Great to see. I use the netbook I have almost solely for class notes and around campus, as the small form factor is far easier to manage than the standard Latitude - BCK
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at first glance looks more like an extended iTunes than a real lean-back viewing solution which is key imho. interested to hear opinions on this vs. boxee... - Jon Price
the Problem with Miro is the subscription feature. I tried Miro and subscribed to some channels - it filled up my HDD before I could say blip. they don't have a "limit your download speed" slider and those with a fast connection suffer..... - SnakeDoc
I agree with SnakeDoc. It's a great app, but I need more control over it. - Corvida
good app, but i hated that subscription feature. i had to delete tons of videos i didn't even know it had downloaded for me once. it was enough to turn me off completely. - Cee Bee
I keep trying to enjoy miro but I don't enjoy podcasting/vidcasting very much and I end up wasting lots of Gb on stuff I'll never watch. (Except for Cali on Geekbrief of course) - tsudohnimh
have to agree with cee bee and tsudohnimh - edythe
feeding miro an RSS TV feed -> voila my daily TV playlist waiting for when i get home..... - denise
This app is the reason I stopped watching TV. I get so much good stuff the way I want it and for a long time it was so much faster than iTunes downloading stuff. iTunes has improved since then, but Miro still works better for video podcasts even though there isn't the huge difference there was before with iTunes. - Cibeles
@ SnakeDoc and the rest, you can change the settings to avoid downloading so much stuff. Go to File>Options>Downloads and you can set a download limit for how much bandwidth you want it to use, how many simultaneous downloads at the same time you want, where to store videos, etc. The subscription channels that come with it don't download automatically, you need to choose to automatically download, otherwise it doesn't do anything. At least it's been that way for me since I have it, a year I think. - Cibeles
It's him, alright. He was on the latest episode of This Week in Tech talking about all hiz internets and how to keep kids in school and off drugs. - Christopher Harley
This is perfect for the Diesel....if you ever hear him interviewed or at a press conference, it's like he's tweeting answers back to the interviewer.... 10 words or less and to the point.... - Live4Soccer
he keeps saying he's doing stuff with his wifey but i thought they were divorced? - Anthony Farrior
I'd like Arenas to get an account. His blog posts are gold - Rodfather
I love Shaq, he doesn't seem to take himself seriously at all. I wish more millionaire sportsmen were like him. I must say on the whole most (international) American sports people are amongst the most gracious and polite I've see/hear - Toby Graham
yeah they're good for presents too, sadly I don't think any of my relatives are looking for a Homer Simpson Mouse. still waiting on a Bag of Carp to come up - BCK
Very late, but I'd never heard of this team either when my boyfriend and two of my siblings went to a Pacers game a little while ago. My BF had to look it up on his phone. - Kamilah Gill
Ahh, Double Dribble, that brings back some memories. - mace
They spent so much time moving them from Seattle to OKC you'd figure they would have put more thought into what the name of the time would be. I know we're know for storms down here but how the hell do you make thunder a mascot - BCK
BCK, you could say the same about our team... What is a Pacer? (or a Laker, for that matter). We have Boomer for a mascot, though, and he's cool. - Kamilah Gill
it's the economy. people are scared to spend their precious youtube time - Nate True
If I pump out 10-15 videos a week, I think I could reach the goal sooner. But that would probably mean sacrificing my audio podcast - Bwana
I'd do online video if it weren't for all the trolls and having to put up with deleting comments etc. - BCK
Thankfully, my community is doing a better job of modding down the trolls so I don't even see the comments. That doesn't stop the malicious profile comments though. Haters are everywhere :) - Bwana
“It's a sad state of affairs that 50-100 people whining about nothing becomes a major PR incident. The myopia in this space is so telling by the coverage of those in it and their inability to actually look outside the space”
Hey, I know, let's have 5-10 people spend the day blogging about how the Motrin Mom folks are wasting time and effort and just have it echo around for another "news cycle". - Ken Sheppardson
I missed the whole ordeal over the weekend. Watched the ad and was like : "So?" Ads are not that influential. I'm not going to change my opinion about moms carrying babies based on one stupid Motrin ad. - Jason Kaneshiro
I'm hiding everything I see related to this. Just not very interesting. - Chris White
All the continued press is doing is inflating their egos and making it seem like they actually did something notable - BCK
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Wow. No wonder women complain about men's cultural blinders. Men can whine and piss and moan about stuff that is silly and it passes for good debate. When the issue touches on something that requires an X chromosone to be directly affected by it, men dismiss it. - Rod Bauer
