On my way...

: kazwell; December 24th, 2008

Happy Holidays everyone....catch you in Naught Nine.

(inspiration for the title of this post)

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They didn't care that they'd seen in work in practice

: kazwell; December 16th, 2008

Couple of cool quotes from a Clay Shirky talk on community & self-organization:

about Perl vs. C++: "they didn't care that they'd seen in work in practice, because they already knew it couldn't work in theory"

about software and services long-term success (6:25 mark): "You will make more accurate predictions about software and services if you ask yourself not "what's the business model", but rather "do the people who like it take care of each other"? That turns out to be the better predictor of longevity."

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Interesting but not surprising

: kazwell; December 15th, 2008

Was reading some notes from Fred Wilson on posting frequency by platform (ie: does the microphone you use change how often you talk about yourself?). The interesting, but not surprising answer was "yes". In general (based on his personal content sharing habits):

with Blogs: 1-2 posts per day
with Tumblr: 4-5 posts per day
with Twitter: 6 posts per day

After seeing this, my next question was - which mic sounds best? (and what one inspires the best lyrics?)

Wilson mentions that his Tumblr is a bit like Del.icio.us, combined with better multimedia capabilities - but I wonder, in the long term - how much content will be available to reblog/remix if people create (ie: blog) less often?

Blogs, Tumblr, and Twitter are one thing (mostly text) - but what about the newest (although not new) amplifier on the block...

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File under: Change is baaad, mmmK?

: kazwell; December 8th, 2008

1,000,000 AGAINST THE NEW FACEBOOK LAYOUT! (with 2.7million members :)
Where do I protest this new iGoogle?
The next version of Windows Live has shipped

It's interesting to see that most of the comments could apply to almost any major redesign, ie:

To be really honest to you guys, i think this new thing is a total DOWN GRADE!! this was copied and paste from (insert popular site here), nothing original.
Ok, WTF. I go to (insert frequently visited page here) and suddenly everything has changed. I hate it, it literally hurts my eyes, I can't find anything. I am not kidding. How do I fix it or where can I protest?
(popular portal here), what were you thinking???? This new version is total garbage, totally confusing, and for a non programmer, the worse update to a progrma [sic] that worked.

What can be done to encourage more helpful user feedback?

Found on Digg, but belongs on LJ

: kazwell; November 26th, 2008

Sounds like they're trying to steal our mascot....

Goat glued to a wall?

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Don't make kittens sad, get a LiveJournal account

: kazwell; November 5th, 2008

Alright, free (and/or priceless) virtual gift for the first person who identifies where this screen cap is from:

Thanks Nick!

: kazwell; October 30th, 2008

nicholaskurjan gave me a great Halloween costume idea....

New concerns about Obama

: kazwell; October 27th, 2008

(My Friends) Have you heard the latest robo-calls on new concerns about Obama? In particular:

"Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has not accepted Joe the Plumber's friend request on Facebook. We know he's logged on, because we saw he changed his status on Monday. On Tuesday, he joined the group Art Historians Are Saucy. But he still won't accept Joe the Plumber's friend request. He knows it's Joe. Joe uses the screen shot of the two of them together as his profile picture. That's not a uniter. That's the same old liberal-elite politics as usual."

Unbelievable and Unacceptable....John McCain - he'll be your (and Joe's) friend on Facebook and in life.