Comments on: The funeral home can’t play MP3’s

By: Gadget_Blog

Gadget_Blog — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:07:10 +0000

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By: Gizbuzz » Blogging platforms - why Gizbuzz uses Wordpress

Gizbuzz » Blogging platforms - why Gizbuzz uses Wordpress — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:58:01 +0000

[...] There were two reasons I decided to move from Blogger to Wordpress. The first was that I wanted greater power and flexibility than Blogger provides. Blogger is truly push-button publishing. It is so easy to use that anyone who can write an email can start a blog. But, as Scoble was recently talking about, it is hard to get the balance right between making something easy to use and making it powerful enough. An example was the Blogger feed. I use Feedburner, and wanted to replace the Atom feed automatically generated for me with the Feedburner feed that provided an associated style sheet and stats in the metadata. In this instance, Blogger was not very usable, because there was no simple way to do this. I had to search hard on the internet to find the solution, and even then I was unable to remove the Atom feed from the choice of feeds. Here Blogger had gone overboard on usability. It had made the product too easy to use, in the process removing functionality. [...]

By: Podesta

Podesta — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:17:11 +0000

But, an iPod would have been just what was needed at the funeral home in this kind of scenario. It would have allowed the music to be played, or a photographic slideshow of the decedent’s life and interests or even a video about the decedent. All that would have been required is an iPod, speakers and a monitor. Simple, but thorough.

By: Graeme Gee

Graeme Gee — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:50:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing….even in Australia we technology….even though many believe we are still primitive offshootsb from convict days. graemegee1@yahoo.com.au

By: AAwoken

AAwoken — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:00:02 +0000

The question is: Did they answer the cell phone? Where I live people answer cell phones during funeral services and chat away. Church services, first communion, baptisms, you name it. People here just don’t get it. I am really thinking of getting my own cell phone jammer.

By: dmad

dmad — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:42:08 +0000

@18. Airplane manufacturers don’t sell to the masses, they sell to pilots. Correct me if I’m wrong but MS still wants more people using computers with MS software installed, right? So, they want to sell to more than the expert computer user or geek. I don’t think airplane manufacturers want everyone to be a pilot. They’ll do just fine targeting pilots.

Same with AutoCad. It’s a cottage industry. They’ll do just fine selling to engineers, designers and the like.

MS however will not grow or make more money simply selling to geeks. The software has to be easy to user and thought of as almost transparent as far as being a tool to get things done, not software in and of itself. Again, the iPod works because it does want people want it to do, very easily. After a while people don’t even really think about HOW is does it or worry if it will continue to do it the next time. That can’t be said for Windows.

I just finished setting a friend’s laptop and wireless network. She’s uses her laptop as a tool in her real estate business. She really doesn’t care that it runs Windows as long as she can use it to get the infomation she needs. After 30 minutes of getting it set up (amazing, it took only 10 minutes to do the same with my MAC) and I was getting ready to leave, she asked if she could call me tomorrow if she had any problems connecting. Why would she even have to CONSIDER that? Shouldn’t she be able to forget HOW the connections work and simply EXPECT it to work? I don’t worry if I’m going to have a dial tone when I pick up my telephone (notice I didn’t say my cell phone). I don’t worry if the lights are going to turn on when I go into a room. Why should I have to worry if my computer running Windows is going to get a wireless connection today?