Comments for The Shifted Librarian

Comment on Changes to My Site by jenny

jenny — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:50:48 +0000

Very nice — thank you both. I’ll definitely look into these, because I’m still not very happy with how my lifestream is displaying.

Comment on Changes to My Site by l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:37:56 +0000

FWIW, you might also like Storytlr:
http://storytlr.org/

It installs about as easily as WordPress and slurps down and archives a crap-ton of feeds from social services. Mine looks like this:
http://lmorchard.com/storytlr/

I’m also using FriendFeed and wrote an archiver that looks like this:
http://decafbad.com/ffa/lmorchard/

But, since FriendFeed was bought by Facebook, I expect it’s just a few hard drive failures away from sunset.

Comment on Changes to My Site by Rich Allen

Rich Allen — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:44:08 +0000

Hi Jenny

Makeuseof.com has a wp lifestream plugin called SimplePie that might be useful:

http://tinyurl.com/2u44cgv

There are other suggestions on the site.

Also SmashingMagazine.com has some wp lifestream suggestions as well

Cheers

Comment on An Open Letter to Comcast/Xfinity by Steve Zumbo

Steve Zumbo — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:45:15 +0000

Jenny, I’ve had similar problems with Comcast, and have been considering dropping them. I do use all three bundled services daily, but I’m paying more than ten times the amount monthly cable TV cost when I first began.

It’s even more frustrating with Exelon/Com ED. They will not allow me to update my credit card online by just typing in a new set of data myself (which almost every other creditor seems to do easily). They insist I must reapply for both autopay and budget billing, which takes four to six weeks, and therefore I must pay at least one month’s billing by some other method. Their consumer staff insists they cannot do updates any other way. GRRRRR!!!!

Comment on An Open Letter to Comcast/Xfinity by Paige

Paige — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:32:32 +0000

Jenny, I could not agree with you more. I have had more trouble with Comcast over the past year; it is such a frustrating experience whenever I have to contact them. Just to give a few examples: they opened up 3 accounts under my name without my knowledge, canceled two installation appointments “internally” without ever notifying me, and double charged me– all within one month. It was NOT fun. The thing that bothers me the most about Comcast is how they market themselves on “Customer Care” which is really quite funny because they have the WORST customer care service I have ever worked with. I feel your pain!

Comment on An Open Letter to Comcast/Xfinity by Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:48:43 +0000

Hmm. Jenny I can most certainly sympathize with your frustration. And I don’t mean to sound like I’m defending Comcast — because I’m not — but in the end it is really still your responsibility to balance your checkbook, check your credit card statements and even your Comcast statement every month. They do e-mail you the notice telling you to check your statement. So while I’ll agree, they should have made a little but more of an effort (very little bit) its still not their responsibility to make sure you pay your bill. In our area, being an eBill customer does not keep them from mailing late payment and disconnect notices, not sure why they wouldn’t just have mailed you a “hey pay your bill by Friday or we are cutting you off!”.

That being said, we stopped using Comcast for TV several months ago and are a purely Internet TV family now. We have easily found resources on the Internet to watch almost every show that we used to watch on Comcast except HBO. Kick Comcast to the curb now! Stop paying the exorbitant fees to them!

Comment on An Open Letter to Comcast/Xfinity by LindaH

LindaH — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:24:14 +0000

First I thoroughly sympathize with your predicament. Comcast should have let you know about the missed payments. Second, let me thank you for validating my paranoia. I’m with Time Warner and they do send a notice when my bill goes up. I know I’m on autopay, I’ve never had any problem, but the second I see that notice I run to their website and check the status of my account. Am I still on autopay? Did the bill get paid properly last month? Is everything going according to plan. I do the same with every other autopay account that I have. Until today I felt a little silly. Now, I feel that I am being practical, because you can’t trust the companies.