The next big thing August 23, 2006 4:33 PM Subscribe
What's it all for, anyway? Why do we fight? I mean, where's it going? What happens if the whole ball of wax just up and disappears one day? In short, why are we here? I'm speaking of Metafilter, of course! Pony-please: An admin blog detailing site-related news, plans in development, maybe a good call-out now and then. This seems preferable to combing MeTa for stray comments in re the next big thing.
status.metafilter.com.
Matt doesn't update it, really. So...
posted by boo_radley at 4:41 PM on August 23, 2006
Matt doesn't update it, really. So...
posted by boo_radley at 4:41 PM on August 23, 2006
seriously! can we convince matt to post updates to youtube? you know, like a vlog!? it's be great. then some jackass or another could post about it in the blue! and then we could call them out in the grey! IT'LL BE THE SAME, ONLY DIFFERENT
but seriously, i would love to have some insight into the mind of matt, but i understand he probably has larger fish to fry.
posted by casconed at 4:45 PM on August 23, 2006
but seriously, i would love to have some insight into the mind of matt, but i understand he probably has larger fish to fry.
posted by casconed at 4:45 PM on August 23, 2006
boo_radley... I was under the impression that status was just for server downtime info. I'm more interested in the community stuff: obviously, for instance, MeFi's having a growth spurt, and a lot of things are -happening-, new services (music, jobs, etc.) What's up with that? A month-long contest? Feels a little pre-IPO-ish.
posted by anotherpanacea at 4:50 PM on August 23, 2006
posted by anotherpanacea at 4:50 PM on August 23, 2006
I used to announce detailed plans in advance but I found after years of doing it that it often backfired. People would get really mean if something wasn't released on time (the biggest problem) or they would spend weeks chopping up ideas I floated as stuff I was working on, and I found I had to spend hours every day explaining and refuting instead of actually coding.
I prefer to surprise people with new stuff, and let a few people know it tiny out of the way places that something may drop soon when they ask for it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:01 PM on August 23, 2006
I prefer to surprise people with new stuff, and let a few people know it tiny out of the way places that something may drop soon when they ask for it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:01 PM on August 23, 2006
i would love to have some insight into the mind of matt
*aims psychotronic pringles-can mind-ray across the valley from the top of his lofty secret Cascadian volcano lair. staticky noises can be heard from a small speaker as mind-ray is being tuned in*
"fzzzzzZZTjellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans DAIKON BANHAMMER EXTRA CRISPY jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans recumbant flickr tag-cloud 1080i BBQ SANDWICH jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans dios is KARL ROVzzzzZZzzt" *FWOOMP*
Argh. I need to find a better source for my klystron tubes. These North Korean knockoffs of early Cold War era Soviet tubular antiquities is lackluster at best. That's the third one this week.
posted by loquacious at 5:02 PM on August 23, 2006
*aims psychotronic pringles-can mind-ray across the valley from the top of his lofty secret Cascadian volcano lair. staticky noises can be heard from a small speaker as mind-ray is being tuned in*
"fzzzzzZZTjellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans DAIKON BANHAMMER EXTRA CRISPY jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans recumbant flickr tag-cloud 1080i BBQ SANDWICH jellybeans jellybeans jellybeans dios is KARL ROVzzzzZZzzt" *FWOOMP*
Argh. I need to find a better source for my klystron tubes. These North Korean knockoffs of early Cold War era Soviet tubular antiquities is lackluster at best. That's the third one this week.
posted by loquacious at 5:02 PM on August 23, 2006
I prefer to surprise people with new stuff, and let a few people know it tiny out of the way places that something may drop soon when they ask for it.
k bye
posted by anotherpanacea at 5:08 PM on August 23, 2006
k bye
posted by anotherpanacea at 5:08 PM on August 23, 2006
Pony-please: An admin blog detailing site-related news, plans in development, maybe a good call-out now and then. This seems preferable to combing MeTa for stray comments...
If it means that much to you it's not actually that hard to keep tabs on MeTa and see what Matt's up to. When it's worth knowing I'm sure you'll find out - word spreads quickly around these parts. I've never really felt like there was a shortage of Matt and his thoughts here. Does he really need to do another blog? Anyway, I hear he's already frying up some large fish.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 5:08 PM on August 23, 2006
If it means that much to you it's not actually that hard to keep tabs on MeTa and see what Matt's up to. When it's worth knowing I'm sure you'll find out - word spreads quickly around these parts. I've never really felt like there was a shortage of Matt and his thoughts here. Does he really need to do another blog? Anyway, I hear he's already frying up some large fish.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 5:08 PM on August 23, 2006
A blog is a good idea. In addition I'd like quarterly reports and the option of 6-week 30 minute status meetings. Also mathowie, your going to have to start wearing a tie to work. This working in your birthday suit isn't going to fly anymore.
