Nope. I will be sticking with my Blackberry 8800. - Matt Donders
It'd also be interesting if y'all can elaborate a bit, why or why not? - Jason Kaneshiro
i did in the comments on site, but i am because i'm addicted to the current one and this one is faster with GPS - MG Siegler
@Jason -- I currently own an iPod Touch and I carry that and my Blackberry with me. No need to consolidate devices and the Blackberry keyboard is the best out there, IMO. With the update of the iTouch to allow for WPA2 Wi-Fi I have everything I need in both devices. - Matt Donders
No, but I was able to upgrade My Verizon LG VX9900 to a new LG Voyager for $50 today :-) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I'm hearing that the overage charges could kill you if you really use it. I'm thinking about not getting one if that's the case? - Jim Kukral via twhirl
On the fence ... but they are beautiful. - Scott Wamsley
@Matt I am using WPA2 Wi-fi on my iphone. You sure its not the same with the touch? - Akshay
@Akshay -- Sorry WPA2 Enterprise. My school uses certificates to login to the wireless and from what I understand this 2.0 software update will allow me to login to these secured networks. - Matt Donders
This is interesting. I'm refraining from any analysis, just collecting yes's and no's and reasons. - Jason Kaneshiro
@directeur Well race -- it's just a social construct. At the end of the day, we're all human, flesh and blood. Race is just a factor of the power imbalance in the world -- created along ethnic lines. - Shey
@Shey: I'm white but look at my avatar :) I have so much respect for every nice man/woman in this earth. The race things is because we "generally" have eyes. How do blind people "see" the race thing? See what I mean? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Blind people see the race thing just like everyone else really does, as a cultural values thing. Even blind people know glorifying living in the ghetto and pimpin' hos is probably not a good idea from a social context. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
Awesome post, Shey. I'm glad people actually posted about this. - Rahsheen Porter
I had never seen the video at the end... doesn't surprise me though - Bwana McCall
I have to ask though; isn't this a year old why all the heat now? I had no idea who this guy was until Corvida and You posted about it. Maybe as a black bloggger it would only seem right if i expressed my 2 cents on it too - Gordon Swaby
Alexander's comment is exactly the problem racism yields. There is no "Black Culture" that glorifies "pimping hoes" or living in the ghetto. What you see on TV, and what is reality are not the same. The idea that Blacks have "lower cultural values" is at the core of racist ideology. - Jasmin Smith
Gordon, I never saw it recently either, literally a couple weeks ago. Blog away if you like :) - Shey
Key race is the human race! The rest is just details. - Mark Forman
Somebody apparently dug it up. Probably when they found out about the Verizon deal. I read somewhere that he had pissed of some other people before this, so they could possibly have had something to do with it. - Rahsheen Porter
One of the things I like about FriendFeed is that it proves Loren's video assertion (comical or otherwise) is untrue. That there are black nerds and bloggers and are adding to the conversation. It is very refreshing to me to hear from black people and women on the internet. I like to get a better sampling of "people" not middle-aged white men. All I need for that one is the mirror or listening to my own thoughts. - Mark Forman
Funny you should say that, Jasmin, because that's the culture black cultural entrepreneurs are selling. Look at urban culture in general and look to who produces it. Largely middle-class blacks from urban homes. If we can't expect they know what best sells to their home communities, who can we? - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
The comment I made on the Mashable post was that in competitive improv, we were taught never to go for the "easy" humor because it's not respectable and its not sustainable. All Loren Feldman has going for him is an easy laugh obtained from a sea of classless appreciators. He deserved to get this ripped away from him. - Jennifer Leggio
OK Alexander. Let's look at the So-Called Black Music Industry (Specifically hip hop/R&B. Who creates and markets it... white men... who buys it.. white kids... - Jasmin Smith
Well said Mark. I need to ask how long ago did he get the "verizion deal"? Because i was watching one of his videos where he was commenting on it and he lauded himself for getting the deal; seemed a tad bit excited, must have been a shame to lose it. - Gordon Swaby
@Shey, sadly racism is alive and well in America. Your post was spot-on. Bravos! - Dave Martin
