Dan Cameron - Latest Comments

Re: I’m Awesome, are you?

facebook-635639256 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:57 -0000

So you do look at the silly photos I share on Google Reader.

Re: 1and1 scams

Steve — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:51:46 -0000

I have investigated 1&1 thoroughly and found their major tricks using PayPal. They are crooks and steal money deliberately as their main business. That's why do not be surprised at anything they do. It is their profession!

Re: Appmodo: Official AT&T iPhone Tethering to Cost $55 Per Month

JaredB — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:41:27 -0000

This is the reason I alluded to yesterday for being happy about the iPhone tethering; the more popular it gets, hopefully the more pressure there will be to re-evaluate this insane pricing for tethering.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:56:52 -0000

Pretty much, and that just might fit into 140 characters.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

Emiloly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:06:21 -0000

So what you are saying is that social net working sites speed the process up in regards to how fast you get to know a person and either like or dislike them?

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:34:28 -0000

annoying: Right on, I feel the same exact way with a lot of people I "follow" online. It's really wierd too, since I could just ignore and stop following and joining the conversation. The sad part is--I know there's a lot of people that think the same about me :(

question: I don't think so. I'm thinking "friendship" is something so personal it means something different for everyone, so if you don't think it's a friendship it's not. Of course, they may think it is.

Thanks for stopping by Reid, too bad we weren't able to hang out more when you were in SC.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

Reid Peifer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:14:42 -0000

I'm suffering from the "people I only sorta know are annoying me in social networks and causing me to not want to know them anymore" syndrome. I'm sure they're delightful people, and in person I'd probably really like them, but their social network personalities irk me.

Can you be friends with people that you don't want to be 'friends' with?

Re: Cutting etiquette

April — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:45:24 -0000

People in todays society just do not care about rules or etiquette anymore. I am 8 mos pregnant and two days ago my husband and I took our neice and nephew to the waterpark. Upon arrival there were 2 lines...both were for the ticket/admissions purchase and we walked up and got in line. I noticed a small child in front of me that at first I thought was with the older group of children ahead of us. Well, to get to the point...some parent had placed their 6 year old child in our line and the adult along with the rest of their family turned out to be over in the other line. As soon as we finally got up to the ticket booth we then realized a whole family of chinese people cutting in front of us. I asked the woman just what she thought she was doing and she immediately got beligerent with me and said she was smart that she had her 6 year old stand in line for all of them so that they could get through on whichever line went faster. I expressed my feeling to the parent that what she had done really isn't right. She obviously was embarrassed because she started telling me to calm down and said not to make a scene in front of her children...she really didn't make any sense because I was not threatening her or anything but it seemed she just wanted the public attention off of her. I told her to not tell me to calm down that if it made her feel better that she cut in fornt of a pregnant lady then to just go ahead and can you believe that this lady had the nerve to walk away and call me a bitch!? I couldn't believe the disrespect not only for my condition but that she actually thought it was ok to do what she did. I would expect it out of teenagers but not a grown parent that should be setting an example for their children. I am actually upset with myself that I didn't do a better job at putting this horrible lady in her place. I am glad I spoke up but just disappointed that I thought of a million better things I could have said to her that would have made me feel better. A line is a line for a reason...saving places in line is not ok unless say one person just had to run to the bathroom or something.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:14:32 -0000

That last sentence is perfect, not to knock the rest of what you said :) ...

...if we are not vigilant to give the other person the respect and benefit of the doubt.

One of the things that's been in my head since I started writing this post is respect. I shied away from the topic because I wasn't sure what respect and friendship really meant to people. To me, friendship demands respect--you can't have one without the other; most would agree. However, most would not agree that respect is critical within any conversation.

As I mentioned, that's been one of the leading drivers to this post but I'm still processing. Especially, the process of thinking about how to put thoughts into words, which may never happen. There could easily be a debate of terminology; or a misunderstanding of perspective; or the notion of offense; even how I used "conversation" within "critical within any conversation" should be deconstructed to mean two-way conversation vs. one-way because the point would be lost otherwise.

Thanks for commenting again. I feel like I should startup blogging again but I realize the massive time-suck will never make it happen.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

JaredB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:43:37 -0000

Definitely - there was no sarcasm at all there, although the question as to whether there was only serves to underscore the point. :-)

I was just trying to (uncharacteristically) stick to the bare minimum quantity of text, so that was just a brief sentence that plainly summed up my reaction to the post. But since you might apparently be interested in the longer version... :-)

I totally agree with you that online "conversation" is a drastically different concept than what we have traditionally (as humans) grown accustomed to, and that we (as a culture) are experiencing both the joys and growing pains of that adjustment.

I also think the ability / power of "broadcasting" that has suddenly been bestowed on everyone who has an internet connection, ready or not, is hugely beneficial (in some cases vital) but can also have serious negative impacts on some aspects that are not immediately apparent.

