ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum, 7:10 AM.
Can i help loving my valley schwag? No, I can't. This month with a videoegg t-shirt (i get the men's dudes), some cool stickers, a zoom photo book maker that was way too complicated for this schwagart so I gave the photo paper to jenna to make stickers out of, a topix.net pen--ooorange--and a pin or two. Note to vendors: pins need to go bye bye. I'll take pens and t-shirts and stickers and paper--useable stuff--all day long over buttons and pins that are so small they take the dexterity and eyesight of a, well, 20-something to use. Pins are like, so over.
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What's the definition of Telecoms Poodle?. What's the definition of Telecoms Poodle? Comreg apparently. Hehe, nice subversive work by the bloggers of IrelandOffline.... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Who moved Kerry airport?. While checking out the website for the Barcamp Ireland venue - Webworks - I was amused to see that someone had moved Kerry Airport about 30 miles south from Farranfore to Kenmare, which just about makes it fit in that... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Can't go to Barcamp Ireland, can we change date?. Damien Mulley has news that Barcamp Ireland will be held in Cork on September 23rd. Arghhhh,... I can't believe the timing...... I've a trip to Boston booked for that weekend, to meet up with the Grazr team for some planning.... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
River of News becomes a River of Feeds. River of News become a River of Feeds. Now I really like it.... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog, 5:10 AM.My New Toy: Sony Noise Canceling Headphones (MDR-NC50). I've recently started to notice that my hearing has started to suffer thanks to the mediocre headphones that ship with the iPod.I've been wanting a pair of noise canceling headphones for a while now but the Bose headphones just seems too darn expensive.Enter the Sony MDR-NC50 headphones which I first saw back at the Apple store in San Francisco last month. By noemail@noemail.org (burtonator).
RSS Won't Go Mainstream. RSS is great and all but I just don't think very many people subscribe to as many news sources as the alpha geeks. I think they want products like Google News, CNN, or memetrackers like Tailrank to tall them what to read.Want to see the way forward? By noemail@noemail.org (burtonator).
Web 3.0 in 2007. with Firefox 2.0 due out sometime in Sept followed by IE 7.0 we should really start to see some another round of innovation here shortly. This should help all those Ajax guys out there from tearing their hair out. By noemail@noemail.org (burtonator).
TechCrunch, 4:10 AM.Podango to Create Podcast Channels. Yet-to-launch Podango is trying to corner the podcast market by aggregating popular, topic-specific podcasts into expert-driven channels. The goal is to combine multiple podcasts, which may only be publishing weekly, into a 3-5 shows per day channel with a single RSS feed. Just like old-style television and radio stations.Podcast directories, like those created by Yahoo [...]
Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site. Yahoo unveiled its new Real Estate site today. The site now incorporates an interactive map displaying home price data filtered by location, price, and number of beds and baths. It draws its data from MLS listings, classified, foreclosures, and rentals. Yahoo has also fully integrated with high-profile and massively funded partner Zillow by using their [...]
Lycos targets video search with Blinkx partnership. Old school search company Lycos will announce this morning that it’s partnering with video search company Blinkx to power video search on Lycos.com. The video search feature is available now. Everybody wants to nail down video search these days, but Blinkx has some interesting technology. This is the second move by Lycos [...]
CrunchNotes, 2:10 AM. EirePreneur, 2:10 AM.Irish startup profiles on Web2Ireland. As the title says. Web2Ireland here.... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Scripting News, 2:10 AM.New OPML Editor feature: Portable rivers.
Mike Arrington boasts 100K readers of his RSS feed. I've always wondered how he knows how many people are subscribed to a feed. You don't have to register to read a feed. So what does the number mean?
3/28/03: "We can't win the war in Iraq."
ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum, 12:10 AM.I just got back from NEBCamp and I am exhilarated and exhausted at the same time.
I met so many great people, late night television characters mostly but so what--video casting is really just TV++--and learned so many new things.. At NEBCamp because the action goes on late into the evening, no one can keep an eye open. Who could sleep with so much thinking and conversation and innovation, all taking place in one location with the best and the brightest in attendance? The inhaling and the exhaling and the input from from the tubing to the receptacle to the mask was one (won) word wide, as in WWW. That word? INCREDIBLE.Â
The best part of NEB is the feeling of peace. You're among family there. It is safe to be who you are. For example, At NEBCamp I roomed with Jenna and couldn't believe I was actually. sleeping. through. that. coughing. It wasn't a problem that she couldn't get out of bed--At NEB you get your tentside meals and take them where you want.
What was great was when the developers actually showed off the CRUMBY, which sucks the crumbs from Lunchables off the $90 Linens-n-Things comforter while simultaneously searching Google for Bird Flu updates--and I got to use it. Totally. Geeked.
At NEB camp I also got a chance to sing the mucus from my lungs during jam sessions, suck the aluminum off methylprednisolone pills, and explore my Burningbird tote bag to see if maybe there was one valium left in the bottom.
