The more I read through this shit (which ultimately is summed up as this: "the meanies didn't like me!") the more I realize that maybe Bloggers should take a break from derriding professional media, and read up on ethics, editorial choices and editorial "voice"

Oh, and EDITORIAL DISTANCE.

If you have a blog, your personality is naturally a part of your blog. That's your VOICE. However, there should be an imposed difference between YOU at the CORE and you and your editorial voice.

Unless you're blogging straight from the neuron to the screen, impose some barriers and distance. For your own health.

Its just text on screen people. Pixels are agnostic to feelings.

http://flickr.com/photos/srhaber/118628453/

This is a much better mac cake.

How is the scaling issues in terms of having like 300-400 feeds, some of which (like delicious feeds) have hundreds of items a day?

NNW and NewsFire both freeze up all the time with my RSS feed load.

More important than anything, this machine now supports Core Imaging in Tiger :) That is a happy thing indeed, as it brings this up to a true usable home theater device.

Michael Stipe owns a 12" Powerbook.

Well... considering the phone sucks, I don't this is that surprising. I played with it at CES, and the opinion of myself, and others that were doing the same was that it felt clumsy, the OS was slow and had responsiveness issues and ultimately, it just felt poorly done. Also, it uses smartphone instead of the full Windows Mobile 5 OS, so its features aren't on par with things like the PPC-6700 or Cingular's HP pda phone.

Speaking of, I do wonder: if Apple used Google Analytics or a hosted Webtrends Live installation, would people be so quick to label it Spyware? Why are people so paranoid with installed applications, but not web pages? Why aren't they paranoid about the fact that I can code a Dashboard widget that could report iTunes habits back to X third party.

Surfing the web gives tons of data to nefarious third parties. As does swiping a credit card, going into a store, going to the airport, travelling by train, using Amazon.com, using eBay.

This is no more spyware than a Google Analytics tag on a webpage. Why are people so quick to say "SPYWARE" when every click on a webpage gives me much, much more information than iTunes could ever give. BoingBoing has no fact check and cares more about controversy than accurate reporting sometimes. Christ. They labled Omniture an evil data acquisition company when its no different than Google Analytics (which all the bloggers seem to love).

My wife and I have just taken to bringing a PSP and an Audiovox PPC-6600 smartphone to the gym, each loaded with episodes of Futurama, Firefly, etc that we ripped. Both have 320x240 QVGA screens (the sony's a bit nicer). The 22 minute Futurama episodes are great for running, while Firefly is great for endurance running (at slower speeds). We have gotten a lot of funny looks actually. Because we have two devices that do MP4 video nicely, we haven't yet gotten a video iPod, but we surely will soon.

Yeah, well Hannukah Harry has a MySpace profile! http://www.myspace.com/hannukahharry So there.