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Confessions of a Restaurant Whore: My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) BlogThis! CONFESSIONS OF A RESTAURANT WHORE A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground Confessions of a Restaurant Whore A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground -- Show a whore some lovin'. Email Me Where can I eat, bitch? Restaurant Whore's Dining Guide What I Said Before Zu(ni) Story (Zuni Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Good Night Moon (Luna Park and The Last Supper Club -- San Francisco, CA) Highway to Heaven (A16 -- San Francisco, CA) The Way We Were I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream (Mitchell's Ice Cream -- San Francisco, CA) Amber-ific (Amber India -- Mountain View, CA) Restaurant Behavior 101 Dim YUM (Ton Kiang -- San Francisco, CA) Just for ME (Mabel's Just For You Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Slow and Steady (Slow Club -- San Francisco, CA) Food Bloggers I Like Becks and Posh Burrito Eater Chocolate and Zucchini Epicurean Debauchery Food Blog S'cool Food Musings Gastronomie KQED Food Blog San Francisco Gourmet Spicetart Sweetnicks The Food Whore You Gonna Eat That? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License . -- Tuesday, December 07, 2004 My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) Ribollita. The food of the Gods. OK, not really. It's actually peasant food. But it is DAMN good. Ribollita is Tuscan bread soup filled with cannelini beans, cavelo nero (a kale-like green), bread and yummy yum yums (that's a technical term). Then, it's stuck in a fridge to get all congeal-y and then it's FRIED. Fried soup. It's like a little blanket for your insides. It rocks. The first place Jon and I ever had ribollita was at Delfina . Delfina opened about 3 months after we, ourselves, moved to San Francisco. We made the pilgrimage from our shithole apartment about a week after they opened. As it was only 3 and a half blocks away, it wasn't a huge commitment. Or so we thought. From the moment we stepped in, we were in love. At the time, it was about a third the size it is now (if that). They described ribollita for us, and we figured eh, what the hell, how bad can it be? Well, I sure as hell may be a restaurant whore, but at that moment, I was ready to kiss my whorin' days goodbye and settle down. I love Delfina so much that it gets me all choked up just thinking about it. This is going to be a gushy post, so if that's going to wig you out, either suck it up or stop reading. Because I loooooooove them. It's taken me a long time to get to this post because I knew it would be a biggie. So settle in and get ready...here goes: The food. Ribollita yes. Simple-as-pie-but-delicious-as-hell spaghetti with plum tomatoes. For that matter, any pasta at all. The soups. Oh, dear God, the incredible soups (chickpea, Jerusalem artichoke, pappa al pomodoro, etc.). They just blow your mind. Grilled calamari and white bean salad where the beans are as good as those we had at French Laundry. The insalata del campo with everything good in the world in it. The panna cotta, the profiteroles, the crostatas....Oh, fuck it. It's all amazing. It's everything you hope, wish and dream for in your deepest fantasies. And special occasions bring special food, like the Bucatini with lobster and rice pudding with truffles that we eat each New Year's Eve. Craig and Annie Stoll. The owners. These people are the best people you could know. I have never, ever seen people so devoted to their business, their staff, their customers. They are so loyal. They will bend over backwards for their regulars. They take such good care of us, it makes me feel guilty. Here's the thing about Craig and Annie. They hire staff as devoted to their customers as they, themselves are. The staff are so amazing at their jobs, and so kind and wonderful (gush, gush, gush). I love them. I mean that. I LOVE THEM. And they treat us like friends instead of paychecks when we come in. LOVE THEM. We have been to Delfina during our highest ups and our lowest downs. Some examples: Losing a job, getting a new one, grieving a death, entertaining guests, celebrating birthdays, buying a home, moving, losing a friend, reconnecting with each other after hectic weeks apart, the aforementioned New Year's celebrations. And then there are the big ones. Such as September 11, 2001 when our families were on the east coast and we were lost. We wandered into Delfina and they told us they didn't know what to do but stay open and we told them that we didn't know what to do but turn off the TV and start walking in their direction. And the time when we packed up that same shithole apartment, to move to our beautiful new home. It was a happy thing that we were moving, but six years of our lives had been spent in that apartment during which time we had gone from dating to married, purchased a cat (hooray for Charlie!), gained and lost friends. It was a huge chunk of our lives. So when we shut the door for the last time, we felt strangely