Michael's Thoughts - Latest Comments

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Tech - Poking my Head Up

Michael Ridley — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:53:28 -0000

Baophac! How are you? Never been to Montreal...maybe some day?

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Tech - Poking my Head Up

BaoPhac Do — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:57:25 -0000

You're alive! come visit me in Montreal?

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - The Problem with Follow the Sun 24 Hour Tech Support

Proof — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:25 -0000

proof!

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - The Problem with Follow the Sun 24 Hour Tech Support

Shit — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:58:12 -0000

This is shit. Claiming it doesn't work but does not provide any proof.

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - Where Are All the iBooks Textbooks?

Michael Ridley — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:27:25 -0000

The point is - why doesn't YOUR company publish some iBooks textbooks with enhanced content for either training or marketing purposes (or both)? It seems like there is a big opportunity here for non-legacy publishers.Although at some point Apple will have to come to the table if they really want grad school textbooks from recognized names.

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - Where Are All the iBooks Textbooks?

Michael Ridley — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:32:44 -0000

Oh yes, I COMPLETELY agree. I do not expect to see Elsevier or Oxford University Press. I also do not expect to see O'Reilly and Associates. But I do expect to see the "next O'Reilly". I do expect to see people publishing textbooks from their bedrooms on things like Photoshop, the Eclipse IDE, or how to pwn an Xbox 360 game. Where are those books?

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - Where Are All the iBooks Textbooks?

Biddy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:27:20 -0000

mike, the largest publishers in the world are Science, Technical, and Medical publishers (STM). Their biggest profit centers are publish text books. they get to charge a lot of money for them. what is Elseviers, Oxford University Press, Walters Kluor, and other giant publishers motivation to make less money than ever?

Re: Michael's Thoughts - Blog - The Problem with Follow the Sun 24 Hour Tech Support

Blangollc — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:49:33 -0000

why dosent it work?

Re: Follow Up on Using Mediawiki as a Personal Document Management System

Gregory Kohs — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:22:01 -0000

But, is there a Mediawiki extension that allows for the CONTENT of the documents to automagically be scanned and included in the "Search" function results of the Mediawiki platform? That would be a key feature/benefit, in my opinion.

Re: Wiki as Document Management System

Michael Ridley — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:38:49 -0000

Adam,

It's working well. I don't use it as religiously as I could but for certain things like keeping track of confirmation numbers for phone payments and things like that I'm pretty good about. I also used it to get out of debt by keeping a budget and track of all my payments and that kind of thing.

I haven't been in the job market for a while but it's been very helpful in managing job searches.

And I try to keep track of technical stuff that I come across on the web in there, as well as documentation and notes on personal tech projects.

Overall it works really well. I did decide a while back that it was getting too sensitive to keep on a third party hosting site so I moved it inside the firewall at my house but that's a decision that people can make according to their needs.

Hope that's helpful!

-m

Re: Wiki as Document Management System

Adam — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:16:17 -0000

Hi Michael,

A few years on...

How is it working out for you, using MediaWiki to manage your documents?

I'd love something like Alfresco document management but without relying on separate software :(

Adam

Re: Cool Hunting Has a Vidcast

Men's Style Cool Hunter — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:02:39 -0000

Awesome vidcast!

Re: Richard Stallman on Pedophilia

burp — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:56:52 -0000

'Generally' implies exceptions, what are they?

My own position is that it's very hard to legalize these things by age in general. You're always making an arbitrary line which may be an average but you're still screwing over a minority to protect a majority from their own ignorance.

Re: Digest: Web Development, TechCrunch, OpenStack, Prezi and Balsamiq Mockups

Php Development — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:56:27 -0000

It is
really informative and valuable post.

Re: Digest: Hacker Spaces, R, Disqus, Social Media, Kinect Hacks

Mangler 2011.5.1 — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:38 -0000

oh michael great efforts..................

Re: Digest: Hacker Spaces, R, Disqus, Social Media, Kinect Hacks

Mangler 2011.5.1 — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:50:52 -0000

i think that michael has a good mind............................

Re: Digest: Web Development, TechCrunch, OpenStack, Prezi and Balsamiq Mockups

joomla programmer — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:44:36 -0000

Ridley, really great to hear your words. Also, great information on Openstack. You have done wonderful job by posting this useful article. Thanks again!

Re: Convore

Michael Ridley — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:44:11 -0000

Thanks for the comment!

Definitely it works to link to a topic on Convore. I think it's a strategy question for you guys - do you want to be a destination or do you want to be an infrastructure? If I were on your board of advisers I'd say go the infrastructure route. What you have now is great but the way to grow is to get your brand embedded across the web. There's nobody out there facilitating real-time social interactions on arbitrary sites and I think it's a big opportunity.

There are some execution questions but in general it would be great to see where my social graph currently is on the web and be able to have a real-time public conversation with them. If you build a reputation engine then you've got the best parts of Stack Overflow, Disqus, and Digg all in one. That would make for a very successful company.

Re: Convore

ericflo — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:37:43 -0000

Thanks so much for the writeup! We're excited about all the possibilities for using Convore on other sites in the future. One thing you could do right now is create a Convore discussion, and link to it at the bottom of the post. Someone did that and it worked out really well: http://ptone.com/dablog/201...

Let us know if you have any other suggestions, we love to hear feedback :)

Re: Trying MacJournal

James del Vechhio — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:08:28 -0000

Hey Man! Im a bit of a blogger myself I started my own here.... www.lemonparty.org Its sort of my own way to stick it to the man! Hope you like it

Re: Community College Libraries

James del Vechhio — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:07:09 -0000

Wow thats really cool! Have you had a chance to check out the women who works there? shes super hot and into chunky middle aged men you know! anyways good luck!

Re: Traffic Court Attire

strbksaddct — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:37:58 -0000

Ditto!

Re: Wiki as Document Management System

Chicago File Cabinet Keys — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:43:53 -0000

I wanna find more info about this, anybody could?

Re: Theme Update, Disqus and Twitter Tools Plugins

Lorena Bryant — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:01:21 -0000

I absolutely love Disqus and am happy that you guys are trying it out. I get all excited when I see other websites using Disqus, and it encourages me to leave a comment. :)

Re: Theme Update, Disqus and Twitter Tools Plugins

Fanceen Lopez — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:55:26 -0000

Disqus is probably the fastest commenting system in the internet to date. I highly recommend it to all of my clients. Great job!.I am Happy To Use Discus