You totally disarmed me for pointing out how demeaning labels can be that I lost my focus on the social media survey result.
Hats off to you for speaking out on that.
Best.
alain
www.mor.ph - Alain Benedict Yap
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Sarah, I would still disagree that this study implies social media (as we on this site think of it) is all that popular in the mainstream. Once you dig through the backlinks, the original post says "Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms for communicating with friends, family, or colleagues on a regular basis". At least one.
They give hard numbers for blogging, texting, and IM (which is odd as it wasn't specified as one of the emerging media studied), but no hard data on social network participation. Personally, I find the omission telling. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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I love this mini-series I've heard its pretty realistic - Todd Wertenberger
had to expect something great the guys who made The Wire, a i haven't been dissapointed! - Brendan Jackson
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Anybody know when Flight of the Conchords is coming back or if it is? - Kamath ॐ
I keep finding myself wanting for it to be Band of Brothers (or The Wire). None of that is a blow against the series as it's pretty excellent, just wish I could get over those hurdles. - Blake Robinson
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@blake Maybe this will help: I feel like it's the best of both. An interesting historically based account of war (like Band of Brothers) and a relevant commentary on an aspect of American life with meticulous attention to realism (like The Wire). - Chip Ramsey
I've got them on my Tivo, can hardly wait to watch. - Shayna
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I love HBO, always have and probably always will. - Toby Graham
not very impressed with how Wordpress is technically shunning its developer community on this one, creating official versions of software which is already out there just not owned by Wordpress! Lame. - Josh Chandler
Good features with community-based origins are often integrated into software. That's the way stuff works and there isn't really anything wrong with that. - Blake Robinson
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WP has been integrating some of the popular plugin features for a while now. I worry that WP will pass a tipping point, and the software will become unwieldy. - Bill Sodeman
@MiniMAge, no not all at once.. 1 for each day of the week :)- - Peter Dawson
Nate Hawthorne, Joseph Campbell, Lao Tsu, David Sedaris and my nephew Cary Grant. - Boo
Thomas Pynchon, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bridget Fonda, Jon Stewart and Bono. - AJ Kohn
Of the dead: Bruno Shulz, Italo Calvino, Andre Breton, Stanley Kubrick, and George Carlin. - Akiva Moskovitz
Robin Williams, Alan Greenspan, Lance Armstrong, Scott Adams, and Stephen King. - Aaron Schaub
Ronald Reagan, Pete Rose, Stephen Covey, Jon Anderson and John Candy. - richrecruiter
sry should have clarified was just keeping my list to living people. Am finding a bunch of people I don't know and am interested to learn about! @forman YES Gary Oldman! he would be fascinating. @Aaron Robin williams and scott adams would be awesome! @reich Covey would be cool - @minimage lol I was thinking about that - all at once would suck, the conversation would be fascinating but you wouldn't get the full benefit - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
This is reminding me how much I loved and miss Dinner For Five on IFC. - Michael W. May
Robert Downey Jr., Barack Obama, J.J. Abrams, Graham Greene, and the so-what-if-he's-fictional Howard Roark :) - Stagekid
@ blake I'll second JJ Abrams, I'd imagine he would be facinating to talk to - Keke
If they have to be living: David Lynch, Stephen Colbert, Robert Scoble, K Eric Drexler, Neal Stephenson - maybe also Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Brian K. Vaughan (Y the Last Man), Grant Morrison, and I could probably think of many more. - Tad, better than boredom
Wow - hardly anyone wants to have dinner with any women.... Let's see I'd love to have dinner with: Kathy Sierra, Melinda Gates, Cali Lewis, Yuu Watase (Fushigi Yuugi).... oh! and Mona. With Lindsay along of course! ;) :P Oooh - and Diane Keaton (have had a crush on her since I first saw Annie Hall. - Tad, better than boredom
Russell T Davies, Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis, Neal Stephenson, and Phil Lesh - Occasional Headbanger
Dinner For Five FTW - And now that I have started thinking about Dinner for Five I want to add David Cross and Carrie Fisher to my list but I don't know who to remove. :( - Occasional Headbanger
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lauren Bacall, Tad Williams, Queen Elizabeth II, Edythe - Michael W. May
dinner with women? Does Waterboarding with Arundhati Roy count as dinner? ...because that would be a blast! Porn watching with Gloria Steinem! Fisting with Catharine MacKinnon... er hmmm why not Condoleezza Rice and an Ann Coulter menage toi... bring the whole Blogher group with 'em - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Gina Trapani, Robert Scoble, Dare Obasanjo, Pat Helland, Edythe. The fact that i've had dinner with 3/5 of these folks is not a coincidence. ;) - Chris Hollander
What? You don't want dinner with your girlfriend Amanda Chapel? [Why am I doing this.] - Akiva Moskovitz
Hunter S Thompson, Scott Bourne, Leo Laporte, Adam Duritz and Michael Palin - Johnny Worthington
Terry Gilliam, Alan Moore, John Stewart, Kevin Smith, and Woody Harrelson - Pete Delucchi
