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Pure Incubation - Where ideas come to life - http://www.pureincubation.com/
Melissa Chang, Greg GuitarBuster, Morton Fox and Sean McBride liked this
"At Pure Incubation, we bring ideas, creativity, technology and expertise together to build outstanding Internet businesses. By combining the latest knowledge and tools with emerging business models, we're able to be innovative and dynamic, launching start-ups quickly and effectively. Pure Incubation: Where ideas come to life."
- Hayk H.
from Bookmarklet
LMAO, somebody apparently decided to add the word "biatch" in an error msg - safe to assume it was a late nite coding session.User noticed.
Morton Fox, Amber, Random Time Lord, PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK and 16 other people liked this
:D
- Nia
You are about to overwrite this file, biatch! Continue? Cancel?
- Josh Haley
awesome
- Louis Simoneau
Usually that's when I'm trying to type in a chat window and the cursor is active in the coding window and I don't notice >.<
- Lindsey is Fierce!
This guy apparently was being frustrated by the cache and added biatch just to test the cache wasn't being accessed. "xxxxx are those for which an exact location could not be determined, biatch". lol
- Kamath (नमः)
This TC50 site really really sucks. :-) http://www.akoha.com
Daniel J. Pritchett, Ian D. Nock, David Ward and 8 other people liked this
Whats so bad about it? I honestly see nothing.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Really funny! I liked that!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
you missed the smile and the fact they took advantage of my sites sucks rant over the weekend.
- Robert Scoble
@Matt: Check the Scoble link on the right.
- Tanath
You should really trademark that Robert :)
- Johnny Worthington
love it!
- Duncan Riley
Wow! I totally missed that the first time I looked. Right over my head...lol!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
The photo on the right sucks. There are more goofier photos of Scoble floating around on the net.. :)
- Daynah
Whether their website sucks or not, they should get brownie points for being hilarious :)
- imabonehead
Robert, there's a "Report Abuse" link at the top of the page :-D
- Karim
Twitterholic: Who are these people? - http://www.twitterholic.com/top100...
Mladen Srdić and Melissa Chang liked this
We need to be able to plus or "like" specific comments. I feel lame for saying +1 all the time >.<
Dobromir Hadzhiev, DS, Kevykev and 21 other people liked this
+1 Lindsey. ;)
- Nathaniel Payne
+1 ;)
- AJ Batac
+1 For Nathaniel, Matt and AJ
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
+1 For Nathaniel, Matt, AJ, and Shey!
- Mona Nomura
Plus One Exclamation Point
- Trish R
I think I am starting to understand why you see innuendo everywhere, Lindsey. This thread is dripping with sexual tension.
- RAPatton
All that excitement RAP . . . someone is bound to explode
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Don't feel lame, join the game! +1
- Josh Haley
I will now WOOT RAPatton's comment, rather than +1 it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+1 Josh for rhyming
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Me too : )
- Selim Yoruk
I completely agree. I was hoping to see this implemented in beta ff
- Keith - @tsudo
+1
- Alex Scoble
that would be nice
- orionstarr
+1 (Jeff, Jon, Marc, Chris, Skip'sBro)
- Michael Tefft
- Everyone, we need a - too:)
- Gordon Swaby
"Digg" or Like that post? :)
- Igor Poltavskiy
+ 2*(0.5)
- Jemm
"How do I get my employees to think like VCs but act like entrepreneurs?" http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Melissa Chang liked this
Extreme ironing, an adventure sport for people who like laundry - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
Aaron Myers, Frankie Warren, Baard @ Pixum and 22 other people liked this
From Boing Boing: "Extreme ironing might be the coolest sport that didn't make it into the Olympics this year. Started over a decade ago by UK knitwear factory worker Phil Shaw, it requires four simple criteria: a man, an iron, an ironing board, and a crazy natural environment that makes people think, holy crap I can't believe he's ironing on that thing! Shaw calls extreme ironing "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.""
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
For anyone who loves Cheryl Mendelson's Laundry or Home Comforts books
- Phil Wolff
Damn that's stupid...I love it!
- Hutch Carpenter
I will never look at a wrinkled shirt the same way again.
- James Ferguson
phil wolff: i do love cheryl mendelson's book...but I don't think i want to do any too-extreme laundry. :p
- edythe
...
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Moose Droppings » What Time Is Dinner? - http://skinnymoose.com/moosedr...
ellaconic, Dani Radu, Jason and 47 other people liked this
So, uh, what're we havin'?
- Akiva Moskovitz
where's the beef?
- Morgan
"What do you mean get my arms off the table?"
- Vicky
+1 Vicky
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sweet...
- Aline
what do you mean "I'm making the other customers nervous?"
- Mark O'Neill
Well I'm creeped out
- Bwana ☠
"Damned ants ran away with my picnic AGAIN!"
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hilarious! Thx
- Mrsth
Hey! My money's just as good as the next guy's! Now for the starter, I'd like....
- Mark O'Neill
Glare from Mama Bear when asked the dreaded phrase every night, "What's for dinner?"
- Sally Church
UH OH OUT OF CHARMIN
- Akiva Moskovitz
GREAT shot. Had a few of these guys in our yard in our former home. They're awesome.
- Charlie Anzman
Did you bring the Ketchup?
- Jason
had a beer float tonight. Not a "root beer" float, just vanilla ice-cream and genuine Locke Bro's beer. Good times.
Melissa Chang liked this
It's only 10 a.m. on a Monday and I already have been called an idiot, boring, and been told I'm hated. On Twitter. And THIS is a good week!
Mathew A. Koeneker, Randy Ksar, Richard ¿digame? Walker and 36 other people liked this
Far from it my friend, and just goes to show you how many idiots there actually are out there.
- Thomas Hawk
Aw Robert -- we love you here.
