![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/09/tylenol.gif\")
The first time I saw a tech company blow it in the Internet age was in 1994 when Intel was trying to quell public outrage about a problem with math functions on their Pentium chip. According to Wikipedia, an estimated 1 in 9 billion floating point divides would produce inaccurate results. The problem could be demonstrated in Excel. Intel said the flaw was so small that it didn't warrant any concern by users. They were probably right. But that didn't stop the outrage from escalating. Every time Intel spoke, the problem got worse. Eventually they had to offer replacement chips to any user who wanted one. It might have cost much less if they had admitted the problem at the start.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:00:47 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25518"
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"1": {
"text": "It doesn't happen often that the press sides with users, but when it does, the tech industry usually reacts poorly. The reason is simple. They're accustomed to Gee Whiz treatment from the press. That the people who run the companies are themselves miracles. Because the products they make are so impressive to the people in the press.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:06:52 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25519"
},
"2": {
"text": "But that's going to fade over time, as tech products become more ordinary. Kids who were brought up with the products don't think they're so amazing, and they'll become reporters or bloggers, and the tech industry will have to deal with crisis not by stonewalling, but with empathy, and understanding of how the public thinks.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:08:02 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25521"
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"3": {
"text": "An exec at Google or Facebook might be puzzled by the reaction to the NSA news. Didn't they already know that we have to provide the government with information when they have a legal basis for requiring it? Maybe people did know. But that doesn't matter. Right now they're not happy about it. And the blame is falling on the tech companies. Usually reporters just rewrite press releases. But every once in a while they express their independence. This is one of those times.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:09:10 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25522"
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"4": {
"text": "The classic example of a company responding well to a crisis that's no fault of theirs was Johnson & Johnson with the Tylenol murders. If they had spun it the way Intel spun the FDIV problem, or the way Google and Facebook are spinning the NSA crisis, they would have said something like this: \"It's a local problem in Chicago. Only a few of our customers have been effected. We are taking steps to make sure that there's a low probability of any other customers being similarly inconvenienced.\"",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:10:48 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25523"
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"5": {
"text": "What a customer would think: \"These guys are clueless. I'd better go with Bayer or Excedrin. I don't want to die just because I had a headache.\"",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:13:08 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25524"
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"6": {
"text": "Instead, what Tylenol did, and it's something the tech companies would be well-advised to study, is to approach the problem the way their customers would. They immediately withdrew every bottle of Tylenol on dealer's shelves, everywhere. The first goal was to protect the people, then save the product. Which they did, after taking the hit, and on the way to becoming the leader in product safety. The product came back stronger than it was before.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:13:35 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25525"
},
"7": {
"text": "Applied to this situation, it would have been smart for the companies to have prepared, by taking steps to blunt the negative effect on their users because of the government intrusion. Sure they had to comply, but did they have to leave the customers so vulnerable? Of course not. They couldn't warn us, that would have been illegal (unfortunately) but they could have made sure that more of the data resided in places that wouldn't be so convenient for the government to monitor. That's the equivalent of Johnson & Johnson putting tamper-proof packaging on Tylenol.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:18:00 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25527"
}
}
},
"22": {
"text": "Two excellent mob films starring Robert De Niro",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:24:09 GMT",
"name": "twoExcellentMobFilmsStarringDeNiro",
"pgfnum": "25509",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "I love it when people turn me on to excellent fun movies I haven't seen before. In that spirit here are two that are sure to delight if you like the same kinds of movies I do. They both star Robert De Niro. And both are very long, but hold your attention.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:24:20 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25510"
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"1": {
"text": "1. Once Upon a Time in America is a spaghetti mob movie written and directed by Sergio Leone. It takes place in a Jewish ghetto in lower Manhattan, in a period spanning 50 years or so starting at the beginning of the 20th century. It's a weird movie for sure, and it goes slowly, almost like poetry. But the acting is first rate, and the story is compelling. It's actually two stories interwoven.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:24:56 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25511"
},
"2": {
"text": "2. Casino is like Goodfellas 2, with different characters, but many of the same actors. Directed by Martin Scorcese, the plot comes from a book by the same author who wrote Goodfellas. Stars De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone. Set in Las Vegas. Same narration style as Goodfellas, though there are two protagonists.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:27:03 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25512"
