Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Monday, March 26, 2007 2:49:38 PM
It’s a beautiful day. Blue skies. The Dashboard widget says 77°F. Our home weather station says 80°F. That aggregation project I’ve been working on since last fall is coming along nicely. Some big, pleasant surprises this morning. Still miles to go, but it’s fulfilling the vision – even at this early stage. Yes, it’s still …
Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron: Advertising Doesn’t Work
“The point I was making is that we are not happy with advertising right now.” – Andrew Baron If anyone was going to figure advertising-on-serial-media out, I was sure Andrew would. Not that I think it makes sense or is even a good idea. From my post on the Ze Frank / RocketBoom geek fight …
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:25:50 PM
The windows are open in the house, I roasted a couple batches of coffee, and the neighborhood kids are playing football in the street. Spring is here. 52°F
WordPress-to-WordPress Import Tip: Delete Spam Comments First
I’m doing some blog consolidation (“finally”, I can hear you say). I’ve been trying out WordPress’ new import feature. It hung, stalled, or timed out every time, either on initial import or on Step 2 when I assign the post author. After peaking into the WXRSS file, I noticed all my comments were in there …
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I wish NetFlix had a ‘shuffle-your-queue’ button.
Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:02:28 PM
“Turns out CDs melt. So we started shipping USBs” – Ross Mayfield, SocialText Actually, I’m still surprised more music, movies, software, etc, aren’t sold in USB form. A while back, I predicted that Apple would be the first to stop shipping computers with optical drives. That’s yet to happen. I still think it will.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:26:23 PM
In the latest Joyent podcast, Niall Kennedy provides some background on one of the most depressing and creepy songs ever. Actually, I can’t listen to anything off that album any more.
Ad Standards for Newspapers?
“Several wondered if the ad met the Star Tribune’s standards for acceptable advertising or if it was a mistake.” – Kate Parry, Star Tribune’s ombudsman Here’s our panel’s reaction to the issue: Snarky Garrick: “Until readers directly provide the Strib with enough revenue that advertising isn’t needed, their complaints should go in the recycling bin …
Still Lusing
“I’m thinking that there is something inherently subordinate to the term ‘user’” – Prof Mary Wong. via Doc Searls The term “user” has bugged me since I worked at “HannaHodge: User Experience Architects” 8 years back. A couple Octobers back, in First Crack #2 [mp3], I declared “There are no users”. “‘User’ is a term …