bye bye.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 12:46 PM on October 1, 2004

Is this the New York Times of the Web, The Old Grey Lady of the Internet? well it is sorta grey here...
The doom & gloom cyberterrorism FPP is a rote misquoting of an innacurate slashdot headline. While the subject is discussion-worthy, it's presented as overanxious FUD, relating a "Who knows what tomorrow will bring?" essay as an de facto overnight forecast.
Um, no. I posted it because it was overanxious FUD, hence the clearly marked quotation from... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 5:10 PM on August 25, 2004

If the question was not "thoughts" about life after death, but "what do different religions think" and "what does science think" then this would be an okay question as far as I'm concerned. Otherwise it is just opening things up to pure chaos.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 11:56 AM on January 30, 2004

Ask is the first thing I read at MeFi now. Signal:noise is pretty low. It needs taxonomy and a specific search but that's about it. Why have a delay between asking questions? If it ain't broke, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 9:41 AM on January 23, 2004

So, No.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 9:44 AM on January 23, 2004

Matt, I volunteer to help out with the weeding and selection.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 3:15 PM on November 27, 2003

I'm in on the producing/technical/helping side. Worked in community radio for eight years.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 7:29 AM on April 11, 2003

You might want to look at Mailman, NPOGroups, Dgroups, and Sympa.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 6:56 PM on March 6, 2003

Danf has nothing to apologize for. Megnut, Kottke, et.al. are very good sites but I don't read them, because what's there doesn't interest me that much. Of the A-Listers, I used to read Camworld and Zeldman because they wrote about subjects that interested me, and I used to like Lemonyellow (not A-List but written up in the New York Times) when it was around. I hate to admit it, but I haven't done a lot of weblog reading lately because the content just isn't there; I choose Metafilter, A List... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 2:02 PM on May 2, 2002

A-Listers are shameless.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 8:13 PM on May 2, 2002

Last week I did something of an inventory of the various domain names I've accumulated over the years, with the plan of moving them all to the same low-cost registrar, perhaps Go Daddy or Gandi. In the meantime I thought I'd transfer my last Network Solutions domain. Everyone have a horror story about them, right? I started the transfer to Domain Direct and almost immediatly got a phone call from them telling me that they wouldn't do the transfer because the contact information for my account... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 7:50 AM on April 29, 2002

Succa, where are you located? I'm in Ottawa.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 7:58 AM on April 29, 2002

I wrote Ultimate Search a polite email this morning and just received the following reply:

Yes, he could email us asking for it back, and provide his contact information so we know how to transfer the domain.

Also, we've received several emails from people accusing us of stealing the domain, while all we did was register a domain that appeared abandoned at the time. We'd appreciate it if he could put some kind of disclaimer on his site making it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 9:46 AM on April 29, 2002

Can I try?
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 4:49 AM on November 7, 2001

Yeah, go Kottke.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 7:53 PM on September 5, 2001

I haven't been reading MeFi as much since it came back, mostly because the summer is busy and so am I. However, I had popped over to Metatalk to suggest that, at the very least, membership be capped for awhile, at least two months. There have been an ever increasing number of daily posts, and I expect Matt is finding it harder to moderate threads, and manage trolls and their ilk, in an effective way.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 2:07 PM on August 30, 2001

Radio Userland is the beginning of something very cool, if Userland survives. Weblog.com also quite cool, and that's what I told Dave when we last exchanged email about the privacy business. I appreciate the changes that he made.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 9:07 PM on June 18, 2001

That is one hell of a photo.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 11:33 AM on June 13, 2001

I appreciate what Matt has done quite a bit. Thanks Matt!
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 7:00 AM on June 14, 2001

"It's a police state of myopic, loud-mouthed idiots proclaiming themselves the cultural police while the rest of us sit back and laugh at them."

Lance Arthur just insulted me. And he was nasty, too.

I like Metafilter more than the bulk of personal weblogs. It isn't perfect, and sometimes the discussions are vacuous or unpleasant, like the McVeigh thread yesterday. But what I learn from the site, and the entertainment I receive from it, makes up... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 12:30 PM on June 13, 2001

Zach, I just think the term isn't useful or appropriate for online discussion forums. They can be wonderful things, but they aren't really communities.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 6:55 AM on June 14, 2001

Of course I would be interested, and would learn some PHP as required, but it would be best if I can do some organizing as needed. Or make the tea for everyone, which I am also good at.

One thing I was thinking about the past couple of days, and was going to mention to Matt: what if Metafilter was a distributed system? A number of servers could run Metafilter software that would share postings using XML. A couple of dozen webloggers could share the bandwidth burden for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 8:31 PM on June 9, 2001

Thanks Jason.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 2:32 PM on May 31, 2001

Matt, you probably forgot to ask me for my bithday: August 24th. No problem, though.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 4:21 AM on February 23, 2001