- Brian Sullivan
Wow! That might be a record for you. Great to see you at Gnomedex. I need to bug you shortly and I promise I won't call you an idiot, boring, or hated. : )
- Chris Brogan
and that's just the posts from @ITblogger :)
- Jeff Quinton
Robert - you should check out the names I have been called by Alex Scoble, Rob Sterling and Jeff Quinton during the last 48 hours. :) In fact, Alex has suggested that anyone who disagrees with him on 9/11 should be deprived of their right to vote. :) I imagine concentration camps will be next on the agenda.
- Sean McBride
Yea, i don't get it. I finally got to meet you at NME and wasn't expecting you to be such a nice guy. gee, what a disappointment. LOL. ;o)
- Christine Lu
everywhere but plurk...
- Pico Seno
My experience meeting Robert the first time was not great, but I understand he was very busy at the time.
- Omar Gallaga
Touche, Thomas
- Niall Connellan
Robert, you know that's not true, so whatever. You're dearly loved here and we enjoy everything you bring to this community.
- Daynah
Don't feel bad about the name calling. At least they remind you that you're alive.
- Todd Jordan
I suggest you have nothing to worry about until people stop calling you.
- Brian Rendel
Oderint dum metuant
- Jeff Quinton
Sean: now you know why I am immune to being called names. It's a family sport! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I am sure Alex is a wonderful guy -- I've enjoyed some of his posts -- but, indeed, you should have developed a pretty hard shell by now. :)
- Sean McBride
The logical solution is to sleep in later.
- DGentry
People with no lives waking up cranky on Monday. Geez.
- Chris Baskind
"oderint dum metuant: Let them hate so long as they fear. (A favorite saying of Caligula.)" Change "fear" to "envy," and I suspect that explains most of the flack Robert Scoble has encountered. Scoble is the Usain Bolt of the lifestreaming world -- no one else can keep up.
- Sean McBride
sticks and stones .............................
- Adrienne Van Houten
Seems like this happens often. Leave it to Scoble to get this type of reaction frequently and think that it's not his fault.
- Dave Huston
from twhirl
LOL! Sorry I missed you on saturday at gnomedex. Many still like you but they are still working on the first few cups of coffee.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Atleast they are talking about you. :)
- Kreg Steppe
canada loves ya ... even though you never visit ,, heheheheh
- johnpiercy
I've had the same experience. People are much less polite on Twitter for some reason.
- Jesse Stay
Wow I get told that on a daily basis but in person...hmm. :D
- Sheraz Mahmood
from twhirl
When you're having a day like that, it's time to write your wife a "you're rad" email. Even snarky SOBs like me do it.
- Adam Metz
"Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mundays" ;-)
- Bill Sanders
Cool of you to share that. Must be crazy.
- Josh Haley
@matthew lol at blocking your mum. @scobleizer I don't know how u put up with it
- Chris Saad
from twhirl
You certainly have an interesting life Robert. I'd hate to see one of your bad days!
- Mark O'Neill
Thanks for staying so friendly, and not developing a thick skin. I see a lot of famous people (and gorgeous women) develop "hard" exteriors to deal.
- Mitchell Tsai
How do you deal with that?
- Lech
New media but the same old trolls.
- Niclas Strandh
from feedalizr
who in the world are you talking to or at?? Get some new friends!! In Him JMb <><
- James I Feel God Brown
Where does all this bitterness come from? Loneliness, Stressful life, sitting along in front of a screen and trying to be 'social'? I think its a neat study....
- Mrinal Desai
Mrinal: I think ALL of us could envision a world which is (a) more fair (b) better by measure X,Y,Z. What we do with the dichotomy between ideal and practice is a good measure of a person. Look at Nelson Mandela. I've known people who talked about Satanic abuse as a child. Met former slaves. Some people are treated a LOT rougher than most of us.
- Mitchell Tsai
Hateful people are, well, full of hate. It helps to remember that 99% of the time, that hate has nothing to do with you or me or anybody else they direct their venom against.
- Dawn
On Twitter? Gee, imagine what it would be like on YouTube! ;-)
- Sally Church
is it rude to "like" this post? lol
- Jason Goldberg
Well, that's just plain ridiculous! Don't they remember what mom used to say, "If you haven't got anything nice to say..." Bah, ignore them.
- Cheryl Allin
Hey - me too - and that's just from my students ;)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Popularity is it's own punishment.
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
5 Startup Tips for Maximizing Ad Revenue - http://startonomics.com/blog...
Mihalcea Razvan, Brad Nickel, Mo Kargas and Melissa Chang liked this
""This blog post will go over some of the key milestones that any ad-supported startup will have to face. In particular, we’ll discuss 5 stages: * Stage 1: Just getting started * Stage 2: Layering in new sections * Stage 3: Thinking about growth * Stage 4: Adding in multiple ad networks * Stage 5: Building up brand sales (rep, vertical, direct, or otherwise)"
- Mona Nomura
Recommended with: 'Twitter: A micro-financing vehicle?' I bookmarked earlier on diigo, here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
My theory on Twitter’s latest bomb » 16th letter » Blog Archive - http://www.16thletter.com/2008...
Melissa Chang liked this
Process of learning to walk: pull yourself up. Fall. Cry. Repeat until successful. :-)
© b e e n s w a n k, TechFuga, eratus and 31 other people liked this
A good basic lesson for entrepreneurs ;)
- Steven Cains
Some kids laugh and laugh when they fall... Mine did - it was HILARIOUS! :D
- Internet's Tad
My son had corrective boots with bolts on the bottom and a bar bolted across them and he succeeded in walking at 10 months (we had to take the boots off out of pity). Once they start most are absolutely determined. I am sure it won't be long.
- Brian Sullivan
Nah, my son takes the impatient route. Stand up, take 2 steps, realize that this isn't moving faster than mommy anymore and drop back to hands+knees.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
At 32 years, a friend of mine is STILL trying to perfect this. It's amazing/amusing.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Walking, founding a start-up company, learning how to do <insert task here> -- this rule applies throughout life.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Begin to lock everything openable in your house and under 1 mt of height.
