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Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

qthrul — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:20 -0000

Really interesting read actually.

You'll recall that Facebook already saw the "delete" scenario and attempted to prevent it before the backlash you outline (Feb 2009). Yeah. That went well.

This highlights two things: 1) perception 2) prevention

Perception of the meta, the commentary, the extras, the interaction, the flow, the dare I say.... wave. Who owns the flow? If you added a brick to the wall, does it become your wall? Pick any flawed analogy and start taking notes.

Prevention of the orphaned meta commentary becoming orphaned or all derivatives or resultant items surrounding some corpus of unique content (assuming no edits) or the GUID that pins all things back together.... this is the folly of our software development decisions. Again, playback, and control of the everliving asset with full revision control might be the wave people want but don't know it yet... or might change their minds.

I've been around on Slashdot and Livejournal enough to see this play out a few times. Here's the thing... you don't see Slashdot and Livejournal come up a lot these days? Why? They are the BBS of their times... there is always going to be another one.

What we as users/members/etc of any such BBS must always endure? The learning curve of the software developers that are either just starting or have stolen all the best ideas or refined them.

The nuclear option is to "delete" and it is as old as any angsty teen saying they won't go somewhere or leave their room to interact with others. Would you deny this option?

The best elements of LiveJournal, Slashdot, Digg, DISQUS, and the publishing ease of FriendFeed and Twitter might collapse into something one day... and it seems that Facebook is about trying to get there. Maybe.

This is what happens when you force kids to read The Fountainhead and "pick sides".

Re: Lists and OPML (Scripting News)

qthrul — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:35:34 -0000

As one of the writers I follow put it, sometimes you want to follow the list of those that don't follow a list of certain lists. While tongue in cheek, it's actually an invaluable and (perhaps?) established metric for various dating/match-maker services as possible ephemera for what you like as much as what you don't like. When you consider the rapid stratification possible on any given polarizing issues list in these approaching times of proximity like interaction online, the ability to know what you want to avoid, the ability to squelch, and all of the finer grained aspects -- may become as or more desirable that merely finding what you Like [1].

[1] overt FriendFeed/Facebook reference

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

qthrul — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:07:47 -0000

This is a solid Google Wave perspective -- very link worthy.

Re: Surprise! Dating site OKCupid finds white guys get the most replies

qthrul — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:29:51 -0000

I guess I should update my profile.

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

qthrul — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:18:42 -0000

Mike -- great encapsulation.

Re: WSJ’s factually challenged argument against net neutrality

qthrul — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:45:19 -0000

"Maybe the tech world has already given up on the WSJ."

Yes. It's probably a great read if you take a series of tubes view of things. Also, the prior art of the WSJ walled garden, and the taste it leaves in tech world mouths, does not engender avid commenting. You can probably double your money on a bet that the lack of numerous comments actually supports some relic in a corner office that scoffed at the idea and concept of /comments/ in the first place.

Re: 20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity

qthrul — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:09:56 -0000

Now I'll be installing these all evening and losing productivity tonight ;-)

Great list!

Re: TechCrunch50 Companies or Founders on Twitter

SRSimko — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:52:58 -0000

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, it looks great. I will create an account and try add this.

Re: TechCrunch50 Companies or Founders on Twitter

qthrul — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:43:50 -0000

Scott -- here's another way to present this list.

http://tweepml.org/TechCrunch50-2009/

Thanks again!

Re: The unknown story behind CitySourced

qthrul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:11:00 -0000

Done!

Re: The unknown story behind CitySourced

twitter-9761822 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:37:05 -0000

thanks jay. we're setting up an affiliate program. email me kurt.daradics@freedomspeaks.com if you' d like to sign up. it's time to wake up the neighborhood!

Re: The unknown story behind CitySourced

qthrul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:17:05 -0000

CitySourced is still my top pick for TC50. I plan to share their story with every municipality that I visit with across the rural US. I'm really looking forward to your video Robert. Nice to see you again!

Re: I have an announcement!

sukhjit — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:43:05 -0000

Hey @qthrul thank you so much for the comment here on my blog! Always nice to see a visit from you. Also just seeing your tweet! Thanks so much for spreading the word. I'm very happy about the news! Will have to catch up with you in SD now instead of SF! Not sure what kind of travel schedule I will have, but I hope you will keep me posted on good events. I certainly want to represent whenever I can! Thanks again! --sukhjit

Re: I have an announcement!

qthrul — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:14:55 -0000

Wow! I'm out of the loop :)

CONGRATS!!

Re: Battery maker Seeo raises $8.6M

qthrul — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:14:56 -0000

SeEo.com perhaps? Or that's some hella good SEO in effect ;-)

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

qthrul — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:42:48 -0000

Trolls haz a sad? (everything in the parentheses is an edit... nice)

Re: Why I Am Not Presenting at PodCamp Boston

chrisbrogan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:44:06 -0000

Then my work here is done. : )

Re: Why I Am Not Presenting at PodCamp Boston

qthrul — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:39:01 -0000

That's a very class act move. Admittedly, I'm not a regular reader here but this stuck out when I drove by and drove home something deeper.

Have you ever heard the phrase "stepping up by stepping aside"?

Just reading this awakened several sports and team building analogies in my head.

Again -- kudos.

Re: Mint.com data: Economy may be bouncing back

qthrul — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:56:54 -0000

In business, focus on top line revenue and hide debt... in personal finance, Mint only the happy accounts :)

Re: Taylor Davidson - Where I Sleep 2008

tdavidson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:53:57 -0000

And the odd thing I just realized; one of these beds was my home last year, but I bet you can't pick it out.

Re: ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

qthrul — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:31 -0000

If you mention ICANN and VeriSign and CFIT in a post you'll probably find sycophants on both sides of the issue showing up in droves. I remember how much domains cost back in the day. I also remember that eventually, ground gives

i.e. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD

There are some very opinionated folks in this matter. Personally, I've invested very little money in domains but on the business side, the impacts from outcome either way are of interest. If you get into IP address allocation and control it gets another group of folks (with opinions) into the mix.

I just find .com/.net/.whatever and things like ENUM to be near non-starters if you approach the Internet from a user perspective vs. academic or rigorous underpinning (IETF) view -- but that's why AOL Keywords were so powerful when they were the first/biggest controlled experience online.

Re: ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

eldon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:30:14 -0000

Thought I'd remembered hearing something like that, Jay. Thanks for the link. Definitely agreed that it will be an interesting summer.

Re: ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

qthrul — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:21:26 -0000

I had read speculation on this from a few weeks ago (http://ff.im/49MY1) and with the recent other coverage regarding the CFIT vs. VeriSign it makes for an interesting Summer for the registrars.

Re: The 8-Hour MacBook

qthrul — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:21:25 -0000

A solid +5 hours was the end result

Re: The 8-Hour MacBook

qthrul — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:07:06 -0000

Yep. It looks really really close to 7 hours so far with slight variations after a 100-97% charge (8h to 7h is quite a variation) but I have this set to the lowest usable brightness and I am not crunching or compiling (that's the next test) or doing any kind of heavy visual -- the unit is silent.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcuthrell/3623836852/

Enjoy.