DISQUS

I've never really seen the distinction between what I would call "anger" crimes and "hate" crimes. The motivation seems not as important as the intent and the action itself. Layering "hate" proscriptions on top just seems like imposing a penalty for "bad thinking".

p.s. Good to see you writing again.

If their churn rate shoots up because of the weird design choices, they'll react. Perhaps they think real time will be a differentiator for them. Maybe, but aside from a small population of hardcore users, I can't think who will invest the time to make the new design work for them. I sure as hell won't. I've already noticed I'm spending more time on Twitter since the FF beta started.

"to not sacrifice"... split infinitive.

There's more to him than the metrosexual thing (which, in its original incarnation was I think about the queering of "straights"). I don't think he's reactionary as much as realistic. It's still too early to tell how successful male marriages will be.

YM should be private subscription only. It's written for just a small band of gawker obsessives. You don't want to be a member of that club anyway.

Got it beat. Last week I dreamed I *was* Laura Petrie, trying to teach Millie Helper how to make a cherry pie. The dream made me very happy and I remembered when I was in it that I took great pleasure from looking down at what I was wearing.

A follow up on special treatment that Google receive[s|d] from NYT
http://www.ratdiary.com/2008/09/21/nyt-to-googl...

Well, back in the days of the Gay Liberation Front (before my time, but my mother told me about it) the politically correct thing to believe was that gayness was a political choice. I've always thought the flight to a biological "apology" was politically regressive.

Woohoo! Linda and the flying locusts pulls it out. In your face, Sweet Charlotte! Thanks again, Jason. I will take President Bush's advice and spend the $50 immediately. To defeat terrorism.

I don't often agree with some of your points, but value your contribution as a countervailing force to the knee-jerk hero worship of Obama.

That said, if you really want to quit FF and remove all your data this is the link: http://friendfeed.com/account/delete

I hope you don't use it.

Told you so... pretty classic awful, no?

Jeez, guys, Stats 101. The mean of $75K for 100K+ bloggers is skewed by the very few with huge audiences and incomes. Check the median: $200. If Technorati published the distribution you'd see that most bloggers with 100K+ uniques are making next to nothing.

It was news to me.

Nice.

I noticed you'd picked up again on the GR shares. I'm glad -- it's one of the most valuable services you provide to us. Frankly, I find it more useful than Techmeme because it's curated by a human.

Exorcist 2: The Heretic. You might as well just send me the gift certificate now...

Steven,

How incredibly kind of you to review my humble yet ingenious site! ;-)

I'm only sorry that I haven't been able to post recently due to a desktop system failure that I've just about recovered from. But new things are coming...

I'll take your comments to heart and tweak the font size and layout issues you raise. And, Rarst, if you could say *where* you are located I can investigate the access issue. After a couple of hacking incidents, I've put in place fairly restrictive htaccess restrictions. Maybe too severe.

It was just a joke.

For your information, Mr. Gillmor, he was referring to "see-kews". And making a clever pun on the need for translation. ;-)

Steve,

This is an excellent heartfelt post that goes beyond the usual, tired whining about "Micro$oft" being "evil" and unfair to competitors by pointing up that their current situation is unfair... to Microsoft. Just as with AT&T before the breakup, an enormous fund of creativity is locked up inside an organization charged with maintaining the status quo. The challenge for Ballmer is to reinvent something that (despite the critics) works almost too well. As a founder, I doubt he can do it, or at least he would have to be one very exceptional human being if he could. But perhaps Ray Ozzie can -- if he's allowed to.

Jason, I wanted to send an email -- but I was too dumb to figure out your address... ;-)

Your single-post pages are throwing a javascript error -- try running your site through Firebug to catch it. Cheers!

Think it's a great idea. Why not fold into your plan to profile bloggers by interviewing them real-time at the time you post to FF about their site?

Steven,

Thanks for the shout out. I became a fan of your stuff during the convo with Alexander Van E. about media on FF. Catch you later..

Sprague

The stuff you dig up is beyond hilarious. In one day, Sharon Stone apologizing to 1/4 of the world's population and nano noodle bowls. All I can say is... your parents should be proud.

Bloggers certainly get value from increased exposure that fragmented conversations provide -- it may even make up for the loss of direct value of seeing commentary on their sites. But there is still an issue about brands being subsumed by other brands...

http://www.ratdiary.com/2008/05/19/the-brand-ca...