- Federico Bolsoman
I would make the kid wait until it's at least 18-years-old before it should try ecstasy, Nicholas.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I had one who just took off. Darned if I can remember which one. Had to be one of the girls since the boys both had PT. ;)
- Cyndy
you missed the "put video on youtube for cheap pops" piece
- Allen Stern
sounds like a company or two I've co-founded
- Dave Hodson
Process of learning to walk is applicable to running a business, making art, being in a relationship, doing anything well.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
That sounds like my morning ritual walk to the coffee maker.
- Steven Perez
And TotSpot is meant to keep track of this all... - for tots, not companies, that is...
- Michael Broukhim
the story of my life - just too stupid to know when to quit!
- Bill Sanders
"I got to pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again" - Peter Tosh
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
sounds like a life lesson for business
- Rodney Rumford
inch by inch :-)
- Jeff Sandquist
It's probably a good thing that nobody yells "FAIL" while you're learning to walk.
- Ray Grieselhuber
I think there are two types of toddlers, when learning to walk. 1) Carefully pull yourself up on furniture, keep one hand on something solid, reach for the next handhold. If you feel unsteady, sit down immediately. 2) Lean in the direction you want to go, try to keep your feet under you, and hope for the best.
- DGentry
just exceeded my extrovert quota for the week and it's only thursday. i went back to my office to recharge while hiding under my desk
Alix Whitmire, Melissa Chang, Yolanda and 2 other people liked this
Ten Ways Having Twins Has Changed My Tech and Online Life - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Stef Lewandowsdki, Shayna, Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane and 47 other people liked this
Sounds like you've got your head screwed on right & they come first - hope i'm in the same boat when I become a father.
- Zee.
Being a Dad rules. As a father of 4, I have learned that even a geek like me can be a hero to somebody. I am usually the one cooking the yummy meals and the kids cheer enthusiastically. Being on the computer all the time used to bug my wife as newlyweds, but now we both have our own desks and PCs and run the family and have fun online together. Great article.
- Josh Haley
Mine recently turned 6 mos and I've regained a lot of the routine and some of the leisure time that I used to take for granted before her, but that lack of morning time that you mentioned remains. I remember spending at least a good hour online before even heading to work and now I'm lucky if I get online at all before I head out. Totally worth it though. She's much cuter than my laptop.
- Kate
Nice article. Now after they can reach keyboards, this is the next thing you'll need: http://www.hanselman.com/babysma...
- xero
@xero, thank you -- I need that badly!
- Kate
@Josh luv your comment...
- R. Ferguson
If you have dual monitors, you can put twin 1 on the first and twin 2 on the other
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that list was fun to read.. it's like a sneak peak into my future once we settle down and start our family... I especially like the point about the cell phone. I imagine that's a mistake you'd only make once!
- Jasmin Smith
Having kids (or kid .. in my case) ... changes your life forever. For some it's difficult. For others, it comes naturally. It goes fast (really fast!) so enjoy it. Don't miss anything! Sounds like a good healthy group here which is refreshing, Louis amazed me when he wrote one of his best blog posts ever awaiting delivery in the hospital.
- Charlie Anzman
Thanks @Ruth
- Josh Haley
One of the advantages of email - and to a limited extent, FriendFeed and Twitter - is that they allow for asynchronous communication, so you can contact people on your schedule. Helpful if you have (fun) interruptions in your daily life.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Ditto! I love watching my son learn, too. He is about to walk, which will be a lot of fun.
- Robert Scoble
My twins are now two years old, and I can confirm everything you wrote. The first point is the strongest one and it really changes your way of doing things. :-)
- Mic
Great list, could not agree more. Much holds true with just one kid as well.
- Sean Brady
Just had twins (1st august) and even in this short time couldn't agree more!
- nieuwbouw20
from twhirl
My twins are now 3 and I also confirm your article. My online time has actually increased during their TV time. I can only watch so much sprout!
- Tim FitzGerald
This makes me slightly less nervous: we're having our first in January.
- Akiva Moskovitz
You mean first set of twins Akiva.
- Sparky, a big deal
I laughed aloud just reading the title. "Only *10* ways twins have changed his tech & online life...?!?"
- Deanna McNeil
With new twins added to our two senior children, I think it's no accident I'm doing less blogging and more Twitterng. That's about the limit of my attention span.
- Scott Orwig
from twhirl
Waiting for a post entitled "Ways technology has helped, hindered or just changed the experience of parenthood"
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Kids! The original disruptive technology!
- Prokofy Neva
Thanks for the nod Louis! You're a great addition to the world of fatherhood. It's tough getting used to the change in lifestyle, but the changes all produce a much more balanced and satisfying life. Very interesting to see how habits change so quickly, and priorities shift overnight.
- Jeremy Biser
Huge hailstones come through sewer and blast man off toilet - http://eatmypotato.com/index...
Mahdi Ebrahimi, Melissa Chang, Raoul Pop and 7 other people liked this
"The incident was caused by hailstones flooding into a local drain during a torrential downpour, which became blocked. The pressure become to great and the hailstones had to go somewhere and they came out through the toilets."
- Dan Kaplan
from Bookmarklet
So I'm not the only one...
- Mark Forman
That's awesome.
- David Worrell
Unbelieveable
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Am I the only one to find that headline absolutely hilarious? :D
- Mo Kargas
That's amazing. Better than the urban legend of NYC alligators though I suppose.
- Robert DeBord
Our marriage is over: we are both Twittering in bed. :-)
Vahid۹Online, lohang, Charlie Anzman and 52 other people liked this
question is - are you twitterring from laptops or iphones? :)
- Rom Feria
Over or just beginning...
- Justin Korn
i hope you DM each other...
- Ouriel Ohayon
I think that is a sign of true matching! Say hi to Maryam. :-)
- Roxanne Darling
from twhirl
Twitter PDA???
