Man, Jason, you've been railing against GM for days now! Did they do something to you when you were a kid? - Richard Klein
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I bought--what should've been--a lemon from them once. - Valley
you have to put them all on their knees in the corner and push to read Atlas Shrugged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... until they _may_be_ start to understand :) - silpol
باهاش فید مغزمونو شیر میکنیم! بده که آخه! هیچی توش نیست! - Farzad Zamani
Soooo if I want to subscribe do I go up and push them in the head ? :D What would be cool is if you could scan the symbol with a mobile phone and get the bloggers feed - Mo Kargas
Every time I wear the hat I get a bar at the top that asks me if I want to wear it with Live Bookmarks, Google Reader or another outfit. - Kevin Leroux
Not at all. I love seeing all that cool stuff in my feed each morning from you. Lots of stuff I'd never otherwise come across. - Evan Sims
I don't think it's a question of over-sharing. If I'm subscribing to your shared items, I know what I'm getting myself into. If anything, my willingness to follow your feed is a sign of over-consumption on my part. I can always drop a feed or block your shared items. Ah, the power of controlling the news I read. Gotta love new media. - Mark Martinez
How do you do it? I had to give up on GReader and full FriendFeed and now just have a single iGoogle home page w/ Twitter, FriendFeed, and about 20 RSS widgets. Any more than that and I can't get anything done :) - Patrick Lightbody
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I agree with Mark as well. If you're tuning in to somebody's feed, you're there for a reason. Whether or not they cater to your informational bias is your problem, not theirs. The only type of sharing I really can't endure comes from those who use this medium as a personal status update and appeal for emotional attention. That's a very different motivation than that of news/info junkies, whose interests focus on the world around them/others (rather than their own attention needs). - V for Veselka
"If I'm subscribing to your shared items, I know what I'm getting myself into." Exactly. RSS is opt-in, not opt-out, and in "list view" there's no such thing as too much. I probably put only 30-50 items per week into mine, but the only complaint I've had was my wife: "stop sharing stories in FRENCH!" - John Craft
I knew someone would put it better than I could. John nailed it with "opt-in, not opt-out". That's the theme of this social media .. dare I call it a revolution? I dare. - Mark Martinez
I share occasionally. And I never tire of the stuff you share, Robert. - Robert Couture
Keep on sharing. I don't spend much time with Google Reader lately. I let you do the work. So, I'm definitely not an over-sharer. I'm not a hair over-jeller either, or am I? - Bill Miranda
I guess that the more of us that share stuff via GR, the more dupes are likely to happen? - Ian May
Im a GReader addict, i share what i think others will find interesting. I'm trying to use the FriendFeed share thing instead though, as you can direct it to certain groups of people instead. - Simon Wicks
I have a high standard for sharing, and share very little, but very good "stuff". (At least, I think it's good). - Robin Monks
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Two days ago, I wasn't an over-sharer. But this discussion has reignited my GR interest, and now I'm afraid I may be becoming one... - kris. nuttycombe
The bar set here is awfully low. If you follow any topic or industry closely (let alone multiple topics), you're probably seeing 1000-2000 feed items per day. And anything over 20-30 shares is oversharing? That's like saying turning on the TV for 15 minutes is being a couch potato. - Mark Trapp
Sorry, Kyle, your assertions are incorrect.
See the collaborative American Dietetic Association and the Dieticians of Canada position paper, which states: "A vegetarian, including vegan, diet can meet current recommendations for all of these nutrients [protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D, riboflavin, vitamin B-12, vitamin A, n-3 fatty acids, and iodine]. It goes on to say: "Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence."
http://www.dietitians.ca/news/...
Also read the Pew Commission's report on Industrial Farm Animal Production. This report, produced in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that factory farms pose unacceptable risks to public health.
