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Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

parislemon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:20:45 -0000

well this is going to make me sound like even more of a dick, but i am sorry, there were just too many to respond to each one while trying to work that day. that said, i am very appreciative of the wishes, I did see them all (i think), and i do thank you for yours!

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:18:45 -0000

First, that certainly seemed to be your point when you wrote, and I quote, "The signal being sent here is that women have no place in TechCrunch."

Second, so you're saying if it were one image, you would have had no problem with it? Please.

Third, I still love how you assume to know my intent even though you've never met me and/or talked to me. If you took some personal exception to an experience you had that's fine, but don't drag me into this based on assumptions you are making about a person you have never met.

Anyway, you got your recognition now. Congrats. I consider this conversation over.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:50:22 -0000

Great point Rob. But like Paul said, these are women we know fairly well. And as I said, I wasn't there, so I won't really speak to what was or wasn't said. I just don't see an reason to attack me (or Paul) for any of this - whatever this is, if anything.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:12 -0000

thx holden.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:02 -0000

thx paul, looking forward to reading what you have to say as well.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:56:46 -0000

hmm can't speak to mike's image choice there, but for mine, those were all related to the post. thx

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:12:10 -0000

quite right nate, i never want to miss something. if i had to put my finger on what makes me wake up after only 5 or so hours of sleep (since i'm going to bed so late), it would be that, i really worry about what i missed while asleep.

re: drumming. clearly you know better than i. i wonder if there's a way to master independence while doing something like reading a blog post and responding to emails at the same time. we have two hands and two eyes... but yeah, my problem could very well be that when i was drumming, I was constantly thinking of something else which killed it for me.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:09:34 -0000

that's an interesting thought. i wonder how much productivity is lost versus how much is gained with email/IM/etc. obviously wolfe feels it's much more loss, that might be true in the end. though i'd argue that more creativity might be lost as a result of the distractions, which may be worse.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:07:56 -0000

yeah. at some point I have this feeling that I'll just go somewhere for a year and check nothing.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:02:19 -0000

Okay, I'll play the jazz flute.

Re: To the FTC that whole Trust Agent thing is nonsense

StevenHodson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:38:42 -0000

I agree that there are misuses on either side of the fence. I also believe that the guidelines being put forward should apply across all media - regardless of print, video, podcasting or blogs. If it was I would withdraw my objections without a second thought.

Re: To the FTC that whole Trust Agent thing is nonsense

StevenHodson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:08:11 -0000

The thing is Chris is that it doesn't matter if it is a "gift" or a "loaner". Under the FTC guidelines because gadget sites like Gizmodo have an on-going association with manufacturers they will have to start displaying a disclosure notice with each post. Where it gets really interesting is if that same disclosure is going to have to be applied to old posts - since as we know even year old posts can gain new life.

Re: Kindle available in over 100 countries

StevenHodson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:35:51 -0000

Oh I don't put all the blame on Amazon here. As with the iPhone I can well imagine that the telco's are more than responsible for this.

Re: Washington Post’s Twitter ruckus exposes social media bubble

StevenHodson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:18:12 -0000

funny guy :)

Re: How be we get the story right Mr. Boyd

StevenHodson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:10:56 -0000

I have and will be working on a follow-up this afternoon

Re: Ed Bott gets all picky on Apple

StevenHodson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:41:31 -0000

Hang on :) don't apologize for posting a valid comment that is expressed in a calm and reasonable way. I appreciate that people can get a little heated - hell I'm guilty of that but that doesn't mean that blatant insulting of other commenter's is tolerated - if only here. I like it when people stir the pot but with the knowledge to back up what they are saying which you obviously can. I look forward to any comments you wish to make here ....

Re: Ed Bott gets all picky on Apple

StevenHodson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:32:18 -0000

Who let the loose screw loose in the comments ?

Re: Ed Bott gets all picky on Apple

StevenHodson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:24:54 -0000

hey! .. no need to get insulting. If you can't express your opinion intelligently and at least some modicum (if you know that that means anyway) of quality sarcasm then save the effort for one of your Apple message boards where they might enjoy that kind of thing.

Re: Serious conversations? Not on Twitter

StevenHodson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:07:19 -0000

I wouldn't even want to try doing anything like that especially when it comes to a popular program like FeedDemon.

Re: Serious conversations? Not on Twitter

StevenHodson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:06:32 -0000

not to mention that the whole crowdsourcing hype about it is just that hype unless you have very large numbers of followers. The number of times that I have put out a question or asked for help for something and that I have gotten a reply other than spam I can count on one hand.

Re: A social media application I would like to have

StevenHodson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:07:04 -0000

just out of curiosity Nick have you looked at Feedly at all? I had thought about doing a FeedDemon newspaper style like it if I can get the time to decipher how they're created (I know it's XML and CSS). As I told you on Twitter the other day I'm really looking forward to seeing where FeedDemon is headed in the next version.

Re: A social media application I would like to have

StevenHodson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:32:42 -0000

interesting idea. not sure how much I like the UI or how fast it scrolls with new data. it's not quite the "trend" idea that I talked about but I'm going to try it out for a few days.

Thanks

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/09/find-similar-people-and-interests-with.html

StevenHodson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:14:11 -0000

<gives the email server a shake to see it is stuck> :) nm .. should always check the right mail folder <snicker>

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/09/find-similar-people-and-interests-with.html

StevenHodson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:40:34 -0000

Thanks Louis I'll play around with it tomorrow after I get back from my appointment at the hospital. Which is at 10:30 and for those that know me will know how hard it will be to make it on time - and awake :)

Re: Tech conferences and their conflicts

StevenHodson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:29:09 -0000

Sorry Jason I meant to reply to this earlier but got sidetracked. First off thanks for taking the time to post such a great reply - I appreciate it.

I'm not sure what part of my post your first point is in reference to because I have no problem with you guys making money from the conference.

To the second point my only problem (and it's not really a "problem" per se) is that TC50 is suppose to be about the startups and DemoPit and when companies like Google and Microsoft make announcements I worry that depending on what they are announcing they could overshadow and take away attention form the starts. To be honest what I remember about this year's TC50 is Bing's Visual Search and Google's Fast Flip.

I can understand the reasoning but I just hate to see attention taken away from the whole reason for the conference in the first place - the startups.