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Get any video or pics? - John McCrea

John: we're looking. Podtech took them all down, from what I can see. I didn't have any video of her, unfortunately, that I remember. Rocky's looking through our archive, although PodTech owns the copyright on anything we do have. Oh, well... - Robert Scoble

I do have a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

I have a picture of both of them together on his plane, historic photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

Ah, context.... http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Jay Cuthrell

better make sure the AP doesn't lift it from your Flickr link! - Nancy Babyak

wonder what those shots are worth... - annie heckenberger

Nancy: I gave AP permission to use my photos. All my photos are open for anyone to use. Steal away! - Robert Scoble

I'm glad you shared this, but I have to say, that picture makes me sad. - Stacy Bond

http://www.flickr.com/photos... (I think that's her videoing John, too). - Robert Scoble

You ever notice when someone has an affair... they always post the ugliest picture possible at first? - Dean Clark

Annie: if I were to sell them, maybe tens of thousands of dollars. I doubt they'd bring more than $100,000 cause they aren't technically that good so they wouldn't be able to get on a cover of a magazine. - Robert Scoble

My whole John Edwards set: http://www.flickr.com/search... - Robert Scoble

@Robert I really need to keep my good camera with me at all times... - Andrew Feinberg

You're the man! That's pretty EFFing cool that you got to travel with him. I guess it's good Edwards didn't win the primary. We'd really be EEF'ed then. Despite this scandal, I still like the guy and people should just back off. I hate these types of scandalous stories around personal and private matters. yeah, yeah, he's a public figure, but it's still a personal and private matter!! - Miiko Mentz

Nice picture set, even if they're not all A+ grade but for the environment proposed, it's pretty good! - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

I have a clip from Reille Hunter's John Edwards video 'Plane Truths' in my Vlog Soup episode 21. http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008... - Steve Garfield

Robert, isn't it amazing the circles you've ended up travelling in the past few years! It is inspiring to me. - John McCrea

John: it is absolutely amazing. It just gets more and more surreal. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, saying "who knew I was so close to a news story 1.5 years later"would be no different that if you had climbed Mt. St. Helen's in Nov of 1979 only to hear of its eruption in May of 1980. You being on that plane has NOTHING to do with this story. Nice try, though. - Dave Madison

Dave: interesting point of view. But in this case the affair was still going on. At least I didn't die to get these pictures like I would have if I had been at the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. - Robert Scoble

Robert you r being silly. You wouldn't have risked dying because you wouldn't have been there. And u weren't there for this bimbo eruption. - Dave Madison

You just happened to get a picture of Reile 1.5 years before anyone knew what was going on. If I got a picture of Lewinsky walking down Penn. Ave in 1995, does that mean "I was there?". Hey! I got a random ok picture of Spritzer on a shuttle to DC. Guess that makes me a part of history, too! - Dave Madison

Dave: the thing is I WAS there. Just because I didn't know what was going on at the time, doesn't mean I didn't capture the two of them together. But, whatever, I really don't care either way. If you had a picture of Lewinsky and Clinton together on Penn Ave. you would have had an interesting picture too. Your argument doesn't hold, though, because if I had a picture of St. Helens at the time it exploded I would have had a historical picture, even if I didn't understand what I had taken a picture of. - Robert Scoble

It says "live" in teh corner of my nbc swimfeed - Archangel ωαřмaiden

WarMaiden: I already know that Phelps won a goal and set a world record but it won't be on here in California until later tonight. - Robert Scoble

TV is dead. Time delays are dead. In Canada, they don't allow local broadcasting of election results until your region's polls have closed. The Internet has killed that old-fashioned idea. Time delay TV is so 1988. - Stephen Pierzchala

Aaah, gotcha - Archangel ωαřмaiden

We hear this every four years, but if you truly want the Olympcs to be live with the 12-hourdifference, be waring to go at 3 a.m. That said, I notice that at least for the East Coasters are getting some of the big events live while us West Coasters have to wait three hours... But we're used to that... - Chris Reed

CBC is the perfect model. Live, inclusive, no smaltzy profiles, just the sports. - Kathleen Mazzocco

NBC sucks. Why aren't they showing more of the Olympics? At 7 they showed Access Hollywood Weekend, now they are doing "Olympic Zone" live from Downtown Palo Alto??? WTF?? - PC Easy from twhirl

Ben: are you on East Coast? - Robert Scoble

Robert, you sure are in a hateful mood tonight..but I am with ya..so carry on. - Scot Duke

that sucks. here in Detroit we've got the CBC too, although at least on EST, they've had just as much live coverage for the first time since at least '92 - Richard Lawler from twhirl

Scot: I hate it cause people are talking about it on Twitter and I can't watch for three more hours. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Agreed PC. Their announcers suck, their stupid commercial breaks every 5 minutes suck. Ugh, I want decent coverage of this stuff already. - Dennis Jackson

I am with ya on the Twitter talk about it. I have been trying to watch it online and that sucks as well. - Scot Duke

agreed that the CBC coverage has been great so far...too bad they've lost the broadcast rights for the olympics after this year... - Trent Olson

And it appears NBC may have altered the broadcast of the Opening Ceremony to place TeamUSA in primetime: http://tinyurl.com/5pu92v - Peter Svensk

I am so angry that I can't watch my friends who are racing over there...I have to read about it and hope for youtube. Not angry. Outraged. - Andrew Feinberg

And the MSM wonders why people pirate content and feeds.... - Duncan Riley

gee .. like no-one thought this would happen huh .. a corporation re-writing history to help their bottom line .. I am so shocked <GASP> - Steven Hodson

+1 for CBC - JT Perry

Have you tried the NBC Olympics site? http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_... Some content is streamed live... you may have to adjust your sleeping habits to can the next round of competion in four hours from now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Robert - Yes East Coast, but they are back to recorded gymnastics. "LIVE" is gone. - Ben Newton

I'm watching it live right now. Is it a west coast thing? There are tons of live events online this year, even practice sessions. Requires MSoft Silverlight but pretty good quality streams. - Andrew Leyden

I watched the opening ceremony on my TV via Sopcast&Tvants (pc hooked up to TV). Watched it again in HDTV on NBC later that night. This link has all the ways to catch coverage http://howto.wired.com/wiki... - Andrew Leyden

and you are surprised? at all? honestly? - Thomas Vincent

I'm watching CBC in Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics Do you think it would be any different if another network was covering the Olympics in the States? - Phillip Jeffrey

Comcast added two special Olympic channels in the HD section--one for basketball and one for soccer. There is also Universal HD which has some coverage, USA Network, Oxygen, CNBC and MSNBC, and Telemundo. I'd spin around to see if you can find anything live at the moment (I think there is a basketball game on now). - Andrew Leyden

Have you tried nbcolympics.com? I know they are having some events live. Personally I don't have a problem with the delay. With a choice of the races being broadcast live but not seeing them and being able to see the delay I'll take the delay. - ChiliMac

Here is a good list of what is on (all times EDT) across all the networks http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv... - Andrew Leyden

If you want live, unfortunetly the only way is through the web. And they are raw feeds using MS Silverlight. So if your willing to deal with that you can get all of the events in a pop-up window on your computer. : | - Bluesun 2600 from twhirl

On the West coast in .au we are use to 2hr delay for most sporting events, but not the Olympics. Appears to be live at, least on SBS the "complementary" broadcaster, time to settle down for 3 hours of the womens cycling road race. - Nick Cowie

whenever the olympics take place on the other side of the world most events aren't shown live. This is not about broadcasting the olympics as a public service. It's about NBC making their money back. You do understand the relationship between ad rates and prime-time, right? The Internet takes away any suspense about the olympics when they are held on the other side of the world. You ain't gonna get live from NBC. Too much money at risk. - Dave Madison

part of the coverage is live at least on the east coast. there has been some effort to schedule a few important US events in the morning a la Phelps so that they can be seen live on primetime - Ted

Adding insult to injury, my rather capable PowerPC Mac can't even access the Olympics on nbcolympics.com. It's using an Intel-only version of Silverlight. Trying CBC and other foreign networks online all reject me because of my American IP, and I haven't found a successful proxy server that'll let me stream. - Kevin Hessel

loving nbc's use of silverlight working awesome on the macbook pro - adolfo foronda

The BBC have just had to put a bucket into the Olympics studio in Beijing as the roof is leaking! - Rich

@Kevin Hessel: Thanks for pointing that out. Now I'm not happy with NBC either. - ChiliMac

try watching CBC channel 99 on Comcast. I just watched USA creamed China in basketball, live. - ~C4Chaos

NBC focuses too much on the #olympics drama rather than live coverage. bball on primetime? USA already creamed China - http://bit.ly/1cQyX2 - ~C4Chaos

yeah - accesine

The last time I was right I picked Nixon. I was really wrong. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

+1 Jack. Saw a bumper sticker the other day: "At least Nixon had the decency to resign." ;-) - Mohit

Oooooh very interesting... shall be fun to watch the Scoble house deal with the vote results! - Susan Beebe

yeah but if Bush resigned, we'd be with Cheney...is that much better? - Justin Korn

*Shudder* Alright fine you've got a point there. I'll take stupid over evil any day :) - Mohit

it would be interesting to see Obama fail and Orange Revolution in USA... wait, who will sponsor that? lol - A.T.

LOL. I'm totally sure that I'm not sure who will win! - Pokai

I was certain that both major parties would select their candidates by Super Tuesday. I was only half right. Re Gore, Robert was wrong by a vote of 5-4. :) - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

My prediction for the 2008 general - like 1960, it will be decided on images rather than substance. The "old geezer" will end up losing to the "inxperienced kid." - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

Ontario: the last administration had plenty of experience and look what they ended up doing to all of us. - Robert Scoble

Your son needs a blog :P - John

John: he has one. Is on Twitter too. But he usually is too busy playing WoW to write anything. - Robert Scoble

awesome! thanks. - John

Robert, does your son have a candidate preference? - Czar

Robert, what faction and server ;) - mjc

The contest will be pretty tight, like the last two. It's all about electoral voites and gerrymandered districts. - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

@Michael J Cohen Horde-Kalecgos-Torosmen-druid-resto/balance and Alliance-Killrogg-Glorindael-Mage-Arcane/Fire (but I respec a lot on him) - Patrick Scoble

@Czar DJ Peterman Obama however I am exposed to both sides so I would consider myself in-between on a lot of issues. - Patrick Scoble

HA! Did Patrick just join FriendFeed to participate in this conversation??!?! Welcome to the friendfeed world! - Justin Korn

signed up, paid my fee, every day Mobileme tells me syncing failed and mu trial is over, no response from Apple, really poor form - Patphelan

Well, no when ever my Dad joins a new service I generally do too. However I never really got into Friend Feed. I'll see if I can get set up here. Thanks for welcoming me! - Patrick Scoble

@Robert, ironic thing about that is your photo of me appears next to "The Politics Guy" archetype on HolyTaco's "people who will ruin your party"...and without crediting you either. - Andrew Feinberg

Actually, Scoble was wrong by 537 votes in Florida. Which the SC basically validated by a 5-4 vote. It's interesting the some think the SC is wrong, like in this instance, but yet they are infallible when it comes to Rove v Wade. - Dave Madison

@Francine, it's not the last two elections that have been decided by electoral votes. EVERY Presidential election has been determined by electoral votes, not popular vote. God forbid if we ever change and think it better to decide by popular vote. - Dave Madison

@DavidMadison what I don't get about all you pro-life types is that you, presumably, trust the woman to raise the child; but don't trust her with the decision to have said child. - Prolific Programmer

Woah - how'd this turn into an abortion discussion? - Tad

I'm daring to hope that our great nation is about the elect the right guy for the same stupid, superficial reasons that we (kinda) elected the wrong guy 8 years ago, and re-elected the sumbitch 4 years ago. - Tegan Dowling

i'm for the pill, aka pre-bortion - @baratunde from twhirl

The pill and abortion seen from another perspective are "russian roulette" with family aspirations. You don't always get a "second chance" at having children. Simple biology (to its logical conclusion) says sperm and ovum meet and create life. It is inextricably part of the sexual act. When we eat food we do it primarily to nourish our bodies BUT it also tastes good. When we reverse that thinking, we eat out of balance. The sexual act needs to be seen with the same kind of sacredness and balance.... - Melanie Reed

...but we have reversed that. As a result, many of us have lost the joy and regard (or will lose it) for what this gift is about. From a purely pragmatic aspect, 40, million potential scientists, inventors, programmers, artists, etc. have been forever lost. What have we sacrificed because we thought more of a moment than a lifetime of consequence? Here's why sacredness protects us individually and communally. - Melanie Reed

Either way we all win! - Todd Loren Sinclair

anyone who says they are confident that one or the other will win at this stage is crazy - this entire cycle has been psychotically unpredictable - the pundits are lucky that they are held about as accountable as weather forecasters - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

And yet McCain keeps bringing it up because it "appears" to address the shortage problem - Bob Ngu from twhirl

I saw a lobbyist (I think) for big oil two nights ago on CNN who stated that if Exxon broke even instead of $11 billion in profits, the price at the pump would be almost negligible. Yeah, right. - jcunwired

We need to apply long term planning resources to alternative energy initiatives rather than short term stuff - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

