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The number of results for the search, I found interesting.
You know me - I'll run off in tangential directions and report back. I even earned a "WTH?" recently from santee, who should also know by now. :^0
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by ansugisalas
I'm listening to old Community spotlights... I was wondering for a second "who is Hell9000"...
Very tight enunciation going on there...
How do you spell "factopingus"?
by nicknielsen
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by ansugisalas
it's so easy to make the brain go *squeeeee* when mixing perspectives in relative descriptions... abit like doing the index finger twirling while changing where they point... quite a lot like that, actually.
I'll pretend I did it on purpose ;)
And not because I'm simply mad as a hatter, no no.
by ansugisalas
is relevant to everything, I think...
I do like the Haubitzer fire out of left field, keep up the good work!
by Wizard57M-TR
referred to the number of fathoms young Sam Clemons would hear the shipmate call as he rode down the Mississippi River on the old riverboats (1 fathom equals 6 feet). The sound of "mark twain" must've caught his ear, so he adopted the pen name Mark Twain.
Are we on topic? I don't know...I'm still wondering around the new TR layout!
<{;-)
by ansugisalas
Too late, I'm afraid, to catch his, "Mark Twain Tonight".
I did, once, live in San Diego. Spellbound, I was, after having eaten most everything Samuel Clemens ever wrote.
Which is to say, [b]wizard57[/b], that you invoke the name of an icon; an icon that not only I am already altogether familiar with, but with whom you may find a surprising number of TR writers are also altogether familiar with.
Good that you, too, discover him.
We find that the new and surprising is old hat to old hands all the time.
Again: glad that you brought him up.
by ansugisalas
not many of that caliber ballpark.
All of them different.
Samuel is one of the best.
by seanferd
by nicknielsen
Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch his appearance on TV; Mom made no exceptions for bedtimes on school nights. I also remember a recording of one of the Chase and Sanborn Anniversary Radio Shows.
WC Fields: Well, well, if it isn't Charlie McCarthy, the woodpecker's pinup boy. Tell me, Charlie, is it true your father was a gate-leg table?
Charlie: If it is true, your father was under it.
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Woot! Serendipity! While reading the Hal Holbrook bio, I discovered that he acted/narrated or something for the program at the Bell Telephone pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. I really enjoyed going to that. We were staying with my grandparents in Queens and went three times. Then, a few years later, I had a strong sense of deja vu while watching Star Trek TOS. This is why.
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by tigger_two
Site traffic will most likely continue a downward trend for the next month and possibly two. Could even be three. There are a variety of reasons for this.
Periodic site instability. As the devs try to manage bugs and such, the site will unexpectedly go down or become unstable. I personally have seen this multiple times and it is really a question of how engaged I feel when it happens. Sometimes I will try to wait it out. Sometimes I will go watch previously recorded Mythbusters episodes for some soothing explosions.
Navigating Off Topic. The horrible navigation through Off Topic makes me want to rip my heart and lungs out and mail them to whoever thought that this abomination would increase the site's social network feel. I mean this sincerely. If the site CARES about community as much as they say, they need to give this another look.
QA is a quagmire. I can barely stand to go in there.
According to the numbers, no one- and this includes you Ansu, is saying much of anything.
Want to make the site more social? Give us a vehicle for real time chat. Make it easier to navigate the Water Cooler. ENGAGE WITH THE USERS OF THE SITE. The rest of the changes are just not working as planned.
The terrible thing is that they all think that we are being nasty if we say anything critical. Not true. Many of us are just trying to hold on.
Finally- content. Once upon a time, TR had it's own news bloggers. We combed the breaking trends for stuff that we thought might be of interest to the people who USED TR. They did away with that and recycle stuff from ZDNet now.
I love Larry Dignan but I will maintain that the audience at TR is different from the audience at ZDNet. What was great was that he and I could cover the same story but come away with differing viewpoints. I miss that. I miss writing news content in general.
Once upon a time, bloggers weren't button-holed into tight categories. The worst day of my life was when I learned that I couldn't write what I was passionate about, I had to write what "fit". Net result? I stopped writing. THAT has been painful, but I just can't always fit the shoehorn.
I shouldn't say that I stopped writing. I just had no place to reasonably publish. I morally felt it would be wrong to take that content elsewhere, and it didn't fit what TR wanted to publish. That was hard.
I really hope that the issues are solvable and that people stay on.
by ansugisalas
I'm still putting out 100-150 posts a week, down a notch from 150-180, sure... getting to be a strain though. Hard to find stuff I haven't already commented on ;) :p
Used to be so that my output was touch-and-go for first-second-third place; now I need binoculars to see my backup trailing behind :(
Not you Boxie, I know you've got my back! :)
One thing they need to do : Make sure newcomers (to TR, or to the new TR) know immediately where to go to do what they came here for.
That means putting up, first thing visible on-screen, Big Friendly Buttons ® - one saying "Do you need to ask advice?", and one saying "Do you have something to say?"...
Anything else will be a step backwards from where it was before.
EDIT:108!=180
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New sample... notice the changed numbers?
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by ansugisalas
Comments have gone down by 500 (to 93,1% of plot 1)
So far it doesn't look as bad as it feels, but this is in four days mind you.
If the trend holds true, this means quite a lot of a drop in per-day comments.
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by ansugisalas
20x+10y=7496
16x+14y=6980
14x+16y=6719
11x+19y=6099
x being an average day of posting before the new
y being an average day of posting after the new.
Crap, now I can't remember how to do this equaction... wait, I'll do it visually; extrapolating:
t0=9000posts/30 days = 300posts/day
t30=4500posts/30 days =150 posts/day.
That holds up pretty well... That means activity is halved!
by ansugisalas
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How's it look? 5*300+25*150=5250 ... it's picked up a little. Of course, next we'll have saturday and sunday, so it's going to be pretty close to the projected avg. of 4500 per 30 days.
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