shawn farner - Latest Comments

Re: If you can’t tip, don’t go out

jim telen — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:49:56 -0000

hey dumb ass, servers get 2.83 an hour and your tip is there way of living. So dont tell anyone in here its bonus cash. This isnt Europe so lets get that strait. If you want to not tip then maybe you should move there. If you have money to order food, you have money to tip good. If not, stay home, or go to McDonalds. Its people like you that are cheap and ignorant and its people like you that should stay home with there tv dinner. I would LOVe to see you serve a three table section with rude ass's like yourself sitting in the seats who think your tip is keeping your job and getting paid 2.83 an hour, fucker.

Re: Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Jim Armstrong — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:20:23 -0000

I just stumbled across this, and resonated with the "staying in the loop" business. I don't know if this either quacks or waddles like a solution, but there is a fellow who creates filtered compilations of topical links that I use for a purpose different than yours. You can check out his Cyanova Science News headline/link compilation. I do something similar with science/religion, but he automates his - I'm not that sophisticated. I don't know if you'd be interested in doing something with Jeff Clark, -- www.cyanova.com/JeffClark.html -- but just in case, I thought I'd point you to him.

The value of these is that the headlines can be skimmed, and the links clicked for only the ones of interest. The former offers awareness value, the latter the specifics.

Regards -

Re: My little project

shawnfarner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:10:44 -0000

Which organizations do you mean? That is definitely something I could look into.

Re: My little project

shawnfarner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:10:12 -0000

Thank you! :)

Re: My little project

MattyFo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:38:56 -0000

Awesome work so far and a great idea. It's like idealist.org but more nichey and so better served, have you also considered working with local government organizations?

Re: My little project

Alicia — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:37:49 -0000

Good for you!

Re: Are we sharing too much on social networks?

slotsonline — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:04:17 -0000

I think that we share too much of our lives online. Sometimes, I think that we should spend less time online.. and more time interacting with people in the real world.. where we tend to say less.

Re: Stop talking, start doing

technosailor — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:27:05 -0000

Lead the revolution, dude.

Re: Stop talking, start doing

Alicia — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:54:32 -0000

I really like this approach. :) Honestly, it's what matters in life, isn't it?

Re: Why I’ll skip the iPhone and keep my BlackBerry

william — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:01:42 -0000

i agree with u i like the blackberry better anyway you are not alone

Re: Can I blog from an iPhone?

allan_tyler — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:50:33 -0000

I am very surprised to know that. If it is accessible on iPhone then I think it will be available on other mobile platforms as well. I think these are fruits of all new modern technology.

Re: Where I’ve been and where I’m going

allan_tyler — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:04:04 -0000

The bad thing about us, we always lazy to post on our own blogs. Perhaps it is modern internet and blogging dilemma. Anyways it is difficult to focus everywhere but we always enjoy writing.

Re: The IUP Yammer Experiment

mapls — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:33:31 -0000

Thanks:)

Re: Transparency is a joke

homemade gag gifts — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:21:46 -0000

you are not invisible lol

Re: 5 ballsy social media predictions for 2009

allan_tyler — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:38:29 -0000

I also think that there is no room for Plurk in 2009 and it will vanish from everywhere.

Re: Transparency is a joke

Aaron — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:34:57 -0000

Agreed. To all of it.

I too had a Xanga account back in high school and would have to think for a few hours what my username would have been back then. Probably something about magic or the Blue Angels, things I enjoyed doing and reading about that were fun, not professional. Now, all of my usernames are first name and last name, or first initial last name. All professional and grown up. But is it really me. No, it's not. It's who I'm trying to be.

One thought: as we grow up, and as we grow out of the Xanga page and get our very own Wordpress.com account or self hosted wordpress blog, our interests change and develope and our perspective on our interests change. For example, back in high school I was amazed at the performance the Blue Angels could put on and I most likely wrote about my enjoyment on my Xanga website. But now, with a more analytical mind, I would write about the technical aspects of their performance and how nearly impossible it really is based on all of the facts about their flights. Same passion, different view.

But still, your point stands. The more grown up version of the Blue Angels is probably clean and crisp, maybe even wearing a tie, and quite honestly, is probably boring to look at and read.

Great post.

Re: Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Aaron — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:40 -0000

Shawn, congrats on the position!! Sounds like an incredible opportunity :-)

Re: Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Budi Putra — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:44:52 -0000

Welcome to the SlashGear's big family, Shawn!

Regards

Budi Putra
SlashPhone / PhoneMag / iPhoneBuzz

Re: 5 ballsy social media predictions for 2009

Lord Matt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:23:01 -0000

While 5 is a nice idea I have doubts that the big players in the music industry would know what's good for them if it ran up and bit them. That's why economic crunches are good for the system - they help us shed unproductive hogs out of the market.

Re: Operation: FreeReach

chrisbrogan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:14:50 -0000

Connect with Beth Kanter ( @kanter) and Dave (@iamdave ) and all the folks in that sphere. You're right that we need to do more, but it's also being done. We should work with the gang doing neat things.

Re: 5 ballsy social media predictions for 2009

Handi_Ramp — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:22:31 -0000

To be very true, Internet is furious so behavior of internet users as well. What I assume and predicted lastly, that was just rubbish but who cares? Anyways, Rather than predicting anything, I shall like to see all those predictions in reality.

Re: On moderating and deleting FriendFeed threads

shawnfarner — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:03:47 -0000

Kudos to Chris, by the way - he pointed out Dave Winer's deleted thread and that's what inspired this post.

Re: On moderating and deleting FriendFeed threads

rorowe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:48:37 -0000

Agreed. If you don't want to share it, don't. I *will* moderate for extreme language, but that's something that FriendFeed should be watching out for as well.
Just a thought.

Re: On moderating and deleting FriendFeed threads

redhat — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:40:58 -0000

I can't see any reason for removing somebody elses comment unless it was extremely offensive. And even then I would more likely hide it.

Re: On moderating and deleting FriendFeed threads

chrisbaskind — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:26:10 -0000

We've been talking about this tonight. I *routinely* delete duplicate stuff in my stream. I've also thought twice about something I've posted and thrown it away.

But not after comments are made. I think comments are part of the public commons, and aren't mine to delete. I can think of a few extreme exceptions -- obvious libel or something illegal, maybe. But zapping a thread is pretty rude.