real medical condition. I wasn't sure about the Alien Hand thing but sure enough, it is real as well.
A new site that sets you up on Crazy Blind Dates or something.
Barry Diller on CNBC explaining why he is spinning off everything, when he has been saying for years that he could get some sort of synergy out of it.
Some commentary on the writers strike.
Kill Buljo. A Kill Bill rip off.
Kick Scott Adam in the balls in Second Life. Yay. Second Life is sooo useful.
Open Social hacked within minutes of launch.
A different opinion on Apple. He makes some good points but I don't see it happening.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Mahalo and Other Stupid Ideas
A video from some girl from Mahalo:
Has no Calacanis in it, which is nice.
How much is Second Life worth? I've got about $2.00 in change in my pocket. That's about all I'd be willing to pay. It was a good idea with potential, but I think it is on its way out the door now. Apologies to Boris, my friend who runs a Second Life virtual consulting company.
Breaking business news from the WSJ - college kids who drink alcohol and energy drinks (aka vodka and red bull) get in accidents and hurt themselves! Thank you for the news flash!
The Facebook money train keeps on rolling. Taking investors money into god only knows where.
AdBrite CEO wants his employees to put in 10 hour days. I understand where he is coming from, but asking people to do that is just wrong and I never do it. If there is a time sensitive issue or a deadline I will have them stay all night, but under normal circumstances - 8-9 hours is fine. My normal day, however is about 11-12 hours.
MySpace, seeing that it is getting left behind on the social networking ad dollar train, is launching its own advertising program. Yay.
Katie Holmes runs the NYC marathon under a fake name. I want to do that one of these years.
Some guy asks basic religious and philosophical questions that my friends and I were pondering at about 12 - 15 years of age. Maybe even a bit younger.
Has no Calacanis in it, which is nice.
How much is Second Life worth? I've got about $2.00 in change in my pocket. That's about all I'd be willing to pay. It was a good idea with potential, but I think it is on its way out the door now. Apologies to Boris, my friend who runs a Second Life virtual consulting company.
Breaking business news from the WSJ - college kids who drink alcohol and energy drinks (aka vodka and red bull) get in accidents and hurt themselves! Thank you for the news flash!
The Facebook money train keeps on rolling. Taking investors money into god only knows where.
AdBrite CEO wants his employees to put in 10 hour days. I understand where he is coming from, but asking people to do that is just wrong and I never do it. If there is a time sensitive issue or a deadline I will have them stay all night, but under normal circumstances - 8-9 hours is fine. My normal day, however is about 11-12 hours.
MySpace, seeing that it is getting left behind on the social networking ad dollar train, is launching its own advertising program. Yay.
Katie Holmes runs the NYC marathon under a fake name. I want to do that one of these years.
Some guy asks basic religious and philosophical questions that my friends and I were pondering at about 12 - 15 years of age. Maybe even a bit younger.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Google Ego Alerts Answered
I got the answer to my question... I received the alert at 5:12 pm. I posted the my name at 3:15pm. So that is about 2 hours for Google to crawl a page that no one reads. That's pretty consistent with the amount of time it took for a "certain someone who I don't want to name because if I do he will start commenting on my posts again" to respond.
Mystery solved. Case closed.
Mystery solved. Case closed.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Google Ego Alerts
It has been 30 minutes since I posted my name in a blog. I received one Google ego alert from some other stuff, but nothing for the blog post yet.
Update - It has now been 1 hour and still nothing. Maybe I should post it again. I think I will. Done.
Update - 1.5 hours and still nothing.
Update - 2 hours and still no alert. I thought this was supposed to be instantaneous.
I'm going home soon. It's been a long week for those of us who actually have to work to pay the bills. I'm not going to check my email obsessively from home to see when this Alert arrives so I will update when I get it with whatever the timestamp is on it.
And before any of us who don't have to work to pay the bills get pissy and leave me nasty comments - yes, I envy you. I could have been you if I had made a few slightly better decisions than I did. And that makes it even worse, because I was so close and I blew it. It's a lot harder than not ever having been near it.
So I will go on and try again tomorrow, for tomorrow... is another day. [Cue cheesy music, fade to credits]
Update - It has now been 1 hour and still nothing. Maybe I should post it again. I think I will. Done.
Update - 1.5 hours and still nothing.
Update - 2 hours and still no alert. I thought this was supposed to be instantaneous.
I'm going home soon. It's been a long week for those of us who actually have to work to pay the bills. I'm not going to check my email obsessively from home to see when this Alert arrives so I will update when I get it with whatever the timestamp is on it.
And before any of us who don't have to work to pay the bills get pissy and leave me nasty comments - yes, I envy you. I could have been you if I had made a few slightly better decisions than I did. And that makes it even worse, because I was so close and I blew it. It's a lot harder than not ever having been near it.
So I will go on and try again tomorrow, for tomorrow... is another day. [Cue cheesy music, fade to credits]
Social networks and such
Dave Winer on the MySpace / Facebook / Google brawl. I believe my opinions of Facebook have been made abundantly clear. Also - Facebook apparently has not been briefed on OpenSocial.
A chart of how to tell how much your web site sucks. Pretty accurate in my opinion.
Valleywag does a Web 2.0 for idiots primer.
And an update on the breaking Jakob Lodwick story... He responded to my response to his post with a "LOL." I'm not sure exactly what he was laughing at but... um... OK. Thank you, come again.
And Valleywag posts their opinion of the same interview I posted this morning. Shall we take bets on how long it takes him to reply to that? I have seen him leave comments on Valleywag before...
However I posted my name, which I have a Google ego alert set up for, in one of my other random blogs and I have not received notification yet. Interesting...
A chart of how to tell how much your web site sucks. Pretty accurate in my opinion.
Valleywag does a Web 2.0 for idiots primer.
And an update on the breaking Jakob Lodwick story... He responded to my response to his post with a "LOL." I'm not sure exactly what he was laughing at but... um... OK. Thank you, come again.
And Valleywag posts their opinion of the same interview I posted this morning. Shall we take bets on how long it takes him to reply to that? I have seen him leave comments on Valleywag before...
However I posted my name, which I have a Google ego alert set up for, in one of my other random blogs and I have not received notification yet. Interesting...
Once Again Friday at Last
Top ten Colbert segments. Plus some bonus clips.
Dumbest questions in song lyric history.
Reasons a zombie apocalypse could really happen. What is it with Zombies this year? It seems like zombies are the new emo or something. Everyone is totally obsessed with zombies. Did anyone see any videos of the parade in NYC? All zombies! I rest my case. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
Things that were cool in the 70's the are just stupid today.
A Wikipedia page on an Adult Swim show I have not seen but which sounds very amusing, and kind of complicated if we are to believe the Wikipedia plot summary. Oh, the show is Frisky Dingo.
Dumbest questions in song lyric history.
Reasons a zombie apocalypse could really happen. What is it with Zombies this year? It seems like zombies are the new emo or something. Everyone is totally obsessed with zombies. Did anyone see any videos of the parade in NYC? All zombies! I rest my case. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
Things that were cool in the 70's the are just stupid today.
A Wikipedia page on an Adult Swim show I have not seen but which sounds very amusing, and kind of complicated if we are to believe the Wikipedia plot summary. Oh, the show is Frisky Dingo.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
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