sad. And we walked straight to Delfina. After all, we'd now be 7 blocks away instead of 3 and a half. And they took care of us, as always. It's nights like those that made us come up with the code word "home" when referring to Delfina. As in "Where would you like to go for your birthday?" "Home." It is where we go when we want and/or need to share something important in our lives. Delfina is the restaurant we'd choose if we had to eat at only one place for the rest of our lives. So it is only fitting that when we were in Italy last September, we made a pilgrimage to Da Delfina in Tuscany, where Craig had studied. We arrived in Florence with Jon's super wonderful but disorganized family (5 of us total) and wandered the streets with a shitload of luggage trying to find our hotel. Yes, Florence has cabs. But why take one when you can avoid making a decision and blindly stumble around like jackasses? Anyway, we found our hotel, threw our stuff in the door and made our way back out to the train station (We did this alone, we would be meeting Jon's family in Siena in the evening. Delfina is so personal to us that we felt we needed to go alone). We took a train to the town of Signa (one stop away, but there are only a few trains a day that go there). Once in Signa, we thought we'd take a cab to Artimino. Nice try. No cabs at the station. So we go into a ghetto hotel and ask them to call us one. We feel bad, so Jon goes to the bar and orders a shot of tequila for their troubles. Nice. So our "cab" arrives. It's a minivan with an older dude inside. As we wind through the hills, he describes everything we're seeing. In Italian. But it's so beautiful, and he's so good natured, that we don't care. And then we get there. There she is in all her glory. Da Delfina. And when I say that, I mean the restaurant and Delfina herself, sitting in the foyer. Delfina is in her 90's and she is beautiful. Carlo, the owner, looks at the young Americans like "What the hell are you here for?" But he seats us anyway. At a table overlooking the Tuscan countryside. We spent the whole meal with tears streaming down our faces. We felt like we had returned to the mothership. We order everything. I order the Tuscan bread soup (ribollita, before it becomes ribollita, if you follow...Carlo was very concerned that I knew this). And in everything we ate, we saw our own Delfina's roots. Jon's guinea hen was a clear ancestor of Craig's chicken, the chicken liver crostini was almost identical, etc. We each had an appetizer, a primi, a secondi. Plus wine. A lot of wine. By the time we got to secondi, I thought I was going to hurl. It was so amazing but it was also a shitload of food. When I let the last third of my salt cod go, Carlo asked me about four thousand times if it was OK. Damn, people, I just can't eat that much food! Nevertheless, they talked us into ordering dessert. Very Tuscan, very good, but again, on the verge of hurling. In between, we received vin santo and some Sangiovese grapes grown by the older Americans at the table behind us. Well it turns out the guy growing the grapes was a trustee at the college Jon and I went to. And he and his wife ended up inviting us to their Tuscan villa. But alas, we needed to meet Jon's family and only had 2 short days left in Italy. Damn. But how fucking cool is that? By the time we left, Carlo was hugging us and we were giving him some of the fake tattoos from the SF Delfina. And when our nice man in the minivan came to take us back to the train station, we were grateful for the meal of a lifetime (at only $110 euro, no less). When there are places in the world like Delfina and Da Delfina, why settle for anything less, ever? xoxo Joy "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." --La Rochefoucauld posted by Joy @ 7:44 AM 2 Comments: Gayle And Don said... This is the most passionate review I have ever read in my life. It almost brought me to tears. Thank god I stumbled across your blog. My girlfriend and I are heading for San Fran for a quickie getaway and I was looking for a place to take her. We are staying at the Westin by chance and I found your review of Michael Mina's very amusing. I love people who are not afraid to speak the truth. And, as some of your readers have shown, some people just can't handle the truth. Thanks again for your candid reviews, and I hope we have a chance to get to Delfina this weekend. Who knows, maybe we will see you there. Don 7/29/2005 7:11 PM art said... Loved your story about Da Delfina. Delfina SF was also the favorite restaurant of my wife and I when we lived there. So much that we pretty much organized our whole Florence trip around Da Delfina (I'm sure we had the same van driver). I am a chef in Chicago and I think back to the two years that I spent in San Francisco having the opportunity to work at Delfina. I had an interview with Craig Stoll and ended up working somewhere else. I kick myself all the time! I loved the part of your story where you said Carlo looked at you like "what the hell are you doing here?" We made the mistake of showing up a little bit early and I thought he was going to whale on my ass! So we killed time by having a drink in the little cantina where three chain smoking locals coughed and watched soap operas full blast on the t.v. Ah well, your story brought back great memories and I think your website is great too. 7/30/2005 8:24 PM Post a Comment
