January 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk I’m bored, and the non-stop torrent of Apple Unicorn rumor-mongering interests me not one bit; so I think I take some time to point out yet another example of Dave Winer’s ongoing campaign to prove that he knows fuck-all about technology. I’ve written about this before, but this example was too good to pass up. In an article titled Twitter is SMS 2.0 Dave puts forth the thesis that Twitter is to SMS as blogging is to the web. Hilariously, that analogy is absolutely correct, but not in the way that Dave thinks it is. Dave is proposing that Twitter is an evolution of or replacement to SMS in the same way that blogging is an evolution of or replacement to the web. To quote the curmudgeon: There was the web and then there was Web 2.0. The difference is dimension. The first version of the web, though it was never the intention of the designer, was one-way. Publishing was hard, very few people did it. Lots of reading, not much writing. Blogging changed all that, writing got very easy, then richer, to the point where lots of professional publications now use blogging software. Mission accomplished.
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January 4th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Here’s another quick bit to remind people that nothing that Scoble says is of any particular worth. If you read any Scooby at all, then you know that he is obsessed with pointless lists. This one though is perfect as an example of the fact that Scoble’s opinion is essentially worthless. In the article Robert states that he has a database of 11,000 tweets that he has favorited since June 2009. Let that number bake into your noggin for a bit. Eleven thousand tweets favorited, not just merely seen by his account. That implies that Robert must have put at least some minimal thought into the content. Now let’s do some math. By my calculations, there were 214 days from beginning of June 2009 until the end of December. If we assume that Scoble monitored Twitter every single one of those 214 days then that gives us 51.4 tweets favorited per day. If we then assume that Robert maintains a twenty-four hour a day vigil, favoriting tweets like some sort of New Media Douchebag machine, then that works out to 2.14 tweets favorited per hour. I keep stressing the “favorited” part of the equation, because it’s important to remember
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June 2nd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Ye gods, get a load of the latest whiny new media entitletard douchbaggery from Michael “I make up quotes” Arrington over at TechCrunch. The gist of the matter is a list of technical questions to the Twitter team from Michael. While the questions themselves have some merit, the absolutely overwhelming sense of new media entitlement surrounding them makes me want to drink even more than usual. Earth to the interwebs: Twitter is an amusing little diversion who’s availability, or lack thereof has fuck-all to do with the real world. I hate to say this, but I really hope that the bitching and outrage over Twitter’s stability is just entitletard douchebaggery. One might almost hypothesize that some parties might have a financial stake in making Twitter look bad.
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