Cameron Walters's dashboard

It looks like this was a one-time bug associated with moving to some new database servers recently. I'm seeing the correct name in all except 2 entries in your dashboard. Higher-level encoded characters were not ported across properly, and that caused a mangled character. Soon after, we cleaned out mangled characters and it looks like your real name was shortened during that process. Sorry Bjørn!

I've tagged the two similar threads with "url shortening service" to make finding them easier in the future.

Opening the door to other URL shrinking ideas would be awesome. See the similar request here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

I'm one of those 'all @ replies' people because that - like track - is an incredibly efficient way of finding new people with the same interests. – Marjolein Katsma, about 8 hours ago

I received additional, item specific, shelf life information this morning. 5 days on cooked sushi products and edemame. 1 day on sashimi and fresh fish sushi. 30 days on pickled plum, and Tsuke. I hope this information helps. – Jessie , about 9 hours ago

Prokofy, when I expressed appreciation for those two replies, it wasn't an attempt to classify you into some tribe or another. It was simply appreciation. Believe me, don't believe me... it doesn't change the fact that I found those replies helpful. Thank you also for taking the time to elaborate on your position on Track as a whole, as well as the Muting in SL (above). I haven't used SL (my 'net connection is too slow) so it was interesting to read about it. – mdy, about 10 hours ago

Posted on the Twitter Blog (May 12): @Ev talks about how @replies work in Twitter (and how they might work in the future).

The excerpt that's relevant to this Block discussion:

@Replies To You
If someone @replies you—note, this means they start a tweet with @yourusername—you will see that in your main timeline if you follow the person. But you'll see it in your replies tab, whether you follow them or not (unless you've blocked them)

Cameron, that is so true; I had completely forgotten about other services archiving our tweets.

For example, the various search engines (Tweetscan, Summize, Flaptor, Terraminds, not to mention Google!) all retain a copy of our tweets. Also, people who have opted to receive our tweets via email (e.g., Twittermail will send @replies to the recipients) still retain a copy of those tweets in their inboxes even after we delete our accounts.

It does seem like the best recourse (if we truly wish to avoid having our data copied) is to make our Twitter accounts private.

I really don't care who sees my content - everyone's welcome to read that. Even spammers.

"Block" I use only to avoid seeing *other* people's content - and I apply that only to spammers. And be cause it applies only to spammers, I need it to work in track as well. "Unfollow" doesn't even come in to it because I wasn't following the spammers in the first place.

If I block a spammer and that prevents /them/ from seeing my content, then that means to me block is broken. "Block" should apply only to whose content you don't want to see "passively": no replies, no direct messages, no track. (By "passively" I mean receiving their content without making the choice to go to their page.) "Block" is for those cases where "unfollow" just does not apply.

If I wanted my tweets to be private I'd set it to private - but I don't. "Block" is not for hiding your own content (or should not be).

But Twitter needs to be protected from spammers though, and the sooner the better. The sooner that happens effectively, the less need there will be for blocking.

"Right now, if you have an open Twitter account you are also making your life avaiable to be aggregated by any party online. They may gather that data or rebroadcast it elsewhere decontextualised from you, your network or the contexts in which you were broadcasting it."

I think you've nailed it. Twitter is a public (emphasis on public) medium. Many 3rd parties scan and aggregate its content. These third parties also store that data separately from Twitter itself. Deleting your public archive on Twitter won't hide anything you've already posted there from the Internet. It is the responsibility of users, however naïve, to be aware of the positions in which they place themselves.

People don't generally talk loudly about private matters in crowded public places where others can hear. Why should the Internet, where everything is recorded by one or many servers, be a better place in which to place private information? That goes doubly for a public forum like Twitter, where not only are public messages constantly copied into other 3rd party services, but also sometimes appear on the service's homepage as part of the public timeline.

I see, so you're saying that you'd like to keep your account and simply delete the content it currently contains.

While this tool won't get you a completely fresh start, there already is a tool to delete single "statuses" from your archive:

FYI: I'm seeing other people reporting problems with Flickr. Could be related: http://getsatisfaction.com/connectedf...

I agree that the situation is unfortunate. more so because of the the overly heavy-handed terms Apple has inflicted upon at&t. I recently joined the usability team at at&t mobility and while I tend to share your view of at&t (and all cell carriers in general) I have had a very up close and personal experience with the apple mandate within at&t. In short, at&t was so desperate to carry the iphone they sold their, and our, control over the plan structure for an iSong.

My suggestion is to hold off on any iphoneuntil after the 2nd version and after it's unlockable without having to jailbreak it. Hopefully a competitor with an opensource mentality will come along and cater to the user community more effectively.

On a side note, I joined the at&t mobility team to work on the microsoft surface table experience. Apple made it very lear early on that they will never, ever permit an iPhone to interact with the Surface interface. They are very nearly violent about the issue. Sometimes I feel like an ant caught in a thanksgiving parade route when these overweight mega-ego companies get going at eachother.

I bought the nokia n95 8g. not a touch interface but a seriously cool phone just the same.

cheers

1. I'm not here to play chef, and I don't care if people don't like my comments. I'm not available to be rounded up and put in the tribe. I'm here to defend a space that needs to be kept open. This is really a serious issue.

2. Uh, dearie pie, nice try assuming you can play psy-war and influence people and bind them into your little posses, but I'm not playing. If I've already labelled your activities and sussed out your motives, no need to keep repeating it -- unless you need a reminder again of just how fussing and controlling you are. Stop it.

