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This video could have been a trainwreck, a “Yeah, Rivers, I like YouTube too” moment. Instead, when Chris Crocker starts lip syncing one minute in (followed by the Numa Numa kid and Tay Zonday) the video becomes a celebration of the people involved and the “fuck yeah!” area of my brain lights up.I imagine the last scene is what ROFLCon looked like this year.

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Image via Wikipedia

Is this win/win or lose/lose?

• The RIAA shut down one popular service and a dozen others sprouted in its place.
• The site continues doing business, although in a neutered fashion – most US services won’t submit payments to the site.
• Consumer still get cheap MP3s, but it’s a pain without the wonderful AllOfMP3 downloading app.

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In honor of this great non sequitur, I offer some additional strategy suggestions:

• Pixar should kill AT&T
• Grand Theft Auto 4 should kill Internet Explorer
• Al Gore should kill the music industry
• The “hang in there” kitten should kill NASA
• Frozen Yogurt should kill the war in Iraq

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Source: Wikipedia

It seems to me that the really great bloggers (and successful self-promoters) do the opposite of this interest to post inversion pattern. The more interesting things are in their lives, the more these people take the time to share their excitement and good fortune with others.

Wise words from the big man. Otherwise, you end up with posts like this one. Sadly, I don’t see my behavior changing any time soon, as I’m addicted to work and have more highly prioritized spending time with Jen and the kids, seeing shows, learning the bass, dieting and getting into shape. Might I suggest following my Twitter feed?

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That data gets far more interesting when attached to people. Why settle for the results of Yahoo Term Extractor, when we can attach highly structured data from sources like Flixster, iLike and Shelfari?

Once we turn people into highly structured lists of what they produce and consume, the sky’s the limit (privacy issues aside). I imagine that’s where the semantic web guys are headed. Maybe the lifestream folks will get there first.

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Update: Just reread this post and I want to clarify that I am in no way calling Joe an idiot.   Good job, Eric.  Way to make the friends

• Sat on a panel and then spoke about MyBlogLog at TechStars (with laryngitis)
• Spent six days in Austin @ SXSW (with laryngitis)
• Lost a shoe (temporarily)
• Danced with Heather and Jon (look to your right)
• Heard an absolutely killer mix by Flosstradamus at the People-Powered Party
• Celebrated Jen’s birthday at the local pub
• Brought on a founding CTO
• Closed funding on my new venture, Gnip
• Recovered from laryngitis
• Twittered 75 times

It’s not an excuse, just an explanation.

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So I was surprised this week to see that they’ve added a more granular boarding order to their classic “A / B / C” process.  It seemed like boarding took longer.
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One wonders if we online entrepreneurs suffer a lack of hubris (sure we’ll fail, but whatever) or an excess (I’ll ultimately get it right). Either way, I’m excited to see the experiments that Trent and others roll out next.

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Thursday - Tuesday: SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas

If you want to hook up, my cellie is 413 [dash] 687 [dash] 8098

I’ll have my new Moo cards.

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