 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Dave Munger › Comments
Here's my long-awaited column about #solo09 -- "(Tele)present at the future" http://seedmagazine.com/content...
Bora Zivkovic, Martin Fenner, Cameron Neylon and 3 other people liked this
Nice to tele-meet you Dave!
- Duncan Hull
Likewise, Duncan!
- Dave Munger
Why Exercise is Not the Best Prescription for Weight Loss http://www.theexaminingroom.com/2009... #PLoS
Colby, Daniel Mietchen, Re Zookeeper and 8 other people liked this
that's a nice review, too bad he didn't use the ResearchBlogging tags :(
- Christina Pikas
That was my first thought as well and I am going to ask him to do it and thus be eligible for the Pick Of The Month....
- Bora Zivkovic
If the mean weight of the 12 KWW according to the table was around 83kg. This means that they burned around 12*83 kcal (996 kcal) in a week. This is the amount I burn when I go running for about 80 minutes (at least according to my running watch). So is this really surprising that this rather low amount of burned calories didn't translate into more weight loss ?
- Daniel Jurczak
It's nice when a study appeals to personal preconceptions :-) I'm a big believer in exercise as a part of daily life (= moving around a lot, walking), as opposed to a special, extra activity (running, gyms).
- Neil Saunders
I really don't understand why people find it so important to use the ResearchBlogging icon. I never put it on my own blog posts about peer-reviewed research. Is it not obvious when a blog post supports its statements with proper sources? Why should I put an icon from someone else on my blog posts to point out the obvious?
- Lars Juhl Jensen
I agree with Daniel, the study might not represent the ppl who actually do something during their 200min/week workout. If they were to run 7mph for 30min a day they would burn 3000+kcal.
- marcin
@Lars - it's not (only, just, really) so we trust you more, it's so we can find you more easily! The point is to list these things together so that a journalist or patient or teacher or random lay person can find them
- Christina Pikas
Correct - not just that you get more traffic, but that traffic is of high quality: people who are actively looking for high-quality blogging. The aggreggator is highly regarded and valued by the non-blogging community as a portal into high quality blogging. For example, I give my monthly Blog Of The Month award at PLoS ONE only to posts aggregated at ResearchBlogging.org.
- Bora Zivkovic
I guess what I have against ResearchBlogging is that I feel it will highlight the least important posts on my blog. I'm allowed to slap the icon on a post where I write a commentary on some already published research, but when I do what I think is real research blogging - namely to blog primary research results before they are published elsewhere - then I'm not allowed to put the icon on the post.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
highlighting certain posts will also bring more attention to your other posts, in my experience. I'm glad you mention this, because I've not heard this complaint before. Your primary research posts are probably more relevant for those in your research area whereas your ones on published research might have a wider appeal and could benefit from wider attention maybe?
- Christina Pikas
Whereas any traffic to my blog will obviously tend to bring in a few extra hits to other posts (although not many in my experience), I don't think that my commentaries are aimed at a broader readership than my other posts. I generally blog about science for scientists in the same field - my aim is not to do outreach and try to make papers accessible to a broader public. Maybe that simply places me outside the scope of ResearchBlogging?
- Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't find myself using the #researchblogging service either... I like the idea, but it is just too much work
- Egon Willighagen
Another problem I have is that I am not sure which of my posts live up to the guidelines of ResearchBlogging. Most of my posts related to peer-reviewed papers present also my own additional analyses of the primary data published in the paper I discuss. The posts are thus a mix of peer-reviewed and non-reviewed results. It is not clear to me if I would even be allowed to put the icon on them, so I decided to not bother with it.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
sounds like the right choice for you, so no reason to question it.
- Christina Pikas
Deepak said it better than I: "it’s equating *serious* with peer review that I have a problem with" (http://mndoci.com/blog...)
- Lars Juhl Jensen
Hi folks -- Excellent debate going on here. A couple points. First, you should realize that our current requirement of discussing peer-reviewed work is just a first step. We're working on a way to aggregate posts about conference presentations, and posts on ongoing research shouldn't be far behind. It's true that "serious" <> "peer-reviewed," but discussions referencing peer-reviewed literature are very likely to be serious, so this is an easy first pass at sorting the chaff from the wheat.
- Dave Munger
Second, our interface has gotten much easier to use. If the last time you tried the site was more than two months ago, you should definitely give it another shot.
