Never used it, but... Pamela recommended. - l0ckergn0me
@Tris I tried HotRecorder but I couldn't get the icon menu to display - even tried the old reboot trick and it didn't work os it's deleted - Steven Hodson
Pamela. Did 6 recordings today with it. Then mix up in Audacity (free) - Jim Kukral via twhirl
Before I switched to Mac only, I was using Callburner http://www.callburner.com/ made by an Australian company, simplest I could find at the time - Duncan Riley
“NoiseRiver IMPORTANT UPDATE: The domain was deleted by my registrar. Yes, that simple: DELETED. My friend fbrunel resgistred it again for the 2nd time before anyone can take it. Please bear with me. I will set it back ASAP.”
please don't tell me that! mine is coming on the 8th and I am giddy with anticipation! - LuluGirl896
stock xandros with the advanced desktop script. When it's just sitting here it's cool but when i use it(which has been all day!) the intel cpu get's hoooot - Anthony Farrior
i'm still thinking about getting one. have you done a full review. i'd like to hack it for mac osx -- though i'm fine with linux. - Lynne d Johnson
I'm letting my review simmer until next Wednesday night, that will be one week exactly - Anthony Farrior
Yes, I think this will broaden the spectrum quite a bit. - Mark Krynsky
If TechMeme is about memes, shouldn't it stay that way? How many new products or personal bloggers become legitimate memes. Very few, - Francine Hardaway via NoiseRiver
Definitely more start-ups. I do write about them for a living, so I'm biased, but we can get big co. news on NYT and CNN - Dan Kaplan
I like techmeme as it is, but I also like the idea of more personal blogs... perhaps a separate site (blogmeme)? - Adnan
Right now Techmeme seems less about breaking news and more how all the big names respond to it. Depends on what service you're trying to provide. - Jason Kaneshiro
I liked TechMeme because it was different than Google News. If I wanted a clone of Google News, I'd just read Google News. I always liked TechMeme because it covered the new media. Bloggers, etc. You've lost that and I've found it less and less relevant since then because of it. - Robert Scoble
I don't know that you want to clutter techmeme with this kind of stuff, but I'd love to see you branch out with another service. - Rick Turoczy
i'm still waiting for the techmeme backpage - MG Siegler
I don't know what it should include but YABAT (yet another bitchmeme about Twitter) is enough to put me off tech news for the weekend. - Cyndy
I'd like to see an entirely seperate Meme aggregator on product launches. Also, food and football, when you get around to it :) - Adam
Hey there! :) Still having this isse Bwana and Rafael? Can you please help me in fixing it by describing exactly what hapened? Thanks a lot :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Now that I think about it, I think I clicked on "My Likes" first.. it's all a blur at this point. - Bwana McCall
Thanks Bwana for the details. I think you understand how hard for me is to fix a bug I actually can't reproduce... So your details are really welcome :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Yes it is... and its the most interesting use of App Engine so far! I wonder how long till you reach the 5 million page view limit? - Adnan via NoiseRiver
Oh! so nice from you :) I actually am not that confident it will be that popular, but let's see... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Great work on NoiseRiver's alpha release. I love seeing the new apps flowing, thanks to FriendFeed's API. - Louis Gray
Thanks again Louis, thanks for taking the time even with the issues to try it out and help me fix some of them. Yes, the making of NoiseRiver was a big experience in which I (re)discovered how magic and big is FriendFeed! Even the smallest detail in FF is actually a technical "prouesse". These guys simply rock! - directeur via NoiseRiver
I love your use of APML! I don't understand why APML isn't more widely used! - Adnan via NoiseRiver
Adnan, thank you! Yes, you're right about APML but I'm sure it will be widely used. Let's hope so at least :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Any plans to add a "Don't show I hate it entries" feature? - Adnan via NoiseRiver
Adnan, you can already do that actually. All you have to do is hate something to the max and check the checkbox below the keywords list - directeur via NoiseRiver
Welcome to DC, Robert. Where do they have you staying? - Aaron Brazell
At least TRY and be objective and non-biased please :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Robert: Good luck. Who are you speaking with? - Jon-Paul Bussoli
Aahhhhhh. Truly, a man of the future ;) - Leif Hansen
Sounds like fun...glad you have the power of the internet to capture all of it and share it with us. - ....