The people at NEB are folks, good folks. I know you may envy my time off-blog these last few days while at NEB. But you also should understand that just because NEB is RX only, it's NOT exclusive. O.Really folks should have the right to to hand out prescriptions to those of their choosing without having to face the wrath of the mob for exercising that right.
And if you want an alternative that isn't RX-only, you can go to ROOTCANALCamp. At ROOTCANAL, things move faster, and deeper. If you want Drill Down and Open Sores, go to ROOTCamp. No prescription is needed. Just a referral from your HMO.
In the mean time, if you want to be a team player and maybe get invited to NEB next year, check out my pix on Flickr to see what's in store for you--and I mean it's. one. big. good. time.
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Why I Still Buy CDs. To me, CDs are still a better value than compressed audio files. And as the wonderful CD Baby online store demonstrates, there's still a lot of room for innovation in how they're sold. A while back, I wrote about a...
Library clips, 12:10 AM.Links for 2006-08-28 [del.icio.us].
Simply Headlines : RSS snapshot. What is Simply Headlines…it’s basically a webpage snaphot of an RSS Reader. Create your own webpage that is structured like an RSS Reader- left pane has a subscription feed set- right pane is to read the content- end of the left pane also has (Daily Glimpse) the top posts from each feed You don’t have to use [...]
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ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum, 11:10 PM.She had just turned 5 when we blogged this:
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And rainy. I'm not ready for the fall yet. I didn't enjoy the summer enough this year. Maybe I'd better get busy.
You think I'm not doing to watch Studio 60, the new NBC show produced by Aaron Sorkin and starring Bradley Whitford, Matthew Perry and Timothy Bussfield? Monday night. That would work. Check out the trailer. The setup is straight out of Network.
Reboot at Foo Camp. i’ve had this amazing feeling of calmness all weekend. I’m pretty sure the reason is that I hung out with some really smart people at Foo Camp, slept under the stars in a tent (something I haven’t done in years), and was offline and away from all the TechCrunch stress while I was there.Getting away [...]
TechCrunch, 10:10 PM.Spotback startpage gets even better. Israeli startpage company Spotback released upgrades to its interface and a couple of new features. If you missed our initial review back in May, this is a good time to check out the site.For readers unfamiliar, startpages are sites that aggregate RSS feeds and other sources of information from around the web to create a [...]
Broadcasting & Cable (All), 9:10 PM.Solomon-Led Group Buying Arts Net. An investor group led by Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon has cut a deal to acquire listless arts network, Ovation.
Sex Drive Daily, 9:10 PM.
Saw a headline on Dvorak Uncensored about the top search terms in Wikipedia being - gasp - related to sex. That's not a surprise, although it's neat that Stan Lee also makes the top 10.
The surprise is that anyone would be surprised. Wikipedia is one attempt to organize the collective knowledge of humanity. Last I checked, sex had something to do with humanity. And we seem to have an insatiable desire to learn more about it -- it's as if we're all making sure that we haven't missed something, especially something "obvious" that we "should" know already.
For all that I see that technology has an enormous impact on relationships and sexuality (hence my book title, The Sexual Revolution 2.0), I also know that sex is sex.
We're always going to be fascinated with ourselves in this regard.
I have intended for quite some time now to add "sex-tech" as at least a stub, if not a full entry. If I do that, the phrase will officially exist, thanks to the phenomenon of Wikiality. (Copyeditors: Should I drop the hyphen now and skip the phase?) In fact, it wouldn't hurt to add "sexual revolution 2.0" either ... oh dear, now here I go ...
Liz Gannes: "Flickr photos can now be geo-tagged via a drag-and-drop interface with Yahoo Maps."
CrunchNotes, 8:10 PM.Negotiating Through the Press. While reading Red Herring’s take on the job board proposals being thrown about (see my previous post and comments), I couldn’t help thinking that Om, Jason and I are negotiating through press quotes. Jason has clearly stated his intention to keep his toys to himself and play in his own space, Om’s keeping his options [...]
The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 6:10 PM.Site Mail comes to Netscape (or "on the 'death'of IM and MySpace page view goosing"). A very large percentage of MySpace traffic comes from the fact that they have site mail. Many young people I talk to don't use IM any more, they use the slow and ugly version: MySpace site mail. It's crazy because doing IM on a web page is slow, requiring multiple page loads. However, there is an advantage to it: you don't need to add anyone to your IM client and you don't need to download a client.
Anyway, the people have spoken and a large percentage of them love site-based mail/IM.
We've added it to the top-level of Netscape today (we've been testing it a couple of layers down since the start).
If you go to a story page (permalink page) you will see "Send Message" next to people's names now (see images below). We have this for both the person who submitted the story and for the people who are commenting.
