I can’t stop joining things. In the past two days alone, I’ve joined three more “Web 2.0″ sites/services. Oh, and I became a paying member of another one. Why is this a compulsion? Here, in list form, are some of the sites I’ve joined recently, and WHY.

1. Dodgeball - Seems like a great idea in theory. Check in via text message (my preferred mode of communication, after IM) and it tells the people on your friends list where you AT. Next obstacle? Getting your friends to sign up.
2. coComment - I think this involves tracking comments you make on other people’s blogs. Why you would want to reference that later, I’m not sure.
3. Box.net - I’ve known about this for a while, but I had .mac up until recently. This seems like a decent replacement, except for the fact that it tends to freeze on me. I’m not entirely sure how it does this considering the fancy Ajax-ness, but it does.
4. Last.fm (paid subscription) - Breakthrough, people. I never pay for anything. However, the lure of the “neighbor radio” was strong with this one, and I shelled out my $9 for three months. Apparently now I’m also considered some kind of VIP as far as bandwidth on Last.fm goes (that means in times of heavy traffic, paid users get priority treatment for streams).

So, that was my exciting week on the Internets. Nothing new, except for the weird coComment thing (which I can almost assure you I will never, ever use).

In real life news, I was talent for my very first CNET video today! I didn’t have to shoot or edit… just talk. I liked it, although it was a little bizarre to be sitting on the wrong side of the lens. It was an Insider Secret for “How to make your PC look like a Mac.” OK, stop laughing at me now. The video hasn’t been finished yet, so it’ll probably be up by the end of next week. ACK! I’m so nervous.

Exhausted, sleep time.

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As most of you may know, I’ve been in NYC for the past few days (and no, I have not disapeared into the dark hole that is World of Warcraft obsession, never to be seen nor heard from again… yet, anyway). My friend Naomi and I took the redeye from SF to NYC on Friday night, and unfortunately I was completely unable to sleep due to the inevitable presence of snakes. Actually, I just didn’t have anything to lean my head against because I had the aisle seat.

Today, fully recovered from sleep deprivation and bad airport food, I visited CNET NYC. They have better coffee.

Hopefully tomorrow I will have some more pictures to post. Goodnight for now!

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So, I still get emails from job posting sites from when I first moved here, and this is one I got today:

How awesome does that sound?! Working in the game division for Lucas Arts? In their brand-new homebase in the Presidio? Too bad I really do love my job (and um… too bad I don’t know how to make video games). Is this for Galaxies, or something new?

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Today, Brian Cooley was interviewed on CNBC about America Airlines and the subpoenas that they’ve given to Google and YouTube. According to news.com:

Someone uploaded part of a video used to train flight attendants on YouTube and Google Video. The airline subpoenaed those companies on Feb. 21 under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), according to airline spokesman Tim Wagner. Under the provisions of the DMCA, companies have the right to request information in the event that their copyright materials are infringed upon.

The video in question, titled “Flight Attendant, Upside Down,” is under copyright, Wagner said.

Ok, that’s all well and good. Pretty interesting, right? Well during the taping, CNBC used some rather eye-catching b-roll for the part about YouTube.

This was it. Good choice, guys. Please keep in mind that this is going on while Brian is trying to discuss copyright and the DMCA and all that important stuff. So ridiculous.

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