Capture the all important meta Robert! Looking forward to unique perspectives. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Aaron: we're staying at the Mayflower. Just a couple of doors down from the room that Elliott Spitzer used with his call girls. - Robert Scoble
Soulhuntre: well, listening to Huffington this morning sounds like she is giving the exact opposite advice that you are. But I'm not going here with much of an agenda (except to talk up that we should do more to keep R&D in America, instead of letting all those expensive jobs leave to Israel or China or somewhere else too). - Robert Scoble
Haha. Robert maybe you need to setup spitzerswallows.com in memorium. :) - Aaron Brazell
Revving up your engines!! woo hoo! I'll have to check FF at work tomorrow to get your latest info! Yeah, keep the smart Strategy / Innovation jobs here! - Susan Beebe
Scobez, did you see my questions I'd like you to ask a few days ago? - Tad Donaghe
Competition is healthy-let the jobs go where it makes sense to do them. US losing jobs hopefully will help US look at why and maybe get busy at being better. Scarcity is gone from the job market just like it is in the media space. US has always had good ability to be creative-unfortunately gov't hasn't been supporting in the sciences. - Mark Forman
sounds exciting, don't be too soft on the qs and I look forward to watching them - Duncan Riley
Oh - and whiel I am commenting - you TOTALLY rock for getting this access. It is great to see the rise of this sort of coverage / access. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Good Luck. Looking forward to the see the interviews. - Vic Podcaster
In addition to jobs issues, didn't you say you'd be seeing the Obama folks later in the week? Anything lined up with the McCain people? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I've heard the VP position is still open. - Nir Ben Yona
We are working on McCain. Talking with several key Republicans. - Robert Scoble
BTW, Robert, just noticed that your blog headerdoesn't render properly in FF3 with NoScript blocking lijit.com -- the bottom half of the logo gets cut off. - Garrett Fitzgerald
Walking the halls of senate/congressional buildings is very cool. People are usually helpful so ask questions. Having the opportunity to meet with senators & congressmen is an interesting experience, most audiences are rather short, at least on the Senate side, as their aides do a lot of the heavy lifting and they can also be called away for a chamber vote.. The key is trying to get behind the veil and being able to get non scripted answers from them. Can't wait to hear the feedback. Good luck. - Fred Neil
I got to meet my congressman in D.C. after I won an essay contest back in high school. It was beyond awesome. - Harvey Simmons
So, Mr. Scoble... what'd you think of my Senator? :) Watching the video right now where he's talking about SBA and reducing overhead. I like how he just laid it right up front... The US Government is 50 years behind the curve. In some ways he's right. It's sure not as efficient as Twitter on its worst day! - Gerald Buckley
I wonder why Linus didn't sign the statement? - Adnan
Adnan: dunno, people are wondering about that too, but he said before he is no fan of binary blobs http://www.linuxjournal.com/ar... , still would be good to see his name in the list. - Hassan Ibraheem
Yeah... he's said before that he does Linux because its fun. Maybe this stuff isn't fun to him. - Adnan
This is pretty cool idea, a whole set of hand picked stories - and you can't even directly tell who they are coming from, so no biased clicking :) - Tim Hoeck
Erhan, That should be interesting adding it to G Reader. Let us know your results, I might do the same. I think the duplicates might kill it. - Mike Fruchter
Mathew so far interesting. The concept as a whole is not a bad idea. I have found some interesting stories in that room, I other wise would never have saw. It's like a team of hand picked editors, lot of duplication comes with the same people having the same interest's and likes. - Mike Fruchter
Negatives
* Duplication of content
* Stories with a note, get imported into the room as a comment. On Friendfeed it shows me as the person who left the comment, not the actual person who noted it in their Google Reader.
