Just wrote something similar. I'm really disappointed - not the greatest of ideas and really poor execution. - Vince DeGeorge
Okay, now I have to try it because I'm a sucker for bad. :) - Morton Fox
I'm holding back trying it because I hate opening windows in a virtual machine. No Mac version is just insane - Duncan Riley
I wrote about it, too. But I'm willing to try anything once. - Hao Chen
tried it out today and wasn't too impressed. Although if they implement an API that would allow me to integrate my users in there might be some value to it. - Brad Williams
Why? I thought it was a good try, and represented enormous potential to be the next SecondLife, as it's able to run 3D stuff in your browser without having to download very bulky programs like SecondLife? SecondLife didn't work for me when I first tried it 1 year ago. It always crashed.. Never touched it since.. - Winston Teo
I tried it, it is a very, very, very unpolished 3d chat room, no more, no less.. it's not a social medium... it's a fancy chat room. - David Silvernail
Almost all of Google's first efforts are crap. They are betting the farm on distributed though, and this seems to fit with that strategy perfectly. - Kevin
No Mac version is beyond insane, it is just flat-out stupid. Why on earth didn't they wait until they could release it for every platform? I mean, unless the Windows folks are being used as open beta testers.... Just seems very odd. I agree with you Duncan. - James Mowery via twhirl
I hate to say it, but I agree. The quality of the graphics is great, but the UI is downright awkward to use. The pop-up bubble messages are annoying and I didn't see any way of private chatting. Customizing your avatar is pretty minimal too. - Jim McCusker
When a polished product exists in the market - i.e. Second Life.. why... oh... why! would you release this product that is clearly only in a pre-alpha version state? - David Silvernail
Second Life did not interest me, so I passed on Lively today. - Russellreno
Mine kept closing itself down before I could choose a character. Will keep trying. - sergiooooooo
yea im a pessimist as well in regards to those kinds of web apps. I have no faith in that kind of freeform avatar stuff. - Anthony
was lively rushed out the door because of vivaty? - Kevin
We geeks really need to be careful of seeing everything as an opportunity to critique, if not outright bash. Can't anything just "BE" what it is for an hour, a day, a week. What possible harm would come from someone trying it out? - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
No Linux version? Typical. Of course, it's Google. That means I *must* try it. :D - possible248
Thanks for the tip. SL is bad enough so I'll definitely avoid this. - Jonathon
Yeah, I'm not really digging this app. I grew out of this virtual life phase on the internet a long time ago. - Dennis Jackson
Google is many many generations away from turning this into something useful, but at least they got one thing right - they put it on the web, not the desktop. - Nicholas Molnar
I'm surprised they didn't compare it to Twitter, because that would be comparable. /smirk - Eric Rice
I don't like that answer, as SL was a big waste of time for me. thanks for saving me the time - Jason Kaneshiro
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
Bugs come back in the summer ... gotta watch out! - Nick O'Neill
@Allen, by the time you wake up, you've already digested it. ;-) - AJ Batac
in la jolla in the summer we had huge ones that hung from trees. don't miss that. - MG Siegler
as i said on twitter, mg, you're killing your allies against the bugs that are no doubt also in your apartment. - Eric Eldon
that's it, i'm bleaching my entire apartment. - MG Siegler
I'll kill them for you! My arachnophobia was cured when I went to the Philippines! - Mona N
I'd take spiders over Hawaii centipedes any day. Those things, usually 6+ inches long, crawl into your bed while you're sleeping and will bite you repeatedly. It's like somebody hit you with a baseball bat. - Scott Wamsley
Then there is probably several dozen that you haven't seen, yet. :) - Grant Bierman
just let one bite you, and then star in Spiderman IV. - Jason Kaneshiro
@jason - that'll conflict with my starring role in x-men 4 though... - MG Siegler
I don't live with you but, shit - that worries *ME* - l0ckergn0me
yea, those two you killed probably recently had hundreds of babies. And they all want revenge now. - Scott Wamsley
@scott - that is probably my ultimate fear. once when i was younger i found a spider nest thing and it burst open with a gazillion baby spiders. ugh i think i'm gonna pass out. - MG Siegler
@MG, when you said spiders, you meant Googlebot and YSlurp right? Coz I'm about to sleep and I'm scared now... :-) - AJ Batac
"Awesome post. You're dealing with the same thoughts anybody doing this has. I do this full time and my wife is a stay-at-home mom. Yeah, it is tough - both of us being in the home, but I am the only sitting at the computer all day.
