Lee Clemmer {dot} com

So working on allbiodiesel.net I came across a great plugin by Dan Grossman, WP Calais Archive Tagger, which is really only the step brother of the WP Calais Auto Tagger, which due to its granular application is less interesting to me.  Basically this plugin parses your blog posts, analyzes your text, and spits bag tags that it thinks are descriptive of the blogpost.

Hm, no big deal you might say, and I would agree if you’re talking about a little blog (like this one for example), where you don’t write that many posts.  However, once you start thinking about feed aggregation, this becomes a fascinating -  and extremely useful - tool.  With hundreds of posts coming in every day (I use FeedWordPress), there’s no way I’m going to tag all of them.  Being able to automatically parse and tag posts become invaluable then.

The problem: WP Calais Auto Tagger lets you auto generate tag as you’re writing the post.  However, with feed aggregation, you’re not actually writing the post, they are generated automatically.  So this is useless. Ok, WP Calais Archive Tagger is getting close to the problem: it lets me autotag my entire archive of posts.  Ok, so I tag 300 posts, and the next day 50 are added… well, it tags all 350 now.  Plus I’d have to go in and manually hit the button.  Do I want to do this every day? No.  So, what I am was looking for was something that would do this automatically for me.

I’ll be the first to admit, my PHP programming skills are horrible, totally not 733+.  However, I can look at some code and figure out what’s going on.  A few echo statements sprinkled throughout and I catch on; change a variable here or there and see what it does, ok, I get it.  So I took the WP Calais Archive Tagger code, stripped it down so that it could be run through a cron job (meaning it had to instantiate the WP environment itself), and voila, I’ve got posts coming in automatically and then soon thereafter being tagged… automatically. While I’m sleeping.  My tag cloud is building itself.  Knowledge, patterns, trends emerging while I sit back and relix.

Pretty cool.

Anyway, long story short, here’s the file I hacked up.  Enjoy!

http://www.leeclemmer.com/calais-cron-tagger.rar

Allbiodiesel.net.  Doing some pretty cool stuff with feed aggregation and text analysis / automatic tagging.  In other words, emergent knowledge.

Hey, just noticed I haven’t written anything here for almost 2 months… just thought I’d say “Hi!”

Two things:

1. “The Darjeeling Limited” was an excellent movie (even beyond seeing Natalie Portman naked)
2. If you’re in Philly this week, you should come check out Madonna Michael Prince on the Moshulu Boat this Friday!

Cheers!

• That the Olympic torch was lit
• That plans are underway to build the tallest building in the Western hemisphere a few blocks down from where I live at 18th and Arch St., Philadelphia
• That the last time primaries mattered in Pennsylvania was when Carter ran for President in 1976 (and Philly Dems opposed Carter)
• That some Pennsylvania politicians want to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage
• That food prices may go up
• That people still don’t trust Vista, not even enough to upgrade to SP1

From:

• My radio alarm
• Netvibes home page
• CNBC

All by 8:30am.  This is what it means to live in the information age.  Crazy times.

This is utterly amazing and frightening at the same time.

So I recently got into modding (or more specifically, day-dreaming about modding) and found some useful resources.  Specifically, mnpctech.com is check full of tutorials and resources.  Of course you should also check out the Overclockers Club forum.

I actually did do some stuff to my comp recently: got a new phatty 22″ Samsung flatscreen monitor, newLogitech keyboard and mouse, blue LED fan, and some cables to clean up the case interior.  Also figured out that my power supply indeed does have holes for the back bracket (so it’s no longer loose), and the reason why my sound card seemed not to work (sound was being sent to onboard sound card).  Also overclocked my Athlon XP 2500 to 2800 (166Mhz x 12.5 for a total of 2,075 Ghz… and yes, I know it’s old).  Now I need to get another Gig or 2 so I can run my memory dual channel, run the FSB at 200Mhz and try to crank to the CPU up to 2200Ghz and beyond.  Perhaps I’ll also get the ATI Radeon HD 2600 for my AGP (haha) slot, at least I’ll Direct X 10 then, and a nice 512MB graphics card.  Also looking out for a Socket A liquid cooling system (harder to find than I thought) to play around with that.  With a somewhat older system, a little money can really go a long way in cranking extra juice out of the machine.  And I’m also thinking about giving real modding a go and taking an as-of-yet-not-purchased power drill to an old case I have laying around and install some 120MM fan holes and give the whole thing a nice makeover from beige to electric blue… maybe some tear drop shaped holes in the side lit up by white neon lights might also give the whole thing a cool effect.

