Mike English dot Net - Latest Comments

Re: Shopping Malls and Public Parks

Michael Mol — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:46:32 -0000

4chan, I suspect. But you'd have to add the caveat that it'd be like New York's Central Park without the police patrols.

Re: virtual friendship

fertility supplements — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:06:30 -0000

Playdate Kessel Run says that playdates are "game ambassadors," likening the GameCrush transactions to friendship or courtship: "A GameCrush playdate means that I am compensated by the player via GameCrush to be playing with them. ...

Re: Considering Primacy

Makemeregisterwtf — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:25:08 -0000

Might I reccomend a
in your long posts? ;)

Re: Eco-friendly ereaders?

Mark V — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:15:03 -0000

I like this post a lot. The biodegradability of print media is overlooked a great deal, especially versus the engineered expiration of electronics. The advantages boasted by devices like the Kindle seem to be short term ones for the most part.

Re: Eco-friendly ereaders?

Paul Martin — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:37:04 -0000

Those are very valid arguments. Having worked at a library I've seen archives of books there that are well over 100 years old, but those books were covered in an odd orange colored dust that you didn't want to breathe. We had to move huge shelves of them to make room for more books (and they were huge), so we had lab coats, goggles, dust masks and gloves. But then I've also seen books that didn't have that odd effect.

Re: Crying Wolf to Cash in on the Zeitgeist

Mike English — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:40:39 -0000

Supposedly there was some other privacy issue where Facebook had been sharing user information with advertisers, but the WSJ article mainly seems to attack the sending of referral urls, which is standard practice across the web. Regardless, the article, apparently intended to be a kind of exposé, reads as ignorant technophobia and detracts from more legitimate concerns.

Re: Blogging

Mary — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:59:03 -0000

Use this one. You can't get much better than Mike English dot net :o)

Spanish, I miss your poetry.

- Mary (face)

Re: Thinking About Hardware

Mike English — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:34:11 -0000

Feature comparison of the NetGear ReadyNAS line:
http://www.readynas.com/wp-con...

Re: identity

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Re: virtual friendship

Steve English — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:41:14 -0000

'What facebook would look like in real life'
http://eatingsandwiches.com/?p...

Re: virtual friendship

Mark V — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:06:44 -0000

As a usually very private person, I've already had an internal argument that was very similar to this. I still feel stuck in a sort of middle ground though. I'm careful to mention people as "Facebook friends" in order to differentiate those relationships with my friends in the "real world." On top of this, I have been able to adopt a mentality that asserts I have nothing to hide -- at least to a point. I don't really care if acquaintances know my favorite bands or movies, and really personal information will only be given to friends I when talk to them in person. On the other hand, I do find myself engaging in friend purges, where I scroll through my Facebook friends and delete scores of them for various reasons.

Re: Mike English dot Net : busy busy busy

Chris Saad — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:06:02 -0000

Thanks for the nod :)

Re: thoughts on the “open” panel at le web

Rob — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:30:59 -0000

Nice blog.....

Re: the global village(s?)

George Smith — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:14:54 -0000

Was just going to comment but became too long - so I posted some of my own personal musings on the subject in response: http://nosenseoftime.org/2008/...

Re: Mike English dot Net : upgrading

Mike English — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:49:33 -0000

Testing Comments on WordPress 2.7 to see if everything still works properly.

Re: facebook connect is go!

Mike English — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:06:02 -0000

@Manuela Yes, I haven't seen another Wordpress plugin for Facebook Connect yet, but this one has been working well for me so far.

Re: facebook connect is go!

Manuela Mazziotta — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:43:13 -0000

Guys, so do you recommend the plug in then?

Re: facebook connect is go!

Greg Vedders — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:26:28 -0000

You probably didn't notice the problem because you don't use Internet Explorer. When I set my site up, I had the same problem...worked everywhere, but in IE. Luckily, the answer to the problem is in the README file...if only I had read that the first time through.

Re: facebook connect is go!

Mike English — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:18:35 -0000

Oops! Somehow it's displaying correctly for me despite the fact that I left that out. I'll add it pronto!

Thanks for a great plugin!

Re: facebook connect is go!

Javier Reyes — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:00:52 -0000

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......

Thanks for using the plugin!

Re: why facebook?

Paul Martin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:40:37 -0000

Testing out Facebook Connect as a possibility for a website or 5 of mine! :-)

Re: privacy 2.0

Mike — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:33:21 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Jon. I agree; with relationships, the more you put in, the more you get out of them.

Re: privacy 2.0

Jon Gatrell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:52:06 -0000

Thanks for the link and it appears you have some great conversation over this one. Since we have no privacy/less privacy everyday, we should try and establish something of importance and share things of value. I continue to find that more I invest, the more I get online or offline. Relationships are funny like that

~jon

Re: privacy 2.0

Daniel — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:19:05 -0000

Mike, perhaps the key is in giving users the choice. You can keep it private, or you can allow controlled access to it (bearing in mind that once it's out there it's out of your control), your you can open it all.

Either way the value is in you having that data at your own disposal, to do with it what you see fit. Most of us currently pro-actively share explicit data, which is an important bit, but I'm also interested in the implicit data waiting to be extracted from my own behaviour.
As you suggest, language is an extremely important component of our behaviour, and a very good candidate for analysis.
I don't necessarily go along with Linguistic Determinism, although as a teenager I used to be a hardcore determinism advocate (perhaps to the extreme of fatalism), eventually learning about quantum physics put an end to that belief. Conditioning is another matter, which I think is beyond doubt. But this is going slightly off topic.
These are very interesting times to live in. :) Thanks for your views on this.

Re: privacy 2.0

Mike — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:47:31 -0000

@Daniel We're moving toward transparency at a fairly rapid pace. I think you'd be surprised how soon people will be willing to expose the degree of information you suggest. Check these articles for example:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/20/MNGMFIVF4U1.DTL (2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html (recent)

The younger generation is ready to provide information, so long as they feel they have control over who gets access to what. I think that knowing you're sharing data as opposed to suspecting that data is being collected about you, makes a big difference.

Regarding, your project of collecting personal data on yourself for personal gain, I'm curious where you stand on linguistic determinism. It seems like there's already a wealth of information we could collect about ourselves if we systematically wrote our thoughts and analyzed our writing.