- Mona Nomura
Don't forget to @reply to each other! You know the thousands of us like to see Twitter PDA as Mona mentioned. ;)
- Daynah
Me? iPhone. Her? A Lenovo laptop.
- Robert Scoble
Hope you get lucky, Robert ;)
- Migger
سلام به مریم خانوم و همسر گرامی که پرسپولیسی هم شدند :دی
- Mil∂d
Dear Maryam Please Translate My Comment For Robert :D
- Mil∂d
Milad: go Persopolis! :-) Maryam says hi. We are off to sleep.
- Robert Scoble
I'd rather say your marriage is over when your are twittering in bed with someone other than your spouse
- Antoine Bertier
Have a Good Night Byebye And Khodahafez :D
- Mil∂d
رابرت جان تو رخت خواب یه کار دیگه میکنند نه توئیت ;)
- پارسـا
as long as you don't choose twittering over sex, you're ok
- Jason Lovett
dangerous...my wife is still hooked on myspace. she has a long way to go until she lands in twitterville.
- Don Martelli
from twhirl
jason lovett and parsa fatehi and i are having the same comment :P
- 2ndmoon©
Been there - you should've never got her started :) BTW, are you still interested in coming over for FOWA London? We'd love to have you. Feel free to hit me up on AIM (ryanleecarson)
- Ryan Carson
*imaginary Muslim sending divorce letter to his wife on Twitter* DIVORCE DIVORCE DIVORCE
- A.T.
Your marriage is just beginning.
- Francine Hardaway
I twitter in bed sometimes too... It's natural and nothing to be ashamed about.
- Internet's Tad
Some day in the future: "We are all gathered to this FriendFeed room..." "If you RogerVampireSlayer want to take this HelloKitty145 as your wife, please share 'I do' ..."
- Jemm
I found my mom on FriendFeed. Had no idea she had an account.
Mohit, Rahaf Harfoush, subsky and 47 other people liked this
So awesome! We were already friends (because of the Facebook integration) but she hasn't actually used the site at all yet. Hi mom!
- Benjamin Golub
was she lost benjamin?
- mike "glemak" dunn
Is your mom tech-savvy?
- Hao Chen
cool! my mom doesn't even have a mobile phone account!
- Pajama Domain
from twhirl
oh wow. techie-mom!
- AJ Batac
Wowie! :D
- Yuvi
She probably signed up just to check out FF To Go. All mums like to know what their sons are up to you know... no matter how old they get! ;-)
- Tony Ruscoe
FF has jumped the shark
- Jamie
Neat!
- Bwana ☠
And here I am, hoping my Mom doesn't ever want a computer. :)
- jcunwired
thats so kewl !
- Peter Dawson
Wow, that's wild! Glad my mom's never heard of FF and thinks FB is kids' play.
- Susan Beebe
Cool! I've got a lot of 50-75 yr old friends on Facebook.
- Mitchell Tsai
Benjamin, if your mom has a smart phone and wants to keep up with FriendFeed, I have an excellent recommendation for her. (And no, it's not MojiPage.)
- Ontario Emperor
Wow your Mom rocks. Mine can barely check her email. I can't imagine what FriendFeed would do to her.
- Carla Thompson
My mom's on FriendFeed as well. Who can find her account?
- Louis Gray
Terrie Gray (tgray) http://friendfeed.com/tgray. Your mom commented on “Sibling Rivalry Starts Early” http://friendfeed.com/e... Her blog's well-written too. Her story about the 112-yr-old was a little sad. http://boingboing.net/2008... I was in a springboard diving competition with an amazing 94-yr-old lady Viola Krahn who did dives I couldn't do. http://tinyurl.com/2rnofz
- Mitchell Tsai
My mom barely, just barely uses e-mail, but she enjoys watching Taiwanese TV over the internet. It's amazing traveling the world in hostels, watching people IM their moms over the free internet connections. In 1984, going to Europe was a real distancing thing with very expensive phone calls home. Now free Skype at some hostels. Grandma turned 102 this year.
- Mitchell Tsai
Wondering what my mother would think of FriendFeed.. :D
- Daniel Schildt
Weird, I just logged on to Facebook and added a few old high school friends. It felt suprisingly unboring. Am I losing my mind?
Melissa Chang, Bryan Clark, Deva Hazarika and 5 other people liked this
Facebook: fire and forget. FriendFeed: learn and contribute.
- Kevin C. Tofel
it's just that I go back there about once a week to add friend requests on the site and for some reason today it just kind of stuck more than usual. Didn't get that barrage of widgets being shoved down my throat for some reason. Then again, maybe it's just because an old high school friend added me today and so I went down that rabbit hole for 20 minutes or so. Still feels like I'm losing my mind for spending time on that site. Plus I needed to get Gabe's email address there and that felt easy there.
- Thomas Hawk
flip flopper! make up your mind lol
- Hao Chen
A high-school friend from 26 yrs ago just found me on LinkedIn. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Classmates seem to be good "white pages" websites. I've been reconnecting with many old friends/Acquaintances on Facebook & LinkedIn.
- Mitchell Tsai
Facebook is great for a certain kind of social networking. Its a different beast to FF but still a tremendously useful service
- Jamie
i had a flurry of high school friends i hadn't talked to in 15 years join up in last few weeks. i think the main draw now is to see if exes are fat.
- Deva Hazarika
Facebook is great for people who you actually know and care about what's going on in their lives. The widgets are damn annoying, but I seem to have killed most of those now that I can turn off the notifications, and consequently it's back to what I originally liked about it - it's a great way to stay in touch with friends.
- Eric P
Deva: My high-school classmates (1982 Kent, Ohio) are so much fatter and out-of-shape than my college classmates (1986 Boston). High-school ones look seriously middle-age. It's sad how fat the US has become. Although US median age has hit 38.1 https://www.cia.gov/library..., so as a mathematician I think those of us 39+ are "old". P.S. Grandma just hit 102 this year...