Modding… combining craftsmanship with creativity and über-geekiness, now that sounds like a good time no?

This time it’s one exclusively focused on black and white drawings. You can check it out here:

Pen & Pencil Drawn In Black
Although I’m thinking I’ll need to change the title since I’ll be cataloging works outside of pen and pencil drawings. Stay tuned, I think this’ll be good.

Very interesting to follow the design iterations and thoughts behind the creation of the Google logo.  Still, while I think it works from the perspective that it’s recognizable and friendly, it’s still pretty ugly.  The typeface itself - Catull - looks like a crappy throwaway font you can get for free somewhere.

If this ever took off, it would be very cool.

Pretty cool, no?

Get your own.

As I’ve previously maintained, I think the term “social media” is a misnomer because you’re not social when sitting in front of the computer - you’re antisocial.  This is more than just semantics; it points to the fact that maybe it’s not a good thing to spend so much time on the computer, and building a business around using the internet as a “social” platform, a place where people interact, is at best not smart (because people like to be face-to-face), and at worst creates millions of zombies who can only communicate via twitter.

On Friday I listened in on a webinar hosted by FASTForward Blog in which Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport duked it out over Enterprise 2.0, whether it’s even a meaningful term and how successful it is or isn’t.  Pretty interesting stuff and I encourage anyone interested in knowledge management and Enterprise/Web 2.0 stuff to give it a listen.  As a result of this and other discussions I’m really starting to see all the 2.0 stuff not as something completely new, but just old stuff done much better and easier.  Collaboration has been possible for a long time, it’s just that today it’s much more usable.  AJAX had been around since before the term was coined.  So any talk gushing about a new era of “socialness” is missing the fact that we’re just witnessing a different stage in an evolution, not something “never-before-seen.”

Which brings me to the point of the post.  Instead of “social media,” we should more aptly say “advanced asynchronous communication channels,” asynchronous being they key word here.  Writing online is like graffiti on walls: someone may read it, maybe not.  Is it social? No. Unless you want to water down the word to the point of meaninglessness.

I will never drink again.

Pretty simple. Figure out the category ID of the category you want to exclude: Manage > Categories. To see your feeds without the category in question, use either of the following two formats, depending on how you have your URLs set up:

• http://www.yourdomain.com/feed?cat=-8 (insert category ID here
• http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-8

This is what my FeedBurner setup looks like:

If you want to exclude multiple categories, just add more “&cat=”’s at the end.

Simple.

I recently found out about Tumblr, which I think of as an advanced Twitter: not only can you send short text messages, but also quickly post quotes, pictures, links, chats, and videos. All of these are displayed on your personal tumblelog. Where it gets really interesting I think is the feeds: you can aggregate up to 5 feeds in your tumblelog, and can then port all of your aggregated content to another site via embeddable JavaScript (Account > Extras > Embed your tumblelog).

You may have noticed that leeclemmer.com redirects (forwards) to lee.globalmindflow.net. Globalmindflow.net is a server account hosted by my brother Ian, and is actually hosting quite a few different sites as subdomains. Globalmindflow.net itself, however, is pretty stale and not maintained very often. What I’ve done now is embedded my tumblelog, which includes the feeds of a number of the subdomains. In other words, it’s more of an actual mindflow now with all this content being aggregated - aggregated thought.

What’s really useful is the tumblr button you can add to your browser, so whenever you want to post to the tumblelog straight up, it takes literally 10 seconds to post.

Check it out: globalmindflow.net!

It was pretty cool to see our name, “SAP AG, Germany,” listed in this year’s Top 10 Intranets by Jacob Nielsen. Even more exciting will be next year’s winners, as there have been some major improvements since the entry package was submitted back in the summer. Not only was our intranet (corporate portal) completely rebranded, but numerous other enhancements (better enterprise content management for example), have been and will be made in ‘08.