- Dave Munger
The important thing is that you have the correct markup in the page, not that you're displaying some icon. Anyone can display that image and not be aggregated by your site. Dave, that's why we've been stressing, even before the site was running, that it's not about the icon, but the markup.
- Mr. Gunn
To return to the topic at hand, however, I think the study is obviously flawed and in fact quite irresponsible to be making such a claim. The major fuck-up, and I mean that literally, was allowing the exercising group to eat more. Still, they lost a full inch of abdominal fat, which isn't useless. Again, this is a classic example of what not to do when reporting scientific results. They must have known the media would pick up on this and relate only the headline and not the subtleties.
- Mr. Gunn
The topic is now the homepage Buzz on scienceblogs.com
- Bora Zivkovic
Mr. Gunn, I agree -- in fact you don't have to display the icon, just use the markup and the post will be aggregated. And, as we've talked about on twitter, it's in COinS (if not on our site, at least on the original blog post)
- Dave Munger
At risk of dragging this back on topic - Mr. Gunn, you should leave a comment with your observations on the paper. Unlike this FF thread, comments on our site won't be 'acquired' and will thus form a permanent part of the record. :)
- Peter Binfield
from iPhone
Seriously, Peter, if someone came along and offered $50M, comments on your site would be acquired, as well, no? I'll leave a comment anyways, along the line of "the whole freaking thing is invalid because they let the heavy exercisers eat more!"
- Mr. Gunn
Actually I seriously doubt it. Did you meet our Founders? I don't think they started PLoS to make a buck... What I do know is that Mission Driven Not For Profit organizations rarely sell up.
- Peter Binfield
Once science communication has emancipated from the paper era, not even ONE journal may be necessary. So even if PLoS ONE were given $50M to shut down, there are lots of things you could do with that money to fulfill your mission of providing open access to research results.
- Daniel Mietchen
@Mr Gunn: I wouldn't call the study flawed, just the ridiculous media interpretations. It is important to not restrict the food intake in a study like this because the point is to see whether according to recommendations, simply exercising will induce weight loss. And the results corroborate other research; if you just tell people to exercise they will compensate or overcompensate...
more...
- Colby
iTunes is by far hands down the worst software I have on my computers, with a large margin! What an utter piece of crap!
Morton Fox, Loren Heiny, Alex Scoble and 4 other people liked this
I complain about this to my wife on a regular basis, and she says: find me a better program to do the same job. So far, I haven't been able to. For no reason I can think of, music management software is apparently universally crap.
- Bill Hooker
I basically only use it to keep my iPhone sync'd and especially for podcasts. It's so utterly and hopelessly useless for music management, I wouldn't even start to try using it for that! Just then I got so mad when it was updating in the middle of a sync and then shut down the sync even though I told it not to and when the updated version then started, all my 60+ podcasts from last week were marked 'new'.
- Björn Brembs
And that's the second time in a row I had to go through and mark all the podcasts I had listened to in the past week as 'not new'. I'm so mad at this gloating evidence of utter incompetence!
- Björn Brembs
I have no (well, few) complaints about amarok (Linux - think there's an OS X port)
- Neil Saunders
hands down. I'm a big fan of macs but yes. iTunes needs serious help.
- tim
for podcasts on the iPhone, RSS Player might be better: http://www.nextdayoff.com/
- Michael Kuhn
I wouldn't say it's the *worst,* but not great. Why did they have to try to integrate video, PDFs, and all that other crap? Should just be an audio file-manager
- Dave Munger
I sympathize but I just don't have any problems with iTunes unless I get into the store part, which I don't love. People also confusingly conflate iTunes with the iTunes store all the time.
- Eli Juicy Jones
The real problem for me (and many other people) is getting the ontent I bought from iTunes to another, seemingly improved open soruce audio file manager. Just looked at amarok and it looks good. I'll download it and try it out, but I want to still buy music through iTunes, because their selection is huge and I listen to obscure alt-country/folk stuff that is hard to find in the...
more...
- Kevin Z
from twhirl
That's why I never bought music from Apple (or anyone with DRM). Of course, moot point now, since DRM in music is dead
- Deepak Singh
Winamp is great on the PC, but only if you get the stripped down version. It works with mp3 players and I think there's even a hack to make it work with an ipod. The integration of PDFs and other stuff is obviously so they can sell e-books and crap through itunes.
