Comments on: Learning from the comments people leave on my blog http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Musing about YouTube moments | confused of calcutta http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-160928 Musing about YouTube moments | confused of calcutta Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:57:54 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-160928 [...] and fellow cricket-lover, commented today on a post I’d written sometime earlier on “learning from the comments people leave on my blog“.  What he said [...] [...] and fellow cricket-lover, commented today on a post I’d written sometime earlier on “learning from the comments people leave on my blog“.  What he said [...]

]]> By: Dominic Sayers http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-160686 Dominic Sayers Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:28:48 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-160686 I thought you would enjoy this quote from a Cricinfo <a href="http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvind/content/current/story/301690.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> today: "Kaif was cruising on 91 when Panesar stunned him with a Youtube moment". How soon before "a YouTube moment" joins the verb "to Google" in the dictionary? I thought you would enjoy this quote from a Cricinfo article today: “Kaif was cruising on 91 when Panesar stunned him with a Youtube moment”.

How soon before “a YouTube moment” joins the verb “to Google” in the dictionary?

]]> By: David Butler http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-122485 David Butler Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:57:41 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-122485 Concerning learning from blogs... I have a great liking for preposterous moments that involve the great and good. Here is a memory I treasure. When W.H.Auden became Professor of Poetry at Oxford, my brother and I went to the Sheldonian to hear his inaugural lecture. It was a great experience to hear Auden speak, in that weird hybrid Posh-English-Californian accent. Surprisingly for such a famous poet, Auden seemed nervous. He had a half dozen or so books from which he was reading quotes, the quotes being marked by slips of paper. As Auden advanced through his quotes he shredded these pieces of paper and dumped them in a handy receptacle. At the end he got a huge round of applause. By tradition, the professor, already in academic attire, puts on his mortar-board and crosses the stage to the Vice-Chancellor. They bow to each other and doff their mortar-boards. Unfortunately Auden’s mortar-board had been resting upside down on the lectern, and had been the receptacle in which he dumped his shredded paper slips. As he raised his headgear he and the V-C were engulfed in a cloud of paper. It looked like a snow storm in a glass orb. The undergraduates in the audience loved this and roared with laughter. Auden looked delighted. Concerning learning from blogs…

I have a great liking for preposterous moments that involve the great and good. Here is a memory I treasure. When W.H.Auden became Professor of Poetry at Oxford, my brother and I went to the Sheldonian to hear his inaugural lecture. It was a great experience to hear Auden speak, in that weird hybrid Posh-English-Californian accent. Surprisingly for such a famous poet, Auden seemed nervous. He had a half dozen or so books from which he was reading quotes, the quotes being marked by slips of paper. As Auden advanced through his quotes he shredded these pieces of paper and dumped them in a handy receptacle.

At the end he got a huge round of applause. By tradition, the professor, already in academic attire, puts on his mortar-board and crosses the stage to the Vice-Chancellor. They bow to each other and doff their mortar-boards.
Unfortunately Auden’s mortar-board had been resting upside down on the lectern, and had been the receptacle in which he dumped his shredded paper slips. As he raised his headgear he and the V-C were engulfed in a cloud of paper. It looked like a snow storm in a glass orb. The undergraduates in the audience loved this and roared with laughter. Auden looked delighted.

]]> By: Squeezyboy http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121873 Squeezyboy Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:09:34 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121873 A similar solution to Vodpod is Clipmarks. However Clipmarks allows you to clip text as well as videos. http://clipmarks.com/ Also, worth checking out as an alternative to LibraryThing is Listal. http://www.listal.com/ As well as covering books Listal also deals with Movies, TV programmes, DVDs, Music and Games. A similar solution to Vodpod is Clipmarks. However Clipmarks allows you to clip text as well as videos. http://clipmarks.com/

Also, worth checking out as an alternative to LibraryThing is Listal. http://www.listal.com/
As well as covering books Listal also deals with Movies, TV programmes, DVDs, Music and Games.

