I just checked out a packet of frozen chicken that had a competition to win a 100 pounds. It says

'Enter with Facebook'
http://facebook.com/birdseye

So now not only do they have whatever feedback you give them directly, they have your Facebook profile and all the information from that, especially if you click 'Like' so they can match your entry to it.

Marketing information goldmine! Fortunately you can enter by email...

I was insightful, then underrated, then overrated then troll.

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2134752&cid=36059116

What?

Be wary of New Media Strategies, IMHO they damage the brands they represent by PRETENDING to be genuine users of a product. Unfortunately, they're only damaging the reputation of themselves and the product they advertise.

The following individuals are associated with NMS :-) DO YOU WANT TO HIRE THEM NOW?

Susannah Griffiths - Senior Account Director, Corporate
Talia Ran - Online Analyst, Corporate
Cristina Maas - Online Analyst, Corporate
Tara Stone - Managing Account Director, Corporate
Soren Dayton - Senior Communications Strategist, Public Affairs
Patrick Pho - Online Analyst, Corporate
Chintimini Keith - Creative Producer, Strategy & Insights
Caroline Sancken - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Danny Christiansen - Promotions Associate, Entertainment
Ryan Nolan - Online Analyst, Corporate
Meghan Sager - Project Manager, Corporate Practice
Tara Dobbs - Business Manager
Jayar Donlan - Research Director, Strategy & Insights
Laura Murphy - Project Manager, Entertainment
Sam Huxley - Vice President, Strategy and Insights
Dave Telfer - Account Manager, Corporate
George Ross Parman - Online Analyst, Public Affairs
Nick Pogar - Online Analyst, Corporate
Kelsey Cohen-Roth - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Aaron Velthoven - Account Supervisor, Corporate
Erin Kirkpatrick - Promotions Associate, Entertainment
Jack Macleod - Vice President, Sales
JP Freire - Senior Communications Strategist, Public Affairs
Angie Creger - Account Director, Corporate
Jennifer Utz - Regional Sales Director, Northeast
Tony Smith - Online Analyst, Corporate
Preston Davenport - Regional Sales Director, Southeast
Mclean Donovan - Senior Online Analyst, Entertainment
Sara Diaz - Strategic Manager, Public Affairs
Intern Corner -
Mike Snead - Online Analyst, Corporate
Jeff Taylor - Associate Strategist, Strategy & Insights
Emily Kaiser - Project Manager, Entertainment
Kelly Hartigan - Sales and Marketing Manager, Sales
David White - Senior Account Director, Public Affairs
Sue Keffer - Special Assistant to the CEO
Cathy Choe - Senior Promotions Associate, Entertainment
Ashley Aikens - Project Manager, Entertainment
Veronica Crosetto - Senior Project Manager, Corporate
Greg Johnston - Creative Director, Strategy & Insights
Ellie Brown - Online Analyst, Corporate
Niki Vora - Account Director, Entertainment
Sonja Olson - Account Manager, Entertainment
Tom Snedeker - Vice President, Finance
Brian Gluckman - Marketing Strategist, Strategy and Insights
Bryce Rudow - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Kyle Scriven - Technical Analyst, Strategy and Insights
Carlos Roncajolo - Online Analyst, Corporate
Libby Jacobson - Research Associate, Strategy and Insights
Julie Somberg - Account Manager, Corporate
Phillip Herndon - Communications Strategist, Public Affairs
Mike Vallebuona - Senior Project Manager, Corporate
Alden Mackey - Online Analyst, Public Affairs
Lyndsey Medsker - Senior Account Director, Public Affairs
Bonnie Perry - Project Supervisor, Corporate
Charles Juckett - Project Manager, Corporate
Heather Levedag Hock - Vice President, Human Resources
Mark LeMunyon - Senior Online Analyst, Public Affairs
Guillermo Corporan - IT Manager
Kelly Olexa - Regional Sales Director Midwest, Sales
Andrew Hamilton - Online Analyst, Corporate
Lindsay Gsell -
Joe Gizzi - Marketing Strategist, Strategy & Insights
Jon Tilton - Account Director, Public Affairs
Kathryn Covert -
Pete Snyder - Founder and CEO
Ryan Bitzer - Online Analyst, Corporate
Christal Goetz - Vice President, Corporate Practice
David Hakim - Account Manager, Corporate
Laura Neville - Vice President
George Alafoginis - Communications Strategist, Public Affairs
Jamie Gyerman - Senior Account Manager, Corporate
Samantha Greenwood - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Christy Lewis - Online Analyst, Corporate
Aaron Earls - Co-Founder and Vice President, Business Development
Andrew Schreck - Account Director, Corporate
Travis Bernard - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Jessica Boulanger - Vice President, Public Affairs Practice
Moira Curran - Vice President, Entertainment
Hilary Riedemann - Promotions Manager, Corporate
Patrick Wixted - Senior Account Manager, Entertainment
Katie Townsley - Senior Account Director, Corporate
Emily Canan - Senior Online Analyst, Corporate
Courtney White - Senior Promotions Strategist, Strategy & Insights
Jamie Chiriboga - Senior Account Manager, Corporate
Peter Galio - Account Director, Corporate
Craig Kessler - Promotions Associate, Corporate
Meredith Fineman - Promotions Associate, Corporate
Stephanie Copeland Weber - Vice President, Client Services Operations
Fenella Basilio - Senior Online Analyst, Entertainment
Renan Borelli - Project Manager, Corporate
Nisha Chittal - Marketing Strategist, Strategy and Insights
Amanda Ohbayashi - Online Analyst, Corporate
Philip Miller - Promotions Associate, Corporate
Hal Speisman - Research Associate, Strategy & Insights
Abby Gayman - Project Manager, Corporate
Sara Capoccia - Project Manager, Corporate
Christa Shalhoub - Promotions Associate, Corporate
Jason Runyan - Account Manager, Entertainment
Philip McAvoy - Creative Director, Corporate
Chauncey McCall - Senior Project Manager, Entertainment
Amanda Moulton - Office Administrator
David Fitzpatrick - Project Manager, Entertainment Practice
Veronica Segovia - Online Analyst, Corporate
Modele Oyewole - Online Analyst, Entertainment
Emily Morrell - Proposal Associate, Sales
Nicole Siobal - Project Manager, Entertainment
Haynes David - Sales Coordinator, Sales
Brad Singley - Online Analyst, Corporate
Benny Au - IT Specialist, IT
Brent Mosley - Research Associate, Strategy and Insights
Aileen Comey - Online Analyst, Entertainment Practice
Matt Moon - Senior Communications Strategist, Public Affairs
Kristen Rudzki - Senior Account Manager, Corporate
Brittany Cooper - Director of Recruitment and Corporate Culture, Human Resources
Maggie Pitts - Project Manager, Entertainment Practice
Sean Carroll - Senior Promotions Associate, Corporate
Ryan Emge - Blog Manager, Corporate
Matt DeLuca - Senior Online Analyst, Public Affairs
Hillary Jackson - Account Manager, Entertainment
Tyler Hoffberger - Online Analyst, Entertainment

