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Re: Enter WakeMe.At

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Re: Coworking in London meetup 28/02

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Re: Roll Your Own Hack Club | Breadpig: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek › Chaos'n'Coffee

Alexis Ohanian — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:39:07 -0000

Cool! Thanks for the linklove. Breadpig can't do it alone.

Re: Spreading too thin?

Thinker_wings — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:59:22 -0000

Hey there!
I've bumped onto your blog about coffee and I must say it's terrific! My warmest compliments!
What about adding some colour in it by bonding coffee with some artistic event?
You know, I've heard of an international digital arts competition called "Anthares Coffee Prize", which sounds to be pretty interesting!
I've already posted something concerning the contest on my own blog and it seems successful !
Greets

Daria

Re: Enter WakeMe.At

Amit — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:44:17 -0000

[quote comment=""]Also, WakeMe. At is a provocation into try and think differently: it invites you to start mapping your tasks instead of listing them, and it hints to the possibility of sharing them with your friends and find out that they can be carried out in a more eco and time-efficient way by the group rather than the individual.[/quote]

Love this idea - building tasks for locations. If tasks are really location-based, then with a set of locations, we're personally solving the travelling salesman problem with more than just distance and weight, by trying to not merely minimise distance between tasks, but solving large sets of tasks in one location first - the node being heavy, not the vertex. Now to use my new N95 8Gb for something good :-)

Re: Enter WakeMe.At

blazar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:37 -0000

@bru: it may well be, given the description I found there. But at first sight I don't like the UI and the L&F at all. I'm all for minimalistic designs and interfaces, while that thingie looks like a big mess. Of course, I can't tell without having tried. I may do so with their free plan, but really: it looks oh so ugly that I'm not tempted to do so the slightest bit.

Re: Enter WakeMe.At

bru — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:58:10 -0000

@blazar: looks like you're looking for something similar to backpack :)

Re: Enter WakeMe.At

blazar — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:04:01 -0000

Hi, I've been reading your post with some interest: actually I'm afraid I'm not specifically interested in WMA, in particular due to its location-basedness, which in turn should be its major feature/strength. However, just knowing about it reminded me of an idea of my own and a (possibly) much simpler one, although vague too - like all of my ideas! ;) Precisely, as soon as I gathered some confidence with modern blogs' typical technologies, I happened to think that is would be nice to have a "PIMLOG" i.e. a hybrid between a blog and PIM. Posts/entries would be the kind of things you would insert in your favourite PIM, and they would be posted in the familiar reverse chronological order. Then there would be several different levels of priority, and scheduling information. At some point, automatic reminders would also pop up, e.g.: "You really have to send that mail to ***, it's the third time I'm reminding you!" (And then one would have the means to tell the beast that he's done the damned thing; perhaps if the mail has a given subject, (B)Cc'ing it to a concocted email address for the pimlog would suffice to silent it.) Of course there would be private and public posts, and so on... How does it sound?

Re: Enter WakeMe.At

Michael Waugaman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:59:43 -0000

you have essentially given GTD a true third dimension - fantastic!

Re: Leaving a mark

Robin Hamman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:06:56 -0000

What's your fireeagle experiment? Intrigued...

Re: walking vs. driving

bru — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:24:14 -0000

Well I guess the point in the article was that, to move from A to B, you'll need X calories. If you already have them in your body, you already paid the carbon footprint, thus one more reason to wear the snickers and walk instead of sitting at the wheel (and pay double the price for that trip).

Re: walking vs. driving

alessio — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:54:10 -0000

Why are you supposed to "replace those calories" in the first place? This is one of the typical übergeek discussions that seem to move on a logical path but are indeed basically flawed. In Western countries in XXI century most people are overweight or even obese (in medical terms) - maybe not you, bru :-) - so a little walking won't definitively hurt them. Maybe they will lose weight and feel a little hungry - wow.

I totally agree with your other point that the cup of milk doesn't need to come from the other side of the country, too.

Re: Filo, the line that joins your dots

bru — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:56:12 -0000

[quote comment=""]This looks great, Riccardo. I love the simplicity and usefulness. Thank you![/quote]

Thanks, very happy you're enjoying it!

Re: Filo, the line that joins your dots

David Smith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:29:17 -0000

This looks great, Riccardo. I love the simplicity and usefulness. Thank you!

Re: Why procrastinating is bad

bru — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:45:56 -0000

[quote comment=""]Tutto e' allucinazione.. dipende da che cosa mangi =)[/quote]

Good point :)

Re: Why procrastinating is bad

Claudia — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:20:43 -0000

Tutto e' allucinazione.. dipende da che cosa mangi =)

Re: Juno made me feel good

Davide 'Folletto' Casali — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:43:04 -0000

I agree.
Completely.

