Daniel Andrlik

It's to the point of depressing, that there's a big wide world out there and some amazing minds around here, but they can't get off the god damned twitter and friendfeed cheerleader squad for five minutes. And everyone is the media, too, so basically unplugging from one, doesn't really do much. - Eric Rice

If you want to look into the world of design and tech innovation beyond Twitter take a look at "Design and the Elastic Mind." It's the catalog of a recent show at MoMA. Annoying typographic design that makes reading painful (some designers need to be strapped into a chair and forced to read the crap layouts they foist on us.) But the work presented will shake you loose. Here's the NYTimes review of the exhibit (not the book) http://snurl.com/38l6t - Michael Markman

good god the review starts: "Bioengineered crossbreeds. Temperamental robots. Spermatozoa imprinted with secret texts." Yeaaaah, I'm sold. - Eric Rice

You, my friend. Are following the wrong people ;) - Mona N.

I'm with Mona, Eric. Time to dial up some new follows :) - TDavid

Mona: No, I pay attention to the right people, they just get squelched out by the goofy ass noise. You think I'm a pain in the ass for my health? There's only one good thing about some of these groups of people... they are programmable hives that you can run mental algorithms against. At least that's the way I'm writing it, heh. - Eric Rice

The only person worth following, E: http://friendfeed.com/e/edf8ef... - Mona N.

Really, Mona? There's got to be some other good twitter comedians out there...somewhere...such an untapped venue. - Pete Delucchi

Unfortunately, aside from the man who throws up things he may need later (LOL!!) I have found anyone who's made me LOL.. I would LOVE to find more! - Mona N.

Tsk tsk, sir! In these worlds talk like this gets you hidden. Forsooth! Also...Eeegad! - Jim Stanger

Eric: yep, the noise can be deafening at times and make FF seem like huge freakin' echo chamber! expanding your FF circle will open up new stuff to your feed...more fun! get more cake and bacon!! - Susan Beebe

I'm with you, Eric - Aaron Brazell

You do not need to have 25k followers to be happy! A few hundred people who you interact with is just perfect! Just keep looking for followers who interest you! - Igor The Troll

Jim, you know my position on hiding, blocking, muting. ;) - Eric Rice

...and we know yours on kfetching. :D - Mark Forman

Actually it's not so much a follower thing, I've found that while my follower list is very low here, I'm still able to read and discover other things. It's the noise that seeps in. I mean, I don't *read* TechCrunch and I can't escape that thing because *everyone else does*. That's how the game works, that's fine. I'm not bitching from a poor-me perspective, I'm directly bitching AT: and that means saying, look, people YOU CAN DO BETTER FOR YOURSELVES. So yeah, kinda like that. - Eric Rice

BTW, I freaking LOVE pomade. - Eric Rice

Pomade pretty old skool dude. That used to be currency at the barber shops I frequented ans a Brooklyn kid,where all the barbers were named Louie. - Mark Forman

That was my favorite tweet yesterday from the Mars Lander. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Agreed, the implications from water on Mars are mind blowing. - Jeremiah Owyang

water on mars is great, but iet's get to the real issue: is there OIL? - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl

FOLKS - We *knew* there was water on Mars for quite some time. http://blogs.discovermagazine.... It's just that we can "touch", "feel" and "taste" it this time, rather than just "look". The linked-to post has more details. - Yuvi

@Eric Rice, I hear you!! I stopped reading TechCrunch a few months ago because I knew I'd run in to their content repeatedly as it echoed throughout the rest of the blogs I read... and should probably unsubscribe from at some point soon. - Christopher Butler

Amen brother! - David Cook

Shit, I want that for my DESK - Eric Rice

Yeah, same here. One for my desk. No one would know the difference. :-P - David

Yeah, I remember when they first started the blog and got a little bit of mocking, but I'm impressed with how seriously they're taking the socnet stuff, not to mention how well they are doing it. - Daniel Andrlik

And it doesn't have that 'oh we're just doing it because we're supposed to' vibe that seems to be present in the so-called 'social' space. Look at those happy happy commenters, heh. - Eric Rice

Eric - are you looking forward to the sony home service.. that 2nd-life-esque thing that's been in development forever? - J·Phil·Glockner

J.Phil: moderately... thing that I'm noticing now is how people are using things like GTA 4 Free mode as a virtual world.. it's a place to hang, relax, socialize, sometimes play/fight... There's some undiscovered territory yet that Home has to offer, and it might not even been from Home itself. (Also, I think the comparisons to SL do more harm than good, and also, not fully congruent.) - Eric Rice

BTW - sure, the comments are happy, but I wish I could compress all the single-word posts into one tokenized post.. like GZIP them or something. Sweet! x18 - J·Phil·Glockner

I missed this whole drama until I saw this post. I still can't quite bring myself to care, although I'd probably have an opinion if I felt like taking the time to track through the whole issue. - Daniel Andrlik

I hadn't really realized there was an issue, per se. Just an internet pissing match. - Richard Moriarty via twhirl

It's actually kinda important re: API/embedding etc, sans melodramatics. Still. - Eric Rice

Oh I get THAT part. But that could be as simple a fix as having a user embedding option (proper auth required to reply off site). Takes some coding, but honestly this is the kind of shit they should have been thinking about even before an "alpha" release. The drama shit on the other hand I have no time for. I don't care about either company personally, some one will get this shit right eventually and I'll use them. Maybe. - Daniel Andrlik

I love your new word there Eric. I'd like to buy a subscription to your newsletter. :D - Emotion Tad

Seesmic is one of those companies that could really have benefited from the old-school "design first, then code" approach to development. It really feels like they are slapping things together as they go and praying the community will keep it from sinking while they flounder. That being said, they've got the connections, and for now the community is with them, so they'll probably survive, and may even succeed. - Daniel Andrlik

Comment posted from Loic: http://seesmic.com/v/g8soZ0kAQ... - Eric Rice

Hey Eric, thanks for throwing oil on the fire as we say in French :) no pain no gain, we launch our products early, learn from our mistakes, and iterate. We will get our copyright shit right trust me, but I had to have the platform up first, otherwise why bother with copyright if you are down all the time? We're up and open, now UI and copyright. Thanks for caring, visit us again I would like to try your segway - Loic Le Meur