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Re: The 10 Oddest Geek Products You’ll See Today

steph — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:34:23 -0000

I'd like to add to the list the excellent geeky earbuds necklace that my friend Steph designed and just finished making: http://www.hippiesque.com/2009/09/the-earbuds-n... -- I mean, who can resist getting this as a christmas present for their favourite geekette? Not sure how it would combine with the Twitter earrings, though ;-)

Re: Women Presenters on Social Media

steph — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:48:02 -0000

Thanks for the pointer to the LinkedIn group -- good idea, I just joined it! Also, there is a site for women speaker profiles in tech (dunno how well it's doing, but it's there): http://www.geekspeakr.com/

Can't hurt to have your profile on there if you're a speaker, and look through the speakers if you're organizing a conference.

Re: J’ai évidemment été tentée, durant une décennie,... ❤ Digital Crumble

steph — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:40:39 -0000

Non, je ne crois pas que ce soit ça la conclusion. La conclusion c'est plutôt: on n'est pas obligés de partager tout 50/50, et que certaines tâches sont plus l'affaire de l'un que de l'autre, non pas forcément parce que tel est un homme et telle est une femme, mais parce que X est plutôt branché bricolage et Y plutôt cuisine.

Et que si l'on demande volontiers à l'autre d'accomplir des tâches qui sont moins "notre truc", alors il est logique que l'on mette un peu plus de temps dans d'autres tâches qui ne sont pas le leur -- même si cette répartition tombe dans le cliché "femme aux fourneaux, hommes au marteau". C'est pas très grave.

Re: Less than zero

steph — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:13:48 -0000

I find that the best way to deal with all these measures of popularity is ignore them most of the time. People who spend all their energy trying to keep their numbers up tend to become less interesting as time goes by. Just keep on doing what you do because you like doing it... That's what's important, right?

I enjoy reading you, whatever your Tumblarity.

Re: Twitter: “We Screwed Up” on #fixreplies

steph — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:01:57 -0000

I'm really glad they posted this explanation. However, I'm uncertain about the future: I like seeing "all the tweets" those I'm following send out, just because I use twitter to see what's going on in their world. I really hope Twitter will offer that option, but I'm afraid they might not, because they're so focused on "@replies to non-followees as a means of discovery of new people".

To me, "show me @replies only if I follow the person they're sent to" is artificial, and I don't like it at all.

Re: The Twitter Replies Case

steph — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:49:32 -0000

You got it upside-down. What Twitter removed was the ability to see @replies FROM people you're following TO people you're not following. Essentially, depriving you from a portion of the tweets of those you chose to follow.

Re: Back to the Twittersphere - Celebrity Twitter Overkill

steph — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:48:31 -0000

for some reason I ended up commenting on the wrong post -- sorry about that.

Re: Twitter Resolves #fixreplies With #ducttape

steph — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:47:05 -0000

So, basically: stop using the reply button, and type in your @replies manually.

Gah :-(

Re: Twitter’s Response to #fixreplies: We Can’t

steph — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:19:20 -0000

For me, the importance of partial conversations has not been mentioned in your post: those conversations are part of the "Twitter-life" of those I follow -- and that's the main reason I want to see them.

Re: Je suis nulle en HTML

Capucha — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:53:24 -0000

I got a nice helping hand :)

Re: Je suis nulle en HTML

steph — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:10:02 -0000

Ah bien! looks like you managed! :-)

Re: I'm Back!

steph — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:13:05 -0000

I knew...

Re: flickr_-2129 (via madmezza) ❤ Digital Crumble

steph — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:58:34 -0000

I can't believe how much this one got liked and reblogged! http://steph.tumblr.com/post/105105436/299-note...

Re: Mike. - Tod: Copper, you’re my best friend. Copper: And...

steph — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:45:25 -0000

ooh, my childhood! I had the LP with the story -- in French, however. They're called Rox and Rouky in French. I really loved listening to it.

Re: 101 Goals in 1,001 Days

steph — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:43:04 -0000

I actually read your entire list -- there are some really nice things in it.

Re: Yet Another Article on Twitter: Just How Desperate Are You for Followers, Anyway?

steph — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:59:52 -0000

Not very desperate, actually. Even, finding the number of followers I've gathered (without really trying) pretty daunting. Not that I'm going to block people or ask them not to follow me, though.

I love your image: "a vast wasteland of self-promoting marketers blasting tweets at each other."

Thank goodness, we can choose not to follow those.

I'm aware I'm not really answering your question (honestly, I really don't know what the best Twitter follower-bait is, apart from just being myself, which seems to have "worked" for me, if you look at it from that perspective).

Yours is actually the second good Twitter article I've read today. The other one is http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/2009/03/tw... -- basically saying that if you find Twitter lame, you're just not following "the right people" for you. Just thought I'd point it out to you... in case.

I'm not at #sxsw either this year, by the way ;-)

Re: Announcing BackType Connect

steph — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:04:42 -0000

1) Ugh -- I typed my comment, then logged in to disqus, and my comment was wiped from the comment field (not so nice)

2) original comment: so, does this mean it'll be possible to have something a bit like the "show friendfeed conversations" plugin for wordpress, only covering more zones of the conversational prism? (I prefer prism to graph in this context, honestly)

Re: oomb, allwombing tomb

steph — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:54:15 -0000

haha, I just tweeted about this the other day: http://twitter.com/stephtara/status/1164370900 and http://twitter.com/stephtara/status/1164384693 -- it can get maddening!

Re: Emergence: What Developers and Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Evolution Of The Retweet

steffanantonas — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:15:22 -0000

haha. good point. Emoticons are a perfect example of evolution and emergence
as well.

Re: Emergence: What Developers and Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Evolution Of The Retweet

steph — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:02:18 -0000

Yes, as accessibility is important, it's good if solutions still work on low-tech phones ;-)

As an aside, I find it kind of funny to see that the person writing the article you point to considers that writing emoticons with punctuation marks is "hacking" -- surely, people are still aware that emoticons were born as keystrokes, and that the yellow graphical representations appeared later in their history?

Re: Emergence: What Developers and Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Evolution Of The Retweet

steffanantonas — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:51:23 -0000

@Stephanie - I can imagine that what you'll start seeing on new generations
of phones are UIs like this:

http://tastyblogsnack.com/2009/01/23/iphone-emo...

Symbols, even ones like the most recent symbol for "RT" (see @Fraser's
comment above) will start being treated like easily-accessible emoticons.
Accessibility, as you've pointed out is key.

Re: Emergence: What Developers and Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Evolution Of The Retweet

steph — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:36:19 -0000

SMS is not just ascii. We non-English speakers have accented characters in our languages, and thanks to God, SMS supports them.

Exotic symbols are a problem, though, if they can't be easily accessed through any old phone's interface.

Re: Delayed Echoes

jingc — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:55:58 -0000

Oh good point, I didn't think that it was something you could change. The Paradox of Choice is definitely going on my to-read list!

Re: Delayed Echoes

steph — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:31:59 -0000

I think that simply, when you're very afraid, you get past the screaming stage and go quiet. Oh, and, the movies? haha.

Re: Delayed Echoes

steph — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:26:52 -0000

Maximizer here. The Paradox of Choice was one of these life-changing books for me. I now actively strive to act more like a satisficer, and "train myself out" of blindly maximizing each time I need to make a decision/choice.