I honestly don’t know why I subject myself to Mashable’s content in a set of regular RSS subscriptions; I may have to unsubscribe from it just to prevent a blown vessel. I’ve briefly mentioned the site before in a similar vein, but today’s insipid read was a simply delightful piece about how brands belong on Twitter.
Let’s [...]
This is an angry post written in uncov style. I may submit it over there if it’s sufficiently full of bile and vitriol.
Digg: the little news aggregator and home for moronic comments that could. I’m finally giving up on it, yet not for some presumed lack of Kevin Rose fanboy love. This particular train has [...]
From Mashable: America’s Got Talent… on MySpace.
WHAT IS THIS GOD WHY.
Seriously, I’d have a hard time thinking of a worse combination of words. Any takers in the comments?
(If you’re reading this from the front page, click through to see the horrendous image that accompanies this post.)
If the future of social bookmarking and Internet news is indeed Digg, then there is something seriously wrong with the collective attention span of the public. I’ve spent probably an hour in total tweaking my Yahoo Pipes “Digg Stupidity Filter” RSS feed, which performs the following functions:
Removes idiotic stories from the general Digg feed: any [...]
When having one of my brief IM conversations with Phil, the subject of the atrocities committed in today’s modern music came up and. Both Phil and I have musical interests that can be represented in the following Venn diagram. Members of the jury, Exhibit A clearly indicates that while Jake may be a poor judge [...]
Also tagged musicIt’s time for one of my favourite angry posts on the Social Utility That Could.
Facebook recently announced a new developer policy for applications publishing content to the Mini-Feed (which filter up to the global News Feed depending on quality.) The News Feed is the default page upon login, while the Mini-Feed is the area on [...]
Lil’ Mama has been usurped, and the new contender for worst song in the world is one by DeAndre Ramone Way (no, I’m not joking – his real name is DeAndre), in which listeners are instructed thusly:
Soulja Boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
Watch me roll
Watch me crank that Soulja Boy
Then superman that hoe
Now [...]
One of my most frequently visited forums is a site called Red Flag Deals, which is a bargain-hunting site targetted specifically to Canadians. I’ve learned about a few different money-saving techniques or hot specials on the forums, specifically the American Express Gold 2% Cashback credit card and the ongoing Rogers retention thread.
As you can imagine, [...]
In a continuation of my blocking Facebook feed pushes line of discussion, there’s a way to find out which application caused the action to appear. Most well-behaved applications will link to their Facebook descriptor pages, but some of them do not.
If you’re a developer or technically inclined, you should vote for this bug on Facebook’s [...]
Whoever designed the “templatized feed push” action at Facebook for developers should be put on notice. My wall today is cluttered with ridiculously inane application pushes, and most of them link back to Slide or RockYou home pages – enabling them to track people’s referrers from the links. What’s worse in the matter is that [...]
Also tagged application, facebook, idiot, news feed