Rod, your comment is beyond sexist and where do I start. Believe it or not men use slings as well and this isn't the 19th century, it's the 21st, and in my house I do the traditional "mom" thing. This isn't about women, this is about a gross over-reaction because a handful of people couldn't relate. I've spoken to plenty of women already who could relate to the message - Duncan Riley
oh, yeah, and I could relate to it because slings HURT MY BACK. - Duncan Riley
Ditto on that. There is a condition known as widow's back or something like that caused by carrying your child on one side of your body and causing strain. At last my 8-year old is too big now to want to be carried all the time. When she was younger I probably could have used one of those slings and saved my back a little. And I don't think I'll say anything else on the subject. - Chris Loft
Duncan, the ad was aimed at women. My comment referred to how women and men have responded to the targeting and tone of the ad and had nothing to do with who uses slings. - Rod Bauer
Rod, you're presuming that all women find the ad offensive, they don't. A few, likely less than 100, even as low as 50, got vocal about it. The common thread is they couldn't relate to it. Walk out your door and ask other women if they could...many will. Resorting to making this a sexist thing simply belittles your argument Rod, it's not. - Duncan Riley
Why is this getting so much attention? Can we drop it and move on? - Bwana
Duncan. My interest was and is how many men have responded to the women who have complained about the ad. I've seen many men dismiss their concerns. I think a lot of women will see in that a continuation of a pattern to belittle women's concerns when they attempt to dialog in social media about issues relating to women, and this issue did begin that way as Motrin targeted women in their ad. - Rod Bauer
Rod, no one is belittling their concerns because they are women. I fully respect that some people felt this way, I have ZERO respect for the way they reacted. - Duncan Riley
Those 50 - 100 people speak for many thousands more. The fact that some babywearing Mommy bloggers are vocal and have visibility is what it is. If a celebrity were to say that they found that ad offensive, that would receive press coverage. Mommy bloggers using Twitter (which is in the mainstream press' eye to some extent) to make a statement becomes news and has influence. That particular ad, as someone else noted, may appeal to a certain demographic. It didn't appeal to crunchy babywearers. - Laura Norvig
no Laura, it didn't appeal to SOME babywearers, not all. You're confusing the vocal minority with the majority. Myopia. - Duncan Riley
I hear more people wining the other way... but frankly I think it is because the fascists elected Obama president and now no one has anything to complain about - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Wow, many, if not most, popular Web 2.0 apps are cloned by the Chinese. And they're bringing them online fast. - imabonehead
ima: yeah, and most have been cloned multiple times. Now, though, the services are innovating on their own and adding some really unique things. Micropayments, for instance, are way ahead here in China vs. the US. - Fast Company
Interesting and yet kinda scary. US tech companies definitely need to be aware, if they're not already. As for me, I probably should move to China, the land of my ancestors, to start a Web 2.0 startup. :P - imabonehead
interesting, though its surprising something like it would be around in China with the Chinese government's censorship, namely seeing as how ours has labeled twitter as a potential terrorist tool, it'd seem they would be hesitate - BCK
BCK: Interesting to me is that neither China nor Iran have blocked FriendFeed. Both block my blog. I bet both services will get blocked eventually. FriendFeed is VERY fast in China, though, while Facebook is dreadfully slow. - Robert Scoble
it's a pure surprise to see Robert Scoble in Guangzhou(Canton). What a pleasure to talk to Robert about the Chinese Twitter: www.zuosa.com - Alex Mou
I guess the chinese government doesn't have any early adopters on the staff :P - BCK
Alex; Zuosa looks great, though I obviously can't read any of it - BCK
@bck their net police force is more advanced than many people think. - Alex Mou
Seriously, they can't come up with some way to secure these items? Cutting any leader off from such easy access to technology and communication seems like a bad idea to me, but what do I know? - Sean P. Aune
its not an issue of security, its a disclosure issue. All the emails he sends as president are required to be public, which would either lead to issues with his private emails being public or him sneaking emails around the laws - BCK
President-elect Obama will not need to give up his Blackberry. The Whitehouse runs on Exchange. So place a Blackberry server behind the Exchange box (as most corporate IT setups do) and he can use his smart phone of choice just as he would an email client. Nothing fancy or complicated about it. - Daniel K. Boyd
@Daniel Read the story. The issue is his disclosure obligations really. - Steve Rubel