- Mr. Gunn
I'd suggest you give MobileMe a try. Then iTunes won't seem so bad by comparison and you'll suffer a net loss in grief as you can quickly throw MM out but will even possibly think of iTunes as the best thing since sliced bread.
- David HC Soul
+1 for DHCS comment. MobileMe is MobileCrap. course, that's just my opinion. ;-)
- tim
Classic Apple "Geniusses":http://www.jedisaber.com/Other...
- Björn Brembs
Multiple initiatives vie to give scientists unique IDs - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/science...
Stephen Anthony, laura, Martin Fenner and 7 other people liked this
If it's useful for papers, imagine what a DOI for authors could do. Authors have a far more complex history than papers. ... Having a functional author ID system could help with everything from datamining the scientific literature to identifying the role of social networks in science. Unfortunately, it's such an obvious thing to do that multiple, competing initiatives are forming.
- Shirley Wu
from Bookmarklet
"Unfortunately [...] multiple, competing initiatives are forming." Shirley, do you think that is a bad thing perse? Are the groups competing for money or are they competing that their system is better? I have no trouble with Mac/Windows/Linux, Movable Type and Wordpress, IntenseDebate and Disqus, Twitter and FriendFeed, OpenID and Facebook Connect. I think this kind of competition is only bad if it means not one initiative will get enough traction.
- Meryn Stol
@Meryn, not necessarily a bad thing, but if the service is meant to be universal, having multiple services probably undermines that goal, at least until something is in place to make all those services interoperable. I actually don't know much as much about this but there's a huge thread on this subject: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Shirley Wu
You might think about it as similar to the DOI system. Would it work if we had multiple digital object ID systems?
- Shirley Wu
There are alternatives to DOI (e.g. http://www.sref.org/ ) but not very widely used. I also expect a lack of standardization to prevent wider adoption of author ID schemes.
- Daniel Mietchen
DOI is used in about 70 percent of journal articles. If we could get 70 percent adoption of an author ID, it would make a huge difference.
- Dave Munger
I like the ResearcherID plan, because they're supporting existing authentication systems like OpenID, so they're more likely to get up and running, sooner
- Mr. Gunn
Unless Thomson has changed their terms-of-service for ResearcherID, the conditions and limitations on use and re-use of the ID are too strong for my taste. I did an analysis last year and posted it at http://dltj.org/article...
- Peter Murray
@Peter, that's a very astute and useful analysis. Thank you!
- Bill Hooker
Things have changed substantially since last year, right? Aren't they now using OpenID and didn't they say that the EULA restrictions were basically boilerplate that they tacked on but didn't intend to have such broad coverage? Am I thinking of one of the other projects instead?
- Mr. Gunn
I haven't heard that things have changed, and the terms-of-service are specific to the ResearcherID service. If they intend the coverage of the use of ResearcherIDs to be less broad, they should change the terms-of-service. (Haven't we had this discussion recently about the relationship between the OCLC record use policy and the attached FAQ?)
- Peter Murray
Sorry, but the 2nd half of the BSG finale was just plain dumb. And too long - reminiscent of the final cringeworthy hour of the LoTR pt3.
Richard Akerman (nonwork) liked this
I guess so, but after the torment of umpteen seasons in space, it was nice to have a little time to settle everyone on their new planet. The ratio of show hours to schmaltzy conclusion was significantly lower than on LOTR
- Dave Munger
@BoraZ What was that? The link gives me a friendfeed error message
Check this tweet of yours on your FF feed.....
- Bora Zivkovic
Still doesn't work. Get this message: Access Denied The resource you requested is private. You may be able to access it if you sign in to a different FriendFeed account, or there may just be an error in our service
- Dave Munger
The title in the link is probably TMI already...
- The Neurocritic
"“31970 I walked in on my son masturbating to Star Wars. http://ad.vu/ag5z”"
- Bora Zivkovic
probably just some part of or person on FF you are not subscribed to or have blocked (or has blocked you).
- Bora Zivkovic
Wow -- quite a bit of effort to get to that punch line. Yegads!
- Dave Munger
Academic Blogging: Promoting your Research on the Web - http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009...