Interesting (from a KM perspective), was the following paragraph in Nielsen’s article:

In previous years, “knowledge management” was a much-discussed buzzword for intranets. This year, most of the winners emphasized the same goals as the knowledge management movement, but with a rather different approach: they recognized that knowledge resides with people. As a result, many designs focused on improving access to the people who have the needed knowledge.

I’m pretty excited about some of the things happening here, even though other things still drive me bonkers. 2008 should be a great year.

Smashing Magazine put together a great list of site designs that employ drawing elements.  Pretty comprehensive with lots of eye candy.

For some time now I’ve been thinking about where I really want to take this blog. Nielsen’s usability tips for blogs points out the importance of finding your niche:

If you publish on many different topics, you’re less likely to attract a loyal audience of high-value users. Busy people might visit a blog to read an entry about a topic that interests them. They’re unlikely to return, however, if their target topic appears only sporadically among a massive range of postings on other topics. The only people who read everything are those with too much time on their hands (a low-value demographic).

It turns out that finding a niche isn’t as easy as you’d think. Google anything you can think of, and you’ll probably get millions of hits. Many, if not most, of these niches have top dogs already. So what is a small-time blogger to do? Well, you just pick something and go for it, that’s what I think.

It occurred to me that I work at the Knowledge Management Competency Center (KMCC) here at SAP, the KM group for our Sales & Marketing organization. Most of the work I do centers around our corporate portal, one of the main channels to message information to the field. I am a Technical Analyst, figuring out technical feasibility for given projects, and how exactly to employ the technology at our disposal to disseminate knowledge. Seems to me like I’ve got a pretty good niche to talk about: how technology (like a portal) can be harnessed as tools to effective run KM!

The first thing I did after this stunning insight was to check out exactly what kind of KM community exists out there already. Frankly, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with what I’ve seen so far. It seems like folks stopped making KM websites in the late 90s by the look of it. I mean the web design is just really awful. In a book I’m currently reading - Knowledge Management by Carl Frappaolo - is a handy-dandy chapter listing online resources. The book was published in ‘06, which is still fairly recent. To my dismay most of these sites look so crappy that they’re almost immediately rendered useless to someone who’s now accustomed to sites pleasing to the eye and displaying semblance of smart information architecture (IA). Check them out for yourself:

• Association of Knowledgework
• @brint.com
• Delphi Group
• eKnowledgeCenter
• KMCI
• KMPro
• Knowledge Management Resource Center
• Knowledge Shop
• Universal Networking Intellectual Capital (UNIC)

I admit I’m new to KM, but it would seem to me that the transfer of information and knowledge (for example, via a website), should be as smooth as possible, with few barriers to data-uptake. All of these sites don’t seem to know the first thing about usability, let alone aescetic design. From a content perspective, much of the front page stuff is ages old. If we look at the top 10 Google hits on a “knowledge management” search, it doesn’t get much better. Check these out:

• Systems Thinking
• KM World
• ITtoolbox Knowledge Management

Some others aren’t much better. Then again, there are some nice sites. CIO is pretty fly, and the Google Directory on KM and the Open Directory on KM are pretty from an IA perspective. Most importantly they’re uncluttered.

I don’t know, as KM practitioners, I feel that usability should be a staple of your diet. Apparently not many others share that view.

Right now, KM just don’t seem that sexy, does it? That should be changed.

Found this picture on Flickr of a Clemmer family reunion. On the far left, market number 24 is one Lee Clemmer. Funny.

The theme I’m currently using is a slightly hacked version of the default WordPress theme (I changed the header to display my latest mobile picture). Yea it sucks, is ugly, and looks like about 2 million other vanilla WP installs. I don’t want to just use one of the hundreds of available themes out there already (how boring), but make my own again instead (previous ones having been for my former online identity, pixelphantom). Unfortunately, really coming up with something solid takes time, and plenty of it. It seems that there is a correlation between how much time you have (or experience) and how old you are. Suffice it to say that time is not an abundant resource for me, but nonetheless I’ve been thinking about theming my site here again recently. Frankly, I’m getting sick of the look of this. So it’s back to the drawing board.

