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Re: Loki plays soccer

kenlefeb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:20:24 -0000

Works in the browser, but not in my offline RSS Reader... oh well. :)

Re: AP objects to quoting-and-linking (Scripting News)

kenlefeb — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:44:22 -0000

I use both approaches: "quote & link" as well as "full quoting" depending on my audience. I tend to quote the whole article when I know the recipient of my comments about it, are not going to click a link. They might still not read the article when I include its contents, but at least it was flashed in front of their eyes and maybe something will jump out and make them stop to read it... :)

Most of my regular readers read my blog because I'm a friend or family in real life, not because they read blogs in general. I think this is a legitimate use of the content (it's always well attributed with links back to the source), and in fact gets the original authors more exposure than they would get otherwise. (Well, "more" is relative, right? They won't notice any great surge from my tiny corner of the world!)

Re: louisgray.com: Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS

kenlefeb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:22:02 -0000

Thanks, Louis! This is a great find!

I'm a huge annotator, and Google Reader notes just doesn't cut it for me! I like to share a lot, but I don't like to just forward stuff without adding some value to it, so I'm looking forward to seeing how Feedly fits into my routine...

Re: The Browser is the New Operating System – NOT!

kenlefeb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:18:43 -0000

DESQView was sooo cool! :)

The ultimate in multitasking, though, had to be RSX/11M, which although it was a command line interface, was all asynchronous! Granted, at times, it tended to look more like the green screen from The Matrix, than anything productive, but once you got the hang of it, it was really cool, too!

Re: How did PFF Bancorp become not PFF Bancorp?

kenlefeb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:30:15 -0000

Been there, doing that... :)

I work for National City Bank in Cleveland.

Re: RSSmeme Supplementing Data From FriendFeed

kenlefeb — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:34:38 -0000

Cool! I always love when a creative solution comes together...

Re: Online entertainment is a joke

kenlefeb — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:00:15 -0000

If you really want to see this nonsense go away, support EFF... this is a result of the overcomplicated licensing rules for content.

Re: UNIQLOCK

kenlefeb — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:24:38 -0000

Cool... I didn't realize I was entering any contest either... :)

Not that I really have any need for a cashmere scarf! Their clock/video is one of those things that's a little strange, even a little creepy, when you first look at it, but it grows on you. It's definitely viral!

Re: More Google Reader Notes Statistics

kenlefeb — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:28:39 -0000

That's cool... I guess my shared items are unique enough that I hadn't noticed anyone else writing notes on stuff I found interesting! Looking at *your* shared page showed me what I was missing on *my* page! :)

Re: More Google Reader Notes Statistics

kenlefeb — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:49:39 -0000

It would be interesting to be able to see what other people have written as notes against stories that I share (with or without a note of my own)...

Re: A Commenter’s Rights

kenlefeb — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:15:29 -0000

The very fact that print publications feel the need to explicitly state the disclaimer that anything you write to them becomes their property implies, to me, that the default position is that the author of those comments (or letters to the editor) actually maintains ownership over the contents. The fact that it has become so commonplace for publishers to require that correspondents surrender their claims, does not change the legality.

Is there anybody in this discussion who actually has any expertise in the legalities in this matter? Not that what is legal really changes what *ought* to be, but it helps to set a foundation from which we can derive the appropriate deltas to get to where people *want* to be.

Back to the current train of thought, I think the person who wishes to maintain close ownership of his comments will actually post them on his own property (i.e., blog) and then link back to them. The person who jumps into the fray on somebody else's property (the blog hosting the comments) is agreeing to whatever terms that host has established for the ownership of such content.

The technology ought to allow both approaches to be treated as first-order participants in the conversation.

Re: Did you make sure it’s plugged in?

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:27:09 -0000

Nope. Didn't work and I don't feel like debugging right now...

Re: Heinz Chapel

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:12:05 -0000

The coloring in the image is really dramatic... I like it!

Re: Freenomics is the Great Internet Leveler

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:14:03 -0000

Here in the States, at least, the first cable companies were just charging you for a clear signal, because broadcast TV had such a limited range. The premium channels are more analogous to my comment about the ad-free experience that people with above average disposable cash-flow would opt into, as a sort of luxury item.

Granted, these days, HBO and Showtime aren't thought of as "luxury" purchases, but that's because our mindset is much more consumerist and not because it's actually changed. :)

Nonetheless, the adoption of premium channels by "the masses" was years (even decades) after the cable industry was well established, and was definitely not an early phenomenon. I believe it would be a mistake to attempt to duplicate that level of success too early in the lifecycle of the "new entertainment media" of social networks.

Re: Freenomics is the Great Internet Leveler

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:52:47 -0000

There's a big difference between "social" media and "services," in terms of what people will pay for. The most successful social media in history, so far, is television and that is almost entirely free but ad-based. The recent trend for cable providers to charge a la carte is a break from that, of course.

I think social networks are most directly replacing television, rather than other services like telephones, in spite of Twitter's attempt to classify themselves as a utility. With a very few exceptions (like PPV on TV), the masses won't pay for individual channels of entertainment.

Online services, however, are a different matter. Financial services, shopping clubs, etc., have a better chance of building a fee-based business model.

All that being said, *any* site, social or otherwise, can always make a few bucks on the "premium, ad-free" subscription level; but only those with enough disposable cash-flow will pay for an ad-free experience... and that excludes the masses.

Re: louisgray.com: Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:06:08 -0000

Ah... so they're not using their own API...

Re: louisgray.com: Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go

kenlefeb — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:06:21 -0000

I wouldn't bother with rooms... if I care about a room when I'm in fftogo, I'll send its output to the main feed and will see it there, right?

I have noticed, though, that fftogo assumes that all updates from Flickr are "Posted" photos. It says that I "posted" a picture when really I "faved" it. :)

Re: Springtime in the Valley

kenlefeb — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:29:36 -0000

Thank you, Michael!

Re: No sour grapes for this new desktop metaphor

kenlefeb — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:26:13 -0000

Yeah, I've never been happy with any of the pre-built themes for DesktopX... whenever I've used it, I've always ended up building one of my own from scratch.

I don't use it, primarily, because it's slows down my system and adds one more layer of instability to an operating system that already hangs/crashes too much! :)

Re: No sour grapes for this new desktop metaphor

kenlefeb — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:56:02 -0000

By the way, I have my desktop icons hidden, and then I created a junction point in my Quick Launch folder to the Desktop folder, so everything on my desktop is accessible through my Quick Launch as a menu. That lets me just drag and drop stuff into my desktop where it seems to disappear, but can be accessed through the Quick Launch menu (which lives in my task bar, so I can get to it even when I have an application maximized).

Re: No sour grapes for this new desktop metaphor

kenlefeb — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:51:46 -0000

Have you tried DesktopX by Stardock? That might get you some of what you're looking for.

Re: Don’t Mess With Facebook And Its Potential Advertisers

kenlefeb — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:33:30 -0000

They should simply post a comment here, saying they screwed up and that you're right. that would do more to redeem their credibility than removing the post would.