Jean-Claude Bradley, Duncan Hull, ehealthgr and 22 other people liked this
like disclaimer that no journals were hurt in the making of the presentation :)
- Christina Pikas
Yes, I only used blog posts in my prep stage.
- John Dupuis
I should have mentioned in the post, but I found that the Lessig-y style worked very well for me. I don't really frame things visually like some people do, so using sparse slides with only a few words that emphasized what I was saying seemed natural and flowed well.
- John Dupuis
Great presentation!
- Jill O'Neill
Like the clean, uncluttered look of the slides. At first I was daunted by 64 slides. Glad I clicked through all of them because the way you presented the info kept my interest. Well done, John.
- Polly Potter
Thanks, everyone. No audio, unfortunately.
- John Dupuis
Top man, John - most excellent !!
- Graham Steel
Thanks for the shout-out to ResearchBlogging.org. Looks like it was a great presentation
- Dave Munger
Any chance of a transcript, or some notes? (He says, who still hasn't put up notes for his talk last year...) I hate video/audio anyway, give me text or give me dea--er, that is, wind up way down my priority list.
- Bill Hooker
Bill, unfortunately, I tend not to do extensive notes, usually just a bit of point form on the print out I use the day-of. Which I tend not to follow. Which is why I've slowly got out of the habit of using notes, because I ignore them anyways. For various reasons, I ended up with very little time to prep this presentation so what I ended up doing to prepare was to study the blog posts I linked to.
- John Dupuis
John, my idea was to provide notes with each slide -- ideally after the talk, so that any spontaneous goodness that came up can be included. But that's a bunch of extra work, and as I said I haven't done it myself for my own talks!
- Bill Hooker
Bill, on the local radio station here, they say, "The Villanucci show on 770 KKOB...want a transcript? Start typin'!" :)
- Steve Koch
Thinking about allowing posts about articles in Arxiv on http://ResearchBlogging.org What do science-blogging twitizens think?
Pedro Beltrao, Chad Orzel, Graham Steel and Cameron Neylon liked this
Absolutely, Dave.
- Graham Steel
Interesting idea. Nothing comes to mind as a potential reason not to (though some will inevitably yell "it's not peer reviewed!").
- Bora Zivkovic
there are some things on ArXiv that are post-prints... and besides, the acceptance rates for things from ArXiv in physics journals is probably over 70%, I say go for it. But of course, any other repository might be different.
- Christina Pikas
Would say you need to think carefully about what you think ResearchBlogging is for. It started very strongly as being about peer reviewed research. Strictly Arxiv is not obviously enough. If it is about published research then fine, but if the criteria is peer review you should hold that line, but perhaps be flexible in the future about what peer review means exactly.
- Cameron Neylon
Thanks for the comments. These are exactly the concerns I had as I was thinking about this. I think it comes down to the standards of the discipline -- and clearly most of the disciplines in arXiv think it's a valuable, reliable resource.
- Dave Munger
Exactly - when I first saw your question I thought: if this was any other repository in any other discipline I would say No, but arXiv has heft and has earned the trust by the people in the disciplines that contribute there.
- Bora Zivkovic
but why not create a different section for pre-prints that track ArXiv , Nature Precedings and any other relevant one ?
- Pedro Beltrao
i think if you say yes to Arxiv you will struggle to say no to eg nature precedings. I appreciate that it is different but that is not down to a clear principle but a community feeling. Which makes it very hard to base a rule on
- Cameron Neylon
from fftogo
ResearchBlogging has the potential to become something like a syndication service for science news .. by including pre-prints alongside peer-reviewed you would start to blur the boundaries.
- Pedro Beltrao
Pedro, we could do that, but it would involve quite a bit of coding. Adding to the main feed would be simpler. We don't have the resources to make a lot of changes to the basic structure of the site
- Dave Munger
I think only if you clearly flag items as "accepted in Arxiv but non-peer-reviewed preprint". Might be a slippery slope.
- Richard Akerman
If the arXiv papers are getting accepted by journals, then couldn't you cite the journal as usual, with an inline link to the version on arXiv in the blog post? Like Cameron says, it's a matter of how much emphasis you want to place on the peer-reviewed element.
- Alun Salt
Go for it @ ReseachBlogging.org "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail". ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Graham Steel
As I've said before, I think you really need to do this if you want participation from the physics community, particularly the theoretical high energy crowd. For them, posting to the arxiv is more or less equivalent to publication, and that's when the interesting discussion and debate occurs. By the time some of these papers appear in a journal, they're considered old news, and no longer worth talking about.
- Chad Orzel
There are some parts of arxiv that are worth including, and some that aren't, too.
- Mr. Gunn
My $0.02: try to have your cake and eat it. As Chad points out, there's a big community for whom inclusion of arXiv would be useful; as others point out, you risk a slippery slope. So I think Pedro has it right: your best bet is a separate preprint stream, and it might make sense to wait until you have the necessary resources for that.
- Bill Hooker
You definitely need to include preprints. By the time an arXiv article is published it is very old news and therefore has become unbloggable. I have never blogged about a published article, but have blogged arXiv articles several times. I think that a different badge for preprints that could be upgraded once the article is published would be the way to go.
- Matt Leifer
I think for physicists, allowing it is a no-brainer, but non-physicists won't get it at all - it's not the same as posting an article in another field that's been submitted but word hasn't been received yet. Since majority of users are not physicists, then maybe you have to say only articles that are marked as having been accepted to a journal
- Christina Pikas
I've written a post about this here: http://researchblogging.org/news... This is a great discussion, and feel free to continue here -- we'll monitor comments in both places.
- Dave Munger
What's in a name? - http://www.nature.com/embor...
Richard Akerman, Mr. Gunn, Dave Munger and Pierre Lindenbaum liked this
"An international author identification system could allow scientists to receive credit for all their scientific contributions and would solve the problem of identity in a world of limited surnames"
- Thomas Lemberger
from Bookmarklet
My wife experienced this issue when applying for jobs -- her dept. chair had the same name as another scholar in the same field, so when she chatted him up about his research, she was talking about the wrong guy. Fortunately she still got the job.
- Dave Munger
Want to be overwhelmed by a sea of unfathomable cuteness? Do this Google Image Search: http://images.google.com/images...
check out andrew bleiman's other blog Zooborns http://www.zooborns.com/
- Kevin Z
Yes! Cuteness overload #2! I was actually searching for that blog when I attained cuteness overload #1
- Dave Munger
Friday Fun: Dominoes! - http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008...
Euan, Jill O'Neill, Shirley Wu and 2 other people liked this
That was amazing!
- Michael Nielsen
Yes, it certainly was. Direct link here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- John Dupuis
Wow. When I was a kid, the record was something like 22,000 -- all set up by the same guy.
- Dave Munger
I can't imagine -- what if somebody sneezes after 3.5 million are set up?
- John Dupuis
Yikes. I hope they don't allow little children into the setup areas!
- John Dupuis
I love everything about this story and associated thread. Do feel bit bad for the sparrow back in '05.
- Euan
Chasing up a big Pharma company for overdue payment on already longer than usual payment terms :(
Morton Fox liked this
Arrrrgh! They use some fancy SAP system where things go into a big black hole... everyone else uses a simpler system whereby you email your invoice top the relevant party and hey so what, it gets paid on time. I hate SAP!
- Sally Church
I used to work in AP -- if you really want to get paid right away, offer a 1 percent discount.
- Dave Munger
Dave, good idea but I just wish they would stick to their word/contract
- Sally Church
Our expediters were trained to say "we don't pay net 30. We don't care what the invoice says, that's our policy. We pay 30 days after the invoice is entered in our system." So suppose the department receiving the bill slacks off and doesn't get it to AP for a month, then it's two months before the vendor is paid. Actually it's longer than that, because we only cut checks on Fridays, and they probably didn't get in the mail until the following Monday or Tuesday. Discounts greased the wheels significantly.
- Dave Munger
It was also our policy to never pay late fees.
- Dave Munger
I love that companies can make policies to "not pay late fees". Try doing that as an individual =/
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I wouldn't have minded 30 days after they entered the invoice but they insisted on 50 days; over 75 days is seriously taking the piss.
- Sally Church
Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2008...
Melissa, Roney Smith, Sally Church and Mahdi Ebrahimi liked this
""I told her not to bother, that it wouldn't make much of a difference," says her daughter, Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles. "On the basis of what I've read, I don't think it staves off dementia." London's advice makes a lot of sense, according to a study out this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ginkgo is a top-selling herb and has been hailed by some as a memory-booster, but the new University of Pittsburgh study found it didn't help prevent Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia in more than 3,000 elderly study subjects. Ginkgo manufacturers say this isn't the first -- or the last -- word on the herb. "There is a significant body of scientific and clinical evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of ginkgo extract for both cognitive function and improved circulation," said Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
If there's a picture of a brain, it must be true. http://scienceblogs.com/cogniti...
- Dave Munger
Like my new Gmail themes, gone through a dozen of them already - it will probably take a few days until I settle on one and keep it.
ninja stars FTW!
- Shirley Wu
I like them too; page seems to load faster than when using 3rd party themes, part of the idea I guess
- Neil Saunders
I'm not a big fan of themes. The basic look is fine.
- Dave Munger
I want the main part, the messages, to be light blue or white with black/dark letters. I don't really care about the rest, but it is nice if it is pretty.
- Bora Zivkovic
I cycled through several this morning, but settled back on the basic theme. The "Terminal" theme was tempting, but would attract too much attention from shoulder surfers.
- Andrew Perry
the schooldesk one is my favourite at the moment!
- Chris Leonard
Same as Andrew...
- Jan Aerts
I've also settled for the desk for now....
- Bora Zivkovic
@lhl "# of firefox tabs open would be a interesting graph" -the lagging Mozilla Spectator project logs this. commons data access was planned
Did you see the slashdot poll on this? http://slashdot.org/pollBoo...
- Dave Munger
Wow. This is evil. New Macs don't allow you to play your own DVDs on an external display. - http://arstechnica.com/journal...
Silly guy. You think you actually own any electronic content you purchase? They control the hardware and the distribution channel, so they get to tell you how and where it'll be played, and you'll like it. Cue the people talking about how they have such high standards and this is only done to protect the quality of the content.
- Mr. Gunn
Well, you do own the physical media in the case of DVDs. I guess this is the first step in plugging the analog hole, but ideally we wouldn't all resign ourselves to it.
- Dave Munger
I'm not resigned, nor is any PC-using media hound that I know, but somehow all mac people seem totally OK with the restrictions, as if the iphone or ipod was so important that they'd still want it, even locked down. This, really, is what motivates my frequent mac-directed snark. Apple constantly seeks more and more control over the devices and the content thereupon, but everyone just gives him a pass, while something like Nokia taking Symbian open source barely gets a notice, much less praise.
- Mr. Gunn
So thanks for posting this. A couple posts here and there might not make a difference in the face of an 9-figure marketing budget, but every little bit helps.
- Mr. Gunn
Well, I guess that's the way things go these days with the media industry. This has been coming for a long time, and Apple is the first to bring it to a computer near you... and thanks to the DMCA it'll be illegal to circumvent this. But, I guess that soon enough you won't have much of a (legal) choice for PCs either.
- Michael Kuhn
The problem is, it's idiotic. The real pirates will get around it and actual consumers will be inconvenienced and / or forced to pay extra for legitimate rights under copyright law. Maybe at some point we'll actually see consumer backlash. Maybe (super optimistically) this is that point.
- Dave Munger
I agree. The more restrictive DRM gets, the more appealing DRM-free (i.e. ripped) content will get. But I guess most people will let themselves be herded by the DRM industry. :(
- Michael Kuhn
Sony is the only DRM merchant who makes hardware, and you see how successful the backlash against them was. Headway was actually being made, then Apple willingly and enthusiastically threw their marketing and design efforts behind the introduction of DRM, derailing the inroads that had been made against Sony. This shows that Apple is not the friend of the consumer, and they don't have the consumer's best interests in mind. I'm deaf to the tune their pied piper is playing, but many people aren't.
- Mr. Gunn
It's this lack of user choice that keeps me with Linux, on those occasions when I wonder if a mac would be less hassle to run.
- Neil Saunders
Are you Tuned In? - http://www.marketingtechblog.com/tunedin...
Mark Martinez, Mike Fruchter, Chad Orzel and 5 other people liked this
Find out how tuned into your readers you are on your blog - interesting tool.
- Sally Church
from Bookmarklet
Mmmm... not putting mine online... too embarrasing... and then I even started blogging because I wanted to share what I found on the net! right now, I seem to only blog about my research... shame on me :)
- Egon Willighagen
It says I'm egocentric ... BUT I'M PROUD :-)
- Pierre Lindenbaum
Mine says: Narcissist. I'm not surprised :)
- Pawel Szczesny
It's all about me!
