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Seastrom also remembers what he calls the "Site Finder debacle" of 2003 where VeriSign unilaterally decided to serve ads to users who typed in a non-existent dot-com domain name, rather than return an error as internet specifications dictate. "VeriSign would be completely nonstarter [as root signer] for any one that remembers that hack," Seastrom said, adding that any for-profit entity with financial interests in the contents of the zone file should be not be signing it. - alex de carvalho

Screen sharing tools are a specific category of online collaboration tools that enable you to broadcast a continuous live stream of what is happening on your computer screen to individuals connected via the Internet at distant locations. - alex de carvalho

Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is." The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness. - alex de carvalho

Intent, as a brand and Web site, aspires to be the most trusted wellness destination for capturing and sharing peoples intentions – personal, social, spiritual and environmental. - alex de carvalho

Dear mobile website designers: when I click on this link on my mobile phone, and when you redirect me to m.mashable.com's home page rather than the page that has the content that I want, you aren't doing me or yourself any favors. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

@Ontario Emperor Well said, I fully agree with that. - alex de carvalho

On Thursday one of FriendFeed's co-founders, Paul Bucheit, will be on a FastCompanyTV webinar with me along with Matt Mullenweg and Nat Brown, the CTO of iLike to talk about how to make a system that stays up and responds quickly, even with millions of users. I can't wait, but I'm also terrified and need your help. - Robert Scoble

Where are your users and where are your servers? Scaling globally. When did you move away from managed hosting and run your own racks? What do you consider successful site responsiveness? Have you noticed positive correlation between really quick page loads and user engagement? - Niall Kennedy

Great webinar, Robert, I posted some of my thoughts here http://cli.gs/L4bDzV - JungleG

This implies spending less, saving more and selling assets. But the trouble is that banks and consumers alike are trying to lighten their debt burdens at the same time. It is not impossible, and it does not even mean a terribly long recession, though we are probably in for a long period of weak growth. What it does imply, unless the U.S. Federal Reserve can somehow pull a new bubble out of its hat, is the return of boring old parsimony. Stocks will struggle during the transition from excess to frugality, but once we are there, the rally could be huge. After all, by that point stocks will have more than a decade to make up for. - alex de carvalho

Thanks, Josh, for an awesome event. Thanks for posting these pictures :) Enjoy some well deserved time off, if you can! - alex de carvalho

track record of corp failure - taxpayers getting the bill, gee thanks - Susan Beebe

Interesting, but not necessarily liking... - Clare Dibble

used to be that bailouts were required for crop failures, now they are for corp failures - Gautam Guliani

Also see Susan Blackmore's presentation at TED on "memes and temes" - alex de carvalho

Visualization tools for data - alex de carvalho

"The ideal situation is to have the legislation published online immediately." Miller says. "Our position is that every piece of legislation should have a minimal online-public-availability time of 72 hours, which would give citizens and lawmakers a chance to read, digest, think about and comment. There's no better place to start with than with this bill that involves hundreds of billions of dollars and affects the lives of everyone." - alex de carvalho

Latest ABC News/Washington Post poll: Obama 52%, McCain 43% - Andrew Baron via Bookmarklet

@Spencer - how about you explain to us how McCain is doing the best for his country in selecting a woman who is clearly power-hungry, deceptive, and uninformed (at best) as his #2? - Jeremy Toeman

Poll sample for this poll: Dem 53% Rep. 39%. - eggsy

I bet it smells terrific. ;-P - cmiper

yeah, I wonder how much of a sharpie high he got while doing this. Awesome work, tho - Chieze Okoye

fukn tweekers........lolz - UncleCreepy13

They are using private jets - they could make the vote and then go to the debates. Also as party leaders could they not again congress to agree to vote on Saturday instead? - Ruth Ferguson

thank you joshua! he hasn't been "active" since april and by active i mean in the building - Cee Bee

Good job, Joshua! - steplow is Steve

Interesting take on the benefits of intermittent fasting and an apparent success story. - alex de carvalho

alex, I have at least two copies. I'll bring one to the next refresh for you :) - Kristen Taylor

Thanks, Kristen :) - alex de carvalho

But there is a more likely scenario -- where community becomes a function of process ownership. I don't beleive it will be left to specialist Community Managers who report into Marketing. Community will become a facet of everyone's job. Not just external communities for customers and partners and media and investors and developers and more. Every process in the enterprise has the potential to be redesigned with more transparency and participation through Social Software. - alex de carvalho

In its latest explanation, Tribune said a single visit during a low-traffic period early Sunday morning pushed the undated story onto the list of most popular business news of its South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper's Web site. About 30 minutes after that visit, a user viewing a story about airline-cancellation policies during a storm-ravaged weekend clicked on the link for the old story. Seconds later, Google's automated search agent, Googlebot, visited the Web site and found the story. Soon after that, the story became available through Google News, and by Monday the article became more widely distributed to users of Bloomberg LP, the financial-news service widely watched on Wall Street. Tribune said it previously had identified problems with Google's automated search service and had asked Google to stop trolling Tribune Web sites for inclusion in Google News. - alex de carvalho

McCain’s persistence in pushing dubious claims is all the more notable because many political insiders consider him one of the greatest living victims of underhanded campaigning. Locked in a tight race with George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, McCain was rocked in South Carolina by a whisper campaign claiming he had fathered an illegitimate black child and was mentally unstable. Shaken by the experience, McCain denounced less-than-truthful campaigning. But McCain and his running mate Palin, the Alaska governor, were defiant this week - alex de carvalho

Squeezed for profits, news media companies no longer are pushing for access to information as they once did, a panel of Denver journalists said at a National Press Club forum here Tuesday. “The media seems less and less willing to fight back and to challenge government authority in a legal sense,” said Brian Maass, who leads the investigative team at Denver’s CBS 4. - alex de carvalho

The guy you call “boss,” who incidentally wears a monkey suit every day to work, says that this year, you’re worth a 5% raise. Who the hell is he, anyway? Who is anyone, for that matter, to tell you what you’re worth? This seems like a ridiculous concept to me. Each day, you go out and determine how much you’re worth. You determine it by producing, by learning, and by creating more value in your life and your work. - alex de carvalho

The fickle media never changes over the years - but they sure are easy to draw. - alex de carvalho

Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout for vulnerable sites on the net. - alex de carvalho

journalism wasn't meant to be a conversation, anyway. It was maybe a monologue, at its most democratic a carefully constructed dialogue. If readers didn't like or agree with the monologues in paper A, they bought paper B. What was most important about their opinions was that they thought enough to spend the coin. - alex de carvalho