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Re: Why Speakers Shouldn’t Be Paid

jeremytanner — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:04:42 -0000

Passion can only get you so far. Being good to talk to in the hallway doesn't make a person good in front of 1500 people. Also, the audience for different conferences is a wide spread between BoCo / TED / Gnomedex (a mid-size group of friends hanging out) and Conferences like BlogWorld where hundreds or thousands of neophytes are coming to learn the basics. People want to learn from someone proven, established, recognizable, not just someone who's excited about the topic. SXSW core conversations are a better venue for the excited and unproven than trying to run a big conference without big names.

Jeremy

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/twitter-to-embrace-retweeting-releases.html

jeremytanner — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:13:48 -0000

I like that it gives more credit to the person who says something interesting, and less to the person who parrots it.

Jeremy

Re: Are you promoting the company’s brand or your personal brand?

jeremytanner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:28 -0000

It's a fine line to walk, many do it well, many do a very bad job. Just keep in mind who's cutting the checks and show them results. Another thought, ask the company, "Are you getting more attention because of who represents you?" It's impossible to divorce a person from their reputation. People who have a track record of doing good work are given more weight by customers / audience no matter who they're working for.

Jeremy

Re: Waiting for our vegan reubans at Backspace - G. Taylor McKnight

jeremytanner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:25:26 -0000

I was at Backspace my last trip through Portland, you should stop next door / upstairs and say hello to the Vidoop crew.

Re: A Message To Twitter Spammers:

jeremytanner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:34:02 -0000

I didn't mean to whine in my post, it was to be an indictment of those who use your tactics. If you spam (Binge / Purge followers on Twitter) you ARE a spammer. I didn't label you, your behavior did. I have no problem with your cause (Ubuntu Now) but the ends do not justify the means. Sticking up a 7-11 and then giving the money to Red Cross is still armed robbery. I've never called for Twitter bans, just better behavior. We both know you can do better.

Regarding feedback on my video: Anything tips more constructive than "Take an acting class?" We're looking for any feedback, but being specific helps.

Jeremy

Re: Twitter Spam, is it really an issue?

jeremytanner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:55:16 -0000

The idea is that spam is useless email. Twitter emails you when someone follows you. If they unfollow before you even read that email, that email is useless to you. It gets irritating at 10 or 25 of them daily and gets worse as they build.

"I’m doing my best to follow people interesting and working in similar fields, to me some level of engagement with a hundred followers would be better than shouting at ten thousand. "

Good on you.

Jeremy

Re: TwitSpace: A Twitter UI Improvement That Ruined It

jeremytanner — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:26:16 -0000

The problem I have with the "Follower Arms Race" is that spammers are now pointing to it as expertise. Spamming your way to thousands of followers then calling yourself Legendary Twitter Guru isn't just silly, it's doing a disservice to those who don't know any better than to listen to you and then become the scum of Twitter themselves. It's the same thing as happening upon a 1998 Broncos Super Bowl Champion ring in a pawn shop, buying it, then claiming that you played on that team. You can get a bit of attention with the quick easy route, but you'll be found out in the end. Teachers and those who hold themselves out to be experts are held to a higher standard.

It's not Twitter's fault when "Marketers" or "Promoters" abuse the system, just don't participate in black hat behavior or tolerate anyone among you who does.

Jeremy

Re: PodCamp Boulder

jeremytanner — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:56:40 -0000

I have high hopes for tomorrow, quality sessions scheduled with quality people.

Jeremy

Re: LearnToDuckTV - How About That?

jeremytanner — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:31:53 -0000

Pull back from the camera slightly. If you're going to talk with your hands lift them up into the frame. It feels unnatural, but the video is only capturing a small window and it misses most of your gestures.

Jeremy

Re: Ten Tables of Four Please - A Modest Proposal

jeremytanner — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:19:53 -0000

This makes too much sense. The anonymity and chaos of a 40-60 person group makes paying for dinner hell. As far as dictating how the bill is split up at a small table, I've never had dinner at a small table with good people that didn't end in too much money on the table.

Jeremy

Re: How to Drop it at Ignite Boulder (an attendee perspective)

jeremytanner — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:19:49 -0000

Sounds like you've enjoyed Ignite Boulder as much as I have. I'd add RELAX: we're all friends here and at the very worst, it'll be over in under 5 minutes. Looking forward to seeing you at the next one,

Jeremy

Re: Follow Everyone on Twitter Or Not?

jeremytanner — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:36:44 -0000

The way I see it, there are several phases a Twitter user goes through, and the answer to the question "Should I follow everyone back" is different depending on which phase a user has reached. In your first few months on the service, following all back makes perfect sense, a couple hundred connections are a treat. For power users, it's a much different proposition to try to follow 3,000 or even 30,000 people back. I'd be interested to see if your thoughts are the same in 2 years.

More Facts: Twitter is no more dominated by newer users than Montana is dominated by cows. The connections are important, the numbers aren't.

Jeremy

Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

jeremytanner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:37:58 -0000

Andy at Waxy.org had another interesting one. "What you you look like and why do you Turk?" -- http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical...

Jeremy

Re: Is Twitter broken? Or am I losing friends? Twitter is broken.

jeremytanner — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:19:29 -0000

Twitter isn't broken. Well it's broken, but not in the way that you're claiming it is. It's easy to check the validity of a Friend or Follow result. Click the image of a person and it'll send you to the Twitter website. If there's the option to Message someone on the right side under Actions, they follow you. If not, they don't. Third party Friend or Follow style tools are often pretty broken, they also sometimes have trouble with processing accounts with many thousands of followers. The only tools / scripts I can really trust are my own.

Taking a quick look at the Avatars above, a bulk of them are broadcasters who only follow a handful of those that follow them so not being followed back by them looks pretty normal.

Jeremy
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Re: Buying Digital SLR Cameras

jeremytanner — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:55:40 -0000

The good telephoto lenses have a switch for close / long range that helps a lot. For quick shots I also lock the focus to the center point so it doesn't have to hunt for a point. A bonus is that in many cameras the center point is more sensitive than the other focus points.

Jeremy

Re: Buying Digital SLR Cameras

jeremytanner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:41:24 -0000

"You take great pictures, I wish I had the same camera" is the rough equivalent of "I love your paintings, where do you get your brushes and paint?" The lenses have a larger effect on the image than the camera anyway. I'm not a good artistic photographer, but I've worked to become pretty solid technically. I'd recommend Peterson's 'Understanding Exposure' for anybody switching over to DSLR. Regarding using manual focus, some of my favorite shots are motorsport, there's no way I could manual focus fact enough to catch a motorcycle rip by at 200+ MPH. I get where you're going though, buying a DSLR and leaving it on full auto is a waste of a thousand dollars and six pounds that you have to lug around.

Jeremy