Duh.

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So I was messing around with how my feeds were organized in Sage, and I accidentally deleted Jaffe Juice. So I tried to put it back, and I'm not sure what I did wrong, but somehow the latest post on his feed was from March of last year. (Maybe I accidentally subscribed to a dead feed or something...) Of course, I didn't immediately realize that the post was an old one, and I fired off a private e-mail to Joseph reacting to it. Of course, I got a WTF? message back from his BlackBerry, whereupon I realized my mistake. Must've seemed like a total non-sequitur to him.

Okay, I'm going home for the weekend now.

Desperate Broadcasters

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MTV is making shit up again. So now media outlets will undoubtedly try to create value of association. Sounds quite desperate to me. And, incidentally, hoping the "cool factor" rubs off on their brand is one of the things I cautioned advertisers against when evaluating blogs as an ad vehicle many moons ago.

What's funny about this new metric is that the value has always been there, so there's nothing new. It might give one broadcast vehicle an advantage over another, but it won't help broadcast stave off encroaching interactive vehicles.

Geocaching and Homeland Security

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I was alerted to this article by a fellow reader of one of my favorite message boards. I don't really blame folks for being suspicious of someone skulking around a bridge, trying to place a mysterious object on it without being spotted (holding a GPS, to boot). I'm actually surprised that I haven't been questioned at airport security, considering the last several air trips I've made, I've had three GPS units in my carry-on.

I just hope no one decides that geocaching ought to be banned. I also hope that the example in the linked article shows people that there can be a logical explanation for all sorts of "suspicious" behavior and that we ought not to jump to conclusions.