Comments on: Sunday Nibbles: Porn Valley Goes After Torrent Sites, Turkish Porn and Trans Brothels

By: Tiara the Merch Girl

Tiara the Merch Girl — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:17:02 +0000

This seems to be what Tumblr is for! Not sure how you’d embed it to Tiny Nibbles necessarily, but there’s quite the community vibe happening there.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:48:02 +0000

Very thoughtful and interesting post. Clearly you pour exhausting energy into your work and research, then do your readers such a favor by synthesizing. The instapaper widget is promising – gives us a sense of the various items that catch your attention and might influence without reaching the level of being highlighted in your posts. So if readers want to do a little work, they can dig more into what you’ve been digging into. Great idea.

“Community” is such a pervasive term yet everything is a matter of degree. Those in broadcast mode give false impressions of community, yet it’s somewhat understandable that they have limited time for community development if they’re off in other worlds with their focus. Given the prolific volume of work you crank out, it’s admirable that you’re seeking community, because clearly when you use the term, you add the best of intentions with meaning.

This is your baby – congratulations and thanks for all the effort and brilliance!

Finishing on a lighter note and related to the synthesizing issue, just thought this was interesting from a Nov 17 post: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Summarize

By: boundewllsf

boundewllsf — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:44:23 +0000

the trans brothel pictures were interesting, to a point. i found them to be without context and reinforcing of societal stereotypes of transperson’s acceptable roles in society, and as a TG/GQ this is always galling. the reality of these women’s lives is not likely what any of them might chose (or at least a minority- i have known women who were happy in their sex work) but what is available. the squalor of their apt was better than no apt but still sad and sobering….

how about more TG/GQ stuff here- we are out here and not getting much positive play!

By: violet

violet — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:28:42 +0000

Thank you, Michael!

Bacchus, I’m with you on this. How is there not a WP plugin for submissions?

This:

“It’s really weird to live in a word where the limits on what I want to do do are limned by software that I can imagine, but not obtain.”

This is my life. Every day.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:39:34 +0000

Interesting. I’m keenly aware of the intense friction between the dozens of things I look at daily, and the one or two that I post about — there’s got to be an easier way to gesture at what’s interesting and vital today. But drudging through the mechanics of a WordPress post? Too much friction, and too much else to do.

Like you, I haven’t found a perfect solution.

I also need something that hovers over what I’m viewing like a Tumblr “reblog this” button, but it has to be really smart — none of the bookmarklets and such that I’ve played with are anything like functional enough.

I could also use a WordPress plugin that does something like the hand-rolled BoingBoing submitterator. Could use it hard and put it away wet every night. I’ve made half-a-dozen attempts at coding that one myself, but it’s defeated me every time.

It’s really weird to live in a word where the limits on what I want to do do are limned by software that I can imagine, but not obtain.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:04:46 +0000

Wise words mate, wise words. Now I’ve got to work out what an instapaper is and if it will make my life better.