Friday, January 11, 2008

CrunchGear’s John Biggs takes a look at “Gizmodo’s douchery and blogging“:
“I doubt Walt Mossberg would run around turning off TVs or getting really drunk. I doubt David Pogue would take pictures of booth babes. But these sophomoric shenanigans — along with rumors, rants, and fanboyism — are sadly the bread and butter of blogging. Otherwise [...]

Kevin Burton makes a very good point:

"This Gizmodo prank is slightly funny – until you realize that people are trying to work in this type of environment.
I wonder how Gizmodo would feel if people were to launch a distributed denial of service attack against gizmodo.com.
Not that I’m advocating such a thing. I wonder if a [...]

For me, there were several themes which came out of the Robert Scoble Facebook spat. One was the obvious one that data portability requires, as a prerequisite, an understanding of who owns the data in the first place. Unless you have that, data portability is simply carte blanche to corporates to move and abuse your [...]