Disqus - Latest Comments for oneman

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

oneman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:07:46 -0000

Thanks! I've enjoyed it immensely!

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

Rob Ray — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:32:13 -0000

Again... record... change...

Anyway we could do this all night in some sort of horrifying feedback loop, but I'm off work now so er, have fun.

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

oneman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:07:57 -0000

Thank you for making my point so beautifully and eloquently.…

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

Rob Ray — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:01:02 -0000

Ah yes, the “oh you have not sense of humour” defence, so wittily used against feminists, trades unionists and anyone else who calls right wing pundits on their bad behaviour. Change the record...

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

oneman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:32:18 -0000

Free speech? I believe that allows taking the mickey out of people who
can't take a joke, too! Hurrah!

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

Rob Ray — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:30:07 -0000

Am I asking for him to be jailed for it? No. I'm criticising him for being a prat, which is as much a part of free speech as the right to write this tripe in the first place.

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

oneman — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:23:47 -0000

Oh, I see. He's committed Thought Crime has he?

Tsk.

Re: Grey Cardigan: October column

oneman — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:42:49 -0000

There's a wonderful concept called satire. It's been around a wee while now.

I'm surprised to discover that so few of my NUJ comrades have heard of it…

:-)

Re: ‘G20 leaders’ wives’: Yes, this is 2009, and the Guardian is asking what are they wearing

oneman — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:20:09 -0000

I want to know what Angela Merkel's husband was wearing...

Re: ‘G20 leaders’ wives’: Yes, this is 2009, and the Guardian is asking what are they wearing

oneman — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:19:18 -0000

I want to know what Angela Merkel's husband was wearing.

Re: #TEDxTuttle : Tales of Tuttle

oneman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:54:10 -0000

Thanks!

It's a Canon EOS 500D.

Re: #TEDxTuttle : Tales of Tuttle

oneman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:18:19 -0000

It's just a place where people involved in any of the many forms of
social media can meet, chat and exchange ideas.

Re: The Technology Revolution: Autumn 2009

oneman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:56:48 -0000

I think you're confusing "the future" with "Tomorrow's World". :)

Re: On Twitter, Media and a BrandNew Identity

oneman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:46:09 -0000

Excellent news - and I think the expansion policy outlined in the
latest BrandNew blog post sounds like a good plan.

Re: Blogging: The New Public Sphere

oneman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:34:28 -0000

Very few things come without down-sides. :)

But yes, despite working in the mass media, blogging's ability to break down the mass media's hold on public discourse has been something I've treasured about it since the start.

Re: Welcome: Wulf's Web Den

basswulf — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:09:37 -0000

Thanks Adam - my interest in Disqus (which I had a brief look at sometime ago) was piqued again by your recent mention.

Re: Welcome: Wulf's Web Den

oneman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:53:50 -0000

Seems to be working OK. :)

Re: So Long, And Thanks For All The Print

oneman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:18:02 -0000

The point was that there's some interesting, thought-provoking stuff
over on Alan's blog, and I thought people should read it. :-)

The wider point about content atomisation and the way the Internet is
structured is something I will certainly return to several times in
the coming weeks.

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

oneman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:59:24 -0000

I'm also small and green, and I died several films ago. :)

Re: RBI aims for 50% from digital as cuts cost further - Press Gazette

oneman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:26:39 -0000

chief executive of the division which publishes titles such as New Scientist, Variety and Travel Weekly

We sold Travel Weekly a few weeks back...

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

Matt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:48:56 -0000

From a user point of view, yes, but from the spammer point of view, it's just another way to get spammy content on your site. They have to work a lot harder than they used to because things like Akismet are 99.99% at blocking their comment spam attempts.

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

oneman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:46:31 -0000

It feels like blogging pre-history, but yes, the Movable Type folks did end up giving WordPress a huge, unintentional push.

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

oneman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:14:09 -0000

WP used to get very little spam

And then it became dominant enough that the cost/benefit to the hackers became worth it? :-)

And I'd argue that there's a significant difference between spam scripts, which are mainly an annoyance, and security breaches which actually allow installs to be hijacked.

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

oneman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:55:03 -0000

I think that the sheer stroke of brilliance that the WordPress guys
have managed in the past year or so is creating a self-hosted product
that you never need to touch an FTP client to manage. You one-click
install on your host, you upgrade from within the app - and you add
plugins and themes the same way.

As someone who is, even as he types this, FTPing the latest version of
MT to my server, I appreciate the sheer ease of this. Now, is that
convenience worth the security trade-off? I'm not technical enough to
answer that - but I'd love to see you guys and the Melody community at
least thinking / talking about it - and if that isn't the right
solution, be thinking about ways of making it easier for the casual
user to manage their install.

(I do like the way Habari is developing generally, by the way. Looks
really promising).

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

oneman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:22:04 -0000

I doubt that Six Apart have much interest in competing head-to-head with WordPress in the self-hosted individual blogger market. What's in it for them? Typepad serves the commercial element of the individual blogger market pretty nicely.

I have more hope for Melody, which is the fork of the open source version of Movable Type.