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Orablog Tag or 8 Things

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

The Oracle blogosphere has been around for a while, and recently, with Twitter and Facebook usage on the rise, we are becoming a more tight-knit community.
As a follow up to my Oracle Tweeters post, I’m proposing a good, old-fashioned game of blog tag. I’m not sur ... Continue reading »

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  • Floyd

    1 year ago

    Always happy to join in a virtual game of "Duck Duck Goose". I've posted my 8 things and tagged 8 more geese.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Thanks for playing along; my biggest plus for Interwebs is how much smaller it makes the world. Sounds corny, but meeting new folks virtually is huge for me.
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  • Charles Schultz

    1 year ago

    I have to agree with you, Jake. For instance, up until this morning, I had no idea who you were. =) When you go through the "wash, rinse, repeat" cycle of finding people with a similar interest and than meeting them for real life at a conference or User Group, it really helps to drive home that point that there are others struggling with the exact same thing (or rather close).
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  • Steve Romeo

    1 year ago

    Floyd tagged me, Game on!
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Charles @Steve: Glad you guys have been tagged, it's great to expand the humanity of our community. Looking forward to more profiles of new contacts, beyond a Facebook profile/blog/Twitter ID and Tweetstream.
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  • Tim

    1 year ago

    Arrrrggghhhhh ... what have you started!
    Saying that, getting to babble on about myself was a way to while away an otherwise boring evening :0)
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Tim: Don't pretend like you don't love talking about yourself. How do you go from a beach bum to a mountain man in a locale with very little water? Did you get bored with H20?
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  • davidhaimes

    1 year ago

    I managed to scrape together 8 things about me that are new to some people at least.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @David: Good stuff, enjoyed reading them.
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  • Tim

    1 year ago

    yeah ... I miss the windsurfing but I was slimmer then and had hair - people would just laugh now. I just get to hang out on green runs with my boys falling over their snowboards - we're moving up to 'blues' soon - then we'll be shredding diamonds before you know it:o)
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    That's one thing (among many) I love about OR, surf is 1.5 hours away, (year-round) snow is 3 hours away. Lots of waterfalls and greenery on the way.
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  • Tim Hall

    1 year ago

    I got tagged by Chris Muir. I've been a good boy and tagged 8 others. Do I get a gold star?

    CHeers

    Tim...
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Tim: IOU one gold star applied to forehead, thanks for playing.
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  • Howard Rogers

    1 year ago

    This is an utterly **moronic** thing to do.

    Don't believe me? Take a look at OraNA today: practically nothing but people sharing 8 things I never wanted to know about them.

    You have created a tidal wave of spam. Congratulations: quite the silliest thing I've seen done by a member of the Oracle "community" in a long, long time.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Howard: Thanks for sharing your opinion. From now on, we'll make sure the content stays on point for your benefit.

    In the meantime, feel free to hit "j" in Reader until the nightmare is over.
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  • mkrigsman

    1 year ago

    Great to learn more about you, Jake!
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Michael: I would have included you and the EIs, but I thought you all had gone around a few times already.
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  • Eduardo Rodrigues

    1 year ago

    I've been "tagged" by Juan Camilo Ruiz. My turn now...
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  • Howard Rogers

    1 year ago

    In the meantime, feel free to hit “j” in Reader until the nightmare is over

    What's that supposed to mean, Jake? What reader do you suppose I'm using? You do know there's a website called www.orana.info, right? I mean, you are aware of things that go on in the Oracle community like blog aggregator websites, yes?

    So when I visit this OraNA website, what button was it I am supposed to hit to stop what you rightly call a nightmare from clogging the page up?

    Perhaps if you stopped to think in that thinktank of yours, you might have anticipated what your little bit of silliness would do to sites like OraNA. And if you stopped assuming that whatever piece of software you happen to have on your desktop is on everyone else's desktop, you might not come out with complete guff like the comment I've just quoted.

    I think the logo you used for this is revealing. "Infectious memes"... well, absolutely. Just like a virus, in fact. And just like a script kiddie, you haven't the slightest concern about the consequences of your actions on others. Let them deal with it by pressing some button or other... Problem sorted! Except it's not and it's a problem that shouldn't have been created in the first place.

    Not a good advert for OracleApps, I would have said.
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  • ontarioemperor

    6 months ago

    Today (December 22, 2008) I was tagged in a meme, and although I played along, I decided not to tag anyone else - although anyone, including Howard, is certainly welcome to tag themselves and continue the meme. Lesson learned, I guess.
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  • Jake

    6 months ago

    Like a bad penny . . .

    If I had the time or desire, it might be interesting to track the trajectory of this meme from its originator (Jeff Pulver, methinks) all the way to now.
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  • Meg

    1 year ago

    Rock on Jake!
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    Howard Rogers is being Mr. Sourpuss, only because his new Blog is as dead as Julius Caesar, with fewer hits than Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
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  • Tim Hall

    1 year ago

    That's so unfair. Sigue Sigue Sputnik were fun. :)

    Cheers

    Tim...
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  • Ontario Emperor

    1 year ago

    As the person who probably inspired Jake to introduce the "Orablog Tag" variant into the populace, I guess I should put my two cents in - and duck.

    I've actually written a post about it (truth to tell, I wrote three posts and a bunch of Twitter tweets, including one about Sigue Sigue Sputnik, and I won't rehash that content here. Follow my link for possible solutions to the issue.

    Actually, I will touch on one item - is OraNA an aggregation of posts, or an aggregation of people? In the current business environment, I believe that it is most important that we understand the PEOPLE with whom we associate. Non-technical items such as blogger dinners help pave the way for technical interactions in the future, and can, dare I say it, help cement business and technical relationships.

    I for one would err on the side of too much content - items, after all, CAN be filtered or skipped - rather than too little content.

    (That having been said, I have not requested, and will not request, that my blog be aggregated by OraNA, since such a small portiono of even the technical content would be of interest to its readers. Methings Howard would go well over the deep end if he were forced to read my views on Ron Paul supporters...)
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