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Good morning Captain, Quiz: What are the other two names …

Comment posted on Why text messages are limited to 160 characters by pedanticKarl – Click Here to Vote 4 Marina

Good morning Captain,
Quiz:
What are the other two names for “punch card” and which one is more correct. One of my customers many years ago insisted on calling the punch card by its correct name and it wasn’t the other popular name containing that big company name.

pedanticKarl – Click Here to Vote 4 Marina also commented

Hi buzzword,
The data is very reliable and accurate, but it depends on how the data is measured. For example, go to Quantcast, then enter “yahoo.com”. Notice above the graph it says, “Rough Estimate”. That means “yahoo” is not a customer of QC. Now, enter “hulu.com” See the difference? Hulu is a customer of QC and the data is measured directly via scripts, logs, cookies, etc.

The companies that provide data for free are few. You can check out Compete.com, Coremetrics.com, ShinyStat.com, AboutUs.org, Google and Yahoo. Buzzwords <– to search for is KPI which is “Key Perfomance Indicators”, web metrics and web analytics.

If you want to find out about a specific company, then look at the cookies as it will give a clue as to who they use for tracking. For example, go to Sears.com, then check the cookies. You’ll come across companies like Omniture.com and Hubspot.com and various advertising and marketing companies. Mostly, access to their data is not free.

Another source of stats is the big database companies such as Forrester, Hoovers, Forbes and many others. These companies issue reports for as little as $100s to well over $2000 for specific companies in a specific industry.
You are correct – Hollerith card.
So, you’ve been in the same situation as I have been where if you called it an IBM card, you got punched in the arm very quickly.
Hey Captain Jack,
I understand your criticisms, but I’m not sure that I agree.
Nowhere did I see the use of the words “father” or “creator” of SMS in the article and Hillebrand is getting no royalties.

I personally do not have a problem with the article as it needs to be taken into context. As the article states;
“Hillebrand… as chairman of the nonvoice services committee within the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), a group that sets standards for the majority of the global mobile market, he pushed forward the group’s plans in 1986.”

The article makes it clear as you stated that the 160 character possibility existed (punch card 80+80), but it was not clear if the 160 characters was useful form of communication. That is the crux of the article. Hillebrand and his team utilized three known pieces of data that convinced his team that 160 characters was sufficient.
1. Postcards – typically 150 characters
2. Telex – same as postcards
3. Email – subject line and a few lines of text

Perhaps the article was not written as precisely as you and I might write it and I would agree with you on that.
Great little article Marina.
I knew some, but not all of those details.
Excellent!!
Timothy Leary? PhD writer, etc Mr LSD

Recent comments by pedanticKarl – Click Here to Vote 4 Marina

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Also Rijk,
I’m not sure about this, but posting several posts in succession might also flag someone as a potential spammer. For example, I know over in the Forum, it is slightly different, but the posts here may have a similar rule.

When I submit a post in the Forum, and then submit another post within a minute or so, then there is a pop-up with a reminder that says something to the effect, “Slow Down….” So, maybe that might apply here also.
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Greetings noobsaibott,
I welcome you to the HotForWords site, and I hope you get to know the people while you are here.

I’m not known for being laconic, but, this time I’ll make an exception.

You have it very wrong.

Notice, I didn’t say YOU are wrong. I said, you are having a miss-understanding. You are having a projection of your own mind placed upon others, which is tangentially incorrect. A lot of us come here to interact with people like you and Marina is just the icing.

Leonard’s been here since Mar ‘08 and I have been here since June ‘08. Sit down, rest awhile and get to know everyone.
Trust me, the world really does work that way.

I could go on, but I have just blown it.
I’ll never be laconic.
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Damiana,
I answered Rijk over here regarding the question of spam.

I only list a few known items that can cause your comment to be flagged as spam. I can tell you from personal experience that when I post a comment on my own blog as a non-logged in user, all of my comments are flagged as spam and I can only guess that it is either related to my domain or it is related to the username being on a list (black list) from other postings elsewhere. I would have to research the spam filter’s rules to see what’s going on.

In your case, if you created another username such as Damiana1 for example, and if your comments were still being flagged, it would indicate a blacklisting of your domain or cookies. Clear your cookies and see what happens. Of course you will lose your personalizations and you would have to key your username and passwords back in again.

As background information, here is the Wordpress information on the spam filter called Akismet.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
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Hi CK,
My reference to accessibility refers more to the idea of usability in terms of browser standards and ability to present a consistent user experience across all platforms and browsers. Handicapped accessibility certainly is one of those elements and comes under a variety of guidelines such as WAI, UAAG, ATAG, ADA and others.

Hearing impaired Closed Captioning is usually done by people with the skillset and technology to create accurate captioning. It is not a trivial task unless a TA has that skillset or the time. Of course you don’t have to be a TA to volunteer to do this kind of work. Anyone with the time and skill set can do it.

All one needs is to get permission from Marina to replicate the video and then to insert the captioning which can be either hard captioned (visible at all times) or Closed Captioned using YouTube’s player technology.

A two minute video would take me about 20 min to an hour or more to transcribe and add the captioning. The reason for the time is that some words require to be looked up, insert corrections as needed and verify the proper transcription. Someone with a transcribing skillset would be able to do it much more quickly than I could. There are tools that can help, such as speech to text converters. I have not tried it on these videos yet.

Many of the hearing impaired institutes hire people to do these kinds of tasks, and I think many of them are very busy. There is always the question of demand and how many hearing impaired users would this help.

I would think that anyone aligned with the hearing impaired community would take the lead in this endeavor in order to create and implement a plan for captioning.
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Hi Jan,
I added a summary of Marina’s 9th visit to the O’Reilly Factor show in the Forum. You can also see my previous summaries of all of Marina’s visits to O’Reilly.