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"3": {
"text": "Also James Woods is in both movies, playing a leading role in #1 and a minor one in #2.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:29:20 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25513"
},
"4": {
"text": "Also interesting, De Niro plays a Jew in both movies.",
"created": "Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:34:46 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25515"
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}
},
"23": {
"text": "Google, Twitter and Facebook, et al have a way out",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:23:45 GMT",
"name": "googleAndFacebookEtAllDidHaveAWayOut",
"pgfnum": "25445",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "It's great that there's a discussion online today about whether or not the tech companies had a way to resist the US govt, if they believed that it was wrong to share information about their users without users knowing.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:23:56 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25446"
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"1": {
"text": "There is a way around it. They could reverse the process of centralizing user information on their servers.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:24:45 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25447"
},
"2": {
"text": "When they found the web, Google, Twitter and Facebook, it was a completely decentralized network from a content standpoint.",
"collapse": "true",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:25:18 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25448",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "(It's never been decentralized at a transport level. There are several main peering points, and the name system is a hierarchy.)",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:32:22 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25457"
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}
},
"3": {
"text": "Google and Facebook could have, together, easily defined new standards for distributing information in ways that would make it harder for the government to tap in. At least they could have avoided being responsible for it themselves.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:26:24 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25449"
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"4": {
"text": "Or they could have been supportive of standards that decentralize, like one that's dear to me -- RSS. Instead they undermined it. In Google's case, in a fairly horrific way. Did they ever say they'd never come back to RSS if we manage to reboot it after cleaning up their mess? A mess that they offered absolutely no help with.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:27:34 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25450"
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"5": {
"text": "Twitter had the biggest opportunity to create a free-flowing federated network of free users. They could have given us a new layer the way the web did in 1992. Instead, they sucked in all the energy created by developers and did the same thing the others did -- centralized. Goodbye freedom. Hello NSA.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:29:04 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25452"
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"6": {
"text": "They brought this on, they're the cause of the mess we're in now.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:30:04 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25453"
},
"7": {
"text": "I have no sympathy for them. They could still get out of the hotseat. There would be nothing illegal about them telling the world that they made a huge mistake by centralizing everything, and now they're going to reverse the process. They don't have to say what the consequences of that mistake are, we all know, thanks to Glenn Greenwald.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:30:24 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25454"
},
"8": {
"text": "What could the government do? They'd be alone.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:31:10 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25455"
},
"9": {
"text": "Of course, no one in their right mind believes they would do it.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:31:19 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25456"
},
"10": {
"text": "Because having the govt as a partner, as Citibank and Chase found out, is a great business plan. Too big to fail now clearly applies in tech too.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:36:32 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25458"
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}
},
"24": {
"text": "A Google Now story",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:32:01 GMT",
"name": "aGoogleNowStory",
"pgfnum": "25440",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "An example of how good/creepy Google Now is.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:32:16 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25442"
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"1": {
"text": "My friend Jen was coming to visit from SLC. Google Now told me her plane was 24 minutes from arriving at the gate at JFK. I had never told them she was visiting me or what flight she was on (I didn't know). But they did. Probably because she uses Gmail or their calendar, and somehow connected me to that trip (or did they just guess!) and thought I might be impressed if they told me about her flight. I was!",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:37:00 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25444"
},
"2": {
"text": "And I felt a little nausea, as I realized they have me by the balls and don't mind if I know it.",
"created": "Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:35:47 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25443"
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}
},
"25": {
"text": "Morning coffee notes",
"created": "Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:23:23 GMT",
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"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/06/michaelJordan.gif\")
