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Re: So Very Tired

Jake — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:27:22 -0000

@Meg: Thanks, again.

@David: My guess is you still yell at the TV, especially when "football" isn't going well.

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davidhaimes — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:20:59 -0000

Jake

When I was at College I lived with a guy who used to sit in the corner of the room while a particular TV show was on(I can't even remember what the show was now) and literally yell abuse at the TV at the top of his voice. I suggested that maybe he shouldn't watch it seeing as he clearly hated what he saw and a less stessfull activity might be better. 'No way' he said, 'this is the favourite part of my week'.

On the web, we post comments or blog instead of yelling at the TV.

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Meg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:49:59 -0000

Jake, my comment on 8 things post still holds. You rock.
- M

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Jake — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:38:08 -0000

@Marius: Good point, why don't you have a blog?

@Chris: Thanks. I guess reports of the Interweb's demise were exaggerated. I feel the same way about nuggets of information. We don't gather much in person, so it's nice to build some camaraderie virtually. I think the games are over for a while, at least for me :)

@Steven: I'm curious to see your hatemail now. Sounds interesting. I was taken aback by the vitriol, but what can you do? Thanks.

@Robbert: I hope this isn't a bad thing for you.

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Robbert van der Hoor — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:05 -0000

At this moment, my blog-collector gets more hits on comments on this blog than on the other 'I have been tagged' blogs all together.

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Steven Chan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:50:02 -0000

Hey, Jake,

I wouldn't worry about it. Once one is prominent in the blogosphere, one is bound to attract brickbats along with the accolades. Just for laughs, remind me to share a recent incoherent and mystifying piece of hatemail I received a few weeks ago.

Goes with the territory: not everyone will agree with everything you write. So be it.

The web is a big place, and nobody's forcing anyone to read something. This is how freedom of speech is supposed to work on the web: if someone disagrees with what you say, they're free to say so on their own blog.

Cheers,
Steven Chan

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Chris Muir — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:10:57 -0000

I've been waiting for reports that Oracle bloggers brought the internet down with the power of 8..... but no luck so far.

Like others comments here I've been hanging out for every "tag" post too. It's been a great exercise in removing the elitism shroud from Oracle staff and (non-Oracle) bloggers out there. I found it tough at OOW not knowing much about the people I met to crack the ice, but now I'm going to track a few people down and see if we can build on relationships based on common themes published in the tag posts.

Howard is entitled to his point of view and he can react in any way he sees fit, but so are we.

Keep up the good work Jake. Do you have any other fun games for us all to play? How about tag*32 ;)

CM.

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Marius Ciortea — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:08:47 -0000

I don't understand what the big deal is. Sounds like fun. Wish I had a blog, so I can play too.

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Jake — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:05:14 -0000

@Peter K and @Paul: Thanks for chiming in with your support. I'm glad so many people have enjoyed the game. I hope the positive outweighs the negative.

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Paul — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:41:38 -0000

Jake, ignore the criticism. With you all the way..

The only stuff that's been clogging up my reader and getting up my nose of late has been all the petulant whinging complaining about this 8-things meme, and now all the post-analysis of who was right and wrong.

And the only thing close to spam has been Howard's multiple posts and emails on the subject.

Despite evidence that the 8-things idea never did get out of hand, and is well over now anyway (more's the pity), his site remains off the net. That is so funny!

I think somewhere along the way, some forgot that this is the internet we are dealing with, not a database.

There is no "SELECT * FROM internet WHERE topic='oracle' and category='only oracle' and stuff='only what I like';"

Don't like what you get through an aggregator? Ignore it or roll your own, like using Yahoo Pipes...

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Peter K — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:31:43 -0000

Jake,
Came in at a late stage as Doug "tagged" me early this week and I've been busy with work (no excuse). I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Remember that you can't please everybody all the time so take it (the criticism) like water from a duck's back.

Peter.

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:11:27 -0000

@joel: Thanks, this is good advice that I plan to take tomorrow and Sunday.

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jgarry — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:46:20 -0000

"... but what can I do."

