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Re: [WinExtra Rebranding] One last word

abacab — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:46:35 -0000

Looking forward to you breaking out the bubbly soon. :)

Re: FriendFeed Is Growing Nicely Regardless Of What Scoble Says

abacab — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:08:55 -0000

His reality will never be anyone else's. To all those people that hang on his every bodily function: Please. Stop. Think of The Children. He's fickly pronounced Twitter and FF passe a few times now. Pick a service, he's championed it one week and yawned over it the next. He has no attention span, no depth to his interest, and people are far, far too wrapped up in him. I've been saying this a lot lately, but really, for most people, he's best unfollowed and entirely ignored. He has actively elevated himself to a point where, I think, he's disconnected almost entirely from any audience at all.

Re: Did I Just Join The Ranks Of The Internet Trailer Trash?

barce — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:01:30 -0000

Scoble is the Greatest Information Sponge Ever. If you see how he reads google reader, you get an idea that he skims a couple key words, and then groups a couple articles and then summizes (not a typo) this into an interesting blog post.

Think of Scoble, the blogger from within Microsoft, and the Scoble of Today. They're really different. Today's Scoble uses whatever attention he has to really prostitute and exploit all available resources to answering the question, "What is the future of technology?"

If you don't like what you see, then perhaps that is because there are no limits set on the pace of the consumption of production of information. Which is why we should unplug, and really think about what is better: the production of a better human being, or the production of more things.

Re: Did I Just Join The Ranks Of The Internet Trailer Trash?

StevenHodson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:05 -0000

As an Off Topic question abacab could you email please (steven @ winextra.
com) as I have a question I would like to ask you

Re: Did I Just Join The Ranks Of The Internet Trailer Trash?

abacab — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:24:27 -0000

Scoble's comment is really just a backhanded way of complementing himself and continuing to market his image and reputation as "passionate" or "doing it all for us", or being the Greatest Information Sponge Ever. It's got nothing to do with passion. It has everything to do with people tooting their own horn, calling out how THEY 'get' it and you just might not be as smart or as cool as they are. Passionate? Egotistical.

Re: No Offence Thomas Hawk But You’re Coming Late To The Party

abacab — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:23:19 -0000

This sort of things happens all the time. People get shit on on Facebook. Then Scoble gets it, and Facebooks practically fellates him while reinstating his account mere nanoseconds later. Arrington has a Comcast problem, poof, fixed. Winer wants free shit and puts up and Amazon wishlist, bam. Thomas Hawk getting hassled, wham.

I see stories every single day where people are getting crapped on and no one does a damn thing. Despite the bubblicious nature of the onlinosphere, there is still a lot of connectedness outside it by its more elite members that I can't help but think could be used to help other people out even a fraction as much as they end up helping themselves. Many claim their own suffering is for a Greater Good, but I'm not sure I believe most of it is results in anything more than increasing their own pageviews and thickening their own wallets.

Re: The Ultimate FriendFeed Client

JMowery — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:17:09 -0000

I share the same opinion as you. A dashboard would be very nice. I'd
also like to see more statistics that could show you who is interested
in your content with more details and such. (Which items generated the
most comments, what type of content is most effective, etc.)

Thanks for commenting!

Re: The Ultimate FriendFeed Client

abacab — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:13:39 -0000

I find myself using fftogo a lot, but the regular web interface is the main thing I use. I've tried and still do occasionally use Twhirl, but for some reason it doesn't cut it for me. I think if I could have something like TweetDeck with the Twitscoop window feature, where I could isolate topics|people|content types/sources, I'd probably be very happy. FriendFeed has enough going on that some sort of dashboard view is becoming critical to really staying on top of things; it's too easy for the most active threads to drown out equally interesting (to me) topics.

Re: Down on Dave Winer

mkoby — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:14:34 -0000

he might be a pompous a**. But so can Arrington at times (ever followed him on Twitter?). My point is, Winer isn't the only one. If we're going to spend so much time on him because of his pompous-ness why not everyone else on the internet?

Also, please show me where his claim to RSS fame is "hotly contested", Tim O'Reilly is usually pretty sound so I tend to consider him to have some authority.

I'm not saying he's not a pompous a**, I just wonder why anyone really cares that he is and why a big deal needs to be made of it.

Re: Down on Dave Winer

abacab — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:23:10 -0000

The critical part you're missing is that, regardless of what Hodson called him, the fact remains that Winer -is- a pompous ass. Of gargantuan proportion.

It didn't magically take WinExtra to pronounce it. It's a long-LONG-running fact. You really should look around. His claim to RSS fame is also hotly contested, btw. He's basically a once-got-lucky Nobody who thinks everything ever put online is his creation in some form or another. Don't buy into his hot air and hype.

Re: Out on the UGC limb (Scripting News)

abacab — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:53:06 -0000

"Be a gentleman Jason and back off"?

It sure seems like you're the one rehashing your own version of those events here, for whatever reason. Don't want to rehash it? But you ARE rehashing it! Nevermind there's plenty of video of the event that shows clearly you were being nothing short of totally rude and a jerk.

If this was really NOT about that, then why lead this blog post with it? As big an ass as Calacanis can be, it's not his that's showing here.

Re: Flickr Commons: A great idea, but…

abacab — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:15:36 -0000

Google's way of pairing people up using their Image Labeler service to agree on tags for images seems a reasonable method as well... but I agree that the bad tags will basically fall away purely statistically.

Re: Stopping the Lazysphere? … Maybe when Pigs Fly

abacab — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:03:11 -0000

I've said it before. Cut the head off the long tail, and while a new head will certainly grow, at least it's new and different, and for a while at least, probably more interesting and engaging and smart than anything you'd find in a Scoble/Winer/et al blog post, ever.

Re: Let’s stop this now - right here

abacab — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:50:26 -0000

wtf is a "social contract" anyway? An agreement that we know each other? Are there actual terms? The email isn't a contract. It's the message you're conveying to the other person. Where's the actual contract, because I want to see the terms?

People "selling" "social" are really working OT to wring some money out of all of this before it all goes POP.