I turned 58 last month, and that means we're getting within striking distance of 60. Actually I'm getting within striking distance of 60. It's a bit of a shock, actually. Inside I feel 19. Or maybe 30. But 58? 60. OMG. Ohhh.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:08:28 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25254"
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"1": {
"text": "But Monday night just before Game 7 of the Eastern Division Championship, I solved a problem that I had been thinking about for at least 20 years. It had to do with templating in content management systems. It came to me as we re-approached a problem I had approached several times before in earlier products. This time, I saw the way around the conundrum that had evaded me before. I don't think this is because I'm smarter than I was when I was 38 or 48, rather it's because I have the 20 years of experience that I didn't have then.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:09:27 GMT",
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"2": {
"text": "The next little bit is a story that is not about the people involved, Fred Wilson, John Doerr and Michael Jordan, it's illustrative. I have the greatest respect and admiration for all three of them, not just for their accomplishments in the past, but for what they are doing today. All three are very much alive. And all three are still taking chances, learning, and doing new things.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:11:18 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25256"
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"3": {
"text": "On Twitter, I saw Wilson refer to Doerr as The Michael Jordan of VC. Something bothered me about this. So I pondered it and realized the problem. How I got there was by changing some of the names, a couple of times and thinking in analogies.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:12:23 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25257"
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"4": {
"text": "1. I imagined Matt Mullenweg saying I was The Michael Jordan of Software. This wasn't hard, because Matt said something similar a few weeks ago. No doubt said with genuine admiration, it exposed something inside that's imho incorrect. He said that it's amazing that I keep writing software, many years after I no longer had to. I imagine when Matt looks at me, he hopes that he will have the drive to create when he's my age (he's about 30 years younger than me). But I'd rather if Matt ignored my age and my financial circumstances, and looked at the actual software I'm writing -- today -- not in the past. I would prefer if he said: I think Dave's new software is interesting, but I don't understand it. Or I think Dave's software is revolutionary and it will have impact on all software being developed today. Or something that reflected my status as an active player, maybe even an active superstar. But I think conventional thinking shuts off that train of thought.",
"collapse": "true",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:13:21 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25258",
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"0": {
"text": "And btw, if you look to basketball as an example, the young guys always study the work of people who came before them. The young Knick Iman Schumpert is a great example and inspiration. In an interview I saw him explain in great detail the players who he was borrowing style from. In tech, we tend to throw all that away. We won't always do it, as the art matures we'll understand that we're borrowing from the past, and then become receptive to learning from prior art. But first we have to cure ourselves of the idea that people are obsolete so early. Even basketball, where the bodies can't compete after 40, manages to use the skill and experience of the veterans, as coaches, advisers, trainers.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:44:53 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25264"
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"1": {
"text": "Also, I know that what Matt said was a compliment. But it also had meaning. It's possible for something to be both a compliment and worth examining.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25266"
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},
"5": {
"text": "2. I had an experience on Twitter with Joshua Benton, someone who I admire and think highly of, who I know hasn't used my new software. This came up in a discussion. I more or less asked him to check out my software before declaring blogging dead. It may not have sounded like that to him and it may have been said more awkwardly (140 char limit). His response was like Matt's. I was using your software in 1990 he said. Nice. So I'm The Michael Jordan of Software. But I'm not because I'm still pushing it. Inventing new ways to approach the rim. New ways to stun and amaze. But you'll never see it if you don't look.",
"collapse": "true",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:16:27 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25259",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "My dream is that Benton would do 1/4 the analysis he did of Evan Williams' new software. I think I've earned a good look, and some thought.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:48:42 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25265"
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}
},
"6": {
"text": "3. And that led me to the final analogy that nailed it. What if LeBron James said that Tim Duncan is The Michael Jordan of Basketball. Wishful thinking! The two men are about to face off in a classic series of the ages in the NBA finals. Game 1 is tonight. It's the old sin of sport and business. Don't celebrate until you win. That's a good way to inspire the competition and undermine your fighting spirit. We saw that happen with the Knicks this season, when JR Smith, thinking the Knicks had won, celebrated by elbowing an opponent. In the face! He was suspended for a game (that the Knicks lost), and more importantly threw his energy out the window. The Knicks were embarassed by the Indiana Pacers in a short series that they never really were in. And Smith was in a funk the rest of the short Knicks run. Every Knicks fan knows this story. ;-(",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:18:46 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25260"