]]> By: Dominic Sayers http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121548 Dominic Sayers Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:38:17 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121548 The Sylvester Clarke catch details are: ST Clarke c Dyson b Yardley 5, Sydney Cricket Ground, 2nd Test, 5 Jan 1982. Good game for Yardley who got 7 wickets in that innings and 10 in the match. The catch also inspired Dyson to 127 not out in the Australian 2nd innings. Dyson also got a hundred in the 1981 match at Headingley (a ground with a capacity of several hundred thousand if you believe everybody who says they were there). I was there for Botham's innings but I was back at school when Bob Willis took his 8-43, not that I went to many lessons that day when there was a television in the Sixth Form Common Room. The catch I remember from that match was Mike Gatting running in from mid on to dismiss Dennis Lillee, although I suspect the already portly Gatting made it look a bit more difficult than a more athletic fielder might have. The Sylvester Clarke catch details are: ST Clarke c Dyson b Yardley 5, Sydney Cricket Ground, 2nd Test, 5 Jan 1982. Good game for Yardley who got 7 wickets in that innings and 10 in the match. The catch also inspired Dyson to 127 not out in the Australian 2nd innings.

Dyson also got a hundred in the 1981 match at Headingley (a ground with a capacity of several hundred thousand if you believe everybody who says they were there). I was there for Botham’s innings but I was back at school when Bob Willis took his 8-43, not that I went to many lessons that day when there was a television in the Sixth Form Common Room. The catch I remember from that match was Mike Gatting running in from mid on to dismiss Dennis Lillee, although I suspect the already portly Gatting made it look a bit more difficult than a more athletic fielder might have.

]]> By: David Butler http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121298 David Butler Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:11:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121298 Yes JP, I think that was the catch. Alas I no longer have the capacity to play tapes. Yes JP, I think that was the catch. Alas I no longer have the capacity to play tapes.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121293 JP Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:56:35 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121293 David, see updated comment. I've managed to confirm that Willey top-edged to short third man. Is that your recollection of the catch? it should not be too difficult to find the video if it was in that match. David, see updated comment. I’ve managed to confirm that Willey top-edged to short third man. Is that your recollection of the catch? it should not be too difficult to find the video if it was in that match.

]]> By: David Butler http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121292 David Butler Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:53:08 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121292 JP I think you're right, I believe it was that match. In fact I was on the verge of suggesting that when I looked up Wisden and found no reference to an exceptional catch. But Dyson took only two catches in that series, so perhaps it was the one. How's this for a ruse - I shall attend a match that Peter Willey is umpiring, and ask him. On the subject of Peter Willey, have you ever seen another batsman with such an open stance? He was practically facing sq leg when the ball was delivered. For him a forward defensive stroke was more or less a cover drive. What will be the result if we come to live in a world of frictionless knowledge, where anyone can know anything that someone else knows? JP
I think you’re right, I believe it was that match. In fact I was on the verge of suggesting that when I looked up Wisden and found no reference to an exceptional catch. But Dyson took only two catches in that series, so perhaps it was the one.
How’s this for a ruse – I shall attend a match that Peter Willey is umpiring, and ask him.
On the subject of Peter Willey, have you ever seen another batsman with such an open stance? He was practically facing sq leg when the ball was delivered. For him a forward defensive stroke was more or less a cover drive.

What will be the result if we come to live in a world of frictionless knowledge, where anyone can know anything that someone else knows?

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121278 JP Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:01:16 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121278 David, do you think the catch you're looking for is one from THAT Test in 1981? I've dug around a little bit, and the best reference I've come across is the catch John Dyson took to dismiss Peter Willey in the second innings of the Headlingley Test that year. I guess other incidents in that Test could have overshadowed the catch in our memories. I have a VHS copy of that Test somewhere, so I will take a look. I have faint stirrings of memory that suggest Dyson did dive to his right for the catch. In the meantime, other suggestions welcome. What I know for sure is that Willey seemed settled and top-edged to Dyson at a shortish third man. But was that the catch that David is looking for? Can't tell. David, do you think the catch you’re looking for is one from THAT Test in 1981? I’ve dug around a little bit, and the best reference I’ve come across is the catch John Dyson took to dismiss Peter Willey in the second innings of the Headlingley Test that year. I guess other incidents in that Test could have overshadowed the catch in our memories.

I have a VHS copy of that Test somewhere, so I will take a look. I have faint stirrings of memory that suggest Dyson did dive to his right for the catch. In the meantime, other suggestions welcome. What I know for sure is that Willey seemed settled and top-edged to Dyson at a shortish third man. But was that the catch that David is looking for? Can’t tell.

]]> By: Blogs and gender and age and location | confused of calcutta http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-121257 Blogs and gender and age and location | confused of calcutta Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:34:47 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/14/learning-from-comments-people-leave/#comment-121257 [...] the kernel for this post was a comment by Hazel on a recent cricket post of mine. And here’s something I couldn’t do before, point [...] [...] the kernel for this post was a comment by Hazel on a recent cricket post of mine. And here’s something I couldn’t do before, point [...]

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