One good piece of feedback I've heard about on-line communities recently is that in today's world of easy on-line publishing. A world where everyone is now getting comfortable with on-line interaction is a world where the number of people who "shoot first...

When we first launched the MSDN Forums there were some people that didn't know we had RSS feeds for them. Every forum actually has an RSS feed that you can find in the lower right hand corners of the forum views. The VC# IDE forum , for example, has the...

I completed another personal lap around the sun today by turning 27. Gretchen and I will be celebrating by picking up the free birthday steak and lobster dinner at DC's Grill in Sammamish !

It started with the thinkweek paper , then Dare and Adam dissected it, and Mini encouraged us all to post our own ideas for Microsoft. I like the theme so; here are my ten <insert adjective here> ideas in no particular order. As my disclaimer states...

This may seem trivial, but after reading the incoming questions on http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn I realize a good number of users could benifit from some help asking questions. Here is a support article written by Daniel Petri, an MVP who likely spends...

There are several positive comments in response to the VPC release of VSTS . http://www.tlmii.net/cs/blogs/iis_musings/archive/2005/07/22/43.aspx “Now this has got to be one of the most brilliant beta testing concepts i've seen in a while.” ...

I didn't even know that my blog was on sale ... and you can buy shares of it. But, based on the share history, I'd be tempted to sell while the going is high. :-)

I've been working on a spec that defines potential improvements to the http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN RSS experience. Here is a draft of that specification for feedback. I've also created a sample feed (static) based on the specification for you to...

Here is a link to the Church of the Customer’s latest podcast on measuring influencers and the effectiveness of word of mouth advertising. Good stuff that’s worth listening to. http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/podcast_measuri.html

Sara , from the VSCore team, is looking for people to report and vote on feature suggestions via the product feedback center that would improve Visual Studio for developers with multiple monitors. If Sara lists the suggestions people submit its a pretty...

<Looks left> <Looks right> Wow, I'm still here and no one has taped my mouth shut. You just can't believe everything you read online I guess . In other news starting a "podcast" won't make me rich either . Oh well, guess I'll just stick to...

The VS Help team is looking for feedback wrt a last minute default setting. Anyway, here is the feedback request: We’re making some last-minute decisions about the behavior of the local search engine for Visual Studio’s local MSDN search engine. We...

Something Scott C. said in response to my request for feedback on my new blog look struck a cord. "On the columns, who ever said we needed to pack all this crap onto our blogs that require 3 columns?" So, in that spirit I've cut the post calendar...

Just blogging this for my own archives to read again in the future. [Via Fabulous Adventures In Coding ] A few months ago an old friend had to give her first talk at a conference. Now, she used to do community theatre back when we were in school...

When the "By Design" bug resolution makes the most sense. :-) [Via AllenD's WebLog ] Some VS 2005 customer love [:)]: ( Feedback Center Link )

[Via Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist ] We've got the perfect place for a blogger meetup in Sammamish, The Pine Lake Ale House. It has great food, free wifi and of course beer. :-) The question is, do we have enough nearby bloggers for a suburban...

Found Via Scoble . I don't care what you opinion is on the subject. I'd like us to lead with a few things now and again too, but this is one of those "it's funny because its true" comics .

Keen recently joined the customer connection team. One of his main responsibilities is defining the CTP process and end user experience. I hope he'll be posting his thoughts and ideas regarding CTPs on a regular basis. Check out his intro post and say...

I've been at it again... hacking my way through CSS and my blog styles. Here are my thoughts: I miss the 3 column look, but it had display issues when there were wide pictures in the posts and none of the styles I could choose allowed me to bury the...

So I'm still collecting the RSS feeds of Loyal Scooblog readers . I'm still enjoying the fresh content I'm being exposed to as a result of this. I've also been able to participate in discussions I would have never heard about before. I do have a question...