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"7": {
"text": "I learn a lot from sports, I really do. I think it's an incredible teacher of human spirit, in a very compact form. Things that may take years or even decades to play out in tech, often happen in just a few minutes in an NBA playoff game.",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:22:45 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25261"
},
"8": {
"text": "If I were Matt, I would watch that attitude. Because Old Dave might still have a trick or two. Software is not like basketball in that way. I have no stake in the competition between Doerr and Wilson (I assume they still see each other as competitiors). I will root for Doerr now, because I always like an underdog, the same way I rooted for Wilson when he was coming up. And tonight I will definitely be rooting for the Spurs and Tim Duncan, even though LeBron was smart enough not to make any grandiose claims about the obsolescence of his rival. ;-)",
"created": "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:23:42 GMT",
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}
},
"28": {
"text": "Let's not repeat the Google Reader mistake",
"created": "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:14 GMT",
"name": "letsNotRepeatTheGoogleReaderMistake",
"pgfnum": "25194",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/05/drum.gif\")
We're getting ready to do the blogging part of our software at Small Picture. We've done a review of the evolution of my own blog, Scripting News, over the years. It was good to go over it, because it became clear that as Google Reader came to dominate in feed reading, it forced my blog, and presumably many others, to conform to its limits. Features were removed from my blog because they confused Google Reader. And when we tried to reach out to them, the answer was that they didn't have enough people on their team to listen. When that I happened I knew we were in a bad place.",
"created": "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:03:43 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25195"
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"1": {
"text": "But now we're seeing a rebirth of blogging software, other people have noted it, not just me. And along with it, later in the process, perhaps we can have a rebirth of feed aggregators. But we can't do it if a single company dominates the reader market. Yet some reports indicate that's where we're going.",
"created": "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:04:55 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25196"
},
"2": {
"text": "I have a plan, if that should happen, if on July 1 we substitute one dominant feed reader for another. My products will produce full-fidelity RSS, that gives us and our users the chance to be fully creative, as we were in the early days of blogging and feed-reading. We won't try to live within the limits of a dominant feed reader. If they can't read our feeds, sorry.",
"created": "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:07:55 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25197"
},
"3": {
"text": "Users say \"oh we're just users we can do what we want.\" That's nice, but not true. It's like saying I'm a car driver, I don't care about climate change, so I can burn as much fuel as I want. Yeah, I suppose it's true. There is no law that limits the amount of carbon you burn. But someday you or your kids will not be able to breathe. Same with RSS and blogging. If you want to keep using this stuff, you can't just repeat the same mistake. The new dominant player may be very nice, the people may have good hearts, and mean well, but they might be holding back innovation -- or worse, as Google was, taking out innovation and forcing a kind of dull no-growth uniformity.",
"created": "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:09:21 GMT",
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}
},
"29": {
"text": "Writers, designers and programmers",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:26:18 GMT",
"name": "writersDesignersAndProgrammers",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/04/drummer.gif\")
Writers can write in spaces we control, or we can write in spaces others control. We can spread our writing around, so one story appears in many places, or we can put each story in one place and distribute pointers to it.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:02:08 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25166"
},
"1": {
"text": "There are tradeoffs. If I write a piece and post it on Huffington or Medium, the theory is that it gets more circulation, our ideas get more exposure, or we get some kind of reputation benefit. Medium is a place where good writers write. Therefore if my story appears there, that leaves an impression that I'm a good writer. Huffington makes it look like I'm a journalist. Same with Forbes these days. But the reps quickly catch up with facts. Pretty much anyone can have an account on any of these systems. And as soon as you see a crude rant show up on one of them, you understand that the name isn't about quality anymore. The value in the name dissipates quickly.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:02:59 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25169"
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"2": {
"text": "I've written for several of these pubs, and I don't think my stories get any more play there than they do here, on my blog.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:05:00 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25176"
},
"3": {
"text": "Huffington plays games with flow. If you ever get a hit story, they use it to deliver flow to stories written by their own people on that topic. Now that hardly seems fair, given that they don't reciprocate by delivering flow to your less popular stories. When this happened, when I had a hit on Huffington, that was the last time I posted anything there.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:05:21 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25177"
},
"4": {
"text": "When you think about it, if these guys are smart, it has to be that way. They're not going to let big flow come into their servers without monetizing it. So if you don't get much flow from them for your so-so articles and if they siphon off flow from your hits, why should put your work there? It's not a good deal.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:06:23 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25181"