In some ways, having a 9-5 is easier, yes. But at the end of the day, you're in charge, you don't have to kiss ass to ask for a raise, and you can say what you want and get paid for it. :)" - David Risley
careful what you wish for? something to chew on for anybody even remotely considering leaving the day job for blogging... - Jason Kaneshiro
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
Another band I keep hearing about and now must look into. Too much music! :P - Michael W. May via twhirl
Michael, my sister was telling me all winter holiday about this band. I politefully poo-poo'ed her. Then last.fm recommended them and I was like, "Oh wowsers!" - Jason Toney
Well, I am digging Preparedness but this Bee Gees tune is earhole hell to me no matter who sings it ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
Excellent choice on M*A*S*H. I'd also say the Odd Couple, although I really do love the movie. Also possibly The Dead Zone. And this new Sarah Conner Chronicles is shaping up to be pretty good. - Kevin Shannon
You guys are very good! Wish I could get my brain to work today.... - Abby
@Abby it just shows I've wasted most of my life watching TV - Kevin Shannon
Was kind of hard to say that about an Altman movie, but Alan Alda pretty much owns the Hawkeye Pierce role. Also, Major Winchester was a cool character. That is all. - Karim
Charles (pronounced chaahles in that delightfully uppercrust way.) Don't feel bad. It wasn't one of his very best flicks. And it was one of the best series tv ever had. - Abby
I knew there was one I was forgetting. La Femme Nikita. - Kevin Shannon
Kevin S: never saw the series, but the original French La Femme Nikita ROCKED. - edythe
She's right. It did- and it was soooo much better than the American remake. Why does Hollywood insist on remaking really great foreign films- and then screwing them up totally? - Abby
I have to confess I never saw the film, but I liked the show so much I assumed it had to be better :-) Now I have to rent the film. - Kevin Shannon
Kevin- hopefully you'll love it. Let us all know. - Abby
Ok, how about this one. The original Max Headroom was a made-for-TV movie filmed in England. When ABC picked up the series rights in 1987, they did a scene-for-scene remake of the movie in America. So, I like the original movie, followed by the series, followed by the remade movie. Still following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...) - J. Phil
Phil - a minor correction or two. For some reason, the link's closing bracket doesn't translate. I just tried putting the same link in :-) The chronology of Max appears to be UK TV Magazine show (85-86), UK TV film (87), Cinemax magazine show (87), US sci-fi action series (87-88). The british film was re-shot in the US as the pilot episode of the US series. Incidentally, what's with Matt Frewer's accent in Eureka? - Slippy Lane
Incidentally, I thought that both the british film and the american spinoff series were pretty good. - Slippy Lane
Slippy - you are right, the pilot was the remade American version. I'd like to get my hands on the original British film though, still my favorite. If I remember correctly they used a different bryce (the computer genius kid that creates max headroom) in the UK movie and he's more of a dick. I like that. - J. Phil
"Yeah that's fair, I didn't care for the ending either - you might wanna
check out the graphic novel, too, it's one of my favorites. I think the
ending in the film felt a little like a cop out, especially after such
strong characters were created. I would like to think the ending was
metaphorical rather than real, but that still doesn't provide any answers.
