Comments for lorennorman.com http://lorennorman.com Loren\ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:55:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Vacation in Wisconsin by Aaron Wallrich http://lorennorman.com/real-life/vacation-in-wisconsin/#comment-112 Aaron Wallrich Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:31:53 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=40#comment-112 Enjoy your time in Shawano. I live here - the weather is quite pleasant... except for today =( Anyways, like your blog! Enjoy your time in Shawano. I live here - the weather is quite pleasant… except for today =( Anyways, like your blog!

]]> Comment on Vacation in Wisconsin by Tom http://lorennorman.com/real-life/vacation-in-wisconsin/#comment-111 Tom Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:17:14 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=40#comment-111 Please bring cheese. Some string cheese, and some cheese curds. Just freeze it before you leave. Please bring cheese. Some string cheese, and some cheese curds. Just freeze it before you leave.

]]> Comment on Seesmic Wordpress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by Christine Martell http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/#comment-98 Christine Martell Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:54:35 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=37#comment-98 your fix worked! {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/KseSo2VZlb_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"your fix worked! "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/eHNpbTmsRP"}}} your fix worked! 

]]> Comment on Seesmic Wordpress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by loren http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/#comment-93 loren Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:43:22 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=37#comment-93 Seesmic WP Plugin Fix *Update* {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/V6dSiFXwK0_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"Seesmic WP Plugin Fix *Update* "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/GFjXEjI7hc"}}} Seesmic WP Plugin Fix *Update* 

]]> Comment on The Update on Twitter by loren http://lorennorman.com/startup-culture/the-update-on-twitter/#comment-92 loren Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:02:21 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=31#comment-92 Thanks for your thoughts, Sean. A hard limit on followers would indeed mitigate the problem of power-users, but I have to admit that I think a lot of the power and value of Twitter is that it DOESN'T seek to tell you how to use it. This is shown to be a strength as we see more and more services leveraging the Twitter API, which is embodies the spirit of "do what you want with it." I think the real solution is a switch in the organization of their architecture. Twitter should be organized as a message passing system, not "blog style" where everything goes straight into the database and then gets served from the database. It's actually quite tempting to spend a weekend reimplementing Twitter using Amazon SQS. As for Scoble, I've unfollowed him already due to too much noise! Others, like Leo Laporte and friends, are much better, so how can you tell users they aren't allowed to follow him because too many already are? Besides, wouldn't they just start creating multiple accounts and cross-posting to them all? That'd probably be a whole new scaling problem... Cheers! Thanks for your thoughts, Sean. A hard limit on followers would indeed mitigate the problem of power-users, but I have to admit that I think a lot of the power and value of Twitter is that it DOESN’T seek to tell you how to use it. This is shown to be a strength as we see more and more services leveraging the Twitter API, which is embodies the spirit of “do what you want with it.”

I think the real solution is a switch in the organization of their architecture. Twitter should be organized as a message passing system, not “blog style” where everything goes straight into the database and then gets served from the database. It’s actually quite tempting to spend a weekend reimplementing Twitter using Amazon SQS.

As for Scoble, I’ve unfollowed him already due to too much noise! Others, like Leo Laporte and friends, are much better, so how can you tell users they aren’t allowed to follow him because too many already are? Besides, wouldn’t they just start creating multiple accounts and cross-posting to them all? That’d probably be a whole new scaling problem…

Cheers!

]]> Comment on The Update on Twitter by sean808080 http://lorennorman.com/startup-culture/the-update-on-twitter/#comment-91 sean808080 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:14:16 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=31#comment-91 i meant twitter of course. damn booze! i meant twitter of course. damn booze!

]]> Comment on The Update on Twitter by sean808080 http://lorennorman.com/startup-culture/the-update-on-twitter/#comment-90 sean808080 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:13:35 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=31#comment-90 well to be honest, if i were ev i'd just say point blank, no twitter user can have more than 2000 followers. after that it becomes less of what twitter is meant to be, which is a microblogging platform in the social sense. when people like scoble use twitter to puff up their reach, it becomes less social and more of a broadcast medium which is not what twitter is meant to be. it's a simple problem to solve if they had some balls and specified what the true point of seesmic was. they're trying to be all things to all people and that is always a trap. would you miss tweets from scoble? i surely wouldn't. do you get irritated when twitter goes down sporadically, hell yeah! which is more important to you? well to be honest, if i were ev i’d just say point blank, no twitter user can have more than 2000 followers. after that it becomes less of what twitter is meant to be, which is a microblogging platform in the social sense. when people like scoble use twitter to puff up their reach, it becomes less social and more of a broadcast medium which is not what twitter is meant to be.

it’s a simple problem to solve if they had some balls and specified what the true point of seesmic was. they’re trying to be all things to all people and that is always a trap.

would you miss tweets from scoble? i surely wouldn’t. do you get irritated when twitter goes down sporadically, hell yeah!

which is more important to you?

]]> Comment on Seesmic Wordpress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by Christine Martell http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/#comment-89 Christine Martell Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:13:46 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=37#comment-89 Thanks for effort {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/5jr4ceuR1X_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"Thanks for effort "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/i1YPzGwHbR"}}} Thanks for effort 

]]> Comment on Seesmic Wordpress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by loren http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/#comment-87 loren Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:56:05 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=37#comment-87 Thanks Loic! {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/rt4xEPg0ie_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"Thanks Loic! "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/yCwM9delTI"}}} Thanks Loic! 

]]> Comment on Seesmic Wordpress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by Loic http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/#comment-86 Loic Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:50:45 +0000 http://lorennorman.com/?p=37#comment-86 Hello hello hello I am here :) I am forwarding this to my support team and see how we can improve the plugin to make sure it does not happen again. Thanks for your feedback! Hello hello hello I am here :) I am forwarding this to my support team and see how we can improve the plugin to make sure it does not happen again. Thanks for your feedback!

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