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MySpace Censors YouTube References digg search about digg register login home » technology » MySpace Censors YouTube References MySpace Censors YouTube References submitted by crunchyk9 20 days ago ( via http://www.youtube.com/blog ) You can't link to YouTube or even use the word 'YouTube.com' on any MySpace blog. Is MySpace trying to use censorship tactics to preserve and protect its user base, or is this something else? 56 comments blog this category: technology 355 diggs digg it comments Comment View Threshold: +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful 0 Neutral -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM tinyurl.com should fix that posted by hipnado (0) at 01:51 PM 12/22/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] this ain't about u guys hatred of myspace, this is about a website, especially the 14th most looked at website on the internet plus Fox/News Corp owned company killing off an existance of a website. Yeah its still on the net but that jus lame. All your voice to be heard, message them @ http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.contactInput posted by Coldice4678 (1) at 08:33 PM 12/22/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] myspace is censoring tinyurl as well. so that won't work. posted by nurblieh (0) at 11:32 PM 12/22/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] No, this is real news and it's important that people let myspace know it's bad form. DIGG! posted by kindrobot (0) at 02:58 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] They did the same thing to Xuqa.com. This is nothing new, nor unexpected. posted by wbrendel (2) at 03:20 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Wow, you people sure like hating stuff. Who cares what MySpace is like? It is interesting that the site is blocking mentions of another site from it. then again, what do you expect? The Google norm established that word of mouth is an extremely powerful way to market yourself online - sites that try to curb word-of-mouth advertising amongst their users of competitor sites make sense - to a degree. The question is how the MySpace community will react to this. posted by Gabbahead (0) at 03:27 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] It's still quite poor form. I thought internet success was earned by providing cool services and respecting users, not by trying to shut them into walled gardens. People won't stand for it. Except maybe MySpace users will. posted by flashman (0) at 03:28 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] I was wondering why i was getting "....com" links when sending my friends messages with youtube.com urls in them... posted by notorious. (0) at 03:36 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] There is absolutley no reason to bad mad at this other thanthe patheticanti-everything crowd that exists far too much on digg. It is IDIOTICto expect any businessto allow ADVERTISING for a competitor on THEIR BANDWIDTH! MySpace is providing the bandwidth at no cost to the little 12 year old girl diary writers. Why SHOULD they allow other competing sites to be named? posted by jkfan87 (1) at 03:45 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] On the one hand... who really gives a rat's rosey rump what MySpace does. On the other hand, I get an uneasy feeling when I hear things like this. This isn't exactly limiting advertising for a competitor, this is stifling free speech. I sincerely doubt that many MySpace elites (not my good taste in not saying 133t) will be constantly singing the praises of YouTube. And, where does it end? Yahoo360 is potentially dangerous. Do we construct an enemies list? Sure, they own the site, so they can do what they want. Wait... you mean they can't show child pornography? Oh, so there are limits? Like the punchline to the old joke goes, "We already know what kind of girl you are, now we're just haggling over price." What is cool about this sort of thing is how it always seems to backfire. I'd start posting photos of myself holding a sign stating, "For a good time, go to www.youtube.com" posted by AkiraXXX (0) at 03:59 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] you cant put videos on my space. why cant they just cooperate. you-tube is used for videos my space is used for pics and words. I like my-space. I met some nice people whit it.. I know there are some totally idiots on my space doing useless stuff. but not everything is like that. I loved the combination you tube my space. it was great I could put my own videos on the net and promote them whit my space. posted by doant (0) at 04:00 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] I have a YouTube video embedded