Oh well, the rest of the flick is really good." - Jason Kaneshiro
I left a comment agreeing with you on this post. - Robert Scoble
Linking may be less important but as I've said elsewhere the alternatives do not always provide quality traffic to go with the quantity. - Colin Walker via fftogo
'Like' * 3!!! You said what we've all wanted to say, Louis - thanks for this great post. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Interesting... and I wonder what this is going to do to Google's rankjuice flow model... if linking to others as part of a mutual info/attention ecomony starts to decline in importance and value. - Tom Beardshaw
@tombeardshaw, you can see how old-school google is .. - gregory lent
There's now a pretty good dialog in the Disqus comments on Louis' blog as well. Good reading - Charlie Anzman
@louisgray this is totally wrong. Linking is one of the most powerful signals you can send to Google about your importance and authority in your topical area. I will leave a bigger comment on your post but basically just read @DannySullivan comment carefully because he said it well. And he should know. Especially brand new bloggers NEED high quality links to even be found in Google. What % of your traffic is through Google? 60%? 75%? Enuf said. - Elliott Ng
@gregorylent maybe... searching people and what they've found here vs searching pages and their content on google? I find FF more useful for finding the latest content. Google still rules as an archive though. - Tom Beardshaw
@Elliott - I think the point of the post was that Louis is getting traffic from FF, google etc rather than from blogs linking to his posts. - John
I guess this could be seen as a Tipping Point for your blog, Louis. When you started out you relied on other people linking to you but now you generated enough content, authority and page rank that the referral traffic from blogs is minimal compared to what you get from Google searches. - John
John, that could be one way of looking at it. Also, year over year, a link from Scoble is about the same. I didn't get linked to from the big guys, aside from him, in 2007. I would get about 200 visits from his stories last year, and the FriendFeed one drove about 350 this year, with other mentions being in the 70 range. Also, this post wasn't supposed to be about me, per se, but about how the biggest blogs drove such a small amount of traffic, relative to social media, in general. - Louis Gray
IMHO, it was always the case that you got more comments the more you commented on other people's blogs. Sort of symbiotic relationship. FF seems to just be the next incarnation of the same rule. FF really is just a single portal to view a member's complete content stream and comment inline. - Shawn Smith
It would be interesting to take a look at a relatively new blogger who is active in social media to see what kind of numbers they are getting. - John
I agree with John above. I went through this with my niche blog. Now, my biggest worry is to keep advancing my game so I stay on the other side of the tipping point. Social Media is a part of that game, adding other services, networks, etc are an important part as well. But they're just tools. - John Frost
I'm inclined to think that there is something much bigger going on here. - Kevin
I think what's really going on is web browsing behavior is changing. People are less inclined to click on blog links. I think louis is right - folks are relying on aggregators and search engines to find content, or they're in their reader subscribed to so many blogs following the links within articles is less appealing. - Jason Kaneshiro
I think there is a point at which what Louis says is true, but it's after his blog "arrived" in a sense. After all, a link from Mashable that only give him 77 readers isn't much when he's getting 3,000 visitors from Google that same day. But it's a ton when no one knows who he is (including Google). I agree with John above about the "Tipping Point." - Bob Caswell
Great piece describing the changing landscape for how blogs are discovered and read. Interesting that the #1 and #3 blogs that drove your referrals were posts that themselves were powered by Techmeme and Digg. You indirectly got the benefit through those services. - Hutch Carpenter
i think i have to agree here. i used to find all kinds of new sites through post links but rarely click out of google reader unless i want to comment these days. ff and twitter drive me to more new sites now. - Steve Long
This applies to those people in the thick of the blogosphere and social media, NOT to the rest of the people on the Web who don't know what all this newfangled Web 2.0 stuff is. And quite frankly, that's a good 99% of the people getting online. - Wendy
