Comments for dot unplanned http://mph.puddingbowl.org finger doesn't scale Thu, 22 May 2008 18:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Elite XC on Showtime by Jack McManus http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/02/10/elite-xc-on-showtime/#comment-4030 Jack McManus Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:01:12 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/?p=631#comment-4030 <p>Good review...i cant stand Bill Goldberg either. I hope EXC tightens things up to give UFC a challenge and bring the best out in both promotions</p> Good review…i cant stand Bill Goldberg either. I hope EXC tightens things up to give UFC a challenge and bring the best out in both promotions

]]> Comment on Season’s Greetings Mk II by k. http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2008/01/02/seasons-greetings-mk-ii/#comment-4026 k. Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:12:03 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2008/01/02/seasons-greetings-mk-ii/#comment-4026 <p>I'm a big fan of multimedia productions, particularly when the media forms include canning jars, sugar, home print jobs, and engrossing short stories. Your post doesn't do justice to the total media environment you produced over the holidays. Fabricated corporations with back stories, and meta back stories and real products. I imagine someone will soon inquire into Finch's ghost writer. Indeed, the moment is now! Any other tales in the works? </p> <p>signed, </p> <p>a fan</p> I’m a big fan of multimedia productions, particularly when the media forms include canning jars, sugar, home print jobs, and engrossing short stories. Your post doesn’t do justice to the total media environment you produced over the holidays. Fabricated corporations with back stories, and meta back stories and real products. I imagine someone will soon inquire into Finch’s ghost writer. Indeed, the moment is now! Any other tales in the works?

signed,

a fan

]]> Comment on Season’s Greetings by gl. http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4009 gl. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:32:00 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4009 <p>i want to adore its weirdness but feel i am missing some hidden meaning.</p> i want to adore its weirdness but feel i am missing some hidden meaning.

]]> Comment on Season’s Greetings by mph http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4007 mph Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:39:59 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4007 <p>Just squeezing every drop of value out of that .Mac account. :-)</p> Just squeezing every drop of value out of that .Mac account. :-)

]]> Comment on Season’s Greetings by gl. http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4006 gl. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:34:52 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/30/seasons-greetings/#comment-4006 <p><em>blink</em> </p> <p>erm. what?</p> blink

erm. what?

]]> Comment on Peter Jackson to Produce Ben’s Geek Gateway Drug by Jim Zoetewey http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/18/peter-jackson-to-produce-bens-geek-gateway-drug/#comment-3998 Jim Zoetewey Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:59:53 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/18/peter-jackson-to-produce-bens-geek-gateway-drug/#comment-3998 <p>I don't think you need to worry about the prequels much. My kids have seen them.</p> <p>I've been amused to notice that when they've pulled out the original movies they watch them. When they've decided to watch one of the prequels (particularly "The Phantom Menace"), they tend to get up and play and pay little attention to the movie.</p> <p>To my mind, the casualness of their reaction to the prequels is more damning than the loud disappointment of some fans.</p> I don’t think you need to worry about the prequels much. My kids have seen them.

I’ve been amused to notice that when they’ve pulled out the original movies they watch them. When they’ve decided to watch one of the prequels (particularly “The Phantom Menace”), they tend to get up and play and pay little attention to the movie.

To my mind, the casualness of their reaction to the prequels is more damning than the loud disappointment of some fans.

]]> Comment on Peter Jackson to Produce Ben’s Geek Gateway Drug by Michael Burton http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/18/peter-jackson-to-produce-bens-geek-gateway-drug/#comment-3996 Michael Burton Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:38:43 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/18/peter-jackson-to-produce-bens-geek-gateway-drug/#comment-3996 <p>George Lucas Bad Touch, Daddy!</p> George Lucas Bad Touch, Daddy!

]]> Comment on They Just Don’t Make These Weekends Long Enough by gl. http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/03/they-just-dont-make-these-weekends-long-enough/#comment-3986 gl. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:56:28 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/12/03/they-just-dont-make-these-weekends-long-enough/#comment-3986 <p>oh, mph, "this is not right and it must be fixed!" is just begging to be the beginning of a series. but i'd also like to see what else ends up under the "yogurtlids" tag.</p> oh, mph, “this is not right and it must be fixed!” is just begging to be the beginning of a series. but i’d also like to see what else ends up under the “yogurtlids” tag.

