Friday, March 21, 2008

Friday Seven and a Half: The Sequel

1. What's the big deal about FriendFeed? I swear I've been talking about Jaiku since... well, since before I'd heard of FriendFeed. But now it seems like every other blog post on TechCrunch and Read/WriteWeb is about FriendFeed and how great it is (or how bad it is that we even need something like FriendFeed). Is it just because Jaiku is older and harder to pronounce?

2. archphoenix totally unintentionally stole my idea for Tracer Photos. A Tracer Photo is a public photo in a Flickr set with Friends and/or Family only photos that is used to notify people who might be subscribed to the RSS feed of your photos that there's new stuff. You can also post it to your blog, to be like: Hey, here's a picture that everyone can see... there's more where that came from for the special people in my life. Sort of like this:

Laser Etching of my face

3. It may be snowing, but at least the sidewalks are warm enough to melt it.

4. I was hoping to get to start watching LOST (finally) on ABC.com yesterday, but then I ended up working a lot more than I wanted to, and decided to watch the USC v KSU game so I could see future NBA stars OJ Mayo and Michael Beasley. Too bad Beasley was in foul trouble for the first half, and Mayo was playing like CaCa. Then halfway through the second half, CBS switches to Duke v Belmont, thus putting a disappointing period at the end of OJ Mayo's college career. Yeah, the DvB game was a good game, but Duke ended up winning, so it was just as disappointing as cutting away from the other game had been.

5. Apparently, if you want a traffic spike, just make some disparaging, yet clever, remarks about Scott Sigler. If he wrote Terminator books, you'd probably call it "Bringing Metal Down."

6. I finally bought the new (December 2007) Lupe Fiasco album. I saw his new video somewhere the other day, and decided the song was good enough to give it another preview listen. After the preview listen, I went with it. Haven't listened to it much since then, but I'm sure I'll get more in when I go downtown next week.

7. The new White Sox commercials on WGN seem to be designed to fit in with the commercials for the other dramas shown on the network (known as the CW here).

7.5. Sit. Stare. You know the drill.

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