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Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

Eric Rice — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:54 -0000

Valley native, here. With that said, could everyone stop thinking cute startups in San Francisco are part of 'Silicon Valley'? Twitter is NOT the Valley. Google, Apple, HP, etc, is the Valley.

Tech equaling 'The Valley' is probably the same vibe as showbiz equaling 'Hollywood'.

Re: Seesmic: Still don’t really get it

Eric Rice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:00:48 -0000

How do people not get the three simple media types? Text, audio, or video? You read things, you listen to things or you watch things. The people doing it moreso these days are everyday people, whereas it's always been studios and big Official People.

Not getting it = passing a judgement on what people do with any given technology. People who don't 'get' myspace or second life or whatnot, DO actually 'get it' but I believe it's more about making a social prejudice known. You think you're better than them?

Also, where is the video mail thing coming from. Eyejot is video mail (ie., we don't have SOCIAL crammed down our throats). Seesmic would be more akin to forums. Let's at least try to compare apples to slabs of granite once in a while, shall we?

Re: Seesmic: Still don’t really get it

Eric Rice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:06:50 -0000

Amusingly, one of the big swan songs of podcasting was ON DEMAND! What you want! When you want! Where you want it! No Appointment Based Viewing!! and then everyone toddled over to YouTube *en masse* and put their video in a non -portable format, and THEN, all the live stuff showed up that people are glued to.

Aren't we supposed to hate appointment based viewing? I thought that only television was the only place for video.

Pesky consumers, who do they think they are?! /smirk

Re: Seesmic: Still don’t really get it

Eric Rice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:58:27 -0000

I must have some crazy-ass ninja skill, I scan and skim video all the time, especially when threaded. Maybe cuz they have, uh, titles.

I'll pass on almost ALL cooking videos, thanks. And for topics that have interest, I skip through the video via scrubbing.

But see, there's a bigger problem. The 'scanning' culture means that we're short attention span, impatient, and becoming so brief in our consumption, that who knows, we're probably getting dumber.

Combine that with the fact that possibly all of us are just untrained in presenting and getting to the point.

So I'll ask again, is it the tools or is it 'us' that's the problem?

It's a much bigger conversation than this thread, but I did want to point out that I skip, scan, and skim all the time in all media. I'm medium-old. ;)

Re: Seesmic: Still don’t really get it

Eric Rice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:41:01 -0000

Mathew, you have a *very compelling* tagline here: "… blogging about the intersection of media, technology, business and the web"

Intersect, brotha! These are important times, we should ALWAYS cut slack. The blogosphere (er, tech blogosphere) is just blanketed with this 'don't get it' or 'don't think, just link!' approach.

I use Seesmic and am kinda annoyed by it actually in comparison to other sites (Seesmic is 1/3 of what Utterz is and Sees is not early at all, it's just a famous product).

That's why I come stomping out all cranky-like, because it's a plea when bloggers I like get all Valleywag-ish.

'I don't personally like it, ergo, it sucks' <-- we gotta knock this off, seriously. We do it so much, sometimes I wonder if we should just go pick up the newspaper. Heh. Not that it's much better, but still. :)

Re: Bloggers need to try even harder

Eric Rice — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:41:59 -0000

I thought our culture was moving towards 140 characters or less sound bytes? ;)

Re: The appeal of Twitter — part XVII

Eric Rice — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:31:39 -0000

Heh, Joe, you do realize that if ego/geeks had electron-scanning microscopes, that would probably one of the most killer gadgets of all time?

My god, I'll take two. Make it four.

Re: Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy

Eric Rice — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:23:55 -0000

Isn't this the TechCrunch way? Who cares who the CEO is or how many staffers there are, Mike Arrington = TechCrunch and in the prince's chair = Duncan. Doesn't really matter where it's posted, you are the brand.

I think I actually agree with Duncan's points, but I dunno, I'm AMERIKUNH and we like bombing crap and watching fights. Duncan, you're a better American than most of the blogosphere. God bless. His original points are lost because of dropping the cunt-bomb.

Will Gawker please please PLEASE buy TechCrunch already? PLEASE?

