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Re: louisgray.com: The Future of Web Q&A Panels Should be Cake

Sunny Kumar — Thu, 16 May 2019 00:23:16 -0000

Hi Louis. Thank you for sharing about cake.co

Just visited the website and loved the stories shared here.

Re: louisgray.com: The Future of Web Q&A Panels Should be Cake

Aditi Buch — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:54:26 -0000

Hi Louis. Thank you for sharing about cake.co

Just visited the website and loved the stories shared here.

I also read about your dad buying the gun for protection. I hope he give's up the gun for the best.

Cheers,

Re: louisgray.com: The Future of Web Q&A Panels Should be Cake

cmacaskill — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:20:16 -0000

Thank you, Louis. Panels have been so compelling in the real world, I can't wait to see all the creative ways they'll be used online. They are long overdue.

Re: louisgray.com: Technology Designed to Help You Breathe More Easily

Darshan Nagekar — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:37:30 -0000

Thanks

Re: louisgray.com: When the Hometown You Always Knew Could Burn Gets Erased from the Map -- Paradise is Lost to the #CampFire

Louis Gray — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:08:04 -0000

Thanks, Francine. Great to hear from you. I felt this topic was too important to let go. It's been all I've been thinking about all week as I make sure friends and family who remained there are safe.

Re: louisgray.com: When the Hometown You Always Knew Could Burn Gets Erased from the Map -- Paradise is Lost to the #CampFire

hardaway — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:23:55 -0000

I Sure wish you wrote
more often Louis. I’ve forgotten what a great writer you are. I’m so sorry about your town.

Re: louisgray.com: Comments as a Platform, Or Silencing the Trolls

Louis Gray — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:34:13 -0000

Clearly I leave comments on here because, for the most part, the engagement is positive. Twitter is a great example, as are most comment threads on most news sites, of that not being the case. What I want to strongly advocate for is flexibility and providing options for users. It is disappointing when services decide they know best and disable users' capability to own their own content and how it lands.

Re: louisgray.com: Comments as a Platform, Or Silencing the Trolls

Adam Lasnik — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:44:05 -0000

I hear you, but have a different take. Enabling "comments off," while probably a reasonable feature, seems akin to earplugs or an eyeshade. Useful sometimes, but can become a crutch for shutting out the outside world rather than trying to improve the surroundings. Twitter, instead, needs far more robust community controls. And, more importantly and philosophically, needs to jettison its "free speech over everything else" in favor of respect, thoughtfulness, and zero-tolerance for hate speech and bullying.

Re: louisgray.com: Real Valley Stories: Search Engine Marketing With the Open Directory Project

Lawrence Lyons — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:16:03 -0000

DMOZ is really one of the oldest directory and you can call your site "lucky" if you got trapped here.

Re: louisgray.com: With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful

Ann Mason — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:55:47 -0000

Don't even expect Chromebook to be so popular at school. I should give it a try.

Re: louisgray.com: With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful

Christia Buntleitner — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:07:16 -0000

I personally never like new Chromebooks. They overheat and in hot weather its hard to type something without burn own finger to bone. Hope the new ones will be better

Re: louisgray.com: Real Valley Stories: Search Engine Marketing With the Open Directory Project

Louis Gray — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:31:19 -0000

Honestly speaking, the original intent of my editing DMOZ way back when was just to get our sites listed, and to clean it up. But it's a slippery slope from listing your sites to promoting them, and obviously, there was real value in it.

Re: louisgray.com: Real Valley Stories: Search Engine Marketing With the Open Directory Project

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:27 -0000

It's fascinating to consider WHY DMOZ was set up in a way that it could be misused. My assumption is that DMOZ thought of itself as a service that would be moderated by impartial parties. It apparently didn't anticipate that an employee of a listed company would end up moderating. Unintended consequences...

IMHO, Wikipedia has gone too far in the other direction. Its editing guidelines de-emphasize the use of original research, and give higher ranking to independent sources. For example, if Dave Winer were to edit the Wikipedia entry on Dave Winer, his edits would be flagged as original research. There are benefits to this (what if Winer were to edit his entry to claim that he was a Nobel Prize winner?), but there are also clear disadvantages (since Winer obviously knows more about Dave Winer than anyone else on the planet).

