Blog Action Day

I StumbledUpon a neat site/event today that I, rather surprisingly, hadn’t heard of until now. It’s called Blog Action Day, and the idea is to have as many blogs as possible post about the same topic on the same day. Apparently the creators, who you can read more about here, are planning on making this an annual event taking place each October. This year’s event will take place on the 15th and the topic, the environment, is a seemingly broad topic but I think the option given to the blogger to approach the post in so many different ways will result in some interesting articles. So far over 2,800 blogs are registered and their posts will reach an audience of about 2.8 million readers. If you run a blog and have some knowledge pertaining to the environment, you might want to register your blog. If you’re still curious, they have a mildly interesting promo on YouTube, or you can just check out their site. If you don’t have a blog of your own but would still like to help, they are accepting donations which will go to an environmental charity of your choosing.

I’m fairly certain that I’m going to register my blog, but I’m going to try to think of an environmental issue that I’d like to write about first. I took an Environmental Science course last semester, but apparently I didn’t do a very good job of storing the information long-term, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to do a bit of research. Nevertheless, I’m sure I’ll throw in a quick word about Blog Action Day every few posts leading up to the event.

Any rejoicing done by any Syracuse sports fan the other day is about to be squashed by my reminder that the NCAA Football season is starting, and once again Syracuse is going to be miserable. No bowl game this year, folks. A college football journalist on PTI or something the other day was talking about how South Florida is the sleeper team in the Big East this season. WTF. You’re telling me Syracuse is going to get their ass kicked by South Florida? Again? Again again? They lost to USF last year 27-10, and were destroyed 27-0 the year before that. I don’t care what anyone says, South Florida should never beat Syracuse at any sport. Ever.

Thanks YouTube.

As if I wasn’t sick enough of all of the worthless shit showing up around Facebook, I go to YouTube this morning and see that they’ve begun comment rating, similar to the system Digg uses. I have no problem with Digg; in fact, I use it quite often. However, their comment rating system works for Digg, not YouTube. Now I’m going to end up reading the same garbage everytime I go to watch a video. I thought YouTube had a great system with the chronological comments. At least when I would go to watch a favorite video of mine, I could have the satisfaction of reading the usually stubborn opinions of fanboys, or perhaps the ridiculous, often close-minded sentiments of your typical redneck. Now comments like these are going to immediately be sifted directly to the bottom, never to be seen again by the general public. Unfortunate, really.

I took a look at the YouTube blog to see if I could find any mention of these new changes, but as of right now nothing has been mentioned. However, they do mention plans to incorporate ‘InVideo’ ads into some of their videos. I heard a bit about this the other day, but wasn’t particularily interested in it. I’m not quite sure what they plan on doing with this, but they do mention that they’re doing this to “improve the experience with [the user] in mind.” I feel like it’s too early for me to even have an opinion on the decision, but I don’t like it.

On another note, Syracuse fans rejoice.

What the hell is with your blog title? Ass hole.

DISCLAIMER: The title of this blog does not serve to make fun of any fictional/non-fictional character that has/has not at one point died in a fire.

DIAF is an acronym my friends and I have adopted. Essentially, if someone is an ass hole, you tell them to DIAF. For example:

“Hey, do you want to hang out today?”

“DIAF.”

Quite simple. Further questions on the topic will be addressed in future posts.