Names in Comments and Membership
Did you know that Manila must link your e-mail address and URL with your name somehow in Comments and Membership? (Okay, the way I’ve written that, it’s like: “Well, duh!” so bear with me for a sec.) I tried to comment on another blog tonight using a word someone used to refer to me. All of the other comments I put on that person’s blog–even comments way back when–changed to that nickname. I only wanted that one comment to have the nickname. Kinda weird. So now I’m wondering how it’s all linked. E-mail address? URL? Maybe I’ll try commenting again…
I also learned that if you are a member of someone’s blog, you can edit your comments through the discussion group section. Nifty! Membership has its privileges! Sign up now! Unfortunately, you can’t delete your own comments.
Notes on membership: If you’ve already commented somewhere on my blog, but haven’t officially joined, your e-mail address is on record as someone who is a member. Type your e-mail address into the blank on the sign in screen, then hit the submit button and my blog will send a password to your e-mail account.
I have no idea what the 25 free seats are for on the sign up form. I’m not giving away 25 free seats to anything. I think they’re an option left over from BloggerCon that’s still on the form and has nothing to do with my blog. If you’re waiting for me to hold the lottery, sorry. The only lottery I’ll run is one to see who gets stoned–as in rocks thrown at him or her. (Wait, no, really, it’s a joke. Join my blog, please! There’s no lottery. Honest.)
November 18th, 2003 at 8:09 pm
Firstly, I’m not yet worrying about the problem of deciding what to distribute, which parts to emphasize, what to shout out and what to whisper to interested souls. ( For starters, we could use the main stories from the Crimson and the Gazette, but anything reasonable would suffice. )
Secondly, the idea was to offer gifts to each of the independently-run parts of the university, which gifts would efficiently distribute news. In this day and age, fashion suggests that they would be digital, electronically updated displays. They need not occupy new space on campus, but in many cases could instead enhance current bulletin board centers, replacing the space already allocated (and generally abysmally underused) for official news and announcements.
November 18th, 2003 at 8:14 pm
Even this obscures the point — the idea is to spend at least a tenth as much on the target location (an excellent, long-lived distribution center; beautiful, visible, memorable presentation; an interface supporting high information density) as is spent on generating and sorting and publishing information. Similarly, at least a tenth that sum should be spent on gathering new information in the first place. When you stop talking about orders of magnitude and start to talk about whether a list of links or an RSS feed is more useful, it is much harder to make true statements.