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I finally saw the Facebook movie (The Social Network (which I only type so that way when I try to find this post 5 years from now, a search for "The Social Network" will show up in Google)) tonight. It didn't quite live up to my, admittedly very high, expectations, but I'd still recommend it. I love Aaron Sorkin, and the West Wing, which he wrote, is still probably my favorite TV show (and by far the best drama, most drama's are terrible!). I also really like it when a writer goes to the basic trouble of doing a little research to get the technical aspects correct. In the beginning of the movie they show Mark using wget, emacs, and perl to grab photos off websites, which is exactly how you would do that. The only other movie that I can think off the top of my head that actually goes to the trouble of getting the tech right is Antitrust, which was a pretty terrible movie that was vaguely about Microsoft.
It is amazing to think that the #1 movie in America this weekend was about a website, and how ingrained it is in our national culture now. I'm still not 100% convinced it'll last (I remember when EVERYONE was on AIM all the time. Now I have 2 people online on my buddy list). Myspace was always doomed from the start with that horrible horrible design that NO ONE liked, and who live journal's anymore? Actually who even really blogs anymore? I mean random "My dog ate his poo today" blogging?? I don't even do that anymore. I never did do a live journal, but that, THAT, is blogging. The blogs that pass for today are just topic specific news sites written by one person (or heck, even teams of people in some cases) where you're allowed to state some opinion on the matter instead of being cut and dry. Blogging today is Facebook status updates and 140 character tweets (which for all practical purposes, and in actually is, the exact same thing).
Completely unrelated, I often wonder how many trees die to send me junk mail.
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