Things you never thogut you would see #179 - 'Barack Obama is not subscribed to you' - Andy C

I hope she can get past her own ego enough to focus on her new job. Throughout her campaign it always felt like her motivation to run came from a place of ambition and ego (certainly two necessary qualities in a presidential candidate) but that her focus on the people, problems and challenges was secondary. With Obama, I see a commitment to serving a nation - the right and proper role of a leader. - melmcbride

There are part of a set called: "Barack and Hillary on their way to Unity, NH, 6/27/08". Mmm... - Rubin Sfadj

Now and weeks before now it is ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. After the odds against Hil went long, the game then was to stay in long enough to coerce BO to help payoff Hil's debts. In the last weeks the game changed. It was no longer the climb to the White House, it was the climb out of debt. Hil wants to be debt free by 2012 so that if BO steps on himself through naive inexperience, she is ready to ride to the rescue. - Frank Derfler

@Frank Her campaign is 22 mil into debt, but that includes a 12 mil loan from HRC herself. - Rubin Sfadj

man muss sicher auch solche produkte wie rich prosecco oder der dosenwein sofia von der coppola tochter dazuzählen. kenner schütteln sich, aber die kids findens cool. - Mario Scheuermann

tja, "a little spritz" is die cola von heute. - benedikt

vielleicht nicht von heute, aber vielleicht von morgen - Mario Scheuermann

beim lunch habe ich mich heute mit charles whish, dem senior winemaker von rosemount estate in australien darüber unterhalten. fazit: the next big-selling fun-drink for young people could be a slightly sparkling rosé moscato style in small bottles with crown cap - Mario Scheuermann

Habe mir von unserem örtlichen direktvermarktendem Winzer auch einige 0,25l Flaschen besorgt für unsere "Minibar" im Hotel. Nicht jeder will gleicht einen 3/4 oder ganzen Liter trinken. - Alex von Halem

mich würde interessieren: mit schrauber oder mit Kronkorken? - Mario Scheuermann

NUR mit Drehverschluss. Korken... naja, kann man darüber diskutieren. Aber: "Korken auf 0,25 l (!) Flasche"? Geht gar nicht. Oder? - Alex von Halem

Korken geht nicht, aber kronkork wie beim Bier schon. - Mario Scheuermann

Stimmt schon, nicht ganz unplausibel. Aber nicht jeder hat einen "church key" bzw. Flaschenöffner in der Tasche stecken - so wie ich ;-) oder mag sich Flaschen anhand einer zweiten oder mit anderem Gegenstand öffnen. Insofern, würde mich das auch interessieren ob es einen Markt für 0,25er mit Kronkorken geben würde. - Alex von Halem

ich werde mal in nächster die augen offen halten bei meinen diversen store checks. - Mario Scheuermann

bin schonmal beim surfen fündig geworden. die fellbacher weingärtner bei stuttgart haben z.b. mit frutto einen weincocktail mit 6.6 % Vol. in der 0,25 l partyflasche mim programm. laut eigenwerbung eine prickelnde komposition aus wWein und saft von sauerkirschen und pfirsichen. spritzig und frisch im geschmack. http://2big.at/u0l - Mario Scheuermann

Not having secrets. Also: Valuing your children more than your checkbook. Self-discipline. Meditation. Focus. The future of the world. - phil baumann

I look forward to reading these - Barbara K. Baker

Bubbles... never under estimate the power of bubbles. - Michael Maurillo

Remain calm and realize that when the kids are young they get into an entirely different kind of trouble than when they are older. - Brian McCartney

stay calm, don't let them see you get upset, remember that kids remember EVERYTHING you do, have fun cuz childhood only happens once (till you have a kid, then it happens again!) - acedanger via twhirl

I'll let you know when my kids graduate from college in 21 years... - Hutch Carpenter

Being a responsbile leader. Honesty. Talking. Playing. - Tad Donaghe via twhirl

Funny how two people repeated "Staying Calm" - Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah - when a baby is screaming relentlessly, remaining calm is the best possible advice. :) - Tad Donaghe via twhirl

Have thought and written about this in "Dining Philosophers and Quarrelling Kids" - http://tinyurl.com/4kvajw - but it is easier to write about it than following it :) - Amund Tveit

Listen, listen, listen, listen. Then speak. But most important,set a great example. Kids learn everything from their parents. - Steve Furman

