Living The SoCalacanis Life

Jason, please come back home to New York. I think all that sun in Santa Monica and the conference hopping has fried your habit of making quips into bacon bits. (A few nights at the Salty Dog in the Ridge should set your bloggin' noggin' straight.) What am I talking about? Let's look at a couple of your more recent posts, not including the ancient Chinese secret of blogrolling you revealed earlier.

First, you mention that both Engadget and Autoblog made Time's 50 Coolest Websites list. Maybe I have poor eyesight or my reading skills have degenerated to my niece Amelia's picture-book level, but I don't see Engadget anywhere on the list. It probably deserved to be and I understand your intense focus during these "never get complacent" competitive race days, but you have to take the horse blinders off sometimes. I suggest a simple pair of magnifying granny glasses.

Then, when announcing your latest launch, DownloadSquad (btw, is "squad" the new "blog" in domain naming?), you say:

One major vertical I thought now one has really covered well is software and web-services. We all spend hours a week downloading and trying new software and web-based services (which are just software hosted somewhere else), but there isn’t one place to get news on the latest Flickr application, Firefox extension, or reviews of new podcsating software.

Is that so? Perhaps you've heard of your rival Gawker Media's Lifehacker, the blog that "recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live." I'm pretty sure you have since you once confused it for a knock-off of your own HackaDay which it bears no resemblance to but that would require reading the site to "hack it" and figure that out. In any case, Time magazine has definitely heard of Lifehacker. It even made that Top 50 Websites list you were talking about.

Disclaimer: I admit Time's entire list is rendered completely useless, almost fictional, with the inclusion of Gridskipper, a travel blog worth it's weight in a single copy of Wallpaper* magazine. In other words, $8 or a Thai handjob. Someone at Time got lazy or owed Denton a big favor.