http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:39:27 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-504435 Wiki: college professors advice students not to use wiki, because the info is unreliable. I agree, wiki is a big waste of time, anybody can post anything, why that would be of interest to intelligent public? wiki: stay a way from! 504435@blogcritics.org Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:39:27 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-504061 Oh, and if Digg's on there and Fark isn't? Flawed list. 504061@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 23:10:59 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-504035 I went without Flickr for more than a year, ceding my account to my wife. Then I got a new camera. Booted her off my account, made all her photos private, and have started uploading pics daily again. Ha! I knew of all of these except for Ask City, but I only really rely on about six of them -- and I tend to prefer reddit, too. 504035@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 22:08:39 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-503932 I think the interesting is which web products are "essential" for each of us now, Suss. One of the amazing things about the web (and technology in general, really) is that it has the capacity to create essential products/services. 503932@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:47:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-503929 Addendum: Flickr Could live without it were I not a Blogcritic 503929@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:40:22 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/02/131504.php#comment-503890 800-Free-411 Never heard of it Amie Street Never heard of it Ask City Never heard of it BlueDot Never heard of it Digg Can definitely live without it Flickr Couldn't live without it Flock Never heard of it Gmail Can certainly live without it NetNewsWire Never heard of it Netvibes Never heard of it Pandora Never heard of it Skype Vaguely heard of it Techmeme Never heard of it Wordpress Use it all the time YouTube So that's how it is ... complete a relatively obscure list with the biggest time-wasting and awesome website. Oh that's low, even for you, Mr. Random Tech Blogger Person. By the way, I like how he explicitly says that Wikipedia just barely got cut off the list. HUH? 503890@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:48:09 EST