]]> Comment on Updated, Now With Linky Goodness! : Hey, Mike! How Do I BUY IWORK ‘08 FROM APPLE? (heymike #003) by Scott Regan http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/07/hey-mike-how-do-i-buy-iwork-08-from-apple-heymike-003/#comment-3978 Scott Regan Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:53:15 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/07/hey-mike-how-do-i-buy-iwork-08-from-apple-heymike-003/#comment-3978 <p>Thanks for the link! you saved my presentation yesterday (and sounds like a ton of time as well)</p> Thanks for the link! you saved my presentation yesterday (and sounds like a ton of time as well)

]]> Comment on The Things Make Us Stupid by mph http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/24/the-things-make-us-stupid/#comment-3977 mph Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:00:30 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/24/the-things-make-us-stupid/#comment-3977 <p>Thanks for the link, Ed. I used it on a <a href="http://www.opennetworkstoday.com/archives/2007/11/facebook_backla.html" title="Creepy, Clingy, Not Interested In Saying Goodbye" rel="nofollow">Facebook entry on Open Networks Today</a> (along with an entertaining Cory Doctorow read). </p> <p>gl.: </p> <p>I don't have an issue with Amazon links across the board. The way you're using them is certainly non-objectionable. You used the product in question as part of your business ... that counts as a suitably transparent endorsement, I'd say.</p> <p>For myself, when I'm thinking big about my blogging it's usually in the form of doing more game or movie reviews or commentary. As a long-term question, I wonder (and it really is just wondering ... I don't know the answer) if my reviews would lose some integrity over time. And I wouldn't be able to expect people to take the good reviews as seriously if they saw an attractive Amazon link arranged at the bottom. </p> <p>I also wonder if there would be a transparent way to remedy the reasonable doubts visitors could be expected to have about the highest rated reviews. I guess the best thing to do would be to just write really awesome, thorough, well-reasoned reviews and expect people think for themselves. And maybe I'm overthinking it. </p> <p>I like the way John Gruber handles a lot of his affiliate linking on Daring Fireball: He links to Apple hardware and software. We know he's a total Mac partisan, so it's not like he's tilting reviews to get people to impulse click through his links. And it's much more clearly positioned as "help me make something to run my site" and less as "Leopard 5 stars essential upgrade omg lol buyz!!1!!"</p> <p>I guess in an ideal world, things like Amazon links would be more organic and in-line. I have a problem with them in the context of an alleged "review."</p> <p>OTOH, re: Gruber: I don't like it when he comments on the products his ad sponsors are pushing. He mentioned getting an eval unit from one of his advertisers, and that struck me as problematic ... free stuff AND the chance to curry favor with an advertiser.</p> Thanks for the link, Ed. I used it on a Facebook entry on Open Networks Today (along with an entertaining Cory Doctorow read).

gl.:

I don’t have an issue with Amazon links across the board. The way you’re using them is certainly non-objectionable. You used the product in question as part of your business … that counts as a suitably transparent endorsement, I’d say.

For myself, when I’m thinking big about my blogging it’s usually in the form of doing more game or movie reviews or commentary. As a long-term question, I wonder (and it really is just wondering … I don’t know the answer) if my reviews would lose some integrity over time. And I wouldn’t be able to expect people to take the good reviews as seriously if they saw an attractive Amazon link arranged at the bottom.

I also wonder if there would be a transparent way to remedy the reasonable doubts visitors could be expected to have about the highest rated reviews. I guess the best thing to do would be to just write really awesome, thorough, well-reasoned reviews and expect people think for themselves. And maybe I’m overthinking it.

I like the way John Gruber handles a lot of his affiliate linking on Daring Fireball: He links to Apple hardware and software. We know he’s a total Mac partisan, so it’s not like he’s tilting reviews to get people to impulse click through his links. And it’s much more clearly positioned as “help me make something to run my site” and less as “Leopard 5 stars essential upgrade omg lol buyz!!1!!”

I guess in an ideal world, things like Amazon links would be more organic and in-line. I have a problem with them in the context of an alleged “review.”

OTOH, re: Gruber: I don’t like it when he comments on the products his ad sponsors are pushing. He mentioned getting an eval unit from one of his advertisers, and that struck me as problematic … free stuff AND the chance to curry favor with an advertiser.

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