Comments for Dave Kearns http://davekearns.com Musings from the old guy Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:36:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on There’s hope! by Marion Jones http://davekearns.com/?p=22&cpage=1#comment-8 Marion Jones Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:36:41 +0000 http://davekearns.com/?p=22#comment-8 <strong>Marion Jones</strong> I Googled for something completely different, but found your page...and have to say thanks. nice read. Marion Jones

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.

]]> Comment on Watching the sox wilt by Dave Kearns » I’ve been away from New England too long http://davekearns.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-6 Dave Kearns » I’ve been away from New England too long Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:30:28 +0000 http://davekearns.com/?p=13#comment-6 [...] lost some of my blind faith in the Red Sox, it seems, since I haven’t actually lived in New [...] [...] lost some of my blind faith in the Red Sox, it seems, since I haven’t actually lived in New [...]

]]> Comment on Illegal alien journalists? by Kim http://davekearns.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-5 Kim Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:26:28 +0000 http://davekearns.com/?p=19#comment-5 Totally right. Totally right.

]]> Comment on I’m not getting old… by Eric Norman http://davekearns.com/?p=15&cpage=1#comment-3 Eric Norman Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:55:03 +0000 http://davekearns.com/?p=15#comment-3 It's just attitude, Dave. I can remember the very first thing I ever bought with a senior citizen discount. That was nine years ago. It’s just attitude, Dave.

I can remember the very first thing I ever bought with a senior citizen discount. That was nine years ago.

]]> Comment on Social networking fatal flaw by Mark Wahl http://davekearns.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-2 Mark Wahl Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:26:55 +0000 http://davekearns.com/?p=9#comment-2 +1 to "can put my friends’ recommendations in context". Two related problems I see with this in social networks are, first, the celebrity pages on myspace and similar. Would "britney spears", who has 100,000+ "friends", provide recommendations for products she actually uses, or just be a spokesman? Second and more insidious, as I mentioned in http://www.ldap.com/1/commentary/wahl/20070730_01.shtml are those social networking services which treat their users as vehicles for carrying advertisements. +1 to “can put my friends’ recommendations in context”.

Two related problems I see with this in social networks are, first, the celebrity pages on myspace and similar. Would “britney spears”, who has 100,000+ “friends”, provide recommendations for products she actually uses, or just be a spokesman? Second and more insidious, as I mentioned in http://www.ldap.com/1/commentary/wahl/20070730_01.shtml are those social networking services which treat their users as vehicles for carrying advertisements.

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