... and even if it were so, time to market is 7 to 14 years. But based on known reserves, consumers will enjoy no price benefit as all from new drilling. Our best bet -- while waiting for the maturity of other energy technologies -- is conservation. In fact, it's the only play at all. - Chris Baskind

The profit made at the pump is federally regulated - in other words the whole idea of "windfall profits" as if they are gouging us is not only incorrect but impossible. The federal government makes about double in taxes at the pump as the oil company does in profit. Who is robbing us again? Stirring up class envy against "big oil" isn't anything but politics. - Soulhuntre

And the concept that we should just move in (thanks Nancy Pelosi) and jsut decide to confiscate legally earned profits is about the scariest thing I have heard in a long time. - Soulhuntre

@Chris: What, you expect Americans to quit driving their Tahoes and Escelades? People enjoy that feeling of driving a large tank down the road looking down on everyone else. (Yes, I'm generalizing. No, I don't drive one, I drive a Neon. Yes, I hate large SUVs.) - Jason Shultz from twhirl

The core concept in the US is freedom. If I can afford to drive a SUV, and I want to drive one... then I damn well will. Obviously people will call that selfish or whatever - but the freedom to enjoy our lives is an important one. The additional burden on the energy system is incorporated into my higher feul prices... so there is no issue of fair. - Soulhuntre

Of course drilling tomorrow wont have an affect on the prices you pay the day after. What drilling will do is produce more SUPPLY which will drive down the FUTURE price of a barrel of oil. Oil is a commodities market just like pork, corn, wheat, etc. The price per barrel is a speculated price. As for Exxon's "obscene profits", hey it's their profits. I'm guessing their shareholders are very very grateful. What, exactly, is the maximum amount of money any one person or company is allowed to make anyway? - Dave Madison

While Exxon may have earned $11B in profits, They paid $32B ww in total taxes. So, sounds like the public was benefiting greatly from Exxon's obscene profits. That works out to $3 in taxes to every $1 they made in profit. I don't know about you, but I would be very pissed if every paycheck I got $3 went to the government for every $1 I got to keep. I know there are some that think that's more than fair, though. We usually call those Socialists. - Dave Madison

Finally, once the Capitol Bldg is fitted with Solar Panels and Windmills for power, I'll start taking all this "alternative energy source" talk seriously. Walk the talk. Until then, shut the hell up. - Dave Madison

Dave: there's a lot of hot air in Washington, but not enough wind. As to Solar, there's not enough surface area on the Capitol to generate enough electricity to drive everything. Not to mention that covering one of our national treasures in solar panels just ain't gonna happen. - Robert Scoble

@Dave: Don't forget the White House, Blair House( for visiting dignitaries) and the Old Executive Office Building across the street from the White House. - Roberto Bonini

Oh and the Pentagon - gotta be plenty of roof space there, huh? - Roberto Bonini

Dave, as you said, Exxon paid "32B ww" in taxes, where ww = *worldwide*. Most of that $32B was not U.S. income tax. We can't help it if some foreign countries charge 90% of oil revenues in taxes. It's *their* oil. Also, the difference between my paycheck and Exxon's is that my paycheck doesn't come from the consumption of a finite *public* resource. - Karim

And as for *which* public was "benefiting greatly from Exxon's obscene profits," I point you in the direction of Kuwait, which has free health care, free college education, and 0% income tax for its citizens. And, if you order now, you get free American military support should you ever be invaded by a neighboring dictator. NOW how much would you pay? But wait, there's more...! - Karim

and now barak obama supports drilling... as part of a comprehensive energy package. which is after he was against drilling and now he is for it. will it change more times before the november election? - Jonathan Jesse

The economy is based on the consumer driven "credit economy". Our country's loans from other countries are in the billions. The rich third world countries have bought our debt. The price of our gas pays the interest on these loans. If we started drilling for oil and produced our own gas the economy would fall. One day when the country goes into a depression will they remember the pundit's warnings about the"law of diminishing returns?"-EarlWAllace - earl wallace

Covering the Capitol in solar panels would be an abomination and not effective. Replacing the Capitol power plant with a Nuclear reactor, however, would be cleaner and more efficient. We just need to wait for Robert Byrd to retire - Andrew Feinberg

why do we have to wait? Is that because it can't be named after him until he retires? ;-) - Dave Madison