Also, instead of taking you to another page it pops open a nice little AJAX box so we don't waste your time. We could have made this take 3-4 pages like MySpace does, but we decided to give up the page views in exchange for the user experience. I hate the fact that MySpace makes you load 3-4 pages to get to your mail--it's so obvious that they are goosing the page views. This is always a bad idea, because those folks click through the pages super fact and never look--let alone click--on the advertisements. This makes your advertisers upset because they think your site doesn't perform. It's a horrible design philosophy.
What do you guys think? Kind of slick huh?
It would not be unlike me to fight the Lemur for Christine's hand. She indeed is some kinda woman. Will the Lemur's love stand the test of time? Discuss.
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Several alternate headlines for this post that didn't make the cut:
Herron Lemur's Heroine?
Lemur Loves the Lady
Herron's Syphilis Reference Lands the Lemur
Lemur Drinks to Bottletop Porn
And some other ones that weren't so clean.
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Home Depot Renews GameDay Sponsorship. The Home Depot has renewed its presenting sponsorship of ESPN’s College GameDay show for three more years.
Scripting News, 5:10 PM.I was playing with typography for my new mobile blogging service, and thought it looked kind of cooool.
I've had the same problem with my MacBook spontaneously and instantly shutting down. My machine has always rebooted. I thought it was because I was watching a movie, that seemed to be when it would happen. The movie was Themla and Louise, btw.
On David Weinberger's blog: "Come on Tim, let's get beyond whatever it is that's in our way."
BC Beat, 5:10 PM.Joan Rivers Marks A Milestone.
The TV Guide Channel excitedly announced Monday that while doing the live pre-Emmy show the other night, Joan and Melissa Rivers completed their 1,000th red carpet interview. I think there is supposed to be an exclamation point there. It would seem, really, that 1,000 red-carpet interviews (either giving them or conducting them) should be the legal limit. But chops to the Rivers for some of the most excruciating/illuminating/funny/time-consuming moments in television red-carpet interview... (more)
Broadcasting & Cable (All), 5:10 PM.E! Tops Cable Carpet Competition. E! delivered just over triple the ratings of the TV Guide Channel with its Emmy pre-show, though the ratings were down from lat year. But NBC beat them both, according to overnight research from Nielsen Media Research metered markets.
House Headlines Stewart Promotion. For the Sept. 12 launch of its second season, NBC Universal-distributed talker The Martha Stewart Show is hoping to drive viewership with a "watch and win" contest for a new house.
TechCrunch, 5:10 PM.Blipstar lets you offer maps easily. Blipstar is an easy way to leverage the Google Maps API to offer a map of multiple locations for website visitors from a spreadsheet. It’s a pretty straight up use of the API but it’s notably inexpensive and customizable.Developed by Worcester, UK GIS lover Paul Clarke, it’s a solid little application and a [...]
Broadcasting & Cable (All), 4:10 PM.NBC Goes To School To Promote Football Drama. NBC has paired with high school social networking site Bebo.com to promote its fall high school football football drama, Friday Night Lights.
Ellen Takes On Oprah in L.A.. Ellen is taking on Oprah on both coasts. KNBC Los Angeles says that it is moving Ellen DeGeneres’ syndicated talk show from 4 p.m. to 3 p.m., putting it up against Winfrey’s show, which airs on KABC.
NBC U Ups Mike McCarley. NBC Universal has named Mike McCarley VP of strategic marketing, promotion and communications.
Emmy Ratings Down. The Emmy award gave NBC the win in the 18-49 demo Sunday night, but the broadcast's ratings were down about 15% from the year before.
BC Beat, 4:10 PM.Uh-oh, CSI fans.
CBS just announced today that Kevin Federline will guest star on an upcoming episode.
I’ll take “Jumping the Shark” for $200, Alex.
Federline will portray a “rapper” who gets semi-famous by marrying a burned-out pop star. Oh wait, I mean he plays Cole Tritt, an arrogant teenager who harasses the CSI team, according to a CBS press release.
C’mon CBS, you can’t expect to make a K-Fed announcement ... (more)
Remember all those catchy Star Trek episode titles, "The Naked Time," "Dagger of the Mind," "A Taste of Armageddon. "You know they were high-fiving--did they high-five back then?--when they came up with a clear winner.
It's just like editors when they think up a great headline. It is a magic moment, though it doesn't happen often enough to let you get cocky.*
CSI has some great episode titles, too: "Sex Lies and Larvae,... (more)
ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum, 3:35 PM.The Attention Deficit Economy.
{Note: CROSS POSTED TO BLOGHER.}
The most annoying marketing buzzword of the week is âAttention.â Not a new theory, the Attention mantra has been regaining traction among blogworld marketers who propose control of Attention as the Brand New Promise for Internet citizens and the New Brand Promise for the businesses that serve them.
The payoff for paying attention to what Internet travelers pay attention to is apparently twofold: 1) paying attention to what consumers are paying attention to and why makes businesses smarter (i.e., more money now), and 2) holding customersâ attention long enough to fully engage them stitches a hyperlink directly from the businessâs URL to the knotty little skull of the consumer, making him a Customer For Life (i.e. more money in the future).
