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Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

Dear Gamer — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:55:45 -0000

I think we should be fine.
http://deargamer.com

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

vince — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:57:34 -0000

he's on his way back and because you know who he is proves it!

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mel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:51:39 -0000

interesting my comments have to be appoved, so if we disagree you or your modertor will just delete, fine by me, that's the beauty of the internet, you don't like it, just delete it. Sigh, what ever happend to dialog?

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Alarm — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:16:05 -0000

The end IS near:

www.theendisnear.co.uk

Creepy.

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Nobody — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:36:22 -0000

Don't you get it, Dude. You aren't cool enough to converse with dwiner. Just follow along and tweet to the other nobodies -- like me.

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Mister Snitch! — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:20:40 -0000

Dave, when you're right, you're right.

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narendra — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:04:52 -0000

If you aren't writing code and building products, then the odds that you have something original to say diminish very rapidly.

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Michael Bailey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:40:46 -0000

I don't understand that, really. If you would like to talk coding, standards, future possibilities, I'd love the dialog. Your call.

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dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:34:40 -0000

Perfect example of why its often better not to respond.

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Michael Bailey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:09:52 -0000

Thanks for assuming that everyone has an agenda - I was speaking more from the fact that we both share the same air and walk on the same planet. I attempt to speak to you in a civil manner, yet feel shunned or ignored while I do observe that you respond, but only to a 'select few'.

Will it make my day if you respond? No, not in the least - I'm not a fanboy by any means.
I do have plenty of ideas, such as 2-way RSS, but you seem to be satisfied with taking credit for it's implementation and that's about it - if you ever decided to devote some time to conversing about the possibilities of making the web a better place, instead of spending your time bashing the same people who helped you achieve your notoriety, look me up - I'm easy to find.

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John Furrier — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:01:54 -0000

I'm not disagreeing with you on this one dave but merely pointing out how you can be more active than one post. I find myself looking at both the political techmeme and ballbug for stories but more and more twitter is becoming a signaling system for my 'navigation or attention'.

I remember when you 'over linked' to techcrunch everyday when it formed and promoted their initial flow - so why don't you do the same for someone else. Some people are saying that sites like Techcrunch prefer to lead with a sword verses collaboration and that is leading to blogwars and ill will.

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:54:14 -0000

I read everything people send me on Twitter, so its incorrect to say I ignore your posts. But if I don't have something to say I don't say anything. And I haven't responded to guilt trips since going through my midlife crisis some years ago, so no point trying to lay that one on me.

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Clay — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:26:18 -0000

Hmmm.... It can't be ME because it's for sure that Dave's been blogging longer than me (since I LEARNED about online stuff from his writing (starting with Clay Basket)...

How come Disqus says I can claim the A List identity... I'm tempted... but I really don't care.

And Mark Canter is a PINKO? Cool. He goes up a notch.

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Blog Bloke — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:02:14 -0000

It seems that we're on the same wavelink Dave: http://www.blogbloke.com/th...

It's all so depressing.

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

Michael Bailey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:46:04 -0000

That's a bunch of crap - I dump out original ideas almost on a daily basis, via Twitter.
You and others don't listen to me b/c you are waiting for some A-lister to say the exact same thing that I just did.

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

Michael Bailey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:44:26 -0000

Well gee Dave - now that you have tuned your signal-to-noise ratio, perhaps you will hear me on Twitter when I @ you, as I have done on numerous occasions in the past......all ignored. No biggie, but just sayin'
You talk about the little guy, but what do you mean? The little A-list guy, or the actual little guy?

@mobasoft

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dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:35:17 -0000

I wonder who this guy is? I had a theory until I got to the part about how "folks like me" have been blogging longer than I have. Any thoughts? Mr A, care to decloak? (No hard feelings about the "arrogant ass" bit, I was aware that this piece was arrogant, and well if you want to call me an ass, who cares.)

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:54:59 -0000

I'm not giving up blogging. I saw one of the echo chamber blogs say that they thought I was saying that, but it's nowhere in the piece, and not on my mind. I just unfollowed from a bunch of people I had stopped partying with a very long time ago, and then lost interest in, and now find offensive. I gave myself permission to get the fuck out of deadwood and head for the hills.

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

Art Lindsey III — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:09:02 -0000

The Tech industry and its bloggers ARE a lot like the democratic party. A bunch of hippies who pontificate about everything and actually know very little. All we have to do is paint Robert Scoble a nice shade of brown, make a few music videos about him, insert fawning geeks and we're set. Instant messiah!

"Sco-ble! Sco-ble!" (Crowd faints)

Of course the blogosphere is full of boobs. Otherwise, there would be no room for Winer and Canter.

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A member of the A list. — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:56:44 -0000

Are you kidding, Dave?

I thought you said you were unplugging. Stop reading TechMeme. I command it (and I'm not kidding).

And don't act like this is a recent thing for you to start unplugging from the "A-Listers" or the "Superdelegates" or whatever. You've been unsubscribed from me on everything you had previously added me on for quite some time. I can only expect it's for the same reason I found your tweets to be unbelievably annoying - we're from opposite sides of the political aisle.

And it's the same reason I ultimately reciprocated your unsubscribes and unfollows (as well as that pinko Marc Canter). You don't know how to phrase anything in terms that aren't derogatory to anyone with a different opinion from you, technology or political.

In short, folks like me (that have actually been blogging longer than you, you arrogant ass), find you just as repugnant as you find us.

Good riddance. Stay gone this time.

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Sam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:45:00 -0000

It was interesting to see that in the graphical mapping of the blogosphere, political blogs were much more 2-way connections, while the tech 'nexus' of blogging was all one way--very interesting to see that kind of disconnect between different blogging flavors and the way it plays out, where for tech people would write about something but it was less a conversation and more talking into the void.

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Damon Billian — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:41:29 -0000

Given that I generally don't read as many tech blogs these days, I will explain how I feel about the blogosphere right now...

1. The conversations don't often discuss anything other than tech. How is that very interesting? I would most certainly hope that many of the people that do engage in some way lead lives not entirely related to the internet.
2. Headlines seem to be:
Google is doing this.
Yahoo did this.
Apple did this.
Microsoft is doing this.
Twitter is doing this.
(Insert blogger name here) said this.
I don't like this (insert company name) anymore because they did XYZ.
Use product xyz or you suck.
etc., etc.

A key problem with the blogosphere is that it is also not entirely democratic as people would like to think it is. It seems like the whole process has devolved to linking to people you know only & you rarely seem to hear thoughts from some of the "regular" guys out there.

"For example, the recent hype surrounding FriendFeed and its enormous growth seems to be entirely focused on growth among the Technorati. I love FriendFeed, but 99% of my friends aren't on it, which diminishes (but does not eliminate) its utility. Who cares if all the "A-listers" and tech-bloggers are on it? Its enormous promise won't be realized until normal people start using it."

I couldn't say the above any better:) The true test of a product is if the general public accepts it; while you can have a serviceable niche product, many of the things we get told we *should be using* don't carryover well to the general populace.

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Chewxy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:14:48 -0000

In retrospection, though, you probably shouldn't give up blogging... It's always good to have an avenue to air one's thoughts

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Mindy McAdams — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:14:16 -0000

So hilarious! The Mathew Ingram line knocked me over. (Surely he's not the last one.)

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Jeremy Toeman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:37:06 -0000

Hard to find? HARDLY. It's very easy to find. Just don't look to TechMeme for it (nothing wrong with techmeme, but it's not about finding original thought, that is explicitly not its purpose)...