Great secret: Father and Son - Igor Poltavskiy

Patience....Love....and remembering they're only kids. - Chris Rossini

Patience and love. Spend TIME with your kid(s). Read to them. Make sure they eat right and get enough sleep. Give them limits. Tell them you love them. Encourage them to TRY. Foster their sense of curiosity. So much more. But in the end, take being a parent seriously. - AJ Kohn

Mastering the law of distraction..."Oh, you really like that knife you're holding, but how about this nice, new, shiny spooooooooon? Hmmmmm?" - Toby Holt

I guess the best advice is to just "forget everything you thought applied before" and just "do it" (with all the best intentions). And: stay calm. Serenity is "it". - Alex von Halem

I am enjoying all of these comments... awesome!! Good wisdom here for everyone. - Susan Beebe

What Chris Rossini said: "Patience....Love....and remembering they're only kids. " - Mike Reynolds

house work before asking for favors or concessions. with the kids its all about focused engagement. spending time is meaningless unless your paying attention to the person you spend it with. keeping on trying to be a better dad - really all you can do. - Hasan Luongo

Learning to say “ Go Ask Your MOM” so she cant hear you ;) - Earl E Morningwood

Put yourself in their shoes once in a while and remember how you looked at your parents when you were a kid... - Jeffrey Sass

Love your kids and let them know they're valued by listening to them. Always, always, always be available when they need you and learn that nothing in life is more important than them. - Brian England

remembering that all other achievements don't mean anything if you screw up raising your kids. Give them your time. Yes! There is always time for your kids. - Brent Schlenker

Lots of hugs, lots of time. Spend time with them early and it pays off later. - Chris Christensen

So far...making them laugh. - Chris Nixon

Teaching them to love, laugh, work hard but enjoy life--and realize we're only here for a short time... - mark ivey

Showing them they are important, being patient, having fun, letting them experiment, play - enjoying them - Tony Eyles

I can't claim to know all the secrets (in fact, I think there's a treasure trove of knowledge out there that SOMEBODY's got to be holding back) but things that I try to keep top of mind are: a) you are the original role model b) consistency and fairness pay dividends in the long run c) you have to keep more people in your thoughts than just yourself d) try to remember that you were once that young and inexperienced, too and e) show your interest. - Mark Dykeman

I am a new father for just 6 days and this is what I said for the last 2 days: http://friendfeed.com/e/06d2da... - Turker Keskinpala

remember you are a father first and a friend second - inspire them to stretch themselves, encourage them when they fall, and hold them accountable with natural consequences when they cross the line. - Scott W Henderson

patience, love and lots of diaper wipes! - John Cass

A charged cellphone and gas money. - Chris Baskind

Keeping the channels open and communication. Knowing how to express love - Charlie Anzman

It is not a secret it is full on discovery - antonio

Whenever Griffin (16 months) sees with my Macbook he comes over and tries to hit the keyboard. - Mike Doeff

Happy Father's Day to you, Pappa Scoble! - Mike Lewis via twhirl

You know, whenever I see an Apple product it usually fills me with cheer too! Happy Father's day to you Scobez - and to all other Fathers! It's GREAT to be a dad!! - Tad Donaghe via twhirl

My daughters love PicLens searches (for kangaroos or birds etc. on flickr, smugmug, or whatever) - Alex von Halem

I'm confident its more Geek in the Genes, than Jobs' Voodoo Robert. That even I get all soothed at the first sight when i get home to my Mac is probably VooDoo Though :P - Parth Awasthi via twhirl

Whenever my 8 month old son is crying, the iPhone works every time - Brandon Wood

My 3 yr old grandson had me cut out and tape an Apple logo on his Vteck learning laptop for kids/ He call's it a Macbook correcting his mom when she calls it his laptop. - Al Degutis via twhirl

Scoble, do you use normal friendfeed.com on your iphone or any other version/address? - Jernej

I've had zero problems using friendfeed.com on my iPod Touch. Except for the fact that it does not refresh the feed - I have to manually refresh.I can even comment. I can't tell if this is a Safari problem or a iPod /iPhone one. - Roberto Bonini

jemej I just use normal FF on iPhone. - Robert Scoble

Happy Fathers Day to you Robert! - Laura

@scobleizer Happy Father's Day to you ;) My little girl is 10, Nintendo DS prodigy, laptop commandeerer par excellence, NeedForSpeed pro, she kicks my butt totally!!! ;) - Mario Olckers

Happy Father's Day. I have two kids with iPods, and a third clamoring for my old Nano when I upgrade. Eight-year-old has a Toshiba laptop, though. - Cyndy

thnx and happy father's day! - Jernej

My 3 year old daughter loves watching a YouTube Video I've bookmarked on my iPhone of a baby laughing. - Thomas Hawk