God truly is good, is he not?
My stepfather once worked as a Managing Director at the same firm where I was Director of Corporate Communications. The CEO ran a brainstorming session (corporate dysfunction signal number one) one morning on rejiggering our mission statement. My stepfather came up with: âTo make more money now and in the future.â
The management team rejected that one, but I rather liked it.
Although this attention thing sounds a little good and a little creepy at the same time, it is essentially as it always has always been: anyone concerned with what youâre paying attention to is out to make money off of you. Trying to paint attention monitoring or tracking or trust or what have you as anything other than that is dishonest. You and I are not that important. No one, I mean no one, besides a suspicious mate cares what you pay attention to online unless theyâre looking to detach some bread from your wallet.
And whatâs wrong with that is not admitting it is the truth, but rather, painting it as new movement, an alternative, a new way.
If I appear skeptical itâs because Iâm on steroids and Iâm over 40. These things happen.
Attention and Gestures, which are now inextricably linked, got a dose of Heroin recently when AOL did the dastardly deed of releasing guzumpteenthousand individualsâ search records in such a way that it wasnât hard to tell that Granny has a penchant for strap-ons.
Mary Hoder explains it this way: âThe AOL data which lumped each user's searches together with a user ID over three months, making profiling and finding them easy, meant that AOL provided enough data in some cases to indicate a lot about who the data related to very specifically. Leading to judgments by the rest of us. About the people who do or think things on the edges of society.â
Iâm with Mary up to the very end, where she says: âAbout the people who do or think things on the edges of society.â Because I donât think that we can tell where the edges are from search results. My data does not define me. My search is not my gesturing 60 percent of the time--maybe more. I donât think that search = attention. Sometimes search = anti-attention more often than not. Especially as Internet users become more at home online and start to rearrange the furniture.
Lots of times, what we seek is not what we are looking for, and where we end up is really not where we cared to go. Hyperlink does not always equal intention. Again, the accidental, the speed and simplicity of discovery, is what makes the Internet NOT like real life.
But more on âattentionâ and âgesturesâ and âsearchâ and âdataâ and why I think so much of this stuff is New Age Internetism designed to make giving away your money feel better. As I said, attention is not intention. While I may assume that the person who paid attention to my blog for the fleeting seconds it took to get there today by searching Google for âGreat Dane Doberman Mixâ was looking to buy one or to fuck one.
Two very different customers. Two very different attention fulfillment requirements. And many, many, many opportunities for savvy marketers to sell you consulting services around the variations therein.
Queue Seinfeld: Not that thereâs anything wrong with that.
Unless your expectations are around context and intention, around making meaning, not making purchases.
Methylprednisolone tablets USP 4mg, Day 2, 20mg.
Glorious ADD.
The Internet is where we are free to dissociate. You cannot put a value on my lack of attention.
I will say here, in closing, that what I think I am getting at is that the Internet most important distinction is its exquisite function to enable distraction, not to track attention. That the accidental come-upon-ness of the obscure and viscerally meaningful can evoke mere milliseconds of joy or horror individually which has relevant commercial value to precisely nothing.
THAT is whatâs important. And that your Snakes on a Plane is my e.âs ghosts.
No formula for the value of obscurity and accidents, rather increasing disproportionately in fits and starts.
It takes getting to know me. ME. YOU.
The most meaningful online relationship with one sometimes come from the unknowing of someone else, and in the unknowing of one, discovering the other.
What matters is often not the gesturing, but in the de-gesturing; it is not attention then, but repulsion. It becomes too convoluted to calculate, which way my attention flows, because it is neither linear nor accountable, except for total on the invoices of some mighty consultants.
More and more, my gestures reflect not what I am paying attention to, but instead are sideways related to what Iâve dropped my illusions about. In surrender of control, then, not in clinging to it, we wander here. We value most those instances of delight so fleeting that they are the opposite of thought and reason; they are out of time; they scatter us to the wind rather than draw us in.
They repel us outward, until we are untraceable, exiled, free, and only in knowing me severed will I tell you how you can find me whole.
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Broadcast and Cable mag thinks the switch from spring to fall affected the ratings for the Emmys broadcast last night.
Or, maybe the TV watching public is quickly caring about network TV less and less and less and less and less.
NBC has apologized, as it should have, for the "inadvertent pain" it caused by airing a parody of Lost that included an intense few seconds of a plane crash on the same day a horrific plane crash took 49 lives.
It could have dropped the Emmy-opening skit, in which host Conan O'Brien was dropped into several shows--Lost, House, The Office--but it was a really funny skit otherwise, so it would have been better to just edit it down, maybe throw in a new 10 seconds of... (more)
Digital Micro-Markets, 3:10 PM.Next Google Apps targets: Intuit QuickBooks, MS Money?. If Google wants to compete head to head with Microsoft on software, why stop at Microsoftâs current core Office applications?