I believe I agree with the change of discovery of content, but in the end it's still a link whether it's from a blog or from an aggregator such as FriendFeed - I still click on a link. We are simply adding multiple layers (shared thru Google Reader -> FriendFeed -> actual content). - simonpure
There's no irony of it being on Techmeme. I said that's where many people find their news... so it shows the system works. - Louis Gray
Links are still *extremely* important. Your 'Google/Organic' results wouldn't have happened unless you'd established yourself as a hub and authority in your 'neighborhood'. The only way Google understands this is by looking at links: quality and quantity. In addition, you don't get full credit for links right away. It takes time for Google to fully weight the links you have, thus avoiding ephemeral link gaming strategies. - AJ Kohn
Louis, great article on the sliding landscape of traffic aggregration, but I didn't see you make mention of the quality of your visits - only volume. SU for instance offers some great volume, but I'm not seeing a lot of stickiness from that source. However, I do see the smaller referers seem to build longer lasting communities - and yes FriendFeed has offered some great interaction. - ChangeForge via twhirl
From the article: "The tongue and the mouth, assisted by the nose, are considered the body’s primary defense against poison. They are designed to ensure that nutritious substances are ingested and harmful substances rejected. For this reason, says Hildegarde Heymann, another sensory scientist at UC Davis, the human body can taste faster than it can touch, see, or hear. The body can detect taste in as little as 1.5 thousandths of a second, compared with 2.4 thousandths of a second for touch, and a sluggish 1.3 hundredths of a second for hearing and vision." - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet
I wonder if that's a survival thing: ingesting something toxic is much more immediately harmful than life-threatening things found via other senses. I liked this: "If understanding your genome allows chefs to understand, in advance, your possible likes and dislikes, that would allow them to personalize the experience even more. There’s a greater chance of your saying, ‘That was one of the best meals I’ve ever had. I feel like the chef was cooking just for me.’” - Mark Trapp
What I find interesting is that the primary purpose of the senses is to avoid bad instead of finding good. If that is true, we should be in much more agreement about what is bad, and much less than what is good. It also reminds me about how FM radio stations are notoriously avoid a "bad" song like the plague for fear of losing a listener and instead fill the air with blandness. - RAPatton
Sadly I thought this article was about fashion taste - as in the shirts in the pictures above - Jason Kaneshiro
"Don S. Davis, a college professor who found a second career as a character actor, gaining notice for his roles in TV's "Stargate: SG-1" and "Twin Peaks," died of a heart attack June 29 at his home in Gibsons, Canada. He was 65." - Robert Seidman via Bookmarklet
I liked that guy... that seems pretty young too. - ChangeForge
Major Briggs on Twin Peaks. I just watched the episode where he returned from the White Lodge - Jason Kaneshiro
Aww that's horrible to hear. I loved him as General Hammond. Stargate fans now enter a time of mourning. :( - Zach Flauaus
If you rent the Twin Peaks DVD series, his contribution to the commentary is warm, human, and compelling. I liked his character Maj. Garland Briggs very much, but after seeing and hearing his commentary, I liked Don as a person. - David Newman
Sad to hear. I, too, enjoyed his character in SG1. I may have to scrounge for some Twin Peaks DVDs. - Arlan Koizumi
people keep posting this link with this picture and i keep 'liking' it every time. - MG Siegler
i wish the FF bookmarklet could let me be a little more selective with the images... there were other images on that page that it wouldn't recognize somehow. (couldn't pickup the io9 background logo image for some reason). anyway.. - dave mcclure
"yeah... the analogies are endless -- Yahoo!s slide is like the Hillary
campaign, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or it's like
Apple under Amelio, but there's no Steve Jobs to lead a turn around." - Jason Kaneshiro
“Escape from the Eighties! You can take your leave of the 1980s with five songs. Don't be a musicologist: what are the five songs *you* would want to take away. You're condemned to Members Only jackets and parachute pants until you can grab your five and hit the time door. Which are they?”
