Bruce Lewis

"I appreciate the compliment. I know there's plenty more I could do to make OurDoings easier for the people who put stuff on it." - Bruce Lewis

"Thanks! I feel befriended and fed." - Bruce Lewis

"Hi Paul. Both your probability and Jeff's are way too low. More likely, something like 99% of the time if an English speaker "told you they had two children, and one of them is a girl," the intended meaning is that exactly one of them is a girl. To precisely answer this question you need to determine the percent of people geeky enough to say "one of them is a girl" without necessarily meaning exactly one of them is a girl. Your analysis of choosing algorithms, while correct, is likely in the noise. Additionally, if the person is that geeky, then "I have two children" might not mean they have exactly two children. They might have three or more." - Bruce Lewis

"As an alternative, vote up (er, Like) my suggestion: http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a098...... Then you, I, or anyone passionate about getting her/his own site easily integrable with FriendFeed can set up a UI to do it from our end." - Bruce Lewis

"Click on the "Account" link (upper right) and look for the section "Email settings". It's the checkbox labeled "Send me my friendfeed every..." with a daily/weekly option." - Bruce Lewis

"Check out FriendFeed's "best of day" or "best of week" feature. Or just have it email you a daily or weekly summary." - Bruce Lewis

"What I did a few days ago was to create a friendfeed account for my family email list, and set it up to get weekly email summaries. The first summary hasn't arrived yet, or I'd tell you how it's going." - Bruce Lewis

"My 2009 resolution is to sell better." - Bruce Lewis

"I’m responsible for the SUP implementation on OurDoings, and would like to respond to Stephen Kaye’s valid question about whether real time is desirable for all kinds of information. I was asking myself the same question while implementing SUP. OurDoings was originally designed for people who had a hard time keeping up with their photo sharing. You can upload photos in huge numbers and it organizes them for you by date, in a blog-like format. If you’ve waited for months to share them, who cares how fast they go out to your social network via FriendFeed? It actually does help psychologically. The closer a reward is to an action, the better it reinforces it. When your social network likes or comments on what you’ve shared, that’s a reward. The sooner that reward happens, the better it reinforces the action of sharing. And for busy people (e.g. parents) who might otherwise disappear from their friends’ lives, sharing needs to be encouraged." - Bruce Lewis

"Some years ago I made a New Years resolution to email my extended family weekly with updates on my nuclear family's doings. Life was so busy I couldn't keep up. I hope you're more successful. I found success since then by implementing http://ourdoings.com/ and encourage anyone who wants to chronicle their doings to try it, regardless of who the audience is." - Bruce Lewis

"I kept MIT manageable by (1) majoring in math and (2) settling for Bs. They keep cramming more material into engineering programs without taking anything out. Math was better in that regard. A lot of MIT students even managed to do extracurriculars without having to drop out." - Bruce Lewis

"Audience-powered editing is a great concept. I don't have an implementation of audience-powered editing for words, but for pictures I have things set up on OurDoings so that by default you let your audience pick which ones are "featured" on your home page and in monthly summaries, and which get buried behind a "more photos" link. There's also an option (off by default) to let your audience rotate photos for you. I've thought about setting up a system where the audience can crop a photo, but requiring approval for the change to go in. That kind of system presents the same sort of challenges your punctuation/grammar system would." - Bruce Lewis

"Selective neglect: My closet is a mess. So is my basement. I spend time with my wife and kids. Efficiency: I keep my priority list in front of me so I'm always coding the most important things. I use a Lisp dialect so that I can make effective use of short coding sessions. A lot of my progress in the past few years has been during 35-minute train rides." - Bruce Lewis

"I was concerned about this too when I set up OurDoings to accept photos by email. I don't let users pick their own address to send to; I generate a random one for them. And yes, emailing to a frame is cool, but I'm biased because I'm doing it." - Bruce Lewis

"Wouldn't that end up being the same price as a photo frame with builtin wifi? I guess it would be good for people who already have a regular frame they want to make wireless." - Bruce Lewis

"Will it show photos from a Media RSS feed?" - Bruce Lewis

I think most people don't get how exciting SUP is as an enabler of the real-time web. Maybe we need Scoble to preach about it for a couple of months. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

Bruce: I should and will. This is key stuff for 2009. - Robert Scoble

And I know you will, too. I appreciate you being a news guy with an attention span. :-) - Bruce Lewis

"I've been waiting 2 months to talk about this: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings..." - Bruce Lewis

"The developer who made this mistake probably didn't think s/he was writing crypto code. (Switching to "he" for brevity) He probably thought he was merely making use of someone else's crypto code. The mistake was in choosing what string to sign, not in the function applied to that string after it was chosen. I think the real lesson here is that if your app needs cryptography, then you need at least a black-box understanding of what crypto does and doesn't do." - Bruce Lewis