in my myspace profile that works fine but this explains why it doesn't work on my MySpace blog. Not that I care. MySpace blogs suck, I have a real blog thankyouverymuch. But I did notice that MySpace has a "podcasting enclosure" option on their blogs now too... WTF is up with that?? Seriously, I wish I could care less about MySpace, but jeez it works in terms of getting peoples attention. It's discusting, it kinda blows, but I gotta admit it works for some reason. posted by rabiddogma (1) at 04:12 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] jkfan87 said "It is IDIOTICto expect any businessto allow ADVERTISING for a competitor on THEIR BANDWIDTH! MySpace is providing the bandwidth at no cost to the little12 year old girl diary writers. Why SHOULD they allow other competing sites to be named?" This is what Tom Anderson told us Myspace users after FoxNews purchased a portion of MySpace point 3 and 4 should cover youtube content "Many of you have asked about NewsCorp buying MySpace.... Everyone seems scared that MySpace is going to change. I'm not leaving, and I'm still making the decisions about the site, and I'm not going to let things suck. "The rumors people are reposting in bulletins are not true: 1) We are not going to become a pay site. 2) We are not increasing advertising. 3) We are not allowing anyone to monitor the site. 4) We are not deleting any content or censoring people in any new way. (we've always deleted nude pics and hate speech) 5) We are not exploiting anyone's data or violating anyone's privacy. "MySpace has been my life for almost two years now. I know it's as important to others as it is to me. I won't let it get jacked up." YouTube is not a blog site it is a way to spread media around the net. I think that it is free advertising for the network shows or for the independent videographer. Fox should embrace it and try to find a way to make it work for them. The clips are not being served from MySpace so I don't see where the bandwidth issue comes up...If people are posting clips on MySpace and people are watching them that means that people are spending more time on Myspace which is good for them. Why tick people off? posted by Richvideo (0) at 04:19 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] "MySpace has been my life for almost two years now. I know it's as important to others as it is to me. I won't let it get jacked up." That's very sad. Make real friends and do real stuff. 1) This is a dupe of a dupe of a dupe. 2) This is LAME. If you don't like it, stop using them. It's a corporate site. If you're too wrapped up in lame bullshit to leave the site over something like this, them shut the fuck up. 3) If you're actually going to leave the site (and you should) over something like this and enough people do it, their policy will change. If it doesn't and you leave, then good - why would you want to be tehre under those circumstances? 4) Using MysPace or LiveJournal or any of that crap is like doing drugs. Just because you make a dumbass decision doesn't mean I want to hear about all your bad experiences that result from it. If you don't like what it's getting you - PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE. posted by Seumas (0) at 04:27 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] "Seriously, I wish I could care less about MySpace, but jeez it works in terms of getting peoples attention." Huh? What do you mean "in terms of getting people's attention"? posted by Seumas (0) at 04:30 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] PLEASE!.... all these guys bagging on myspace...you know they've been on there or still are...but are trying get some nerd street crd.. FUCK THAT! PROUD MYSPACE USER TILL THE DAY I DIE! I met my wife on there....and if you guys think that having a international model for a wife is lame...well then I don't know what to tell you... http://www.myspace.com/feelslikewinter suck on it bitches...... posted by Braydon (1) at 04:55 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] The bottom line of this issue is about censorship. It's those who think it's ok for companies to censor whatever they want, vs those that think that it's a low blow to free speech for companies to act like MySpace. MySpace is essentially using censorship to create a mini monopoly - it's anti-progress. When it comes to the internet many people feel that it should be uncensored as much as possible, so you can see how some people would be concerned at reading this. Maybe Google should start censoring all links that point to Yahoo. posted by merm (0) at 05:14 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Hmmmmm do you think Brad Greenspan and vidilife.com have something to do with this? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_52/b3965027.htm?campaign_id=hp_views&campaign_creative=Ronald%20Grover posted by definitiveturbo (0) at 05:29 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] "MySpace has been my life for almost two years now. I know it's as important to others as it is to me. I won't let it get jacked up." That's very sad. Make real friends and do real stuff. ( not sure if that was directed towards me or MySpace Tom?) A little flaming to bring in the holidays..C'mon hater show some good will towards a crack head. Tom Anderson did a real thing, he made a S@#tload of money from putting together a simple site and I am sure he gets a lot of tail now from the site :) I use MySpace for networking and it has worked well for me and other people I know...I don't blog, I am not so self-centered that I think that anyone gives a crap about my day to day experiences. I set up a profile and personalized my page by dropping some HTML into my page so yea I am too lazy to move on to another Myspace type of site. I don't feel like writing up another profile. I just felt like calling out MySpace Tom on the things he promised the site would be. I will shut the fuck up now Merry Christmas posted by Richvideo (0) at 05:29 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Does 72.3.222.114 work (or some other craftily encoded variant)? posted by janesdaddy (0) at 05:32 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Since MySpace is something of a blog site and not a WriteUnpaidAdsThatLookLikeBlogEntriesForOurCompany site it is surprising to see links to other sites modified simply because they're perceived as competitors, or at least not clients. It's also unusual in that this is an overzealous look at the content and nature of utilizing other sites from a blog. This isn't abuse prevention, it's an affiliation game played outside of the purview of the user. It would be somewhat vaguely similar to digg.com replacing submitted links with similar links to affiliated sites, or simply breaking them entirely because the target isn't a friend of digg. It has remarkably little to do with whether you like MySpace, or whether you personally care about MySpace (I sure don't), nor whether MySpace should be forced to change its policy, or any other sort of nonsense. No one expects Blogger or LiveJournal or any other personal website service to disappear their links, and that MySpace does is noteworthy. If you don't "care" enough to post some sort of semi-coherent response to the effect of "go outside," might I suggest that you just take your own advice rather than sharing it so avidly? posted by lolbbq (0) at 05:42 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Turn over his IP and let digg users attack this spam userr PLEASE posted by IBSwithmyPPTP (0) at 06:14 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] hey, does blog spot have a link spamming policy? guess we will find out. posted by spamdies (0) at 06:28 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] i have gotten plenty of poontang from myspace, after all MYSPACE IS YOURSPACE! posted by blackpanther989 (0) at 06:30 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] damn, i wish i knew how to do that. ^ @ all myspace bashes there are millions of millions of mySpacers out there and there's a good chance that most of you teenage guys in high-school have a myspace, agreed I have one to but i don't hate it. You have one to be cool with your friends at school, and you 'hate' it to be cool with the digg crowd. Just chill out. posted by AUGTRON (0) at 06:35 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] myspace is for teenage girls are middle aged stalkers posted by h0dg3s (0) at 06:39 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] No, report his IP to the service provider. If its a work ip, report it to his boss. posted by spamdies (0) at 06:41 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] If someone gets a ton of "spam" ratings, they should automatically have every comment they submit start out at the spam level ... problem solved posted by quasipalm (0) at 06:48 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] ^^i agree this is first time ive seen major spam on digg Lets nip it before it gets out of control posted by madmax22e (0) at 06:53 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] A GNAA Crapflood, brilliant! Also, MySpace is owned by Rupert "Fair and Balanced" Murdock, not that it matters, their servers run Windows and the site itself uses ColdFusion. That and nearly every profile page fails to meet XHTML 1 Transitional standards in a really bad way. posted by GhostFreeman (0) at 07:07 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] it's probably to stop xss posted by thewebguy (0) at 07:11 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Myspace is down for maintenance.. Do you think there're fixing this? The dumb thing is that this brings more attention to this site I've never heard of. posted by dognose (0) at 07:14 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] I think MySpace and YourTube are in competiton for the worst written sites on the net... posted by twollamalove (0) at 07:37 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] null posted by tkmoney (0) at 07:39 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] "The bottom line of this issue is about censorship. It's those who think it's ok