Or Arabic, or Chinese, or Dutch, or German, or Greek, or Italian, or Japanese, or Korean, or Portuguese, or Russian, or Spanish? Last night my Ross-my-IT-guy enabled translation of this blog into those languages via Google’s page translation service. I have no idea how well the translations work (since I don’t speak any of those languages), but if you are curious about how he did this, he blogged about Using Google Translation on your site.
One of my favorite things about blogging is that it lets you (if you have the courage) think out loud. As a blogger, you get to try out a bunch of ideas in public. As a blog reader, you get to see how other people think. We’ve been working with Kevin Menzie and his gang at Slice of Lime for a long time (since it was just Kevin and Jeff.) We’ve even got a small investment in them. They’ve got some of the best ideas and insights of anyone I’ve worked with on the web design front. I’ve encouraged Kevin to blog more aggressively about what he’s thinking and how they come up with their ideas. ...
I received the following the other day from Micah Baldwin, who is now running business development at Lijit (and is a deliciously hysterical person when he wants to make a point.) If I hear “Tell Brad his blog loads way too slowly” one more time (it has now surpassed “Are you too legit to quit”) I will shove a hot stake into my eye. Just thought you would like to know that you will be the cause of my soon to be eye-patch. ...
Feel free to ignore this post. Or – you can just laugh at the picture of a bunch of lame people trying to play Rock Band (the only one who wasn’t lame was the singer.) However, I think there will likely be a reunion tour, much to Katherine ‘s chagrin. If you were wondering why Facebook’s search function is so lame , Katherine has some thoughts on this. Just don’t take her on in Scramble – she’ll destroy you.
I love blog comments – I think of them as the Dark Matter of the Blogosphere. I haven’t been able to get an accurate count of the total number of comments floating around – my guess is that there are somewhere between 1 billion and 10 billion. That’s a lot of comments. I’ve also talked about The 80-19-1 Rule in the past. In blogging, the 1% are the bloggers, the 19% are the commenters, and the 80% are the readers. However, up to this point, the tools for the 19% suck. ...
Debbie Weil grabbed me at the New New Internet show and made me answer a question about blogging. Even though it is only 60 seconds long, I did manage to get the word “shit” into the interview. “… likable, rumpled and forthright” indeed.
I’m just testing all the little pieces of Feld Thoughts to make sure that our upgrade to Movable Type 4.0 worked properly. So far I’m very pleased with the upgrade – the UI of MT is 31,415x better.
Those last two posts could have been subtitled “Vacation makes me verbose.” I guess limiting myself to 140 characters is what my Twitter account is for.
In general, Movable Type has worked great for me across the various blogs I maintain although I periodically fantasize about switching to WordPress . However, during an upgrade along the way, we accidentally switched the name mapping from text to numbers. We figured out a hack for this, but Ross (my IT guy) finally sat down and figured out the correct solution. The following is the best approach we could figure out for anyone that wants to figure out how to “remap MT URLs.” If you are not an MT nerd, please punt on this post. Oh, and if you subscribe via RSS and got duplicate updates for all the recent posts this is why – since the URL’s changed the feed got updated (sorry about that.) ...
Shortly after reading an article in the NY Times this morning by Bob Morris titled Global Yawning I received the following email from a reader of this blog: I’ve noticed that I am skipping your blog posts with increasing frequency. The reason is that the “What a great team! What a great product!” posts about your portfolio companies seem to be an increasing proportion of the total (it may not be true – I haven’t run the numbers – but “perception is reality” anyway). At this point you may write a post that says that Newsgator is a crappy company but all I will see is “Newsgator” and I will move on. As an entrepreneur, I would love to have such a dedicated, high-profile investor-evangelist. However, as a reader I feel that the “advertorial” content is starting to chip away at the foundation of your otherwise excellent blog. ...