The little guy just continues to amaze. As of last week, we’ve officially entered the world of Cheerios and other solid foods, and boy is he enjoying them! It’s been great to watch as he can amuse himself for 30 minutes at a time eating them one-by-one, and he’s also been getting into bits of chicken, bannana – whatever we put in front of him, really. Sam and I are spending lots of time bonding this month since Amy is playing umpteen Nutcrackers at the Fox Theater, so this has been great fun. New pictures coming soon.
Don’t ‘diss a blogger
Thomas Hawk documents his experience with a Brooklyn discount photo store (PriceRitePhoto.com) as he tried to purchase a new Canon EOS 5D. Like all the lore suggests, the price was just too good to be true, and the retailer threatened Mr. Hawk after learning that he was going to blog his experience after the seller refused to fulfill the deal unless he purchased all sorts of high-markup accessories. Long story short – Yahoo! Shopping delisted the company, Digg.com users nearly took the company’s server down, and they ended up being pulled from most of the major comparison shopping sites following the brouhaha. I’ve experienced this on occasion before myself, though not quite to this degree. Seller beware!
technorati tags: eos d5, canon, priceritephoto, thomas hawk, photography
Sweeet
PC Magazine has just published a review of CNN Pipeline – the closing sentence has a really nice ring to it:
CNN Pipeline isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly the most impressive video offering the Web has ever seen.
technorati tags: cnn, pipeline, broadband, paidcontent, pcmagazine
Pipeline Comments and Content
Two quick links for the morning re: the CNN Pipeline launch on Monday.
- Digg.com coverage of Pipeline’s launch. The comments are a great read.
- A liveblogging of Pipeline’s first day of programming.
Most of the discussion is dismissive of this as a pay product. Others try to balance the trolling with reasonable questions about the acceptance of users if the conent was interspersed with ads. A good discussion overall. I especially like the comments from Digg users pointing out that there is really no other source for day-in, day-out live streamed news on the web other than Pipeline. A few requests for BBC Pipeline, Digg.com Pipeline, and ESPN Pipeline. One user predicts CNNSi Pipeline for $5/month by the end of next year. Nice idea, but they’d have to resurrect my old network to do that ;-). Here’s a great comment from blueice03:
I beta-tested this and I was overwhelmingly impressed. Why? Because few other outlets, sites, news organizations or what have you, have done what CNN is attempting to do with this. All these comments about how absurd it is to pay for a service like this are, not to be a troll, the types of comments I’d expect from the slashdot crowd. I guess I don’t get it. Why is there this expectation that services offered over the internet should be cheap or free? If you want a premium service then you should expect to have to pay for that premium service and this, my friends, is a premium service. Hell, it is even cheap. It is just a little over $2 a month. And whoever complained earlier about having to download CNN’s own special player, you don’t have to. They do have a web version that is download free. It is a great looking service and the kind of offering I have always expected news outlets to have but don’t.