I enjoyed Juno so much that I think that's one of the best films I've seen in months (years?) at the cinema. :)

Re: Relief

davidorban — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:02:07 -0000

Hey, Bru!

It'll be good to see and read more of you online. I am also curious, and if you can share a URL I'll be glad to take a look. Also of course I am looking forward to read about the lessons you learned!

Congratulations!

David

Re: Relief

David Smith — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:25:34 -0000

Wow — that looks so impressive, Riccardo. When you've surfaced again, I'd love to have a drink with you and hear all about it. Well done!

Re: wee-e-e-e-e-e-eek

David Orban — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:32:06 -0000

Thanks for your kind words, Bru! :)

The ETech trip went really, really well. There will be more coverage rippling through as people get around to post their articles, videos, etc., ourselves included.

It will be great to leverage your experience in a future session of brainstorming!

David

Re: Italian newspaper apologizes for missing links to UGC source (yay!)

bru — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:14:21 -0000

Federico: now that's weird indeed! The body of the blog post definitely had that message embedded, within "noscript" tags... I'll investigate, and thanks!

Re: Italian newspaper apologizes for missing links to UGC source (yay!)

Federico Fasce — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:59:39 -0000

[OT] Now that's strange. It seems that my feed reader is showing some spam advertising in the middle of your post. That's what I see on NetNewsWire:

[quote post="184"]In this post on the newspaper blog, Marco Pratellesi, chief editor at Corriere della Sera, apologizes for having published the gallery of the mysterious digital artist PaulthewineguyLauren lucas free us cellular ringtones section you will. without link nor references. Babysteps, yet steps they are.[/quote]

"Free cellular rigntones" is a link. NNW problem or something strange goin'on on your blog?

Re: How to loose a game user

bru — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:34:04 -0000

What an interesting and stimulating conversation we had here, and what a lousy bloglord I am for not having participated in it :-/

Anyway, my point here was very much in the direction that Folletto explored in the last comment: I agree with Tateru when he says that it is nice to know in advance "what'll be expected of you" during the game.
It's much like a novel: when the narration starts a contract is made with the reader - you trust me, I'll take you to a nice journey.

At first I thought this to be a problem of genre: I for example love games like FPS, Tetris, space combat simulators and all massive multiplayer games; on the other hand I don't like turn based, strategy and platform games. But here the problem is subtler.
Now I actually believe the skillset issue Tateru's talking about is more understandable if compared not to the genre of a novel, but to the language it is written into: language (together with sheer length and plot) is the main gauge of a book's complexity. To fully enjoy a novel it must be written in a language I can master: I, for example, even enjoying philosophy in general, if confronted with an essay written in XIII's century Italian may be able to read it, but would be really painful and hardly enjoyable because of a) the form of the language, so different from contemporary Italian and b) the topic and cultural background, since I'm not familiar at all with dark ages philosophy; it just requires skills that I don't have and that are too far out of my reach.

Re: How to loose a game user

Davide 'Folletto' Casali — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:25 -0000

[quote comment=""]And yes, I *like* hard games. The harder they make me observe, assess, think and plan the better I like it. What my body lacks is speed, and no amount of practice, unfortunately, is going to fix that.

Brains, not fingers. :)[/quote] I think that there are different types of hardness. :P

For example, a Godlike Unreal Tournament duel for me is "mind free", while for others is "wtf? I can barely see him! let's try...". I like that kind of hardness in that kind of game...

In other moments, I like strategic sims... i just finished Warhammer on the DS, a turn based strategy game. And I love playing Civilization. I like that kind of hardness too.

But, for example, give me a XBox, a Pad and a FPS, and I'm frustrated, since I'm unable to move well without a mouse in an FPS. Another kind of hardness, related to the learning process.

[quote comment=""]I'm not saying that the number of games for the finger-jockeys should be reduced - everyone wants something different out of their gaming - but it's nice to know in advance if I need better than my granny fingers to finish it. :)[/quote] That's an interesting point.

Now you got me thinking how many games I know that have some kind of in-game style change.

The first example is arcade mode games, where multiple games approaches are stuffed inside a "single" game. That's quite common on some coinups. I remember a Star Wars game here that was first a space starfighter sim, then a lightsaber fight, then an FPS... aaargh.

But also, I think about Wario Smooth Moves for Wii, and I think that in those context the switching hardness must be softened with simpler games.

But... now I HAVE to play Portal to understand what you're saying Tateru Nino and to think about it. :P