for companies to censor whatever they want, vs those that think that it's a low blow to free speech for companies to act like MySpace. MySpace is essentially using censorship to create a mini monopoly - it's anti-progress." You know, myspace is a private company, not the government. If they feel like censoring something on their site then it's not a violation of free speech. Users have to check a little terms and services box right? posted by kinjutsu (0) at 07:42 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Here is a possible Sol'n or workaround: If you have other web space (such as free Comcast web space or something like that), just place a redirect there to what ever banned (or censored) URLs MySpace has. So all link references would hit a page on your other web server that redirects to say your directory on 'YouTube.com'. Don't fight them... just out smart them. Besides... you shouldn't be supporting Fox on anything... The Corp is run by bigot Losers. posted by topgigmedia (0) at 08:16 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] I just looked on my friend's myspace page, and she has a YouTube video playing just fine. posted by sandwichpants (0) at 08:16 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] This is because MySpace is coming out with their own video thing. posted by glin007 (0) at 08:22 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] MySpace better let users do what they want. Remember when Friendster went out of their way to keep users from doing things like adding as many friends as you want, deleting faksters, and not having customizable page layouts? Once everyone discovered MySpace, they all left in droves, and MySpace crushed Friendster in number of users within a couple months. This could happen again. Lets hope it does, because News Corp is inherently evil. It is time for a new king of social networking. posted by NickD (0) at 08:22 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] maybe myspace is planing on starting a video section like youtube. posted by mentor972 (0) at 08:22 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] YouTube posts from earlier this month will play fine. The filter is taking out any new refrences to YouTube or tinyurl at this time. If they took out the old ones many people would have big blank spots in their comments. They don't want to let everyone know what they are doing. posted by Richvideo (0) at 08:27 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] If MySpace does add a video post feature to the site and they do it better than YouTube, more power to them. I don't see why they need to worry about Youtube since they have more backing ($$$$) to design a better way to present the media. posted by Richvideo (0) at 08:32 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Sadly, myspace is being overrun with fake porn spam accounts. They seriously need to put the axe on profiles with the obligatory porn site links to them. Why don't they do that? posted by bigteebo (0) at 09:24 AM 12/23/05 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] I'm pissed. The whole thing that was cool about myspace was being able to customize stuff. If I wanted to put vids that I liked on my myspace page I shouldn't have to ask fox/news if its ok with them. I don't like fox news and I don't subscribe to the way they do things. Myspace sucks now and if anyone knows of a better place.....let me know..... posted by myspacesucksnow (0) at 01:45 PM 1/04/06 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] the same thing is starting to happen with revver.com. i've never used youtube personally. but i did put videos/thumbnails from revver on my page and friends' pages. but now it's not letting me do so and when i make written references to revver, it actually replaces the text in blogs, messages, etc. with ellipses. i tried it this morning and it's definitely not working anymore. posted by goodluckcharm (0) at 01:56 PM 1/04/06 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Myspace is censoring videos not affiliated with FOX Anytime I post videos in comments or even just on my page the links come up as broken. Even if I just write revver.com -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] this is important. myspace is supposed to be a personal forum! now it’s owned by some corporation and it’s being censored! the beauty of it has been ruined. and don’t they know they are turning people off of myspace. by preventing people from presenting videos from the sites of thier choice, such as revver.com and youtube, they are forcing people to find a place that allows them the freedom to choose for themselves. better wise up myspace or you’re going to loose a good portion of your subscribers. And at this point, revver.com and youtube are not in competition with myspace. they offer nothing similar posted by kiks (0) at 06:05 PM 1/05/06 score: -- +3 Excellent +2 Insightful +1 Useful Rate Comment -1 Off Topic -2 Flame -3 SPAM [block/report] Login to comment. Don't have an account? 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