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Re: Making of the HBO open

rockmanac — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:32:50 -0000

I get the feeling we all did. And I didn't know about that BTS until I got a link to it from my friend Jessica.

Re: IT’S HERE: AT&T iPhone MMS Update Released

rockmanac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:20:44 -0000

On and working here.

By the way... You have to apply the update *and* reboot the phone to get it.

-Adam
Madison, WI

Re: Will The Integration of ReTweets Hype Twitter’s Popularity Drama?

rockmanac — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:39:52 -0000

"Too many people are choosing quantity over quality when it comes to followers."

I know an anchor who is like that. I swear she tries to collect Twitter followers. On the other hand, I've been being very selective with who I follow these days. I'd rather have a small group of quality people than a large group that produces a ton of noise.

-Adam

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

rockmanac — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:06:58 -0000

Already did the upgrade apparently.

Re: Report: AT&T Blocking 4Chan

rockmanac — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:21:23 -0000

No block here, but I don't use AT&T's DNS servers.

Edit: Didn't realize it wasn't the main page that was blocked. I can get to the main page, but not the img.4chan.org. it just times out. Not sure if that's actually *blocking* more as AT&T messing with routes.

Re: Is Firefox Falling Off The Bandwagon?

rockmanac — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:29:46 -0000

I've nearly given up on Firefox, in favor of Safari. Not only is it faster on the Mac, but the bookmarks will sync between it and Mobile Safari on my iPhone. Thunderbird is the same way, too. I only use it on Windows & Linux machines now. On my 2 Macs, I use Mail.app because it is faster, and it'll use the Mac's Universal Address Book (which is synced with Mobile Me, which syncs wirelessly with the iPhone)

I mean...there's a few things I miss. Like Greasemonkey, and being able to use "/" to initiate a search. (I use vi as my text-editor of choice, so that seems like a logical key to me, versus, Command+F)

Now, on Windows & Linux, I've still been using Firefox. Though, I've been using Konquer on my Netbook a bit more than Firefox.

-Adam

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

rockmanac — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:27:31 -0000

Which others do you use?

-Adam

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

rockmanac — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:40:50 -0000

I don't buy the thought that TweetDeck locks you in. I use it on my phone, but not on my desktop. I prefer Tweetie on the desktop, but haven't bought it for the phone. I've thought about using TweetDeck again on the desktop, however, there's one big issue I have with it: it's an AIR application. I'd much rather have a native Coca app on my desktop for speed and stability reasons.

-Adam

Re: Why 140 chars is like 48K (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:23:12 -0000

Oh yeah.. There's stuff that I'm starting to put onto FriendFeed over Twitter b/c of the more lax character limit over there. And some stuff goes unsaid, too.

I've not seen the cartoon on Current. I don't have cable here. I refuse to deal with Charter. Horrible company they are.

-Adam

Re: Why 140 chars is like 48K (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:45:21 -0000

I never really did more than simple programming on the //e, however, I do remember having to sit and wait for the next screen in Number Munchers, or Oregon Trail or something.

I would welcome more characters on twitter. I know it was designed to work with SMS, however, SMS on all my phones has always been 160 characters, not 140, and really, who uses SMS to manage their twitter these days? I have Tweetie on the iMac & TweetDeck on the iPhone (before that UberTwitter on the BlackBerry). When I had a "dumb" phone, I occasionally did text in a tweet, but never had it setup for SMS follows.

Anyway... All having 140 characters does is require us to unlearn how to speak in proper English. Not that I've probably ever spoken in proper English...well, outside of the grade school classroom anyway.

Re: The end of analog (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:54:18 -0000

We've been mostly digital in Madison since 2/17 when all but 21 and 47 went. 21 must of gone earlier than today, because my boss and I were talking that we hadn't seen them on-air in analog in a while, but hadn't seen an announcement that they had transitioned. 47 goes in about 7 minutes.

-Adam

p.s. caught this image this morning... the last time I can DX analog! http://skitch.com/achernow/bu7n9/so-long-analog...

Re: The end of analog (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:53:08 -0000

They need an education campaign like we had!

Re: 3 Twitter apps you can't live without? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:17:33 -0000

Spymaster is driving me nuts. I don't play online RPG type games, and I really don't care to see the updates from people playing, either.

-Adam

Re: 3 Twitter apps you can't live without? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:27 -0000

Tweetie on my Mac, UberTwitter on the BlackBerry. Twitpic, Skitch and bit.ly are related, but not necessarily tied to Twitter.

-Adam

Re: LinkedIn

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:23:43 -0000

I don't like linkedin. I've found much more value, professionally, from Twitter and Facebook than I have from linkedin.

-Adam

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:36:36 -0000

Thanks :)

I'm on the BB right now, but now 6 months after I've gotten it, I'm considering paying the ETF because, well, the browsing on it sucks, I keep losing the data connection, and well, I want a phone that correctly syncs with my iMac.

-Adam

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:10:34 -0000

Hmm... I also sit here typing this on a big iMac :) My current laptop is my 6+ year-old Powerbook G4 (the original Titanium one!) which, as a testament to Apple engineering, runs beautifully. But, I also have a netbook, and I love it. It's an Acer Aspire One, which at the moment is running Kubuntu, but I've considered slapping the Win 7 RC on there to see how it'll run. (Yes, a Mac guy considering Windows 7 RC1 for something.) When I bought the netbook, it was running on XP Home. People thought I was nuts 'cause I was buying a Windows machine, but as I said to them, if Apple would give me a netbook, I'd buy it.