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love), Journey - Faithfully, Tears for Fears - Head over Heels, Berlin - Sex, Spandau Ballet - True. What can I say, I was a power-ballad, angst ridden, confused teenaged girl. That's my story anyway. :-) - Dawn M. Armfield
Hmmm...but then I start thinking about Prefab Sprout, the Talking Heads, ABC, Adam Ant, New Order, The Smiths...aaaagggh! Now I have a million 80s songs in my head, damn you! ;-) - Dawn M. Armfield
5 from the 80s? Jeez, I could run up 100, certainly 10 from each year. Let's see, the quintessential 80s for me: Rio - Duran Duran, Don't You Want Me - Human League, I Ran - Flock of Seagulls, Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes, Tainted Love - Soft Cell. (Seriously, I could think of 100s more that might rival or replace these.) - AJ Kohn
Clash "Guns of Brixton" (technically, December 14, 1979), U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday," Laurie Anderson "O Superman," Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime," Public Enemy "Don't Believe the Hype." - Chris Baskind
i'm with dawn on at least one of her five: True, Spandau Ballet... - edythe
This is hard to pick only 5: B-52s "Rock Lobster," J Geils Band "Love Stinks," REO Speedwagon's "Take it on the Run," Joan Jett (the entire album), The Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like." Oh and I have to add a bonus of Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina." - Trish Robinson
Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man"; Michael Penn - "No Myth"; The Smiths - "I Know It's Over"; Sugarcubes - "Coldsweat"; X - "4th Of July". Man that X one is a tough choice...there are so many of their songs tied to great memories for me. - Jeremy Brooks
I think the Eighties were an amazingly productive musical era. - Chris Baskind
Just Like Heaven (Cure), How Soon Is Now (Smiths), Cities in Dust (Siouxie), Throughout the Dark Months of April and May (Cocteau Twins). Can't decide between the early Pixies (typical of their work, it's interchangably brilliant). I'd settle for Gigantic for sentimental reasons. Mmm... High School. Didn't like it much. :) - Madsimian
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night, Ministry - We Believe, U2 - New Year's Day, Pixies - Break My Body, Grateful Dead - Till the Morning Comes. Best thread ever! - Jason Wehmhoener
I have to agree, Chris. There isn't a group listed here (and so many more) that didn't produce at least one song that I enjoyed. - Dawn M. Armfield
aha lean on me, Don't you (forget about me), Burning down the house, With or without you U2, Candy by Iggy Pop - Bjorn Tipling
Can't argue with Sunday Bloody Sunday, Once in a Lifetime, Funky Cold Media, No Myth, How Soon Is Now, The Cure ... I'd go with something from Boys Don't Cry. I missed a critical one: Anything from the Violent Femmes self titled album. Also, something from Hall & Oates. Something from Squeeze. Bitchin' Camaro from The Dead Milkmen. I do believe the 80s had some amazing music! - AJ Kohn
Crap, something from REM's Document. Something from Midnight Oil. Something from pre-Kick INXS. - AJ Kohn
The Clash - London Calling; U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love); Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax; Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes; Journey - Don't Stop Believin'. Wow, harder to cut it to 5 picks here than your earlier film list query, fun memories though, thanks! - Casey
Only five? that hurts...okay: The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Only You by YAZ, In My Eyes by Minor Threat, When Doves Cry by Prince, and Just Can't Get Enough by D'Mode. In another two minutes this list could soooo change...darn you with your 5 jive! - Anna Haro
I think Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" was the song of the decade, but it doesn't make my personal list. There's so much to choose from: the fallout of New Wave and Punk; stadium rock; the beginnings of rap (thanks, Sugarhill Records!); some fantastic progressive stuff; the start of modern Country music ("Urban Cowboy" soundtrack and its spawn) ... amazing. - Chris Baskind