I've certainly experienced more than enough instances where, had the conversation been held in person (or even via telephone), subtle hints (body language, reaction time, tone, etc.) would have made it apparent that things were veering off into unnecessarily uncomfortable territory, if the subject had even been deemed appropriate to bring up in that context in the first place.

Those kinds of filters are the ones that are so easy to forget online, and on the flip side (listening vs. speaking), the wide array of possible interpretations of any given statement can so easily lead to misinterpretation and offense, if we are not vigilant to give the other person the respect and benefit of the doubt.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:43:14 -0000

There's no need to be sorry. I'm glad you said what you did, it probably makes sense I clarify a few things; especially the fact that this post wasn't meant for people to judge their own actions because I think I/we/you/they were or are wrong, it was meant to point out an observation/conclusion I've come to recently--wrong or right.

Thanks for not proceeding to the last step of my test :), "see you soon".

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:35:25 -0000

The more I think about it this post may deserve a follow up, since I stressed the negative when I should have emphasized the good. There's a whole other side of the "real time"/social web that allows us to find friendships, where in any other circumstance wouldn't have happened. Especially location'ally.

And I may have not been direct enough when I stated this type of interaction speeds up the process of friendship building.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

Martha — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:30:22 -0000

Sorry if I misunderstood.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:28:15 -0000

Hope that's a good thing.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

JaredB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:25:01 -0000

This is a great post; I thought it was very insightful.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

dancameron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:28:11 -0000

point 1: You misunderstood what I meant since you're actually re-iterating what I tried to say. Real friends do "call [us] on...crap and speak up if they don't agree with what [we] say", I tried to wrap the good result of these types of conversations with the "build a respectful friendship regardless of disagreement" in the last part of the post. What I mean by sifting is--we're prone to get into disagreements a lot online, since we share so much,. Again, if we were just friends hanging out this process of getting to a know each other enough to not want to be friends takes a lot longer. I can account for a couple 'friends' that I had at the Bridge, where I had direct communication only with, but now that I know them a little more I can honestly say I don't want to be associated with. You should also realize, I'm not saying this is a bad thing, there's a lot of benefit of getting to know people more in order to build honest good relationships with.

point 2: [I have to make this quick since I'm leaving.]
There's a point in every type of relationship where enough is enough and the building blocks of a friendship crumble...I'm also not excessively talking about some pseudo disagreement as you may be alluding to.

specific incidences: I'm not alluding to anything in this post--that's for sure, especially instances where you would be involved. Where did you conclude that from this post?

I can however honestly say [again] that my past experiences have made me come to these conclusions but you should know this isn't directed at any particular instance--this is an observation/conclusion I have made. Not some open letter to someone.

[why did I think this was going to happen ? ]

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

Martha — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:27:47 -0000

Hmmm...I"m stuck on a couple of points. The first is "sifts out the real friends" and the second is "speeding up the inevitable". On point 1: I'm just editotializing here, but saying that 'real friends' won't call you on on crap and speak up if they don't agree with what you have to say...if that's what you mean...maybe those are not the real friends but just the ones who choose not to rock the boat? Perhaps? And on point 2: I don't really see how any form of breaking relationship, close or distant is good. That's what this sounds like to me, that these forms of communication are just making a split happen sooner rather than later. Maybe they would be better used to hash out differences and accepting two sides to something? Just some things that stood out to me. Take them at face value...or throw them out. However you wish.

On a tiny little personal note, it does seem that some things are personally directed at specific incidences only because you allude to them a lot. I'm probably just reading into it, but that's how is comes across.

Re: Social Networks Ruin Relationships

Stacy LIttlejohn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:43:59 -0000

this is really interesting Dan!

Re: WordCamp SF This Weekend

JaredB — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:03:49 -0000

Why embarrassing? Are you thinking he will show you up? I wouldn't worry about it.

You should pay him before-hand to reply to every third person who asks him something with "I'm not sure about that, let me check with Dan". That would be rad.

Re: Disqus

craigs2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:56:50 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Disqus Revamps its Look and Improves Integration

craigs2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:55:53 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Creating OS X Leopard Install on a USB Drive or iPod

roll — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:18:44 -0000

is that bootable? if it is not,could you tell me how can i do that?

Re: Dumb TV Network Marketing

JaredB — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:55:55 -0000

While I'm sure there could be an element of the studios influencing stuff like this to drum up interest in the shows in question, I think it's also true that it's very difficult to make most traditional shows profitable right now, so all but the top tier shows are probably truly in danger of getting canceled at any time.

Re: Disqus

tutor1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:55:53 -0000

I hope we all learn something new each and everyday. It is what helps to improve who we are.

Re: Esua’s story up until now…

dancameron — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:15:44 -0000

It was the season finale.