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Re: Spore (Scripting News)

ericrice — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:46:56 -0000

The iphone version is way better, the DS version is poop and the PC/Mac version is so-so. After 3 years of OMG HYPE, it will certainly be a head scratcher. BTW, it's not stated a lot but the game is like 5 different game genres in one. Each 'stage' of the game may or may not appeal to you based on what you like/dislike in games. Civilization mode is totally SimCity, but Tribe mode is the Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre (which I personally hate). This may or may not affect your game enjoyment.

Post-DRM that is.

Re: Bigger, longer & uncut: The second Microsoft Seinfeld ad

ericrice — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:18:24 -0000

You're the first person I've seen post the common sense of it all. It's *Seinfeld* ffs and Bill G. being a hilariously bad actor (cuz well, he's Bill Freaking Gates) does a lot for the brand. Car commercials never used to show cars crashing and let's not forget the Budweiser ads with a) frogs and b) WASSSUUUPPP and how eternally long that meme lasted in pop culture.

What we aren't dealing with in the tech blogosphere is the pop culture set. We're so freaking alternative and rejectful of the mainstream, it's about as predictable as it gets. Bet I could call my folks right now and listen to my mom rave about them. She hates her PC but won't buy a Mac. Odd, those silly consumers. :)

Re: Yammer: This thing is a prize winner?

ericrice — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:18:53 -0000

Nothing against Yammer, I'm just surprised that out of all the OTHER stuff, *it* was the winner. I dunno, enterprise twitter vs. an augmented tool that overlays/reads the real world and displays meta info.. it's like overlaying Google over your real life when you hold a phone camera up to it.... but I'm yammering on now. Heh. Par for the course, guys. This is what our leadership in the new media journo blog world is bringing us. Can't blame big media anymore.

Re: Is this what online news has come to?

ericrice — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:21:33 -0000

Welcome to the meta conversation that has frustrated so many of us for so long. Seriously, I need ONE MORE BLOG POST ON CHROME. :)

Re: It's Easy to Say Startups Suck When You Have Never Started One

ericrice — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:07:21 -0000

That post needed to be re-submitted to the tech blogosphere because it assumes that these companies should be looking at a wine site for web site design, and assuming they even know who it is. This is exactly how the echo chamber is made. http://friendfeed.com/e/5695dd82-66f1-407c-b8b6...

Re: 2:34am and I’ve just finished the Sweetcron install script… now to start writing the documentation… › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

ericrice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:51:51 -0000

We are standing by! ;)

Re: louisgray.com: California's New Sport: Balancing the Cell Phone Below the Dashboard

ericrice — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:55:34 -0000

I can't concentrate with people screaming in the back seat. Seriously. Regulate children out of the car, and all food and beverages, lipsticks, makeup, no car stereos, animals, I can make a HUGE list of things to ban.

The law is dumb, it needs to be focused on driving while distracted, unsafe handling of a vehicle. It's wasting our money to nitpick categories and make sub-laws. And as I mentioned above, requires such an adjustment that there will probably be more short- to mid-term risk.

I'm not a bad driver, but I'm a fast driver, and know better than to do things like mess with the phone or radio when I'm in the groove.

Re: louisgray.com: California's New Sport: Balancing the Cell Phone Below the Dashboard

ericrice — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:49:53 -0000

Is 10oclock-2oclock still relevant in an era where every car has power-steering? I mean, it made sense when we had manual steering and a bump would send us careening. At any rate, yeah, considering how off target the law is, I'm now having to send my eyes LOWER THAN MY CAR STEREO.

As an aside, the iPhone speaker is so crappy, I found that I had to hold it up to my face so I could talk handsfree. LOVE that.

Re: louisgray.com: If You Look Hard Enough, Conflicts of Interest Are Everywhere

ericrice — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:09:42 -0000

It's that last part that's the moving target. The social conflict of interest is almost untraceable (although with social media, we can scrape and mine all day long and map out possible projections of relationships), and that can easily affect reporting. We don't know who likes whom, who has a crush on whom, etc. Did we ever learn to be objective? Should we be? I won't even link to a great video on Vimeo because of my attitude against Vimeon right now, I'll totally come clean. Doesn't make it right, just makes it a curious reality that's far more ugly than the economic conflicts.

Re: Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?

ericrice — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:56:25 -0000

I tend to lose things I bookmark because I'm one of those that does go back. But that's not the point I wanted to make, the point I was thinking of is the issue of discovery. Seeking out information is one thing IF you know what you are looking for.

I actually experience this more on YouTube (as recent as last night)... I'll see a 'related video' and it might use terms I've never thought to search for... or some newsworthy item that isn't something I'd normally read.

Someone out there was talking about the evolution of newspapers to mobile-- a topic I found quite interesting, and I proceeded to explore it further, but the thing is-- I'd never have thought to put those two things together. Even though I understand mobile and I understand the evolution of print, the value for me was in the 'discovery' of those two topics combined.

Re: Twitter tells me NASA has found water on Mars!

ericrice — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:36:16 -0000

NASA told us about water on Mars, not Twitter. If twitter wasn't around and it was this shiny new thing called a blog, find/replace. We *have* to keep perspective here, because Twitter is not a public utility, it's a startup company with a lot of funding and plenty of issues.

This shouldn't be a conversation about Twitter. NASA found water on Mars. Let's see some Space-oriented Venture Beats. But please don't put a web utility in the same grouping as one of the longest-sought after questions in our SOLAR SYSTEM.

Context.

Re: SEC says blogs = proper disclosure

ericrice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:35:40 -0000

Death of transparency and conversation, because this makes a blog an official channel of communication which must be vetted and include the disclaimers that we see on press releases. Way to go Schwartz. Heh.

Re: Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising

ericrice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:50:34 -0000

I also like how some games mock that, GTA 4 with the NINE BLADES OF FURY right in Times Square xD

Re: Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising

ericrice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:11:41 -0000

Dremth, that's already happening and has for years. Any piece of clothing like a hat or a t-shirt that has a logo on it-- or even better, when people beg to get a t-shirt from a company-- we're voluntarily advertising. Look also at the aftermarket car market where many people slap logos on the cars of the parts inside (wannabe or not, it's still promoting).

Now where did I put my Halo 3 hat?

Re: Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising

ericrice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:00:38 -0000

Heh yeah and then there's that whole XBOX thing ;) Microsoft gets a lot of heat but they aren't complete idiots. Google might be getting the press since it's outside their 'space' so to speak.

Re: Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising

ericrice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:46:19 -0000

I think it should be noted how Google products have been showing up on the Playstation 3 and PSP, namely search, but also, the MediaServer gadget works with the PS3 for YouTube, Picasa, and local music files on your computer.

And on the in-game advertising thing, while it sounds diabolical, in some cases ads make no sense, and in others, it seems like it's a no big thing. If I'm driving around a city and I pass a name-brand auto parts store or see an add for some component of a car (Castrol sponsors Race Days in some games for example), it doesn't seem too out of place. NASCAR without the ads would be kinda weird. :)

Re: WordPress Plugin: WP-Brightkite

ericrice — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:46:59 -0000

I've been using the SPOT GPS/Beacon device and have been posting to brightkite, so this will be handy. And damn, it's so hard sifting through all the noise of socmedia to figure out who needs to get bumped up the list of people to pay attention to (re: geo stuff)... installing the plugin now. Thanks for this.

Re: Goodbye FriendFeed

ericrice — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:04:41 -0000

We're all coming here from FF, funny. Anyway, only wanted to throw out there: you don't have to be social on social apps. That Kool-Aid has been sloshed around so much that the jug is empty. I always wished Feedburner would let me splice in anything I wanted to, and it seems that FF (and sites like it) are making that happen. Conversation happening there is cool, but never feel obligated to have to hang around services that are big buckets of RSS output.

Everyone will disagree with me, and that's totally cool. :)

Re: Honesty Is The Best Policy

ericrice — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:07:51 -0000

What if Bill Gates came out of retirement to replace Steve Jobs? Or even better, replace Steve Jobs with *Steve Ballmer*.

:)

Re: Podcamp Boston 3 - Success!

ericrice — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:43:12 -0000

What did everyone 'do' there? What came out of it that isn't about networking, hallways, qik, seesmic, twitter or friendfeed. What lessons, key ideas and takeways happened? Is anyone out there able to answer that?

Re: Everywhere Magazine’s Call for San Francisco Submissions

ericrice — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:48:59 -0000

I LOVE that Frank Chu is holding the magazine. +1

Re: Is Tech Blogging Getting Boring?

ericrice — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:28:52 -0000

Why Birthdays Will Fail

Re: iPhone Platform: What We Can Learn From Tap Tap Revenge

ericrice — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:55:57 -0000

Boris, thanks for pointing out that very important point about 'silly' things have a place. One of the most tiresome vibes emitted by our tech world is that everything must be Very Useful Indeed.

And LOL @ girlfriend tracking you.

Re: Sorry Rob But Rankings Are Here To Stay

ericrice — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:09:18 -0000

First! (I've always wanted to do that) OH dammit all, robdiana beat me by a pinch.

Re: The Death Of The A-list

ericrice — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:19:10 -0000

Louis Gray is a GREAT case study. He came out of nowhere, he seemingly writes intelligent stuff, and thus the hype machine started around him--- that hype machine is run by people, not him, unwittingly catapulting him higher up a list. He got the attention of the A-list who, mention him to a HUGE audience, etc etc, you see how the cycle happens. Out of 20K fanboys, someone is bound to go 'oh yeah this guy's all right' and then boom. Multiplication.