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Comment on What’s wrong with the Nexus One? by paulbalcerak

paulbalcerak — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:11:15 +0000

I think I said this before, but I feel like if I'd never used an iPhone, the Nexus One would be pretty awesome. I didn't get a thorough testing of it (couldn't access the wireless network I was near over the weekend) but I was also mainly hamstrung by the awkward typing. Even after using it for a while, it took me a good 5-7 minutes to type a two-paragraph e-mail—way too long, in my opinion. (Tangent: Touch-screen keyboards should be standardized with regard to character/punctuation placement, the way QWERTY standardized where the letters go. The way the comma and period flank the N1's spacebar make for too many mis-clicks and beg for the phone to be thrown.) Pros: Screen is super crisp; it was nerd nirvana having a phone with a Google logo on it. Cons: I can't see the screen in the sunlight; there aren't enough apps; keyboard is frustrating; there's a delay in the UI a little too often.

Comment on What can news orgs learn from content farms? by paulbalcerak

paulbalcerak — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:23:20 +0000

You should syndicate this on the company blog

Comment on My personal backup strategy by David Friend

David Friend — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:34:44 +0000

Seth: Thanks for mentioning Carbonite. I’m the CEO and I’d love to be able to correspond with you. Could you shoot me an email? THanks.

Dave Friend

Comment on Twitter is not just for headlines by Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:23:57 +0000

Well yeah, that’s the “if you had the manpower” part. One person at a news org can easily get 1,000 followers built up in a relatively short amount of time. If each niche reporter were doing that, you could maybe get something going (like selling specified ads on section fronts).

Comment on Twitter is not just for headlines by Seth

Seth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:27:58 +0000

I agree about tagging sponsor Tweets with AD or [AD]. I’m not sure, though, that I would want ads in channel-specific feeds. Unless you’re a large news org, it seems like getting enough followers to those niche feeds to make them attractive to advertisers would be a challenge.

Comment on Twitter is not just for headlines by Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:38:10 +0000

I like the idea of timed Tweets. Another great idea, if you had the manpower, would be to split up your Web site/newspaper sections into their own Twitter feeds—sports, entertainment, etc. That way, you’d be able to target advertisers with more of a niche market. Sure, you can’t be positive that everyone following you likes sports (God knows there’s spam on Twitter), but you can reasonably assume that X percentage of your followers are legit.

My only thing from an editorial standpoint is that I’d want some kind of common label to denote the fact that each Tweet was an ad. For example, I loop my blog posts into Twitterfeed and I have it set up so that when a headline goes out, it’s preceded by “paulbalcerak.com:.” Similarly, I’d put something like “Ad:” in front of every sponsored Tweet.

Comment on A short URL service of our own by Twitter is not just for headlines « sethlong.com

Twitter is not just for headlines « sethlong.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:44:11 +0000

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Comment on My personal backup strategy by Extending the cloud with backup services « sethlong.com

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Comment on Short URL integration idea by A short URL service of our own « sethlong.com

A short URL service of our own « sethlong.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:57:38 +0000

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Comment on New job by andy

andy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:32:05 +0000

Congratulations on the new gig. Sounds very neat. Started one of my own just today.