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Archive for October, 2006
The seven phases of iPod ownership
3You know, seven is a perfect number, so here is the seven phases of owning an ipod. Enjoy 
Time? Never enough here either…
0I just have to say that I, for one, love time changes. In the fall, it’s nice to have that extra hour of daylight in the a.m.; waking up and having it be dark has been a bit of a downer. It’s nice to have it be daylight again.
In the spring it’s nice to loose the hour because, strangely enough, it’s a bit more refreshing because it’s just beginning to get warm out and it’s light outside when you wake up.
There’s just something about waking up in the dark; strangely enough I want to go to Ireland. Here’s my thought though; the incredibly long summer days in Ireland would make up for the really ridiculously short winter days .
What’s up with digg.com?
0Is it just me, or has this heir apparent to slashdot’s success been compromised as of late. What has been a nexus of the weird, the geeky and the just plain cool of tech on the web turned into an Apple PR engine. It seems like there are always multiple copies of stories that show up that usually revolve around either Apple, the iPod and are usually posted from someone’s blog.
The other thing that has been frustrating me of late has been the growing number of inappropriate pieces that wind up on the site as well.
Having to deal with all the stories marked NSFW (Not Safe For Work – you can guess what that entails), the multiple blog links (that usually go down under the strain) and the just crap that has show up late has me wanting to get my tech news elsewhere 
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For you non geek readers, it’s been either slashdot.org or digg.com for the last 8 years giving regular tech news to the masses; it’s Publisher’s Weekly, if you will, for the publishing industry. The problem with digg though is that is primairly user-driven content; it lives and dies by it’s readership. Since it’s gotten a bit bigger, it tends to attract the lowest common denominator coupled with the site branching out into regular news has done it’s share to dillute the core audience.
Well, we’ll see where it goes; it’s done it’s share of not being impressive lately .
Bacterial Grammar
1So, instead of anti-biotic can we call them editor drugs now? I thought my writer/editor type friends would appreciate the article