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• A Million Pieces & LonelyGirl15 - Reality is Irrelevant 2 From the ‘So What?’ Department: LonelyGirl15 isn’t a ‘real’ person, just an entertaining video project James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces not a ‘real’ memoir, get your money back To me, both of these are non-stories and stories with illiterate audiences. There’s no reason for readers or viewers to feel cheated if they were entertained. That doesn’t
• RE: How Do People Find The Time To Watch Television?  “…for the first time, society forced on an enormous number of people the requirement to manage something they’ve never had to manage before…which was free time. And what did we do with that free time? Mostly we panicked and spent it watching TV.” - Clay Shirky A nice reminder on what is actually active and social: “People
• “It’s been devastating to innovation” While listening to John Gruber & Dan Benjamin’s - The Talk Show #24, I was reminded about one of my pet peeves with all the free software - it completely kills the innovation1. John and Dan were talking about email. I feel the same way about email clients as I do about feed readers - they’re
• Made some interface changes to the websi… Made some interface changes to the website. Brought back monthly and category archives, postings from the First Crack podcast and added my twitterings. All the sections in the ever-expanding bottom section are all expand-o-collapse in the effort to make some of the stuff at the bottom easier to reach. I’m wondering about the search-engine implications
• Un-Plumb We’ve been introduced to a number of crazy characters this election season; Joe Sixpack, Hockey Mom, Senator Government, and Joe the Plumber. Signs of Jumping the Shark #18: “Introduction of new characters to revive interest, particularly young, cute children who are clearly intended to replace regulars who once were but have grown up.” “In the nightmarish near-future, galloping