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Comment on This Blog is Alive by Brad

Brad — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:43:37 +0000

Do you feel any temptation to jam your tweets and mlkshks and so on into your blog? I’m having that feeling now but it seems wrong.

Comment on This Blog is Alive by Scott Saad

Scott Saad — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:13:57 +0000

The only noise I’m making here is +1′ing your post… son!

Comment on This Blog is Alive by hubs

hubs — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:58:46 +0000

Phewph! I thought you were dead.

Comment on Confession Time by hubs

hubs — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:06:45 +0000

DAMNIT!

Comment on Dare to Tweet Stupid by S

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:54:26 +0000

And I believe that could be a philosophy in life. I mean, just dare to share what you really are and stop worrying about what people thinks. If we are feeling bad at the end it might be we are having problems with ourselves.

Comment on Dare to Tweet Stupid by Ranja

Ranja — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:59:21 +0000

But wait if I share myself with you, does that mean you can share yourself with me?

Comment on Dare to Tweet Stupid by Brett O'Connor

Brett O'Connor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:57:24 +0000

I agree, Sara. There are real dangers to sharing too much. I just don’t want people to be too afraid to share at all.

Comment on Dare to Tweet Stupid by Sara

Sara — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:50:08 +0000

You make some great points and I enjoy your tone, for sure. I’d like to add that there are degrees of stupid on the Internet, some of which are acceptable (heck, even occasionally to be encouraged), and others that can get you into a heap of danger. There’s “stupid” as in “oops, I posted a link to an offensive YouTube clip on Facebook without editing my privacy settings to omit Grandma Fran,” and then there’s REALLY stupid, as in “oops, I’ve been publishing a real-time stream of my every location and action, along with plenty of photographs and other personal identifying information, making me super easy to stalk/rob/scam/etc.” Just as there are varying shades of “oops!” there are also varying levels of severity for the consequences of our online transgressions.

I’m all for sharing personalities, opinions, knowledge, courage, and other wonderful life goodies as freely and uncensored as possible online, but sometimes it comes down to just plain common sense. As we transition to a more Internet dependent social structure and acclimate to the open nature of the Interwebs seeping in to pretty much all aspects of daily life, privacy issues will become more prevalent, like it or not. Sure, some of those concerns are an overreaction (Grandma Fran will forgive you), but many are valid and should be addressed and taken seriously. As much as I’d love to be able to freely share every aspect of my existence if I choose to, society is unfortunately not ready for that.

The griefers in society may be outnumbered by normal folk, but they are also empowered by the anonymity and tools the Internet provides them. Yes, most people’s privacy concerns are limited to embarrassing drunken photo leaks, but freely providing your specific location constantly (or releasing a physician’s client email address list via Buzz) is another matter that could have IRL unpleasant consequences. There’s a difference between taking risks with your pride on the line (like those who boldly Tweet without drafts), vs. taking risks that could get you hurt physically, financially, or in some other tangible lasting way.

Comment on Neptune’s Pride by Le Fake

Le Fake — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:36:36 +0000

I certainly will.

Comment on Pareidolia Aggregate by hubs

hubs — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:15:14 +0000

Any idea what software was used to combine these images?

Comment on The Luck Factor by Steven Kovar

Steven Kovar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:10:16 +0000

Thank you for the quote and link Brett. I’m glad you enjoyed my post, and hopefully the article that inspired it! Do you feel like a luckier person now?

Comment on Interactive 8-Tracks by George Hotelling

George Hotelling — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:29:01 +0000

Wow, I saw the Foghat ad without context and figured it had to be ‘shopped.

Comment on Deep Green: The Pool Playing Robot by Vipul

Vipul — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:16 +0000

Nice video.

Comment on Actually, This is the Best Lunchbox Ever by Dave C.

Dave C. — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:18:16 +0000

In fact, all of the lunchboxes in that list are pretty fantastic.

Comment on Patent Drawing of the Moment by brandonnn

brandonnn — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:43:24 +0000

Holy shit.

Comment on Coke URL by Jon

Jon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:36:48 +0000

http://twitter.com/pareene/status/3135738444

Comment on Man is His Sushi by Brad

Brad — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:08:26 +0000

It is not annoying. Links are my sushi.

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Jorn

Jorn — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Chris Whipple predicts Google Reader is eating delicious’s lunch (?!) and as I explore its sharing options I’m starting to agree.

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Brett O'Connor

Brett O'Connor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:38:54 +0000

Thanks for your comments, everyone. If anything, I’m happy to see that this idea resonates with people besides me, even if it is probably both financially and technically impossible. As Les said, perhaps just making enough noise could get Y!s attention, which might be good.

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:54:08 +0000

Kickstarter as a viable buyback plan notwithstanding – the best extraction option, IMHO, is to buy back the data and rewrite the software. Not that there’s not good work there, but it’s entangled with a lot of Yahoo! tech and infrastructure that you’d spend a long time excising.

Beyond pinboard.in, the next best bet is to pick a self-hosted clone package and make it federate. Then, work hard to make it catch up to the last 3-4 years worth of social software developments missed (eg. kind of what Jorn said)

Of course on the other hand, I wonder if a loud enough noise would make someone at Y! wonder what was this delicious thing and why anyone cared about it? Naah…

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:44:04 +0000

I love the sentiment, but it’s definitely far beyond a community fundraising effort. Unless you can think of a way to raise eight figures, it’s off the table. And it’s particular poorly-suited for Kickstarter, since you’re raising money for an unknown sum and would have to refund everyone somehow when negotiations fail.

If you’re serious about this, I’d recommend approaching Yahoo before kicking off fundraising and document the process.

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Nicola D'Agostino

Nicola D'Agostino — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:10:11 +0000

Would Yahoo! ever sell it? I’m afraid the answer is no.

nda

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Brett O'Connor

Brett O'Connor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:52:49 +0000

Yea, there are several good clones. Pinboard is another one. But Delicious is more than just it's software that makes it up at this point.

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by Marcus Ramberg

Marcus Ramberg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:41:06 +0000

RJBS already made a clone of delicious called Rubric.

* You can see it in action at http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric
* The source is on CPAN – http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Rubric-0.144/

Comment on Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! by jeff

jeff — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:29:20 +0000

more twitter like? christ almighty…
anyway, i’ll totally spend my weed money on this.