i have tow more choices to make - one will be the pixies, duh. I don't know. maybe both will be the pixies. but then i am leaving out talking heads... - edythe
"California Uber Alles" Dead Kennedys, "Mommy's Little Monster" Social Distortion, "When Doves Cry" Prince, "Tainted Love" you tell me who it is, "Always Something there to remind me." Romantics - Nathan Eckenrode
I am very ashamed that I did not mention Prince. I need to hide this thread, it's distracting me and causing all these songs to stick in my brain. - Trish Robinson
Argh. 1) Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears), 2) Little Fool (Elvis Costello) 3) September Gurls (The Bangles) 4) No Myth (Michael Penn) 5) Luka (Suzanne Vega) - not really representative of the 80s but I couldn't live without these songs... - Jason Kaneshiro
yeah, this is like asking "which of your children do you want to live?" that said, these are not THE. FIVE. i would choose to live, but they would probably be on the short list of survivors: "Head Over Heels" -- The Go-Go's ♪ "Harborcoat" - R.E.M. ♪ "Panama" - Van Halen ♪ "June Bug" - B-52s ♪ "The Smartest Person I Know" - The Waitresses - Karim
Did I say this would be easy? No. ;-) - Chris Baskind
1)"Blister in the Sun" - Violent Femmes, 2) "Cities in Dust" - Siouxsie & the Banshees, 3) "No New Tale to Tell" - Love & Rockets, 4) "Loving the Alien" - David Bowie, 5) "Make A Circuit With Me" - The Polecats -- and then I shoot myself because there's hundreds of others I should've chosen. - Lucretia Pruitt
a) AWESOME question 1) Drop Dead Legs - Van Halen, 2) Cars - Gary Numan 3) Falco - Rock Me Amadeus 4) Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night 5) Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain - ok limiting to 5 was much harder than expected, this isn't the right list. (Edited - horrified that I let myself type "two likes up in a circle" ) - Marco
oh, yes...Yaz, Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode, Prince...argh! I'm drawn back to this like plastic bangle bracelets were drawn to Madonna in the early days... - Dawn M. Armfield
Holy crap, what a great question. I can't outdo what other people have posted (Prince, Violent Femmes, Bowie, Pixies, Soft Cell, Public Enemy). I'd add: Cyndi Lauper, Money Changes Everything (seriously, it's an amazing song); Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down Again; Grace Jones, Slave to the Rhythm; Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, La-Di-Da-Di; Eddie Grant, Electric Avenue. - nathan
Chicago - Hard for me to Say I'm Sorry, Prince - When Doves Cry, Madonna - Material Girl, Soft Cell - Tainted Love and L.L. Cool J. - I need Love - Adrienne Van Houten
love will tear us apart by joy division; south central rain by rem; lost in the supermarket by the clash; synchronicity 2 by the police; gigantic by the pixies - RAPatton
it's funny, I hated that LL Cool J. song ("I Need Love") when it was actually on the radio, but now I can kind of appreciate it. - nathan
No "one night in Bangkok?" No "anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn? What about Crowded House...or SQUEEZE? or Madness...not to mention Mr. Mister with Kyrie Laison and Broken Wings. Man...the 80's were gold. :D - BISQ
S-S-S-S-A-A-A-A-F-F-F-F-T-T-T-T Safe-Safe-Safety Dance... [update: I seem to have misspelled Safety, it's time for bed] - nathan
Van Halen-Panama, Def Leppard-Photograph, Motley Crue-Kickstart my heart, Cyndi Lauper-Time after time, and Rush-Freewill - Will Hirsbrunner
This is impossible. I Feel For You by Chaka Khan, The Show by Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Michael Jackson, Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson, Wild Sex (In the Working Class) by Oingo Boingo - Jason Toney
Anybody working on an online playlist (e.g. imeem)? - Mike Doeff
OK, here we go... New Order - Ceremony, Freur - Doot Doot, Visage - Fade To Grey, Sinéad O'Connor - Heroine (Theme from Captive), The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. http://mdff80s5.muxtape.com - Mike Doeff
