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Re: Another Way to Classify Twitter Users

Speeter — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:39:48 -0000

I don't see any problem with a person following 60000. Not every person has time in the day to tweet. I follow few very high profile personalities and i only see a message from them one or two times in a week. So if i can identify 60000 of such people that does not mean my account is spam.

Re: louisgray.com: Amazon Wish Lists of the Geeks and Bloggers In Time for Holidays

CyndyA — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:30 -0000

LOL. What was on it? I was moving some stuff around this morning that I'd saved for the kids, but other than that, my wish list is PAGES long since I've saved it for years.

Re: louisgray.com: Amazon Wish Lists of the Geeks and Bloggers In Time for Holidays

CyndyA — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:13:34 -0000

Ha! Here I was all self-conscious about what I might have on there, but mine is blank. :D

Re: louisgray.com: Amazon Wish Lists of the Geeks and Bloggers In Time for Holidays

louismg — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:35:35 -0000

Cyndy, it wasn't blank when I put it on there last night. Maybe
somebody already bought you your gift!

Re: louisgray.com: Semantic Gifts Mines Social Profiles for the Perfect Present

CyndyA — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:34:36 -0000

So what am I getting?

Re: louisgray.com: Twitterank Can Have My Password, No Questions Asked

louismg — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:51:37 -0000

If it turned out that this was a password sniffing site, I would have
admitted defeat, and gone around switching a few passwords. But it
doesn't look like that's the case. I do know my FriendFeed API key by
heart as well, but the best part is that my iPhone has it saved as a
previous address, so sending pics via e-mail from there is a cinch.

Re: louisgray.com: Twitterank Can Have My Password, No Questions Asked

CyndyA — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:43:16 -0000

I always switch my password out after I try this stuff, anyway. And I don't use the same password on any two sites. I do prefer the key thing that FF does. Tragic that I know THAT by heart.

Re: Lost Message

CyndyA — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:09:02 -0000

I'm trying to figure out if this is the Kool Aid or someone is slipping Thorazine into your coffee. You are the same Duncan I know and love who called Louis a c*nt, right?

Re: FriendFeed and Politics

CyndyA — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:08:59 -0000

Oh boo fucking hoo Duncan. Mark has been just fine bashing lefties all over the map the past eight years. I'm so tired of the "I've had it with this! I'm QUITTING!" crap. It's all about the dramz and not wanting to hear people disagreeing with you. Everyone is hoping to become the subject of blog posts like this one and get more attention. If you are going to quit, then actually do it without the big finale for the attention and I might take you seriously. Otherwise, I know you'll be back in a few weeks spouting the same old stuff as always. From this point forward, all those quitting for dramz are an instant block. If you don't like conflict, get off the freaking Internet.

Re: BlingEasy: So Bad It’s Actually Good

kim — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:56:26 -0000

your hair is really bad cyndy, dry old and brillo pad looking

Re: louisgray.com: Walking the SEO Balance Beam

elliottback — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:56:55 -0000

What I mean is that search engines / humans are in a constant battle. You can have the prettiest site that doesn't rank, or the best-ranking site that's completely ugly. Eventually Google will have to understand how layout and design affect readability and user preferences, ranking pages by how "good" they are.

Re: CNN/ Jobs Heart Attack Scandal: 100% not a failure of citizen journalism

CyndyA — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:29:51 -0000

BS. Besides the oversight of omitting my commentary from your list (insert foot stamp and pout here), it is a massive fail for the way it's currently set up, which is NO oversight. You can't offer a site backed with the CNN name and not back that up with some vetting. What was most shocking about today's story was that it took so long for something like this to happen. Without some oversight and some... ethics? training? common sense? Citizen journalism will fail. Chaos can't be considered journalism.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

SquidLord — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:51:41 -0000

I just read feeds NOT about SocNet stuff via RSS. From elsewhere. Because FF is a truly lousy medium for actually being exposed to ongoing comment, discussion, and exploration.

At worst it's an overgrown chatroom with threading. At best it's a newsgroup with no focus and lousy filtering tools. Neither of these is good for research, understanding what's going on in the world, or news. That's why Hades invented Google Reader, after all.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

CyndyA — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:26:00 -0000

Hah. See most of my articles now. I don't think they even get read anymore since I no longer blog exclusively about Web 2.0 stuff. Most go by with no likes and no comments. It's a very narrow focus there, that's for sure.

Re: Considering the cult of celebrity

CyndyA — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:22:53 -0000

Oh good. I feel better then. I had proposed what I thought was an awesome session for Blog World and got turned down and have been feeling downright pissy about it. I forgot it was all about who you know and not what you know or what you are interested in. Thanks for the reminder. I should quit submitting ideas to these things. No one gives a rat's ass about anything but who you are, and I'm with you in not caring, only with even less tact.

