Truth be told, I am not much of a blogger. I have always had trouble making the time commitment. I do, however, stumble across things from time to time that I am happy to share.
Your Constitutional Right as a Canadian to Have an iPhone
This post won’t the first, last, or best take on the iPhone craziness that’s sweeping across my country but I had to write something on the issue, if for nothing else than to try and maintain some form of my own sanity …
Imitation … Sincerity … Flattery
A colleague recently spun me an email to let me know that someone on Scriptlance was looking for a clone of my website …
Digg Sucks
There, I said it. You were kinda’ thinking it but I articulated it …
Digg Sucks
There, I said it. You were kinda’ thinking it but I articulated it. Let me also say that I used to love Digg. It was a grand idea to have user fed listings where the virtual cream rose to the virtual top, and their URL was the first thing I saw when I fired up the Mac every morning. It was a great way to learn about technology from people who loved technology.
Something has happened to Digg in recent times though and it doesn’t have the same feel it used to. Perhaps this is because it’s outgrown its tech roots and the front page is now filled with artificially inflated election stories and top ten lists. These posts usually followed by one line comments from users trying to be witty enough to warrant their own Fonzie in the hopes that they see their own comments dug to the top.
My other issue with Digg is that it doesn’t feel honest. So much of what I see on there seems artificial, like the old days of viral marketing when companies filled discussion forums with trumped up posts about how great their product was. It seems that many of the same users are posting a large portion of the front page content and in my mind this defeats what the system was intended for.
I suppose at the end of the day I’m just feeling bitter. Where once there was a great tech information site, created by tech people, there is now a site trying to be all things to all people and in this watering down of content, they lost me.
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