Brizzly is an anti-rickroll shield
Ha! Denied, @cshirky!
Oct 20 / 4:42am
Irony in the Cloud
There is a delicious irony to using a floppy disk as the Save icon in
a cloud application. I'm pretty sure they do not, in fact, save it to
a floppy disk.
Oct 19 / 6:24pm
Oct 19 / 1:06pm
Oct 12 / 6:44am
Social Media Power
I'd like to share a demonstration of the power of social media. Saturday evening I posted an uninformed screed about the topic of the day, the Danger data loss. Normally when I post something the FeedBurner reach is just under 100. Louis Gray shared this particular post, and its reach shot up to 240. Now consider: this was on a Sunday, and the post carried a vague title which did not indicate much about its contents, yet it spread more widely than anything else I've posted.
Louis's shared items feed is in turn republished in various places: on friendfeed in Louis's and in Kol Tregaskes's streams and in the lgshareditems twitter stream, among others. In this instance I don't think those secondary republishings had an effect, as the Analytics data doesn't show clicks from other sources. Nonetheless in other cases as links ripple through the social media ecosystem, the cumulative effect in drawing more attention could be substantial. Twitter in particular has a snowballing effect if an item is widely retweeted.
Oct 10 / 7:22am
Been a While
Its been quite a while since I've seen something like this. How... quaint.
Oct 9 / 6:31am
English Is Not Their Forte
1. :s/exists/exist/
2. The email address most certainly does exist. You might not have any
information about it in your database, but my Inbox scoffs at your
ignorance.
Oct 5 / 2:27pm
Tweeting my bit.ly links
Caught you looking! If you tweet the bit.ly link I sent to you, then I know you read it. Bwahahaha!
Oct 3 / 7:47am
Curmudgeon-y software engineer.
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Twitter: DGentry
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