Re: WinExtra’s Wordle

CyndyA — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:00:39 -0000

Why is Louis' name so much bigger than mine?

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

CyndyA — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:24:01 -0000

Tom, at the point at which anyone compares mocking a religion to mocking the loss of human life, I have to seriously wonder about the religion that would put itself over the creations of its god. No, that doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me pretty consistent in my beliefs, which involve a creator that's all-forgiving. I hardly think there is a god of any religion who would find it necessary to smite a spammer, but then again, I'm not up on all the religions other than my own. Last time I checked though, there was no "Thou shalt not spam" listed in the Commandments.

You impugn my intelligence, call me a hypocrite, and that does what? Would that be more or less likely to make me sympathetic to your POV? I'm not sure you read the rest of my comment at all, since you didn't address it. I was discussing my article with a fellow writer who thought I should have included MORE about LDS history as a rationale for the rumor's veracity. I pointed out that it was a rumor, had a tenuous link to the realm of possibility. Rumors like this are news ALL THE TIME. How many times have I read that Google/Microsoft/Yahoo is buying Digg? It's part and parcel of the news cycle. Duncan's post pokes at the rumor, and suddenly he's using hate speech? Where are the Bigfoot believers calling him out? Or the TechCrunch believers? Why is the LDS church supposed to be above the same treatment given to any tech rumor out there?

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

Tom — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:11:13 -0000

Well first, since you can obviously read I’m just going to assume you are intentionally slandering the author of that piece you quoted because he said nothing about murdering a baby. He specifically said "While it is hard not to feel bad for his brutally murdered wife and child, not to mention his wounded daughter, Eddie's suicide itself is the stuff of happy thoughts". So in fact he felt murdering a baby was a tragedy but was happy that the guy who had done so was dead.

On that note, claiming someone was making a joke about murdering a baby when they weren't is really kind of offensive in it's own right.

But back to the piece itself I also didn’t think his comments were all that tactful but that’s why I’m not a hypocrite and you are. The bottom line is that you can’t get offended by a poor attempt at humor and then criticize others for being offended by another poor attempt at humor. Either it’s ok to be offended by people’s bad jokes or it’s not. Period. Because any other stance means you’re demanding everyone be like you (e.g. it’s ok to say something offensive if you aren’t offended but not ok if you are offended)

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

CyndyA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:58:01 -0000

Duncan, Disqus is hurling and won't let me reply to a reply.

@Tom, you seriously compare joking about murdering a baby to joking about a religion???? Oy.

The main reason that some religions get SO much bad press is because of the inability to look at it from an outsider's perspective and the tendency to take any poke or dig as a personal affront. I got over it a long time ago. I'm married to an Atheist. Looking at my beliefs through his eyes and poking doesn't threaten me, and I never understand the reaction of anger and defensiveness instead of a reaction of "You know, I see why you think that... here's why I think you are wrong." Does anyone here think that a single comment left here will change anyone's feelings about the LDS church or will it instead reinforce impressions?

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

Tom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:23 -0000

Oh yes, how could someone be so sensitive over a bad attempt at humor: http://profy.com/2008/07/26/misuse-of-social-me...

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

CyndyA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:45:28 -0000

Wow. First off, that was hilarious, and I'd have found it hilarious if the rumor was about the Vatican buying Facebook as well. I'm sort of shocked that people are SO up in arms about this... WTF? Have we lost all sense of humor? The rumor is so completely out there, how could that NOT be news-worthy? It sure beats another Microsoft-Yahoo rumor or wah-wah blogosphere bitchfight over PR any day of the week.

Re: Subway Hacking Case: Who’s Out of Line?

CyndyA — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:37:05 -0000

I've debated this with my husband more than once. It's been shown time and time again that companies, even when informed of exploits, still manage to ignore them, assuming no one will actually use them or find them, or who even knows what. In an open source project, yes, I find it good will to fix the error rather than just report it. But with closed systems where there seems to be a good amount of sloppy design and programming, and then a reliance on others to fix it, I don't think there is any incentive to hold it, and I'm glad the EFF has taken this on. Is the MBTA going to pay them to hand-hold? Otherwise, all bets are off.

Re: Things You Can’t Say About the Internet Episode 6

duncanriley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:20:35 -0000

shhhh, don't scare people off. Some will be offended :-)

Re: Things You Can’t Say About the Internet Episode 6

CyndyA — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:29:41 -0000

We were doing well until Hodson took us all to hell with that one comment... Not. my. fault. ;)

Re: 48hrs of stats - 1st up Inquisitr

techwinter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:03:07 -0000

I think that is a fair assessment, but when do you think is a good time? It
has been what three months now?

I would say things are starting to settle now and this could last another
Quarter and then the picture should clear up.

Either way I hope he does well since the niche he launched into has lots of
competition.