I defy someone to find me another place - online or in the real world - that facilitates conversations like this about topics as sensitive as this. You find me a place where people regularly express the thoughts and ideas that have been expressed above about a topic like this and I will frequent it every bit as often as I do Friend Feed (ok maybe not EVERY bit - there are only so many hours in a day...) - Marco
Marco, absolutely - this is why I can`t stop blogging about FriendFeed :) - Shey
It would be good if my question was answered, please and thank you. - Gordon Swaby
Thanks Dave, unfortunately there are many who turn a blind eye or will even deny it. - Shey
@Dave Martin Racism is alive and well here in Canada too. Don't even get me started.. especially when it comes to how Canada has treated and continues to treat our Aboriginal people. Sadly, unless you've experienced the negative effects of racism directly, it's difficult to understand the lived experiences of people who are discriminated against SOLELY because of the colour of their skin... not their "lack of moral character" as our friend Alexander has mistakenly suggested. - Jasmin Smith
Jasmin, you must be living in an interesting parallel world. I think I can say with some comfortable surety at least in the context of Atlanta's hip hop media and entertainment industry that it's very, very predominantly a black enterprise. White kids may be buying it up in bulk, but that's because there are a lot of white kids and somewhat fewer black kids. Thus the term "minority." - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
Wow.. I saw this friend feed post and it sent me on a wild tangent through the web to Corvida's site and to the TechCrunch article that I somehow missed. Glad to see things come back around regardless of who the target was. - Adam Helweh
Unfortunately I think Feldman and his "shock jock" nature will try to capitalize on this negative publicity somehow. :-/ - Jennifer Leggio
Alex, I live in Canada, thanks.... but in your country, (America I presume) the Hip Hop industry is overwhelming supported by young white kids, and financially backed by their older white "parents and grandparents." While Black men and women stand as the figureheads in the industry, with the exception of a few big names, the money goes into the hands of the top execs.. who are predominately White. - Jasmin Smith
@Alexander, I am an artist in Atlanta. I know many other artists in Atlanta. The problem is that these artists talk about what they live. The big record companies help to market and glorify these things. White kids support this industry. The record companies put the black artists in positions where it looks like they run the show, but they are just managers/supervisors...not CEO's. - Rahsheen Porter
and while we're on the issue of "minorities" -- it has nothing to do with numbers and EVERYTHING to do with which groups hold the POWER in society. Racism is then perpetuated through the maintenance of these power structures along "racial lines" -- promoting stereotypes to denigrate racial minorities, all the while elevate whiteness to "the norm" (intentionally and unintentionally) which further stratifies society... - Jasmin Smith
Jennifer-who's to say he isn't the one to instigate the Verizon protest issue. It's possible that Verizon deal not so great and he hoped to generate even more publicity through this brouhaha. Hard to say when you're dealing with performance artist that is comfortable using "shock." Anything is possible. Loren might be many things but certainly dumb isn't one of them. - Mark Forman
@Mark It's quite possible. But hopefully since his notoriety is in limited circles a respectable mainstream business would realize there is more detriment than value to dealing with him. Again, the operative word being "hope." - Jennifer Leggio
So, if the "black culture" Loren parodies (well or poorly) in his video is created by, marketed by, consumed by, and enjoyed by whites, is it racist then to mock? Because, Hell, it ain't black at all by that measure and any REAL black person'd know he couldn't POSSIBLY be talking about them, right? Or are we assuming that since blacks aren't competent, driven, or cunning enough to produce the cultural artefacts credited to them (by your assertion), they're clearly too weak to take some parody and need to be protected by our doting, paternal culture? - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
With the video at the end. Spot on. Sometimes you get off the hook, sometimes there are consequences. Now he met some. - Roland Hesz
Alex, your opinion truly illuminates what is wrong with race relations in (the) America(s). Because you, and people like you have ignorantly bought into the stereotypes about Blacks (and no doubt other minorities) you fail to understand the social significance that your type of ignorance causes. It's too much to get into here. I'll sum it up in a blog post later. - Jasmin Smith
That was great to read Shey. I've felt the same way, all the stuff I've read being posted in his defense stinks of ignorance. How anyone can even stand to watch a single video by the guy is beyond me. His smug expression intolerable. His blatant bigotry is sickening. - Tsega D
It's really mind-boggling how impossible it is to actually explain race issues to people who have not lived them - Rahsheen Porter
@Jennifer, We can only hope that Feldman does call further attention to this situation, that he does attempt to rally and in that process out those like thinkers who support his plainly racist notions of humor and entertainment. We can not let this stand. We have the collective power to turn his cavalier dismissal into an indictment. We have the responsibility to call to account any advertiser that supports what is now a history of racist stereotyping for profit. If not us, who? If not now, when? - Dave Martin
OMG the irony of the video! LOL, yah he's a total loser. - Trula
@Dave I not once implied that we shouldn't continue to raise the issue. Nor do I have any doubt that Feldman will continue to fan the flames himself. My comment was merely about how I hope he does not profit from the increased notoriety this situation has caused. Not sure where you got the other part. - Jennifer Leggio
@Alexander No matter how they originate, the stereotypes end up hurting racially. When someone who's just met me jokes about not bringing a crack pipe, or when an Ivy League school president is followed around a store to make sure she won't steal anything, if you can visualize someone being negatively impacted, do you visualize a white person? How about anyone of the same "race" as the one working off the stereotype? - MiniMage
@Jennifer, by his own hand let him come to be known for what he defends and let his supporters and fellow travelers be named. I learned as a child it was a good thing the KKK sported the cover of sheets, it told us who they were. - Dave Martin
@Dave OK, I am not nor never disagreed with you. Just think you missed my point. Regardless, we're on the same side, so we can stop wasting Shey's quality convo space. :) - Jennifer Leggio
Closed circuit to Feldman: A quote by the great philosopher king Mike Tyson seems apropos here, think about it..."Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth." - Dave Martin
Alexander: "Black culture" isn't monolithic; what you're describing is a substrate of hip-hop culture. Is that substrate unusually visible? Well, yeah... white kids in search of rebellion-by-proxy lap it up, making the artists in question enormously successful, which in turn attracts those in the black community who are starved for signs of economic and societal success. It's a big, complicated puzzle... not a simple matter of glorification. - Roger Benningfield
Roger, if only I could "Like" a comment :) - Rahsheen Porter
@Shey Great post. Thanks for sharing your feelings on this issue. Unfortunately, these discussions just show how far we have left to go and how much we white people have to learn. - swhitley
Amazed by all the people still saying that it's not racist. As you know it's easy to say when you're not the target of the ridicule.It really doesn't matter because corporate America doesn't like controversy. It's as simple as that. - Kenya Allmond
It seems to me that this is a classic proof that yes, words really do have consequences. Feldman likes to swagger, talk tough, and put on this macho act about how he's the only guy with big enough balls to say things other folks would rather not hear. But now that he's pissed people off enough that there are actual consequences, he says it was "satire" and complains that people are too easily offended. Well, wasn't it part of his goal to offend people? If you're going to play bad boy, play it all the way. - nathan
“Apparently, I'm getting old and senile. What is the secret sauce to getting full text RSS feeds on Wordpress 2.5.1? This option that says "For each article in a feed show full text". I guess that's just too obvious to work. Where's my prune juice.”
Google Lively. Activision Merges with Blizzard. DHS Considered Shock Collars for Air Travelers. Yet Another Rumored Xbox 360 Price Drop. Fanboy Makes the Dictionary. PS3 2.41 Firmware Available. Gmail Security Features Added. AT&T To Limit iPhone to 1 per person. Exposure. Wall-E Gamecube Mod. Team Fortress 2 Dispenser Case Mod - Bwana McCall
"The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web. We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web" [Um ok....] - Bwana McCall via Bookmarklet
"If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator's interests, just by looking at the furniture and environment they chose" [I'm cringing over here] - Bwana McCall
"In our user research, we’ve been amazed at how much more poignant it is to receive an animated hug than seeing the text “[[hug]]”" [No No No No No No No No!!!! ] - Bwana McCall
"Prior to this release, we worked closely with Arizona State University. Based on feedback from ASU students and with help from the Google Desktop team, we added support for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside our rooms" [This is the only feature worth having. Throw the rest out. This idea seems so bad, I'm at a loss for words] - Bwana McCall
Sounds like there is lot of lack of class going around here. Maybe some skullduggery and fraud as well? - Brian Sullivan
The internet is very serious business. Websites and their former employees are even more serious business. We should all be aware of this. - Candace Holly
I like jason's link but I don't agree with his commentary. Arrington declared war after all. - Alan Le
maybe this is just one example of something duncan didn't like that caused him to leave. if he produces a blue dress "dug" by MA, ima hurl. - Wolfsbayne
Right -- like the commenter said:"Duncan taking his final step off the bridge as he strikes a match which he flings over his shoulder...". p.s. clickmonkeys.com (mentioned in valleywag thread re. prevalence of digg gaming) is hiliariously brazen, like captchakiller.com - Rowan Price via twhirl
in the larger scheme of things - blogs were supposed to be different than old media, but it looks like the same bs is going on - rivalries, backdoor pimping of your own stuff, it's just sad. New media has become old media, the more things change the more they stay the same. - Jason Kaneshiro
Duncan does not appear to be attacking his former employer in that post. - Scott Jarkoff
all is fair in love, business and social media boosting - sean percival
note to calacanis: who asked you? LOL - Bwana McCall
It's a clever way of attacking. But it draws blog posts and attention. Sigh, what a world. - Ben Parr
I am really feeling something about Karma these days.... do to others as you wish to have done to you - Ian Nock via twhirl
OOooooo touched a nerve there Duncan! - Susan Beebe
Jason, I didn't "attack" anybody, I simply aksed, on my personal blog, that given that I was cut off, why they kept begging me for Diggs, a reasonable question. Point out exactly where I attacked anyone Jason? - Duncan Riley
I have no horse in this race but I do find it interesting that Jason attacks the whistleblower and not the person actually committing the "crime".( Hmmm. - chartreuse
I'm a bit surprised that TC is still implementing a Digg Army. It's not uncommon to have a group of folks who will Digg stories for you or your site. But it seems like a strategy for a up and coming site, not a well established one. Duncan himself did say that Arrington was one of the hardest working guys he's met. So ... perhaps Mike just isn't resting on his laurels - which isn't a bad thing. I do wonder whether Duncan asked to be removed prior to posting this shot. - AJ Kohn
ahem can we leave the high school lunch room yet? - Fred Grott
AJ, Michael told me never to email him again, so I couldn't asked to be removed. Writing a blog post was my only alternative to being spammed. - Duncan Riley
@Duncan: Understood and that does make (some) sense. I'm a fan Duncan and clearly don' t know all the ins and outs. But ... to be fair, could you have emailed Biggs or Ha direct? - AJ Kohn
Biggs had a hissy fit that I was at Macworld for TechCrunch, and I've never spoken to him since. Ha I don't know. Besides, they weren't sending the emails individually, it was a group email to diggthis@techcrunch.com - Duncan Riley
Duncan, you should be a politician the way you're trying to spin that post as a way to stop spam. :-P You definitely could have emailed another TC or CG writer and they would have passed the message on. You can't tell me you write about social networks and couldn't find one to contact someone on. - Shawn Farner
Shawn, I believe that ultimately they may have still wanted my Diggs, why else would I have been cut off from all the other email lists but not that one. But I'll note again: I didn't attack them in the post, I simply made an observation (calacanis links to Valleywag, not my post). Trust me, if I was going to attack them, this wouldn't be it. I've never been known for subtlety :-) - Duncan Riley
@Duncan: Makes sense. Me, I don't see a problem with the post. Sort of a don't do anything you wouldn't want to see in print type of scenario. Crowd-Digging isn't anything new. Hope you're off the diggthis list ;) - AJ Kohn
I appreciate Duncan's defense but personally I would just come out and say - I'm trying to make TC look like dicks. No one would blame you :) - Chris Ridenour
I'll put it this way - Duncan's the only guy from TC that ever treated me like I was a human from the time I started at Mashable on. After I signed on with Pete, someone at TC went thru and forensically removed all my comments from before I joined, removed references to my personal blog from CrunchGear (they blogged about me a couple times), and generally let us know at Mash thru the grapevine what they thought of us (it isn't very nice stuff)..... - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... Duncan never participated in that foolishness, and I've always appreciated that. MA declared war first with Duncan, so if he wants to play the game, he can't be too upset when things like this crop up. In short, Duncan's been nothing but classy, in my book. I won't participate in this particular blogfite officially, but I will refute Jason's position that this is indicative of Duncan's class. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I know nothing about nothing, BUT it is usually not cool to air dirty laundry in public. TC could be
secret Nazis but it still doesn't look good to say that you can't email them or reveal company tactics. - Andrew Burd
Jason - do you consider what you are doing to DEMO attacks? Pot meet Kettle. - Mark Lepzig
Thx Mark. Andrew, honestly, I wrote a post the other day with my last thoughts on the matter and that was going to be the end of it, then I noticed one of my inboxes getting fuller as I was trying to clean them up (I have more email rules + boxes then friends on FF :-) ). I just like their hide though: slam me in private, then expect me to digg them. I'll give Michael credit, he has balls. Any further spam aside though, consider this my last on the matter. - Duncan Riley
That was my reaction too - and I am genuinely surprised, because I was under the impression that a great majority of Google developers use Macs. Perhaps they are all running XP in Parallels? - Jonathan Beckett
So...Google made a Second life? PS Home? Er.... Hmmm..... - Bwana McCall
Ok, judging by the avatars available...I'm not welcome unless I have an afro :/ - Bwana McCall
I still can't resist trying it on a PC, but do get a Mac version soon Google Lively! - Sudha Jamthe
Anyone figure out how to get it to work with Parallels? - Mark McKay
@jonathan beckett: If this were true, why isn't there not even a official tool for simply syncing iCal with Gcal ? I don't think so. And the mac devs only write programs to make money. That's the way i see it, and the reason why i switched back to win. Sorry. - Ryo
Looks like it's already there. Look under the dialog box on the site: "Drag bit.ly to your browser toolbar to shorten URLs anywhere" Just did and it's working great! - Kevin C. Tofel
already there...I'm using this. Hotness - Bwana McCall
This looks great. Now we just need support for it to be added to Twhirl. - Mark Krynsky
Did anyone else found it hilarious that Marshall used is.gd to link? - Stepan Mazurov
I like this one and the API is a great idea, but it doesn't do the autocopy to clipboard when a URL is created. I know that's a fairly simple add but it's not there currently.
I still like http://is.gd for the time being and it's also built into twhirl, which I use often.
Thx for the write-up! - Chuck Reynolds via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I found a bookmarklet for bit.ly, and replaced TinyURL bookmarklet. Fingers crossed. - Todd Defren
In time, I hope bit.ly auto-generates and auto-copies the link a-la is.gd, adds tags a-la del.icio.us, and supports services such as Twitter a-la the "TwitIt" bookmarklet. All to save a few keystrokes, I know, but that's what spurs adoption (at least with me). - Kawika Holbrook via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Just cranked out an AIR app that lets me drag and drop URLs to turn them into Bit.ly urls. Great find Marshall! - Ryan Stewart
great headline! people believed that? crazy - Sarah Perez
People are believing Apple is pulling iPhones from Canadian Apple Stores. TechCrunch is guilty as well, and I fell for it. It just ain't true. - Bwana McCall
I wrote a blog entry back in 2005 that deep-references a term of art useful here: egoboo. http://zamiel.livejournal.com/... If you don't have a concept of egoboo and it's place in this new media age, you're doomed to social irrelevance. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
For FriendFeed to reach mass adoption by non-tech folks, they will have to narrow their focus to an easy-to-understand and very useful mantra. Right now FriendFeed looks overwhelming and all over the place to someone who is not tech-savvy. - Dewald Pretorius
Mark, yes, you are right. I will follow EasyMoney2009 or even 2010, as they may be able to make me even "easier" money. EasyMoney2008 is just old. - Michelle Martinez
EasyMoney1923 can be sold to coin collectors for even easier money. - David Worrell
It's spreading around the web and the truth is, Apple never planned to sell iPhones in the Canadian Apple stores. - Bwana McCall
Good show, Bwana. I hope I didn't come off as pushy earlier. I'm just as mad as other Canadians about this, but it's important that we not give people false hope. - Cecily Walker
Nope Cecily, you were absolutely right. I'm glad you called me on it. - Bwana McCall
Np Bwana, forgiven. Even tho I won't be buying the iPhone :) - Shey
I'm Canadian but I am not mad about this or any Iphone issue. The best I can stir up is ambivalence - Brian Sullivan
"Brooks also re-emphasized that because Windows 7 won’t veer widely from Vista’s hardware requirements and core set of features, partners should encourage customers to move to Vista today in so they will be well-prepared for Windows 7." --- Does not compute - Kevin D. White
I probably have to show this to one guy, who was yesterday sending all the hell on heads of M$ (together with other 108,000+ people) where MS can NOT solve HW/drivers/SW issues for months... or probably forgot to do so :) - silpol
hahahahahajhahahaahahajahajahahahahahah. Woooooooo!!!! - Bwana McCall via fftogo
Too little, too late. I still love XP. It does its job and I don't have to spend $300 or whatever ridiculous amount of money I need to spend to do what I need to do. - Starman
so essentially, it WAS and IS crap but you should move to it anyway in preparation for more crap called Windows 7....jeesh, I sure hope they have more going on than the two cash cows called Windows and Office... - Kevin Cearns
@Bwana this is not exactly funny, actually - majority of people out there _is_ dependent on MS, and majority of IT basics education goes on guess-which platform... - silpol
Maybe Brooks listens to TWiT, a couple of episodes ago they were talking about how Apple has been promoting OSX at the expense of Vista and MS hasn't done anything at all to combat it. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
@silpol Some concessions were made to Vista compatibility for security reasons. It's better overall for the computing landscape to not support crappy applications and drivers. - Paul Whitaker
@Starman you can get an upgrade to Home Premium for $119 on amazon.com. ;) - Paul Whitaker
I like the admission that Vista is vastly improved now. kind of saying that it was not fully ready at RTM. This does nothing to assure people of Windows Seven - its the next attempt at fulfilling all Vista's promises and it's still winodws under the hood. We need a new OS built for the 21st Century with 21st Century programming, not an OS whose heritage goes back to DOS. - Roberto Bonini
@rbonini: technically, modern Windows (since NT) has more VMS heritage than DOS's. DOS is emulated in it, and not quite brilliantly: dosbox does better. - 9000
Agreed. Web 3.0? The advent of the WebOS? All you need is a thumbdrive with a browser... - Jon Cline via twhirl
I absolutely love both my Vista machines. Just sayin'. - mrshl
Tumblr can still be a little slow, especially on an iPhone on the EDGE network. Posting photos via email directly to Tumblr is convenient, but you don't get the viral benefits from, say posting on Flickr. Tumblr does import from other content sites though the selection is limited. Makes for a pretty good cut-down liveblog. I don't like the permalink setup nor do I like the fact there is no real benefit to tagging the content... Tumblr doesn't have separation of your posts by tag from what I've experienced. - Glenn Batuyong
Haven't used Posterous, but Tumblr has been very good to me, I'm a fan. - Steve Isaacs
My mind is made up, and it's Posterous. I know myself well enough -- had I gone for Tumblr I would once again have found myself mixed up in editing the layout instead of writing. Been there, done that... - Rebkin
You can tag your posts on Tumblr, but then you have to paste code for a tag cloud. The only one I've come across so far doesn't update itself with new posts so is fairly useless. - David Young
I chose posterous. So simple, easy to setup and use and I don't need tumblr's feature set for what I'm using posterous for. - Bwana McCall via fftogo
"I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about" [This is true. Louis does a great job of giving credit where credit is due.] - Bwana McCall via Bookmarklet
"Now, I'm not saying that this data proves linking is dead. I know links power Google juice, and they enhance Technorati rankings, and if done well, people can find new sources of data, but the ability for even a so-called A-List blogger to deliver a windfall of visits is much less than I had ever expected" [I think another issue is the abundance of internal linking on a lot of tech sites. This has gotten worse over the last few months. While the source may read your story, they won't link to it.] - Bwana McCall
"And in most cases, I've not seen any kind of meaningful traffic from mentions on Mashable or ReadWriteWeb. Back in January, I was a little less than happy that Mashable wasn't giving linkage a lot of prominence, but even now that they are, the impact is extremely small" [Things are changing, conversations are shifting, the gap between A-lister and Z-lister is blurred.] - Bwana McCall
"So don't wait around begging for Scoble or Mashable to write you up. It might not have the effect you thought" [I sure won't. I treat blogging as a hobby, but I'm sure if I did earn money from it, I would still want to earn my links and not pimp them. I truly believe good bloggers don't need to pimp their links in order to obtain views and subscriptions.] - Bwana McCall
“I'm starting to notice that a lot of conversations on FriendFeed around blogs are based on the actual headline -- many haven't read the blog content. Not sure if that is good or bad.”
I try really hard to read an article before commenting. I may LIKE before reading, but I try not to comment. This actually happened to me on my "FriendFeed poser" article.. a lot of people replied angrily after reading the headline or maybe the first paragraph of the article. - J. Phil
@J. Phil - I'm the same way. I'll like something in a way to "bookmark" it at times but will only comment about the content if I've read the content. Headlines are meant to draw in readers but don't necessarily represent all content. - Jennifer Leggio
sounds about normal to me... it's like people who have opinions on books they have never read... - Jonathan Beckett
That's been one of my biggest beef's with FF all along. People say, "scan for interest, read for content", but I think there's a little too much scanning going on. At least give us an option to show partial/full feed for content. Doesn't anyone remember the "content is king" days anymore? - Kevin Donahue
"Fanboy is actually one of the "oldest" of the "new" words, with its origins dating back to 1919. The wordsmiths define fanboy as a "boy who is an enthusiastic devotee, such as of comics or movies."" [I learned something today.] - Bwana McCall via Bookmarklet
And all this while, I thought fanboys were people who went to sci-fi/fantasy conventions and didn't shower. :) - Morton Fox
I've avoided this topic for many reasons, but if you are curious to its history, I would suggest reading this article. If I were to blog about this, my words would be similar. - Bwana McCall
Here all this time people were mad about puppets while THIS was out there? This guy is the Andrew Dice Clay of Web 2.0, with what I guess is "edgy" humor - hopefully he'll fade into obscurity like Clay did. - Vince DeGeorge
I knew about it because I was on that "black tech bloggers" list that he was referring to. I learned a lot that day. - Bwana McCall
@Vince See that's the thing. I don't know what to garner from that - Shey
very thoughtful post - "free speech doesn't mean free from the consequences of your speech" is so right - as soon as i saw the t-n video i knew loren crossed a line "for himself" - whether you think it was offensive or art is irrelevant - it's out there for all to judge as they see fit - i tell my teenagers this constantly, what you do online will last forever & you will be judged by it so in the words of robert scoble "be smart"... - mike "glemak" dunn
Bwana - Every time I see this issue come up, I think.. 'how does a toddler first learn to get attention? By being as annoying as possible' .. I think Loren has operated on that level his entire life. If I had to guess, I'd say he's probably enjoying all this attention, negative or not. - J. Phil
Bwana - Thanks for this heads up. This is all new to me. Loren is out of line, and I am surprised at the attitudes of the others referenced in the article. - Russellreno
J Phil - That was partly my reason for avoiding it - Bwana McCall
@J Phil do you think he suffers from Howard Stern syndrome: "I don't care what people are saying about me as long as they're talking about me." That could be it, I imagine. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
i have made the comparason to Stern elsewhere, and am glad to see that someone else has the same notions about the character in question. - Nathan Eckenrode
"From our special correspondent, Fake Steve Gillmor" [Ok, I have to make sure I'm not eating or drinking before I read this.] - Bwana McCall via Bookmarklet
"The idea that Twitter was created in seven days by FriendFeed is one of several XMPP bone scans currently being pursued. In a post modern deconstruction this afternoon, God confirms a birds nest and tree makes little Twitters. FriendFeed makes only small demands on the tree, but balances this with sunshine and soil" [Beautiful!!!] - Bwana McCall
"To summize the concept, from small ameobas, big Twitters grow…or was that a Beatles song? Combine evolutionary XMPP over IM to create soaring eagles over the battlefields of Iraq" [I completely agree!] - Bwana McCall
"The rain in Spain falls mainly at 164 South Park, San Francisco" [Ok, you lost me here Fake Steve Gillmor. We need an explanation about San Francisco. Shouldn't it be Mountain View?] - Bwana McCall
"Translated: peanut butter. It tastes good, particularly smeared on roasted bird" [Oh, thanks Fake Steve. I was losing you again.] - Bwana McCall
"Despite Twitter’s best efforts to restrict access to spammers, BarakObama314 continues, a duck is shot in the woods, and nobody hears
