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Re: The BEBEPOOL.COM Birth Story

micahwittman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:20:54 -0000

@tina Thanks! It's as fun for me to run it as it is for everyone using the bebepool.com.

The "mom" photo is a good idea. Hmm, I have some photo uploading code from another project that with some re-working could do the trick. Let me think about that one a bit more.

Thank you for the comment.

Re: louisgray.com: Staying Loose Can Help Keep Your Ego In Check

micahwittman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:59:48 -0000

Take the Taste-Test Challenge: Which is the real parody site:

http://www.loisgray.com/
OR
http://www.lewisgray.com/

You! make the call

Re: louisgray.com: Twitter Finding New and More Creative Ways to Fail

micahwittman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:37:56 -0000

The Fail Whale was greeted, in general, as the embarrassing uncle who crashes the party for a bit then leaves. Fine, laugh it off. VERSUS: You step outside for a minute, come back in and everyone is gone, a creaking door is swinging in the wind and no one knows what really happened - there's a different kind of visceral reaction to that.

Re: louisgray.com: Twitter Finding New and More Creative Ways to Fail

micahwittman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:54:26 -0000

I agree with you. But, reality is complicated: 1) People taking action on a purely rational basis *doesn't* happen, 2) Cognitive strain of leaving your native microblogging community square _can_ be over come, but is painful and 3) Some, especially the casual users _and_ the heavily-invested users, are like motorists murmuring about pot-holes in the road, but living with it because that route is the shortest from A to B, while thinking: - "I'll do nothing and 'THEY' will fix it some day."

Let's just hope the community makes an informed decision.

Re: How One Would-be Web Friend Turned Into a Stalker In Months

micahwittman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:32:55 -0000

Thanks for sharing this personal/public ordeal. It's a signpost that others on the road you travel would be wise to take notice of and contemplate. I can't offer any experienced-based advice for this level of disturbing attention, but I will share an awkward online social interaction and the non-event (a good thing) ending. On an unspecified social network, I "unfollowed" (a twitter term, but used in an generic sense) someone whom I had "followed" for a short period of time (I always think of it as a trial basis).

When they noticed I had disengaged, I got a directed message to the effect of "what's up with whole leaving thing?". I was actually thinking clearly that day and gave one reply that was to be my final response no matter what reaction it was going to get (that was my resolve). As concisely as possible, I stated matter-of-factly that I adjust my inbound and outbound flow of communication through these social network technologies to try and get the right data type and quantity. To that I added, admitted, that there was specific behaviour that had trigged my choice to disengage (there was slightly more detail, but not necessary here).

So, to recap: I conveyed that disengaging 1) aligned with an internal guideline that was reasoned, and 2) I tried to be honest by being clear that their specific action resulted in my specific reaction - so in other words, SHOW RESPECT by facing the concrete issue(s); people want to be heard and respected - they can often deal with being disqualified from X if handled respectfully, and in manner neither too terse nor too drawn out. The response was 'no response' (success!), which meant no flame war, and the issue was resolved (as far as I know).

Again, the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and remained at the level of 'socially strained' and 'a curiosity', but I guess that's the point.

Re: louisgray.com: Specialized Perceived Value Trumps Real World Value

micahwittman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:09:48 -0000

Louis, you knew it was coming - you could sense a disturbance in the force in paragraph 4 ...

Amazonian Chief with Cellphone (in 2006):
http://www.flickr.com/photo...

But your point still stands: the iPhone time-traveled back to 2006 would be futile since there was no mobile youtube until mid 2007. So touche back at me.

Re: Strands Offers Lifestreaming and Moral Dilemmas

micahwittman — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:53:53 -0000

Good discussion to have. I wonder if getting the most Dislikes may become some sort of badge of honour among a subset of trolls out there. Depends on query ability and how usage/culture of the community evolves.

Re: Fierce Urgency of When?

micahwittman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:34:04 -0000

Sam, really enjoyed just listening to your audio post. I'm in my "basement" trying to get a web site redesign done, and yet my mind has wandered to so many other things. Christian and Jewish origins, belief, the swirling, serendipitous sputtering of social media enabled conversation--all filling my thoughts as of late in a deep way (deeper than is comfortable, actually .... Ooo, that was ominous--back to you're regularly scheduled programming).

Well, signing off tonight.

Re: louisgray.com: Incredible Web Efforts Made to Shield Victims of Santa Clara Shooting

micahwittman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:01:03 -0000

I think Louis has handled this story well. It is a deeply personal, sensitive matter in many respects. What is also true: if good journalists/bloggers/engaged citizens don't handle and explore the cross roads of public and private life, then *all* we're left with are the worst of the tabloid gossip publishers who will fill up the vacuum on their own terms.

I don't blame the newspaper for de-emphasizing its source, given the circumstances, but I also respect Mr Gray's reporting on the reporting under these circumstances.

Re: Google Calendar and Apple iCal finally agree to date

micahwittman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:49:44 -0000

If you're willing to tread in jailbreak territory, there's NemusSync which does over the air sync between iphone and google calendar.

