Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » Self Generated Content (SGC) Overload

Every day u don’t post, the links, photos, videos, torrents, images, stories, tidbits, tweets, conspiracy theories, tips, recommendations, reviews, insights, minutae, obsessions, products, rants all begin to pile up, accumulate, and paginate, creating just too damn much Self Generated Content or SGC Overload; 4k feeds followed creating 7k daily new items, leading to a manually parsed 30 google reader manicured items - 15% of which are twittered, all of which are piped into friendfeed. That then feeds facebook which I dont even visit but is like John Henry from Sarah Connor Chronicles, an improved robot ‘me’ of the future. So 2summarise the week, here’s some SGC Overload.

Apologies : cuttingnpasting links from friendfeed has broken the html formatting, will need to try something else next time..

The Family Dog of 17 Years - Thats 102 dog years.. Bossy passed, we have this tree to remember him by… and all the memories!

Pirate Bay: “Do not send any donations. We will not pay those silly fines.”

“We have seen that some people that we dont know have started collecting donations for us, so we can pay those silly fines. We firmly ask you NOT to do this. Do not gather or send any money. We do not want them since we will not pay any fines! If you really want to help out, here is a list: * Seed those torrents a little bit more than you usually do! * Buy a t-shirt and show the world where your sympathy is. * If you live in Europe, vote in the election for the EU parliament in June. * Continue to build the internets! Start more bittorrent sites, blog more, start your own lobby group, create, remix, mash up and continue to grow more heads on this amazing hydra that we know as the internets! * Do not be afraid of using the network. Invite your friends to this and other file sharing systems. Calm people down if they’re upset. We need to stay united. And say it loud say it proud! We are all The Pirate Bay!” : The Pirate Bay - The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker

Six Django projects accepted in Google Summer of Code (via Hacker News)

An open letter to Ronald McDonald

Paris Hilton to get a $400,000 diamond-encrusted dashboard for her pink Bentley

Everyone wants to be the DJ..

Report: Most Moviegoers Too Dumb to Enjoy State Of Play

Been Mixing up Treadmill + Beach Running - This Melbourne Summer just doesnt want to leave

The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? - 20 hours ago - scobleizer.com

Girl Talk: Kellie (un)covers Ralph - 21 hours ago - girlwithasatchel.blogspot.com

BLOG: How the 3Rs empower Telstra staff online - Social Media Guardrails, Online networking, Company policy - nowwearetalking”"

“We are saying that, as a staff member, you can comment if your personal online conversations turn to matters relating to Telstra, but represent the fact you are a Telstra staff member so others in the online community know the context in which your comments are being made.”

alexmanchester.com: Telstra unveils social media policy and guidelines

Are Your Internet Relationships Helping Or Hurting Your Social Life? [Social Anxiety]

“So where do we go from here? How does twitter stay usable without third party tools?”

Google Profiles, namespace lock-in & social search

Got New Kicks, Puma Undefeateds

Bought From : Provider Trainers

Visvim FBT Lattice

Oak | raf simons for dr. martens - navy matte classic shoe

Vanadium Chronograph 8585 Totally Extreme 8585-BBGG Watch at Jura Watches £680.00

Karl Lagerfeld Details Why Supermodel Status Requires a Unique Face

Super - Flat Top - Flat Black

Local Footy Does Rule, and Rye are looking the goods this year, mauling Somerville

Gilles Peterson - Worldwide (BBC Radio1) (05-03-2009) « DEEPGOA’s Electronic Sessions

gilles peterson - New Mixes - MP3 and tracklist archive, radio and live sets download

OK! Magazine - First for Celebrity News - Can Rehab Save LiLo?

And the Dees beat Terry Wallace’s Tigers You Beauty !

How Many New Twitter Users Post-Oprah? A Lot. Maybe Over A Million. - “So did 1.2 million people actually sign up for Twitter as a result of Oprah?”

SkyGrid Launches Free Real Time Financial News Aggregator

Google Says YouTube Won’t Lose $500M This Year, I Say Prove It

Facebook, Twitter would heat up the IPO market

Hollywood Has A Great Online Distribution Model — If You Hate Selection

With Skins + Damages S2′ Finished, Breaking Bad S2 is Easily Best TV on the Tubes. Heisenberg is a Hero!

Steve Shaw for Kanye West Louis Vuitton Photoshoot Feat. Amber Rose

2009 Coachella Music Festival - Day Two In Photos

Mad Men: Season Two Blu-ray Revealed on Facebook - TheHDRoom

The media’s fake Twitter backlash begins | The Industry Standard

“If you’ve been waiting for the inevitable Twitter backlash, the fun starts now. Sure, CNN ran an “is there a Twitter backlash?” story last month. But for those of us who work in the media, we knew the question mark in the headline meant the answer was “No.” Today, as Oprah tweets on TV, the New York Observer made it official: “The backlash begins.” You don’t read the Observer, but every status-obsessed journalist in Manhattan does. It’s now officially cool to do a Twitter Backlash story.

Here’s how it works:

1. The Observer says there’s a backlash.

2. A Gartner analyst uses the article to say there’s a media backlash to Twitter. He’s right: It’s in the Observer, which means that it will be repeated by the most trend-conscious journalists all over Manhattan. Didn’t you know about the Twitter backlash? It was in the Observer.

3. Many of those journalists will now quote Gartner, a widely respected technology analyst firm, that there’s a Twitter backlash.

4. The backlash topic will become a hot”

“NEGRO Y AZUL los cuates de sinaloa #breakingbad http://tinyurl.com/d6ajjq “heisenberg:homies dead, he just doesnt know it!””