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Posted by dan at 08:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Ok so a couple of things.  First, the web is an amazing place.  It not only lets you do cool amazing things it connects you with people in ways you just don't think are natually possible at times.

Last night I ranted and raved about my woes with Instapaper.  I got all down on the app, not realizing that the fault wasn't the app, but me and my multiple identity crisis on the web.  I had two accounts on Instapaper, not sure how that happened, but it did, and last night I looked at the wrong account. 

I know this now because of Marco Armet, the creator of Instapaper emailed me to explain what happened and clear Instapaper's good name.  Shame on me, bad user.

Users get frustrated with technology all the time, not fully understanding where the fault lies.  We often shoot first, and not so much as think.. but more of wonder, was that right?  I shoot first last night, as my expectations turned to dust. 

Until they build sensors into everyday products, the experience with this Instapaper mishap on my part could only be corrected via the web, or by me reaching out via the phone and going off on someone, but man that takes energy.  Bring on the smart coffee table, the self aware razor and the human sensitive sleep apnea mask. 

So my apologies to Marco and his app Instapaper.  And while my right brain is back to going "gah, another app to remember!" my left brain is overjoyed to see the data back and realize we have a blog entry to write now about the various ways to save data on the web.

Long live the paper.

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Posted by dan at 06:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

When Instapaper first hit the scene a few months ago I really liked the concept, so much that I started using it all the time thinking, ya, I'll get back to those reads.  Tonight was just one of those moments where I had time to look back at what I saved, and well?  Its all gone.  Instead of seeing a few weeks worth of reads, I see nada.. like three, one really old one and one new one.  I have no idea why my insta-reads are gone, and the site is so simple and so clean, I don't see where anything could of go wrong on my part, it must be the app itself.

Saddened by my loss of potential reads I'm bummed on two fronts.  One, I liked the idea, it wasn't delicious, and it wasn't bookmarks, it was something in the middle, a transitory place that didn't make a complete memory, ready to be absorbed when I had the chance.  It didn't clutter up my delicious, nor my bookmarks, it was nice.  Secondly I was gonna write a nice blog entry at work on how saving things on the web was getting easier, yet, here we go tonight, and I guess I can't talk about instapaper, something I had hoped to be a main point of my talk.  Drag.

When you're a beta junkie like me, its kinda nice when something really fails like this, bye bye instapaper my right brain says, good riddens, one less thing we gotta think about, save a place for on the bookmarks bar and line up in the to do list to remember to do.  My left brain is tormented by the idea of cluttering up delicious with a tag like "to_read" or "may_stuff_08".  But hey its one less thing to do overall, I think right brain wins. 

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Posted by dan at 09:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I really need to redesign this website, the blog, it needs a new fresh coat of paint.

Maybe I should put it up as a contest in some crowdsourcing site.  Speaking of which, they added a long time crowdsourcing site to the deadpool yesterday.  For yee new folks, deadpool is basically, you did an idea, built a biz, but it didn't pan out so now you're dead.  Like anything these days on the web, there's blogs and folks that follow the deadpool as well. 

So Cambrian House enters the deadpool.  I honestly say I never liked CH's take on crowdsourcing.  It just seemed like it was some design house type firm that did this site on the side, I never felt like it had a clear idea of what the site was about. 

Now I love the idea of crowdsourcing and its not going away any time soon, but making money on the idea may be harder than people thought at at first.  For me, its another strategy in staying in the awareness radar of consumers, you don't do it to get paid per say, you do it to stay on the radar.  Because where ever you find fresh ideas you typically find lots of people, hence the crowd. 

It looks as if CH sold out to Spencer Trask's investment firm who will spin it into VenCorps, basically reshaping the idea and attempt to lure more ideas from people for major profits.  If that can be had really, the crowd is pretty smart these days. 

The Techcrunch article and a recent bit in Read Write Web both have excellent reads and takes on crowd sourcing today. 

Last but not least check out brandtags!

Tags: brandtags, techcrunch, readwriteweb, floozyspeak, crowdsourcing

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Posted by dan at 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I ran across a few new things today for the blog and of course, I really need to redesign this blog in general so it can have cool video, tell you about places like beijing maybe france or even the kaossilator my favorite toy ever.  In general I love this blog, its me and more so its everything I do and feel like at various times in my life.  Its an archive of old thoughts, cool ideas, and reminders of where I need to go next. 

So that's it for this entry, lets see about jazzing it up in Apture and taking it from there. 

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Posted by dan at 05:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

This view has 5,967 hits.  Gotta love that goodness.. let's watch!

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Posted by dan at 11:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

CPAP is good for me.  Sleep Apnea no more, but its not all perfect sleep.  5 nights into my experience and already I can feel sores forming on my face around my nose.  :( 

You start relish this good night sleep thing so much that you start to fester over the finner details of the experience.  Like, I really want to get good air flow.  Sometimes I can feel the air leaking out the hose on the connector to the mask.  That got me in a tizy the other night, "am I leaking good air?" I thought to myself.

Then the mask itself, pressed up against your face, you take the discomfort of the pressure of the straps to hold it in place and firmly on ya so that you can get this good air coming in.  Sure you'll have sores, but you slept well.  You just take it, you really don't want the alternative after getting good sleep. 

Already my brain is scheduling time for me to go hit the net and find mask alternatives or any info on how to nip some of these discomforts outa the experience.

Tags: sleep apnea, apnea, cpap 

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Posted by dan at 09:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)