TV Turnoff Week - April 24 - 30, 2006
This sounds like a great idea: No TV for 1 week [via Simply Thrifty]
I wish I would have seen this before watching ‘24′ tonight! I’ll try to do it for the remainder of this week though. Shouldn’t be too hard as my TV consumption is very low anyway. Are videos on the internet also excluded? We’re do you draw the line as more and more content becomes available online?
Are you up for the challenge?
It strikes me how many bloggers have announced recently that they’ll discontinue their blog: Dave Winer, Xooglers, Russell Beattie. Some of them have been blogging for years! At least Scoble took only a break and is back now.
Blogs have always been about conversations. But as they attract more readers, they also attract the idiots that are here to spoil the fun, sometimes even with personal attacks. Scoble has been pointing this out repeatedly and Russell has even turned off his comments a while ago. Well, geeks have never been an easy crowd.
Are we seeing a trend here? Are the old-timers getting frustrated with what the blogosphere has become? And if the old-timers give up, is the MySpace generation ready to pick it up? I’ve been mostly underwhelmed by the content I’ve seen on MySpace so far.
Keep it up guys. We need you! We appreciate the long hours and hard work that goes into quality content.
Are guest bloggers and ‘turning off comments’ signs for a blog’s nearing death?
About every article about Ajax starts with some mediocre explanation of what Ajax stands for and the author’s best guess on what it actually means. A common misconception is that the technology is new. The term is new however and is causing long debates what it should or shouldn’t be used for.
The acronym Ajax has long lost its technical meaning and is being used to describe the interaction model rather than the underlying technologies. Which got me thinking… In my world Ajax means:
Enhanced website providing an application like user experience
Which implies:
The use of Ajax in the name of the following two products is debatable using the above interpretation:
[via Ajaxian] requires you to download and install a WinAMP plugin. Note that this seems to be required for the server side only though. You can then access the interface remotely from a browser (IE and FF).
[via Ajaxian] uses XUL and therefore requires Firefox. Very impressive though!