Re: louisgray.com: A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution

Anderson N. Nunes — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:19:09 -0000

My only silo is my feed reader and associated tools.

When ATOM or RSS feeds are not available, I convert HTML pages to ATOM. I filter all feeds with a blacklist (so I don't have to waste time with content I already know I don't want to see) plus some keywords are highlighted (to make it easier to eyeball some categories of content). Then I send the updates as e-mail messages to purpose specific inboxes (so I have control of what notifications I get).

Consumption and discovery are solved to me. What I want to see is a way to fund creators with micro-transactions that is as simple as a Like. Or, even better, a barter system of digital rights.

Re: louisgray.com: With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful

Piaw Na — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:57:18 -0000

I actually blog on my computer most of the time. When I travel, I blog on my phone with a folding keyboard. http://piaw.blogspot.com/20.... My tablet is strictly for media consumption: it's a Kindle Fire HD8 (2016)

Re: louisgray.com: With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful

Louis Gray — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:50:19 -0000

How easy is it for you to blog on a tablet? Which tablet do you like?

Re: louisgray.com: With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful

Piaw Na — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:03:09 -0000

There's still no effective replacement for Lightroom on Chrome/Android. (No, Lightroom Mobile doesn't quite do the job) Until that happens I see no reason to buy yet another device that's strictly only useful for light blogging and media consumption. The tablets do just fine for that.

Re: louisgray.com: Smartphones Have Virtually Eliminated Boredom from the Modern Life

Piaw Na — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:35:27 -0000

What official training? It's Google. Sink or swim!

Re: louisgray.com: Smartphones Have Virtually Eliminated Boredom from the Modern Life

Louis Gray — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:34:13 -0000

I wonder if I should be jealous that you got official training or relieved that nobody is paying me enough attention.

Re: louisgray.com: Smartphones Have Virtually Eliminated Boredom from the Modern Life

Piaw Na — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:12:18 -0000

Google trained me to give talks at lightning speed, to the point where anyone on their phones/laptops wouldn't be able to keep up with the talk otherwise. Strangely enough, it's improved my talks quite a lot to be forced to keep up with phones.

Re: louisgray.com: TV Tattle Goes Dark After 13 Years

Nbrown — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:20:45 -0000

I loved this site. It ensured I was always ahead of my friends with tv news. Made me feel like a tv elitist. Many thanks for the years of keeping me informed.

Re: louisgray.com: Video: Social Media: The Thing You Do "Between" Things

Rauf Arshad — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:26:27 -0000

Social media the most promising thing in the feature

http://thesportsclash.blogs...

Re: louisgray.com: Allen Stern, Web 2.0 Tech Blogging Pioneer, Passes Away

Chuck Rushin — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:34:16 -0000

Hi Kaye,
I too worked with Allen as a freelancer. The last email I received from him was just after 8am on April 1st, with another batch of work. I emailed him late that night (early morning) on April 2nd that I had finished the batch, expecting to receive his normal response with another batch the next day. I heard nothing, which was unusual but not alarming until Wednesday, then Thursday and Friday etc, when I couldn't make contact via email or phone. I went searching on the internet and that's when I found a link that he had passed away.
Allen was very kind to me, knowing he was my only income while I was attending college again after losing my home last year. He sometimes paid me early when I needed the money to visit my mom in a nursing home. I was very sorry to hear of his passing. I hope his work at CloudContacts is continued by someone else and I would still like to be a part of it.
Chuck

Re: louisgray.com: Allen Stern, Web 2.0 Tech Blogging Pioneer, Passes Away

Florida Web Development — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:16:17 -0000

Thanks for
your post. I'm not a developer by profession but I found what you had to say
about adaptive content very thought provoking and particularly relevant in my
industry which is educational publishing.

Florida Web
Development

Re: louisgray.com: Allen Stern, Web 2.0 Tech Blogging Pioneer, Passes Away

Sanford Dickert — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:35:08 -0000

And Louis - here is his Online Guestbook: http://obits.dignitymemoria...

The services are occurring in North Carolina at 1pm EST at graveside.