the place you have in mind. See if you can find them on Yelp or another review/search site.

Re: Just Like A Magician

ralphthemagician — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:00:11 -0000

Hey Ross! Yeah, a good buddy of mine recently used crowdSPRING for a project of his. I look forward to using it. Seems like you've got a great community of talent over there. I've actually told a few of my artistic friends to check it out. Great stuff!

Thanks for checking out the blog!

Re: Mini-Update: There's Just No Time!

ralphthemagician — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:15:17 -0000

Yeap. I saw. :)

Re: Mini-Update: There's Just No Time!

ralphthemagician — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:14:58 -0000

Hello, hello! I did get your message. Portland is pretty great. Too bad it's been so rainy here. Don't think I'll even get to see much of it before I have to leave. :(

Re: 2008/10/27/twitter-terror/

wyndell dorsey — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:09:07 -0000

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA AHA!!!!

Re: 2008/10/27/twitter-terror/

Aaron Richard — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:10:12 -0000

Clearly, it is for terrorists. I don't know why there is any discussion about this. I mean, both Twitter and Terrorists start with the letter 't'. It's obviously the same thing.

Re: 2008/10/18/vc-movement/

Paul Glazowski — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:17:24 -0000

Cheer up :-)

Re: 2008/10/18/vc-movement/

Aaron Richard — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:04:07 -0000

The end is near!