Re: Why did Twhirl get bought?

Eric Rice — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:47 -0000

Yeah well I'm cynical as hell. Web 2.0 and all.

Re: Do people want to advertise things they like?

Eric Rice — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:30:27 -0000

Test comment on an old post.

Re: Some site upgrades: Viddler and Disqus

Eric Rice — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:01:53 -0000

Uh oops, looks like the Video Comment plugin vanished, so I'll do some tinkering. Thanks.

Re: Where I found the music I just bought

Eric Rice — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:32:20 -0000

I saw that and forgot to make the edit. Thanks. :)

Re: Disqus - A great new Community / Comment management tool for websites

Eric Rice — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:35:13 -0000

I've been trying like mad to click on my old comment on an earlier post here and it takes me to the /login page (which isn't a login page at all, it's the home page). Even though I'm logged in, I just can't seem to claim my profile. Wonder if it's a known issue. Anyway, prior to this post, your blog here was the last one I read before I said, Yeah, better install it, it's too useful. So, thanks. :)

Re: 90 Seconds of Gear

Eric Rice — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:38:58 -0000

Note: you're only allowed to post 90 seconds of video at a time on the new Flickr video thing. (right now, anyway).

Re: Are there psychological disorders with us early adopters?

Eric Rice — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:11:31 -0000

Because your spamming?

Re: My two cents on this week's Bitchmeme (Scripting News)

Eric Rice — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:52:27 -0000

Kinda wish Happymemes were friendlier to the bottom line.

On a semi-related note, have you any opinions (new or past) about the reappearance of the 'stealability' of RSS in regards to the syndication freedom and the 'don't like it, don't publish it' vibe people throw about at those that do have some RSS content battles to wage?

Re: How can I stop being called a ‘blogger’?

Eric Rice — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:55:15 -0000

Watch. Listen. Read.

Re: Are there psychological disorders with us early adopters?

Eric Rice — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:27:10 -0000

I started thinking about this when I noticed what I built inside of Second Life. In real life, I could give two shits about guns. And yet, in world, I choose to be armed to the teeth. And all of my environments that I create are massive super cities with the most depressing, shitty underworlds-- something a completely polar opposite to my actual life.

Am I amplifying/projecting/whatever the hell the psych term is? Probably. And yeah, there are others way worse.

To the social media point, I'm a huge attention whore so USING the services is easy because it satisfies that part of self; however the magnitude of my att-whoring is relative to my need, which is rather low. Also, I have a huge ego but not a destructive one, hence-- and if you've observed me for a long time-- I'm only periodically an asshole, whereas others are full time assholes. :-)

Re: How to handily tell tech bloggers to STFU

Eric Rice — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:37:37 -0000

Well, who knows, maybe the buyer has a little extra incentive to think. Or Andrew. Or something.

Re: How to handily tell tech bloggers to STFU

Eric Rice — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:44:34 -0000

To be fair tho, the auction hasn't ended, Andrew has no money from it at this time.

Re: How to handily tell tech bloggers to STFU

Eric Rice — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:37:44 -0000

Hey, it's a good cause. People will talk shit, always, never let it get ya down. :)

Re: My Challenge to Andrew Baron

Eric Rice — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:03:50 -0000

@lons- Yeah sadly, it can be argued that our -pastimes- and activities are pretty damn retarded too. For all the preciousness anyone with a damn Twitter account and a social media byline has, you'd think the relevance would be pretty high. For all the change-the-world crap we have to hear from the likes of our ilk, it's CERTAINLY warranted to say 'hey wake the heck up, fools'. And then we'd all go OH YEAH maybe we are being kinda dumb.

But no.

Re: My overly irritating $80 Wordpress theme adventure

Eric Rice — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:40:34 -0000

Oh here we go again with Drupal heh ;)

Re: That annoying FriendFeed ‘feature’ people like

Eric Rice — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:01:45 -0000

Good lord, that is the most un-clear thing ever. Taking screenshots now and posting a correction/update.

Re: That annoying FriendFeed ‘feature’ people like

Eric Rice — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:02:17 -0000

Heh