Topic: Livejournal

A "Guess the Show" segment features the theme music and opening of Cranky Geeks, a tech-focused program hosted by John C. Dvorak starting in 2006. The archival clip highlights early discussions on the rise of YouTube, MySpace, and online privacy concerns. The hosts reflect on Dvorak's consistent "cranky" persona and his early predictions regarding social media trends.

The ownership of the domain Diaries.com is discussed as a potential high-value asset. The conversation briefly touches on the history of early social blogging platforms like LiveJournal and Tumblr, and the hosts joke about selling the domain for Bitcoin as an "exit strategy."

The conversation traces the evolution of social media from LiveJournal to MySpace and the rise of "self-adulation" through animated GIFs and diary blogs. They discuss the fragility of digital archives, noting that many photos hosted on defunct services like TwitPic or stored in proprietary formats like iPhoto may be lost forever. They compare the current internet era to the slow societal shift following the Gutenberg press.

Adam Curry celebrates John C. Dvorak's birthday, noting that Skype and Plaxo report his age as 102 or 107. Dvorak explains that users often select the earliest possible birth year on social media platforms like Facebook and MySpace to protect privacy or bypass age restrictions. This behavior leads to skewed statistical analysis where the average user age appears much older than reality.