Business As Usual

Ted / 07.Jan.2008

I leave you people alone for two weeks and this is what happens without proper supervision? Robert Scoble loses his Facebook account for some reason that was really too long to read but seemed to involve Plaxo. I don't know or care what the fuck happened, but Google Blog Search has 7,156 results for "scoble facebook".

Evidently, this was (and still is) the talk of the web. I have news for you, though. In the rest of the world, it was business as usual. This was of little consequence in New Jersey or Connecticut. I didn't see it in newsstands at the airport. So, look out your office window, take a deep breath, and realize that nobody cares but you.

I'm An Astonishingly Good Shot With A .38 Special

It makes for a good way to waste a Saturday afternoon.

Anywho, what else is going on that you people delude yourselves into thinking is national news? CES? Meh, glorified nerd fest. Nobody talks about this outside of the Valley. They are all too busy, um, how do you say it, not being complete losers.

Every blogger's braindead predictions for 2008? I have a prediction for 2008: you fail.

And of course, The Crunchies. Mike Arrington's follow-up cash grab from the TechCrunch 40. $40 per ticket to this fail fest? And no open bar? Shit, where do I sign up?

Oh, yeah, and it looks like Om Malik had a heart attack. Poor guy. Being a legitimate, competent journalist covering Web 2.0 takes a lot out of a person. Keep up the good work, Om.

The Very Last Row Of Seats On An Airbus A319 Should Come With Complementary Strychnine

I promise I will have a real post tomorrow. I am still recovering from the hernia I induced by suppressing the urge to kill the person who sat in front of me and reclined her seat all the way when my seat did not recline at all. I bet some prick got a raise for figuring out that you can cram another row of seats between the bathroom and the last row's reclining space.

Maybe I should start preaching about global warming so I can get my own private jet.

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19 Comments

Yes, airplane seat "engineers" are the antichrist. I only pray they have to sit in that end row. I'm too much of a punk however - my legs are too long and I have no problem jamming my knees into the seat (happens anyways) so that the inconsiderate fuck can't lean back more than a quarter inch. What like anyone actually feels more *comfortable* in a sardine box that's inclined half a degree. Vive les trains biothces!
Fred fred / 07.Jan.2008 at 10:06am
We didn't want Scoble on Facebook anyway.
Montoya montoya / 07.Jan.2008 at 10:34am
Shot at Scoble? Thanks. Shot at Om? Meh.
Mark mark / 07.Jan.2008 at 11:00am
where's persai? persai persai persai...
uncovfan uncovfan / 07.Jan.2008 at 11:05am
Who the hell is Scoble, I've heard of Facebook but this Scoble person? Nope. And since when was it an injustice for privatly operated company to terminate service to a client because they didn't like what they were doing? Excuse me? No one has a /right/ to do anything with, on, or involving Facebook.
Noah noah / 07.Jan.2008 at 11:42am
@fred Same here with digging the knees into the seat in front. I also find that accidentally flicking the chair on the way to the bathroom works. Just lean on their chair a bit and then quickly let go - very natural thing to do if you're squashed in by them. After their head has catapulted into the seat in front, their seat tends to be upright when you get back. Alternatively, the touch screens they have now give you an excuse to constantly whack the guy in front on the back of the head for the entire flight. That could work.
thorns thorns / 07.Jan.2008 at 11:46am
Yo Ted thanks for the recap, I was also hoping to get your take on Obama's showing in Iowa and who you think is responsible for Bhutto's murder...I am pretty sure you missed the release of a new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor last week in your recap as well...otherwise glad to have you back.
NHKC nhkc / 07.Jan.2008 at 01:17pm
They were talking about CES on Good Morning America this morning, so HA! It IS national news! DO SOME RESEARCH, TED. FAIL.
mike mike / 07.Jan.2008 at 01:48pm
In after Jersai
buttache buttache / 07.Jan.2008 at 02:35pm
NBC Evening News is also going to broadcasting from CES on Wednesday, but they're probably forced to by their close relationship with Microsoft. Expect a lot of tech puff pieces that day. The time for terror is when one of the Big Three decide to broadcast from SXSW or CrunchFest or whatever that thing Arrington promotes is called.
Rob Menke rob menke / 07.Jan.2008 at 06:11pm
It's called CrunchWrap. This the last year that Captain Crunch himself will give the keynote address, act fast because this will sell out faster than the Led Zeppelin reunion.
tricky dick tricky dick / 07.Jan.2008 at 06:33pm
I find aiming the air nozzle above my seat to point directly at the top of the head of whoever the asshat is to be a wonderful cure for that behavior. Sneezing at the same time I flick water with my fingers from my water bottle at the top of their head is a nice trick, too. Constantly flipping over the newspaper right on top of their inconsiderate brain pan is kind of fun as well... Oh, the list is endless... :-)
Ryan ryan / 07.Jan.2008 at 09:18pm
lol@not being a complete loser, welcome back you hilarious bastard
rick rick / 07.Jan.2008 at 11:15pm
@mark "Being a legitimate, competent journalist covering Web 2.0 takes a lot out of a person. Keep up the good work, Om." That's not a shot at Om, it's another shot a Arrington who's not competent, legitimate, nor a journalist.
Dempsey dempsey / 08.Jan.2008 at 12:24am
This cunt's right you know - here in England you'd struggle to find anyone who had even heard of TechCrunch or that Scrotum chap, never mind anyone who gave a flying fuck. Perhaps that's why our economy isn't disappearing up it's own arse. Enjoy your forthcoming poverty kids, remember you only have yourselves to blame!
J j / 08.Jan.2008 at 05:07am
yeh, people who are talking about global climate change get free jets and giant mansions hurr hurr hurr manbearpig hurr hurr.
hurrr hurr hurrr hurr / 09.Jan.2008 at 10:41am
>>>Every blogger's braindead predictions for 2008? I have a prediction for 2008: you fail. // Oh fuck. How about if I just did a *few days* of 2008? http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/macworld-2008-all-about-portability/
Mike Cane mike cane / 10.Jan.2008 at 03:57pm
So apparently this Scoble is "working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn’t allowable under Facebook’s terms of service." WTF is a social graph and do I need one?
savvo savvo / 11.Jan.2008 at 02:43pm
The tags web2.0 and web2.0-history are broken - they make you download the page instead of opening it in the browser window - FAIL xD (i'm using the last version of firefox)
Ricky ricky / 14.Jan.2008 at 07:35am

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