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Louis Gray posted a message
“What are some songs that you used to really like, that now, you can't stand?”
yesterday at 1:19 am - Link
For me, that would be anything from Crystal Waters. At one time, Gypsy Woman and 100% Pure Love were high on the list. I just deleted them from iTunes after years of skipping them. - Louis Gray
Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray
Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner
Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray
Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay
Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw
Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White
I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan
Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez
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89, which is apparently high for Memphis. I think some higher-scoring locals use suburbs or jokes for their locations though. - Daniel J. Pritchett
100. :-) But I'm only 156 on the ranking list. I guess I don't Tweet enough. - Robert Scoble
Are you saving up your milliscobles for a big event? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Grades; this IS what makes me hate the word "social". You'll tell me that it's how real life is too. and again I won't agree... this is, in fact, how real life WAS. kings, slaves, blacks, women... - directeur
I personally like the list of Sunnyvale users: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Louis Gray
ha! I got a grade of 74 and a rank of 67,727 out of 367,076... I think I'm happy with that? - Simon T Small
got 90 and I barely use twitter... so, that's simply silly - directeur
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Steve Rubel posted a message
“Not rocket science but I have concluded that smartphones are great for consuming, not so great for creating while computers do both really well.”
yesterday at 4:04 am - via IM - Link
I suspect I am going through a similar dilemma to you at the moment. I want a new Powerbook, this will allow me to do all my work on the train while commute. But a netbook is so much cheaper and smaller, but won't allow me to use the likes of CS3/4 for my other work. Smartphone's come in somewhere else . . . - Ed Richardson
I am torn right now. Ed and Steve are right. I like the smartphone but it does have so many limitations. Is it so wrong to want one device that does it all well? ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
It depends on the content I suppose as well as the mode of operation. Writing long e-mails on mobile devices, coding, or doing creative work is certainly not worth doing on smartphones. But taking and e-mailing pictures and video, transmitting location data, bar-code aided pricing comparing, and other sensor-aided activities are where smartphones seem to shine. I think this may balance out the consumption vs. creation equation over time. - Dion Hinchcliffe
I definitely want some sort of bar code scanning app. It would make shopping on a budget much easier. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew, check out http://compare-everywhere.com/ for Android, it's getting really good reviews for doing bar code scanning price comparison. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Depends on what you are creating. - Kevin
Dion: Thanks! - Mathew A. Koeneker
I Agree with Kevin it really depends what you're creating and what device you're using. If you're referring to photos/video and you're talking about the iPhone or Blackberry mobiles then I understand, but if you include Nokia Nseries devices in the equation it changes all together. Nseries are great at capturing photos/video and then uploading them to your blog or Flickr especially the N82, N95 8GB, N96, N93i, etc. (basically the models with 3 Megapixel cameras or higher). If you're talking about text input for writing blog posts or long E-mails then probably a device with QWERTY keypad will work best for example, Blackberry mobiles or Nokia Eseries mobiles such as the E71. I'm very curious what smartphone/s you were referring to when you dismissed them as not being good at creating content? - LonelyBob via twhirl
@LonleyBob I use a Treo 755p which has the qwerty that I like. I would like to see a better speech to text app than is out there as I can talk a lot faster than I can type. - Mathew A. Koeneker
think it depends on your actual device as has been discussed here already ... the iPhone is absolutely a consumption focused device. Apple made very clear hardware decisions which make that a reality. The Nokia gear as @lonelybob mentions is considerably stronger on the creation side and something I concluded <http://www.atmasphere.net/wp/a...> quite a while back in my comparison of the N95 and iPhone. Nothing has really changed since ... - Jonathan Greene
the iPhone-powered laptop might be what you are looking for: http://www.gizmag.com/the-olo-... - vijay
smartphones are great for creating when you're not at your computer (ie. when you're in the real world) - William Stewart
I would agree. Smartphones are okay at creating, but definitely not great. Consuming could be better too. Where's my Google Reader iPhone app damnit?! - Mark Martinez
a phone with a decent camera would be nice though - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
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yesterday at 8:44 am - Link
"...your age might have something to do with your attitudes and emotions surrounding technology." I am petty for saying this but, "duh!". The issue is whether you've "grown up" with the technology or not. But as the rate of technological advancement accelerates, it will become more difficult for anyone to stay on top of it. That's the job of a good user interface design to solve. To make technology so intuitive and transparent that we don't have to think about how to use it or troubleshoot it. - Lindsay Donaghe
people have always been afraid of technology that was new at the time - radio, nuclear power, cars, you name it. - Joelle Nebbe
whenever people have to burn energy that comes not from a wish within them...they try to avoid it. age does not matter at all. if my 2year old daughter dont see it as benefitial to change diaper she would not want to do so. - Chris Hofmann
Get off my lawn! - Bwana
wait, wait, who really "invents" in technology? The old stinky monkeys or the young stupid folks with acne vulgaris? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Seems there's a point where the effort made to "catch up" becomes too overwhelming. I know nothing about cars and I'm at the point in my life where I'd rather pay someone else to deal with it than climb up the learning curve to do basic things. That may tie into age, and I might not look on this as "old fogeys" being scared of change, but just not having the time. - Jason Kaneshiro
Good points all around, but the best is the idea that stuff doesn't go mainstream until people are comfortable with it. - Tom Landini
This is so true. I find that I seldom freak out over computer errors, but the smallest error will send some people I know into a fit. I guess it partly lays in the fact that I know what's wrong.. or I'm just used to all the errors. Damn you, Microsoft! - Mark Martinez
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Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job | World news | guardian.co.uk
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"Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned." - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet
Smart move... better to have her in the administration than on the outside criticizing every move by Obama. - Mark Martinez
*Sun Tzu nods, knowingly* - Mark VandenBerg
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Looking for "The Bishop"... - William, CPU Media
This is what I've been waiting for! - Michelle Darnell
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“Just landed in San Francisco and Twitter is down. Blame Scoble.”
5 hours ago - Link
it's funnier when other people say it :) - Christopher Galtenberg
Hey Robert broke twitter ... no wait, it's just twitter's way of saying, "Welcome Home"~!! - Susan Beebe
What's Alex done to Twitter? Alex? Robert is saying you broke twitter..... - WorldofHiglet
I really don't think it's your fault..... this time. :) - JCLeftie
Awesome blog title -> "Twitter went down as soon as Robert Scoble landed in SF" - AJ Batac
Yeah. Nice work Scoble ;) I bet you brought some Chinese twitter virus back home - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl
And, being that you're Scoble, you're still able to Tweet about it. - DocileWalnut
Another Blame Scoble meme? - Roberto Bonini
It went down right as I ran my auto-follow script for SocialToo - it's probably my fault ;-) - Jesse Stay
Googel reader having problems as well... you must not have read all your feeds and now they have an out of memory error - Ian D. Nock via twhirl
See I cannot even type properly.. must be Scoble - Ian D. Nock via twhirl
Ian, funny thing - I did just finish reading my feeds. I think it's actually me taking down the internet this time. ;-) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
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Thems fightin' words :-) - todd
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