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Scoble is Right and Arrington, and Loic are wrong about “authority”?

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This weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having “authority” search functions.  I say this is totally not going to work because some factors.  I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall.   Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more “authority” and because he is looking for good content.   I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company.   I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company.  I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.

[ad#cricket-1-1]Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this.  I have to wonder why he wants to agree.  You see he is also into content and understand that if the “authority” for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews.  I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content.   Also that would mean his blog post would have more “authority” then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn’t see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back.   So we have these two wanting more “authority” and more content.

Then we have Scoble and his blog post.  Now let’s talk about this from where scoble says it’s a bad idea.  Scoble talks about gaming the system, and if you think back to Digg killing all the high number of members because they were using scripts.  Here we are again with regards to twitter.  Now if we have authority people are going to game the system because no matter how hard we try it will be a competition.

We have botnets and we have bots on twitter.  It really isn’t hard to have a bot on twitter, and that is where we have a problem.  You see if we have “authority” and we want to game the system.  We just have bots with authority and by having other bots subscribe to each other.  There lies the problem.  People will easily be able to game te system and create even more trouble finding the content they are so dearly looking for.   Now I don’t usually get into the whole “he’s right and he wrong” disputes but this one has to be brought to people attentions.

I say this when did “Authority” stop people from talking about the really important stuff happening in the world.   We have people from Friendfeed talking about this and we have people from twitter talking about this als.  Loic and Arrington need to learn content isn’t hard to find, it will always be there.  You just have to open your eyes to see.   The way I see it, we have a coin and we have the good and bad.  We should just keep the bad out of there and keep the good stuff we already have.   This goes in the bad idea bin for the time.

Everglide S500 White Gaming Headphones

Paul

  • White Gaming Headphones

  • Optimal Noise Isolation without Compromising on Audio Quality

  • Unique Circumaural Earmuff Design Provides an Extremely Comfortable Fit

  • Optimized for Millisecond Feedback to Provide Gaming Response

  • 2.0 Lbs (WxLxH) 7.5 x 9.0 x 4.0

List Price: $79.99

Customer reviews

Excellent headphones  5
I bought these headphones off of woot.com, and they are just simply amazing. They are very comfortable, and I have never heard my music sound this good. I bought a pair on woot for 20 bucks, and they are definitely worth a lot more than that. These come with a nice thick extra long cord, a nice carrying bag, and a microphone to clip on and hook up. No problems so far, I am really satisfied with my purchase.

I saw this and wanted to let people know just how nice these look.  I saw this on Amazon.   These are great for Gamers they aren’t as portable as the smaller headphones but they will at least give the gamer the best chance of surviving a game due to the feedback that it provides.   It also has a great noise isolation so you don’t have to worry about hearing a lot of outside noise.   I thought this was so cool for gamers.

Everglide S500 White Gaming Headphones (EG04-04E022-02)

The End of 2008 and the Beginning of 2009!

Paul

With the beginning of 2009 coming close I want to talk about what posts were the best of 2008.

Top Posts

Avg detected Trojan Horse Generic 12.htc 2,334
UPS expected to layoff people also 1,612
The Clues of the Ages Unlocked!! Aug 4-8 1,179
GTA 4 Causes fatal error mma10, how to f 972
Scam ALERT: NATIONWIDE MARKETING!! 870
Tips and Tricks to Shut down Windows Vis 747
Microsoft released KB960714 to fix THE I 657
Clues of the ages unearthed! June 28 – A 626
Rumor: GE to be the next to layoff its w 553
Cricket USB UM100 Broadband Wireless Mod 525
Ways to improve Battery Life in Vista 503
Spying on Spyware.ISpynow!! 461
Network Connectivity and Vista’s TCP/IPV 445
You can do more with Steam and Half-Life 443
Some Important programs to prevent yours 429

What people searched for to find my site:

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These were just made the last few months as I kicked it into gear and have gotten so much experience in blogging. So other things that will help you in my blog are:

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I’d like to thank all of you for joining me in an awesome year and I can’t wait for next year.   I also like to thank my all the people who have subscribed to my feed.  I am hoping in the coming year we have even better content.   If you have any suggestions by all mea
ns throw them my way and I’ll consider them.

Upcoming CES 2009 — Juicy Stories

Paul

So we are getting close to CES or Computer Electronics Show to some.  This is going to be a very interesting year, due to the depressing economy.   So I wanted to talk about some of the upcoming announcements at CES so people could get ready for the upcoming 2009 Show:

  • Skype will announce free US and Canada calling to cellular numbers or land lines.  This will undoubtedly be an Ad supported service and have a limited amount of minutes per call.  This will be good for people on the road who need to make a quick call here and there without having to pay for anything.  They have given some of the tidbits out already but I can’t wait to find out what else they will announce at CES.

  • [ad#cricket-1-1]Windows 7 Beta — People seem to think they will release the beta the same day they announce just like they did at the PDC(Professional Developers Conference) and also give it out to people at CES.  Although that might work to a point it will be very hard for people to get in the BETA.  There is a list brewing of people wanting to get onto the beta in the Microsoft Connection Community Site.  I can’t wait for next month but I am sure it is going to be nice.

  • Windows Live Beta — Here is another Microsoft product that might also be combined with Windows 7, it is a possibility and might be intergrated into Windows 7 for some but I am not sure what will happen all to much.  I am sure they will announce something about this at CES and only time will tell.

  • IE 8 Beta — Although this isn’t something unexpected.  It however will be interesting to see how they throw this one out to testers because they will undoubtedly test it on Windows 7 and they will be sending these out in the same time.   I think they will be also intergrating this into Windows 7 Beta release as if it will be on the new system.  I do not know what they are going to do but I am sure something will happen.

[ad#ad2-left]This is just a small bit of possible out comes, and there is still more to come.  I wanted to point out that these are not confirmed and should be considered as a rumor nothing more nothing less.  Don’t put to much money on what will happen to much.  We do know that the Betas are probably going to come out due to Microsoft announcing these to be out by the first of year.   Only time will tell for what will happen in the coming year though.  I can’t wait to find out what happens.

Getting better speeds from your Cellular broadband!

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If your like me and you want to get better than expected speeds from web pages loading.  It sometimes frustrates people that the speed of web page loading is slow to some people others like me always expect it to be slow.   This is the downside of having a mobile internet, because of the locations of the cell towers and if there is any interference to or from the tower.  This is always going to be a problem with this technology, if something is going on the network it will undoubtedly slow you down.    So what can you do to speed up the web page loading and other web site functions.   Here are some great list of available ways to get a little more speed from your modem:

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  • Google Gears — This is one of those little extensions that will Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance.  Although this is something you can use on all your website but if you like to go to certain websites alot for games or online interactions, who use JavaScrip will speed up your internet experience.

  • FasterFox —  This is for Firefox only.  What it does is : Prefetch Links, Page Load Timer, and Block Popups. This starts caching some of the pages to better help with web browsing.  Although this is good by itself.  I find that it is better to use this with some of the other programs.

  • RabbIT—  is a web proxy that speeds up web surfing over slow links by doing: Compress text pages to gzip streams. This reduces size by up to 75%, Compress images to 10% jpeg. This reduces size by up to 95%, Remove advertising, Remove background images, and Cache filtered pages and images.  This is pretty good for web access and seems to work well with Broad Band modem.

[ad#tmi-left-1]These are a few that I found to better help people who have cellular broadband to get a boost of speed from there service.  Although this might not work on all networks due to the restrictions of some of the network policies this will at least help out with some.  I’ll be trying this out on my Cricket modem later this month to see if it is good for that service.