11 posts tagged “notcomet”
Dear Vox:
Hello. How have you been? I would like to ask: Where is my favorites feed? Vox is not my only website and I would like to virally amortize my eyeballs across the enterprise. Last time I mentioned this you lost the broken feed discovery tag on favorites pages, which I must admit was a clever solution while also being the exact opposite of what I wanted.
Also, thank you for fixing the links for tags with percent signs in them. Oh, and don't forget: singlethreaded comments. Just a thought.
Sincerely,
Mark
What I really want are automatic conduits: Comet should subscribe to feeds like Netflix movies at home and Last.fm recent tracks and load the content directly into my asset streams.
Just a thought.
Not that I have a horse in the QOTD race, but Kristine shows a possible solution to the problem of answering the question as worded when the title is different: include the question as a leading blockquote.
Reading this post of Winnie's, obviously:
So people who read about Starbucks monkey hats were interested in sea monkeys, Naughty Monkey shoes, and The Monkees. Obviously.
That's an awful lot of text in the post metadata section. Shouldn't all those actionable things be icons, both to take up less space and perhaps to feel more buttony?
Is there a way to view posts in my neighborhood except ones with a certain tag?
Like, say, qotd?
Favorite new feature so far:
Assets with comments are marked as such. Plus the k-rad comments icon. Nice!!
If TPTB don't want Comet comments to go the way of LiveJournal's ragged-saw-shaped threads, consider this, from Steven Frank's positive feedback for Digg comments:
2. Single level of hierarchy.
If you've ever seen a popular LiveJournal or Slashdot thread, you've probably seen deeply-nested comments that push the layout so far to the right, that it eventually can only fit one or two words per line.
Similarly, in a completely flat comment system, like this blog here, it can be hard to tell who's talking to who.
I feel like the single level of hierarchy offered by Digg is a nearly perfect compromise.
You can "reply" directly to a comment, and there is a visual cue for that. But you can't reply to a reply to a reply to a reply to... Because, really, what's the benefit?
I saw Ultraviolet last night. I seem to be very good at accepting movies on their own terms, because I quite enjoyed it whereas my friend didn't (and I think his wife slept through half of it). It was a good mashup of five or six action SF movies of the past eight years, with a few cool visual conceits of its own. The iconic imagery (buildings and windows in symbolic shapes) is overplayed a bit but that just makes it more comic book.
The title graphics make it painfully obvious you're in for a comic book style adventure, but as you can tell from the lack of a "based on" credit (and as Sci Fi Weekly points out) the character was written for the screen first. So it's a film adaptation of a comic book that doesn't exist. Sci Fi Weekly also notes the part was written specifically for Milla Jovovich (I thought from the trailer it was someone else, but no, it's her), so Violet is really this kind of Neo/Aeon/Leeloo character. (Aeon is probably the best one to mention, as Aeon Flux was itself a mashed up version of several action SF movies of the past few years.)
So my friend didn't like it. Fortunately it was his choice to see. He's already not seeing any film I recommend after I drug him to see The Weather Man, which was more depressing than even I expected. He much prefers comedies and action, just like my roommate, but don't get me started on that again. I think they're infecting me: I have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead from Netflix, and it has some great intellectual pleasures in it, and I've already had to stop it twice out of boredom.
(I tried to insert Ultraviolet as an asset, but I think it's a movie showtimes Amazon item and Comet was unhappy about that.)
As my invitee protocat wrote:
The one thing I adored is I think they finally solved the 'Friends' issue LJ has by offering three levels of connection instead of labeling everything you may wish to watch a 'friend'. I'm idly testing if it's socially awkward or not to simply 'connect' to several people I do not know except by reputation or because they interested me when I punched in 'NoBlogNoLife' into the connect search....
However if you want to read someone in your friends & family page, you really only have two levels of choice: make them friends or make them family. Your contacts should totally show up on the connections/all/ page, so I can add people I want to read but haven't even met as contacts, and avoid the autistic-social-software discomfort of pretending I'm someone's "friend" just because e has cool photos.
P.S. the 404 page reads, "You may continue to blog or use your bowsers back button." Someone should either fix the typo or add some dog pictures.