@Karim, nice exercise in making straw man arguments. But you didn't address the point. The fact that Kuwait has 0% income tax for individuals is irrelevant. I was talking about corporate taxes. And you are right, we can't help it if other countries have more oppressive tax rates than the U.S. Again, that's irrelevant to my point. The fact is, Exxon paid $3 in taxes for every $1 in profit. So, if I were Barry, I'd be careful what I wish for. The federal govt benefits quite nicely.. - Dave Madison

..from Exxon's "obscene profits". The ones that are getting filthy rich off of oil are not the oil companies; direct your ire to the oil traders at investment banks. - Dave Madison

Robert, of course it would be an eyesore. I was being ridiculous to make a point. The Dems seem all too happy to tell people how they should live their lives (just last week Barry's solution to the gas price issue was to tell people to keep their tires properly inflated. If only he'd had on a sweater and was sitting by a fireplace, he could have been the second coming of Jimmy Carter--telling us all what to set our thermosats at). As soon as Stretch Pelosi, outfits her house with solar panels,.... - Dave Madison

@Dave, Its a matter of personal preference. I prefer a planet that can last into the next century, a life for my son that is at the least as good as mine was from the perspective of breathing. While I certainly would like every bit of my government to "walk the walk", I don't allow the decisions of government to influence whether I will do the right thing or not. By the way, Jimmy Carter was right and proper air pressure can do a lot to save $ and the planet. - Brad Nickel

Of course it won't affect gas prices. Big Oil has gotten things where they want them and while we may see small drop backs in price, with leases or other gimmicks, these prices are here to stay. - Warner Crocker

If we start taking our own resources like off-shore drilling, nuclear power, etc., it will send a strong message to the market that we are determined not to rely on foreign sources, then it will have an impact on prices. There is no reason we should not be doing everything to get our own resources, while at the same time looking at alternative means. - Spencer

@ScottBourne We can go back even further, what did the White House do in the 90's to "fix" this problem? What have democrats done to "fix" this problem aside from whining? Gas prices have doubled since the democrats took power, they refuse to do anything but appease the far-left environmentalists which are a big source of this problem. But now we see the Obamessiah is even favoring off-shore drilling, maybe now you guys will see that he will say anything to anybody to get elected. - Spencer

@Dave Madison my point, which was apparently so subtle you missed it, was that you are erroneously conflating $32 billion in taxes Exxon paid *WORLDWIDE* (i.e. including to other governments) with arguments about how "the public" (i.e. the AMERICAN public) and "the government" (i.e. the AMERICAN government) are benefiting from these taxes. You said, quote, "the federal government... more... - Karim

Spencer, you said, "If we start taking our own resources like off-shore drilling, nuclear power, etc., it will send a strong message to the market that we are determined not to rely on foreign sources, then it will have an impact on prices." Just to clarify, I don't think anyone is saying that off-shore drilling will eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, just *maybe* put a dent in... more... - Karim

@Brad. Whether Jimmy Carter was right, or Barry is right about tire pressure is not the point. The point is, we don't need our President, or the govt telling us what temperature to keep our homes at, or how to maintain our cars. As the Leader of the Free World, Carter looked utterly foolish and was a huge embarrassment when he did that. But then, Carter will go down as Worst-President-Ever - Dave Madison

@Karim. And you missed my point. Governments benefit far more from Exxon's "obscene profits", that Exxon's shareholders do. So, it's really quite laughable when people get all up in arms about how much profit Exxon turns. For Barry to want to tack an additional windfall profits tax on "big oil" is ridiculous. - Dave Madison

Earth to ScottBourne. uh...this dependency on foreign oil thing has been around for more than 6 years. That question could just as easily been asked of Clinton's administration, and so on and so on and so on. So your point is really a non-starter. - Dave Madison

ScottBourne, of course oil companies will sell any new oil discovered the highest bidder. You sound like you view that as a bad thing. You do understand the basics of supply and demand though, right? With more oil on the market to be purchased, the lower the ppb will go. So, it's not necessarily about reducing our dependency on foreign oil. It's about driving down the price of a barrel of oil. Once OPEC sees there are other places from which countries can buy oil more cheaply.... - Dave Madison

they will be forced to reduce their prices. It's more about the price being paid, not the source of the oil. Here. this link might help you with the basics http://www.netmba.com/econ... - Dave Madison

Dave, your argument was misleading because you talked about $3 going to "the government" (as if it was one government) and "the federal government" (as if it were OUR Federal government). Now you are finally saying "governments," plural. Once you start to think about how Elbonia deserves to tax you for the profits you made on pumping *their* oil out of *their* country, maybe that $32B tax *worldwide* won't seem like anything to get upset about. - Karim