- Mitchell Tsai
i'll never use a facebook or myspace! yuk
- orionstarr
"Dear victim, you have been bitten by LurkingGrue!"
- Lurking Grue
@maryamie is stalking me. She's my wife. Says "I'm invading your world inch by inch, app by app." Oh, oh. Now she's asking about FriendFeed.
Andrés David Aparicio, Mr. Gunn, Todd Jordan and 48 other people liked this
LOL!!
- Mona Nomura
all wifes are like that robert
- @runb@laj!
from twhirl
She should try it out. there's plenty of fun couples on FF
- Candace
keeping an eye on you? :P
- Chris Dahl
Following @maryamie now just to see what "watch out @scobleizer" means. ;-)
- Joanmarie
Actually, she's just being obvious about it now, Robert. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
She has already friended me.
- l0ckergn0me
So now we need a greasemonkey script that adds a FF panic button.
- Mark Krynsky
Welcome @maryamie Welcome to the machine.
- Bradley McSpinn
I tried adding Maryam as a friend on Twitter, but today, Twitter froze my ability to add friends for some odd reason. As soon as I can, I will add Maryam, if you want to tell her that, Robert, before she adds FriendFeed. Oh, maybe she already has...she just wants to spend more time with you where you are.;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
@geraldinelemeur is doing this to me exactly at the same time, funny we also have this in common!
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
oh snap! it's all over now @scobleizer. :-) Funny... my mom just joined today as well @hobiec :P now just need to get my sis hooked.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
My parents are doing the same thing.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
She knows how to deal with a husband like you. :-)
- Ansgar Wollnik
Is this a case of "worlds colliding" like on Seinfeld?
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
ROTFL!
- Fernando
LOL
- Arjun
I couldn't get my wife interested in social media apps if they were giving away Cartier watches with every FriendFeed account.
- Derrick Burns
Well, Mr Scoble, it was a good run. The Street (w/ _your_ address) Find its Own Use for Such Things
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
I told my wife about all of this.. twitter/ff/seesmic etc. She thought I was having affairs with all of you!!
- Lee Carlson
from twhirl
This is hilarious! PS App by could take awhile, and on Friendfeed she'll see your traces everywhere but hard to locate.
- Alex Hammer
That's funny my wife calls all the woman that follow me my, twitter mistresses
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
The sad thing it has made me twitter a lot less, since she is constantly questioning who I'm talking with
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
My wife says "On no! Not another one, how many more do you want me to sign up to! However, she does sign up to many of them. I've got her Twittering, Plurking, Kwipping, Stumbling, and now on FriendFeed too.
- Ian May
maryamie: @scobleizer, i'm in ur microblogs, watching ur chars..
- Hao Chen
many spouses have hate/hate relationship w technology/social networks
- Mike Eisenberg
my wife still thinks MySpace is "new." So I'm not threatened by the potential of her twittering. She's an inch away from facebooking though...that's how it all starts with the non-gear heads.
- Don Martelli
from twhirl
Welcome @maryamie
- Mitchell Tsai
OMG, did she really joined Twitter only today?! (I'm like really surprised Scoble...)
- Orli Yakuel
My sig other @Marantzguy is on Twitter, but I have to prod him to tweet more regularly. He has "P.O. box" accts. on LinkedIn and Facebook, but rarely answers my msgs. when I send them there. On the other hand, he's on many pro-audio socnets, so I guess it's just a matter of narrower-focus interests.;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
About time. I need to get her to join my wife cabal with @mrscrazybob
- Cyndy
Good to see @maryamie on Twitter, won't be log before she is on FF too
- Sally Church
Is @maryamie coming to meet up tonight? I really hope so!! Would love to meet her!! (and Milan if that's happening) :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
I honestly wish I had the wife invasion problem sometimes.
- Todd Jordan
My wife just took me to task for not sharing things with her. I defended myself by saying I assumed she wasn't interested because she had never left a comment on my blog. She didn't understand why I didn't want to talk to her about what I was sharing/blogging about. Different conversations for different media, I said. She's now got my profile URLs for tons of sites, but I'll only know if she understands if she finds this.
- Mr. Gunn
Canova's Dual-Touchscreen Notebook Coming within Two Years - http://blog.laptopmag.com/v12-des...
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...it looks like an oversized DS Lite
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
An oversized DS lite that costs a fortune:)
- Gordon Swaby
it looks like two tablet-pcs strapped together
- sdfx
Giant eBook
- Susan Beebe
Oh, look, another piece of technology designed to say "Screw you, buddy, you can't use me!" :P
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
A very expensive mirror
- Mona Nomura
I wonder how heavy that would be.. 3kg?
- Winston Teo
Winston, that is SUCH an Asian thing to say LOL
- Mona Nomura
@Mona Haa! Why's that so? Aren't you guys concern about weight? I mean would anyone buy an iPhone if it's like ermm.. 1kg?
- Winston Teo
All my Japanese friends' complaints about the 3g iphone? It's too thick and heavy HAHA
- Mona Nomura
HA.. Well, I guess we are always trying to make things as small in size as possible, cause most Asians probably have smaller hands. =)
- Winston Teo
The Scoble Effect
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I met with the top 2 executives at one of the largest PR firms in the world today. Their advice for launching a product amounted to this: "Whether Robert Scoble likes your product or not means more than anything these days if you are trying to reach a techy first-mover audience."
- Jason Goldberg
Which PR firm was this? And do you want me to send Scoble my first review of Social Median? I brought it up when we had dinner. :-)
- Louis Gray
This is very telling, but concerning as well. Nothing against Robert Scoble, but should one man hold that much power in technology?
- Rob Diana
plus michael arrington...
- Pokai
I agree Rob. Nothing against Robert but he could have a personal bias in the space and it could hurt that product etc.
- Adrian Nadeau
Rob Diana: It actually bothered me a bit. Bother in the sense of how strange a comment it is.