3. I don't advocate the use of Block. I only have a few blocks on personally of people who were actually inciting violence and stalking of me in real life, and threatening to come into my home, beat me up, etc. or making horribly violent and vulgar sexually harassing sorts of statements. That would only be in a few and very extreme cases, like @jesatiu. People who express all kinds of hatred and such I don't bother blocking -- who knows, perhaps they might say something interesting, that is, if I bothered to follow them in the first place. If they talk about me and it shows up in my vanity track feed, great! Always good to get feedback, pro and con.

My point about Block is that I really can't object, even in the interests of both freedom of expression AND the importance of not drowning out critical voices in the public commons, if someone simply doesn't want someone else reacting to them in real time. That's different than trying to mount a vanity feed then shushing what you pick up from being curious and vain (which is ok to be on social media).

And it's pointless to bitch too much about Block because Block is the silliest feature of Twitter -- you can use it, but anyone can easily and legally, so to speak, go around it just by searching a person's name from within Twitter and seeing their whole page. I find it very infantile when people block me, because of course, periodically, I can go read up on their page or look them up in Tweetscan, and if I have some burning need, just for the record, I can write them anyway. And will go on doing so, even if track-block starts working.

I don't advocate Block because it means that people can try to prevent you from seeing content. I don't think any public space like Twitter or the Internet at large should be blocking people from seeing content. That defeats the entire purpose of the Internet. If you want a private conversation, go in an IM, an email, a DM. But to be talking to everybody, but trying to keep just certain people you don't like in the dark seems really stupid to me. It comes from fussy, controlling, irritable little tekkies and their culture, which we really need to work overtime to dissipate.

4. In Second Life, there is a "mute" function for both people and objects (because the objects can talk too). So you can pull up an interface and see the whole list of mutes. And no doubt Linden Lab can get the master top view of who is most muted, if they care to gather that information. If you come in a group situation, and that muted person is there, you can't hear them talk, although anyone else talking to them will be heard, of course. They will show up to you with a label over them "MUTED".

I find this horrible, and nasty, and really, a sordid little totalitarian culture in the making. I'm forced to mute people who spam, i.e. shouting horrible messages over and over on "shout" -- if you don't mute them, you can't see your screen after awhile, it floods. There are also people who are creepy stalkers, and it is not always possible to deal with them through the abuse report system. But other than that, I wouldn't bother muting people -- why not listen?

Having these mute lists in SL is good only in the sense that you can visually see if you've made a mistake -- in a crowd, or in a busy area, you might mute someone shouting a Bingo game or just being a spammer, and you might click on the wrong person by accident.

Really, anything that anyone thought up in Twitter or FriendFeed or Pownce in fact has been going on live, streaming, 3-D and interactive in Second Life for 5 years now. It has been a very usual accelerating prototyper.

5. "judgement [sic]" -- this sort of anal-retentive, fussy and *wrongful* kind of social grooming is what gives tekkies and forums-dwellers a bad name. Don't do it. This spelling *is* correct in Canadian and British English, although "judgment" is common in American spelling. My God, don't try to control other people, especially on something you're wrong about. And as for statements like this, "Please, please consider adopting a less combative stance in your replies if your intent is to persuade "-- grow a thicker skin and take some Tylenol for your neuralgia. I'm not available for Miss Manners classes and I'm not going to listen to church ladies outside my actual church. I don't care about persuading, especially not persuading by following some "terms of reference" in your church.

I don't expect there's a lot more to say on this topic unless you decide there's some new angle or you feel motivated to keep banging on my style of delivery. Do that, and I'll push back, but I'll have less and less time for it.

Prokofy:

1. Vinegar is also great in cooking. But you'll find very few people who would enjoy a meal where most if not all the dishes are flavored primarily with vinegar.

2. You may not realize it, but your conversation style has already been gradually changing in this thread. You are spending less time making conclusions about people's motives and more time explaining the points of your argument, as in the two replies above that I alluded to earlier. I appreciate that.

3. Could you kindly clarify your position for me? I already know you object to Block in Track. Do you also object to Block as it is now? I ask because an earlier reply of yours gave me the impression that you were fine with Block as it is now.

4. I believe I've already stated that I personally do not feel the need to review my Block List. However, other people do, as shown in the thread that I linked to.

Now that you mention it, it does sound like the second option doesn't come with CSS (you'd have to be a css genius to add your own).

Let's change these titles. How about "Simple code (Just drop this into your site, it will adopt your site's styles and blend right in.)" and "Advanced code (Comes with customizable CSS styles.)"

Hello All, I wanted to take this opportunity to join this disccusion and perhaps shed some light on a few issues. i have checked with the Cupertino store for more information regarding their sushi. As it is with many of our stores this the sushi is provided by a 3rd party company. The product must still meet our strict quality standards, but they determine the shelf life according to HACCP guidlines. Two days is the maximum shelf life, but as the safety mantra says, 'when in doubt, throw it out.'

Many of our stores will give away day old bread, produce and damaged, non-perishable packaged goods as long as they are still in the package and not spoiled. However, some food banks and charitable organizations have their own guidlines about what they will and will not take and will sometimes refuse what we offer. There are numerous liability issues here, both for these organizations as well as us.

Thor - making sushi for the day is a great idea. In fact, that is the plan we generally follow in any of our prepared foods areas. We look at last years sales and make projections. Actually, this process is followed in every one of our departments and affects production, staffing and ordering. If you think about it, we lose money by having to throw product away, so that's not really good business sense.

Regarding 'Whole Paycheck', I have heard that one since I started in 1997 and i'm sure it's been around quite a bit longer. The truth is, like Slaton said, we carry quite a few specialty and high end items which are quite expensive, but our private label products as well as our sales items offer a great value for customers that may be looking for high quality natural and organic products without spending a lot of money.

Amy - i'm glad you're not a hater.

please let me know if I can further address any questions. I'm really glad to participate in this discussion, this is a really great forum for connecting with our customers. Take care - Jessie