It was my web 2.0 tool, it done me wrong....

This is going to be REAL quick, 'cos I'm up to my, um, ankles in alligators after a week offline and on vacation.

But I couldn't resist chiming in on Joe Thornley's meme / lament (lameme) for Technorati, the tool that done him wrong.

In my case, it's Picasa. I'm a huge fan of Google stuff, so my utter failure to get this to work, or to understand the benefits of it for me, after about three attempts at different times and on different machines, remains an unhealed wound.

In the end, I just went back to Flickr, which I understood and which seemed to understand me.

And if I weren't so dang cheap I'd keep up a FlickrPro account, which would really give me everything I needed for images and more.

Honorable mention in this category goes to Pandora, which I fell in absolute love with, and then closed off access to subscribers out of the United States.

As a house concert presenter, I am totally for performers getting compensated for their work, whether live or recorded. But it seems like the Internet radio stations are getting dinged unfairly to me, and I can't figure out why. Other than the fact that the record industry just seems to be bound and determined to do EVERYthing wrong.

Ciao,
Bob.