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VoxPopuli
07/16/09

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It's hilarious to see Bill Keller and Perez Hilton in the same category.
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DeadliestSin
07/08/09

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Still think Jeanne Moos is awesome, wish she was higher in the list of tv reporters.
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Foster Kamer
07/08/09

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You're not on it, and neither am I. I feel like we lived through the first invasion of Austria.
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karion
09/19/09

@Foster Kamer: Tad too butch, the both of you.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
07/08/09

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Cajun Boy, I can only assume that you have never worked in the New York art gallery world. I see your self important a-holes and raise you 6,000 anorexic, alcoholic, black-clad medusas (medusi?) of both sexes, give or take a thousand once Larry Gagosian gets done killing and eating what remains of his staff.
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The Cajun Boy
07/08/09

@RollsRoyceRevenge: You got me there. I can only imagine.
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Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
07/08/09

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I was always wondering: why US-ians are so obsessed about one-dimensional linear numerical orderings? No other culture that I'm aware of spends so much time compiling and discussing linearly ordered rankings.

Lattices FTW!

[en.wikipedia.org])
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contains_hot_liquid
07/08/09

@Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: Americans are connoisseurs of abstraction.
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Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
07/08/09

@contains_hot_liquid: The terseness of your reply tells me that you weren't successfull in your personal struggle with abstraholism.
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contains_hot_liquid
07/08/09

@Spy from the Land of Rainpeople:

I am now a connoisseur of brevity.

No it's funny you say that; I had a longer response written, but somehow in the midst of typing I closed the comment window. Heh.
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MisterHippity
07/08/09

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It's like the "tumblrity" index on Tumblr: The more they suck up to other people and repeat their ideas, the higher their ranking goes.
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croush1211
07/08/09

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Bill O'Reilly is ranked higher on the "Power Grid" than Ann Curry. An unabashed racist and intolerant ratings-grabber with an incredibly dangerous view of the world around him, ranked higher than Ann Curry.

Yes, this thing is busted.
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kimsama
07/08/09

@croush1211: This is the sort of thing that pisses me off about the media in general and web 2.0 specifically: the conflation of the popular with the good. Just because a lot of people are watching Bill O'Reilly, it doesn't make him worth listening to. Why can't mediaite supply the context in which these ratings occur? Oh, because that would take effort, and passion, and would likely render all of the rankings as ridiculous as the ones you pointed out.

"Buzz" is just the sound of the flies circling the cooling corpse of traditional media.
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Peteski
02/23/09

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@ NickCarraway finds himself in a yet more duplicitous world
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Gena Radcliffe
02/23/09

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As usual, people read way too much into the "secret meaning" of trends like Twitter. I use Twitter just because it's fun, and I was a teenager a long time ago. I don't force them on anyone who doesn't want to read them, when they're automatically posted each day to my journal they're under a cut so no one has to read them if they don't want to. But some people do, so apparently I'm somewhat entertaining. I don't understand the unreasonable dislike towards it. Don't want to use Twitter? Don't use it.
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SpyMagician
02/23/09

@Gena Radcliffe:

And why is Twitter fun? Heck I've been working online for years and people automatically think I "love" doing things like "Tweeting" or even blogging... I don't...

I think there are some folks online who have huge identity/ego issues.
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Gena Radcliffe
02/23/09

@Jack S: I just enjoy making little notes about things that I see or do in everyday life, and I like reading about the minutiae of other people's lives. Then again, I also like looking at people's vacations photos, so maybe I'm a bit of a masochist in that regard. I don't do it out of ego, or under the belief that people have to know what I'm doing at all times, it's just...I don't know. It's hard to explain to someone who isn't into it at all, but at the same time it's not exactly fair to paint all Twitter users with the same "egotistic attention whore" brush.
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SpyMagician
02/23/09

@Gena Radcliffe:

There's what one does consciously and what one does subconsciously. And I honestly think people who Twitter and blog every detail of their lives have real issues.
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Tiger_Tanaka
02/23/09

I picture you shaking a withered old fist@Jack S: Funny, that's what I think about people who get all worked up about what other people Twitter and blog all day.
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SeaBassTian
02/23/09

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When we look at ourselves in the mirror we seek to confirm with our eyes what we believe ourselves to be. When we Twitter, we seek to boost our ego by creating a fantasy image of how we would like to be perceived by others.
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BowlingForDollars
02/23/09

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Why you gotta harsh on Twitter? It's not always used for letting others know what you're doing, it's also used to share ideas, articles, and brainstorming. If you're not Twittering, then you just don't get it.
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Shadowlayer
02/23/09

@BowlingForDollars: You're joking right? how can you explain a great idea in such small space?

If it fits, then its irrelevant...
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man_hole
02/24/09

@BowlingForDollars: If you're not Twittering, then you are probably leading a productive and meaningful life that doesn't require validation from a bunch of online acquaintances.

You sound like the crazies from Second Life that vehemently defend their pretend universe.

Twitter is interesting entertainment technology, but really, does anyone need Twitter in their life?
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StonedAndDethroned
02/27/09

@man_hole: I know I'm a bit late on this, but the idea that a blog commenter is talking about a "productive and meaningful life" is hysterical.
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BadUncle
02/23/09

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Performance theorists are going to be deconstructing twitter for years. At least it's keeping academicians employed.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
02/23/09

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That does it, I'm moving to a cave now and taking nothing with me. Wake me when the nuclear apocalypse happens.
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