commandN: commandN #102 (August 30th, 2007)

On the occasion of your video titled “commandN 34 spotLIGHT - Interview with Frank Gehry” which we watched in YouTube, we would like to inform you that greekarchitects.gr is launching a new WebTV station about architecture and decoration.

In case you are interested in being a part of it, you could send us your video in its original format (wmv, mpeg, vob etc) so that we can include it in our programme.

You can send us your video by email at: [email protected] if it's not bigger than 20MB, otherwise you can mail it to our postal address:

35 Galli Rovertou St.,
Acropolis - Athens (11742)
Greece

We could also download your video from a server as indicated by you , or you can upload in our server.

greekarchitects.gr is the biggest e-zine of architecture in Greece, being on-line since 2002, with 10.000 registered users and more than 50.000 guests monthly.

Thank you in advance,

greekarchitects.gr team

Posted by: greekarchitects.gr | August 31, 2007 at 01:21 AM

@greekarchitects.gr:

Great! Thx so much for the heads up...I just spoke to someone via web cam about the fires in Greece:

http://www.citynews.ca/international/day/8-30-2007_1000.aspx

From all of us on commandN, I hope that your families are safe ;).

-Amber

Posted by: Amber Mac | September 01, 2007 at 07:37 AM

Hey.. Why isn't this show in the feeds yet?

Posted by: Chris | September 02, 2007 at 05:05 AM

I am still waiting for the h.264 version to be available for download from iTunes.

Posted by: rick | September 02, 2007 at 02:28 PM

Hey guys,
thanks for the link on that A.D New Orleans comic book about the Katrina victims. It was really good and I really enjoyed those personal survival stories, thanks again.

Emmanuel

Posted by: Emmanuel | September 02, 2007 at 03:01 PM

Not sure what is up with the feeds but will look into it asap!!! THX for your patience!

-Amber

Posted by: Amber Mac | September 02, 2007 at 06:48 PM

Congrats on 100, sorry I'm slow and missed the party...chalk it up to summer---great content, only in Canada, pity!!

Posted by: sean moffitt | September 02, 2007 at 08:29 PM

Feeds should be working now.

-Brian

Posted by: Brian McKechnie | September 02, 2007 at 10:09 PM

Oh Jeff, Jeff, you silly lump. Advising people to top post in emails when inline is the One True Way... tch, tch.

Don't worry. I forgive you ;-)

Other than that, another good show. Thanks guys! :-)

Posted by: Kipper Jack | September 03, 2007 at 01:43 AM

KIPPER JACK: I welcome your points, as I know there are conflicting beliefs in how to hadle this.

For my part, I have too many emails to be searching through them for the content that is new, so I tend to frown on inline responses unless they are properly formatted with extraneous parts edited out.

That said, the formatting and editing before sending seems to be too much to ask for most people to do (from what I've seen), so I prefer to just have everything up top where I'm going to see it as soon as I receive the email. That way I can also easily see relevant content when I'm browsing through emails using the preview pane in my mail viewer.

That's just me but I expect I'm not alone in that either. How do the rest of you feel?

Thanks for the comments, Jack!

Jeff

Posted by: Jeff MacArthur | September 03, 2007 at 06:57 AM

>KIPPER JACK: I welcome your points, as I know there are

hehe. Oh, now you're just being nice; it's not like I put
up a persuasive argument or anything :) I was half jesting
anyway. I do, as it happens, believe that inline posting
is the correct way, but I deal with enough top-posters'
every day emails to know that other peoples' habits are
different.

>inline responses unless they are properly formatted with
>extraneous parts edited out.

That should actually be a given. It can be a bit of an art
form. Without selective removal of no-longer-relevant text
the reply may as well be top-posted.

>That said, the formatting and editing before sending seems
>to be too much to ask for most people to do (from what I've

Sadly true, although personally I feel it's a process that
easily becomes second nature quite quickly.

>seen), so I prefer to just have everything up top where I'm
>going to see it as soon as I receive the email. That way I

>That's just me but I expect I'm not alone in that either.

I suspect so too.

I will admit that top-posting does have its place (when
forwarding mail for example - although I have been known
to trim that down too, removing extraneous headers and
sigs and suchlike).

I just had to say something though, after shrieking "Noooo!"
upon listening to it... :D

Posted by: Kipper Jack | September 03, 2007 at 09:33 AM

No prob :-)

Jeff

Posted by: Jeff MacArthur | September 03, 2007 at 12:20 PM

The trick to inline posting is that it only works when all parties in an email use it properly. Otherwise, confusion inevitably ensues.

Posted by: Will Pate | September 03, 2007 at 02:05 PM

I'd have to disagree on the digg redesign. It does look nicer, but the loss of single click to separate sections (eg, games, and tech news.. sure, it's "just one click" but it's still very annoying IMO).

That popular topics bar needs to be spread across the pages.. or at least make it customizable.

I'll have to check out chow.com, I need to cut back on spending my lunch money.

Posted by: Linh | September 03, 2007 at 07:38 PM

Can someone email me when the link is up to Jeff's email tips. Wanted to put a link to it on our blog.

Posted by: Gregg | September 04, 2007 at 12:44 PM

Hi Gregg - we'll get something up in the next couple of days for you to link to. Thanks for your patience.

Jeff

Posted by: Jeff MacArthur | September 04, 2007 at 05:17 PM

Guys - to your point about BoingBoing and comments:

BoingBoing used to have comments, a long long time ago. Then they had a pretty nasty run in with some spectacular trollism from some of their comments who hated some of their authors but not others and so on. This was back before the word "blog" was commonplace and people believed that comments and interactivity between an author and the community was essential to the growth and prosperity of a blog, so they just shut the comments off entirely.

The comments stayed off until, well, this redesign. Personally in a lot of ways, I'm sad to see the model go. BoingBoing was a great example of a site that could make it as one of the best destinations on the web without having to resort to comments, and without having to open itself up to becoming the Digg or the Slashdot or the Fark of its type.

I still love BoingBoing, I just worry about the kind of community it'll foster. Sometimes the best ideas (specifically Digg and Slashdot) grow communities that are as welcome as fungus.

Posted by: phoenix | September 05, 2007 at 07:52 AM