Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K Google stock just crossed the $700 mark. I can’t wait for their stock to drop like a rock. Maybe I’ll buy some then.
Archive for October, 2007
Intense Debate seems like a cool new service. You can install it on your site as a commenting system to replace the default system in popular systems like blogger and wordpress. It seems to integrate pretty well with the ability to import and export comments and just a lot of work was put in to not seem like a silo stealing your information.
The functionality seems a little over kill for small site like mine but I do like the benefit of knowing more about who is leaving comments. I can’t see my self being an early adopter but if this catches on and tons of people use it I would not be opposed to setting it up.
YouTube is starting a major redesign and have made some odd and interesting choices. Amazon recently impressed me by hiding away alot of interface to fit more contest on the screen. YouTube seems headed in a similar direction.
Their new layout definitely looks better then the old one but they have made a choice that does not sit as well with me. In hiding away all those interface elements in dropdown menus they have taken all that new space and put a 300×250 add on the page in place of the 160×600 ad.
Perhaps it’s not glaringly obvious to most people but I can’t look at that page with out imagining a designer told to redo the page so a 300 ad could fit on it. Design that purely motivated by ad placement always make me queasy.
Okay.. in a post Passion of the Christ world a movie on the Ten Commandments will make tons of money. But this has to be the worst looking animated movie in almost 20 years. Who let this horrid movie in to production?
Carl Malamud really makes it seem easy to reclaim a lot of these cordoned off public domain works that many government agencies try and sell. It make me wish there was a Wikipedia style todo list of ways I could help. (via Lessig)
The new myspace series Roommates reminds me a lot of Scott Zarkarin’s NoHo Girls which was mildly interesting but over all low on worth while story.
Choice quote from Arin Crumley:
“I’m very curious why someone feels they know us well enough to need to know if we are still together but not well enough to be able to deduce with out asking why it might be that we aren’t. That is if we aren’t.” (link)
Today I officially unsubscribed from LonleyGirl15. I watched the whole first season and a little more. I was way behind on videos at this point.
I know at some point it would lose my interest. To often the plot went extremely slow and any built up suspense was almost rarely realized into something satisfying. I think I watched mostly because there was a lot of suspense and the slow plot really let them flesh out the characters.
It was a fun ride and though the series might be counted as a success I think the format is doomed to failure with out a larger company behind it. A real time action series needs to be well funded to work correctly and LonelyGirl just did not have the cash or ability to scale along with the plot they wanted to write.
Violent Acres, an amusing and inflammatory blogger, was finally unmasked. These stories of tracking people down though trackbacks, deep internet search and a wide array of other tools never ceases to amaze me. I hope being outed doesn’t stop her. (via Waxy)
Jeff VanderMeer has published what must surly be the official and definitive Squidpunk Manifesto. I look forward to see who takes this joke the farthest.
Cory Doctorow has a long flowery apology to Ursula K Le Guin because she’s a copyright nazi that seems to be trying to enforce laws that don’t exist. What really seems to bother me is that if she was not a well known author Cory would not be sucking up to her. He would tell her he was within the law and to shove it. Cory just seem to be so crushed by his admiration for Ursula to put his foot down.
The first lecture of Lessig’s 10 year journey to end corruption is really great.
What in the world is squidpunk? Something tells me this would make as good a genera as Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga does.