Continuations

Looks like I managed to put the entire post into the title, so maybe I should have just tweeted it. But here is a little bit of background. I was talking to a friend of mine last week who has a newly released app in the app store. She told me that while a lot of people loved it, some hated it. She wasn’t so much offended by that but rather annoyed at her inability to respond to the negative reviews “in situ,” especially given that she felt that many of them completely missed the point of the ...

Yesterday was a fertile day for comments on comments: John Gruber, Bijan Sabet and then Marco Arment all provided interesting food for thought. For starters, I firmly believe that what someone chooses to do on their own blog is and should always be entirely their own decision. It is their property after all and nobody is forced to go there or interact with it. That includes the choices to have no comments at all, to have moderated comments, to allow comments *and* delete them after the fact (...

Yesterday, in my Tumblr dashboard, I saw a post by Marco about spam from Parallels. In it he saysI can confidently say that VMWare’s is the far better product. It’s much more polished, and most importantly, much more stable than ParallelsNow I have been running Parallels 4.0 since I switched to my Mac and I have been very happy with it (it has continued to be stable since I wrote my post). This is a simple (and single) datapoint, nothing else. Instead of blogging about this here (as I have no...

Spent some time today catching up on comments from my crazy Friday. I have already learned a ton from the thoughtful comments – many thanks! (Also thanks to Fred for sending folks over here). Replying to comments by email via disqus is super convenient for short comments. For longer comments, especially ones that refer to other comments or include links, I still need to see the web version, but maybe I will get better at that (hey – just started getting comments!). For some of the long and re...