November 2005

19Nov2005

Charles' Rules of Online Forums

By carlfish on

Since the boundaries of each age are defined by the participants, you will never truly convince someone else that your timeline for a forum's decline is right, and theirs is wrong. To them, you'll either be a jaded old fogey who can't see what fun everyone else is having, or you'll be a clueless newbie who has ruined the place, damnit.

18Nov2005

Dream Weaver

By carlfish on

Last night's dream (Well, this morning's dream. I always have the best dreams when I wake up, then go back to bed for a few hours) opened with me not knowing who I was. All the people around me were concerned - I'd been through some kind of strange time-travel event, and I wasn't allowed to do time-travel.

03Nov2005

Woolly Thinking Two

By carlfish on

Why would starting a blog help Walmart? Well, the conventional blogging wisdom is that they'd be entering into a conversation. A conversation with whom? Well, the relatively small number of people who pay attention to blogs.

03Nov2005

Woolly Thinking

By carlfish on

Once again proving that if you reduce a problem down to a series of nonsense metrics, you end up with a meaningless result.