Digg Dumb Deep Down

“That means that, if Digg were actually based on the Wisdom of Crowds principle, you’d never see how many people had dugg an article before you choose to digg it yourself. Additionally, you’d only ever vote on a random selection of articles.” – J Wynia

I think the transparency allowed by internet technologies make true Wisdom of Crowds projects impossible. Google is the closest I think we can get. Now, if Google dropped their search results page and only had the ‘I feel lucky’ button, we’d be there.

More FeedSeeder Demos – Organized and Otherwise

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be at Portable Media Expo a this coming weekend. If you see me, feel free to introduce yourself and ask for a FeedSeeder Demo. I’m looking for comments and suggestions.

Also, as soon as I get back from PME, I’ll be doing a more formal presentation as part of the University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies’ Emerging Digerati series.

UPDATE: Sounds like Tim from the Winecast, Frosty from ITRadio, and Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial will also be representing PodcastMN.

35.1 Days vs ‘Back to the Music in 60 Seconds’

NetNewsWire has been working overtime this week (just like me) and there’s less than 500mb empty space remaining on my 40gb 3G iPod. According to iTunes, that’s 35.1 days of audio entertainment. More than a month – without repeating.

Contrast that to the few minutes we had the radio on this morning, back-to-back commercials. As I turned it off and headed to the office, I heard them ask me not to, “Back to the music in 60 seconds’.

Ha. It doesn’t take me that long to hit ‘play’ in iTunes.

See you in 35.1 days. 😉

Podcasting Gets You a Better Job

While I’m piles of work away from another podcast, I wanted to share a nice story about the power of podcasting.

I received an email earlier this week from someone in the archives of the First Crack Podcast. They said they got a new job thanks in part to our conversation. As they tell it, the prospective employer found the mp3 Googling for our friend’s name. Liking what they heard, they extended an offer for VP-level position.

Now that’s how to make money podcasting.

Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 1

If having racers rappel up the Great Wall of China on the first leg is any indication, the Amazing Race is on an upswing. The lame events, purposeless pitstops, and music-video editing might be a thing of the past – much like the awful Family Edition.

Despite my continual confusion between the cheerleaders and the beauty queens (half way through Return of the King I asked, “Are two sets of hobbits in the Lord of the Rings?”) the character and distinction between the rest of the teams was nicely accomplished.

I thought the introduction of Peter and Sarah did a great job of laying out both their strength (experienced tri-atheletes) and their weakness (3 legs between them). With Tyler and James a second – ex-addicts turned male models. The rest of the introductions felt like cheap match-making reads;

Likes: travel, a million dollars
Dislikes: the other teams

How un-Amazing.

The introductions not-withstanding, this feels like the most diverse groups of racers yet, devout Muslim team, Indian-American married team, black single moms, and rural Kentuckians! . That said, the stereotypes are still there; a gay couple, white chicks, brothers, a dating couple where he’s probably gay, parent and child, moms. Again, hopefully, the show will transcend the stereotypes.

Oh, and Lindsey – I’d eat the eyeballs.

    Garrick’s Favorites:

  • Peter and Sarah
  • Tyler and James
  • Duke and Lauren

To make it interesting, I say Rob and Kimberly are Philiminated in the 4th show.