I really need a way to easily comment on a web page, I'm not talking about a separate medium for comments, such as a service. I need to be able to locally add comments directly to a page. It shouldn't edit the actual web page cache but render upon it.

Perhaps a toolbar, where I click add a comment. Click somewhere on the page, a textbox should appear inline or as an overlay to the webpage and I should be able to comment on the page itself. It's a bit like those sticky note application in Office but on web page.

Sometimes I get an idea or remember something on a particular pragrapgh on a web page. Or perhaps a way to refine my thoughts on a issue without actually posting to the site author themself.

The comments themselves should be saved to my hard drive and when I reaccess the same webpage, I can see the same comment in the same place.

There should also be the option of viewing the text off the page, like all in one file, or as a sidebar in the web browser. Only problem is, what is the context of this comment? Perhaps a quotation of the element I commented on.

If anybody knows of any applications or extensions that do this please leave a comment in this journal entry.

The ego of people is funny.

"Lets agree" or "I thought that too" simply because the majority did.

http://www.geekculture.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=002827

Disclaimer: that is not me.

I was talking to a friend about how backwards compatibility can sometimes be dangerous (more specifically, how the old Windows versions and new releases). Often, when a bug crops up, one finds a workaround to keep things moving smoothly.

I came up with the following analogy and thought it was useful, I'll use it as an example from now on.

Imagine you have a calculator that has a bug, which means all calculations are off by one each time. To workaround this bug, you instruct all users to add one to your calculation, this makes the calculation correct. This is all fine until you solve the off by one problem.

Users of the fixed calculator are now having problems where the calculation is one above the correct. They still use the workaround to add one, which now is pointless because it has been fixed which is ironic since the workaround actually causes this new problem.

This wasn't the exact text I used but the gist remains the same.

The Solution?

Perhaps workarounds should be clearly indicated. When the problem the workaround temporarily fixes is properly fixed, the workaround is automatically-silently-removed/dismissed when discovered. In my calculator analogy, this would be something like;

Workaround: Ans + 1

When the new version comes out, the workaround is removed.

Remove Workaround

written by Improfane

Sometimes when reading a page I want to unselect something, so I click on whitespace (usually the left of Slashdot comments)... my page scrolls down and loses my place. This happens on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Suite.

How to disable this?