Back when I was doing this kind of stuff in more earnest about a year ago now, I was still designing with the lowest common denominator in mind: a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels. I started out again with this in mind, but quickly found myself a bit frustrated by this self-imposed limitation, so I decided to take a peek at what kind of screen resolutions visitors here have had. This is what Google Analytics showed me:

Yes, you see correctly, not one 800 by 600 screen to be found! Granted, I don’t really have that many visitors (hey Mom!), and some of my other sites do have a sprinkling of this ancient left-over resolution, but you know what, screw ‘em! That’s right, if you’re reading this on a 800 by 600 screen, get a new one! They’re really not that expensive.

So, freed at last, I move on to the next lowest common denominator: 1024 x 768. No, I’m not really a liquid layout fan, I don’t like to follow lines of text across a 1600px width screen, so fixed it is for me (elastic? Meh.)

Speaking of website design, a few designs that I find myself going back to again and again to gawk at (they’re so simple, clean, and elegant): Dave Shea’s mezzoblue, Veerle, and Airbag Industries. So if my design ultimately looks anything like there’s, you can flame me for ripping!

I just came across the alertbox column by Jacob Nielsen, over two years old, but it bears repeating. Below are the top 10 blog usability guidelines, but I highly suggest reading the full article, “Weblog Usability: Top Ten Design Mistakes.”

1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photos
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
5. Classics are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

Bring the tyranny by your inbox to an end: slash your incoming email and organize the ones you’ve got and get. If you’re chained to the computer and depend on email in any kind of serious way, this is key. You may want to start by reading my earlier post on this topic or the excellent post over on zenhabits: Email Zen: Clear Out Your Inbox.

Speaking of Zen Habits, it has just posted a yearly roundup of its best of the best in this, its first year. Moreover, it has gone from 2 to 24000+ readers in just a year… I’m turning green with envy. Browsing the list of titles it really comes as no surprise, however. Merging of computers and humans is no longer science fiction (just think of all those goobers running around with phone pieces in their ear, looking like androids), and HCI, or Human-Computer Interaction, is indeed an academic field all unto its own. It would stand to reason then that the need for zen practices - or let’s call it living-in-harmony-practices - concerning daily life should emerge; daily life marked by the ubiquitousness of the computer.

So zen out man, zen out.

Thought of the day: as much as people are hootin’ and hollering about the “social” internet with its “communities” and “groups” and “collaboration,” I think one might make the argument that whenever you’re sitting in front of a screen and hacking away at the keyboard, you are most definitely not being social. What does the word really mean anyway? From Merriam-Webster’s dictionary:

Main Entry: so·cial
Pronunciation: ’sO-sh&l
Function: adjective
1 a : tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with others of one’s kind b : living and breeding in more or less organized communities <social insects>
2 : of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society <immature social behavior> —so·cial·ly /-E/ adverb

Clearly it doesn’t state here that being social is a face-to-face kind of thing, but “living and breeding” kind of implies that. Also, when it comes to “interaction of the individual and the group,” you’re not really interacting with anyone other than yourself when sitting at a computer; in other words, you’re socializing only with the computer. Yes, the computer is a tool to transmit communication from one person to another (if you read this), but at this very moment that I am pressing the keys down to type this word, I am only communicating with myself, since no one else is reading this right now other than me. So, am I being social right at this moment? No, in fact, right now I am being anti-social for being pasted to the screen.

In a sense we are degrading human communication with all the technology at our disposal. The more time we spend communicating with any of our various tools, the less time we actually spend interacting with the humans immediately in our environment. Ultimately our personal relationships have to suffer. I would say that whenever people talk of the internet as “social,” it should come with a big fat asterisk; dorking out at your laptop is not being very social, asynchronously communicating or not. For nerds and geeks (like myself), it might be comfortable to communicate behind the wall of the computer screen, but real, valuable, juicy interaction happens face-to-face.

Is the internet really fulfilling its promise to bring everyone together in one gigantic Martian mind-meld, or is it really alienating us further and further from each other, making us less social and disrupting real, live communities?

Update: This Google fellow seems to have similar views.

Update 2: Relevant article published by the American Psychological Association almost 10 years ago: “Isolation increases with Internet use.”

