We ban griefers. We can even IP ban someone. But if someone really wants to get at a given blogger, they can via anonymous accounts. For those of you who have blogs who feel like they're getting stalked by trolls and other jerks, you can stop them. When you create an article, only allow registerd users to respond to your article. That way, you have some say over who can interact on your site. It's important to keep perspective on your blog site - IT'S YOUR OWN BLOG. You don't have to p...
This is a response to the associated link. Was going to make it a response but the amount of editing it would take made it too time consuming. So I used Blog Navigator Pro to do it up in its built in blog editor. Questions to conservatives: Why is it that the right attacks anyone who questions the war in Iraq for not supporting our troops, yet impugns a decorated war veteran's integrity, including things like purple heart band-aids? Why is it members of the military tell me tha...
It never ceases to amaze me how quick some people are to spit on those that are giving them something for nothing. Just so that others can be pre-warned, don't call me a "Nazi" or "Fascist" or any other hateful name. I don't have to put up with it. And I won't. I don't know what the deal is with the far left wing people on the Internet and their fixation with calling people "nazis" and such. Do they even realize that Nazi stands for National Socialist. They weren't right-win...
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Bummer, the artist we were trying to hire in from the west isn't going to be able to come. Now we're still stuck without a lead modeler on Master of Magic/Sorcery. The search continues.
Every do a favor for a friend or business associate only to have them not only not return the favor but nit-pick on everything you're doing. That's how I'm feeling right now. I feel like I'm volunteering time to help landscape a friend's yard only to have my friend sit there and nit-pick the way I'm digging or complain that I'm not going fast enough. Except this is in the realm of business. We have certain levels of custom service we're used to being able to provide to our cust...
Every so often I see someone say they're not going to blog anymore because they didn't get their articles featured to the home page or because there aren't enough comments on their blogs. I think those people need to ask themselves why they're blogging in the first place. Personally, I blog because I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating with others. And yes, I do want others to read what I write. But I don't sit back and wait for some automated system to promote my stuff...
So we went up to Higgins Lake. Had a good time there, particularly thanks to visiting with family there. My family isn't very large, there's not many of us. Since college, I haven't been very good at staying in touch with my family. Which is pretty lame on my part because there aren't that many people to stay in touch with. But when my sons came along and work started to be a little less crazy, I decided it was time to start trying to provide them the sort of rich experienc...
Frankly, I'm just astounded at some of the bickering and pettiness I see in the forums. There are hundreds of regulars but a few dozen have coalesqed into cliques. I personally don't get into on-line cliques. But I don't think there's anything inherently bad about them. The Internet should be whatever you make of it. As long as you're not hurting anyone, knock yourself out. Meet friends, talk to them, etc. I only worry about cliques when they start to resemble gangs. And I see a couple "ri...
Right Wing News ( www.rightwingnews.com ), has an interesting discussion about building up your blog's popularity. I feel a lot better having read it because I thought I was the only one who felt some of the frustrations he's felt. JoeUser.com hasn't "officially" launched yet. We're still technically in beta (i.e. we haven't done any promotion). Our Alexa ranking is around 25,000. Sometimes it shoots up when something written here gets particular attention bu...
I spent a lot of the day getting DesktopX 2.2 objects put together and testing. I'm trying to get DesktopX to respect it deserves. Here it is, the world's best, most flexible, lowest overhead, fastest, easiest to use "widget" creation application and yet there's still people anxious for Konfabulator for Windows or using Avedesk (which is nice) or Samurize or something else. So I've started assigning more engineers into creating content for it so that its coolness is more apparent....
As JoeUser.com heads towards being officially launched (probably in late August) I wanted to give you a preview of what's going on: Blog Navigator and Blog Navigator Pro. We're going to make Blog Navigator Freeware and then create a Blog Navigator Pro (anyone who bought the regular one will automatically get the Pro version). Blog Navigator Pro. This program has all the features of Blog Navigator plus some extras (more search capabilities for example) along with the ability...
Just got back from South Padre Island. Lots of run. The kids loved the ocean. We all got a little sun burned. Only downer is that my right ear is totally plugged. Went to the doctor while there and got a prescription...not that it helped any since the pathetic pharmacies there didn't have the anti-biotics. I really like South Padre island though. The people are nice and it's a fun vacation but I would hate to live there. It's like traveling back to the 70s in terms of technologies and r...
JoeUser.com is unique in the sense that it is, the first (and to my knowledge) only blog site that integrates all the blogs together into a single meta blog community. There are plenty of free blog sites out there. BlogSpot for example is vastly more popular than JoeUser.com is and in all likelyhood ever will be. But JoeUser bloggers get a few key advantages: Every site promotes every other active site/article/post. The blogger on Blogspot or some other blog is not li...
If you spend enough time in a net community you will run into all kinds of people. If you run a net community you have to make some tough decisions very quickly about what to do with some of these kinds of people. Some people, let's face it, are just bad apples. If you met them in person they might be perfectly reasonable, even normal people. But on-line something happens to them. They become aggressive, totally devoid of empathy, manipulative, emotionally needy to the point of demanding attenti...