Broadcasting & Cable (All), 2:10 PM.Spectrum Auction Approaches $13.5 Billion. With 50 rounds completed in its auction of spectrum for advanced wireless services, the total money on the table from high bidders for 1,004 of the 1,122 licenses up for auction is approaching $13.5 billion, which is pushing toward the highest estimates.
TechCrunch, 1:10 PM.Flickr To Launch Geo Tagging Today. Sometime Monday Flickr will add geo tagging functionality and search to its pictures. Adding location information on Flickr is done through the Organizr, under the Organize tab. In addition to the “Your Sets” and “Your Groups” tabs in that area, they will add a Maps tab where you can drag photos into a Yahoo Map [...]
Scripting News, 1:10 PM.
Here's a CNN story from June 16 with two Republican congressmen sponsoring a resolution calling for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. So the Republican strategy of cut and run has been on the record since June. Not sure when the Republican strategists started tarring Democrats with the term, was it after June 16? This is the first item on cutandrunnow.com, a chronology of declining Republican support for the war in Iraq.
Scoble kvetches that the tech blogosphere is paying too much attention to Google's aspirations in the Office market. Not here. I thought it was a non-story. I don't care about Office software if it comes from Microsoft, Google or God. I know a lot of people use it, but you can't touch the stuff if you care about lock-in. Office Wars are all about who locks you in the nicest trunk. I prefer to ride up front, even if the ride is rough and the door doesn't stay closed without a bit of rope.
The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 1:10 PM.WashPost on Netscape Navigators. The WashPost did an interesting story on our Netscape Navigators who are getting paid to cool hunt for news stories.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501308.html
NBC Apologizes For Emmy Opening. NBC has apologized for the opening skit of last night's emmy telecast that jarred many viewers.
Emmy Ratings Down. The Emmy award gave NBC the win in the 18-49 demo Sunday night, but the broadcast's ratings were down about 13%-14% from the year before.
NBC, HBO, Fox Clean Up At Emmys. Emmy host network NBC--whose flagging ratings fortunes were roasted by host Conan O'Brien in a snappy opening--proceeded to win the first two awards, then went on to collect a shelf-ful of biggies.
TechCrunch, 12:10 PM.Google scores eBay international advertising deal. One more giant advertising partnership was announced today, and this could be one of the biggest yet. EBay has announced that Google will serve up text ads on its sites outside the US. The sum was undisclosed, but must be gargantuan. Half of eBay buyers are reported to live outside the US [...]
The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 12:10 PM.The Wikipedia top 100 pages.... This is fun... snakes on a plane, dr. who, and sex, sex, sex. Geeks are funny.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?ns=articles&;limit=100&month=08/2006&wiki=enwiki
| Views per day | Percent | Title |
| 1081000 ± 17% | 4.4100% | 1. Main Page |
| 35500 ± 97% | 0.1448% | 2. Pluto |
| 33000 ± 100% | 0.1346% | 3. Wikipedia |
| 23000 ± 120% | 0.0938% | 4. United States |
| 20500 ± 127% | 0.0836% | 5. Hurricane Katrina |
| 19000 ± 132% | 0.0775% | 6. Wiki |
| 18500 ± 134% | 0.0755% | 7. List of sex positions |
| 18000 ± 136% | 0.0734% | 8. Pornography |
| 17000 ± 140% | 0.0694% | 9. List of gay porn stars |
| 17000 ± 140% | 0.0694% | 10. Comair Flight 5191 |
| 15500 ± 147% | 0.0632% | 11. Sexual intercourse |
| 15500 ± 147% | 0.0632% | 12. Wii |
| 15000 ± 149% | 0.0612% | 13. Google Earth |
| 14500 ± 151% | 0.0592% | 14. List of big-bust models and performers |
| 14500 ± 151% | 0.0592% | 15. List of female porn stars |
| 14000 ± 154% | 0.0571% | 16. The Simpsons |
| 13000 ± 160% | 0.0530% | 17. Kama Sutra |
| 13000 ± 160% | 0.0530% | 18. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl |
| 12500 ± 163% | 0.0510% | 19. Solar system |
| 12000 ± 167% | 0.0490% | 20. Adolf Hitler |
| 12000 ± 167% | 0.0490% | 21. Masturbation |
| 12000 ± 167% | 0.0490% | 22. Vince Papale |
| 11500 ± 170% | 0.0469% | 23. C programming language |
| 11500 ± 170% | 0.0469% | 24. Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet |
| 11500 ± 170% | 0.0469% | 25. Germany |
| 11500 ± 170% | 0.0469% | 26. Italy |
| 11000 ± 174% | 0.0449% | 27. Internet Movie Database |
| 11000 ± 174% | 0.0449% | 28. The Colbert Report |
| 11000 ± 174% | 0.0449% | 29. Linkin Park |
| 10500 ± 178% | 0.0428% | 30. Oral sex |
| 10500 ± 178% | 0.0428% | 31. Eric Clapton |
| 10000 ± 182% | 0.0408% | 32. Pink Floyd |
| 10000 ± 182% | 0.0408% | 33. World Wrestling Entertainment roster |
| 10000 ± 182% | 0.0408% | 34. 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 10000 ± 182% | 0.0408% | 35. Priyanka Chopra |
| 10000 ± 182% | 0.0408% | 36. MSN Hotmail |
| 9500 ± 187% | 0.0388% | 37. Family Guy |
| 9500 ± 187% | 0.0388% | 38. South Africa |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 39. Human sexuality |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 40. Star Wars |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 41. List of Digimon |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 42. Spider-Man |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 43. Neighbours |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 44. MySpace |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 45. David Bowie |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 46. Mozilla Firefox |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 47. Comair |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 48. YouTube |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 49. Breast |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 50. Periodic table |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 51. List of Stargate SG-1 episodes |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 52. Grand Theft Auto (series) |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 53. Cuba |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 54. Oscar Gutierrez |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 55. Deaths in 2006 |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 56. Jedi |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 57. The CW Television Network |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 58. Nicole Scherzinger |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 59. Grigori Perelman |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 60. Bill Gates |
