Jakob Neilsen on Twitter
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I am sitting at work reading this and Agreeing! I am now going to open some post, hope there is money there! I have opened a twitter account, how exciting for me... Stephen Fry is following my Tweets, And I am following those of Princes Diana. Oh God, I find the compunction to Bore everyone in the world to death with the minutiae of my life.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.
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It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.
Christian Graus wrote:
It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter Shi..er?.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
If Jakob *did* tweeet, you'd have picked this story up in less trhan 4 weeks. ;)
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Oh, man! I thought that H1N1 was a new future API having to do with device contexts! I didn't get what the CDC class had to do with swine.
Best wishes, Hans
Clearly you need a CDC so you can draw lots of pictures showing over simplified and alarm-inducing graphics while reporting the spread of the killer virus.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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HA! Well, I agree with everything i read on that link, so... Good work, Jakob. I still can't help but think that 5 years from now, the idea of a Twitter "community" will be like the idea of a "blogosphere" is today - a joke. Spammers are desperately searching for hooks, while the current "@ reply" conversation hacks have all the robustness of a house of cards in Hurricane Alley. The core idea - putting users in control of who they communicate with - is sound, a natural response to the email spam problem... But the rest of the system is doomed. 140 characters? Heck, the better SMS clients already hide that particular technical limitation - not exactly the best foundation for a next-generation system. Utter lack of standardized metadata? Yeah, that worked out really well for blogs... and they at least had microformat-friendly markup. My money's on something like Google's Wave, although Wave itself may well die from Google's lack of coherent marketing. RSS took almost a decade to really take off, so we're probably staring the Next Big Communications Medium in the face right now, and just failing to recognize it...
This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio
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It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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If Jakob *did* tweeet, you'd have picked this story up in less trhan 4 weeks. ;)
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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"We now interrupt your regularly-scheduled programming to bring you this late-breaking opinion piece!" :-\
You tease!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio
D'ya ever see "The Wall"...? :-\ Actually, if you hover over the icon with your mouse cursor, you'll get a hint. It's a status assigned by Chris for helping with the construction of the site itself in some way. Or, apparently, being a conspicuous nag WRT minor UI issues... :-O
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This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio
If you hover your mouse over the images (at least in my browser, chrome) it will pop-up with what they are, the hammer gives "Site Builder". Edit - Oops, I started to reply before his response was there, but was distracted by work (how dare they!?). Oh well, like he said, lol.
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I am sitting at work reading this and Agreeing! I am now going to open some post, hope there is money there! I have opened a twitter account, how exciting for me... Stephen Fry is following my Tweets, And I am following those of Princes Diana. Oh God, I find the compunction to Bore everyone in the world to death with the minutiae of my life.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Twitter may not be your kind of thing, but I bet you a lifetimes membership to CodeProject that you could get over 100 followers in a week if you posted a new CCC on there every day... People love that kind of thing. CCC's are short, quick, give people something to think about on the bus and are the perfect daily tweet. Heck, you could even set up a free website (wordpress or something) to show the answers and get a bunch of adverts on it to make a bit of cash on the side. Twitter may be full of bloviating idiots talking about what they ate for breakfast, but there's no reason you couldn't turn it into something financially profitable or use it to build your online reputation... Check out http://twitter.com/twrivia[^] for an example of what I'm talking about. Now, get busy and get twittering some daily CCC's!
The StartPage Randomizer - The Windows Cheerleader - Twitter
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D'ya ever see "The Wall"...? :-\ Actually, if you hover over the icon with your mouse cursor, you'll get a hint. It's a status assigned by Chris for helping with the construction of the site itself in some way. Or, apparently, being a conspicuous nag WRT minor UI issues... :-O
Hehehe. Ya, I've seen "The Wall". It looks like my nightmares of when I was kid LOL. But in my browser (Firefox 3), it doesn't pop anything, I dunno why. Thanks for filling me in. Regards, Fábio
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If you hover your mouse over the images (at least in my browser, chrome) it will pop-up with what they are, the hammer gives "Site Builder". Edit - Oops, I started to reply before his response was there, but was distracted by work (how dare they!?). Oh well, like he said, lol.
Yea, I've tried that, but for some reason nothing pops-up in my Browser (Firefox 3). Thanks for the tip though. Regards, Fábio
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Yea, I've tried that, but for some reason nothing pops-up in my Browser (Firefox 3). Thanks for the tip though. Regards, Fábio
In that case, you can probably (don't have Firefox, so I can't verify) right-click the file and go to properties to see the alt-text, or view the page source and find the <img src=... alt=, or just try to save the image (in this case) and the image name would have told you. :-D
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In that case, you can probably (don't have Firefox, so I can't verify) right-click the file and go to properties to see the alt-text, or view the page source and find the <img src=... alt=, or just try to save the image (in this case) and the image name would have told you. :-D
When someone is so focused on something, he cannot see what is in front of him, despite how shiny it is! Thanks for the tip. Regards, Fábio
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When someone is so focused on something, he cannot see what is in front of him, despite how shiny it is! Thanks for the tip. Regards, Fábio
What did I give you, four ways of getting the answer? That's just how my mind works. Between development and technical support, it's easy to put yourself into the mindset of finding alternative options to arrive at the intended goals. So for the intended goal of determining what the hammer icon means you have 1) alt text pop-up, 2) picture properties offering the alt text (I think some browsers give it there), 3) picture name when you try to save the picture, 4) the alt text in the image tag if you view the page source (a little much for something so unimportant in this case, but if you really wanted to know, it'd work as a last resort). You just have to look for the options.
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What did I give you, four ways of getting the answer? That's just how my mind works. Between development and technical support, it's easy to put yourself into the mindset of finding alternative options to arrive at the intended goals. So for the intended goal of determining what the hammer icon means you have 1) alt text pop-up, 2) picture properties offering the alt text (I think some browsers give it there), 3) picture name when you try to save the picture, 4) the alt text in the image tag if you view the page source (a little much for something so unimportant in this case, but if you really wanted to know, it'd work as a last resort). You just have to look for the options.
Yeah, I looked everywhere on CP site, and didn't think of these... I guess it was like this because I'm not used rely on this very often. Regards, Fábio
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It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
The key work here is TWITter. There seem to be a lot of twits that don't have anything better to do.
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It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.
Do you know that they haven't already ?
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)