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Re: Barcamp or Bored Camp?

Duke Long — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:20:36 -0000

Pete, Agreed !

Re: Barcamp or Bored Camp?

raster — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:04:40 -0000

I'd suggest that you are in control of your own experience at a BarCamp event, and if you're bored, it's your own fault. Do something that isn't boring. As we like to say, if you aren't giving or getting value where you are, use your two feet to go somewhere else and do something else. If you'd love to attend those sessions, why not facilitate them and lead them?

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

raster — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:39:00 -0000

Crap! I actually put the entire contents of all my pages into the meta tags, hoping that would help things...

I can't believe I paid $50,000 for advice like that... I'll be firing my SEO guy now. :(

Re: My talk on Startup Failure

ryangraves — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:40:02 -0000

Sorry Pete, the Founders Pete & Gabe :)

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Re: My talk on Startup Failure

raster — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:43:41 -0000

The only error I saw was where you said "...the founder of Web414, Gabe..." :)

Re: Anatomy of a Twitter Bot

MargyRadel024 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:07:47 -0000

Thanks mate for sharing...
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Re: The story of how I met my Fiance.

ryangraves — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:44:55 -0000

No kidding.

Re: The story of how I met my Fiance.

raster — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:14:04 -0000

"Costa Rica" appears to be two words. :)

Re: SARAndipity....a fortunate discovery!

raster — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:12:50 -0000

Try http://blip.tv/ they are great....

Re: Bananzattack - joshjs: defiance Whatever happened to that guy?

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:42:05 -0000

From what I've read no one knows... The authorities rushed in and took him away, and there's a pretty good chance he was never seen again. Hmmm, at least his actions won't be forgotten...

Re: Bored, bored.....BOOORREEEDD...I'm soooo bored!

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:53:11 -0000

You could always try co-working at Bucketworks. :)

Re: Ease of Use Is a Problem?

raster — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:04:14 -0000

Totally agree... they should be using software that can "get out of their way" and just let them be creative. I know plenty of creatives who don't like to deal with technology nightmares, and you know what they do? Surround themselves with people who *do* know how to deal with them, and get them out of their way, so they can make with the creative.

There's easy, and there's powerful, and if there's some middle ground between the two, I say let people at it.

Re: Be you to succeed.

raster — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:36:08 -0000

So... I guess you need to find out what you were "built to do" because somehow doing that will make you happy and successful, and also allow you to survive (make a living) doing it.

I'd have to argue that probably very few people have been able to do that... Or maybe it's just the people I know... :)

Re: Be you to succeed.

nateritter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:52:53 -0000

I'd also argue that most of the people that I know who are like that really don't know what their strengths are. Possibly, they don't care, and apathy can be a barrier, but that doesn't stop the statement from being true. That just means that some people aren't going to get it. You can't force people to be good, be positive, eat, or breath. Some people don't want to. They'd rather commit suicide, kill babies, or simply be negative. That doesn't mean the statement is false.

Re: Be you to succeed.

ryangraves — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:49:26 -0000

Pete- I completely agree. Very few people have figured that out... i.e.
Lebron, Fischer, Obama, etc. Finding out what that is may be much harder
than capitalizing on it.

I wish you the best of luck in your hunt. God knows that I haven't figured
it out...yet. :)

Find it, capitalize on it, revel in it.

Re: Be you to succeed.

raster — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:41:31 -0000

Hmmm, maybe some of us have failure in their DNA. I suppose some people succeed at failing, which is probably pretty crappy, and not much to get happy about.

I am not convinced that just because you are a "fan" of something you can do it and be successful at it, and manage to somehow eek out a survival doing it...

I know people who are fans of doing nothing, yet every day they have to drag their asses out of bed and go do some crap-job they hate just to get along in the world. Seriously, they would be happy doing "nothing" but I don't see that as a realistic option. I know people who work hard, and slave away at what they believe they want to do in the world, but they get beaten down, and it's depressing. It's sad to think that they want to help others who have less than them, and it might not work, they may fail, and it sucks.

So.... "Do what you were built to do an you’ll be successful" is all well and good, but what if you hate doing what you were "build to do" or you can't figure out what you were built to do?

Re: Be you to succeed.

raster — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:48:04 -0000

If only it were that simple....

Re: Be you to succeed.

ryangraves — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:45:30 -0000

I'd argue that if you hate it, you weren't built to do it...

Re: Be you to succeed.

ryangraves — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:54:25 -0000

Oh but it is...

Re: Why I like netbooks (Scripting News)

raster — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:42:25 -0000

I paid about $400 for the Asus Eee 701 when it first came out last year, and it's nice. It is small and light and I carry it in my bag everywhere. It runs Linux, and it can handle browsing, email, and I can manage servers and some of the stuff I want/need to do. A MacBook is bigger, and heavier, and more expensive. Still, if there was a comparable Apple netbook, I think I'd pay twice as much as I did for the Asus, just because it runs Mac OS X, and I could do pretty much *everything* I normally want/need to do, with the software I use everyday on my desktop. Linux is ok, but I do most of my real work on OS X.

Re: Micro Blogging Review

Pete Prodoehl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:27:16 -0000

The "win" for identi.ca is the Laconica software, which is open source, which you can download and install on your own servers... none of the others you mention have that one feature. Freedom is the difference...

Re: Declutter Projects

raster — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:21:26 -0000

I question the usability of your desk.

That said, I would like to see a video of you using your desk, including lighting the candle, watering the plant, and typing and email.

Re: boxee blog » Tiger, Tiger, Tiger

Pete Prodoehl — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:34:41 -0000

I've been unable to get it to work on Tiger. I can't log in because the mouse does not track on screen while the app is running. I'll try a few tricks & reboot and see what happens.

Re: Quick question (Scripting News)

raster — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:06:58 -0000

I think we're beyond strings.... we may need some rope.

Re: louisgray.com: Google Says Apple Owns the Letter "i", and Craiglist the "s"

raster — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:59:34 -0000

Wondering how things looked in 2003? http://rasterweb.net/raster/2003/04/03/20030403...