December 4th, 2007

It's Fan Time!

You've. Been. Warned.

Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)
In the wine (in the wine)
Make me happy (make me happy)
Make me feel fine (make me feel fine) 

Via Groundhog's Day and Infothought, Wikipedia has a secret mailing list:

The irony, Tobias points out, is that in using this mailing list, the Wikipedia inner circle is guilty of the same behavior they're trying to fight. "They're villainizing the so-called attack sites because these sites are promoting pernicious ideas about Wikipedia," he says. "The argument is that when a bunch of like-minded people get together, they're sounding boards for one another, and they end up getting way off base because there's not an opposing viewpoint around.

"But you could say the exact same thing about this secret email list: a bunch of like-minded people are encouraging each other's possibly wacked-out views and, in the end, making trouble on Wikipedia."

Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)
In the wine (in the wine)

Kara Swisher links to a video, We Didn't start this bubble, which is both funny and most likely prophetic.

Make me happy (make me happy)
Make me feel fine (make me feel fine) 

In the meantime, I received a copy of Nick Carr's The Big Switch with the old tag line, Our New Digital Destiny. I love free books, and since Nick is a good writer, I'm looking forward to reading the book and then writing a review.

Heck yes: if you want to give me free stuff, I'll write about it.

When I'm not channeling Don Ho, that is...

Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)
In the wine (in the wine)
Make me happy (make me happy)
Make me feel fine (make me feel fine) 

Comments
1
Bud Gibson - 5:29 pm 12/4/2007

The bubbles are fun.

The main stumbling block for wikipedia seems to have been how to do editorial. I wonder if you could just have a bunch of free range editors out there harvesting what's good. Hold it, maybe blogs do that.

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Doug - 5:57 pm 12/4/2007

A funny thing… I can't click on the comments in the right sidebar on this page. Well, I can click there, but nothing happens. And the hover effect doesn't happen, either.

The first comment entry works. The rest don't. Categories work. I don't have this problem on other pages. Firefox 2.0.0.10 on WinXP.

3
Elaine - 6:13 pm 12/4/2007

OMG that's totally HAWESOME. I could watch those bubbles all day.

4

he he he he he he he (I can't stop giggling)…

5

That’s great. :-) I love how the animation is right in your face while reading the text, yet doesn’t draw focus or reduce legibility. The only thing that would make it better is if bigger bubbles moved faster.

Weirdly, it changes the tone of the post in a way I can’t quite put my finger on. “I see what you did there”…

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Doug Alder - 11:54 pm 12/4/2007

Sterling, Shouldn't that be Ho ho ho ho ;)

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Shelley - 12:34 am 12/5/2007

Ha ha ha ha … ha?

If I had bigger bubbles than the song lyrics would be:

Bigger bubbles (Bigger bubbles)

See?

Doug, I'll check with Firefox on my XP. It should be fine, because the SVG document is restricted.

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Danny - 4:53 am 12/5/2007

Pretty bubbles! Remarkably tasteful…

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Shelley - 3:55 pm 12/5/2007

I've adjusted the width of the SVG canvas area so it's no longer overlapping the comments. They should all be clickable now.

Unfortunately, and oddly, it's done strange things to Safari. Nothing destructive, just odd.

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Doug - 4:17 pm 12/5/2007

Yes, that fixed it for me. Too bad about Safari, though…

11

I find the "effect" of the bubbles in webkit nightly funny after a while. Before they overlap another bubble that is.

(I would have posted this from webkit, but it said "You must put in a comment". Hm)

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the discussion. Comments are now closed, but you can contact the author of the post directly.