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This got something to do with Twit Leo? - Dieoxide

You've got to be kidding, why would he do that? The next four years would be a constant battle of who is in charge. You would just want her to be his VP since it was close. She lost, its over. :-) - David Tolsma

Guess you're right - it's Biden. In retrospect a pretty good choice. - Leo Laporte

prediction wrong - Ryan

Biden is a good choice for Obama. - ComicList

I like the whole omniscient unmiked mom conceit. - Oldengrey (Jay)

I enjoyed it a lot, I'm sure you can find a way to incorporate everything. - Mike Lewis

She's putting on the pressure to do a podcast. Ay yi yi. - Leo Laporte

Are you the line extension or is she? She was charming. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Looked more like "Lunch with Leo". A new feature on TWIT - Dave Rutter

She was wonderful, I enjoyed listening to her thinking. A breath of fresh air! :D - Shawna Bergen

@leolaporte - Your mom was great. Really enjoyed her being there in studio and speaking up. I do think she should have her own podcast... dump her brain so that we can all hear it. :-) - C.B.

We love your job too, and how well you do it. :) - Margaret Kerr from twhirl

i love your job except when i am trying to get something done, because i can't tune you out. - robert steburg

I love your job too and if I had it I might be able to afford all of the "toys" you turn me on to. Keep at it! - Mike

@Robert: I think there might be a direct correlation between how much Leo loves his job and my inability to do mine when he is on. :) PS I can't stop whistling the Skype Dial Tone now! - Johnny Worthington

We love that you love your job. For some of us in our jobs, however, the opposite of love applies. :-( - Dave "Freedom 35"

Do what you love, love what you do. It is a fundemental truth that escapes most of us. - Rob Fuller from twhirl

love that you love your job so should we all - Danny Pratt

And I love the output. I look forward to Macbreak Weekly and TWiT. - Jonathon

It's a great job. Congrats on 24 hours of iphone. - Ryan

Many people would say they love the job you do! :) - Chris Luckhardt

You made it happen, made it lovable. - Michael W. May from twhirl

24 Hours was great stuff! - Patrick Jordan

You do have a very cool job Leo. If you are hiring, let me know. - Michael McGimpsey

I'm hoping to have a similar job someday soon. - Vermyndax from twhirl

Great. I just read your Twitter when thinking about quitting my job. Now I'm a wimp if I don't bail. - Andrew Leyden

EVIL WEARS PRADA!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

How could you not love your job! Actually you could not love it, but you wouldn't do it as well if you didn't love it. - Jenz

Great to read someone loves there job! I love the positive vibe. I've just subscribed, I don't know what your job is... pardon my ignorance :) - Adrian Nadeau

I love both of my jobs too! - Douglas Porter from twhirl

Apple should become a sponsor for all the free promotion you are going to give them tomorrow. - ComicList

You think anyone will watch the ENTIRE 24 hours of it? - sunkenplanet from twhirl

It is going to be fun to watch. Thanks for doing this leo. - Shannon Carver from Alert Thingy

Yeah, I'm the kind of person that really needs sleep as well. If I don't get at least 4 hours a night, I'm completely useless. And I'm 16! - Dillon K. Hoops

You know you love it, you're never too old as long as you still love it. And I might actually watch the whole 24hrs just for the heck of it. - Margaret Kerr from twhirl

You are too old for this! But you are going to have fun. I couldn't do it that's for sure. Best of luck, I'll be watching! - Mike Lewis

It is a sad revelation when you realize you are starting to get too old for some things. Then it begins to hit you that it will only get worse. – Our Daily Affirmation – Today is the best day of the rest of your life. - David Z

Must say I like that the focus starts in this part of the world again (Australia/NZ). - James Fridley

Coffee and sugar are your friends. Get through it and take a few days off afterward :) - Brett Kelly

.Mac is don! Oh happy days! - Clay Hummer from twhirl

Never thought I'd here that, people being happy about .Mac being down - Andrew Fielding from twhirl

Age like a fine wine. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Leo, are you a robot? - Randy

Well, at least we know why this time... :) - Clay Hummer from twhirl

Apple store at Stanford Shopping Center has a short line because the mall is closed at night until 5:45. 5am good to go. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Good night. - Morton Fox

What price passion for the work we do? I know I can't do it anymore without major caffeine and catnaps! - Barb Gonzalez

in the wee hours of the morning....remember your cell phone and call people....and I'll be up with ya too. - Walter McNabb

Shouldn't Apple just GIVE you a phone - If NYT and others get review units why NOT the CHIEF! - Jeff Garlick

LOL @ Q: "What is Bill Gates' greatest achievement?" Answer: "None" - Mona Nomura

I'm glad to got around to agreeing, unanimously, that Bill's not evil; that gave most of the show comments/arguments some credibility. - mark dekruyter

more power to the man - john conroy

good episode Leo - John Blanton from twhirl

If there never was a gates and MS, IBM would have mismanaged the PC and dropped it, there would have been no Apple left for Jobs to rescue, and we'd all be using Commodore 256's. - Al Trenda

Great episode, I'm loving all the stories from all the old timers :) - James P. from twhirl

looking forward to listening to this on my next swim. - Thomas Hawk

@leolaporte please thank JohnC for showing . Made my day, love tech history and cranky old geeks..Bestest twit yet. - Carol Garrett

Great episode, except John ate the entire time. I felt very hungry by the time the episode was finished. - ComicList

I loved last night's episode. Great as always - Grant

Great show, Leo. - Jonathon

Great episode, it was like old geezer story time; Love those guys-- have been reading articles by Dvorak 20 years ;-) - Mark Nassal from twhirl

No offense to Jerry, but please.. he's so painful to listen to.. :( Great episode though! - Moe Foster

Congrats for the show Leo, it was great (as usual :-) - Stelian Iancu from twhirl

Excellent show as always Leo. It's great to hear Jerry's getting back to full health. - John Frazer from twhirl

Great show -- one of your best. I like the exceptionally seasoned aspect of your panel this time. - Joe Chiappetta

Great show as usual. Lots of old school memories. I also appreciated the shout out to my employer, The X PRIZE Foundation. - Mark Krynsky

where's the builtin player on this one? Sigh.. guess I have to click the link. Damn you FriendFeed for making things so easy. - Tim Hoeck

Thinks that was a great bit of humor to start with viacom's IP address.. - Ian May from twhirl

Leo, would like an audio-only feed from TWiT Live to listen in the car, or at work. - Mike Lerch

Another fantastic episode. - Patrick Sweeney

Great episode. good job guys. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

That was an awesome episode. Great to hear more about the iPhone coverage goodies. - Eric Geller

Great show. With 100% less Dvorak - Andrew Smith

I'll take Dvorak over Calacanis any day. I had the reverse Calacanis experience -- thought he was interesting the first 20 minutes I heard him on the Gang and it went downhill from there. - H Durer

A good show. But if you're going to devote a segment to energy technologies then perhaps you should invite someone on who really knows what they're talking about. - Rob Safuto

gave up on twit and gg years ago due to time-to-value ratio - but if you're talking energy rob's the man and I'd listen to him (only reason I commented - otherwise would have hide) - mike "glemak" dunn

Thx Mike. I find TWiT to be generally entertaining, but sometimes they veer off into rocky territory. - Rob Safuto

Leo should do picks on Twit like he does not MacBreak Weekly. I love both shows but this would make Twit even better! - Sweyn Venderbush from twhirl

Calacanis just likes the sound of his own voice. - Patrick Sweeney

I've noticed Leo tends to talk over the people he is co-hosting shows with. Other than that, I tend to enjoy the TWiT programs. - ComicList

Never quite the same without Mr D'. Great nonetheless. Enjoying "No Agenda" hugely, though very different than Twit. - Ian

That is VERY cool - Grant

Sounds great! I can't wait to see it. - James Mowery from feedalizr

quite exciting :) - justine

Sweet! I have the day off, and I'll be tuning in whilst I play with my new 3g iphone :) - Jeremy

I will definitely be tuning into this. Very cool! - Matt Donders

Cool. I will (as always) be listening....and viewing. ;) - BISQ

It turns out I won't be able to get iPhone 3G on launch day but watching TWiT Live is the next best thing - Grant

Wow, Dane is really pulling out all the stops trying to earn that Kevlar vest isn't he? Very cool news! - Joe Pierce

Ooo, I'm tuning in too! - Dillon K. Hoops

awesome news, now how about posting TWiT a few minutes early tonight in celebration? - Jordan

We don't hold on to TWiT - Dane posts it the minute it's ready. (Which should be soon.) - Leo Laporte

Is it cool just to buy a 32MB iTouch, most of the coolness, none of the AT&T? - Steven Van Tilburg from twhirl

Leo, can we get an audio stream feed of the daily TwitLive for us bandwidth challenged. I'm using EV-DO and it still doesn't quite keep up with your high bps. What speed are you sending out? - Keith Rowland

I figured it'd be cool to buy a used, deactivated iPhone with most of the coolness and none of the AT&T, and it would still have the potential to be a phone again. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I wonder if Super Monkey Ball would fit on a 32 MB iPod Touch:) - Grant

I have to agree with Keith, Leo. Is there going to be an audio stream or podcast of some of the twitlive activities for the new iPhone debut? Being on dial-up it's hard for me to watch the video streaming. - Molly, "sorry"

Waiting to see magic unroll on the iPhone 3G marathon coverage.. Leo, who is joining you on the 24 live? - Du Senyao Peter

Leo should do it telethon style... Have really cheesey variety acts, I'm thinking a singing dog and a bird that runs a obsticle course. Then every hour you could cut to a scene of Dane and Colleen at a bank of telephones and a counter of some sort. "Hi and welcome back to the iPhone-a-thon, lets go to Dane in the tally room... how we going Dane?" - Johnny Worthington

That is great!! - Spirit 2.0

I require yellow lasers... - xero

cool - Fred Grott

You need to have Dane put up a schedule. - TJ Harron

I'll be there. Calling in. At 7:15 AM. With sleep rings around my eyes. :) - Eric Geller

awesome... i love the woz! - Chris Heath

Thats great Leo, just try not to gush on him this time ;) - Chris Kuhner

Very cool. After reading his Founders @ Work interview, I am even more interested in his take on the 'simplicity' of it. - Jon Cline from twhirl

When Woz is on TWIT Live it's definately a highlight event! The guy has a ton of personality. - Harry Myhre

Is he gonna have Kathy Griffin with him? : )~ - Hillary

Yeah, but I want automagic data portability. I want it to go on in the background. I don't even want to know it's there. I just want to click a button to sign up for a service and be done with it. Or better yet, have my IA sign up for the services it figures I'd be interested in, and then just show me the best content from said services. - Chrimmus Tad

Tad: join our sect. I'll be your guru there! :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - directeur from NoiseRiver

Go go social graph. - Eric Florenzano

Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility. - Chrimmus Tad

Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc - Chrimmus Tad

I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected - Scott Bannon from twhirl

actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically... - edythe

Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they? - Ryan Sit

i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself. - Jason Toney

it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :) - Larry from twhirl

I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one! - Stefan Hayden

Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users. - Chrimmus Tad

would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time. - Thomas Hawk

Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr - Chrimmus Tad

I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new... more... - Scott Bannon from twhirl

I was really impressed with how well swurl worked. - Jason Wehmhoener

concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment - mike "glemak" dunn

I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network. - Amit Patel

Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example? - Phil G

Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere. - Scott Bannon from twhirl

Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary. - Phil G

But the point of new social networks is to shed all your stupid non-friends! - ⓞnor

I still want people to be able to add me without leaving my website. Isn't that what AJAX is for, after all? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

How about being able to sign up for disparate services/sites here on FF and automatically have all subscriptions updated in said service and automatically have said service's content spewed out here in FF? I want FF to be my primary hub for all things internets. - Chrimmus Tad

Brian, there's no "might" about it, if someone can figure out a *good* solution to this problem, they will be sitting on a gold mine. - Brandon Wood

so.. this is where you're hiding. - Dan Hendricks

why don't you just use summize? i don't even use the replies tab anymore. - Veronica

Spent the weekend getting used to FriendFeed - thanks for the tip Leo - it rocks! Figured it all out just by clicking around. Friendfeed me of "Shozu" the way they tie into all the other online services. Really amazing. - Harry Myhre

Friendfeed makes it much easier to see EVERYTHING not just status updates - Grant from twhirl

You're right, Beronica, shoulda thought of Summize. But I still have too many @s to reply to. Even 10 replies would choke Twttr. - Leo Laporte

so re: your switch to friendfeed, how will you manage your status updates when you are mobile? by logging in to the friendfeed site on your mobile browser? - isky

@isky doesn't have to. just twitter the mobile update, it'll show up on ff and ppl can comment there. - xero

its gonna go back down again just you wait - sadiq kassamali

time to ditch all replying at Twitter and do it at FF - Michael McGimpsey

Bah can't believe that such a major part of twitter's functionality was down for so long. FF wins again. - John Samuelson

I only had one new response there to greet me when I clicked Replies! - Joe Dawson

Someone should be keeping a track on the amount of backlash twitter is getting because of its lack of scalability - Jassim

What feature did they turn off in order to ger "Replies" working again? - Michael VanDervort from Alert Thingy

only hundreds? Am surprised-- seeing how long replies were down. I'd have thought @leolaporte would have even more. This is actually v. interesting information for me - john conroy

It was more replies than the paginator would let me read, so I don't really know how many. According to Summize 281 @replies in the past 48 hours. - Leo Laporte

I am liking this FriendFeed concept. Should have looked at it earlier. It's like gossip central. - Andrew L

it'll be really interesting to see when/if ff goes down when they start getting serious traffic. i wonder what their numbers are in relation to twitter - h1ro

