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Comment on About by Paul Machlin

Paul Machlin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:49:30 +0000

Kerri — so delighted to hear from you via the blog of the forthcoming tour to Argentina; and to be reminded of the first — indelible! — experience of touring california (the van from you know where, the oil on the Santa Barbara beach, etc etc — all memories still fresh, believe it or not.)
In any case, thanks so much for posting; the chorale has several CDs out now, and if you’d like one, please let me know where to send it.

excuse the haste — we leave tomorrow AM early –

best,
Paul

Comment on Another awesome service by Kerri

Kerri — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:17:02 +0000

Note that Sandy will be closed down as of 18 Dec 2008. So sad to see her go.

Comment on About by Dann

Dann — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:02:47 +0000

One of the most straightforward and honest reading “about” profiles ever! Blog more – I’d like to read your stuff.

Comment on Cable HDTV, HDMI, and closed captions by George

George — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:06:19 +0000

good advice – and it works with comcast’s box in alexandria, virginia. it did take me a while to figure it out, though…..

Comment on Cable HDTV, HDMI, and closed captions by Annie

Annie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:06 +0000

Thanks for this. My cable company, Comcast, said the captions should just be there (of course they were not) and weren’t able to help me. I nearly returned the HD box and got a “normal” cable box instead, because I have a deaf roommate. Glad I googled before doing that! I was able to use your suggestion and successfully turn on closed captioning through the cable box. So FYI to people: it works for Comcast HD service, at least in the Baltimore area.

Comment on Are they completely insane? by Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:40:10 +0000

A little late to the party, but I’ll leave some graffiti on the wall for the next visitor

@Tim: “no one has successfully monetized online heath records to date” – sorry, but that’s a poor argument. Replace “health care” with email, photo-sharing, document creation or any other online business that now exists. Someone will find a way. Google’s partnership with the Cleveland Clinic (revenues of over $4 billion/year) might be that method. I’m sure that Google can find a way to monetize your health records without the individual paying for them – and, hopefully, without being served ads based off your diseases – most likely by charging institutions to store their records or retrieve them. Anything that can be rendered into bits can now be monetized at some point.

@Corey – inevitability does not mean something is a good idea. Personal health data available over the internet, which can never be fully> secured, is a bad idea. I can say this with certainty without needing to be a Luddite or technophobe. Yes, at some point health records will likely be available over the internet and there will be problems – more personal data stolen, bits lost in transmission that render you as HIV-positive instead of negative, and the like. And when the data is all in one place it can be collated and sold-on, maybe even illegitimately! I can imagine some scammer already thinking up ways to monetize THAT information: a search engine for employers to check in on potential employees, a la Gattaca, or for neighbors to search for each other’s problems. All it takes is one mistake and the data is free, never to be secured again. “You can’t unpublish data…”

and @Naomi – right on. US citizens especially don’t need to take anymore “ownership” of their records than they already do. Look how poorly we manage our SSNs and mother’s maiden names already. Plus, there would be lawsuits to remove information, or change it, and even more instances of “ask your doctor if ____ is right for you.” Ugh, I can already imagine the TV ads encouraging people to look for symptoms in their own medical history…

Comment on User interface is king by kerrihicks

kerrihicks — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:55:13 +0000

That, and of course, more is always better, right?

Comment on User interface is king by Brian Fuller

Brian Fuller — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:44:21 +0000

He dah man! The problem with the tools we use and need today is they were designed by engineers with an engineering mindset. They rarely consider (as writers must — write for the dairy man in denver) that mom is going to use the damn thing.
Apple figured it out, and their pompousness continues unabated to this day, but perhaps rightly so.
The electronics underlying their product is commodity and they’re getting huge laptop premiums for simple UI. Whuda thunk it?
Google’s got game in this respect as well. i use their analytics tool and i appreciate when people have thought about what i want before i did.

Comment on Recognition by John Peterson

John Peterson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:49:10 +0000

Recognition is important, and you are correct that we usually hear the bad and not the good. Here is a random “good” comment. Your work and analysis in this blog are compelling.

Comment on Another awesome service by kerri

kerri — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:57:02 +0000

You’re right, Carole. One of the advantages of JungleDisk, though, is that it builds in a couple of levels of encryption, while also allowing you to access your files over the web. It’s all good stuff!

Comment on Am I a Journalist? by Matt Schmidt

Matt Schmidt — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:36:37 +0000

You asked about bloggers that fit the definition of journalist. Check out the work of one Dave Burstein, who takes his mission of reporting on telecom/ datacom very seriously, and does all of the due diligence possible for a one-man operation. His site is not a blog, http://www.dslprime.com/, but that’s just semantics. You could even argue that he is beholden to the companies he writes about, as he takes text ads, but I have never seen this color his coverage.

Comment on Another awesome service by Carole

Carole — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:40:02 +0000

Figuring out s3 access on your own is a no-brainer, BTW. There’s a Firefox plugin that makes it as easy as really easy pie, and s3 is a also a built-in protocol in many ftp apps, like Interarchy.

Comment on Web services that work by Heidi Fuller

Heidi Fuller — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:57:49 +0000

I keep going back to the old washer and dryer philosophy of technology. I’m one of those users who wants to buy it, plug it in, dial it up, and bingo. The market for geek consultants to get us “up and running” is throbbing with opportunity. Go for it.

Comment on World Usability Day New England 2007 by Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:19:23 +0000

Malcolm’s high school offers Kurzweil, Dragon, and Inspiration to all students. Every student is trained to use these tools so that no student considers them only for use with learning difficulties.

Comment on Jogging at gunpoint… by hollywoodheidi

hollywoodheidi — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:50:38 +0000

Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool.

Now, I gotta run off and read some posts.

Comment on Am I a Journalist? by yunk

yunk — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:40:11 +0000

I think with more blogs coming out, the expertise requirements are actually increasing. Sure, any yahoo can start a blog, but since there are actually blogs by very knowledgeable people, the more base and silly many editorial pages look. I read the NYT and Chicago Tribune editorials and they are as hateful, vile and ranting as some of the worst websites. And some blogs by people in the various industries that deconstruct their articles are tame and knowledgeable by comparison.

Certainly blogs won’t replace journalists, but maybe they will replace the editorial page.

Comment on The Cool Table by Brian

Brian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:09:07 +0000

They’re all horn dogs?