Comments for OverRoll.com http://www.overroll.com Happenings In New Media Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 Comment on Teen Mobile Seminar Schools Adults by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/03/teen-mobile-seminar-schools-adults/#comment-66 morduun Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:57:04 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/03/teen-mobile-seminar-schools-adults/#comment-66 Do they teach their target adults how to speak leet, too? Surely it's not comprehensive training unless they're all able to respond 'LOL WUT' naturally to at least one sms. Do they teach their target adults how to speak leet, too? Surely it’s not comprehensive training unless they’re all able to respond ‘LOL WUT’ naturally to at least one sms.

]]> Comment on Microsoft Surface and AT&T Stores by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/02/microsoft-surface-and-att-stores/#comment-65 morduun Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:55:35 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/02/microsoft-surface-and-att-stores/#comment-65 I love the concept work on this thing. Very much anxious to see how it gets adopted on the consumer level, even though the first few projects are bound to be commercial/industrial. Face it, air hockey on one of these things would rock. I love the concept work on this thing. Very much anxious to see how it gets adopted on the consumer level, even though the first few projects are bound to be commercial/industrial.

Face it, air hockey on one of these things would rock.

]]> Comment on Who are Wikipedia Authors? by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/25/who-are-wikipedia-authors/#comment-43 morduun Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:41:05 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/25/who-are-wikipedia-authors/#comment-43 This is one big LOL. Know why? Because this ridiculous plan makes the fallacious assumption that so-called "experts in their fields" come, automatically, without "hidden agendas" (no doubt by virtue of the immense amount of money it takes to be acknowledged as an expert in one's field?). And how, by the way, does one identify a bona-fide "expert?" With a diploma? There are plenty of idiotic graduates, post-grads and post-docs in the world -- and by the same token, there are also plenty of highly educated individuals without credentials from academia. I can see this, possibly, working for strictly technical documents. Anything else is crap. This is one big LOL. Know why? Because this ridiculous plan makes the fallacious assumption that so-called “experts in their fields” come, automatically, without “hidden agendas” (no doubt by virtue of the immense amount of money it takes to be acknowledged as an expert in one’s field?). And how, by the way, does one identify a bona-fide “expert?” With a diploma? There are plenty of idiotic graduates, post-grads and post-docs in the world — and by the same token, there are also plenty of highly educated individuals without credentials from academia.

I can see this, possibly, working for strictly technical documents. Anything else is crap.

]]> Comment on Gmail Integrates with AIM by Brian Roberts http://www.overroll.com/2007/12/06/gmail-integrates-with-aim/#comment-27 Brian Roberts Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:19:17 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/12/06/gmail-integrates-with-aim/#comment-27 Is there going to be AIM in the Google Talk downloadable application (i.e. the Google Talk that you don't have be in gmail to use?) Is there going to be AIM in the Google Talk downloadable application (i.e. the Google Talk that you don’t have be in gmail to use?)

]]> Comment on Battle of the Bands by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/26/battle-of-the-bands/#comment-25 morduun Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:43:54 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/26/battle-of-the-bands/#comment-25 ( your crummy blog destroyed the link to wikipedia -- click here instead: http://tinyurl.com/3axvbu ) ( your crummy blog destroyed the link to wikipedia — click here instead: http://tinyurl.com/3axvbu )

]]> Comment on Battle of the Bands by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/26/battle-of-the-bands/#comment-24 morduun Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:42:55 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/26/battle-of-the-bands/#comment-24 Never ceases to amaze me how hype, loud music and trippy graphics can convince people that something like Simon -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) -- is something visionary, new and interesting. Kudos to the game team for confounding everyone: living proof that the oldest ideas are often the best. Never ceases to amaze me how hype, loud music and trippy graphics can convince people that something like Simon — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) — is something visionary, new and interesting.

Kudos to the game team for confounding everyone: living proof that the oldest ideas are often the best.