However, for me to consider an Apple netbook, it would need to run the full OSX operating system, have a physical keyboard, and *not* be tied to a cell company data plan. A netbook running the iPhone OS, or worse yet, an iTablet, are just not what I want. Call me crazy, but the iPhone OS issues are also why, at the moment, I have a BlackBerry Curve over the iPhone or iPhone 3G. Now, iPhone 3.0 is looking better, but they still have left out background applications, unless you jailbreak, which despite what Apple claims, will not kill your battery life anymore than heavy use of the phone. (On my BB I have Twitter and Facebook clients constantly open in the BG, along with my e-mail and even sometimes AIM and/or GChat clients.) Anyway, the other downside of a iPhone OS based netbook is that I don't want to be tied to the App store. I want to be able to run any software that'll run on my desktop, on my netbook. Plus, iPhone OS doesn't have support for flash! (Wow, so many more downsides to the iPhone OS based netbook than I realized.)

-Adam

Re: Twitter clients could help with backup (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:32:56 -0000

Interesting article. I wouldn't mind having an archive of my tweets. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, everything should still be there. I remember a "what was your first tweet" meme or something similar to it anyway, and it was still there!! (Like 15+ pages back, but still there.)

-Adam

Re: Who do the people of the NY Times follow on Twitter? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:19:35 -0000

Cool. I know a lot of people who feel that they have to follow EVERYONE who is following them. To me, it's just too much. I had been following over 300 people at one point, and many of them pointless things like the local news stations, newspapers, etc. It was just information overload in my opinion.

And I like the thought that it's a publishing environment. Now, of course, that's not to say I haven't had 140-character-at-a-time conversations on Twitter. The only problem I have is what do I tell someone when they ask me "what is twitter?" One of my profs from back at Marquette just got onto Twitter. He sent me an e-mail asking what he's supposed to do with it. I kinda get stumped by those questions b/c I guess I just use it. I post thoughts, questions, etc. Much like people have been using Facebook / MySpace status lines.

Re: Who do the people of the NY Times follow on Twitter? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:00 -0000

I'm not on the SUL and frankly, I wouldn't want to be on the SUL. I'd much rather have my follower follow me because they like my tweets rather than getting a mass amount of followers from that list.

Idk. Call me crazy, but I like hard work :)

Now... Curious, what is your follow-back policy? For me, I only follow people who are either a) friends, b) (some of my) coworkers or c) interesting to me. Hence the reasons I follow you, Leo, iJustine, and a few other "big name" people along side my friends. Sure, there's been a few friends I've made because someone's followed me, but it seems that a lot of the follows I get are marketing people.

-Adam

Re: twdsc.us: @davewiner. "A friend is launching a site that says: "Only contributors can log in because we don't care what anonymous Internet commenters think." :-)"

rockmanac — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:32:58 -0000

Anonymous commenting has it's advantages, and disadvantages. It allows people to at least be able to comment on a given subject, whatever it is, in a way that may, or may not, mask who they are. I can think of a few uses for it, industry trades for one, as I've been on the wrong end of a boss before over commenting on an industry site. Another is when you're in a discussion where it doesn't really matter if you're known or not. But it does have it's disadvantages, too, as I've said. For starters, you may, or may not, have an IP to go with the comment, in case of a sladerous/libelous or otherwise threatening comment. It's an open invitation for flame was. And it can lead to a SPAM problem on the threads.

Even if you chose to have anonymous commenting enabled, you should still do a few things.

1. Make people fill in a name and e-mail. This way you can have a record of who is commenting should something go wrong.
2. Hold the comment in a queue until the person verifies the e-mail address is valid. This will help prevent spammers, for one, and provide an extra layer that someone would have to go through to post something, therefore, hopefully cutting down on the flame wars. It also provides for a mechanism that if the outgoing e-mail is rejected, so is the comment.
3. Have a good commenting policy, and enforce it. If you see a flame war starting, shut down the thread and delete the comments. Part of the problem with some of these sites that allow people to be anonymous, is that they don't watch the comments, and therefore allow things to get way to far out of hand at times.

On my site, I do as you do, and run Disqus. Now, I'm by far from a high traffic blog, so I'm in no way a comparison to yours, but it's cut down a lot on things like spam comments that I had been getting. As to your friend, why doesn't she just force people to register to comment? Or use something like Disqus? And enable "all comments have to be approved." It's far from a perfect system, but it's better than turning comments off all together.

-Adam

Re: 10 Reasons To Follow Corvida On Twitter

rockmanac — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:30:25 -0000

I followed you :) What do I have to bribe you with for a follow-back? Ok... Just kidding.

Re: What are reading lists? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:01:19 -0000

I'm not sure I understand the concept here... You'd be subscribing to a list of feeds but not a feed?

Re: RSS is dead? My ass... (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:19:43 -0000

I'm going with Anil on this. Tell them to pull their feeds if they don't like them. See how many users backlash. Then they'll see how "dead" RSS is.

Re: New Logo

rockmanac — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:05:12 -0000

I like it. I wish I had any sort of artistic ability. My logo kinda sucks, mostly, 'cause I had to do it with public domain art and photos I've taken.