I thought this tangent was going towards women for dinner. aMANda Chapel is exempt from my feminist orgy. oh and I would never invite Robert Scoble over for dinner even if he would come. He's a bitch, but he would eat all my food. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
if your saying that robert is a "eat all of the mashed potatoes" sort of guy, then you're putting him in very lofty company. :) - Chris Hollander
really... I would like to meet. Sarah Cudo, Justine Ezarik, Beth Cleaver, Orli Yakuel, Leora Israel, Michelle Oshen and my own girlfriend. I'm kidding about my porn fantasy. come on that was rare sexist form for me. don't I get at least one knee slap? ...er also maybe Christine Cavalier if she can stop calling me a stalker - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Gary Coleman, Emmanuel Lewis, and I'll have to think of the other three later - Nathan Rein
BTW, my list wasn't just hypothetical... i'm free for dinner all this week. :) - Chris Hollander
Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Andrew Wiley, Herman Melville and Alan Moore. - Blake Robinson
@Boo Joseph Campbell is dead. I'd like to meet him as well - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
@noah, tnx, i now phear midgets, necrophiles, and potato eaters.... GASP! - Chris Hollander
lol @nathan are you making your list off of Bloodhound Gang lyrics? ; p Terry Gilliam, Robert Downey Jr, Terry Gilliam and JJ Abrams would be interesting - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
Aden Pennington, John Lennon, Mozart, Charles Manson, Clint Eastwood - Eric Truman
Oh living people. Only two of mine were. Subbing Bill Bryson, James Burke and an unknown. - Boo
on a more serious note... I would like to have dinner with all living former supreme court justices. I wanna talk about porn with the pros. hey Clarence... LONG DONG SILVER was the bomb! - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
The Pope, Clint Eastwood, My Dad, Queen Elizabeth, Dahli Lama... - Kathy
After some deep contemplation, I would like to respectfully un-invite Obama to my dinner party and replace him with Cal Ripken Jr. - Stagekid
I'd like to have Bill Kristol and Noam Chomsky over and make them talk to one another - Nathan Rein
Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Nick Cave, Richard Dawkins, Werner Herzog - Robert Stribley
story illustrates the limits of money and talent in big tech - Gregory Lent
lol! nah, I guess I'll just add a link instead ;) - Sarah Perez
I've been fairly vehemently against Identi.ca, but it's looking to be less of a copycat and more of a "twitter that works". - Bradley McSpinn
@Sarah: It looks like the tech blogosphere never sleeps. Even I from my strange timezone constantly find someone posting ahead on the news I get to my inbox when everyone is supposed to be asleep in the US :) - Svetlana Gladkova
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Do we need to reiterate that Louis Gray does not sleep? Especially with twins, he is now awake at odd hours for a good reason. - Rob Diana
LOL! yeah for real - that post of his was at 4 something in the morning. ;) - Sarah Perez
Sarah - Don't feel bad. Got a bunch of e-mails this morning asking if I knew what was going on ... then checked Louis' Blog first?! Just can't beat a guy with a Blackberry in his pillow - Charlie Anzman
@charlie and lets not forget his two new incentives to be up much later and awake much earlier than most of us! - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
My trust in twitter is gone. They've destroyed any sense of brand/product integrity. Outages were sufferable, but annihilating my network / community on their app is paramount to twitter deleting my account (they've in affect reduce their app functionality to an unusable point - can't DM numerous followers, etc!). Now a mass exodus of users will have to go find a reliable service that we can count on to not only preserve valuable network data, but also ensure higher uptime. Bye twitter, you suck! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
The part that sucks is: down feels like down. You just move on. Lost DATA feels like... Oh god, I'm TRUSTING this thing? - Chris Brogan
Damn you fail whale!!! Identi.ca is where it's at people - Gordon Swaby
Chris: EXACTLY!! Trusting twitter is like throwing my money over a bridge...not advisable. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
I sense a revolution coming. Don't mess with LG - Charlie Anzman
@Sarah, sorry about "scooping" you. In fairness, Svetlana, Hank and others had already discussed it, and I linked to them. As for timing, yes, the twins are eating into our sleep. It was another "up until 3 and again at 5" type of night. - Louis Gray
@Chris @Susan I think we should emphasize the fact that they have lost our data not theirs. I wouldn't mind too much about them loosing their data, but loosing mine is unbearable. It's like anihilating months from my life. - Alex Popescu
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Hasn't the missing Twitter data been recovered? - Mark Dykeman
record long post from susanbeebe above - Gregory Lent
"Update We just received an update on the situation from Biz Stone, over at Twitter. He writes, "Some users lost followers as a result of an error during a database upgrade. We replaced followers last night and will be replacing followers today. This is not related to the spam initiative we blogged about the other day." At least Twitter is hard at work trying to remedy the situation." ---- per http://news.cnet.com/8301-1351... - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
