Earlier today I wrote on my social webs, “If you don’t know what you’re doing, sit down and shut up the fuck up.”

Let me expand on this…

If I surround myself with competent people, it is of the utmost importance for me to stand down and let them do their thing. Butting in with my 2 cents when they’re adeptly doing their job is plain wrong.

If I interfere for whatever reason, be it a longing for inclusion or suspicion of inferiority, I not only reduce their contributions but also their successes. Possibly I will make them look incompetent to their peers and their value to the group will be diminished.

People often cling to the past, times-gone-by, but if I truly want to succeed, I need to move on and let others fill the roles I once had. Not only will I (and my team) flourish, I’ll also gain a handful of respect to boot.

#axetogrind

• The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys
• “Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got a-nothing on me”
• Just started watching Breaking Bad. How did I not watch this before?
• Venice in a glass, quite beautiful
• Steve Perry sure looks like a masculine woman
• Tesla, on the other hand was a pretty man
• Learn more about Tesla
• Thanks to Hollywood, Netflix Is Pricing Itself Out of a Business
• Texting ‘Going to Taco Bell. Craving those nacho fries.’ is the closest I’ve gotten to a suicide note
• Say Hello to the New Pandora
• Doctors in Spain perform the first double-leg transplant
• Own your identity
• How Google+ came to be and positioned against Facebook, from an ex-Google+/Wave developer
• The International Day against Stoning
• Honesty’s Net Worth
• Parasites make sex worthwhile

#wheee

I don’t like it. It’s not bad but it’s just not the vision I had for version 4 of the site.

I also need to import the old comments but that’s proving more difficult than I originally thought.

Here’s a short list of other things to do:

1. finalize member accounts
   
2. add links to the top random banners
3. re-add the random quotes
   
4. re-add the “Scribble” box

Ever forward.

Update Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:26am: new design is done.

#tcr

• Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US
• Extreme weather, Saturn style
• let me be clear: I like you guys
• World War II Bomber Contrails Show How Aviation Affects Climate
• New sketch, The Digbeth Strangler
• Getting a Handle on Cosmic Dust Caused by Supernovas
• Something like a phenomena, baby.
• Hide Yo Kids, hide yo wife

#wheee

Derek, you sweet bitch: Jeter Reaches 3,000 Hits With Home Run

And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

#baseball

Betty Ford has also passed on… I could also write some blurb but have a peek at the Google News stories, they’ll give you the details.

When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well. x}-;-‘—-

#rip

http://camendesign.com/blog/rss_is_dying

I won’t be bothered to comment in the forums because one needs to poke around to find the particular thread and then after finding it, the font is barely legible.

> I don’t have an RSS button in my HTML because it’s in the and it’s up
> to the browser to do the best thing based on the user interface, operating
> system and device.

Personally it doesn’t make much sense to me for someone to write an article that RSS is dying when they can’t take a few minutes to promote their feed on their site. If one wants readership for their content, I would think they would promote it in all ways possible. The author seems to be caught in a case of “It’s your job, not mine AND why aren’t you doing it?”

> There isn’t enough screen space on mobiles for every website to use their own
> RSS button.

Utter non-sense, always room in the footer. Webpages can scroll and scroll.

> Relying on the web author to present RSS is not going scale. Too many
> different websites, too many different designs, too many different platforms,
> browsers and devices.

I’ve been thinking about the scaling problem and I still don’t understand it. Scaling visually? Scaling technically?

I think it’s great for browsers to help in promoting a website’s feed but again if I really care about promoting my stuff, I’ll do whatever I can to get my words out there. Further, if I can’t find a way to subscribe to a feed, I’m not going to.

RSS is popular enough that it’ll live regardless of what the browser vendors do and how they support it.

Update: the original article has been “reworked” since this was written and the quotes may not be exact.

#internets

I’m glad I don’t have to lick the hair outta that balloon.

#cheesey

Never tell a doctor they’re nutty.

#medical

“No messages in the last -1 days.”

#software