Let's keep FF civil. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Jay: it's a lot easier to tear down than to build up. Plus, by fighting with people you aggregate attention (everyone in High School pays attention to a fight, but rarely pays attention to the smart kid building a science project). - Robert Scoble

cool rule and analogy... Is that an analogy? I agree with you. No different than phishing for followers is attacking people for the sake of attention and then hoping attention = followers. If everyone was nice... THen everyone else would be nice!! HUH? - Cody Heitschmidt

The only problem with this argument is you can't exactly mimic your real life behavior with your virtual ones. - Muthu Ramadoss

bravos, robert. there is never an excuse for bad manners - Dave Martin

Muthu - Not true in this case you sure as hell can defend and protect those your care about in anysituation - Cody Heitschmidt

Attacks are a cheap way of scoring points and often say more about the attacker then the victim. Like Jay says, it brings attention, but if done simply for that purpose, it can be a difficult ledge to step back from. - Ross Maguire

Depends on the context, I guess. Reasonable people can disagree and have opposing points of view, but repeated ad hominem attacks are simply unacceptable, no? - Andrew Feinberg

I think everyone needs to go outside and breathe some actual air. Maybe see that thing called sunshine all the cool kids are talking about. - Cyndy

Something we all should do. If there were consequences to being mean rather than rewards more people might try being nice. - Summer

Andrew: a disagreement is one thing. I'm talking about something else. Agree. Cyndy: I live in Half Moon Bay. It's overcast right now. And, anyway, I saw enough of the sun this week in Washington DC to last me a month! :-) - Robert Scoble

I think part of the problem is the term "friend". Just because you subscribe to someone's feed doesn't mean you have to like or even respect that person. - Mike Doeff

Mike: I'm talking about real life friends in this post. You know, those kinds of people you've had dinner with and done stuff with and who've been over your house, and all that? But, yes, I'd apply this same test to the people I'm following here on FriendFeed. If I saw someone attacking one of my online friends over and over I'd block them too. It's behavior I don't need in my life. - Robert Scoble

I agree. Who needs the negativity? There's enough of that in the world. Having a respectful difference of opinion is one thing; but a situation where one person constantly attacks other people is not helpful for anyone. It's pointless in person or online. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I agree - online attacking or bickering or arguments are pointless anyways most of the time - having said that I think I've only ever blocked one person on twitter and that was 'cos they were spamming adverts for some sort of crap - Joe Breen

Civility is important in all arenas, but we must remember that there is a difference between online interactions and real life. Humor, etiquette, and context are all things that are radically different online, and as such, do not have the gravity of face-to-face rudeness or niceness. Besides, Twitter and FF are tools, as are many of the people I follow on them ;) See? That joke might not fly IRL. Oh wait... It didn't here either. - Juan Aguilar

Yes, but you can still hear about attackers from others, blocking only works half well. - Jeremiah Owyang

So right. Even if you are having a disagreement, there's basic respect. Either you are building the relationship or you are destroying it. Be honest about that choice, and ask yourself if that's really the kind of person you want to be. If you make the choice to be a jerk, don't go labeling yourself a hero. - Ro (Lilyhill)

Jeremiah: that would work just like it does in my living room. My friends often tell me about people who hate me, attack me, or lie about me to Valleywag. That doesn't mean that I need to let those people into my living room (or get unblocked here on FriendFeed). - Robert Scoble

then again on the flipside it's interesting for us onlookers if/when arrington & scoble argue/attack/bicker. :) - Joe Breen

The lack of truly personal interaction has brought about a lack of civility and too many pointless arguments. - David Z

a very sound sentiment - Andrea Baker

@David Z: Very astute observation IMO. Amazing how many 'fierce and fiery' folks via email or IM suddenly become very cordial when you get them on the phone, much less have a face to face. - AJ Kohn

I used to think like this when I had a BBS in 1990s. The BBS actually was in my living room so I had no worries about telling people the rules. I learnt then that some people who are reasonable in the "real world" are nutjobs online.. - Stuart Woodward

You are an inspiration to many of us Scoble. - Satya

Fair enough, though for me, FriendFeed is *not* my living room. - Brent Newhall

I agree - there is no reason why people should treat people online differently than they would IRL. Although on the internet it is difficult to behave the same way .. as you may meet people online you would have never met IRL, talk to people would have been too self conscience to talk to, etc. so it gives weak people a place to get all that real life anger out on people they will never meet. which is pretty messed up, but as a former shy girl .. i went through that when I 1st went online a million yrs ago. - Jenz

It depends on your definition of attack. If by attack you mean disagree, even passionately, then I disagree. - Michael Tefft

I tested Wordle and I put in my CV! Check it out: http://wordle.net/gallery... - Michael Forian

but it's too small to see it and won't enlarge :( - Lucretia Pruitt

:-) - Mitchell Tsai

Hey I see my name right below Twhirl...cool! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe