webwanderings

I don't know, I recall watching similar images in the Cleopatra excavation documentary they showed at one of the museum I attended not too long ago.

What kind of a source is core77.com?

When it comes to RSS reading, its all in the UI: how it is setup and how well one adjust to such an interface. As far as I am concerned, I cropped-up my own [1] and I am happy with the solution so far.

[1] http://web-wanderings.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-no-coding-requi...

1. Create Lists. 2. Change everyone's settings to only see important updates. 3. Instead of following your front page, follow your lists.

What's all those comments on Medium, how is it done?

People make their choices when they participate in HN comment streams. As far as I can tell, there is no RSS feed for comments here and there is no advanced way of keeping track on commenting. You have to manually browse to participate yourself into the conversations.

Over the few years, HN has sort of become the Digg and Reddit. There are far and few substantial conversations in visible view (yes count mine as unsubstantial as well).

From the logical perspective, the circle of HN needs to break off from its core and diverge into many different circles. There may already be few inner circles (hidden from the public view) I can't tell. But it seems logical that this big public circle is all inclusive, where everything goes.

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http://business.time.com/2013/05/21/inside-yahoos-tumblr-dea...

> I wanted them synced

Both Firefox and Chrome sync. But you already answered this yourself.

> How often do I have to rearrange them?

You don't rearrange any bookmarks in your browser. Frequently-used links like Gmail, Twitter, Weather etc is something you keep in front of you all the time. These are links to other services you use daily.

The Read-later types, those you can simply either delete (from the Read-later folder) or you move to another folder when you know you have consumed them. It takes few clicks.

The reason you link-blog them on Tumblr or G+ is because you may want to revisit the sites to refresh your memory, or you may be sharing your link-blog with someone else (not necessarily the whole world though).

> I go back to my bookmarks months (years?) after I've booked marked them

There was an article not too long ago which suggested that people don't really visit their bookmarks but they think that they will.

The reason you can technically forget about your online bookmarks is becuase Google search is handy. If you can search your saved-bookmarks using tag words or other keywords, than you can do the same on Google. Again, the shift-in-perspective I am talking is already making sure that you are keeping the most important bookmarks (your tools, your read-later articles etc) closest to yourself. You are only ignoring the not-so-important URLs.

If it works for me then it is a solution, isn't it? As I said, it requires you shift the perspective. Bookmarking-on-the-server is an over rated phenomenon. People can keep the URLs locally to themselves.

It isn't difficult at all. You just have to shift your perspective.

Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you. Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar. For example, I don't rely on Chrome's Apps tab, so I have Gmail in my bookmarks toolbar folder called 1.Launch (1 because I have several others sorted accordingly).

Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.

Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.

May be someone can now crop up a quick and simple Google Reader alternative?

I cropped this together using nothing but Google Sheets and Google Sites.

It is not a bad alternative if you are of busy type and only wish to take a quick glance or view of news as it is happening on the day/time when you are viewing. It's a sort of River of News.

It is not a suitable alternative if you wish to save your feeds or even do search (something Google Reader provided as its best feature).

This isn't a Dropbox alternative by any means. From what I could understand, you need to keep two of your machines ON in order to sync. The best it could be called is replacement of your USB drive.

AeroFS does something similar and it apparently doesn't require keeping two of your machines On at the same time, though it didn't work for me as advertised, so I gave up on AeroFS.

Using Dropbox in the title with this, is misleading.

I pretty much agree. Correct me if I'm wrong but Dropbox were the first to have come up with Camera Upload feature, which basically makes any average user go trouble free with their cellphones, tablets, snapping away photographs knowing that they will be ready on their desktop to view if they want to.

Google+ does that too now, but this is in fact a killer feature which has been adopted well by the average folks out there. So yes, Dropbox is not just about file sharing anymore.

My usage of the term lawsuit is in the context of consequences or rather, punishment. The actions of the mass at online medium was certainly "wrong" (hence there is an apology). How does one correct the wrong in the future? Either through self-conscious actions based on the past experience, or through the consequence/punishment. In this example, there is no person but there is a whole mass of people. So obviously this is more complicated situation.

The policy makers and the law probably have old-fashioned ideas on how this issue can be corrected, but can the online mass come up with their own solution, so the same type of issue is eliminated from repeating in the future?

You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that. I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.

Okay I see what you're doing. Cool idea. Perhaps you can take over old Posterous users.

I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.

Totally makes sense. Mainstream media screwed up big time (so what if they were hiding the faces on the photographs they quoted). But same is the case with Twitter ecosystem. It all comes down to "professional journalists" becoming unprofessional.

People, the common and all kinds of people, on the other hand, would "talk". Whether online or offline, people talk about all types of things, good, bad or ugly. Reddit is like a platform which provides microphone to common people and it amplifies their talk. Just because people have opinion doesn't mean they should be highlighted in the newspaper.

Reddit and HN etc needs to decide if they are going to editorialize their platform or not. Apologizing after-the-fact makes no sense.

This is a conundrum. The online Forums taking the vigilante role and ending up as a powerful force begs a question: Is this the forum/platform which has become so powerful, or the forum/platform owners?

You see, the BBC is reporting that Reddit apologized. Do you really think that there is such a thing called Reddit which has a capacity to apologize? Either the owners of Reddit can apologize or nobody. If the owners of Reddit apologized than do we believe that the group of public (which is mostly responsible for the witch-hunt) also apologized? How could they apologize as a collective group when they are not coherent as a visible entity?

The owners of such internet platforms should reflect on when their platform could be abused by the mass and they should interfere before it becomes a monster which cannot be tamed.

As much as I find Reddit useful but this time around, I really hope the owners get sued by the innocent people.

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So does this mean that HN is also apologizing? I think they should because there was enough carried over witch-hunt here as well.

You advertised this here few days ago with a different name, if I'm not mistaken.

Have you checked forecast.io? It is even more interesting because it is a website which looks like a mobile app. Besides, the weather data it provides is awesomely simple.

Upvoting for introducing the platform where this story is written and not the story itself (I didn't read and I don't come here to read non-technical stuff). Seems like narrative.ly is competimg with Medium?

Any idea what happens if you do not renew and/or do not delete your free trial account at the end of free trial? Mine is going to run out soon. I signed up only to play around (have no serious need). I have deleted my VMs.

Makes sense. I think as a least minimum, for people in IT, Azure wouldn't be a bad place to host online resume.

They also offer setting up of simple website/blogs for free, as in totally free (there must be some limitation, I have not investigated further).

Try Tumblr for this, it works well.

I disabled third party cookies in Chrome on my own and I don't see nothing wrong with my experience of web browsing.

You are absolutely right hence these forums are going to constantly suffer, or they'd be taken in by marketers trying to make a buck over filthy Ads. I don't think people can have serious discussions on such forum platforms who try to appeal to everyone equally.

It's not about being lost, it's about not being able to read bigger threads.

The answer is no-thread.

I have yet to look at the features you provide, in detail; however, am I the only one who thinks that the word "moot" is the opposite of what you're trying to achieve? Why would anyone moot anything if they're trying to converse?

Also, your embedding option looks lot more similar to branch.com which I think is strugglig to make a space.