Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
As one of the commenters points out, would anyone notice?
Did Apple Just Quietly End Development Of Safari For Windows? | TechCrunch
Wayne remarks on Google+: Out of curiosity I clicked on Download and got shunted to a majority Mountain Lion features What’s New page. No actual download activated. hmmm
Comment on A Delicious Retreat: Early Sharing Pioneer Announces Feature Downgrade
I get the impression that they tried to be Pinterest and then realized that they couldn’t keep up, and figured it would be better to focus on their strenghts than be a third-rate Pinterest clone.
The fact that they added Facebook integration at the same time as announcing the cancellation of stacks suggests that they’re aiming to be a repository for link sharing on other social services. Searching your Twitter stream or Facebook timeline (or Google+ page, or Tumblr, etc) for a particular link you posted three months ago is a pain. Searching for it on Delicious is…well, at least possible, though it’s better if you take the time to tag your links once in a while.
That of course goes away if FB or Twitter realize that people might want to look at their old stuff and improve their own search…except for people who use more than one social service. Or *have* used more than one social service over time. Aggregating those shares in one place could be useful, and might even turn out to be a niche worth filling.
Fun with line breaks in my inbox:
– Help Us Keep Up the Mom(entum)
– Transfer Websites to God(addy)
Wayne comments: Your mail program has some personal issues to resolve I see. ;p
There's a WSJ article making the rounds trying to argue that the creation of the internet was primarily a private venture.. It's….not very accurate.
A thought-provoking article about an allergist who found herself on the other side of the office when own her children developed severe food allergies.
Allergist Mom: What My Food Allergic Kids Taught Me | Allergic Living
Website best practices poll:
When blocking obvious spam on a site contact form, is it better to discard the message silently or kick back a 403 error?
Wayne answer on Google+: I think it’s better to give a custom message stating their action is invalid. A 403 would just be a number to most people. And wouldn’t get the message across as clearly. You need to make them aware of their wrongdoing
Hotmail tries to classify all those newsletters, status updates and more that fall somewhere between person-to-person email and outright spam.
On the way out of San Diego, we stumbled on Better Buzz Coffee. They make their signature iced coffee drinks in cocktail shakers. Imagine a mint iced coffee made with fresh muddled mint leaves.
“Why should Comic Con be an exclusive comics-only club? What is wrong with welcoming all things geeky? For four days, the spotlight is on the things we love. Isn’t that a good thing?”
EXACTLY.
I do not understand why people who have traditionally been excluded from the cool kids’ hangout are so determined to turn around and exclude someone else.
I was looking at the program grid this weekend. Events are color-coded for comics, movies, TV, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, and “everything else.” The majority of the events were comics-related. Comics aren’t missing from comic-con. They’re the nucleus around which everything else is built.
An interesting perspective on what conferences and festivals have in common with each other, and how they’re different from everyday life.
Committed: The Altered State of Comic-Con – Comics Should Be Good
San Diego fireworks show exploded in 15 seconds, ruining show [Video]
Be honest: Who hasn’t wondered what it would look like if all the fireworks went off at once?
Revisiting the guidelines for serif vs. sans-serif screen text in the HD era: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/serif-vs-sans-serif-fonts-hd-screens/
I finished reading “Blackout” earlier this month. Highly recommended. The three novels aren’t zombie stories per se so much as they’re thrillers set in a world where zombies are a fact of life. Look under the name Mira Grant for “Feed,” “Deadline” and “Blackout.”
I think someone’s confused about the concept of step-by-step directions.
Wayne comments on Google+: Haven’t they heard of baby steps? sheesh
Lia comments on Facebook: Soon you will have your very own doomsday device. That is what those instructions are for, right?
Battling the stress of email. “[Professor Gloria] Mark jokingly calls it the “zombie” paper because, like zombies, no matter how many times you delete e-mails they keep on coming.”
Email ‘vacations’ decrease stress, increase concentration
Wayne comments on Google+:
Email management is definitely a mindset one needs to train. I remember when I first used email more frequently at UCI, I did feel that pressure of the immediacy possible and often consequently expected with email. I had felt I needed to answer every email immediately and would check it regularly so as not to disappoint my contacts.
It wasn’t until later (much later) that I realized I need to focus on priorities and that email isn’t a ruling factor of my life. My emotional state (and heart rate 😉 ) became much more stable as a result.
That’s not to say emails aren’t a major part of my life. I still do a lot of work and activities through them. (Today in fact wasn’t as productive, work-wise, due to email access issues.) But I don’t let them rule my mood for the day. I don’t let them be the determining factor of my life.
In this digital age, I think we often forget that email isn’t the only way we can communicate with someone. 🙂 Nor is it the only lifeline between two people.
I like irony and breaking expectations/stereotypes as much as the next guy, but it’s still frustrating to be the Prius driver stuck behind an SUV that refuses to move faster than 4MPH.
“Internet connection is required for this application.” Well, so much for using it to troubleshoot our internet connection.
Always consider what you’re training your email recipients to do with the mail you send them. Whether it’s “ignore most of what we send you” or “don’t worry if you see something from us that’s at a random domain, we send using different domains all the time.”
Training Recipients – Word to the Wise
Want to see a WWF style smackdown? Put a marketer and a delivery expert in a room and ask them to discuss frequency and whether or not more mail is better. The marketer will point to the bottom line…
Ouch! It’s worth remembering that not everyone has a high-speed connection, and that all those images and scripts add up. This isn’t just for the minority stuck on dial-up, but with the rise of mobile computing, a lot of people are on spotty connections that might be high-speed one moment, then dog-slow the next.
Want pain? Try loading today’s websites over dial-up
Even today, in 2012, some people don’t have broadband Internet connections, relying instead on phone lines and those good old dial-up modems. By today’s standards, those connections are extremely slow…
A nice one-shot webcomic about the wonders of science.