| 9000 ± 192% | 0.0367% | 61. Naruto Uzumaki |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0347% | 62. Led Zeppelin |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0347% | 63. Stan Lee |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0347% | 64. Channing Tatum |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0347% | 65. Anal sex |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0347% | 66. The Da Vinci Code |
| 8000 ± 204% | 0.0326% | 67. Cannabis (drug) |
| 8000 ± 204% | 0.0326% | 68. Naruto |
| 8000 ± 204% | 0.0326% | 69. Benjamin Franklin |
| 8000 ± 204% | 0.0326% | 70. Sex |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 71. PlayStation 3 |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 72. Windows Genuine Advantage |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 73. Mahatma Gandhi |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 74. September 11, 2001 attacks |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 75. The Cure |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 76. Orlando Bloom |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 77. Taiwan |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 78. Snakes on a Plane |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 79. Stockholm syndrome |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 80. Statue of Ramesses II (Mit Rahina) |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 81. Metallica |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 82. World War II |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 83. Philippines |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 84. People's Republic of China |
| 7500 ± 211% | 0.0306% | 85. List of The Simpsons episodes |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 86. Body piercing |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 87. Osama bin Laden |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 88. 2006 |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 89. Dubai |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 90. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 91. Pokémon |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 92. Bangladesh |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 93. Router |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 94. Sniper |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 95. Akatsuki (Naruto) |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 96. List of Konoha Jonin |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 97. New World Order (conspiracy) |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 98. Silent Hill 4: The Room |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 99. Howard Hughes |
| 7000 ± 218% | 0.0286% | 100. Doctor Who |
And upon announcing the end of his reign as the King of Blogdom..... In the days of graying beard and weakened knuckles, King David the Winer, ruler of all Blogdom, bequeathed his rights and privileges and power to the Princes of the Palace, Sir Michael and Sir Robert. In secret conversation, the two Princes were schooled in the methods and means of maintaining the gentle balance that yielded plenty for the rulers of the land.
The mission of the Princes, from that day onward, was to emulate the great King in his absence, both in word and in deed, and to practice the artful dodgery which had made the King legend among his people. "As I have made you, make me proud," the bearded one decreed to the Princes in Waiting as he counted down his final days of rule over the land of Blogdom.
"Yes, Your Highnass," Sirs Michael and Robert said, heads bowed, each kissing the King's knotted fingers. And they promised to tell all who protected the kingdom the powerful tactics of war, both in speech and in conduct, passed down from the great King David the Winer.
They attended great gatherings where princes and knights and leaders from other kingdoms came together to confer on urgent matters. There, they signed treaties to preserve the order of things. And, when these great gatherings dispersed, word spread from one kingdom to the next on strategies of protection in the manner of King David the Winer.
"Attack lest ye be attacked," was the lesson of the King, "And use whatever weapons you have."
With the Good News in hand and in heart, Knights from many lands rode home to lay with their maidens and sip wine straight from the pap. The ladies licked secrets from the lips of their lovers of the great gatherings in the land of plenty, in the Kingdom of Blogdom, under the rule of King David and the Princes of the Palace, Sirs Robert and Michael.
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Broadcasting & Cable (All), 12:10 PM.Emmy Ratings Down. The Emmy award gave NBC the win in the 18-49 demo Sunday night, but the broadcast's ratings were down about 13% from the year before.
Kidnapped Journalists Speak Out After Two Week Ordeal. Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig were freed Sunday, ending a two-week long hostage drama. Before their release, kidnappers released a video of the two journalists in traditional Arab dress with which the men criticized Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and that they had converted to Islam.
