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Science fiction writer
Janet Kagan, who posted here as
realjanetkagan,
died Friday after a long illness (COPD).
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 4:20 AM on March 2, 2008
(67 comments)
The
Projects RSS feed has no way of directly clicking on the project URL. The
URL is the votes page; the title and URL are not included in the
. If this is unintended, I suggest one of the following: change the
to the project URL, and have a link to the votes page at the end of the
; or keep the
the same but repeat the title, with a link to the URL, at the start of the
.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:09 AM on November 23, 2005
(5 comments)
I'd like to see the poster and tags for each post in my RSS newsreader. Do you think the RSS feeds could be updated to include them in the
and
tags?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 9:13 AM on March 21, 2005
(8 comments)
MeFi Ottawa: 11 members, spousal units and lurkers made it to
Pub Italia last night, where we consumed obscure beers, made boisterous small talk, annoyed other patrons with our flash photography, and crafted inappropriate shoutouts. So far,
sboivert's photos and
my photos have been posted to the
MetaFilter pool on Flickr; aedra's photos, containing many more shoutouts, will be up once I let her have some time in front of this computer.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 9:09 AM on February 19, 2005
(33 comments)
In the course of answering
PurplePorpoise's pillow question, I mention (for background) that I suffer from a painful, chronic autoimmune disease.
This is Pretty_Generic's response. That didn't hurt much, really -- less than my back does most days -- but it doesn't make him any less of an insensitive prick. Mocking someone's illness shouldn't be considered good conduct.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 9:09 AM on December 3, 2004
(55 comments)
I don't care if it
is phrased in the form of a question.
Using AskMe to get in a second post because you "already shot [your] wad today with a different MeFi front page post and thought this merited a posting" is just not on.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 2:00 PM on November 28, 2004
(73 comments)
PrinceValium is right: followup.metafilter.com
would be a nice pony. (more)
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 3:39 PM on June 8, 2004
(21 comments)
Eloquence posts
a thread about Mother Teresa, in which he writes, "the
Wikipedia article about her gives a much more balanced picture than most media reports." Trouble is, a Wikipedia member named -- wait for it --
Eloquence is a substantial contributor to that very Wikipedia article, and has, as far as I can tell (see
article history), written much of the material about the controversy. (See also his contributions to
the related Talk page.) This could be considered a self link as a result. Is it?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 10:19 PM on October 18, 2003
(38 comments)
Another post praising Howard Dean leads to charges of DeanFilter. There may be something to those charges:
there have been several uncritical and laudatory Howard Dean posts on MetaFilter over the past few months, some of which seem interchangeable. And,
as matteo points out, it's probably only going to get worse. We complain (rightly) when a post reeks of viral marketing; why shouldn't this be any different? Shouldn't we be more skeptical of breathless posts that coo over politicians? Aren't we (well, not
me per se, but American voters) being sold something? Dean may well be the bee's knees, but still.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:23 PM on June 4, 2003
(17 comments)
Several blog entries make
multiple appearances in the trackbacks of the shuttle thread: does MT's trackback function re-ping the server every time a single post is updated (as so many of us were doing yesterday as the shuttle story developed)?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 6:04 PM on February 2, 2003
(4 comments)
MetaFilter is not about us; it's about what we find out there on the web. If so, we should be in the background of our posts if not outright invisible, and we should avoid phrasing our posts as personal blog entries.
First example: "I found no post ... I only post it now ... as I see in my weblog's referer log ... that's how a few people found my site."
Second example: " I hope ... I've searched ... It has special relevance to me since I am ... Being 25 and wanting to pay off my loans, I may have ... " And
posts like this, which are all about personal experience and nothing else, are right out.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 4:49 PM on December 16, 2002
(48 comments)
Sorry to be posting again so soon, but, pursuant to
Smart Dalek's request, I've put together a little
calendar of upcoming MetaFilter events in
iCal format. Nothing too fancy, just me manually adding events to the calendar as I
receive them. Nothing is on the calendar yet, so
submit something, already. Details on subscribing to (if you use iCal on Mac OS X 10.2.1 or later) or viewing the calendar are
here. Hope you like it.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 7:19 PM on November 24, 2002
(6 comments)
I've taken the liberty of setting up
a mailing list for MetaFilter members in Ontario and Quebec, in the hope that it will help us get our act together and organize a MeFi get-together, whether it's in Montreal, Ottawa or Toronto (see previous attempts
here and
here). Or whatever else suits us.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:41 PM on November 24, 2002
(2 comments)
This dangling baby . . . it vibrates? Every time Matt kills a "Jacko's dangling baby" post, another pops up to replace it.
