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Shawn Powers
Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal, the Technology Director for a school in northern Michigan, and a pretty serious coffee addict. He's also quite fond of Gummy Bears.
He can usually be found in the #linuxjournal channel on the freenode IRC server, or on Twitter. You can also drop him an email, but trust us, he's WAY behind on email. :)
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I'm a long-time subscriber to LJ and think going digital was a wise move (though I don't have a tablet yet so I miss reading it over morning cereal)...
...but PLEASE restructure the issue announcement emails more like other e-publications like IW and CW with prominent links to major articles as well as the normal login.
This month, the only link in the email that looked appropriate was "Subscriber? Login Now", but this took me to the login page requesting the account number and zipcode instead of the normal username/password login page. I had to hunt around to get logged in so I could read the issue.
Even better would be to include an entire Table of Contents in the email. Clicking on anything takes the reader to the username/password login and then on to the article/column selected. From there, readers will find other articles of interest.
I used to read LJ cover-to-cover every month but now sometimes don't read it at all because it's too cumbersome. Being a retired Unix/Linux systems programmer and a pretty fair writer, I even hoped to submit some articles in the future.
Web publishing is "inside out" compared to magazine publishing. Once the reader saw something of enough interest on the cover to buy the magazine or take the time to read it if already a subscriber, there was a bias to at least skim the publication for more interesting content. With web publishing, the email or Google hit drives readers to the website to read one article but once there, they notice other content of interest.
Please work on adapting LJ to better fit the way busy people read online.
Thank You For a Great Publication,
Robert
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Zu den Anwendungseingenschaften lässt sich sagen, dass diese häufig unterschätzt werden. Leider völlig zu unrecht. Häufig lohnt es sich sogar für die Nageldesignerin, http://hamburgnagelstudio.wordpress.com etwas teurere, aber dafür hochqualitative Produkte von Markenfirmen einzusetzen. Denn was bringt es ihr, dass möglicherweise die Produkte spottbillig sind, dafür aber kaum Haltbarkeit auf den Nägeln der Kundin gewährleistet http://reisenferien.blogpaint.com wird, das French an allen Ecken und Enden abplatzt und somit immer und immer wieder - für beide Parteien - lästige Reparaturtermine notwendig sind?
Außerdem ist dieser Punkt auch wichtig für den http://lifestyle.blogpaint.com Erfolg des Nagelstudios. Denn keine http://hotels-ferienhaus.blogage.de Kundin besucht gerne ein Nagelstudio, bei dem nach der Modellage schon Tage später die Nägel Luft ziehen (im Fachjargon: liften) oder an den Ecken das Gel http://nagelstudio.blogage.de abplatzt - für die Kundin ist dies herausgeworfenes Geld! Das Nagelstudio erreicht dadurch nichts, außer möglicherweise einen negativen Ruf.
Ich kann aus Erfahrung sagen, dass der Einsatz von hochwertigen Produkten http://blogya.de/urlaubferien für Nageldesign besonders sinnvoll ist. Das fängt bei der Auswahl des Einphasengels http://nailstk.wordpress.com an, geht über das Aussuchen von Lichthärtungsgeräten und Modellagetisch und endet schließlich bei Werkzeugen, Fräser, Stampings, Pailetten oder Glitzervarianten sowie den richtigen Feilen.
Wie sie sehen, gilt es einiges zu beachten. Dies waren nur ein paar Tips. Nächste Woche werde ich http://nageldesignschulung.pbworks.com eine ausführlichere Beschreibung der richtigen Auswahl von Gel und Lichthärtungsgeräten anfertigen.
Hi Shawn,
I really enjoy your articles. They are current and informative, and I like the fact that you seem to actually use OpenSource tools (eg Abiword)...
Steve Dupuis
Ottawa Canada
PS: Regarding the Reader's Choice Awards, may I suggest that instead of entitiling items as "The Best Linux Widget" maybe using "Most Popular Linux Widget" instead .. This comes from reading some of the flames in the Comments ... as the Choice awards is a popularity contest, not a critical evaluation of things ... just my 2 cents.
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Do you think you can help me out and share this with your readers and anyone you think might be interested:
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Thanks!
Shawn,
I just wanted to say that I fully support LJ going all digital. I am amazed at how much bitching and moaning the decision has caused. Especially those that would rather not get the content at all if they can't have it in physical print form. It's the content I like, regardless of how it is delivered. I for one love ebooks and emags. I carry a nook and have gigs of books and magazines-even more on my laptop. I often find it hard to decide what to read on the commute!
So for those who drop their subscriptions, I say good riddance. They're fair weather friends who would rather see LJ disappear completely than hit the dang print button to have their precious paper copy.
Feel free to reprint my comment anywhere you like including the magazine!
Sincerely,
a supporter of all digital!
What are the chances of getting the Linux Journal converted to .mobi format and delivered to my amazon.com kindle?
Aug 2010 Dirk Elmendorf Col about Caffeine: said it was avail for Win. But the link he provided was only for Ubuntu version. Can you forward this to him for me so maybe he can let me know where he found info on the (shudder) Win version?
Thanks.
Hello Mr.Power. Thanks for accepting my friendship.
I want to be a programmer on linux and unix environment.
So please advice me what I learn in Linux and Unix. I am watching all your videos. I am wanting to become good programmer like you.
So please advice me...........
From
S. Uday Shankar.
hello Mr.Shawn.
This is uday from India.
I am very interested about Linux.
Pls give me some tips how to learn Linux.
Suggest me any books for linux.
Hi, Shawn :
Good video about Unity.
I just upgraded to 11.04 and am finding Unity to be "interesting". Don't know why I updated on day of release -never done that before. Possibly a midlife crisis or something.
Anyways, there are lots of ways to tweak how it looks by right-clicking on the switch in the top-right corner. However, even the most innocuous-seeming changes can cause major changes to the screen. Even to the point of eliminating both the silly side bar and the top bar ... ie. no way to invoke anything at all! Fortunately I still had a console icon available to me, so could invoke Firefox and search for answers. To sum it up, the command "unity --reset" is your best friend.
Hopefully Unity will grow up into something useful sooner than later.
Regards,
Brian
hello Shawn.
Pls send a mail to me how to learn the scripting languages of Unix and Linux...
Pls give me mail.
From shankar
my id (uday10586@gmail.com)
Hello Mr. Powers.
this is shankar from india.
I am very interested about Unix shell script And Linux shell script.
But i cannot know how to learn these languages.
u r a famous person in linux environment...
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