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Re: Twitter: IRC with a new shade of lipstick

moah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:09:50 -0000

Twitter didnt exactly abandon channels, they just called them "hashtags". So instead of doing a /join #topic to see all messages related to the topic, in twitter you search for the hashtag, and get back a list of tweets resembling a irc channel.

>It completely killed the +ops crap that made IRC get on your nerves
>after a while.

How are you gonna fight hashtag-based spam and abuse in Twitter without a op? When you search for a hashtag (i.e. when you join a twitter channel) everybody has to filter out spam and abuse tweets themselves. Sometimes it isnt bad to have an op for a certain channel/topic/hasttag.

Re: the thorny issue of blog comment ownership - Digging in a Habari sandpit

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Re: Movie Notes: 2 Days In Paris

webomatica — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:56:05 -0000

That's funny. Well, I've already seen it and I definitely liked it :)

Re: Movie Notes: 2 Days In Paris

engtech — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:54:03 -0000

Remember when I said you should see "Paris J'Taime". I got the name wrong. This is the movie I meant. :)

Re: Sharing presentations is fun — really

engtech — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:08:51 -0000

Don't forget confreaks

http://confreaks.com/

Re: Attention Bloggers: Track Who Is Writing Notes About Your Posts

bgolub — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:49:04 -0000

Ya I never really meant for people to go to those sorts of urls. Yours is
http://www.rssmeme.com/source/6870/. Adding another item to my todo list :P

Re: Attention Bloggers: Track Who Is Writing Notes About Your Posts

engtech — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:43:30 -0000

Might want to put in a better 404 page:

http://www.rssmeme.com/source/internetducttape....

Re: Twitter: IRC with a new shade of lipstick

engtech — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:58:13 -0000

one big disagreement: twitter's value add wasn't putting HTML around IRC.

It was abandoning channels and letting everyone control who they are individually listening to.

It completely killed the +ops crap that made IRC get on your nerves after a while.

Re: Movie Notes: The Science Of Sleep

webomatica — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:21:04 -0000

Will definitely do.

Re: Movie Notes: The Science Of Sleep

engtech — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:17:29 -0000

"french romantic comedy"

Give Paris J'Taime a watch. Pretty good flick.

Re: Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed?

engtech — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:43:32 -0000

"Twitter needs to be decentralized and standardized because it’s as important as the DNS system behind the Internet."

say it with me now... I-R-C

Re: Movie Notes: Bulletproof Monk

webomatica — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:30:25 -0000

Heh - he just needs to be cast in the right role, like one that demands a lot of crazy faces and having sex with food. He would have been great in Soul Plane.

Re: Movie Notes: Bulletproof Monk

engtech — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:13:03 -0000

I mean, he was so amazing in those two movies he did with the Rock.

Re: Movie Notes: Bulletproof Monk

engtech — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:12:36 -0000

So what you're saying is that a Seann William Scott movie could be bad....

Never!

Re: Movie Notes: A Guy Thing

webomatica — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:52:03 -0000

Heh, definitely not. But if not a "guy" thing, whose exactly? I have no
idea.

Re: Movie Notes: A Guy Thing

engtech — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:53:44 -0000

Apparently it wasn't a guy thing.

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

engtech — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:19:35 -0000

Maybe we need to start a secret cabal. :)

openstats.blogspot.com

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

louismg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:08 -0000

There is definitely some risk of being boring. I know that my monthly summaries rarely get comments, while more discussion-friendly topics (like this) do spur conversation. But for some reason, the way I'm wired, I really dig the stats. I remember yours and Jason of Webomatica used to do them quite a bit, which in turn, inspired my monthly updates. I would read yours and others if they were posted.

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

engtech — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:16:13 -0000

"Talking about visit counts can be seen as off-limits as one's salary."

Actually, talking about visit counts can be seen as being boring. :)

I use to do this all the time when I started blogging ( http://internetducttape.com/category/statistics... )... then I realized people who aren't also bloggers don't really care.

It's like how most sidebar widgets benefit the blogger instead of the reader. Your stats are interesting to you because it's your blog. Other people? Not so much.

Re: 4,000 new users - someone pass the aspirin

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:05:04 -0000

I don't doubt that currently Macs are to some extent more secure out of the box than PCs because of their unix history. However while damage to the underlying OS install maybe harder the fact that the user data can be gotten at alone should suggest that at some point once Mac's market share proves attractive to malware authors that it to will need increasing better security measures.

It isn't a matter of if it will happen to the Mac but more of a matter of when.

Re: 4,000 new users - someone pass the aspirin

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:43:28 -0000

If they're using the same security set up as their unix base then they should be inherently more secure because you aren't running as administrator - ever.

It's really hard to do long term damage to an OS without admin access, although you can still trash all the user data.

But yeah, that's kind of boneheaded move. There probably going to be at least two months of lost productivity because of the new OS... I wonder how many of those 4000 have never used OSX?

Re: How to get Twitter some S BUX

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:05:39 -0000

There's still a lot of Starbucks out here in Ottawa

Re: GReader Shared Links - the new territory of self-promotion

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:03 -0000

our own stuff is never as awesome or blogosphere shattering as we like to
think. I can't count the number of times I have written a post that I
thought was da' bomb only to see it sink like a torpedoed ship :)