Hmmm, 5 songs is gonna be hard but..... Duran Duran, Skin Trade...Madonna Like A Prayer...Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down Again...The Smiths, How Soon Is Now...Talk Talk, Life's What You Make It... - Emma
sweet, I was hoping everything expected wouldn't show up on friday, so there'd be more toys to play with over a few days :) - Jason Kaneshiro
mobileme is definitely a go for wed, app store and 2.0 software is looking more and more like it could come early as well - MG Siegler
If mobileme is launching, won't it need the 2.0 firmware? Won't that mean app store is launching as well? - gregory
I'm hoping for an early 2.0 release. I leave for a weekend trip on Thursday and would love to have it with me. - RyanEs
Well there wouldn't be much point in launching MobileMe without the iPhone 2.0 software, at least. - Ian Betteridge
This did not seem like any big deal when I first heard about it last month. Now, however, I am really looking forward to it. Hats off to Apple for creating full blown web 2.0 apps and supporing the 3 main browsers right from the start! - Johnny Software
lord of the rings, superman ii, aliens, bond (goldfinger, thunderball, more...) batman - Jason Kaneshiro
Road Warrior was solid. it's much more fun (and easy) to write the terrible sequels list. :) - Jeremy Toeman
Hot Shots! Part Deux. I think there was a Thai boxing scene where one guy wraps his hands in burlap, dips them in glue, then dips them in gummi bears and sprinkles (instead of the expected broken glass & metal shards). Also the classic paratrooper scene where the guys all bail out screaming "Geronimo!" and then an Indian with a Tomahawk jumps out screaming, "Meeee!!!" Bonus points for Lloyd Bridges as President McCain. - Karim
Star Wars Ep. 2: Attack of the Clones was FAR better than the Phantom Menace - Prolific Programmer
The Naked Gun 2 1/2 was by far the better picture. - Mark Trapp
check out js-kit for integration - Loic - talk to Khris at js-kit and get Seesmic integrated for comment re-integration - Ivan Pope via twhirl
Disqus automatically integrating FF comments would be great. - Kevin Bondelli
I don’t believe it is ethical to claim comments back from people who write them on FriendFeed. This means imposing power on your readers. If people want to comment on your blog, they can do it but that is not their preference. And you are not asking people if they want their comments to be seen on your blog. - Kerem Ozkan
I don't care where it takes place. I', just happy to have a good conversation. - shelisrael1
i'd love disqus to do this, as that would be one less plug in (ff comments) installed on my blog - Jason Kaneshiro
Though, if it weren't for friendfeed, many folks like me probably wouldn't see it to start with. - adam christensen
but to comment on FF is so much more easier and faster...it's Twhirl fault !! - Jean-François Amadei via twhirl
Yeah, the same for me. I've installed the WP plugin, but it keeps telling me there aren't comments on FriendFeed. - Gianluca Neri via twhirl
Guess it might be too late to capitalize on my Disqus-friendfeed comment combiner, huh? - klecu
“My MacBook screen is starting to dim a little bit every few minutes, then come back again. Damn, I hope my screen isn't about to fail. I've only had this thing for a few months.”
There's a backlight that can burn out. You're still within the 1 year warranty so it would actually be good if it failed sooner than later. Get it fixed before your year is up and it will be free of charge... - Jason Kaneshiro
check your energy saver settings in system preferences. - Cee Bee
I burnt out the backlight on my Powerbook G4 in the first month. Could there also be power adapter issues? The screen dims when the battery takes over from the AC cord. - Tom Harrison
Stupid question, but does the Macbook (assuming it's not Pro?) have an auto-dim on the display and if so is it checked? I turned that feature off from my MBP because it kept dimming when it didn't need to, or when I didn't want it to. - Arlan Koizumi
It is a Pro. And it isn't auto-dim. It does it every now and then even when I'm typing. Yesterday it would dim just by tilting the unit to one side. It is acting flaky. - David Risley