http://michaelfruchter.com/blo...http://snipurl.com/2oy1o - Russellreno
The holy grail = solves the duplication of content - Russellreno
I just loaded Share your Google Reader into Feedly. There were many new items and a lot less duplicated content than I expected. - Russellreno
Mine is at http://www.google.com/reader/s... I'll have some social media stuff, but also software testing, baking, and some odds and ends in the mix, since I don't have a single theme for my feeds or what I share. - Andy Tinkham
since you don't know me, not sure if you're interested in my feed, but it's here: https://www.google.com/reader/... Maybe this will encourage me to use the share feature more regularly. - Erin
Russell, That's very interesting, I think i may try that. Also experimenting with a Yahoo pipe that would solve the duplication issue to an extent. - Mike Fruchter
Andy, Jason, Erin, Thanks for participating. Feeds have been added. - Mike Fruchter
wow.. this feed works nicely in my google reader. I added a filtering option using yahoo pipes to remove duplicate url submissions. We'll see how that turns out :) - Tim Hoeck
Macbook 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM OS X 10.4 - Jason Wehmhoener
I'm multitasking between my eMachines W4885; 2.4GHz P4; 2GB of RAM (Kubuntu 7.10) for web surfing and my Nokia N800 (Maemo) for Skype and IM. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl
Dobrow's got me beat; MacBook Pro - 2.16GHz Core 2 duo, 2 GB RAM - Lou Paglia
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz - Jason Toney
Macbook 1.83GHz Core Duo, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.4 - JA Castillo
Dell Inspiron 1501, dual-core AMD Turion x86-64, 1 gig of RAM, 120 gig HDD. OS: Vista Home Premium. Currently actually using Ubuntu 8.10 beta because my HDD's had some kind of EPIC FAIL. Urgh. - Cyvros/fyc
A Hipster PDA - and you wouldn't beLIEVE how sore your thumb gets when you have to flip the 3x5 cards 30 times/second to display a Qik video - Micah Wittman
Lenovo Thinkpad Z60t Standard... Stickers are extra. - Lisa L. Seifert
A dying 4yr old PoS. 3Ghz CPU, 1Gb RAM, ~410Gb, etc. - Tanath
"for the first time that I can ever recall, my processor is the bottleneck, NOT the drive. That’s pretty amazing if you stop to think about it." - Adnan
Directeur that's not fair. :-) See, if I say, "But, well, I'm a girl" then that means that you and your evil VI-loving comrades will say "See! Emacs is a girl's editor." And the fact that Emacs is the superior editor (editor being a woefully inadequate description, given everything it does) will be lost due to gender bias. Therefore, I'm going to stick with tradition and stick out my tongue -- after first exclaiming, "VI sucks!" ;-) ;-) - Joanmarie
Heh, just had a thought: We need commercials a la "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC." - Joanmarie
Aha! A Girl! I see, it's okay then! :p and yes Emacs is not an editor, emacs is a whole OS which lacks a decent editor :)) So come on!, be fair! No modern/classic whatever editor beats vi(m) :) - directeur
Ah yes! we need some commercials like these :) But well, we're friends whatever the editor we use, we're in the same side lil' sister! - directeur
What about people who edit text in MS Word on a Windows machine and then copy/paste via Synergy into nano? :) - Harvey Simmons
“Everybody complains that Linux is hard to use because it's hard to install. Windows and Mac OSX have an advantage here because they come with the computer. So, is installing Windows from a CD just as hard as installing Linux?”