Tom has discovered it, not to mention ancient Jewish sages: turn everything off at least a day per week.

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:35:16 -0000

@Patrick: Thanks, I'm glad. That was the point, not to annoy people.

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Patrick Wolf — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:14:32 -0000

Jake,

I also enjoyed reading the "8 things..." a lot. It doesn't always have to be technical. We are doing to much technical stuff anyway. Sometimes we need a relieve.

Patrick

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:52:35 -0000

@Matt: Thanks. I thought he'd have thought of categories already.

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Matt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:30:42 -0000

Jake,

Don't let the wet socks get to you. Let them turn off their servers and sit in the dark by themselves while everyone else has a fun time playing.

Eddie already has categories in OraNA with their own RSS feed. He just needs to publicize it more so everyone with readers will know and use them. Of course, then he'd get blamed by the wet socks for spamming OraNA with a post for each feed. ;)

Matt

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:57:07 -0000

@Tim: Thanks. I'm sure this will all be "over-a-pint" material by OOW, if not sooner.

@Girlgeek: Thanks. Your suggestion (and this meme) may nudge Eddie to publish streams of content, e.g. database, tools, application, etc. This may lead to more issues, but it might be a good outcome.

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Girlgeek — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:25:31 -0000

I enjoyed those of the 8's that I read. While the tag increases exponentially, the oracle blog community is finite. The 'disturbance' (if you consider it such) has a pretty quick limit. Personally, I am more 'disturbed' by having to sort through the posts/blogs about Oracle topics that are not in my area of interest. Some fine day we will be able to select subcategories in the aggregator. Meanwhile, thank you for starting the tag.

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Tim — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:15:40 -0000

Hey Jake
Just dug thru OraNA since you posted on Monday - there have been ~230 posts picked up by OraNA. Of those ~50 were '8 Things' related. Thats a stream but certainly not a flood. And certainly not the 8^0 = 1 8^1 = 8 8^2 = 64 8^3 = 512 doom that was predicted. We did not even get to the second level.

I seem to remember being swamped in 11g release blog entries a few months back. Now you could argue that those were 'techy' posts and full of Oracle relevant content. But reading some of them (with respect to all) I got the feeling that once I had read 2/3 I knew all the major features I needed to know about. At least each '8' post was completely unique and gave folks an idea of who the person was behind the blog.

As for browsing to orana.info - sorry Eddie I dont do that anymore - just point Firefox at the RSS stream and I can pick and choose what I want to read.

There was a great inscription on a watch in the UK in the 80's for a disgraced politician - 'Dont the b'stards get you down!'
Tim

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Floyd — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:57:13 -0000

Jake,

Your intent in starting this round of tag, bringing the Oracle blogger and blogger reader community closer together, was a good one. Personally, I'm getting quite a bit out of it.

For those opposed to the whole tag thing, I'd welcome their thoughts on alternatives for accomplishing the goal. It would be far more constructive than the whole "flame, blame and name-calling" approach. Until that happens, don't sweat the nay-sayers.

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:31:13 -0000

@Puneet: Thanks. Related note, you should consider joining the ranks of external bloggers. Your content would be well-received, as evidenced by the post on workspaces I reproduced on your behalf.

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Puneet Thapliyal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:02 -0000

Jake,

I loved reading the "8 things..." of various bloggers whom I follow. Yes, it definitely humanizes the blogging community, which is a good thing. A little bit of personal touch is so refreshing in this increasing virtual world that we now live in. Keep up the good work and try to ignore the few who are not game to it. Let them shut their servers down ;)

--
Puneet

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Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:07:03 -0000

@Jeff: Thanks. I enjoyed your previous rounds, but I didn't realize you were the ultimate primogenitor. I have updated the post to credit you (a separate topic that has also got mixed up with this one).

@Tim/@Carl: Agreed, heavy content feels like work. I am also good at ignoring.

@Marian: You are correct, but what can I do.

Re: So Very Tired

Marian — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:52:22 -0000

I think you worry too much.