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Comments, nerds and human subcultures

I love that this (interesting) article on web design turned into a mathematician nerd smackdown in the comments. Uh…actually, by his definition 1 is a prime. Read it carefully and you’ll see that. I would go so far as to say that any definition of prime that excludes 1 only does so by adding an “unless it’s […]

August 25, 02012 – 09:39 | By mark | Posted in Online Community, random | Comments Off on Comments, nerds and human subcultures

Too many exclamation points!!! – Salon.com

Too many exclamation points!!! – Salon.com: ” Synthetic excitement explodes out of my cursor, unearned.” But as I mentioned earlier, this market share and subscriber growth did not come at the expense of profitability as our operating profit before depreciation and amortization margins Replica Oakleys also increased, about eight percentage points to 32% last year. […]

July 30, 02012 – 14:25 | By mark | Posted in random | Comments Off on Too many exclamation points!!! – Salon.com

Don’t ignore the trolls

Found this today on Everything2. I love how he changed his mind over time, as I have: Twelve years is more than enough time for my opinion on this subject to evolve. I no longer believe you should ignore trolls. I think you need to meet them head-on and do everything you can to smack […]

July 18, 02012 – 09:03 | By mark | Posted in Online Community | Comments Off on Don’t ignore the trolls

Evan Michael Gross has passed – wonder what happens to Spell Catcher

I’ve used Spell Catcher for over 10 years. Someone posted to Rainmaker’s website that he has passed. Good travels, Evan. He has regressed badly as the season has gone on. Zoos don’t cheap jerseys get enough credit for what wondrous, insane places they NBA Jerseys Cheap are. This is a slap in the face to […]

July 12, 02012 – 20:18 | By mark | Posted in random | Comments Off on Evan Michael Gross has passed – wonder what happens to Spell Catcher

Godwin’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I’d forgotten about Godwin’s Law. Always good to remember, especially if you happen to be managing a large, public community. Godwin’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Godwin’s law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies[1][2]) is an observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990[2] that has become […]

July 11, 02012 – 11:16 | By mark | Posted in Community Management, Online Community | Comments Off on Godwin’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The trouble with today’s tweet based soundbites is that it is difficult to have a slightly subtle position on something

Not sure exactly how I got here, and the rest of the post is interesting, but this quote struck me: Stephen Colebourne’s blog: Scala EJB 2 feedback: “The trouble with today’s tweet based soundbites is that it is difficult to have a slightly subtle position on something, and I’d say my position on Fantom is […]

December 7, 02011 – 13:03 | By mark | Posted in random | Comments Off on The trouble with today’s tweet based soundbites is that it is difficult to have a slightly subtle position on something

Own your identity – Marco.org

Own your identity – Marco.org: “But there will always be the open web for the geeks, the misfits, the eccentrics, the control freaks, and any other term we can think of to proudly express our healthy skepticism of giving up too much control over what really should be ours.” (Via Shawn Blanc.) Really, this comes […]

July 12, 02011 – 10:15 | By mark | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Own your identity – Marco.org

responsive curation is the future of keeping it simple

Brilliant idea. responsive curation is the future of keeping it simple : chad vavra’s blog : : the barbarian group: “For instance, if a user is known to spend an low amount of time on the site show them headlines and a single image to maximize their uptake of content. Users who are known to […]

July 12, 02011 – 10:07 | By mark | Posted in User Experience | Comments Off on responsive curation is the future of keeping it simple

All rules have an implicit “unless it’s really funny” after them.

xkcd has an IRC channel. I didn’t know that. Their channel rules are fantastic: Maintain the spirit of the channel. The spirit is love. And pie. Mmmm, pie. The ops will always try to make reasonable decisions with the goal of preventing channel from sucking. The reason we’re ops is that we’ve been judged to […]

July 7, 02011 – 10:20 | By mark | Posted in Online Community | Tagged | Comments Off on All rules have an implicit “unless it’s really funny” after them.

From the past: Early blog post about Twitter

Looking through some old notes and came across this blog post by Liz Lawley about the early days of Twitter. http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/03/06/thoughts_on_twitter.php I’ve heard two kinds of criticisms of Twitter already. The first criticizes the triviality of the content. But asking “who really cares about that kind of mindless trivia about your day” misses the whole […]

July 6, 02011 – 08:53 | By mark | Posted in Social Media | Tagged | Comments Off on From the past: Early blog post about Twitter