Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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Thanks, Don, for the vote of confidence. After the recent drubbing that Kathlyn and I took online, we were beginning to wonder why we still do this.
Thank you for helping to restore our faith in the masses and for reminding us that — while there are always those who have their own little agendas and are counted in handfuls — the 400,000+ visitors who frequent the COW year-in and year-out, are good people who “get it.”
Ron Lindeboom
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You can also click the “Read Entire Thread” links inside any of the posts.
So, there are actually two ways to get there.
But I like your idea of adding a setting to people’s prefs setting that will allow this to happen automatically.
We’ll look into it for a future update.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Timothy J. Allen] “p.s. I checked with my wife before posting this and she said that it’s o.k.”
Yes, I checked with my wife and she said that it was okay for me to hang out with you guys, “…because you’re already corrupted, Ron,” she said.
Ron Lindeboom
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Except we have to penalize him, Kathlyn, as he thinks the ads got bigger in the transition.
They didn’t…
Mark’s nerves just thought they got bigger.
:o)
Ron Lindeboom
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[Don Greening] “Ah, but you did have something to do with it: you were smart enough to see and utilize the talent in others.”
Andrew Carnegie (founder of US Steel, the Carnegie Libraries, Hall, University, et al), said it best and had the words carved into his gravestone: Here lies a man who gathered about himself, men much greater than himself.
Me, I have always looked for great talent and when I sketched out what I wanted in an interface and went looking through various COW member sites, it was Bret Williams work that most closely matched what I saw in my desire for the COW.
Fortunately, Abraham was able to quickly implement it and did it in record time. Not only that, but he did it in a way that will allow users to eventually set the COW into “prefs-based” subsets that allow them greater control of their COW experience. That was something I had ear-marked for farther down the road but Abe rolled up his sleeves and got it partially implemented in this revision.
In time, I’ll finally get the COW to where I have wanted it to be — even if it kills the guys around me. ;o)
[Don Greening] “Franklin: Now there’s a voice I’ve been really missing around here.”
You can catch Franklin online on his virtual world podcast, Second Life. If you search at the iTunes Store for Franklin McMahon or Second Life, it will show up. He also does Rumor Girls and one about models, I think.
It was a matter of a divergence in directions and also one of simple economics, Don. Quarterly, we could pay to keep Franklin on staff or make an issue of Creative COW Magazine (which in the beginning we did quarterly). The costs were roughly about the same and the benefit to the COW that has come through the magazine has been one of the most successful projects in the COW, second only to the COW itself.
We miss Franklin’s enthusiasm here at the COW, but we are also delighted that the experiment with the magazine has proved to be a better use of the COW’s limited resources than were the costs associated with the COW News podcast. (Franklin was a great host, but podcasts are still quite new and magazines, while old technology, have an acceptance that podcasts won’t likely attain for quite some time. When they do, we have no doubt Franklin will be one of the driving forces in that future success. He’s a great guy and his podcasts are very well done.)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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PS: I am sorry to disappoint you that I had anything to do with it. ;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks, Don, for noticing. I am the one who went out and found the look I wanted, as I have always hated the way the COW looked but was always too busy to go back and do it the way I wanted it to be. When I checked out the sites of various COW members and what they had done for themselves and others, I liked what I saw in Bret Williams’ work. So I wrote Bret and asked him what he could do for the COW and brought him on board. Then I hired Abraham to pull it off. He did a killer job and did it in days.
It’s the first time that I have ever liked the COW interface.
Ron Lindeboom
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What a beautiful name, also. Dagmar, which means “daughter of the morning or day” or something like that.
:o)
Congratulations, Barend and Ingrid. And thank you for all your years of friendship. You two are an amazing pair and we love you much.
Ron & Kathlyn
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Hi Jerzy,
We have terabytes of storage and multiple servers that make up the COW server farm. If you need a reliable place to move your site, we’d give you room as we really appreciate your involvement here at the COW.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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We got a lot of mail asking us to kill the thread, Mark.
Like you, I thought it was one of the most straightforward broo-ha-has in the COW in a long time.
I think it stepped over the line when the original poster turned it into personal attacks on one of the guys — and it went downhill from there, fast.
Like you, I would have rather kept it online but many seemed to be offended by it and wanted it gone. Also, some seemed to blindly buy into the argument without really weighing the evidence either for or against the claims.
In the end, I think Kathlyn said it best when she read the thread and refused to get involved, saying that it seemed like it might have been a case of lunar or maybe other cycles and all…
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom