A great photo by Gordon Parks taken in 1943 captures the subject's love of the game and gives more reason for Plaxico to feel shame. - Cathleen Rittereiser
"But as you grind your way through one end of year music supplement banging on about Kings Of Leon & MGMT after another, your eyes go oblong and there's a sense of intense, giddying deja vu. Haven't we seen it all before? In every other magazine/paper/webzine/cereal box? Like, every year? Forever?
Slice through the crap: this is The Only Top 35 Albums Of The Year Countdown You'll Ever Need." - edythe
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a comment: "can't wait to kill myself over the tortured words of some poor music hack having to explain why 'this sex is on fire' is seminal." ha. - edythe
another from someone who just can't help themselves: "A bit boring but Glasvegas and Vampire Weekend made two of the best albums of the year. MGMT made 2 of the best songs." - edythe
I saw one of these lists one time and went out and got the Stone Roses album - which wasn't easy - and hated it. - Cathleen Rittereiser
Lately, I've been using FF for comments, seems to be a better vehicle for a conversation, although I assume it doesn't reach the broader audience. Still, I like working within the FF network. - Floyd Davenport
Comments get far more attention/conversation on FF. - Kevin
What I dislike about moving the conversation from the source (blog) to another place is that it becomes fragmented. by moving th econversation to FF, are we creating a clique of those we follow? If you aren't using FF as your feed reader, are you missing out on the conversation? I agree though that comments get more attention/conversation in FF. Just harder to find (for me) if I miss them as they scrolled by. Maybe it is time for me to change the way I read my feeds... - John Dorner
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The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases. I don't even know why they bother anymore. - Javier Altman
I can't remember the last time I used a Yahoo service really. - Bhavishya Kanjhan
Google has kept its focus on developing the coolest cutting-edge Internet software possible. Yahoo got distracted by some Old Media people, and, in some respects, tried to become a traditional mainstream media company. Brin and Page exercised better judgment than Yang and Filo. Perhaps they are simply smarter. - Sean McBride
Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google. I love Yahoo!. Hopefully they won't disappear anytime soon. Come on Yahoo! Let's grow in Asia. - Akhmad Fathonih
They havent done anything useful with Flickr & delicious! Meanwhile google has innovated with picasa with facial recognition & integration with contacts. Yahoo has all the components, its about tying them together and coming out with useful services. Unfortunately either they dont know how to do it or dont have the back bone to execute on it. Yahoo shows flashes of brilliance but thats where it ends.. Case in point fire eagle. Might as well acquire Brightkite! Yahoo get back innovating! - Arjun Ram
I love that in the announcement, he said that they're the world leader technology and product... have they heard of Google? - Simon T Small
The only Yahoo service I use? Flickr. And that's a old product. - Leon Ho
there is delicious of course...flickr like leon said...pipes is pretty damn cool. They're huge in China i believe...i reckon they'll come back. - Zee.
Google brings cool products - Yes. Yahoo for me as bought in some cool products like Flickr and Delicious which I love. - Tejas Patel
Brin and Page have a grand vision of how to best organize all the information in the world. They see how all the pieces fit together. I'm not sure Yang and Filo ever quite reached that level of consciousness. Google has unlimited potential if they stay on track -- they've barely scratched the surface of what is possible. - Sean McBride
I give Yahoo money for Flickr and fantasy sports. I have yet to give Google a cent but use all their services. I know it's different for businesses. - Andrew Smith
yea, they have a very clear vision, to digitize and make available all the information in the world... and credit to them, they've stayed on track! Yahoo!? just trying to sell advertising. - Simon T Small
Although I have an affection for how Flickr has aged, ie. fairly well, I'm also getting tired of the many lil' pesky UI gaffes and the chug. Gotta treat a lady right, Yahoo. - Marko Bon
Yahoo voice chat was the awesomest thing I had ever used in the world as far as social interaction at one point in time. Yahoo chat period was awesome. Sure, there was IRC, but this was different. Now, it's like Yahoo has let all those services, even the newer video stuff, get overrun by....crazies - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
I don't know, they may end up naming a cool new CEO shortly :-) - Duncan Riley
Google does nothing but KILL cool things. Their search engine is great. Earth and Maps are good, everything else? Meh. I wish Yahoo would have kept Live! going. It was a really nice and robust personal broadcast service. Their MyYahoo page is pretty nice too and so many people still use Yahoo! Groups. And lets not forget they own Flickr and Delicious. - Adam Turetzky
Adam - you didn't mention Google Reader, Gmail, Google Docs, Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Book Search and Google Voice Local Search, all of which I use heavily. I practically live out of Google Reader. - Sean McBride
Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo News, Yahoo Pipes, YUI, MyBlogLog, Flickr, Yahoo Finance.... yeah, if Yahoo were to disappear tomorrow, I'd definitely notice. BrowserPlus was just released and it was covered. Yahoo is much bigger than the drama we make about them. - Bwana
I have to say, though, I am hoping Yahoo can pull through this current slump. I am a big believer in what they are doing with Y!OS. - John McCrea
Agreed, its just relative to Google. - Simon T Small
YUI is really the only innovative thing I've seen in quite some time. - Hal
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My favorite source for good product info used to be a Yahoo Labs search engine (Mindset). They axed it about a year ago though, sadly. - Dan Byler
I think Yahoo Pipes is pretty innovative, not sure how many use it though. I can't even scratch the surface of all the features - Rick Bucich
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I use Yahoo Fantasy Sports. That's about it though. I suspect it's the same for many others. - Nathan Johns
Jerry's done inovating. I think that portion of our brain fossilizes at a certain point. He'll probably be better off, and weathier in the end - but would have done much better to have realized it 8 months ago. - Hal
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no way! yahoo location database api, yahoo query language, search monkey, semantic indexing, have you seen the stuff mybloglog is still coming up with? wordpress recommendation widget, blogjuice reader demographics. i think yahoo comes out with more cool stuff than google by a long shot - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Yahoo was my default e-mail and messenger client... untill Gmail and Gtalk happened... Love Google, - Devakishor
Yeah not sure how Google can pump up innovation so quickly! - Alvin
We had something unusual go out today; oh, wait, that was the CEO.... - Glen Campbell
Did Google learn from Yahoo's mistakes? Or did the just got so big and so diversified that a (potential) fall from grace will be even worse? - Sofia Gkiousou
"Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google." Akhmad, not sure about that -- do more people know about the Google Mashup Editor than about Yahoo Pipes? - Philipp Lenssen
"The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases." What do you make of Yahoo Answers vs Google Answers then? Google Answers was deserted by Google and then stopped, whereas Yahoo Answers had promotions with people like Oprah Winfrey or Stephen Hawking asking questions. - Philipp Lenssen
Google develop with the user in mind and take on board and incorporate the users feedback. Can't think of a "net" life without the big G now. - Rob Brammeld
Flickr is fine as it is ... it just grows. Yahoo has other good, homegrown properties that actually need something doing to, but not Flickr necessarily. - Robert Denton
Added new captioned photos to the Flickr Group "Financial Crisis Time Warp". I also added the originals so members can make up their own slogans or add new pix. WPA files are a great source. - Cathleen Rittereiser
Added new captioned photos to the Flickr Group "Financial Crisis Time Warp". I also added the originals so members can make up their own slogans or add new pix. WPA files are a great source. - Cathleen Rittereiser
Have moved "Financial Crisis Fun" photo album to a new Flickr Group called "Financial Crisis Time Warp". Still editing photos with captions, but now you can add your own pix to the group. - Cathleen Rittereiser
Have moved "Financial Crisis Fun" photo album to a new Flickr Group called "Financial Crisis Time Warp". Still editing photos with captions, but now you can add your own pix to the group. - Cathleen Rittereiser
now thats shes down you should totally kick her. Tell her the truth about jesus, the easter bunny, and that she'll most likely never be a movie star. All joking aside though, I think it says something about the maturation of American Children, and Media that the defining moment is often when we realize that these fictional characters we hold onto our not real. - Anthony
Jesse. I often play Santa around Xmas for certain clubs my family is involved in. That sucks man. This happened to a family friend of mine. She is the oldest in the group by about 3 years (9). About 2 years ago, some how she overheard her mum talking about how I was getting dressed next door and everything clicked. After I finished playing Santa, she came up and said she knew it was me. I told her the reason we do it is for the little kids and she kinda got it. Now every year I have a great helper elf :) - Johnny Worthington
John yeah, it was a similar situation here - she was helping out her Mom at a party she was throwing, and the ladies started talking about Santa without realizing my daughter was in the room. Everything clicked and she figured it all out. It's good she know now though - her friends will start making fun of her if we wait too much longer. It's tough watching them grow up. - Jesse Stay
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My son never believed in Santa or any of that stuff. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Santa Claus isn't real?? WHAT? I'LL NEVER BELIEVE IT! *runs awaying sobbing* - Mark Wilson
What? There is no Santa Clause? No no no. Santa Claus lives. You adults are just sucked up into someone's strange view of the world and can't see this Saint lives in all of us. - LPH™
you're daughter needs to learn to be sneaky... you don't let your parents know that until January... this ensures optimal presents ;) - Sean Reiser
My parents always told me that Santa keeps coming till you quit believing. I'm still believing and I'm nearly 40! :p - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
It was a killer for me when I found out. My parents helped me through it by letting me know that they would always be my Santa, so therefore Santa would always be real. - JC unwired
As far as i remember, it was the other kids in kindergarten, who broke the news. They've been playing the smarter ones. They looked cooler and more mature, so no one was crying over Santa's non-existence. - Tibor Holoda
Here's how to get around it. Santa (Father Christmas) really does exist, because you can book a flight to visit him. The slant I take is that although he doesn't have magic powers, he's still there, and they can still write him a letter, but obviously he wouldn't be able to visit everyone in one night. He is very grateful for all the help he gets from mums and dads to make Christmas special. - VickyPearce
I am with Mark, this is news to me, so who delivers all the presents? - Joe Dawson (beta)
Okay Jesse I actually heard Palin saying the Africa thing in my head when I read that. 28 years of therapy down the drain... - Mark VandenBerg
That hurts ... our sweetheart turns four today and i totally loved the look in her eyes this morning when she unwrapped her gifts .. hope this stays - Nils Hitze
I think I'm going to play it like I still believe he exists, and my wife can be the one that doesn't believe in him. ;-) - Jesse Stay
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I like her, but I'm not sure if her toughness would survive the primaries. - Ontario Emperor
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We haven't heard the last of her, but the Republican party has, on the national stage anywho. They know the only thing she helped with was a shrinking base, a base much smaller than it was 4 years ago. I'd love to see woman back there in 4yrs - just let it be a qualified woman. - Michael W. May
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Yah, but who are we going to laugh at now? - David Cook
She'll be back, but won't survive the primaries. I say she gets a TV job. She reads a teleprompter very well. I wish I had such skills. - Robert Scoble
I see The Sarah Palin Show in your future. Friday's will have a You Bet'cha segment. - Eric @ CS Techcast
If Stevens wins in Alaska, and then gets thrown out, I see Palin appointing herself to fill out his term. - Andrew Leyden
Alaska has some law that says she has to finish her term if she doesn't become vice president. So that's what... 2 years out? She may not be such a media darling then. - Jason Williams
She reminds me of a lady that ran for office in Australia, Pauline Hansen. Very similar AND in the end she faded out of existence! - Jose Fajardo
Joe: Probably. I think she'll sit down with some high level political types and assess if she has a chance in 2012. About five minutes later I suspect she'll realize (or be told) that she'll never get beyond her base and make a run for the money while people still remember her name. - Andrew Leyden
Expect to see her pull an Obama and show up in 4 years for President. - Soulhuntre
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Sarah Palin is the Eliza Doolittle of our time. Tina Fey said something similar to what I've been saying, as Sarah Palin she said, "I'm going to be the white Oprah. I'm not going back to Alaska". I think she's going to have a big TV contract somewhere. Hopefully she will at least get out of the government - Cathleen Rittereiser
I doubt she has a real chance at running in 2012. A second chance at the big ticket just doesn't happen often. Maybe Senator from Alaska. - Eric @ CS Techcast
in 4 years the GOP will recenter itself *away* from the "extreme right" to the more moderate right. at which point she won't stand a chance. - Jeremy Toeman
Agree with Jeremy. I honestly hope that the GOP moves back to the center away from rapture-obsessed theocrats. - Robert Haas
Jeremy: will that be the lesson they learn, or will it be that they need someone smarter? Of course, me and you correlate smartness with not being hyper religious, but most Americans don't look at the world that way. - Robert Scoble
stats don't back that up Robert - America is absolutely not a hyper-religious country by a long shot... - Jeremy Toeman
I'll second that! All the Alaskan Moose are crapping themselves she might be coming back. - Stuart Forsyth
