I saw this funny post by social networking expert Stowe Boyd yesterday:

I have been exploring a bunch of the new stuff on my Facebook account.

Question: Why does Facebook only allow me one blog to be imported? I write three, and they represent different sides of my character. This is a show stopper in the long run. I will move to Jaiku permanently, if they don't fix this flaw.

This is like Paris Hilton complaining that jail doesn't suit her lifestyle or a homebuilder complaining that a Honda sedan doesn't carry lumber as well as a pickup truck.  But then Facebook is no mere Honda and it can in fact carry lumber -- or represent the many facets of Boyd's character:  Rick Measham of Australia released a Jaiku application last week for Facebook.  And this is not even an official Jaiku product.  Twitter is already on the F8 bandwagon and many more will follow.  Even the experts can gloss over the depth and power of the Facebook F8 social platform.  Facebook is no mere static object, it is a Transformer.

While not a very useful application, Food Fight does demonstrate the intrinsic power of playful social interaction over glitzy effects.  Food Fight, developed by David Gentzel of Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), extends the psychology behind the poke.  As in MMORPGs like Warcraft or with virtual roses in Hotornot, users of the application spend a virtual currency on a menu of food items to toss at their friends.  The items show up on the FF widget on the target profile.  A whole list of tossings shows up on each person's FF application page.  The major glitch in the idea is that the recipients must have the application installed to receive food thrown at them.  But you can invite friends to install the app and judging from the discussions on the app board, the grade school audience seem to be big fans of it.  Food Fight has 200,000 or so users today.  Each user is alloted $5 to spend on food per day and the virtual credit is free.

That's the subject of a short email from Mike Lanza today.  Videos using the Click.TV player will stop working as of June 8.  To those worry that this cool piece of technology will go away, Mike reassures us:

While I regret this shutdown, I am very excited by the reason behind it.  You'll be seeing Click.TV technology very soon doing *much* bigger and better things.

I've been seeing an unusual number of spam comments awaiting moderation lately.  Normally, Akismet does a great job keeping them out of the moderation queue.  The ones that do make it to the queue, I usually let expire automatically.  This new crop, I decided to delete manually.  When I did, I got this error:

Unknown column 'pingback_views' in 'field list' on line: 532

A quick websearch -- with few results, which is why I am leaving this crumb -- hinted that my Wordpress database tables needed optimizing.

I don't run phpAdmin on my servers so that solution was out, and even with the MySQL Query Browser, figuring out the target table was proving to be a pain.  So another quick search turned up Slapyo's Database Fix WP plugin.  This solution fixed my problem perfectly.