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Re: LED TVs hit the market, but will they sell?

RolfSchewe — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:52:25 -0000

I wouldn't call these TVs LEDs. They are LED backlit LCD displays not actual LEDs like OLED. Am I wrong, @bjdraw ?

Re: Announcing BackType Connect

RolfSchewe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:57:21 -0000

The link I connect to disappears when I return to the Connect page. Is it this way by design? If so why don't you allow us to at least store the URLs in our account ?

Interesting feature. Just trying to figure out what the boundaries are to this option.

Re: It must be redecorating season on Wall Street

RolfSchewe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:25:50 -0000

The part if the piece that also stood out to me was the end.

If exposing fatcat CEO greed is class warfare what is union busting?

Re: Some bit.ly Updates

RolfSchewe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:49:21 -0000

I tried adding this RSS link to FriendFeed and it is not working correctly. It is not detecting the title and did not import anything.

Re: Full text in RSS? (Scripting News)

RolfSchewe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:31:06 -0000

I would like for all my RSS feeds to have the full text available to me.

My problem with short listings is context. Many feeds I have unsubscribed from were just headlines or only links to an article i.e. a redirect. This defeats the purpose of subscribing to that feed at all. At a minimum a feed should have the heading and around two sentences to give context to the content of the particular post, but I prefer the full text.

Feed readers such as Google Reader will crop each post if they go beyond a certain length and give you the option to click on the post to expand it to it's full length. So I think that is enough to cover any aesthetic issues some may have regarding post lengths while skimming through their feeds.

This has more to do with business models than anything else. The sites that offer very little in their feeds are most likely aiming to get you to navigate to their page and be exposed to the ad-rich environment on their actual website. I would personally prefer small unobtrusive ads in the feeds I read over having to navigate to another page.

I don't know what the argument would be against full text in all RSS feeds. Feed readers can modify them on the user end.

Re: Requesting Your Feedback

RolfSchewe — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:47:05 -0000

Sorry, don't like the Drudge style. Not because it reminds me of Drudge but scanning headlines all over the page like that is sort of schizophrenic. I like narrow one column layouts like Talking Points Memo. Easy to read, straight forward, intuitive. I don't like the jumble.

Re: Downward sprial continues - New York Sun to close

RolfSchewe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:14:12 -0000

I agree with Cereal. It was a right wing rag.

You always see them in stores in Manhattan late in the day because no one buys them. The Times and the tabloids usually sell out daily. Even free papers like AM New York and the others fair much better.

As they would say about other failed businesses, the market determined their fate.

Don't count out the possibility of a last minute acquisition by Murdock. He may seek to purge the paper for it's conservative writers to incorporate them into the NY Post.

Re: Live from the DNC meeting

RolfSchewe — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:53:46 -0000

Just out of curiosity, how many of these "protesters" are not older white women with pre-printed signs?

I suppose all you need now are some "Sore-Loserman" signs counter-protesting this group.