The full report and highlights are available at:
http://www.ncifap.org/ - Alice
Alice: I'm not saying they can't. I'm saying that it takes a considerable amount of work and planning to meet the needs of the body, many of which are easily taken care of the way nature evolved for us: meat. Also take into account that alot of vegetarians (not vegans) do not plan well, and only barely understand the basics of nutrition. Finally, those "unacceptable risks" are often exaggerated, especially since modern humans have adapted to digest varying degrees of "clean" meat quite well. - Kyle Brady
Alice: Also, if you're talking chemicals like BGH, there's considerable evidence that rather than being harmful, it's beneficial to humans... growth hormones in general, actually. - Kyle Brady
Humans weren't designed (didn't evolve) to be vegetarians. We are meat eaters by nature. A properly balanced diet which includes meat will not cause early mortality. These PETA folks are whack jobs at best. - Jeff P. Henderson
I'll bet serious money I am healthier than any vegan, and I loves my meat. +1 Jeff - William Harryman
William: Any vegan? Most (including myself), certainly, but any vegan? What is your basis for such a statement? Where is the evidence that a vegan could not be as healthy as you? And how long would it take from going from your diet to a vegan one would it take? I loved my meat too alas other things meant more to me. - Ryan
It's like a race through media land. Matt runs Automattic, which does Wordpress.com and Akismet. Mercury News is Silicon Valley's newspaper. Facebook? This little FriendFeed competitor. :-) - Robert Scoble
"When can I sync my Facebook friends' contact information with my iPhone's address book?" Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp
"Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp" . . . Wow. A pig just flew by my office window. - John Craft
Ask the Mercury News people how they plan to change their business model and stay profitable as they, and other print media, move away from printed media. - Mark VandenBerg
"I would just love to know what they think of FriendFeed, if they feel their app is 'too heavy' in comparison, whether it makes many aspects of Facebook superfluous, and if they have any plans for a leaner and meaner Facebook to compensate for the heaviness that keeps many of us away (and makes FF feel so comfortable in comparison)." - Christopher Galtenberg
For Matt: How does Matt see blogging evolving in the face of tough economic times and web 2.0 consolidation? Does it go the way of Geo Cities? Does it fall off due to micro-blogging and life-streaming? Will Automattic develop a highly targeted display ad network using wordpress blogs? For Facebook: How do you get to profitability? And when? - AJ Kohn
For Mullenweg: What i like about MovableType is it doesn't handcuff you to Perl, so you can integrate it with your platform. Are there any plans to allow Wordpress to operate outside of the PHP ghetto? - .LAG
"If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" - Zee. Just Zee.
Zee: Mullenweg already has superpowers. :-) - Robert Scoble
Ask Facebook what their target demographic is, and whether they see FriendFeed as a different market. - Chris White
"Ask Mercury News if they concur with Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that "we are moving from news papers to news brands" http://friendfeed.com/e/69c4d5..., and what that means for news brands like theirs... And whether unaffiliated organizations like AP gain more or less power in a world where news brands need to provide more customized news." - Christopher Galtenberg
Hi! I'd like you to ask facebook to open up their "phone book" for export to iPhone address book. Why would users want two address books, and why would users not have the right to "remember" a friend's phone number locally? - Mason Lee
Oh, please: For Matt Mullenweg, ask about Automattic's long-term plans for Intense Debate. Is this a platform for some sort of unified World-of-Wordpress login? Something which ties together self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com -- perhaps even bbPress? Do they have it supporting Yahoo IDs yet? It was failing at last attempt. - Chris Baskind
I'd love to know if Matt will allow a FF widget in my sidebar on wordpress.com. I've been waiting ages. Please, please please ask. Pretty please. Thanks Robert - Roberto Bonini
Ask Matt what he is going to do about the incoming links section on the wordpress dashboard. the google links works less effectively than technorati ever did. its a shame. i want to see inbound links from the console. but how? - James
Roberto: there's a ton of those kinds of things I want on wordpress.com. Will focus on what Matt thinks will be the future of wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble
Mistakes made, lessons learned from them by examples. - imran
for SJMN - do they consider the SJMN "the voice of Silicon Valley" or are they just another "big City newspaper" ? . can they reveal some stats on their online version like who "reads" or "feeds" - Geographically, what content etc. - SnakeDoc
Robert: Thats interesting too. When one looks at how Windows Live as a whole group of services has re-imagined itself as a social network of sorts. Will wordpress re-imagine itself along similar lines???? - Roberto Bonini
In my mind, wordpress is awesome because it's extensible. The plugins make it great. So why doesn't wordpress.com let bloggers use them easily? Perhaps they could set up an app store like the iphone's, let users buy plugins and then split revs with developers. - mike
Thats a great idea mike, to expand the existing upgrade selection. Gets my vote. - Roberto Bonini
For Facebook: How do they intend on reaching more users if their site ain't optimized for slower connections? I've got 2mbps in Pakistan which is pretty expensive for lots of ppl to afford here and sometimes facebook takes it's own sweet time to load up on my connection too. Just imagine for ppl with slower connections? Many ppl still use dialup here! So does facebook have any plans to have a 'lite' version for developing nations instead of having ppl turn to other social networks instead? - Eldon
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