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My Dad told me the other day that he checks out YouTube regularly.

My world froze before it tilted on its axis.

What?

It turns out that my dad uses YouTube to watch programs, especially news stories, from his homeland. It’s a way to stay connected. He even knows work arounds and alternative sites for when YouTube is blocked.

After my brain finally managed to process the thought successfully, I realized that I was just reminded of the fact that the internet is a tool. We tend to think of it as entertainment or as a way to prove how cool we are, but there is a functionality and a usefulness to its features.

YouTube is not just a place for awesome skateboarding dogs. It’s also a place for ideas, creativity, communication, and news. Thanks, dad, for reminding me of something I never should have forgotten.

But still, the Battle at Kruger remains my favorite.

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When I first started researching company blogging for a former employer, Technorati was mentioned in almost every reference article. Now, their service gives me error screens regularly. Another one of my blogs will not claim in their system, and their support system is a joke. The forum is filled with users having the same trouble as I am and my help ticket came back with a canned response that basically said my blog will not claim.

Yeah, I know that. What’s my recourse?

Of course we all know that their authority figures are murky and unreliable, but I like numbers and measurable improvements. I still want to play. They just don’t seem to want me.

Since Technorati is free, this may be a case of you get what you pay for. While I can sympathize with the hardships of organizing the blogging world, in this day and age, technology that doesn’t meet user expectations quickly fall by the wayside.

Should I still pursue this issue or is Technorati no longer relevant? Any suggestions and opinions would be greatly appreciated.

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*sigh* My Netflix queue just hit 450. And that’s not counting all the discs that are not even out yet. So far, I’ve watched 29 individual dvds this year so I have been keeping the average above four discs a month. That’s not bad. At least, I’m not losing money. But at this rate, if I don’t add anything into my queue, it’s still going to take me seven and a half years to get through it.

I used to be better at taking advantage of the Watch Instantly feature. Now, it’s not even in the picture.

I love the service too much to give it up, but it is such a funny, artificial stress to put on myself.

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