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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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Steve Poland of TechCrunch says:
Currently, people are using â@(username)â to publicly reply to other Twitter messages â which can be annoying if youâre a friend of a user that is replying to what another user said (and you donât even know what w ... Continue reading »
Currently, people are using â@(username)â to publicly reply to other Twitter messages â which can be annoying if youâre a friend of a user that is replying to what another user said (and you donât even know what w ... Continue reading »
2 years ago
...Seems that years ago, back in the heady days following the Rural Electrification Act, those crazy kids out in the hills of Southeast Minnesota had a rather interesting way of communicating at a distance. They'd strung stout copper wires from poles along the road, and with the aid of a device installed in each home, could send messages through it. Since these were busy, hard-working folk, they couldn't exactly stand around watching an LCD screen to find out who was talking (plus, LCD screens didn't exist) so they hit upon a rather unique solution: each user had a custom "ring", and a bell attached to each communication device would reproduce this "ring", thereby informing all users of who the current message was intended for (strikingly similar then to your @username system). Of course, anyone was free to listen in, and many interesting occurrences came about because of this...
Of course, like all good things, this system came to an end. The Man ripped out all of their nice stout copper cables, and replaced them with buried, insulated wire - and a separate circuit for each home. Now deprived of their means of common communication, this formerly-vibrant community, degenerated into sets of isolated families, and for many years the only reminders of what once was were the remains of the copper wiring strung up in pastures and electrified for the containment of cattle.
Now, with DSL and Twitter, a new day is dawning...
(or, you know, something)
2 years ago
Thanks Shog, that is interesting. Now, go be a twit would you please, I'd love to know what you ate for breakfast.
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