Jon Armstrong (Mr. Dooce) gives Metafilter a shout out at 20:20 on SLC's ABC affiliate.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 5:13 PM on April 19, 2008 (30 comments)

Mathowie's twitter feed is better than most blogs.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:37 AM on October 11, 2007 (6 comments)

Has this 1994 interview with Cheney, in which he advises to not invade Baghdad, been posted yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I I couldn't find it using the search feature, but thought I would do a pre-emptive check here and get flamed before a smaller audience if I'm wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 5:34 PM on August 13, 2007 (46 comments)

There was a link in the blue to a cool web app for putting your book collection online. It would automatically pull a cover image from amazon or somewhere, and had a very clean interface. It did social web app stuff too. But its name was too clever and I've forgotten it. Metatalkers, I seek your help...
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 11:56 AM on October 13, 2005 (14 comments)

This is perhaps indulgent, but it would be potentially useful in ask.mefi if the instigator of the thread could post just once after the thread has been frozen. Some questions resolve after several months, and it would be a possible benefit for those googling for information to see closure, i.e. "this is what ended up working the best, x was right" or what have you. Perhaps this is just imposing a false narrative closure on messy reality.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:31 PM on August 27, 2005 (5 comments)

I bet "travelfilter" as a discrete site would be enormously successful, yea, even income-generating.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 1:44 PM on August 3, 2005 (39 comments)

so, are there differences between the posting limits (once per week) on ask.mefi and metafilter proper? In other words, once you've posted anywhere on the Mefi network, do you have to wait a week to post elsewhere, or is the posting limit unique to each area?

Also, it would be cool if "best answers" were tallied for each user, and posting frequency tied to it somehow. Or not. Please don't hurt me.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:11 PM on May 27, 2005 (11 comments)

Hi,--

I could swear I saw a link in a thread on Mefi recently that debunke the supposed correlation between voter intelligence and voting preferences, with a link to a spreadsheet containing the actual correlation between the two. Except I can't find it now and I'm wondering if the thread got nuked or if it was tucked away in a thread of a different topic. Does anyone remember this?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 3:06 PM on November 8, 2004 (25 comments)

Playing with Amphetadesk, and got this error message:

AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:27 AM on December 5, 2002 (5 comments)

Do you think this applies to metafilter?

The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists
Kat Nagel - KatNagel@eznet.net



Every list seems to go through the same cycle:
1. Initial enthusiasm (people introduce themselves, and gush a lot about how wonderful it is to find kindred souls).
2. Evangelism (people moan about how few folks are posting to the list, and brainstorm recruitment strategies).
3. Growth (more and more people join, more and more lengthy threads develop, occasional off-topic threads pop up).
4. Community (lots of threads, some more relevant than others; lots of information and advice is exchanged; experts help other experts as well as less experienced colleagues; friendships develop; people tease each other; newcomers are welcomed with generosity and patience; everyone -- newbie and expert alike -- feels comfortable asking questions, suggesting answers, and sharing opinions).
5. Discomfort with diversity (the number of messages increases dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every reader; people start complaining about the signal-to-noise ratio; person 1 threatens to quit if *other* people don't limit discussion to person 1's pet topic; person 2 agrees with person 1; person 3 tells 1 & 2 to lighten up; more bandwidth is wasted complaining about off-topic threads than is used for the threads themselves; everyone gets annoyed).
6a. Smug complacency and stagnation (the purists flame everyone who asks an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious post; ne
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 6:13 AM on May 8, 2002 (33 comments)

Handx released a desktop weblog client. You have to upload to a space that supports php or perl, but it's small, fast, free, and probably more reliable than blogger. (although blogger has been *great* lately). These are the same folks who made the palm weblog client. I've installed both and they work, but are probably not for beginners.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 11:27 AM on July 26, 2001

Been there/Done that:

A button so that if a significant number of readers mark a post as a duplicate or just really boring, etc. then your preferences filter it out. So if someone were to post AYBABTU again, annoyed readers would mark it, and those who came later wouldn't see it unless they turned off their filter.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 5:30 AM on July 24, 2001 (11 comments)

I was just thinking (but only briefly): What if you took a simple guestbook script, tweaked it so new entries went on top, then password protected it. Oila! Instant weblog software! Granted, you would have to hand code the templates and such, but it seems like it might work.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:36 AM on July 6, 2001 (4 comments)

It occurred to me today that I could take a simple web discussion board script, modify the interface a little bit, and turn it into a blogging tool. I guess archiving would be a drag, but otherwise it would probably work. Anyone try anything like this?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 1:17 PM on June 25, 2001 (1 comment)