Scripting News, 12:10 PM.Steve Gillmor: Beam me up, Sergey.
I've seen a few blog posts asking why would you want to post from a Blackberry? After all, you could carry a laptop with you, and of course typing on a laptop keyboard is much easier than typing on a PDA keyboard (it is, no argument there). And maybe it's a good idea to take a break from blog posting sometimes, maybe it's a good thing that you can't post from every conceivable place.
Rather than quickly respond in a comment, I want to respond here, where I can create a list and add to it over time.
1. I think it's important to flip the question around, because when you do it helps reveal the why of it. Is email the only form of communication that makes sense when using a Blackberry? Well, maybe for some people, but for others, who may have to communicate with a workgroup, or their family, or create an RSS feed for their observations away from work or home, using weblog software makes a lot of sense, not to exclusion of email, but in addition to it.
2. Okay, great, but you can use email to post to a weblog, why not just do that? Well, I tried it. In 2001, I programmed Radio 8, which shipped in early 2002, to receive blog posts via email. The problem with that is that unlike email, I like to edit my blog posts, make spelling corrections, add items to a list, reorganize, prioritize, etc. When you're using email to post to a blog, it's a lot like email (surprise!) -- your first version is your last. Again, email is useful, I send emails all the time, but blogging is useful too.
3. To the point that a laptop can go with you everywhere a Blackberry can, that's obviously not true. I have my Blackberry with me when I'm in line at the supermarket, I almost never have a laptop with me then. But that doesn't mean I don't get ideas while standing in line. A few other places Blackberries go that laptops don't: ski lifts, restaurants, cabs, buses and yes, bathrooms. (Someone had to say that, glad it's out of the way.) Jackie Danicki writes that she blogged "from the Vatican during New Year's Eve Mass, with the Pope a few feet in front of me." You could also blog during a disaster like a hurricane or after an earthquake.
4. Bonus point. People have even said they tried reading news on a Blackberry and it was too cumbersome. That's why we have to bang the drum so loudly and even then a few days later people didn't get the message: With a simple change in the way news is presented, it works. It's not a technical breakthrough, it's a usability improvement, but it makes a big difference. Try it out before you dismiss it, and don't try it on a desktop or laptop, try it on a PDA. Here's the New York Times in this format, and the BBC.
The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 11:10 AM.On my interview policy.... I've moved to email only interviews (with rare exceptions where I know the journalist and really trust them), and it's worked out really great for me. Here is an interview with Greg (who I trust), that I did on the subject of email interviews.
I love Mark's quote: "I don't ever cede anything... you either know I have a blog when you interview me, or you are a dumbass. If you ask me not to report our exchange on my blog, which has been done, then I decide if I want that protection or not."
Mark is spot on: how do you interview a blogger and not know and read their blog?! Hello?!
And upon announcing the end of his reign as the King of Blogdom.....
In the days of graying beard and weakened knuckles, King David the Winer, ruler of all Blogdom, bequeathed his rights and privileges and power to the Princes of the Palace, Sir Michael and Sir Robert. In secret conversation, the two Princes were schooled in the methods and means of maintaining the gentle balance that yielded plenty for the rulers of the land.
The mission of the Princes, from that day onward, was to emulate the great King in his absence, both in word and in deed, and to practice the artful dodgery which had made the King legend among his people. "As I have made you, make me proud," the bearded one decreed to the Princes in Waiting as he counted down his final days of rule over the land of Blogdom.
"Yes, Your Highnass," Sirs Michael and Robert said, heads bowed, each kissing the King's knotted fingers. And they promised to tell all who protected the kingdom the powerful tactics of war, both in speech and in conduct, passed down from the great King David the Winer.
They attended great gatherings where princes and knights and leaders from other kingdoms came together to confer on urgent matters. There, they signed treaties to preserve the order of things. And, when these great gatherings dispersed, word spread from one kingdom to the next on strategies of protection in the manner of King David the Winer.
"Attack lest ye be attacked," was the lesson of the King, "And use whatever weapons you have."
With the Good News in hand and in heart, Knights from many lands rode home to lay with their maidens and sip wine straight from the pap. The ladies licked secrets from the lips of their lovers of the great gatherings in the land of plenty, in the Kingdom of Blogdom, under the rule of King David and the Princes of the Palace, Sirs Robert and Michael.
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BC Beat, 11:10 AM.Another Emmys, another year where we don’t celebrate the best shows on television.
I think we’ve delved into the voting process ad nauseum, so I’ll just tell you about my night at the show.
I was in the audience Sunday night.The first three awards went to actors or actresses on shows that are no longer on the air: Alan Alda, Blythe Danner and Megan Mullally.
That was all I needed to see, I was out of there.While Jeremy Piven shockingly won next for a ... (more)
Broadcasting & Cable (All), 11:10 AM.AFA Puts Out Alert On CBS' 9/11. CBS stations can expect to receive some e-mail complaints about their airing of the riveting documentary 9/11 even before they air it, and almost certainly indecency complaints afterwards.
