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Comment on 'Weekend at Mookie's' by April

2008-05-09T04:51:14Z

Was great to see you! Must make it more of a habit this fall!

Comment on 'Weekend at Mookie's' by big sed

2008-05-06T00:52:33Z

Hey man I had alot of fun playing with you. The rabbit hunting was excessive but all in all you played great.Had fun playing with you.See you on the felt.

Comment on 'Weekend at Mookie's' by Mookie

2008-05-05T19:44:08Z

Thanks for making it out to the tourney, it was great meeting you.

Sorry again about the nasty beat.

Comment on 'Weekend at Mookie's' by jjok

2008-05-05T15:14:21Z

Sorry I didn’t introduce myself at mooook’s. Glad to hear you had fun.

Comment on 'Weekend at Mookie's' by BWoP

2008-05-05T04:34:40Z

It was great to finally meet you. Sorry that we didn’t get more of a chance to chat.

Comment on 'Twitter is Proprietary RSS' by Carter

2008-04-25T00:16:43Z

I’m not sure I follow you. Isn’t having millions of bloggers/consumers pulling less than a thousand feeds (on average) inherently more scalable than having a single company pulling/pushing tens or hundreds of millions of “messages” around their proprietary system? Isn’t that precisely why Twitter is having such a hard time scaling?

Second, your argument about pulling updates sounds exactly like arguments made against RSS readers way back in the day. Anyone who used a desktop RSS application is pulling hundreds of feeds, every so often. But no one considers this a broken system. I happen to use Google Reader (an on-line RSS reader) so I benefit from the caching that Reader does for all its users.

Comment on 'Twitter is Proprietary RSS' by ste

2008-04-24T21:51:23Z

Uhmmm… let’s suppose I’m following ~800 people on Twitter (i.e. I’m subscribed to 800 “blogs”). To receive the updates, in a non-centralized Twitter-like solution, I see 2 scenarios: 1) the push: every time a “blog” is updated, it sends the update to my machine. This means that, a) I have to accept incoming connections, and b) a “blog” with thousands of subscribers must make thousands of connections for every update. 2) the pull: my client has to poll every “blog” every X minutes to check for updates. Instead of 1 connection to a single server, it must make 800 connections all over the net.

Either I’m missing the point, or the centralized solution is the one that makes most sense :-)

Comment on 'BlogIt Will Ruin My Life!' by Dan

2008-04-17T20:31:03Z

“Which is fine, presuming that friends follow their other friends on a purely one-to-one basis”

I’m one of those people sticking to just the one source (typically someone’s blog). It means I’m probably missing out on stuff, but, like your last post said, if it’s important enough it’ll probably show up in a blog I check out. For that reason, I don’t really see myself getting around to signing up for this new service, either.

Comment on 'Lifebox Zero (or Life is a River)' by Sunil

2008-04-17T18:33:44Z

My Gmail Inbox is also a beautiful clean place where only the pertinent emails stay. Everything else is archived. The same can’t be said about my work email. 62000 messages and counting.

On the RSS front… I’ve discovered that I read certain feeds more than others. There are some feeds that I can’t miss a single article in. There are others that I like to look at when I have time. I took parts of these two articles to re-organize my Google Reader:

http://www.43folders.com/2007/11/27/sink-or-swim-managing-rss-feeds-better-groups http://www.kottke.org/07/12/feed-reading

I used to have categories like Blogs, Tech, Entertainment, Mac, etc. Now I have Always, Often, Sometimes, Hardly, and Pending (for new feeds I’m not committed to yet). This let’s me spend the few moments I have looking at the feeds that matter the most. If I have more time, I did into the Hardly folder.

Cubanlinks is in the Always folder!

Comment on 'FriendFeed: Part 1' by Sunil

2008-04-04T21:36:21Z

I agree with a lot of what Eddie is saying. While I love the idea, Friendfeed is just not very pleasing to my eyes. It makes it hard for me to use it regularly. I’m excited to see what happens with SocialThing:

http://socialthing.com/

Comment on 'FriendFeed: Part 1' by Eddie LeBreton

2008-04-04T21:01:18Z

I agree with your points above, but my issues with FF are two-fold:

1) Presentation – I realize the founders are all ex-googler’s, hence the spartan appearance, but I still find it a little cluttered with too much stuff around the content. I think each item should just include an identifying graphic, the name of the friend, and the content (twitter message, blog post title, flickr pic, etc.) with a button at the end to get all of the other text/buttons (timestamps, “more,” “comment,” etc). It’s superfluous to preface the post with the twitter icon and also write “Carter posted a message to Twitter” after it. Given the high volume of messages one person can generate, the extra text is getting in the way, IMHO. Along these lines, I’m very interested to see what the Twhirl equivalent for FF will look like, if not a later version of Twhirl itself. TC had a post on this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/29/adobe-air-desktop-app-for-friendfeed-coming/.

2) Network – Though this would only take few minutes for me to fix manually, I think I find the FF “river” lacking because I haven’t imported all of my friends yet. They have a options to import your email address books, but why not my twitter friends list? That may be not allowed by the Twitter API, but that’s the network most likely to contribute to FF. Guess I’ll have to add more friends and re-evaluate.

As an aside, deciding where to post this reply was pretty tough. Do I @ reply to your tweet? Do I comment in FF (and syndicate out to twitter)? Do I comment on this blog? If you rolled Disqus for your comments, I could comment here and have it go to my FF profile as well. I’m hoping for some consolidation of all these syndicated content systems, but I doubt that’s coming any time soon (if ever).

Comment on 'Carrie's Delicious Meatballs' by carriek

2008-04-03T12:30:41Z

I must confess, I didn’t make this recipe up! All credit goes to Ina. But it’s nice of Carter to have enough faith in my kitchen worthiness to think so.

Comment on 'Funny? You Decide....' by Bobby Bracelet

2007-12-01T15:44:20Z

I think the part where he mentioned dreaming of punching him in the face was great. Right up my alley.

See you in Vegas!

Comment on 'Monday Night at the Hoy' by Bobby Bracelet

2007-11-20T02:47:45Z

I decided to play as well. I’m possibly the next big poker prodigy and I just haven’t figured it out yet. I have as good a shot as anyone else to be a prodigy, right?

Good luck.

Comment on 'I Hate Fantasy Football' by Taurus

2007-10-20T17:49:46Z

This nice thing is that you are tied with me, and I haven’t looked at my starting lineup in 4 weeks until today. However, my team continues to be poop. On the bright side I am somehow three and three despite enduring a rash of injuries that would leave my team ordinarily in a dust-pile…but savvy waiver wire decisions have kept me alive (Dez Clark, Jerius Norwood, Lee Evans – who I have to use today).

The lesson, as always, is that my awesomeness transcends awesome.