Archive for June 2008
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything – William Connor Magee
More often than not I decide to not post something here because I worry about looking stupid. Fact is, I am stupid (and I write shitty code with bugs :D ) but I’ve found that blogging helps me think things out.
Which is why I’ve started a blog with my Sister and older brother over at BarbozaBloggers.com. Don’t worry I’m not leaving Pistalwhipped! behind I’m just thinking through different topics and decided that another blog would be a better venue.
Blogging over at BB will also allow me to eliminate a lot of the bloggers block that I encounter with this blog.
What I’m hoping is to have one site stimulate discussion for the other allowing both to grow by feeding off of each others content.
We’ll see how it turns out eh? Oh, also: I get to hang out with my family which is a huge bonus.
EDIT: i realized the other day that I forgot to include the link to Jeff Atwoods post. I’ve updated the post to include it as it took on a whole different tone without it. :D
Some cool facts about June 25th.
- Mozambique celebrates their Independence Day
- George A. Custer made his last stand at the battle of little bighorn in 1876
- William “The Father of the U.S. Airborne” Lee died
- George Orwell is born in 1903
- Kim Campbell becomes the first female prime minister of Canada
- in 1940 France officially surrenders to Nazi Germany
- “The Diary of Anne Frank” is published
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy in 1678
- The Korean War begins in 1950
- Anthony Bourdain is born in 1956
- “Our World” is broadcast by satellite to 400 million viewers world-wide in 1967
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Plurk is the latest micro-blogger site following in the footsteps of Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. I heard a lot of talk about it on twitter and thought I would check it out.
Yes, I signed up for a plurk account the other day and gave it quick run through. I didn’t like it.
Right of the bat the UI is really, really unattractive to me. I really hate side scrolling and Plurk makes you do an awful lot of it. How does their timeline UI work when you have Scobl-ish Leo Laporte-ish numbers of followers?
Finding and adding a friend on Plurk is not easy. Where the hell is the search? Currently you can only find new friends by importing them from another social networking site or by emailing them an invite. Fail.
The emoticons are not good, they look cheap and childish. I always disable them in any software that uses them but in Plurk I can’t get away from them.
The ability to share youtube videos and flickr pictures is great although I don’t like being limited to only youtube for video. This is much better than uploading a file (as in Pownce) since it allows me to use data from one service within another. And I like that.
I have some smaller gripes but these are basically gripes that I have will all web 2.0 sites:
- No Open ID Support.
- No G/Wavatar support
- Limited or no data portability
Will I switch? No. Although Plurk has attractive features like sharing videos and pictures from other services and a mobile interface I still can’t get over the timeline UI or the lack of search. I expect that Plurk will be revisiting their UI relatively soon and hopefully their name along with it.