RCN Adds Wireless In Beantown. Cable overbuilder RCN is getting into the wireless business.
Cavett Returns On TCM. Dick Cavett, the witty and literate 1970's late night talk show host, is returning to the TV talk chair September 7 with a newly produced hour interview with Mel Brooks for Turner Classic Movies.
Sex Drive Daily, 10:10 AM.Renderotica must restrict content, seek new credit card processor.
Renderotica, an erotic art exchange full of sci-fi and fantasy images, has had to change its terms of service to accomodate a credit card processor that has become squeamish about serving an adult business.
From the email sent out last night:
Our credit card processor has recently made policy changes, and they will no longer allow us to display the following anywhere on the site:
-- Pornography depicting an individual being killed - "Snuff"
-- Pornography depicting nonconsensual sex - this includes bondage as well as individuals appearing to be drugged, asleep, hypnotized, raped, etc.
-- Pornography depicting sadistic or masochistic abuse
-- Pornography depicting urination, defecation, or menstruation
As you already know, we have prohibited the display of any pedophilia (child sex) and bestiality (animal sex) on our site since its inception.
Who draws the line, here? Not the government, but the credit card processor? I won't miss the images from some of these categories, but others are alarmingly broad and reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of BDSM. And erotic fiction, for that matter.
I personally have no interest in snuff or potty, but find nothing at all objectionable about menstruation. And to lump bondage in with nonconsensual sex? Excuse me? Or banning images of hynotism at a sci-fi/fantasy erotica site? And who makes the call about whether an S&M scene is "abuse"? (Yes, I can tell from the wording that the credit card company makes the call, and the answer is "all of it.")
One of the stills I like most over at Pornotopia NSFW, another sci-fi/fantasy erotic site, is of a woman having sex with a dragon NSFW. Does that count as "bestiality"? Or perhaps we are to assume that this dragon is of at least human intelligence and is telepathically linked to her, making it a person of a different species rather than dismissable as a mere animal?
The email says that Renderotica is seeking a new provider but in the mean time, all images meeting the above criteria have been hidden (although not deleted), and members are asked to report others that violate the new terms. Alas, even switching providers might not restore the ToS to what it was:
If our new service provider allows less restrictive access, we will restore access to these images at that time. We will not know the new rules until we have completed the change to a new service provider.
At Renderotica, we firmly believe in the right of every adult to communicate on any subject that is not restricted by the law. However, credit card service providers are free to make other choices and we must abide by those choices if we are to stay in business.
NBC Criticized For 'Plane Crash' Emmy Opening. NBC's decision to go ahead with a realistic, white-knuckle plane crash segment--a parody of Lost--to begin its Emmy awards telecast Sunday night drew flak for airing the same day as the plane crash in Lexington, Ky., that killed 49 people.
Couric to Get More Face Time. Give us 22 minutes, and we’ll give you a lot of Katie Couric." That seems to be the credo behind planned format changes to the CBS Evening News, which welcomes its new anchor Sept. 5.
EirePreneur, 10:10 AM.Hallucenagenic optical illusion. If you think you've seen the best of the optical illusions you ain't seen nothing yet - this is freaky.... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
eBay as investment banker to startups. Of all the chatter surrounding Kiko's reported troubles I found this observation on Venture Voice the most interesting by far - "One of the most interesting parts of this transaction is that eBay -- along with all the publicity enerated... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Digital Micro-Markets, 9:10 AM.Google and eBay CEOs embrace partnering for profits. Google CEO Schmidt and eBay CEO Whitman reaffirm that joint profit opportunitites trump competitive tensions in the eBay PayPal vs. Google Checkout game.
EirePreneur, 8:10 AM.Handbags in Limerick. The Limerick Blogger posts a link to the Shannon Foynes Port Company proposed plan for Limerick's docklands. It appears that cool looking skyscraper (by Irish standards) in the foreground has already been given the nickname of 'the handbag'. The other... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).
Scripting News, 7:10 AM.BlogTalk, Vienna, Oct 2-3.
Republican Cut and Run, Day 1.
Washington Post: "Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), once an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq, said yesterday that the Bush administration should set a time frame for withdrawing U.S. troops."
And now that we have our first quote, here's the site.
Digital Micro-Markets, 7:10 AM.Google news not 'universally accessible'. Google's mission? Google organizes the world's information to its own advantage, limits accessibility to the information and restrains its usefullness...
Google's not so fine print: Google Apps TOS put Google first. Should organizations put their applications eggs in Google's basket? The Google-centric Terms of Service give considerable pause.
EirePreneur, 7:10 AM.Find me another business idea. I love the way Robin Blandford keeps expanding his FindMeAWhatever empire-"Within a 5 day period since our return we have created an online specs database containing all 239 campers available with sortable, searchable listings."Check it out - FindMeACamper... By noemail@noemail.org (jcorbett).