Twitter Signal/Noise

Random sampling of 20 tweets... Brief, semi-original thoughts: 14 tweets (70%) Link whoring for existing content on tweeter's blog: 6 tweets (30%)

What's the signal-to-noise tipping point?

Of course, I'm going to link whore on Twitter right now to drive traffic to this post and get some great comments from people.

Long live AdSense!

Epic FAIL

So Porres said yesterday that it was hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk.  But there was no time to mess around on the sidewalk, so he settled for the ledge outside his window.

Yeah, it was hot, but it wasn't hot enough to fry an egg.  Nor was the ledge level enough to keep the egg white from moving precariously close to the edge.

Does this Senate move threaten Newsday/Cablevision?

So the Senate doesn't like the FCC's move to dissolve the ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership.  It looks as if that ban might stay intact if it passes the house and isn't vetoed by the president. Assuming that happens, how does this affect Cablevision's recent purchase of Newsday?  You've got the largest cable provider buying the largest newspaper on Long Island.  I'm just sayin' is all...

64GB iPod Touch?

Apple, will you please get your crap together and release a 64GB iPod Touch?  I love the iPod Touch and it's really elegant, but I'm not downgrading a 60GB iPod video to a 32GB Touch.  It doesn't make sense.  I'll have to leave a lot of content off the device. And the 60GB iPod needs upgrading.  Trust me.  There was the incident with the cover art, where my iPod just "forgot" every piece of cover art I had stored on it.  (Strangely, the "Get Cover Art" command in iTunes replaced everything EXCEPT the cover art from the albums I had bought on iTunes.  So all my ripped albums had cover art, but none of the stuff I bought digitally.)

Then there's the constant wrangling with iTunes/iPod and Windows Vista.  Vista wants to erase it every time I plug it in.  It also wants to hold up whatever tells the iPod that it's okay to disconnect when it's done synching, so now that's become a guessing game.

A 64GB Touch would be just what the doctor ordered.  I have Amex points to spend.