For whatever reason, a bunch of things have happened very recently that either bug me or are just the latest in a series of things that have been bugging me. Since this is a blog, I waste your time by pointing them out.
- Howard Dean dropping out of the race. Thank god. I was so sick of reading about how great this guy was on every third blog I stumbled across. Get a life people! Bloggers don't win elections, politics and big media do.
- Eric Allman cuts thru the crap on spam. He nicely explains what some of us have been saying for a while. Maybe now the morons who don't get it will understand how the spam problem came to be--or at least the incentives behind it all.
- Simon Phipps from Sun calls Eric Raymond "so out of touch" on the issue of Java and Open Source. Well, no shit. Eric is out of touch with a lot of the world. It's really a shame that otherwise intelligent people still haven't seen his crap for what it really is. I wish he'd go back to Hacker Anthropology and stop trying to grab the spotlight.
- Dave Winer calls Yahoo and Google "shitty" companies and also calls the My Yahoo RSS module "pathetic". I think this one speaks for itself, don't you?
That is all for now.
Posted by jzawodn at February 18, 2004 08:10 PM
When I saw how the new search was integrated to the my yahoo module, I thought it was really cool. I mean, it's no NNW or Bloglines...but it's nice to see on my yahoo page when I hit it 5-6 times a day. I'm sure it's uptake rate will speak for it quite well inside of Yahoo.
What am I supposed to see when I click on the RSS link you posted? I see something about members only?
Personally I think that yahoo is offering competition to google, though the interfaces, colors and functionality are virtually identical. The rss feeds are the exception though, and it looks like they kick ass :)
If google and yahoo are shitty, then what is Winer's own company?
A single piece of prolific thought sprung to mind from this post.
"Where there is postive, there will be negative. The negative cannot live without the postive, and the positive strive to improve from the negative."
Yahoo and Google are "shitty" companies! Yea and Microsoft too. And how needs internet anyway :)
So what do you think of this search engine start-up called Dipsie? www.dipsie.com
http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_02_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#107706103141787576
Z, you obviously haven't heard about Kentucky's Ben Chandler, who managed to raise $100000 for his congressional campaign from $2000 worth of ads on left leaning blogs. Dean's campaign has shown politicians how to use the power of the blog community. it's called "grassroots politics."
The power of the blog community in politics, is when we actually have a winning candidate from the efforts. So far, we've been nothing but a source or revenue instead of a political powerhouse.
Money is a necessary but not sufficient condition for winning the race.
Jeremy, we need to get together for a beer sometime. Blasting Dean, Allman, Raymond, and Winer all in the same post?! It's like you're reading my mind. ;-)
I agree on it all, except the thing about Google, however I don't know anything about the company itself. Only the searchengine
Hm "get a life", well some people (not me) would say that bloggers who only discuss rss, mysql, java,... need to get a life.
Dean has done more than anyone to get blogging and the whole internet into the mainstream.
"Social Networks" isn't going to do it. Grass roots political movements might.
And blogging needs to become more positive. A majority of bloggers mostly talk about "Things that Really Bug Me", instead of new fresh ideas and approaches.
Here's an idea: Search engines and/or aggregators for blog content only - by topic. Let's think about how to classify blogs, not just by content, but by author professional level, sponsorship, paid unpaid authors,....
At least we should be able to steer clear of political content if we want, and geek content if we want.
A majority of bloggers mostly talk about "Things that Really Bug Me", instead of new fresh ideas and approaches.
How many of the people you meet during your daily routine talk to you about fresh new ideas? Why would the blogger populace be any different from the population at large? That doesn't make any sense.
I would like to add that Sam from 'The Apprentice' really bugged me, and though not present currently, still leaves a really bad taste.
Check this out.
No good deed goes unpunished, eh?
You *do* work for a shitty company Jeremy, and you're one of the reasons it's so shitty.
Get a grip man and make that aggregator work.
