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Re: Shipping containers as housing

andrewbaron — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:10:12 -0000

Here is a recent roundup of shipping container useage:

http://www.notcot.com/archi...

Re: Shipping containers as housing

andrewbaron — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:10:12 -0000

Here is a recent roundup of shipping container useage:

http://www.notcot.com/archi...

Re: Dembot

andrewbaron — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:25:17 -0000

No?

Re: Dembot

andrewbaron — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:09:48 -0000

I know! I dont know if you noticed but I was helping to keep an eye on the road too.

Re: Pop17

andrewbaron — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:25:30 -0000

Thanks, just testing an installation :)

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:38:58 -0000

It doesnt suprise me at all that he hasnt responded, its likely he is not actually looking for any help: I know he said in his initial request that he would pay for help, but later that day he said he wasnt willing to pay.

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:13:55 -0000

You can say whatever you want but its pretty clear to me there is no match with what you say and what we have actually seen.

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:24:30 -0000

It means I dont think you are describing what is actually there. You think Mahalo is one thing but it seems to be something else.

Still waiting on the good review. Can you point to a good review of Mahalo somewhere? Id like to read from someone else beside you or other people from Mahalo whats so good about it. Ive never heard anyone say anything good about Mahalo except for you.

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:57 -0000

Ok, well the Scoble and NYTimes links are impressive but neither review Mahalo, they just mention what it is. The other links were not so impressive. Ill post more on my findings in the next few days.

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:55:00 -0000

I hear what you are saying and Im game to put myself in others' shoes. My point is that the site is working well when someone clicks on an ad and that, in my 'paternalistic' opinion, this is when it breaks down for the poor user who doesn't know better.

Your link says "I think he is doing a good job" but I didn't see where you gave a positive review of his site. I noticed in the comments that you defended your post by suggesting you were not meaning to state your opinion about Mahalo.

Coincidentally, after my thread here seemed to of dried up, just as your comment came in Duncan, 3 more comments came in at exactly the same time supporting Jason so Im wondering also if your comment was instigated by a nudge for a voucher?

As for the Martha of search, as we have all noticed, there sure is a lot of noise and crap that makes it way on to the table. Just because someone learns how to game Google doesn't make it taste good. ;)

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:55:48 -0000

I knew there must be some :)

Not that we need the A-listers to chime in (and we heard that Duncan thinks Jason is doing a good job), but why the lack of positive A-list reviews I wonder.

Re: Blogosphere: The Enquirer For Geeks

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:18:56 -0000

Interesting. I would suggest that you were trying to act as a point of reason with this post, and take a journalistic approach, but clearly your linking practices (for deciding to link to Mahalo and not Rocketboom), is the sign that your NOT taking a journalistic stance, but rather taking a sides on a political platform.

Thus, your argument broke down for me and I became disinterested in reading any further. . .

Re: Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:57:07 -0000

Wow, this is getting REALLY interesting.

I cant help but notice that I usually get about 0 comments, or sometimes a few, but this thread gets so many comments in bursts all at once, way after the post is past due.

If anyone wants to take notice, there are many comments left by Dr. Mani which is the same person that left several comments under the name William Tildesley.

Listen to how "convinced" and "passionate" about Mahalo these commenters are too. Its as if they work for Mahalo or "something".

Re: Blogosphere: The Enquirer For Geeks

andrewbaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:27:25 -0000

Hey thanks for the note. My oversight entirely. And thank you for noticing that the main polemic continues to go unaddressed by most of the commenters. ;P

Re: Dembot

andrewbaron — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:45:10 -0000

Thanks for writing in Tim, sounds like things are going well. I personally would like to see everyone on the list make it really big and superduper.

Re: Dembot - 90% of Saturday Night Live Staff Fired

andrewbaron — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:22:50 -0000

Over 400 main stream news links here:
http://news.google.com/news...

Re: Dembot - Crayon Physics Deluxe

andrewbaron — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:22:11 -0000

No need to be jelous because you'll be able to play with them :)

Re: Dembot - Macy's Thanksgiving Imperial Death March

andrewbaron — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:51:58 -0000

Hey Jimmy, its really easy to get the comments going. Just go here:
http://disqus.com/create/

...and then fill out the data. Then follow instructions to add the snippits of code to your tubmlr blog. Let me know if you have a hard time with this. Also, you can contact Disques and they can prob help too, as could Tumblr.

Cheers!

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

andrewbaron — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:28:07 -0000

We started with Pligg and eventually started to adopt it into our own. I would reccomend checking it out as a starting point.

Re: Dembot - Techcrunch: Sarah Meyers’ Live Online TV Show

andrewbaron — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:05:13 -0000

Well, because its live, its much more fun to interact with. But assuming most people will not be there in the moment, the show goes to instant archive and can be watched at anytime, just like a podcast.

While true, there are a lot of tech shows out there, how many daily updates are there? And out of the daily ones, how many good ones are there?

We DO need some more. Especially as good as Sarah.

Re: Dembot

andrewbaron — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:05 -0000

Whatever, I toally found this while I was alone. Email is old, Im taking full credit.

Re: Dembot - Must Read Story on Quarterlife (Made for TV?)

andrewbaron — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:33:15 -0000

I think you really hit the nail on the head about the audience. The audience is just different. Even the same people are just in different modes, moods, positions and have different objectives. They see the world with a kind of experience and expectation thats different as well. The main thing is, they have a choice. Give a choice, new kinds of viewing patterns develop. . .

Re: Dembot - 8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die

andrewbaron — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:32:51 -0000

Come on Tim, after all of that, you didn't address the points. You cant argue that the studios are not mean because they provide content that people like and you cant argue that they will make it because they are smart. When you say that they are smarter than everyone else, you also miss the mark on addressing the points.

You have some great perspectives Tim, lets see you address my claims. Im suggesting that regardless of the people in the businesses, the businesses themselves are not well positioned to make it.

Re: Dembot - Flickr

andrewbaron — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:31:57 -0000

Woops! fixed, thanks for the note :)

Re: What I’ve learned in 2007

andrewbaron — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:34:56 -0000

Cheers Robert! As great as this post was, I have to say, it was just another post in context of all of the great posts you have cranked out, thanks for spreading all the great insights and info in such a positive way.

Plenty of good inspiration for 2008!