- Richard Akerman
i'm rated egocentric. they're right, of course!
- MikeAmundsen
Yeah, isn't mostly 'About Others' not just being boring? Hahahaha
- Egon Willighagen
Me me me ...
- Deepak Singh
Interesting tool. I disagree that you should always be talking about your readers. People read blogs at least partly because they want to get to know the blogger. But yes, if your blog is 100% "me", that is probably a problem. John Scalzi, an incredibly popular blogger, gets a score of just 3 out of 10. http://www.marketingtechblog.com/tunedin...
- Dave Munger
I very rarely blog about myself but it says it's all about me. I wonder what they're using to determine the ratio...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Cooperative (6 out of 10), not too shabby.
- Bora Zivkovic
Tina, I think they used words like I, me, etc versus you, our etc.
- Sally Church
9 out of 10, so I guess I'm tuned in
- William Harryman
I'm egocentric, but it doesn't really matter, no one reads my blog anyways ;-P
- Nils Reinton
What's up with Google Blogsearch?
Dave Johnson and Richard Akerman liked this
Starting yesterday, Google blogsearch for my blog's URL is showing up every darned page that has me on a blogroll every time every blog is updated - reams and reams of "links" which are not useful as they are not really links - people are not linking to me in their blog posts, something I'd like to know when they do which is why I search my URL on Google Blosearch to begin with. Anyone else see the same? What was the change?
- Bora Zivkovic
Yeah, looks like a horrible bug to me. Hopefully, anyway...
- Euan
heh I just wrote about this http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Richard Akerman
I used to like Google Blog Search, but I'm increasingly disenchanted.
- Jill O'Neill
Unfortunately technorati isn't much better. Any other tools for this out there?
- Dave Munger
The Open Laboratory 2008 - in the final stretch! - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
Agh! I need to nominate some posts!
- Dave Munger
Need to find a good free tool (with a Windows version, ideally OSX too) to do some screencasts with... anybody have any suggestions?
Allyson Lister liked this
I've used yuuguu -- not sure that's what you're looking for though.
- Dave Munger
Jing project (http://jingproject.com). There's that new Java based one too (forget the name)
- Deepak Singh
Thanks guys.
- Euan
screentoaster
- Paulo Nuin
not free, Mac OS X-only, but the time you spend working on the screen cast is not free either (plus there are free trials, but I don't know the resitrictions): ScreenFlow http://www.flip4mac.com/screenf... , SnapzProX http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti...
- Michael Kuhn
copy Screenflow, OSX-only but there's nothing that can beat it, use it all the time.
- Alexander Griekspoor
tried Jing and it works great.
- Paulo Nuin
Screenflow definitely rules for the Mac, but crossplatform, ScreenToaster and Jing are your best bets. Camtasia is supposed to get a Mac version at some point as well
- Deepak Singh
Jing worked - quick, free and outputs a compact (though belogoed) SWF.
- Euan
Is it possible to order online or buy at a Mac store a Mac that has an old OS (9 or 10) installed by them (so I don't have to buy it separately and do the installation myself)?
Aha! Working on the thesis I take it? :-)
- Bill Hooker
Shhhhhhh! ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't think it is possible to do that. They seem not to support the old OS anymore.
- Paulo Nuin
Apple doesn't support it. But I could do it for you. :)
- Brian Russell
I'm curious if you could just install an old MacOS version using some kind of Virtualization software.
- Daniel Jurczak
I still have a System 7 disk around, and a Powerbook 1400 that can run it. In PPC machines the "virtualization" is automatic. That's one of the reasons I'm not thrilled to sell my iBook.
- Paulo Nuin
Hmmm, Brian, I sent you an e-mail....
- Bora Zivkovic
On the newer intel based macs you can run a mac emulator on windows ;)
- dK
Got the Mac, need to buy a cheepo mouse and keypad, and I'll be off and running. Thanks all.
- Bora Zivkovic
You might be able to find one on E-bay, but why?
- Sandra
...using a 1992 data-analysis (and graphing) software that newer Macs do not recognize.
- Bora Zivkovic
I just sold a PowerBook G4 along with Mac OS 9. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find something like that on eBay -- edit: oh now I see you've already got it -- good luck!
- Dave Munger
Other ways to read this feed:
