DISQUS

Heh. That's funny. For a long time, New.com ( www.new.com ) was nothing more than text saying "New.com". And that's it. Now it's just a parked domain with cheesy links to affiliates. It's still a waste of a good domain name.

*Note: I'm not affiliated with Pownce in anyway. I once used it, but because of my inability to make friends online, found it useless.

Why is it that when people bitch about Twitter being down -- when all the "l33t" bloggers of the world fire off YET ANOTHER post about Twitter being down -- you clowns don't mention Pownce?

Pownce is practically the same damn thing WITHOUT the down time!!! WTF?

You're like the idiots who bitch about poor service and high prices at Starbucks, but fail to spend your money on the other coffee shop two doors down. It's just fucking coffee!!

You know why? Because you're lazy. It's way to easy to complain about Twitter then to switch and complaining about Twitter or posting about Twitter has a good chance of getting on Techmeme. What a load of crap.

Oh, and I use twhirl as my desktop Twitter client ( http://www.twhirl.org/ ). I've used Snitter as well ( http://snook.ca/snitter/ ). But are based on Adobe's new AIR platform. Good stuff.

Man...maybe I'm the only Twitter user that has been Spammed, but there's Spam on Twitter for sure. Of course, I can be a bit chatty and banal at times, so maybe that attracts the Spammers. :P

I'm a heavy RSS user. Couldn't live with out RSS or some form of it. So far, RSS has connected me with more information and people than Twitter. It would be great if more bloggers posted to Twitter letting people following them they've updated their blogs with a new post. I could kill a dozen RSS feeds of more bloggers did that.

Borked for now. Hrm. Might have "KO'd" the server.

The Pirate Bay is a large criminal organization and like any large criminal element -- whether you're the corrupt mayor of Detroit, the RIAA or the Mob -- your size and arrogance does you in eventually.

People always believe they are untouchable. "We will always be here." So said Enron. There is always someone out there that carries a larger hammer than you. By pissing people off (e.g., possible IP Theft) an organization as large as The Pirate Bay is just asking for it. Infamy is vastly different from eternity.

Arrogance is a cold meat sandwich.

But Copyright law is changing, and The Pirate Bay will probably be best know for how they helped give the consumer a choice and free them from the largest Mob run criminal organization in the world: the music industry.

Let's call it the BitTorrent Bubble.

I think that days of large *public* tracker sites are drawing to a close. I do think that The Pirate Bay will run into some problems and either shut down parts of their operation or break up into smaller pieces (i.e., all the scattered servers establishing themselves as separate, non-Pirate Bay trackers).

I think large *private* trackers will rise for a short time. Not that being private will keep them from being hunted and shut down. But it will delay the fuzz for awhile UNTIL, a *popular* decentralized encrypted network finally appears. Yes, I know they exist today, but I mean popular as in BitTorrent popular.

Popular use of encryption will finally force the hands of the ISPs, and they'll begin driving nails into IP theft. The ISPs can stop the criminal activity.

The ISPs are the Key Makers.

Hmmm...I already assumed *some* of the front page Digg stories were paid positions.

Doesn't matter to me.

Everything is marketing of some sort and we all market some piece of crap product nearly all the time ... whether it's our own image, a product for someone else, our product, a service, an idea, a concept, a belief, our abilities in bad after nine cheap beers ... marketing.

We're all Herb Tarlek.

Fed cuts: 3/4 point. S&P Futures explode to the upside. Hrm...

Let's hope so.

Maybe if Twitter wasn't powered by a single Mac SE/30 on a dial-up it wouldn't go down with such frequency. Seriously...Twitter really needs to upgrade. Sans this major event, Twitter borks a lot.

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I'm trying to use Twitter.

For some reason, I just don't "get it". Yes, it's true: I don't have any real life friends using Twitter, so that makes it a bit tough. I do use the "track" feature, but, meh ... more times than not, that yields far too much banality and diminished my faith in the human race.

My friends don't want to follow my Twitter RSS feed because they think it's just another way to SMS.

Besides my own posts to Twitter, I'm not sure how to find "interesting" people to follow, and I still use RSS for blogs. I still think the technology is a bit over-blown. It just seems like an Instant Messenger repackaged in a way.

It's guess it's micro-blogging, but that's like saying flirting is sex.

"Wireless delivery of blogs costs as little as $0.99 each per month..."

Hmmmm....I don't know. I realize that I pay to access this blog when I pay my Comcast bill, but to pay again through the Kindle. Hmmm...if I buy one, I'll pass on blog reading for now.

Well, the device is ugly and it's WAY (way) over-priced, but its capabilities are interesting. I'll wait for a possible price drop or "Kindle 2.0" to hit.