]]> Comment on Google Talk Integrates with AOL’s AIM by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/09/google-talk-integrates-with-aols-aim/#comment-23 morduun Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:15 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/09/google-talk-integrates-with-aols-aim/#comment-23 Meh. I already get ads on AIM. What will the Google angle add? Will it send users ads that are contextually sensitive to their chat? If so, I see a great windfall for porn sites in the near future. I mean, this IS AOL we're talking about here, after all. Meh. I already get ads on AIM. What will the Google angle add? Will it send users ads that are contextually sensitive to their chat?

If so, I see a great windfall for porn sites in the near future. I mean, this IS AOL we’re talking about here, after all.

]]> Comment on Feed M8 - Your Site Mobile, Distributed and with Rev. Share [FM8810-28] by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/18/feed-m8-your-site-mobile-distributed-and-with-rev-share-fm8810-28/#comment-22 morduun Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:15:57 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/18/feed-m8-your-site-mobile-distributed-and-with-rev-share-fm8810-28/#comment-22 Since most blogs already downgrade fairly painlessly to even the most craptastic mobile browser formats, I guess the point of this service is that if you already have a well-traveled blog, this service will allow you to collect ad revenue in the mobile format. Unless I'm missing something painfully obvious, it sounds an awful lot like a scam for these guys to skim some ad cash off the top of others' hard work. But then I'm a cynical bastard. Since most blogs already downgrade fairly painlessly to even the most craptastic mobile browser formats, I guess the point of this service is that if you already have a well-traveled blog, this service will allow you to collect ad revenue in the mobile format.

Unless I’m missing something painfully obvious, it sounds an awful lot like a scam for these guys to skim some ad cash off the top of others’ hard work. But then I’m a cynical bastard.

]]> Comment on Digital Cityscapes Are Social Media by jeff http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/15/digital-cityscapes-are-social-media/#comment-21 jeff Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:34:37 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/15/digital-cityscapes-are-social-media/#comment-21 wow...ditto what both of you said. (Meaning, you both said a lot and I agree with your overall sentiments). The only point I wish to make redundant again (yes, easy to do AND annoying) is the last word of the post, "meaningful." The funny thing is what is meaningful to me who grew up in the 70's, 80's and 90's is very different from what is meaningful to someone who will be using a variety of media with to which we in our generation were not privy. It seems perhaps the type of media may even shift what is meaningful. The rules of meaning and media may be evolving. wow…ditto what both of you said. (Meaning, you both said a lot and I agree with your overall sentiments). The only point I wish to make redundant again (yes, easy to do AND annoying) is the last word of the post, “meaningful.” The funny thing is what is meaningful to me who grew up in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s is very different from what is meaningful to someone who will be using a variety of media with to which we in our generation were not privy. It seems perhaps the type of media may even shift what is meaningful. The rules of meaning and media may be evolving.

]]> Comment on Digital Cityscapes Are Social Media by morduun http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/15/digital-cityscapes-are-social-media/#comment-20 morduun Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:23:06 +0000 http://www.overroll.com/2007/10/15/digital-cityscapes-are-social-media/#comment-20 Comment on the specific clip: I'm thinking that 'Clearly, this is artistic excellence' may be a slightly overenthusiastic comment. Clearly, the only people who care are the people the producers asked to film talking, because everyone else walks by and ignores the columns. It's a bit like the tree/forest/sound paradigm: if you make something interactive and nobody uses it, does it actually do anything? Comment on the more general blurb: sure, good rhetorical question, but it's the same one we've been asking for a few years now, and I don't think the needfully general answer has changed. People want to be given to, not taken from; advocates are created by perceived generosity or excellence, not insistence. If you can create a branded [Thing] that kicks ass and gives instead of takes, you're in the right zone. Comment on the specific clip: I’m thinking that ‘Clearly, this is artistic excellence’ may be a slightly overenthusiastic comment. Clearly, the only people who care are the people the producers asked to film talking, because everyone else walks by and ignores the columns. It’s a bit like the tree/forest/sound paradigm: if you make something interactive and nobody uses it, does it actually do anything?

Comment on the more general blurb: sure, good rhetorical question, but it’s the same one we’ve been asking for a few years now, and I don’t think the needfully general answer has changed. People want to be given to, not taken from; advocates are created by perceived generosity or excellence, not insistence. If you can create a branded [Thing] that kicks ass and gives instead of takes, you’re in the right zone.

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