Commentary
*YAWN* aka New iPhone Announced
In case you can’t tell, my general overall opinion on today’s announcements is lackluster at best. We have features that people up and down claimed should have been in the first iteration (but I’m sure the Apple fan-boys will back-pedal on these previous statements under the guise of “Apple can do no wrong”). I’m overly unimpressed, and was honestly expecting more from Apple.
Twitter vs. FriendFeed vs. Jaiku
Lets start with the basics, because many people might now know what Jaiku is. Jaiku is a combination microblog and life streaming service that was purchased by Google and is currently invite only. The thing is, Jaiku’s lifestreaming feature was similar to FriendFeed but was around before FriendFeed. I will say that FriendFeed definitely implemented the lifestreaming idea better than Jaiku.
Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability
Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks. Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday.
Presidential Cadnidates & Their Pastors [Video]
This week’s video I call into question the uproar over the presidential canidates and the things their pastor(s) say. Really folks, there are real issues to consider. Why are we focused on something as trivial as this?
FSF Spreads FUD
The Free Software Foundation, today posted an article about the NBC/Microsoft hiccup involving broadcast flags (article). There are a couple of things wrong with this article but the main point I want to focus on is the fact that they go to great lengths to make Microsoft the bad guy in this little fiasco.
Video Blog: “M” for Money
The other night I saw a Glenn Beck episode where he discussed GTA4. I’ll let you guess where the conversation went. Really folks, not all republicans are like Mr. Beck. I for one hope to prove the stereotype wrong with the following video.
People Don’t Trust Bloggers
I wonder how these reports translate to the blogs of popular newspapers. Does the blogger from the New York Times have more default trust than say someone like me? I wonder what the pshycological implications are with regards to having your blog hosted on the newyorktimes.com. I wonder if they carry more weight with the average consumer than just a stand alone blog.
Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over
I don’t know about anyone else out there, but lately I find myself using Digg less and AllTop more. It just seems that I find more real news and commentary on AllTop than I do on Digg these days.