Update 3: Could social media be addictive?  Here’s a fellow who thinks it’s time for social rehab.

This was originally posted as a comment on a post on subtraction.com.

Hi, my name is Lee. I am a smoker.

While I can appreciate non-smoker’s aversion to cigarette smoke, and the banning of smoking from public places, what really gets my goat is the general Judge Von-Holier-Than-Thou attitude that is usually exhibited when speaking of these smokers “who deep down inside know that it’s killing them.” I live in this world. I know all of the reasons not to smoke, and as a smoker, probably even a few more. Unfortunately this does not - yet - outweigh my love and joy of smoking, bad as it is. But non-smokers love to judge smokers, because it’s such an easy target.

I’d like to propose an analogy that I would hope could curb some of this nasty judging. I propose a ban on trans fatty acids for preparing foods available for public consumption, i.e. in any restaurants or cafes. It makes people fat and kills them, and I will no longer stand by and be subjected to witness such gross behavior as eating grease dripping steaks or food court Chinese food. I also propose banning bars altogether. Car accidents by drunk drivers are just not worth the pleasure of being in a bar. There will also be a lot less fights in all likelihood. We should also ban cars, they’re much too dangerous. As a pedestrian, I’ve been hit by a car once and have come close several times thereafter.

My point here is that once you start looking at public behaviors that are dangerous and deadly to you and society at large, it’s not just smoking. In fact, you might have some habits yourself that aren’t safe for you and those around you. Instead of talking about these smokers as an alien species beyond understanding, think about all of your own bad habits; you have them, own up to it. So before judging too quickly, “grab your own nose” as we like to say in Germany.

And that’s my rant for the day.

Let me get on that narcissistic tip right quick: I’ve climbed to the top of my ego search, coming in at Numero Uno when searching for my name:

Believe it or not, there are actually plenty of other Lee Clemmer’s out there (which I’m not sure how to feel about… isn’t that a bit odd?).  Suffice it to say, I’m the top Lee Clemmer dog.  Respek’!

The episode of the Bubble video has been quite interesting.  Because, and only because, the video gained such popularity did some of the photographers whose pictures were displayed start raising an issue.  I have a hard time seeing the Richter Scales making much money off of this video, so if nothing else, the photographers in question were smart and got some free promotion for themselves.

That’s not really what I find interesting however.  It’s more about what’s happening in society at large.  The thought occurred to me some time ago in an Italian-themed restaurant.  In Italy, restaurants are Italian because that’s just where they’re located.  Over here, restaurants are “themed” and try to evoke some kind of feeling artificially.  I also see this trend in music.  I believe part of the reason that older music has had such a resurgence of interest and popularity (just think of all the band reunions of late), is that modern music just sucks for the most part.  It’s not original, just a faded copy of the original.  Collectively there’s some lack of creativity happening.

Movies are another great example.  It seems like a majority of movies are remakes nowadays.  What about creating original movies that will be the basis for remakes in the future?  Then there are the sequels.  It’s just the same stuff over and over again.  On the web we have a word for all of this: mash-up.  Like rap songs that take old music and put it on loop and drop rhymes on top.

I suppose one could say that anything and everything is just a rehashing of the past.  But today, this seems truer than ever.  A collective emptiness has given rise to the remix.  In the future, will what we do now be remixed?  I doubt it.

For some time now, a year in fact, I’ve been toying with the idea of shaving with an old-school razor. It bothers me to some extent that I am “hooked on” and locked into having to buy expensive Gilette razor cartridges over and over. I remember when I received my first Mach3 in the mail for my 18th birthday: “Free razor, cool!” I thought to myself. In retrospect it was just a great marketing move by the razor company to keep me hooked for life. In case you’re wondering, Gilette (from what I recall) actually “invented” the practice of creating a product that had refillable parts so that you become a life-long customer. SwifferJets, printers, and many other products operate on the same principle: make money on the refills. Kind of disgusting when you stop to think about it.

Well, apparently I’m not the only one who’s thought of going old-school on shaving: “The Zen of Shaving: How a Double-edge Razor Can Change Your Life” is a great post on the advantages of traditional shaving techniques and how to actually go about it. Here’s another one: “I Shave the Old Fashioned Way - Classic Shaving 101.”

