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Outside of reading blogs, I only listened to one podcast, Shoemoney’s Net Income, and watched one vlog (video blog), RocketBoom. I listen to Shoemoney because he’s made buckets of money online and the stuff he talks about on his show are things I want to learn. I watch RocketBoom because it found cool little tech tidbits and Amanda Congdon is smokin’.

When I found out that Amanda was leaving RocketBoom for greener pastures in Los Angeles I thought that was awesome, good for her, take it to the next level. Then, I discovered her blog which talked about the messy breakup.

If you look on RocketBoom now, her replacement isn’t that smokin’ and I realized the tech tidbits really aren’t that cool (that’s what Digg is for) and watching a vlog to get tech tidbits is really not that efficient (again, Digg). Guess I’ll be watching zero vlogs now (or maybe I’ll watch the four mentioned on her blog…Ninja, Tiki, Ze’s The Show, and The Richard Show).

This happens a lot. Something gets real big and the people who started it start that relentless power struggle and someone gets kicked out (this one was more like one guy being an asshat) and a good thing goes down the freaking tubes. Oh well… all good things…

Bode Miller is complaining that the media made him the ‘most hated Olympic athlete’. Ha, what made people hate him was the fact that he won nothing and then acted like a worthless prick throughout the entire thing. It’s one thing to not win a medal, but when you stand up there saying you don’t care? C’mon, let someone who cares get a shot at a medal… if you screw around and mess up, people will hate you. If you’re good enough to mess around and still win, then you’re the better for it.

No one forced you to be an Olympic athlete, now get out of the limelight.

Give me a break. Where have all the adults gone? A fat tax because people are drinking too much soda and getting fat? I want a doctor’s tax for that time they said margarine was better for you than butter and then changed their minds and then changed back and then changed back again.

People should be accountable for their own actions, they should answer for their decisions, and they should show some backbone when they’re challenged. That’s all part of being an adult and being responsible. If you drink soda and you get fat, the onus isn’t on the manufacturer - it’s on you.

Let’s be honest, without the warning on cigarettes that they may cause cancel, would you believe that cigarettes are entirely safe? Would you really believe that inhaling smoke (it’s freaking SMOKE!) would be entirely harmless to the human body? Consuming large amounts of sugar is bad for you, you should know this, if you’re a child then it’s perfectly alright if you haven’t learned this, but as an adult you should. In fact, as an adult you should educate your children that massive amounts of anything is likely bad for you.

This is like when that guy was suing MacDonalds for getting fat. Sorry buddy, MacDonalds didn’t forcefeed you their food, you made that choice yourself.

Until a few days ago, when Swedish authorities raided the hosting services of The Pirate Bay and shut that operation down, I had no idea what The Pirate Bay even was. I’d been using isohunt for all my torrent searching needs and had no idea TPB was so much better and so much bigger. I wonder how many people learned of TPB because of this raid who otherwise would never have found it? Unintended consequences…

TPB was down a few days but now they’re back… mirror in Holland, Russia, Ukraine, and another EU nation.

Hahahahaha… when will people learn? You can’t stop this stuff.

Listen media moghuls, turn off registration requirements for your sites. This is what happens… I see a headline on Google Desktop that interests me, I click on it to read it. If I see a “registration required” for a FREE news article, I will close the window and not register. If I am at all interested, I will not register, I will go to Bug Me Not and pull a bogus login credential so I can read the story. Maybe I will use my Google Toolbar, fill in some bogus information, and then hit AutoFill just so I can get to the story. I will never give you my information and create an account.

Newspapers are losing readers to online content. The last thing you want to do is be inhibiting pageviews just so you can “track” my interests and do nothing with it. You need those impressions so you can sell advertising, I don’t need to read the news from your site because I can get it somewhere else if I really wanted to. CNN and ESPN don’t require me to register.

Get a clue.