Re: hello lazyweb can anyone recommend enterprise level cms/shopping cart solutions? php or .net ... sitecore as an example

micahwittman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:10:42 -0000

Magento

Re: Tips for Localizing Users on FriendFeed

micahwittman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:36:50 -0000

Nice post! And I didn't know about the Greasemonkey script - thanks, Mark.

Re: Dear Lazyweb, what's a good free FTP client for mac?

micahwittman — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:00:58 -0000

Cyberduck http://friendfeed.com/e/03e...

Re: Lazyweb: I love the wallet-sized moleskines, but what do you do for pens? Pen in pants pocket = ouchy.

micahwittman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:59:47 -0000

What's a moleskine without a "astronaut bullet pen" ? http://www.amazon.com/Fishe...

Re: Lazy Twitter: Is there a way to provide a YouTube link that DOESN"T start playing immediately? A ?pause=yes parameter or something?

micahwittman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:49:51 -0000

I don't know if there is a proper pause-directive querystring variable, but here's a work around that sort of accomplishes the goal: add a "#t=999m" (no quotes) to the end of the youtube embed url. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

The "t" anchor value instructs the player to start at a specific point in time in the video (e.g. #t=1m22s starts playing the clip at 1 minute 22 seconds in). Apparently, if the time value exceeds the actual length of the video, the player will skip to 1 or 2 seconds just before the end. So technically, the video still autoplays, but it ends almost instantly.

If you're only concerned about preventing autoplay for your own browsing comfort, read this resource: http://www.howtogeek.com/ho...

Re: #lazyweb Is there a word for "an experience for which there are no words"? @ursulav and I want to know!

micahwittman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:20:21 -0000

"dumbstruck" - may be the closest in English. It's derived from "dumb" which now is a most often used as a synonym for "stupid", but the earlier more common meaning was being mute http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: LazyTwitter: Is there a free OSX unzip that works with winzip's "less compatible" mode? (unsupported compression method 98)

micahwittman — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:53:26 -0000

This may help with your Winzip compatibility on BSD-based systems issue: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs...

Re: rizzn's socnets: Scoble’s Live Web Breaking News Dilemma

micahwittman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:49:16 -0000

I wonder how much ebb and flow per 24-hour cycle there is to the search api-exposed data volume. Also curious how much an issue false positives would be, and if there might be a crying wolf effect. As rough as a beta meter + alert app/service might be, I'd be first in line to try it. Thanks for the post, Mark.

Re: LazyTweet: What is the most efficient notetaking software for Mac (besides just using Pages)?

micahwittman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:44:28 -0000

Notetaking software as in simply creating, clipping and organizing content as opposed to word processing? Then try evernote.com (mac, pc, iphone, web compatible; syncronizes over the net; does OCR so scanned notes are searchable). Free and premium versions. @evernote on twitter.

Re: lazyweb Q: can i plug a Wii into my iMac? (no tv chez nous.) mille grazie!

micahwittman — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:02:42 -0000

To display the Wii on your iMac, you'll need an analog to digital converter device. In December I purchased an EyeTv Hybrid for my macbook pro: http://www.elgato.com/elgat... which enables over the air and cable TV plus other video signal input sources like a Wii. It comes with a software DVR to record shows. I'm very happy with it.

Re: Is Twitter Unenlightened? No, the Dalai Lama’s account was just fake

micahwittman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:05:44 -0000

[Note: I didn't read any tweets by @ohhdl so the follow is discussion of the principles at hand] Twitter's terms state "You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users." If the widely recognized spiritual leader of Tibet does not have an account, then he is not a twitter user. If Obama's people tweet for him is that impersonation? What is impersonation in this context and what scope can/should twitter take on. Maybe this is just a TOS technicality/oversight, but it resurfaces the question: what is the place for the likes of Jonathan Swift and Fake Steve Jobs? [I originally posted this here: http://friendfeed.com/e/fe8...]

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

micahwittman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:35:59 -0000

A great read, Bret! Thanks.

Re: The BEBEPOOL.COM Birth Story

micahwittman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:09:12 -0000

@Brian First, thanks for trying bebepool for this exciting time of expecting twins. Congratulations! I think you're absolutely right about the increase in multiple births. It's a great suggestion and one I've had on my list (near the top) to add as a built in feature.

That said, I can manually configure a "split screen" of your two bebepool accounts. I'll email you the link.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: The BEBEPOOL.COM Birth Story

micahwittman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:10:36 -0000

Oh, one more thing for others reading here. A split screen looks like this: http://bebepool.com/go/mcca...

Re: #lazytweet how do i make quicksilver focus on the selection files i made in finder?

micahwittman — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:10:52 -0000

To make QuickSilver focus on a selection of files/folders made in Finder, do this: Select in Finder, Invoke QuickSilver, then Cmd-G. At that point: Tab and choose a operation. More QS shortcuts: http://burnurl.com/op5MMh