coComments related to MitchellAllen

Well, I don't want to bash a f

2008-10-10T20:11:47.065+02:00

Well, I don't want to bash a former employer, (their name rhymes with "downcast table") but the spreadsheets that made me work with suffered from Life Saver ® candy-wrapper syndrome. Someone apparently discovered colored tabs ... Anyway, being one of the design-challenged, I try to focus on form over function and the results are horrible. Then again, I never had to convince anybody with anything other than the so-called bottom line. My secret for a passable spreadsheet design? Import it into Word! This way, I can have greater control over headers and footers than I can seem to manage with Excel. Plus, it makes multi-page reports easier to assemble. Thanks for sharing your design tips! Cheers, Mitch

Hi Bobby, I am really touched

2008-10-05T05:53:23.300+02:00

Hi Bobby, I am really touched by your comment. To be able to write in a manner that reaches people is something that I strive to do with my serious themes. Although I fictionalized "Marxist Internet Propaganda", I wanted to, finally, get some of the ideas down regarding my thoughts on the future of the so-called information age. There is a synergy, a sort of inspirational fuel, that I get from your writing. When I read A Thousand Reflective Poly-cognitions, I knew I had found a kindred spirit. I hope we keep writing and inspiring each other for years to come. A good belly laugh from time to time is always a treat, too, so keep writing those hilarious horror stories! Cheers, Mitch

Hi Bobby! You and your flames

2008-10-01T18:48:21.794+02:00

Hi Bobby! You and your flames! LOL I'd say you're already on fire. Social media is what keeps me plugged in to great writers like you. (I found one post via your Twitter updates and your Bailout series via feedly.) The point you made about blogs is exactly right. Yet, social media is to blogs as a cocktail party is to a house party: you never know who is going to pop in on a social media network. Of course, the more famous your blog becomes, the more people show up at its doorstep. :) Cheers, Mitch

Hiya, Pinhole! For me, social

2008-09-26T21:06:47.208+02:00

Hiya, Pinhole! For me, social media sites give me what we had on WritingUp.com:

A chance to comment A chance to promote A chance to make a buck (e.g. Qassia 100% AdSense) Just as WU had a spectrum of members with varying expectations, so it is with the collective Social Media Space. The big advantage WU had was the close-knit community. I suppose you can find that on some social media sites - FaceBook, I think - but for the most part, you wind up hanging by the pool with your pals and chatting with whoever comes by. Cheers, Mitch

You're in a maze of twisty pas

2008-09-26T01:24:14.711+02:00

You're in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Blake, I tried to like Plurk,

2008-09-24T19:13:21.072+02:00

Blake, I tried to like Plurk, because I wanted to support Sharon. But, like you said, Twitter does everything better and more intuitively. It was shortly after becoming frustrated with Plurk that I wrote Stretching Social Media. I think the Manifesto is the culmination of my realization that, at the end of day, it gets dark.* :) Cheers, Mitch * That just means life goes on. Do what you can and leave the rest to the other folks.

Heidi, believe it or not, it t

2008-09-24T19:01:27.042+02:00

Heidi, believe it or not, it took me almost a year to "get" Twitter. I think that's because I originally kept going to the "Everyone" time-line. Once I discovered the twitter.com/home and the fact that I'm always logged in, it made more sense. Around this time, I had also read Caroline Middlebrook's Big Juicy Twitter Guide on her blog. That explained a lot! The final piece of simplicity was dicscovering my RSS feed at the bottom of my home page. Now, I get all the updates in Thunderbird, even when Twitter AJAX doesn't update me. Cheers, Mitch

Sharon, as you know, I try out

2008-09-24T16:15:00.376+02:00

Sharon, as you know, I try out many products, books, blogs and gadgets based on your recommendations. I find that I do better by concentrating my networking into a smaller circle - a shotgun blast a close range is more effective. I wonder if the tenets of SEO are being used for SMO? After all, the common denominator is back-links. Just as there are two camps in the website arena (many niche sites vs. one authority site), there are those who believe in participating in many social media spaces vs. those who advocate specializing. My unscientific conclusion is that specializing leads to deeper understanding and, therefore, more satisfactory results. Cheers, Mitch

Hi Gianii, thanks for stopping

2008-09-24T15:56:28.869+02:00

Hi Gianii, thanks for stopping by! Your home page is cool and, of course, I had to find out about Falkor and the Neverending Story :) Anyway, the whole trouble with Plurk and CoComment boils down to this: Plurk requires consistent activity in order to maintain karma. As rarely as I use social media, I'll never have good karma - and I don't wish to be reminded of that fact every time I sign in. CoComment has a neat concept for creating an interconnected comment space. While I can forgive its convoluted setup process, I can't accept its ads - which I didn't know they had - nor its misidentification of one of the people who left a comment on my blog. I still use it to track my own conversations, but the social promise is lacking. Cheers, Mitch

Bobbi Jo, I must admit that th

2008-09-13T20:42:53.051+02:00

Bobbi Jo, I must admit that there is a deeper connection to data, strings of text and mathematics. Drumroll... Cryptography! I've played with this field since I was about 8 years old. Parsing is fundamental to understanding codes and ciphers. I believe that's what helps me "see" patterns in problems. Cheers, Mitch

The coComment concept is almos

2008-09-11T19:30:11.773+02:00

The coComment concept is almost exactly what I was looking for when I worte an article on my blog about following converstions on the web. http://www.morphodesigns.com/archives/2008/and-i-quote/ Once I learn more about the system, perhaps I'll discover that it has a way to find the "best" comments. Of course, that is subjective and, presumably, we would simply "favorite" such comments. If anybody actually reads this, can you tell me if we'll be able to follow other people's comments, without having left a comment of our own? I don't hink anyone will ever see this. I had to go all the way back to the first post on the coComment test blog, because WildBlue is FAPping me. Firefox won't load 1,000 plus comments :( Actually, isn't this the point of coComment? Unhiding conversations? This turns out to be a double test! Cheers, Mitch