- Jason Goldberg
Louis, Rob et al: we actually weren't discussing how to pitch socialmedian when this came up, it was actually a broader discussion around the state of social media, pr, and the news biz. They are trying to find/create the scoble equivalents now for other industries.
- Jason Goldberg
Jason: I don't think this is true. Louis, we should join forces. Maybe someday we'd be as powerful as Walt Mossberg. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason Goldberg: It does bother me also.. one person's opinion shouldn't decide your products fate...
- Adrian Nadeau
Jason: truth be told, it bothers me a bit too, because there are hundreds of people who can make a product successful. I've never talked about Evernote before today and they had 30,000 new customers sign up this weekend.
- Robert Scoble
TURKISH FF COMMUNITY: PLEASE READ THIS! ; ) ESPECIALLY WEBRAZZI.COM AUTHOR 'ARDA KUTSAL'. : ))
- Erhan Erdogan
Who's to blame here? Not Scoble.
- Chris Baskind
perception is surely part of the reality and vice versa. broader point is that old media is still very much trying to figure out the new world. old world they had speed dial into the 3-5 guys who mattered who were on long lead time deadlines. today they have scoble's and arrington's and mashable's etc.
- Jason Goldberg
Chris Baskind: Definitely not, good point.
- Adrian Nadeau
@Adrian, one thing I have never seen is Scoble have a bias besides hot new technology.
- Rob Diana
Scoble's not to blame -- blame Canada. Scoble has power because people listen to him. People listen to him because he is often right, speaks from the heart.
- Brian Sullivan
Plus, lots of things I've picked as hot have turned out to be failures, or, at least, not home runs.
- Robert Scoble
No - what they really should be looking at is what us FF'ers think about their product. Let all of us play with it and we'll give our aggregate opinion. Scobez is usually right on the money, but sometimes even he can miss a diamond in the rough...
- Internet's Tad
Robert: they're probably reading this too :) lol
- Jason Goldberg
Brian: Good idea. Bloody Canadians, with their clean streets and sense of social justice.
- Chris Baskind
@Rob Diana That's good to know.
- Adrian Nadeau
Is that like the Butterfly Effect?
- Dayngr
Since I have the Scoble effect, go sign up for Evernote. Damn, that's cool. Take a picture of something with text in it and it recognizes the text and lets you search for it. I want to put all my business cards into this!
- Robert Scoble
I agree, if you have a consumer product you need the Scoblizer!
- Greer Trice
Scoble: what's most interesting is that it goes to show that even in the new world, content is king. It's not just that you have a following, it's that you have created the content which galvanizes the following and keeps them following.
- Jason Goldberg
I remember experiencing this phemonenon first hand: I received 20-30 Twitter follows in one day. What had happened? I checked Seesmic and found that @scobelizer had mentioned my name. I had been Scobled.
- Steve Lynch
Jason: the content comes from getting access, which I greatly appreciate everyone here for connecting me to interesting people and interesting companies.
- Robert Scoble
Robert wont write about me 'cause i was a bitch about video comments. (that's me trying to be sarcastic robert, and probably landing flat). ;-)
- Jason Goldberg
Jason: I don't even remember you doing that. What you want me to see of yours?
- Robert Scoble
and btw. FriendFeed rocks with the pace of this discussion. Fantastic.
- Jason Goldberg
Robert (and anyone/everyone else for that matter). We're less than 2 weeks from going public with http://www.socialmedian.com. Been in private invite only alpha since April. You can use invite code = nearlybeta to check it out before release.
- Jason Goldberg
Scoble is the reason I joined Facebook and the reason I told all my friends they HAD to get an account. He's also the reason I'm here (on FF) as well - but I can't convince a single friend to climb aboard - none of them trust me now.
- James Hull
BTW. as pat of this conversation with said PR agency execs, we also had an interesting discussion around finding the scoble's of politics, sports, etc. And especially the scoble's of India, UK, china, etc.
- Jason Goldberg
Related, there's an interesting post on FF today about listing who the most "popular" friends are to follow. I don't understand what the harm there is? Isn't part of the fun/value of this following the Newsmakers? We just go ahead an put a link on the homepage to the most popular Newsmakers on socialmedian. http://www.socialmedian.com/users...
- Jason Goldberg
what would be cool, would be to see something similar to the soon-to-be released study by the University of Miami and USC that correlates a company’s stock performance with reviews of its products by Walt Mossberg of the WSJ (http://bit.ly/24VfTx), but Scoble v Arrington V Mossberg. kind of apples and oranges, but still fun
- Christian Anderson
would be fun to see a scoble, arrington, mashable, etc. post and adhere to a not private pitch policy for a few weeks and see how it goes. All pitches must be in public on a blog post, FF, or tweet. Whadya think?
- Jason Goldberg
Scoble has many followers and is an incredible channel to the tech-savvy, early adopter audience, but he only covers topics he considers to be cool and interesting. Nothing wrong with that, but there are still a lot of important tech issues and product areas that Scoble does not cover.
- wrecks
wrecks: yup, the industry is bigger than any one person now. It's why I still recommend reading http://www.techmeme.com and http://news.google.com and participating in FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
What Robert has that the PR people crave is "Trust Equity", built over time. Same with Mossberg. Readers believe they will give straight appraisals of products and services and not be swayed by spin/swag.
- Sprague D
BTW. I would love anyone to write their review of socialmedian on FriendFeed so we can all publicly discuss it. Tell everyone what you like and don't like. Hell, give us hell even. Better the feedback the more we can learn and try to make it better.
- Jason Goldberg
The beauty of the Scoble effect is that even your pitch is broadcast to a huge user group, especially if he responds, all those followers do to.
- Jason Kintzler
By the way Jason, I'm planning to write about SocialMedian's PR implications on PitchEngine...Stay Tuned!
- Jason Kintzler
Its due to hard work on the part of the Scobleizer, Congrats.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Golden Ray photos of amazing mass migration - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth...
Mohamed J, Amir Beitollahi, Jesper Kjær Hansen and 88 other people liked this
WOW is that for real? Amazing!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Well worth clicking on. Awesome!
