Brolin, You're clearly well-meaning, but ...
2010/1/24 Brolin Empey <bro...@brolin.be>: > Fabian Schölzel wrote: >> On Sunday 24. January 2010 13:38:27, Stefano Cavallari Cavallari wrote: > > Why does your reply template include the quoted author’s last name twice > instead of only once? Also, you should include the time zone/UTC offset > because the quoted time of day is still in the future in the Pacific > time zone (-08:00). :) ... comments like these are OT in a thread that's already OT. Going that far OT is likely to annoy people on the list who are, for the most part, subscribers because they are far more interested in open source mobile technology than they are in the minutiae of your opinions about other people's email formatting. (Besides which, the full timestamp of any post to the list can be discovered via the list archive, if anyone is really fussed; so there's no need to police the issue.) >>> What about opening a free blog and write your thoughts/happenings there? >> >> I think that's a good idea! > > I actually already have both a Facebook [1] and LiveJournal [2] account. > I stopped posting to LiveJournal because I received almost no feedback > except when I sent the URL of my posts to people via e-mail, IM, or IRC. > I thought I could get more feedback by posting notes (not status > updates because the length limit of those is too small) on Facebook, but > I receive no feedback at all except when I send the URL of my posts to > people. Lots of people seeking good sources of advice and support run into problems. Blogging's a reasonable start, but bloggers - both commercial and non-commercial bloggers - face the problem of fostering an active community of interest. OK, so you're one of those bloggers, like the rest of us. Big woo. Now get creative. Not by telling the OpenMoko mailing list how far you live from your parents' house, but by seeking more appropriate avenues. You want to get advice by asking people questions? Use an online answers service like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers, or use a more traditional offline alternative like a counsellor, a friend, or a relative. You want to make your blog more popular, so that you'll have a larger and more active audience? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+a+blog+popular Good luck, and please, please consider the relevance of your topic to the mailing list before you post. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum Sam _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community