Digg.
You’ve heard about the Slashdot effect, where millions of tech geeks pounce on a link and bring the site’s server to its knees? Digg is a contender in this bandwidth brutality sweepstakes.
The front page of this tech-obsessed site changes frequently– clicking ‘refresh’ often brings up a few new links each minute or so, all real-time ranked depending on the number of hits they’re getting.
This morning’s biggest Digg swarm appears to be a horror story about a customer’s tribulations dealing with an online camera store.
It’s nowhere near shocking, but one has to wonder why the guy submitted to the interview in the first place.
Some news media outlets don’t know the difference between an emerging consumer phenomenon and vaporous (yet oh-so-self-fulfilling) marketing schemes. Gal Beckerman does the schooling.
No, I’m not curious about this. Not at all.
Defamer brings this living, breathing, vital meatloaf of a story home.
Please put your books on the floor and turn off your cellphones, thank you.
Many people are lazy when it comes to reading. This is nothing new. The internet just allows them to be lazy in a more efficient manner.
You can put your hand down now.
Kazakhstan’s number 2 top TV reporter has issued an official rebuttal to his government’s charges.
No deeplinking to the Quicktime file, but go here, click on “I INNOCENT OF ACCUSINGS OF THE KAZAKHSTAN GOVERNMENT” then click on “HEAR MY ReSPONS.”
I like electronic stuff, but I always manage to keep my affections separate from my non-mechanical lusts. CJR Daily‘s Felix Gillette wonders why certain tech writers can’t strive for the same distinction.
Those who know me might know me as an apologist for Todd Rundgren. Yes, it’s yet another of my adorable quirks.
Most Rundgren fans are loony (some endearingly so, some frighteningly) to some degree, so it’s always interesting to see how the faithful react to news about his career.
First, the story from Billboard:
Rundgren Steps In For Ocasek In New Cars
Next, Rundgren’s open letter from Roger Linder’s charmingly obsessive TR Connection:
Now That The Car Is Out Of the Garage
The subtext here is that Moogy Klingman, keyboardist for mid-70s-era Rundgren’s Utopia and on several early solo projects, has been dishing some mud on the TR Connection about the project. He seems to be a tad bitter that the Cars project has derailed any mythical Utopia reunion:
Utopian Letters to Awizard
When not dressing up for Bon Jovi videos (not as bad as slumming with the Cars, admittedly), Moogy apparently broods and pines for the glory days of Utopia and feeds ungracious quotes about Rundgren to hacks. It’s not pretty, but it’s oddly engrossing, in a gapers’-block car-crash kinda way….
If you missed it last night watch for rebroadcasts throughout the week. It was one of most riveting Frontlines I’ve seen; the interview segments with Michael Brown are absolutely horrifying. It will also be posted online tonight.
