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Re: revista

nilsgeylen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:49:33 -0000

Themeshaper.com, Theseus Wordpress theme...

Re: PoP!

nilsgeylen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:31:43 -0000

That the same video as was on YouTube? Because now it seems that's gone.

Oh well, I fully intend to watch the film. Something tells me I shouldn't but will eventually. I suppose that's what Grant-Barrymore can do to you.

Re: revista

nilsgeylen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:13:56 -0000

That would make sense. It doesn't seem as clean and clipped as the northern, TV or movie dialects you hear; it's much more drawn and 'dirty'. Not that my Italian is that great, I just have somewhat of an ear for that based on what I do know. So yeah, your mom's friend is probably right.

Oh, we could check this of course, but after all: this is the internet - who checks anything :)

Re: revista

aatw — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:06:43 -0000

Yeah, very. I like it. A friend of my mom's says it's a southern dialect.

Re: revista

nilsgeylen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:22:32 -0000

Yeah, independent director there. Not his song, but I like both: the song and the video. Cool huh?

Re: Exile

nilsgeylen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:10:34 -0000

Heh, I seem to like the third type best as well.

You know, you should write that post of course. Obviously, I know these are generalisations, but they're fun and there always is some truth about them.

Re: Pink

nilsgeylen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:48:45 -0000

Yeah, it is really, really pink eh? Thanks for dropping by.

Re: Pink

nilsgeylen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:21:27 -0000

Thx, got it from here. 4th in the list - though the others look great too.

Re: Are we in the cloud yet?

aatw — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:45:42 -0000

Nah, I'm too lazy. :P

Re: Are we in the cloud yet?

nilsgeylen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:37:29 -0000

Ah, yeah, somehow I can't seem to remember why we were all so excited over IMAP coming to Gmail back then. I remember I must have checked my Gmail page every 15 minutes to see if the feature had been rolled out for my account yet. I suppose POP is indeed better when it comes to a web based service - one that you don't run yourself that is.

And yup, I wasn't sure whether to do it (go pink) but I just changed some colours for now, and that of course does the trick a bit already. Still have to do a post about it and perhaps see if I can create some themed header later. You joining in this year? I remember it was such a cool big thing back when we were in 9rules. These days that just seems like a lame place to hang out...

Re: Are we in the cloud yet?

aatw — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:27:01 -0000

I set up Gmail IMAP in Mail.app and just dragged all the 18,000+ emails from "All Mail" to a mailbox on my Mac. Took three days. I couldn't get the chat messages off, sadly, and deleted them.

Now I'm using Gmail POP and I've set it up so that my emails are deleted when they're accessed via POP.

I see you've gone pink for October once again!

Re: Are we in the cloud yet?

nilsgeylen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:06:57 -0000

I wasn't so much concerned with identity theft, not at first at least, because to me it seems our data is more locked in with these services than anything else. Of course, if one of these companies does go evil, there's no telling what'll happen to our data, and that is worrying.

So, what's that downloading you're doing? You're actually physically getting your mails off of the Google servers? Is that a standard option or some plugin/hack you needed?

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:52:12 -0000

Exactly, and the fact that the threading is linked to your Disqus account also helps in tracking and subscribing to comments that you made on separate comment and threads and even different blogs.

I think ;)

At least I know what you were saying.

Re: Dotcomslashblog

Adem — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:13:09 -0000

The DISQUS system looks quite good, although it did confuse me first as they are ordered in chronological order or the last comment on the thread, which is very different from bog standard commenting. This does make it easier to keep up with a comment thread instead of having to read through a whole comment section to find out what the new comment relates to.... phew.... that sentance got away from me a bit there, but at least I know what I'm talking about!

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:06:26 -0000

Hi Tom, how kind of you. I hope I won't disappoint. Self-hosted means I have my own domain, and have installed the blogging software myself on a bit of server space I rent and pay for myself. A blog on Blogger or Wordpress.com is free, but hosted on the servers of those companies. It means you are limited in making modifications etc. Self-hosted also means that when things break, it's probably my fault and I have to fix it. That's not so nice.

