Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I must be Web 0.0.0.0.1
I am probably the slowest guy in the blogosphere.
Mary Hodder, a good friend, chatted me up last night bursting with pride that her company Dabble has just blown through ten million videos. Way to go, Dabble!
So she asks me to Digg it. Until now, I have not seen any reason to use Digg. If I dig something, I can blog it. And tag it. And email all my friends. Or look it up on Google or Technorati. Or make an entry in Wikipedia. Or a comment in a friend's blog. There's lots of ways to show love on the Internet.
But now Mary wants me to Digg, and she's a true friend, so that's enough reason to try Digg.
But Digg wants me to register. I try. "Sorry, the username "d_isenberg" is not acceptable - user names must have 4-15 characters, and only alphanumeric characters." Oh yeah? What's so flamin' special about Digg logins that it won't accept the underscore character? What if my name were $%^&*?
So then I try "isen". Noooo. "Sorry, the username "isen" is taken." Yeah? By who?
Then I try "=isen", my Identiity Commons name, which Kaliya the Identity Woman says is starting to work with a lot of apps. No W.A.Y. -- "=" is one of those characters that Digg won't accept. Why? Because it won't. Period.
I must be a moron; I can't even register for an app that any twelve year old can use. Yet another app that make me feel stupid. I'd rather scrape dog poo off my shoes. Or be stuck in a traffic jam. Or get "specialed" at Airport Security. I take it back; I can maintain my dignity when I get "specialed".
With apologies to Allen Ginsberg (I'm sure he'd understand):
I wish Dabble every success.
Thirty-six minutes later, I think I Dugg
Dabble's achievement, but I'm not sure.
And I'm not going back to find out.
Love from Web 0.0.0.0.1,
davidisenberg
Mary Hodder, a good friend, chatted me up last night bursting with pride that her company Dabble has just blown through ten million videos. Way to go, Dabble!
So she asks me to Digg it. Until now, I have not seen any reason to use Digg. If I dig something, I can blog it. And tag it. And email all my friends. Or look it up on Google or Technorati. Or make an entry in Wikipedia. Or a comment in a friend's blog. There's lots of ways to show love on the Internet.
But now Mary wants me to Digg, and she's a true friend, so that's enough reason to try Digg.
But Digg wants me to register. I try. "Sorry, the username "d_isenberg" is not acceptable - user names must have 4-15 characters, and only alphanumeric characters." Oh yeah? What's so flamin' special about Digg logins that it won't accept the underscore character? What if my name were $%^&*?
So then I try "isen". Noooo. "Sorry, the username "isen" is taken." Yeah? By who?
Then I try "=isen", my Identiity Commons name, which Kaliya the Identity Woman says is starting to work with a lot of apps. No W.A.Y. -- "=" is one of those characters that Digg won't accept. Why? Because it won't. Period.
I must be a moron; I can't even register for an app that any twelve year old can use. Yet another app that make me feel stupid. I'd rather scrape dog poo off my shoes. Or be stuck in a traffic jam. Or get "specialed" at Airport Security. I take it back; I can maintain my dignity when I get "specialed".
With apologies to Allen Ginsberg (I'm sure he'd understand):
I’m sick of your insane demands.Mary,
When can I use an app and get what I need with my good looks?
I wish Dabble every success.
Thirty-six minutes later, I think I Dugg
Dabble's achievement, but I'm not sure.
And I'm not going back to find out.
Love from Web 0.0.0.0.1,
davidisenberg
Technorati Tags: Dabble, Identity, MaryHodder, Rant, Stupidity, video
Comments:
Hey David,
I really appreciate all your time and effort getting into Digg.
But look at it this way, you got a great blog post out of all the trouble you went through to digg us.
And thanks for the congrats. It means a lot!
mary
I really appreciate all your time and effort getting into Digg.
But look at it this way, you got a great blog post out of all the trouble you went through to digg us.
And thanks for the congrats. It means a lot!
mary
You're not stupid, or ignorant, or any of those things.
You simply want to use *your* preferred identifier in a namespace, and it won't permit you to.
In this case, the reasons are unclear, but probably not especially intelligent.
But, really, you don't think you're the only "isen" on the net, do you, David?
Hell, there's another "jra" out there, whom I bang into occasionally...
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You simply want to use *your* preferred identifier in a namespace, and it won't permit you to.
In this case, the reasons are unclear, but probably not especially intelligent.
But, really, you don't think you're the only "isen" on the net, do you, David?
Hell, there's another "jra" out there, whom I bang into occasionally...