- Charlie Anzman
The wonders of nature - thanks for sharing
- David W
Nature is simply amazing. Humbling.
- Tsega Dinka
That is amazing!!!
- Joe Dawson
Beautiful. I love the synchronicity of nature in motion like this...such harmony... awesome. Humanity could learn volumes from this.
- Susan Beebe
Breathtakingly beautiful!
- Anam
Wow, really amazing!!
- Sudar
Wow! I thought this was a raytracer example or something...
- Yuvi
saw this on FFFFound a few weeks ago, Dolphins: [singing] So long, and thanks for all the fish
- clarke thomas
I need more coffee, I saw the first image and thought it was pasta :p
- Sam Levine
I've never seen anything like this in my life -- I hope there's an Animal Planet documentary on this. Fascinating!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
What a strange sunset... on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Looks like my bank statement - Apple burning a hole in it! Don't look at the sun!
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
photoshop is amazing product, isn't it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
THE RISE OF APPLE OR ITS SET!?
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
maybe this is how the world ends
- mark ivey
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microso...
Mitchell Tsai, Corie, Neil Bernhart and 17 other people liked this
Seeing this email makes me respect Bill Gates that much more. I'm sure this email was *never* meant for public consumption but it is refreshing to see him taking his team to task for the failures of his own product. Although I know a lot of people like to bash Vista, my own experience on a new PC has been that it is an immense improvement over XP.
- Thomas Hawk
I liked Vista so much on my new laptop that I made the decision to upgrade my desktop from XP to Vista. That's where I saw what everyone was complaining about. I think as long as you get a freshly installed version on a new computer you are good.
- David Cook
"So I", "So I", ... LOL
- Ace
David, I agree with you. When I tried installing Vista on an old PC as an "upgrade" my experience was not good. On a new PC though it was awesome.
- Thomas Hawk
"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."
- Guillermo Esteves
@Matt - Agreed. It's interesting to see (some) people in a different light, without the makeup, so to speak.
- Kirk Kittell
You can't use Qik in the Oval Office but you can Twitter. How do I know that? Because today Congressman John Culberson met with the President and he said the Secret Service wouldn't let him do live video but he did Twitter from there.
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What's Congressman Culberson's Twitter name?
- Chris Rodgers
Oddly enough, xSk8rB0i899x
- Mark Trapp
thats a security breach - but trust me the NSA is tracking that twit !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Now if they'll just stop planning our foreign policy in 140 character tweets, all will be well.
- Chris Baskind
Heh, the Senator told me that limiting politicians to 140 characters is a good thing.
- Robert Scoble
@johnculberson - http://twitter.com/johncul...
- Kirk Kittell
Chris, his twitter name is @johnculberson
- Jason Shultz
@Mark quality response!!
- Joe Dawson
Why do I find it hard to believe that the president who touts using "the Google" and the "Internets" uses Twitter? Lord knows, McCain has yet to master Windows solitaire.
- Chris Reed
Thanks for the Twitter link. It will be really interesting to follow a politician on Twitter.
- Chris Rodgers
I wonder if Obama will tweet from the Oval Office
- Mike Hussein Cohen
Robert: I recant. 140 characters might be just the thing. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
unfortunately you can't take pictures inside the West Wing either - WH press room is ok, Rose Garden is ok but not in
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Following. - Holy moly, he just followed me back (probably auto...).
- Vince DeGeorge
Picture the monkey in office Twittering launch codes... "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try to invade Iran again".
- Andrew Smith
I follow him also - Twitter name - #johnculberson
- Craig Thomler
Commenting here so I remember to add him as an imaginary friend later (since I can't do that on FFToGo)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Culberson was by far the best conversation of the day. He clearly loves his job and wants new technology to do it better, even if he has to learn. Amazing, amazing guy. Can't wait for his Town Hall tomorrow!
- Andrew Feinberg
wow, you guys had FUN!! so jealous... twitter in the white house holy cow! McCain is soo screwed!
- Susan Beebe
So Scoble is the Maxwell Smart of tech?
- Mark Forman
surprised they didn't just put a jammer on the the area
- clarke thomas
I'm sure we'll be able to sum up all the positive things the Bush administration accomplished in less than 140 characters.
- Kevin Shannon
About to find the John Culberson Twitter account now. Wonder what he's saying about the Scoble effect. :)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
very cool -- like what i see... following Culberson now.
- Andy Sternberg
+1 Kevin Shannon.
- Mohamed J
very interesting to see that Culberson also follows you back- almost immediately unlike some of the other politicos mentioned in yesterday's blog post.
- Nathan Eckenrode
John Culbertson followed me back immediately and then we even tweeted. I am still unsure about the other two mentioned. I can't seem to find the rep from OH and the rep from AZ (I think) his tweets have the feel of a staffer. Bears another look today though. By far the best thread yesterday!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I had a back and forth with Congressman Culberson last night on gas prices on Twitter; pretty amazing, really.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I got an immediate followback as well-- Lee, great to hear he is genuinely on the service.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Rep. Culberson and I don't agree politically, but it was civil and it was a real conversation - a couple of people DMd me and said 'wow! this is cool!'. Tim Ryan is a Congressman, also on Twitter - but he follows nobody.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I disagree with just about all of his politics, but I love his twitter gumption. :) Go Culbertson!
- Jarrod Morgenstern
Scoblizing The White House?:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
who wrote the rule that after I slam a company in a blog post I have to talk to talk to their CEO on the phone? if I didn't want to talk to the CEO before writing about them, why would I want to after? ugh. I probably will anyway, though
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It's called the "rule of having an impact" and the rule of "reaction" :)
- Roland Hesz
V. Interesting. Before I slam slam-worthy companies, I tend to ask CEOs why they don't deserve it. Sometimes they have good answers, most of the time, their bad answers just make it into the post.
- Dan Kaplan
I wrote that rule.