},
"5": {
"text": "Medium has a slightly different proposition. I have put a few stories there over the last few months, some of my best pieces (they got me to think about them that way -- good for them), but they didn't get any more flow than they did here. They have an excellent stats system so you can see. Their hook is that their tools are nice and HTML5-pretty. They feel good to write with. That's nice. But could you get the same thing outside of Medium? Of course. This is not hard to do. But, key point, we have to work together, to iterate there.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:07:33 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25182"
},
"6": {
"text": "If good writers work with good designers and programmers we can keep building so that independence continues to be the basic value of the web. Otherwise we're returning the independence we got from the web to another generation of AOLs.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:09:59 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25183"
},
"7": {
"text": "That's the writer's story. Programmers have a similar one. The web is where we don't have our work controlled by Apple or Google, where we can create exactly what we want for our users. The stuff we believe they'll love. For example one of the most popular features in my new product Fargo would be disallowed if we tried to push it through Apple's store. That's why it's written in JavaScript and runs in a browser.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:20:16 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25189"
},
"8": {
"text": "I think that if you're a writer, you're hurting your own interest by not working with independent designers and programmers, long-term. And the leaders, the people who advise other writers on what they should be doing, I think they're hurting us even more by leading the parade into the new AOLs. Same with teachers of writers.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:10:34 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25184"
},
"9": {
"text": "This isn't about any one writer, designer or programmer, it's about all of us. Remember how far the open web has taken us. Let's not abandon it now. It can keep delivering, but only if we work together and feed our creativity and passion into it.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:11:49 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25185"
},
"10": {
"text": "Writers, designers and programmers. FTW! :-)",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:12:25 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25187"
}
}
},
"30": {
"text": "Servermatrix becomes IBM",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:25:09 GMT",
"name": "servermatrix",
"pgfnum": "25144",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/04/grandpa.gif\")
About ten years go, seriously, I signed up at Servermatrix and created three or four servers. The first podcasting servers were there. Podmonster1 and 2 I think were their names. A lot of the old UserLand sites are still running there.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:25:12 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25145"
},
"1": {
"text": "Servermatrix was something of a breakthrough in its day. Previously, to get hosting, I had to buy a box and colocate it at some place with good net connectivity, electricity, air conditioning, etc. What they did was make renting a server almost as easy as buying something on Amazon.",
"created": "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:33:16 GMT",
"pgfnum": "25155"
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"2": {
"text": "I still have one server running there, with all the stuff I'm too ![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/02/clyde.gif\")
The NBA added rules at the beginning of the 2012-2013 season that were intended to cut down on flopping.",
"collapse": "true",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:31:55 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24959",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "Flopping is when a player acts, convincingly, as if he's been fouled.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:35:43 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24964"
},
"1": {
"text": "It's a form of acting.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:36:12 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24965"
},
"2": {
"text": "When viewed on replay sometimes there's absolutely no contact, but it looks like there was.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:36:16 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24966"
},
"3": {
"text": "The flopping player goes down, clutching his head, rolling over repeatedly, to call attention to the \"offense\" by the refs.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:36:37 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24967"
}
}
},
"1": {
"text": "Not sure how well it worked during the regular season, but it's not working in the playoffs. The stakes are so high, the players are willing to pay the fines if it means they can get a call to go their way. These games are often so close that a single possession can determine the outcome.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:32:21 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24960"
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"2": {
"text": "It's probably even become part of the strategy of the game, and it's easy to imagine the coaches and the players, talking about it privately of course, maybe even in coded language.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:33:09 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24961"
},
"3": {
"text": "But if the coaches were penalized along with the players, it would likely curtail the flopping, maybe even stop it, esp if suspensions were added to the penalty, earlier in the process.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:33:56 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24962"
},
"4": {
"text": "It would change the dynamics if the coach could get suspended. It would mean that if the coach thought the player was doing it, he wouldn't put him in the game. It would get the coach on the side of the league and the fans, in stopping the practice.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:34:45 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24963"