its crazy to me that a service that exists to enable the direct and near-instant communication to a large community is still largely focussed on disseminating information through filters - there is certainly a need for them to communicate with media outlets that influence the thoughts of the financial community etc but why would they want us as users to receive updates through an intermediary who is going to color the raw facts the way they see fit? I just don't get it - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
This particular episode truly didn't worry me so much. Now the subsequent episode, in which a tweet appeared under Louis' name even though he didn't author it - now THAT'S a concern. - Ontario Emperor
Hey now, don't set a "work in the middle of the night" precedent for the rest of us, 'k? ;) - Kevin C. Tofel
I definitely prefer sleeping in short blocks whenever the need arises. It's one of the biggest detriments of office work and, conversely, one of the biggest benefits of Freelancing. - Blake Robinson
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Phase One just introduced a new Medium Format back, the P65+, with a 60MP chip built by Dalsa. It is slightly larger than the Kodak chip at 40.4 X 54.9mm and has the same 6u pixel pitch. An added feature of the Phase One back is selectable resolution. Short on details it will probably allow you to select 30MP with better high ISO performance or wider dynamic range. Here's a link to a preview http://www.luminous-landscape.... - Jeff P. Henderson
For comparison purposes, the 35mm sensor in the 5D has a 12u pixel pitch. That was one of the reasons it was the reigning king of low light/high ISO photography (before the 40D and the new Nikons came out). - Raoul Pop
Actually the pixel pitch if the 5D is 8.2um. The newer chips have been able to pack the pixels closer together by reducing the size of the circuitry between the pixel sites, without decreasing the actual pixel size, as well as by adding micro lenses. The newer generation chips have equal if not better noise performance than previous generations, partly through sensor design as well as the supporting circuitry that processes the data coming off of the CCD/CMOS sensor - Jeff P. Henderson
After a while, twitter fells more like IRC. - Hao Chen
You may say the same thing for the entire web 2.0 companies that offer an evolved form of information sharing and collaboration among users. - Kerem Ozkan
I was thinking about this the other day. It definitely has some of the characteristics of IRC, but it's a lot slower than IRC. For me, the FF experience is much richer than traditional txt based communications in that we can see pictures, videos, music, etc. for a given friend and then have conversations about those things. I think its pure genius. And my addiction to FF is not getting any better. :-) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Twitter is def more like straight-up IRC. And I agree with Allen, it's more like a message board, but the active distribution of messages raises the IRC comparison for me. Regardless, this feels like a stronger medium than Twitter and possibly any other Microblogging platform. - Blake Robinson
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I would concur with the view that FF is a strong MB platform - Ian May
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I had always thought of Twitter as extendable IRC also. And FFeed as a little of everything Inet Comms related - Michael W. May
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You can call it "Drive-by Conversations"...see a post, make a comment or two and move on...a better organized and more dynamic twitter... - Live4Soccer
@blakerobinson haha, beat me to it :) - Lawrence
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They should have 1. Allowed online sales and activations. 2. Devise a system where activations were staggered throughout the day. Example: "Thank you for purchasing iPhone 3G and the "Superfragalistic" data plan. Your phone is scheduled to be activated between 6:00PM and 9:00PM PST." - Seamus Condron
I bet it was on purpose. Nobody gets it. Once the iPhone was no longer the upcoming new thing, it was not hot news anymore. So now there is more news and the Apple and iPhone brand continue to be blasted across the 'net. No such thing as bad publicity. - micronauta
I have no idea what u are talking about and I just had to tell you that - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Steve, I'm still not seeing it, although come to think of it I haven't tried to login from a second computer while having it open on the first. - Dan York
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@steve you must not be on Google's top users list yet... maybe FF can help? - Ron Emrick
They seem to have several tests in process. I'm in the new iGoogle testing which does include the privacy feature. @Steve, are you using iGoogle? - Dave Martin
I signed in with a different browser and it seems to have activated it. - Jamie
Log out ...and login... You should see that at the bottom. Its hard to notice as its just a plain link - Saad Kamal
I didn’t have it yesterday, but I do this morning. - Evan Brown
Agreed Michael. Adobe is more than likely biting off more than it can chew with this one. - Blake Robinson
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That's almost as dumb as if Microsoft tried to trademark Windows... oh... um... - Aaron B. Hockley
WTF! Pinging a contact at Adobe to find out what's up. - Steve Allen
maybe they should rename it something more trademarkable, 'hot air' perhaps - mathew
This is ridiculous! FreshAirApps was actually doing a good thing for the Air ecosystem. It was providing a high quality directory for people to come and use Air apps. It's like cutting the hand that feeds. But then again after the fiasco that is the latest Adobe Acrobat I am less and less surprised. Something needs to change at Adobe. - Parvez Halim
