Comments for Wildilocks Can Has Journal?

Comment on My anti-FB anger, it still burns brightly. Sorry about that. by Connie

Connie — Sun, 16 May 2010 06:05:14 +0000

I think there might be wider adoption after the first few builds and they focus more on user useability (I can’t believe I just typed that) than just coding the thing and getting it out there. The aim should be something like Wordpress that is easy to setup and maintain for the average non-geek, but is endlessly tweakable and customisable.

I guess the other thing is whether the general public actually care that much about Facebook’s privacy policy? I think most people’s incentive to move is if a great number of their social network also moves, and from what I’ve read of Diaspora its meant to exist on top of social network sites like FB and Twitter.

Anyway, I’ve appreciated the Twitter links. I’m still on the site for various reasons, but it’s made me re-evaluate how I should be using the website.

Comment on My anti-FB anger, it still burns brightly. Sorry about that. by Rich

Rich — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:48:16 +0000

Can a social networking site actually be useful (for some purposes) *without* a fairly cavalier approach to privacy? The reason Facebook is useful to many people (about 75% of my real-life contacts at the last count) is that it’s fairly universal, because it’s designed to encourage (or force) you to widen your friend set and share information with those people.

LiveJournal doesn’t work in this context (it’s a fine place to publish essays, rants and digressions) because it doesn’t connect you with many people (maybe 10% of my friends use it). Twitter doesn’t do that either because its an unfiltered stream of information, dominated by whoever’s shouting the loudest (a hashtag killfile would be a fine addition for a twitter client). It also doesn’t provide any real directory, and I’m seeing about 20% or less coverage, with less than 10 dominating the tweets.

I don’t think Diaspora will progress beyond a niche for the reasons you give, plus the fact that it has no obvious new feature and will, by the very act of being “ethical”, limit its ability to grow the userbase.

Anyway, I firmly believe that everyone has a right to use (and create) any kind of software/service that they want (with the obvious exceptions). That’s why I oppose things like the Great Firewall Of Oz/China. In some ways, social networking is like drugs - grown-ups of all ages have a right to make their own good and bad decisions about what they choose to use.

Comment on Protected: American Kiwiburn 2009 by Cass

Cass — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:55:52 +0000

Comment on Protected: American Kiwiburn 2009 by Mikolaj Habryn

Mikolaj Habryn — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:38:11 +0000

Comment on LHC by bed42

bed42 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:35:47 +0000

Personally, Ive always wondered what it would be like to experience time-dilation near the event horizon.. bring it on!

Comment on We has a new Wildilocks flyer! by Cass

Cass — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:55:50 +0000

Thankyew! And especially thankyew for commenting over here!!

Comment on We has a new Wildilocks flyer! by james

james — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:30:29 +0000

LOVES IT!

Comment on YARRRN! by Cass

Cass — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:58:00 +0000

Hey hey, for some reason I can’t post! It keeps coming up saying “you are trying to post in the future.” Do I have to do some wacky time thing? I’ve changed my timezone setting and everything. Argh!

Hmmm, that is very odd. Have you accidentally changed the timestamp [about half way down the right hand options on the write page]? If not perhaps try backdating post to see if it will post?]

Also your comment here shows that Open-ID seems to trump the LJ usericon, which is less than ideal, but I think if you have a gravatar might be able to use both…

Comment on YARRRN! by http://paisley-blue.livejournal.com/

http://paisley-blue.livejournal.com/ — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:47:53 +0000

Hey hey, for some reason I can’t post! It keeps coming up saying “you are trying to post in the future.” Do I have to do some wacky time thing? I’ve changed my timezone setting and everything. Argh!

Comment on Iiiiiiit’s Caturday! by Cass

Cass — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Test!