Tag Archive: networking

Your Blog is Not a Community

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-11T04:14:07Z in Personal Development, Technology, with these tags: blogging, commenting, comments, communication, computers, internet, networking, wordpress, 8 Comments. 804 words.

Most blogs consist of one person commenting on the world, and a whole bunch of people passing by, spending five minutes to skim several posts, and perhaps making a comment or two. These people move on to never return, and they are replaced by more people who in turn do the same.

While blogs are typically considered more communal than typical websites, they may in fact be less so. Other websites have forums which receive hundreds of posts per day from established and respected members. That is a community. Blogs have comments. If you’re lucky (like with this blog), they are …

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Putting Users First

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-03-02T04:08:17Z in Personal Development, Technology, with these tags: computers, internet, networking, theory, usernames, 19 Comments. 1,078 words.

In the United Kingdom, some six million domain names are registered under the .co.uk suffix. While yourname.uk would be preferable to yourname.co.uk, such registrations are banned.

This adds up to thousands of lost hours among computer users and much more wasted space. UK residents have to type the extra “.co” for every domain they visit, communicate, or advertise. Clearly, the UK does not put its users first, or the lengthy subdomain would not exist.

One practice common among universities is to give students second-rate email and blog addresses. My email address at Daytona State College is the ridiculous richard_thripp@falconmail.daytonastate.edu. Blogs take …

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The New Thripp.com

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-01-23T00:35:17Z in Technology, with these tags: networking, photographers, programming, thripp.com, 6 Comments. 123 words.

I’ve been absent from blogging lately, but the past two days I’ve been working on programming the new Thripp.com, a photography community. You can sign up there and upload your best photos to a gallery so other members can comment on them. The new Thripp.com replaces the old WordPress MU blogging service, and I deleted all the blogs and accounts I deemed as spam. The old Thripp.com (this) is closed to new registrations, and the 80 blogs it has will remain in place.

I posted 34 photos to Thripp.com. You can comment on them and other users’ profiles, there’s a …

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