But seriously,
People would get really mean if something wasn't released on time (the biggest problem) or they would spend weeks chopping up ideas I floated as stuff I was working on, and I found I had to spend hours every day explaining and refuting instead of actually coding.
these aren't really problems. If you can't make release dates then designate release quarters or, heck, designate release years or decades. #1 rule of deadline estimation: there is some time scale at which the deadline can likely be met with high probability or the manager will die of natural causes. Choose the smaller. As for the whiners, you don't have to respond to them. Let them debate but you're the decider, dammit.
posted by nixerman at 5:23 PM on August 23, 2006
But seriously,
People would get really mean if something wasn't released on time (the biggest problem) or they would spend weeks chopping up ideas I floated as stuff I was working on, and I found I had to spend hours every day explaining and refuting instead of actually coding.
these aren't really problems. If you can't make release dates then designate release quarters or, heck, designate release years or decades. #1 rule of deadline estimation: there is some time scale at which the deadline can likely be met with high probability or the manager will die of natural causes. Choose the smaller. As for the whiners, you don't have to respond to them. Let them debate but you're the decider, dammit.
posted by nixerman at 5:23 PM on August 23, 2006
also let us reset our passwords.
posted by boo_radley at 5:36 PM on August 23, 2006
posted by boo_radley at 5:36 PM on August 23, 2006
I personally couldn't contribute to another blog come hell or high water. On the other hand, I'm usually not busy coding the site, so folks can always IM me and I'll make some wild-ass guesses which will deflect some of the heat from mathowie.
We probably should do a little better putting some adminish stuff in the sideblog, but that's probably as devbloggish as things will get. Maybe mathowie can get a webcam up and running again....
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:47 PM on August 23, 2006
We probably should do a little better putting some adminish stuff in the sideblog, but that's probably as devbloggish as things will get. Maybe mathowie can get a webcam up and running again....
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:47 PM on August 23, 2006
A diligent crew could track everything matt says and start their own blog about it. Not me, though. I don't do crazy things like that.
posted by cortex at 5:52 PM on August 23, 2006
posted by cortex at 5:52 PM on August 23, 2006
status.metafilter.com redirects to metafilter for me.. odd.
posted by twiggy at 6:03 PM on August 23, 2006
posted by twiggy at 6:03 PM on August 23, 2006
Thank you for this, too, Rhomboid.
I *gotta* get my laserdisc player set back up.
posted by baylink at 7:45 PM on August 23, 2006
I *gotta* get my laserdisc player set back up.
posted by baylink at 7:45 PM on August 23, 2006
Thanks, Rhomboid. Now I know what I want for Christmas.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:58 PM on August 23, 2006
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:58 PM on August 23, 2006
Fight
Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.
Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth.
Clots of red mess my hair
And the tiger, the buffalo, know how.
I was a killer.
Yes, I am a killer.
I come from killing.
I go to more.
I drive red joy ahead of me from killing.
Red gluts and red hungers run in the smears and juices
of my inside bones:
The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war.
Carl Sandburg
posted by edgeways at 8:20 PM on August 23, 2006
Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.
Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth.
Clots of red mess my hair
And the tiger, the buffalo, know how.
I was a killer.
Yes, I am a killer.
I come from killing.
I go to more.
I drive red joy ahead of me from killing.
Red gluts and red hungers run in the smears and juices
of my inside bones:
The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war.
Carl Sandburg
posted by edgeways at 8:20 PM on August 23, 2006
That's not the first time Matt has said that he's working on a jobs section of the site. He was talking about that before we ever saw Music.
posted by raedyn at 7:37 AM on August 24, 2006
posted by raedyn at 7:37 AM on August 24, 2006
It does appear it's being worked on; invalid/non-existent sub-sites bounce you straight to the blue.
posted by inigo2 at 8:33 AM on August 24, 2006
posted by inigo2 at 8:33 AM on August 24, 2006
He was talking about that before we ever saw Music.
he was talking about it before I joined. That was in 2002.
posted by dg at 3:16 PM on August 24, 2006
he was talking about it before I joined. That was in 2002.
posted by dg at 3:16 PM on August 24, 2006
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posted by buzzman at 4:36 PM on August 23, 2006