},
"5": {
"text": "And the financial penalties would matter more to the coach, because they pay them for every player, and coaches don't make as much as the players do.",
"created": "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:39:09 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24969"
}
}
},
"33": {
"text": "Second CitiBike ride",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:20:14 GMT",
"name": "secondCitibikeRide",
"pgfnum": "24948",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "I took my second ride today, this time checking in at the station at 54th and 8th Ave.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:20:20 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24949"
},
"1": {
"text": "I knew how to do it this time, so I was out of there in no time.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:20:44 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24950"
},
"2": {
"text": "I forgot to adjust the seat. Stopped a few blocks into the ride and did so.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:20:54 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24951"
},
"3": {
"text": "However, the seat didn't stay up. I had to stop every few blocks to yank it back up.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:21:07 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24952"
},
"4": {
"text": "Eventually I got tired of this and just left it low. I felt like an adult riding a kid's bike.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:21:23 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24953"
},
"5": {
"text": "I guess that's the big question, how well will the system hold up against NYC wear and tear. Everything is still bright and shiny, but eventually it's going to be like everything else in NYC, functional but not too clean. ;-)",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:21:38 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24954"
},
"6": {
"text": "We love NY, yes we do. But...",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:22:21 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24955"
},
"7": {
"text": "The second ride was not as much fun as the first.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:22:29 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24956"
}
}
},
"34": {
"text": "Workflowy supports OPML!",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:02:11 GMT",
"name": "workflowySupportsOpml",
"pgfnum": "24918",
"type": "thread",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "I just got a note from Ulf Gjerdingen saying that Workflowy now supports OPML.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:02:37 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24921"
},
"1": {
"text": "I had to check it out.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:02:51 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24922"
},
"2": {
"text": "So I went to my outline in Workflowy. Chose Export. And sure enough, there's a new radio button where you can choose OPML.",
"collapse": "true",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:02:55 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24923"
},
"3": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/01/workflowyOpml.gif\")
"
},
"4": {
"text": "Of course I wanted to see if Fargo could read it. So here's what I did.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:26 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24925",
"subs": {
"0": {
"text": "1. Opened TextEdit.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:45 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24926"
},
"1": {
"text": "2. Chose File/New.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:50 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24927"
},
"2": {
"text": "3. Paste.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:54 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24928"
},
"3": {
"text": "4. Format as Text.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:57 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24929"
},
"4": {
"text": "5. Save into my Dropbox/Apps/Fargo folder.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:03 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24930"
},
"5": {
"text": "6. Switch into Fargo.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:18 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24931"
},
"6": {
"text": "7. Open the file.",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:30 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24932"
},
"7": {
"text": "8. It worked!",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:37 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24933"
}
}
},
"5": {
"text": "![\"A](\"http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/06/01/fargoImport.gif\")
"
},
"6": {
"text": "A happy day is when there's more interop. :-)",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:46 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24935"
},
"7": {
"text": "Thanks Workflowy! :-)",
"created": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:05:01 GMT",
"pgfnum": "24936"
}
}
}
}
}; //7/9/15 by DW
Last update: Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:42 PM.
June
- Feedly supports OPML, but not really
- Blogger vs Journalist
- Write a blog post with Fargo
- I fucked up
- Weddings in the news
- The system I've been dreaming of
- The basics of reality distortion
- What would news do?
- Say no to synching and RSS
- As July 1 approaches
- RSS Viewer app
- Fargo feed demo
- Quick idea for RSS apps
- Fargo 0.80
- NYT introspects on Snowden
- A huge Father's Day tweet
- The quiet war in tech
- There's more than one tech
- For people who follow me on Twitter
- Something amiss in IOS-Land?
- I had to get a NYT Digital Subscription to figure out what's wrong
- Why tech responds poorly to crises, and how to do better
- Two excellent mob films starring Robert De Niro
- Google, Twitter and Facebook, et al have a way out
- A Google Now story
- Morning coffee notes
- The human wave
- The Michael Jordan of X
- Let's not repeat the Google Reader mistake
- Writers, designers and programmers
- Servermatrix becomes IBM
- NYT redesign
- How to cut down on flopping
- Second CitiBike ride
- Workflowy supports OPML!