- Sarah is Novembery
I met a CEO once.
- Phil G
surprising as a blogger /journalist why would you not want to talk to the CEO ? (before or after actually has no relevance ) !!
- Peter Dawson
I think it's understandable that the company's CEO (or a PR rep) would want to talk with you or comment back on your blog, to respond and present their side...and they should address the issues on their own blog, too. However, just calling to argue with you will obviously not win them points. It'll be interesting to see how the CEO responds, eh?;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
most CEOs are too long winded to talk to, they take 30 minutes to tell me what could have been said in 5. we'll see what happens in this conversation, but really if my complaint is just "your product doesn't work very well" then what are you going to say?
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I think the phone is more fun than crazy ranting emails declared off the record, don't you? ;)
- Cyndy
I see it as a great opportunity to deepen the discussion & how great if youi influence positive change
- Karen Swim
from Alert Thingy
Wait, isn't the point of writing a scathing blog post about a company to get the CEO phone call? Man, next you're going to tell me you don't like chocolate.
- Mark Trapp
I like Roland Hesz' comment.
- Marcel Weiß
Scoble: "Twitter has evolved from status updates into public conversation" http://www.fastcompany.com/magazin...
cihanergur, Shawn Kirsch, Bill Anderson and 8 other people liked this
Public conversation is invariably more interesting
- Bryon Thomas
Scoble says: "Remember, it's who you follow that defines you" I wonder how many on twitter actually believe that.
- Arthur Germain
Feature request: Search FriendFeed by URL - http://friendfeed.com
Tom Morris, Voyagerfan5761, Azeem and 14 other people liked this
Please! That would be awesome. And please expose it though the API too
- Glenn Slaven
I like it, I want it, I need it.
- Lars Trieloff
Great idea Glenn!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
include/ exclude tinyurl ? I prefer full formed URL only as first steps !
- Peter Dawson
Definitely full URLs
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Not as easy as it sounds and certainly would require URL canonicalization (http://benjamingolub.com/2008...). RSSmeme does it and full supports it via it's API (http://www.rssmeme.com/api... for instance).
- Benjamin Golub
what if the user searches with an uncanonicalized URL?
- Azeem
It would only pull up that URL - Ben makes a good point: he is saying http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... and http://benjamingolub.com/2008... are the same page, and you would REALLY only want to have to search for the benjamingolub.com URL, but FF would not pull up the feedburner one (which would be the one shared most likely).
- Paul Arterburn
@paul. yes exactly. so FF would have to search for both the cannonicalised and uncannonicalised versions of the same url, not easy indeed.
- Azeem
I just put $2 in a special place in my wallet so that I'll always have it there. For the rest of my life whenever I'm asked for money on the street I am going to offer whoever asks $2 in exchange for taking their portrait. I'll also get their name and try to learn a little about them.
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I really like this concept. I think I will steal this idea from you.
- Jeremy Hall
That's a great idea
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
That is an amazing idea! Absolutely brilliant :-)
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
from twhirl
Wow! Considering the number of such instances that one comes across; it is potentially an huge number of subjects! I'm gonna steal this idea as well!
- Parth Awasthi
idea now officially stolen! Nice one Thomas!
- jerry
Technically, not a street, but this is the information highway...can I have $2? You may need a 12,000,000,00mm to get my portrait though ;)
- Ace
better not forget the wallet ;-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Ace, if you run into me physically on the street and ask me for it I'll give it to you. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Stolen in LA as well.
- Tsega Dinka
Dobromir, my wallet and 5D go with me everywhere. And since I plan on carrying a camera around with me for the rest of my life this shouldn't be a hassle.
- Thomas Hawk
Good idea.
- Mary Anne Davis
I've thought about doing this - I think it would be cool if you had 3 set questions you asked each subject. This could turn into an interesting project.
- Sam Purtill
I hope you didn't get a patent on this idea cause I may have to still it too :)
- Sam Purtill
it was a joke Thomas I carry my wallet wherever I go too, just sometimes it's hard to find :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I would want more than 2 dollars :)
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Need a flickr group $1 photos
- Yolanda
If you caught that youtube video about fake panhandlers, beware who you give those $2 out, they could be making more than you an hour!
- Colby Olson
Some people might want more than $2 and some people might not want to do it at all. But that would be their choice. I suspect others might appreciate the human interaction in addition to the money. I don't mind if a fake panhandler got $2 from me if I got his portrait.
- Thomas Hawk
You could create the first location based DB with profiles for panhandlers :-)
- Gabriel Biguria
I see a new flickr group in the making... $2 portraits Cool idea TH
- gfurry
Beautiful idea, I love it.
- Brandon Wood
PayPal me the $2 and I'll send you a photo, save you the bother of getting your camera out :-)
- Anthony Burns
Gabriel, sadly that already exists. Will you guys make sure to follow through on this! I want to see these portraits.
- Frankie Warren
Will beg for Flickr
- TranceMist
When did the going rate for panhandling go up to $2? Now I know why they stopped asking me. I've still been giving a buck.
- Kevin Shannon
Check out the 100 Strangers group on Flickr. Here's what they're doing: Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of portrait photography. Start by taking 100 portraits of people you don't know. The idea: The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their...
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- Lisa L. Seifert
Stupid comment character limit... And the rest: Who are they? What is their life like? Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the person or how you felt approaching that particular individual. You may have, for example, tried a new approach or used a new photographic technique. Try to learn something from every encounter you make. http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- Lisa L. Seifert
Lisa, I love the 100 Strangers Group. Trejack was working on this in Las Vegas when we were there. Has anyone done it in a single day yet?
- Thomas Hawk
Sounds like a good idea...
- Mike Wills
you have a good heart. That's an awesome idea ! And the idea of blogging what they tell you -- that's awesome. Maybe you should put your $2 in the camera phone sleeve ...
- General Kafka
Thomas, that is awesome. Forgive me for stealing it from you.
- Joe Mac Stevens
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