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Re: Humpday Quote of the Week - RR

andrewbadera — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:48:55 -0000

Wait, I thought immigrants and offshorers took all the crappy jobs, thereby improving the working environment for us 'Merkins? ;)

Re: Friday Funny - Kung Fu

andrewbadera — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:48:09 -0000

Welcome to 2001 :P

Re: Favre-atunity

crisatunity — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:13:14 -0000

Too bad on Pennington going Miami-way.

Re: Thanks for the Link

crisatunity — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:12:56 -0000

Lack of understanding sarcasm does go hand in hand with passive-aggressiveness. Now that I think about it, a good chunk of content at passiveaggressivenotes.com is just miserably failed attempts at sarcasm.

Re: Thanks for the Link

jamief00 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:52:34 -0000

Hmmm.....possibly. Given the other comments (and the fact Indians don't do sarcasm), I'm edging towards the "idiot camp" rather than the "sarcasm" one ;-)

Re: Thanks for the Link

crisatunity — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:32:16 -0000

Perhaps it was sarcasm?

Re: Thanks for the Link

jamief00 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:09:42 -0000

I think one of the most telling comments on that page is someone (who I'm presuming is Indian) asking "what is a POJO" about halfway down the page. Talk about reinforcing the stereotype!

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

crisatunity — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:44:16 -0000

I looked into the "hide" feature - which I didn't know about. And it is very clear to me that you don't really get what I don't like about FriendFeed. Hiding is great for my consumers, but doesn't really do much of anything for me as the publisher. Now I remember why I unsubscribed to your arrogant blog.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

Laforge129 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:38:03 -0000

I've found Friend Feed to be a good aggregation tool for me. Although, I use mine just to post submit my blog post. I haven't done much else with it lately!!

http://www.friendfeed.com/laforge129

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

crisatunity — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:26:37 -0000

I gave up a long time ago, reading anyone's content through FriendFeed. That ship has sailed (see noise point in the post).

However, it seems self-evident that I need to put my most critical feeds back into FF, if only to help gather and continue keeping an audience.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

crisatunity — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:23:29 -0000

The irony does abound. I'm in the same mind as you. At first I liked, then I didn't and so to streamline my life (I tend to organize, a lot) I wanted to stop using.

But, I didn't want to stop using it without a note on why that was more meaningful than, "I hate FriendFeed, it sucks". FriendFeed wasn't the problem, per se, it was more that it was a bad fit for me and I tried to articulate why.

Given the response through FF, I think it would be foolish for me not to at least put my main blog back in the mix there. That seems like a compromise that I can cope with easily enough.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

crisatunity — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:16:39 -0000

I think I can add this to the reasons why FriendFeed is a bad fit for me. I already have two fragmented discussions, on the blog and in Facebook - so a third just dilutes my already sparse discussions.

Maybe if I were a volume blogger like you, the fragmentation would be an asset, though.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

Consiliera — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:04:45 -0000

Never would have found you if it weren't for FF. The beauty of FF is that you don't have to do anything to spread your words...its just more fun for some people to do more than import feeds

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

simonstudio — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:32:07 -0000

another fellow who saw this blog from friendfeed. I never heard of you before this. I wish I thought of this subject. darn!

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

jessestay — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:28:26 -0000

Found you through FriendFeed here as well. If it wasn't making any dent on your blog traffic, wasn't contributing to the conversation, or helping others in any way, so be it. I can't imagine that's the case however considering all the other comments on here are people that found your blog through FriendFeed. I suggest keep holding out. As more people grasp FriendFeed it will only become a more and more useful tool. Don't feel like you have to read everything coming out of FriendFeed - what's most important about it is that it can be a tool that you can use to share with others. Hopefully we'll see you again.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

azizhp — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:04:20 -0000

Heartily agreed. I was thinking along much the same lines, because it seems that the consequence of web 2.0 was a fragmentation of content and conversations.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

lph — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:57:18 -0000

I just discovered your blog through FF. As others have said, the hide feature is very powerful.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

ericrice — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:04:41 -0000

We're all coming here from FF, funny. Anyway, only wanted to throw out there: you don't have to be social on social apps. That Kool-Aid has been sloshed around so much that the jug is empty. I always wished Feedburner would let me splice in anything I wanted to, and it seems that FF (and sites like it) are making that happen. Conversation happening there is cool, but never feel obligated to have to hang around services that are big buckets of RSS output.

Everyone will disagree with me, and that's totally cool. :)

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

Scobleizer — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:56:46 -0000

Funny that I found this on FriendFeed and there is a better discussion going on there than here. Anyway, it is very clear you never figured out the "hide" feature.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

nicefishfilms — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:48:04 -0000

You will be missed, you have a great voice on FF. I found your blog through FriendFeed and enjoyed your pithy comments. Go if you must, but don't forget us over there if you ever need to see a cute picture of a ladybug on a leaf or a microkittie in a burrito.

Re: June's Unanswered Questions

crisatunity — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:16:48 -0000

I forgot about this. I was testing out the Blogger future posting feature. I thought I might like starting a few posts with future dates, edit them willy-nilly in the interim and see if I liked that.

I had no idea I'd actually get answers!

Re: June's Unanswered Questions

Jamie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:02:31 -0000

Better compression
Better multipart support
Unicode
Not blocked by a lot of corporate scanners

Re: Strike Two Entity Framework

Jamie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:13:33 -0000

CYM - I'm in agreement!! After I sent that mail I had yet more trouble with the bloody EDM.

Maybe NHibernate would of been easier!!

Re: Ping.fm is the Right Stuff

crisatunity — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:09:14 -0000

For the record, I hate Twitter. I just use it to give Andy the impression that I have an open mind about it. I have a bet with him that the Twitter fad will have passed within a year.

Re: Ping.fm is the Right Stuff

andrewbadera — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:16:13 -0000

I tell ya, between you and Jamie, I ought to consider myself a lifestyle advisor ;)