We've talked about this before, but I think the (general) question needs to be raised: What, if anything, can be done to prevent reposting deleted stories? It's been pointed out that posters may not know that they're posting something that has been deleted before because, um, it's been deleted before! (And with wacky news like this, there can be any number of sources for the same story,
sorry.) Short of deleting the story every time it pops up, is there a better solution?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:10 AM on November 20, 2002
(79 comments)
What do we think about
posting links to Word documents? I have no opinion on this myself, but I think it's worth discussing. Should there be guidelines on linking to things that are not web pages (or PDF files)?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 12:26 PM on November 12, 2002
(17 comments)
Is MetaFilter better on the weekend? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 9:14 AM on November 5, 2002
(29 comments)
The lovely and talented JonnyX says:
MCWETBOY-------------so go play on your own blog then you dipshit. if you dont like it here then FUCK OFF.
In a word, "no".
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:29 AM on October 30, 2002
(110 comments)
Is he baiting us? Noted
ex-Mefite Steven Den Beste, in self-imposed exile, says he left because we got "stranger and stranger" and, according to him, the inmates are still running the asylum. Are we guilty of lefty
groupthink, or is
SDB focusing on the posts that annoy him and ignoring the diversity of opinions here, and quit in a huff because we wouldn't all agree with him? (Note:
we've talked about him before on Metatalk.)
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 10:47 AM on September 25, 2002
(85 comments)
Hi, Jack. Just because it's
"another Coulter thread" doesn't mean raysmj ought to piss all over it with his off-topic opinions on proper journalistic style. How many other threads have been similarly derailed by snarks on the writing style or site design of the linked page?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 8:44 AM on September 5, 2002
(64 comments)
When double-post callouts are ignored:
a second post about game console price cuts (
here's the first one), posting a link that
that had been posted in the comments of the original thread. I
pointed this out, but discussion continued anyway. Discussion is still going on in the first thread, and the general thrust of the discussion in each thread is absolutely identical (price cuts, comparisons of consoles, buying advice). What, was I too
polite?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 8:35 AM on May 15, 2002
(44 comments)
"I was seduced by bloggers." CNet News.com copy chief Jennifer Balderama writes yet another press piece on the blogging phenom. The difference? She
keeps a blog herself, and
knows full well what else has been written on the subject, and what she's getting herself into. This strikes me as a better attempt than the usual
auto-generated weblog press à la
megnut. Thoughts?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 7:17 AM on May 3, 2002
(1 comment)
SDB suggests that
webloggers cluster themselves into like-minded groups, and cross-link accordingly. Disagreements (including here) are what he calls "religious" in nature: "A-list" vs. warblogger, "E/N" vs. "A-list", etc. Does Steve's structuralist argument hold up? Are his characterizations fair or accurate? Do you slot yourself into a group? Are the blogs you link to in a similar vein as yours?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 5:10 PM on April 26, 2002
(113 comments)
The Globe and Mail on community blogs and blogging as the new intellectual model for the web: "But, in fact, another kind of intellectual-content site has survived, one that makes much fuller use of the Web's unique structure. And the new model is flourishing." It seems that the new model is us.
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 4:54 AM on March 2, 2002
(9 comments)
MetaTalk is not the place for
second-string MetaFilter posts.
(to quote gleuschk and jpoulos)
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 4:24 PM on December 17, 2001
(16 comments)
Shouldn't front page posts describe the content of the linked material? Lately a few posts have offered a brief opinion of the linked material without describing it (e.g.
this one,
this one, and
this one), which I find a bit of a nuisance because I have to dig just to find out what's going on.
By no means am I trying to criticize the posters; I simply wanted to draw attention to a general trend that might need correcting. What do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by mcwetboy
at 7:47 AM on November 16, 2001
(11 comments)
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