Now, as with so many other things, I just have to start being about it, not talking about it. Uh.

Yesterday’s TechCrunch post, “For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million, Goes By The Name Of Digg,” is in subtle ways reinforcing what I’ve lately come to view as The End of Web 2.0.

As may last couple posts suggest (based solely on my own experience), infoglut is not just some phenomenon that will be accepted with no questions asked. Over the long term, I think that information overload will have real repercussions, and I have serious doubts that many trends we’re currently witnessing will persist indefinitely into the future. Much of the hype I think is driven by an increasingly large pool of tech geeks and early adopters and young people experimenting with new technology. In my experience anyway, this experimentation leads to a mental exhaustion from trying to keep up with the information flood, and a decrease in personal happiness arising from the shallow human communication and lack of personal interaction that the internet and its many new glorious technologies foster. Increasing asynchronous communication will never be as fullfilling and meaningful as actual face-to-face communication. Spending more time in front of the computer screen and engaging in any of the countless communities now out there necessarily come at the cost of participating in actual, real, human communities. You know, friends and family and such.

The reason the TechCrunch post is reinforcing my perceived shifts in the Web2.0 world is that Digg was once heralded as the NYTimes killer, a social phenomenon fundamentally shifting how we do things. I subscribed to the Digg feed for a bit. What I found in practice is that hours would be eaten up by following inane news that had no permanent value but rather satisfied some kind of other urge to read or see something interesting right now. In that way it’s like TV: a time killer that leaves you feeling empty and creating no lasting memories. This post, however, and the persistent rumors that the Digg crew is trying to unload the site and run with the money - unsuccessfully - give Digg a pitiful, wanna-be-Facebook-rich aura. In other words, it’s not as shiny and glitzy as was once the case - this being Digg, the exemplification of Web 2.0.

Speaking of Facebook, if you’re not sick of even hearing that word by now, I guess you never will be. A few months ago I jumped on the bandwagon to see what it was all about. I even downloaded the FB app for my BlackBerry (which is quite good). Do I now still use it actively? No. In fact, don’t those people who obsessively update their profiles and bombard you with meaningless messages, invites, and other time-wasting crap kind of give you the creeps? Even leaving recent privacy issues out of the equation, the question I ask is: Has Facebook/MySpace/etc. really enriched our lives, made it more meaningful and us happier? I really doubt the answer is yes.

Beyond my vague and abstract feelings on all these things, more and more articles catch my attention that seem to indicate that this current social-ajax-community parade will soon come to an end. That is not to say all of these overhyped trends will not continue in one way or another (after all, weren’t listservs and forums the original online community pioneers?), but the current craziness will have to get a reality check, and hopefully we can erase this terribly meaningless “Web 2.0″ concept out of our collective dictionary (I am a dreamer). Last week Silicon.com reported on a Gartner “Web 2.0 warning” to enterprises: “Social networking ‘white elephant’ warning.” But much more significantly, the voice of online reason and user-champion extraordinare, Jacob Nielsen, wrote this great chunk of content: “Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous…” The most interesting piece of the article to me was the following insight:

“The number of companies that chase the same advertising dollars as their only business model is a sure sign that we’re at the peak of Bubble 2.0. It would be much more sustainable if companies aimed to create services that users valued enough to pay for.”

This always puzzled me, the concept that you could make a living through ad revenues alone, that enough people in fact click on adds interrupting the content they are trying to digest to warrant companies spending pretty sums of cash on GoogleAds. Banner blindness is a real thing, and it doesn’t just mean actual banners. Do you digest GoogleAd content? I certainly don’t.

I will leave you with one last good article on Web 2.0, and its bubbleishissnous, by Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion: “The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid.”

Update: Good thing I’m not totally unplugged just yet; every once in a while a great and timely link comes along. It may be two years old, but Nick Carr’s post “The amorality of Web 2.0″ is definitely worth the read. Although he disagrees with Web 2.0 for reasons other than mine, he puts forth some interesting arguments. Courtesy of TechCrunch article “The Big Switch: 12 Signed Pre-Release Copies For TechCrunch Readers.”

Update 2: The Bubble 2.0 video is back online.