Blogs will certainly be around, but their form will no doubt change - I'm convinced of that. But now it seems as if I want to get out of making that bet, so okay, deal: I say blogs are gone within two years ;)

Disqus is a service that makes for better commenting. One of the things you can see is the indenting and the threads: people can now reply to comments and track those responses more easily. All comments on this blog can also be found at http://dotcomslashblog.disqus.com/ and if you're registered (that's what the second button is for) you can track all the Disqus comments you made on other blogs that use the service (which is what the third button is for). Do read up on http://disqus.com if you like.

In any case, again, thanks for your comment and I hope this explains some. Cheers!

Re: Dotcomslashblog

aatw — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:43:57 -0000

Mustn't forget Simran. :P

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:08:55 -0000

Yeah, All Along the Watchtower, Smaran, Koregaonpark, Smaran.in... If anyone knows about multiple identities/online presences it must be you indeed ;)

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:05:05 -0000

Indeed, Napfisk was an old nick. I switched to my real name and identity a while ago. Then came No Dependencies, NDNL and now this.

Yay for more posts. And more comments :)

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:03:38 -0000

Thank you, yes, self-hosting is the way. I'm preparing a post as we speak how self-hosting fits into cloud computing btw. So, yes, expect more posts soon. No stress. No stress dammit!

Re: Dotcomslashblog

nilsgeylen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:02:03 -0000

Hey Adem, thanks for popping round. Yeah, lots of things happened along the way. I hope I won't disappoint you and try to share interesting stuff with you. Do comment, I see the new Disqus commenting system is doing its job well already.

Re: Owning my name in Google

nilsgeylen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:51:14 -0000

I never realized why exactly Twitter was so high up and it didn't occur to me that tweets count as content updates.

I suppose that's cool though, since I update there more than on my site.

It's all the same to me. I can be found, if someone wants me, so I'm not sitting waiting for the phone to ring. And, to be honest, I've been using Twitter or Friendfeed themselves as primary search a long time. If I need to find someone or something, it's there that I look first. Good to see Google catch on to that.

Re: SocialWebTV, Feedly, FriendFeed, Webjam and more…

techwinter — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:31:07 -0000

Hi Nils

Thanks for dropping by, and offering your feedback. I should mix it up and
PIP is a great idea I had never thought about. I wonder how hard it is to
do, would you know?

I will definitely take a look. Thanks for the compliment 'a great job' as
doing them and watching myself I always feel like a dweeb.

Cheers

Re: SocialWebTV, Feedly, FriendFeed, Webjam and more…

nilsgeylen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:37:16 -0000

From doing just screencasts at work I know how hard it is to talk and think at the same time and still sound coherent. You do a great job. One big disadvantage about video posts is that they're rather static. Maybe you can add some screenshots in between, or - ideally - use screencasting with PIP.

The big advantage of video, of course, is that you don't have to write, and I don't have to read, so keep it up.

(Oh, and I should've responded with video, but I don't have the gear handy here, so sorry)

Re: louisgray.com: Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There's No Quota.

nilsgeylen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:08:27 -0000

That's a good point. And that, as I noted earlier (elsewhere, I forget) is in how we present our content. We should rethink that as well probably. More tags, relationships, subject themes? Less dates and streams?

Re: louisgray.com: Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There's No Quota.

colinwalker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:49:57 -0000

Nils,

Your navel gazing point is exactly where I was looking but the desire to expand beyond navel gazing can be self defeating at times. We have to achieve a balance with the things we, as individuals, discuss and the people we follow - just saying "I want to follow more people talking about different things" doesn't work as you end up with a stream full of stuff you don't care about. We have to manage the signal to noise ratio but it is very hard to actually find the right blend.

As the number of users increases the ratio grows ever in favour of 'noise' which is of course relative to our own interests but, also, the level of banality increases. If anyone is guilty of being protectionist about anything then it's about keeping healthy disussion rather than filling social networks with rubbish.

My previous experiement on Friendfeed with a new account showed that people are posting far wider reaching things than just the social web but not much of it is actually getting discussed - it is more of an aggregation thing than a medium for conversation but this will continue to change over time as people see the value.

The concept behind social media is great but we must avoid looking at it as some kind of Utopian system - current services are over-hyped and will come and go. Everyone has their own agenda and requirements so there will never be a 'one size fits all' paradise and the sooner we wake up to this the better rather than thinking everyone should use service X in a certain way just because others do.

Social networks haven't failed - maybe our initial perception is what is at fault.