Matters what year you're talking about. Installing Ubuntu is about as easy as installing Vista. Installing Slackware 96 was not easier than installing Windows 95. - Akiva Moskovitz
Most Linux drivers work for my hardware, so shouldn't that make it as easy as installing Windows, assuming that Windows has my drivers too? - possible248
A big thing to note here is not just the installation process, but going from install to working computer. This includes hardware working as expected and a easy to use interface after installation. Even today, I feel Linux requires a great deal of "tweaking" after installation. That's not necessarily a bad thing for some poeple, but it's still an issue for mainstream. - Bwana McCall
I agree with Bwana. I gave up on running Linux as my desktop ten years ago when I found myself fussing with the OS more often than I was actually getting any 'work' done. - Akiva Moskovitz
As for hardware issues, they will only be fully resolved when you have a diverse group of computers that come with Linux right out of the box. I think that the very easy to use interface has been almost completely nailed by Ubuntu. And @Akiva: Desktop Linux has changed a whole lot in ten years, you might want to check out Ubuntu and do a "then and now" comparison. - possible248
I'll be installing OpenSuSE 11 over the weekend. The reviews so far are positive. - Victor Ryden
i would not say that windows installs are just as easy as linux installs. with ubuntu, i have had hardware problems that no one on any forums or even an engineer friend could understand. - edythe
Victor: Remember not to try to use KDE 4. - possible248
possible248, I did. Threw Ubuntu 8.04 on my VAIO laptop for a couple of weeks. I really like some of the UI flourishes (although some of them are a bit cartoonish). Overall, though, I ended up missing some Windows-only applications that I use on a regular basis. Plus I ran into some minor hardware issues. It was enough to send me back to Vista. It's definitely a better experience than running Enlightenment E16 or whatever. - Akiva Moskovitz
Yes, if you get Windows from Microsoft (and not the hardware vendor) and then have to find and install all of the additional drivers drivers yourself. Count on endless reboots. - TranceMist
On average, with the top Linux distros, I'd say Linux has become just as easy. - Phil Crissman
a lot of people still think of command line stuff when they think of linux. There needs to be some FireFox level PR to fix this. - Stefan Hayden
possible248 - I saw mixed reviews from testers using the RC. Did you have a bad experience? - Victor Ryden
Installing Windows is a PITA, but only because of drivers as people have already said. The worst is feeding a virgin Windows XP install the required RAID drivers. Can't speak for other distros but Ubuntu was a breeze to install, although there was still some command line tweaking to get things perfect. I've reinstalled Panther, Tiger and Leopard in various ways and it was a snap, but then it is a closed system - Apple control the OS and the hardware. - John Samuelson
Victor: OpenSUSE 11 is pretty cool, but KDE 4, currently, is still not ready. - possible248
I personally do not like Linux due to that it has very little software for it compaired to Windows and MACs. - Brandon via twhirl
Brandon: You will find quite a lot of software for Linux. Have you checked Ubuntu's repositories? If you tried some other Linux distro, like Slackware, I can understand what you're saying. But Ubuntu and Debian have quite a lot of software available that you don't have to compile. - possible248
Ubuntu is great for a desktop... but a desktop is so 2000! :) My primary computer is a Tablet PC in slate mode, so I'm pretty well stuck with Windows until the other operating systems catch up in the touch/mobile arenas. - Kenneth LeFebvre
Did you just say "so 2000"? Omg I'm feeling old now. One of the worst parts of Linux: compilation. There is no call for me to compile the app I want to use or compile the kernel. It's just stupid, so "1970" if you will. - xero
@xero: Tell that to Gentoo. :) It's highly useful to compile in/out functionality that you need or don't need, to limit the amount of dependencies you don't actually need. Besides, you don't need to compile if you use a decent binary distro, it's only in highly specialized cases you really HAVE to compile stuff. - Daniel Bruce
Compiling on Linux is only necessary for some more exotic applications. Most things, at least in Ubuntu, can be found in the repository. For distros like Slackware, or even SuSE, you compile frequently. - possible248
In the rest of the world, those are called configuration options and don't need a recompile -or- plug-ins that are loaded/unloaded as needed. If they want to compile out options, then they should do it behind the scenes. Select the config options then it automatically recompiles and restarts the app. No need to force the user to learn how to do it. - xero
As for difficulty in installing. I personally found installing Ubuntu a lot cleaner/easier than attempting a 'from-the-ground-up' install of Vista on my mother's Dell, even WITH Dell's driver CDs. The amount of reboots and confusion from Dell's driver CD interface was highly annoying. That said, if drivers aren't easily accessible or immediately obvious, both OSes are equally horrible. :) - Daniel Bruce
Well put, Daniel. I really think that answers my original question perfectly. +1 for you. - possible248
Not usually. Windows has always been a breeze for me, takes awhile, but everything works. Occasionally with Linux I will have to hack around driver issues, but it's not that bad b/c the community is so great. - Thomas Lopez Jr
Depends on which Windows version and which Linux distro you're talking about. I'd say Vista and Ubuntu are, at least for me, on the same level - my only problem with Vista is I need to install the touchpad driver for scrolling, and my only real problem with Ubuntu is the fact that I need to pull out a network cable to get my wireless driver. Bloody Broadcom/Dell/whomever I'm supposed to blame for this. - Cyvros/fyc