"Milan_Scoble liked this" -- what story was he reading? - Karim

Happy Father's Day, Robert! - Francine Hardaway

you do realize he's laughing because of what a joke the products are right? (ok sorry couldn't resist) - Allen Stern

Happy Father's Day Mr. Scoble. Just brought our fourth home today. - Gerald Buckley

Happy Father's Day! - Liana Lehua via fftogo

Kinda nice. If I had to cheer up a baby, I'd probably show a laptop running Linux. Come on, the baby might like Compiz effects. I mean, I do. :D Happy Fathers' Day. - possible248

possible248: I agree, no vista, no osx could win besides compiz :) - directeur

Happy Father's Day mate! - Joe Dawson

You do realize you could have shown him a shiny rock, right? - Soulhuntre via twhirl

20 years ago with my kids it was my key chain that engrossed them :-) He's probably laughing thinking, "You've got the OLD iPhone!" - Kevin Shannon

Here's a cool link for Milan & Dad http://www.lookybook.com/index... I even picked one for you: http://www.lookybook.com/mainp... :-) so much fun for kids. - Orli Yakuel

Mekhi likes airplanes, via Live Image Search. Jefferson Airplane, especially. - Wade Dorrell

Did you at least take a short break for Fathers Day ????? - Charlie Anzman

So Scoble would have to run that import, um... 400 times or so if all his contacts were to switch to Plurk? Yes, fail. - Cyndy

plus you have to select them one by one, a bit too much clicking - Dobromir Hadzhiev

They've said it many times Plurk is not designed to be like Twitter. They've designed it to communicate with your close friends, everyone else you should become their fan. They constanly discourage adding hundreds and hundreds of friends and your "karma" is not rewarded for it. I got clarification on this the other day. It's part of the system design to use it this way. Right? Wrong? Who knows, but that's how it is. - Bwana McCall

Sure Bwana, but providing tools like this only serve to confuse that message. Providing an importer from Twitter says "We want you to use us instead of Twitter, look how easy it is to migrate over!" only to tell the user "whoa, not so fast, only 50 people! We know best for you!" and, to top it all off, it's not even enforced; as Robert points out, if I go back do the import over, I can add another 50 from my list, which seems to fly in the face of why they're saying there's a 50 person limit. - Mark Trapp

Good software solves a need. Great software solves a need and backs the hell off. Let me use Plurk the way I want, don't tell me what's best for me. I know what's best for me. You gave me a tool to import my Twitter contacts? Awesome, let me import all of them. Not 50. Not 50 at a time. All of them. - Mark Trapp

If it were enforced, then I'd see your point, but it's not. It's a way of saying, you'll be sorry if you do this. Look at the flip side, what if they allowed you to do it and your timeline becomes severely cluttered? I'm 80% sure some would complain that "you should have warned us about this". I seriously doubt they are taking the attitude "we know what's best for you", it's more of a "if you do this action, here are the consequences..here's a slight hinderance to bring the point home". - Bwana McCall

Bottom line is, this feature was put there because of Twitter's problems, but now this limitation is there to preserve the intended experience. Some would say they are stupid for not capitalizing on Twitter's woes, which is what they're doing. Some would say, don't put the feature there if you don't want it used like Twitter, which is what you're saying. It's a compromise on their part which I don't think will make or break the service. - Bwana McCall

Except there's no option to say "I got it, now let me do it anyway." You just get the error message. The only way to add more people is to more or less randomly try to import again, where it happily lets you import another 50. No warning there saying "Hey, you already have more than 50 people on your list, you shouldn't enter any more." No, the way this is handled only serves to confuse and infuriate people. - Mark Trapp

Twitter wasn't designed to be used like it's being used either. I don't like Plurk, personally, but find it hilarious to say "You don't WANT more than 50 users imported. It will TOTALLY wreck our design!" Is it an app or is it performance art? - Cyndy

People don't have time to figure out what the developer's intentions are. If they can't use a website in an expected manner, they leave. Providing this feature in the way in which it was provided tells people "we don't want you here." Sure, they are never going to be Twitter, but doing things like this (and the big disclaimer telling everyone to only add your very closest friends) means they will never catch on, even by themselves. - Mark Trapp

Twitter's simplicity allows for flexibility. Plurk's timeline does not. It's a warning, nothing more, nothing less. If it bothers you that much, there's plenty more in there that I'm sure will deter you from using it. - Bwana McCall

