Disqus - Latest Comments for slippylane

Re: The Dumb Disk Fallacy

sfoskett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:56:41 -0000

Hahaha yeah this is so true. I had a $19 Martini the other day. While it was indeed delicious, it probably contained just $2 of gin, vermouth, and lime. Oops I just gave out my secret Martini recipe!

Anyway, why would I spend $19 for $2 worth of booze? Because the total package was worth it: I was with my friends after all. That's why we buy EMC, NetApp, and even Apple, isn't it? The total package must be worth it or folks wouldn't be buying...

Re: The Dumb Disk Fallacy

slippylane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:23 -0000

Interesting article, and you make some good points. I don't disagree with what you're saying, but your analogies fall down - the markup in restaurants and on wines and spirits in bars is absolutely HUGE :-)

Re: You are SO unfollowed!

slippylane — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:15:43 -0000

Nobody unfollows or blocks The Bloggess. Except you, and William Shatner.

Re: It's The Interface!

coldacid — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:59:23 -0000

Uh... Perhaps the reason nobody has bothered so far is because business as usual on FriendFeed was with the likes of Scoble, Gray, et al. who haven't a problem with the site as is, personally. Twitter clients started showing up when people were getting annoyed with the limitations of Twitter.com, so it's possible that some FriendFeed apps are just around the corner.

Re: It's The Interface!

coldacid — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:54:29 -0000

What works for one type of website does not necessarily work for another. You're talking apples and oranges.

Re: It's The Interface!

slippylane — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:54:08 -0000

Yet we all still use google, which has the same design ethos as friendfeed :-)

Re: It's The Interface!

slippylane — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:52:49 -0000

I rest my case, lol

Re: It's The Interface!

coldacid — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:04:09 -0000

The problem with that is that the design of the site informs how people see the content. Were design so unimportant, most sites would likely still have that horrible, outdated look they had in the mid-90s. So it's important that FriendFeed have a design that makes it easier to follow the feeds.

While there's no doubt a lot of consideration by the FF team on how things are laid out, it's just as important, if not more so, to understand how users perceive the service, and ensure the site makes things easier on them. This is even more important if FF wants to attract more casual users and push for the mainstream, as Facebook has done so successfully.

Re: It's The Interface!

andrewbaron — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:44:32 -0000

It could be, though I think they tried that, and now it's time to try something else. I like the idea of what you are suggesting if you are considering the layout of an airplane cockpit or the position of a bed control in a hospital, but when it comes to your phone and your social networks, lets have a little pizzaz. Even Twitter allows you to change the background color, sheesh.

Re: It's The Interface!

slippylane — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:32:46 -0000

Could it be because that which you perceive as a flaw is actually part of the whole point of friendfeed? The experience is not in the design of the site, it's in the content. The design plays a part, and from what we see of the dev team's various posts on ff and on the ff blog, a great deal of thought, effort and feedback goes into every aspect of the layout. This results in a clean, simple site which is easy to use and navigate, and where everything you need is within reach, one or two clicks away.

Re: blog, v2

slippylane — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:19:17 -0000

A wiki'd up blog? What a brilliant idea!

I think most of us probably get linked here from your posts on friendfeed anyway, so as a place to post stuff that's just too big for a friendfeed post, I think your current blog is eminently suitable, but I'd still love to see what you're going to come up with idea-wise for an editable blog. Is it still a personal project, or is there a chance it might come under the friendfeed umbrella-ella-ella?

Re: Ooh, this is fun! - slippylane.com sandbox

slippylane — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:16:17 -0000

woohoo! Comments!

Re: Rosebud

slippylane — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:52:33 -0000

Only travels in the mind, and the nets, not the world, but thanks.

Yeah, me too man, me too.

Re: Friendfeed in your Firefox sidebar

slippylane — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:09:40 -0000

Thanks for your comment :-) This article is a little out of date now, however and I'm sure there are more and better ways of friendfeeding from your sidebar. Generally, iPhone versions of web pages work great in the firefox sidebar.

Re: Days of Do......ah, stuff it.

slippylane — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:39:33 -0000

Ah, you're a kind man. Thank you. See my follow-up posts :-)

Re: [Announcement] 30 Days of Doggerel

slippylane — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:43:04 -0000

Oh, and whilst my "good" work may be published under a Creative Commons license, this project, "30 Days of Doggerel" is published under Slippy's unique "whatever" license - meaning you can do whatever the hell you like with it. I can't imagine why you would want to use it for anything - that's some really bad poetry right there - but you're free to, if you want.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

slippylane — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:00:57 -0000

Fascinating. I guess I should give SU more than the occasional bored click to get more out of it.

Re: What do Louis Gray, Thomas Hawk, Duncan Riley, Cyndy and Mona talk about on FriendFeed?

slippylane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:20:12 -0000

Be interesting to see what the clouds look like for the same people in a week's time.

Also, do mine! :-)

Re: Have you considered using a blog post title to post a question in friendfeed, and leaving the post itself blank?

Bunk Strutts — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:05:10 -0000

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^^Very slippy here.

Re: Have you considered using a blog post title to post a question in friendfeed, and leaving the post itself blank?

slippylane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:33:07 -0000

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^^Bunk fell down

Re: Have you considered using a blog post title to post a question in friendfeed, and leaving the post itself blank?

Bunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:19:34 -0000

And that's really what I look like, too.

Re: Have you considered using a blog post title to post a question in friendfeed, and leaving the post itself blank?

slippylane — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:42:23 -0000

Wow, the great Bunk Strutts commented on my blog! Look Ma, I made it.. Top o' the world, Ma! Top o' the world!

Re: louisgray.com: Staying Loose Can Help Keep Your Ego In Check

slippylane — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:04:09 -0000

There is no greater flattery than imitation. Congratulations, Louis! :-)

Re: My Solution for Linux Beginners Facing Too Many Choices

slippylane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:39:18 -0000

Ubuntu (and it's reasonable number of flavours) definitely offers a fair solution to the "too much choice" issue, in my opinion.

Re: FriendFeed Comment Widget

slippylane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:17 -0000

Disqus is great at the blog end, but let's face it, it fragments all over friendfeed. This conversation alone has about 14 separate Disqus entries in my friends' feed.

Nah, I guess using friendfeed as my blog's comment engine is just not really that feasible. Never mind, I'm happy enough to let your rather excellent script continue bringing friendfeed to my blog.