Bwana, it's not a warning. If there was a banner at the top of the import saying "We strongly discourage adding more than 50 people" before adding people, that'd be a warning. It outright refuses to add more than 50 people, and provides no recourse. Only people who thought "what the hey, let me try it again" were able to do it again, again with no warning. This is stupid how they implemented this. - Mark Trapp

Mark, I don't think this UI defect is enough to make or break the system. There are way too many other factors to consider. Many other services don't even offer a Twitter import, let alone hooks into Twitter's service. If I were writing this defect as a tester, I would mark as a medium priority only because it's a barrier to entry. It's a low priority since it' a generally a one time function. - Bwana McCall

Bwana, I realize now that my screenshot is a bit misleading. The banner at the top of it only shows up AFTER you try to import more than 50 people. It's not there before. - Mark Trapp

Ok Mark, you've made your point that it's stupid to implement it this way. So are you going to submit it as feedback to Plurk? :) - Bwana McCall

Bwana, the apparent impetus for a feature like this, based on the available information, is to preserve the design aesthetic of the site. "It'd be too crowded!" There are a few things you can sacrifice usability for: technical limitations and functional requirements are two of them. But to sacrifice it for your design is insane. They either need to figure out how to handle more than 50 people, or make a cogent case for why more than 50 people is unnecessary. - Mark Trapp

Bwana, that brings up a whole other issue I have with Plurk. Where are the developers? - Mark Trapp

Blog: http://blog.plurk.com Contact Form: http://www.plurk.com/contact My favorite is contact them directly on Plurk. I've submitted much feedback to amix (http://www.plurk.com/user/amix) as he's the lead developer. Here's a useless page listing the team members..nothing's linked there http://www.plurk.com/plurkteam . They generally listen. - Bwana McCall

I asked him to join our discussion: http://www.plurk.com/p/86au - Bwana McCall

I used the faceless contact form pointing to the discussion, as well. I guess there's no @reply notification or direct messaging feature in Plurk, too? - Mark Trapp

yes there is a direct message feature, (called a private plurk) however, you must be friends with the individual from what I recall. - Bwana McCall

Nice, if I click on your link, then click "My Profile," it brings me to your profile. - Mark Trapp

LOL - Bwana McCall

I can only add so many new things to my "brain feed-stream". Unfortunately, I deem Plurk a FAIL. Just too juvenile a feel. I need no more MySpace clones. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Hi guys. I am a developer of Plurk and I want to share some input on this. The major factor for this limit is performance - fetching and inserting timelines from hundreds/thousands of users isn't cheap and would be very costly. The second major factor is that following a lot of people on Plurk will have penalties as we don't have all the timeline filters developed. But we do listen to user feedback and we have raised the limit to 100. This limit may be removed in the near future, depends on performance and the power of filtering. - Amir Salihefendic

Sigh. Now you know why I love FriendFeed so much. No limits. Always fast. I reload the page hundreds of times a day. - Robert Scoble

Oh, and I already have more than 800 friends on Plurk (compared to more than 12,000 followers on FriendFeed and 26,000+ on Twitter) and I only manually added a handful. - Robert Scoble

Robert, FriendFeed does have limits. Both you and I ran into one of them. There was a comment limit which caused commenting to fail after a certain point. FriendFeed raised the limit once we brought it to their attention. Come on now, FriendFeed isn't THAT perfect. - Bwana McCall

Bwana: that limit didn't hurt and was, like you said, instantly raised. I haven't hit it since despite thousands of comments. - Robert Scoble

plurk needs an api stat, i doubt people want to use it as there sole twitter like interface - Chris Jones

Plurk, Jaiku, Pownce, Twitter all these services have SIMILAR goals. Again this reinforces to me that microblogging is becoming the "new email" (aka killer app). Email, IM, microblogging three great ways to communicate. Perhaps FriendFeed will be the savior for all of them. But FF would have to also be able to post freely to them as well. So, FF becomes something like a service and you use apps like Twhirl, etc to interact with your stream. - Tris Hussey

The best way to use Plurk is head over to the mobile interface at http://www.plurk.com/m - Personally, I hate the regular UI...its like playing Defender. - Scott Cropper

Plurk isn't made for us: http://friendfeed.com/e/1bedd0... Think outside the box perhaps? - Bwana McCall

Leave it up to Robert to jinx FriendFeed :) It's been pretty slow today and I'm getting sporadic Service Unavailable errors. No system is perfect :) - Bwana McCall

Or maybe because the UI is annoying as hell... - Eric Florenzano