The key point is not about the specific technology (the Blackberry) but about the way he communicates with all these people that keep him informed--some of whom would be outside the White House, even outside the government altogether. - Tommy Williams
Steve, thanks for your arrogance but I did actually read the story. So right, but how does disclosure preclude the use of a Blackberry? - Daniel K. Boyd
probably time to update that...seems draconian - Adam Singer
@Daniel I imagine it's because all his email correspondence can enter the public domain. So it's not the Blackberry that's the issue here, but the use of email overall. At least that's how I read it. - Steve Rubel
@Daniel Boyd - you mean the current Whitehouse runs on Exchange. - Kevin
The issue is about having to archive every email under the Presidential Records Act more than the security. - ursi
Thank you ursi for being the sole voice of reason and sanity in this thread. - Anika Malone
There is no issue with a BlackBerry and archiving email under the PRA as a BB is merely an "extension" of Outlook in that the handheld merely reads email within Exchange. I think, as the article somewhat mentioned but failed to go too in-depth about, is like what Steve just mentioned: the potential security issue surrounding POTUS sending email. However, this should be relatively easy to solve using the right mix of PKI and other industry standard information security mechanisms. Govt adoption is the Q. - Scott Jarkoff
If a President says or writes something that is recordable - and technology is irrelevant, it could be a magnetophone and 8-track - it can be subpoenad by Congress. The article explores the tensions between the need for a President to have confidentiality about important matter of the state, and the need to open up new mode of communication fit for the 21st century mindset of the facebook generation. - Bora Zivkovic
so now that Obama is disabled from email, shouldn't the snarky left humiliate him like they did McCain? (being that McCain is disabled from using a computer for all time) - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
@bora - facebook generation isn't this generation at all. it's about the internet. facebook here today gone tomorrow - the internet platform as the amazing invention IT is stays. - Patricia
Bora++ This is the same reason Bush gave up his personal email back in 2000, and why, to many historians regret, the Presidents have stopped keeping personal diaries. The threat of subpoena is so powerful (and Congress so enjoys leaking information) that it's just not practical to keep those records (I once thought of creating an online diary system in Bermuda or something so VIPs could keep diaries outside of legal claims, but never got around to it). - Andrew Leyden
"facebook generation" has nothing to do with the actual Facebook site, or with a particular age - it is a shorthand term for a mindset of openness in communication. - Bora Zivkovic
What is new is that Obama is the first President with that mindset, as opposed to a bubble-boy, smoke-filled back-rooms, secretive types that the previous 43 Presidents were. The laws, customs and trappings of his new job are going to be conflicting with his modern instincts towards openness. - Bora Zivkovic
@bora, telecom industry exec here. that's like saying america is about the pie when it's really about the country ;) - Patricia
It's a shame his "modern instincts towards openness" only flow one direction: out to his followers, in a very tightly scripted manner. Any questions or inquiries flowing in will be ignored. - Charles LePage
@Charles - Well we've seen what happens when he takes an unscripted question from an actual citizen. - Brian Newman
@Charles - why do you think that? From what I could see during the campaign, he listens and responds. He will not always respond the way we like, but he is the President, not us, so he needs to make the tough decisions not the armchair presidents. But he listens, it's not one-way at all. - Bora Zivkovic
@Bora, during this campaign, and past campaigns, when he faces questions he doesn't like, such as the ones about his past and his experiences, he either answers vaguely or untruthfully, or shuts down the questioner. He also has simply eliminated the competition in campaigns. He clearly understands and uses social networking, but not to interact honestly, only to influence and expand his support. - Charles LePage
Just another pitfall of being in the limelight, and another reason I shall continue to not want to be president. - BCK
@Charles - I will now, just like everyone on the planet, choose to either answer your question vaguely or untruthfully, or shut down the questioner. And I am not even running for office. Which one do you prefer? ;-) - Bora Zivkovic
I think you should shut me down. It's past my bedtime anyways. - Charles LePage
no matter our projections on Obama, the bottom line is that Team Obama is savvy enough to know how to tap the groundswell - http://bit.ly/y11L - ~C4Chaos
@~C4Chaos: excellent link - you should promote it into its own thread. - Bora Zivkovic
I'm so proud that people found a guy who can use email if he is allowed for president. I wanted more then that. I wanted a guy who could lead... and so far he isn't leading... he is wading in all these issues going around. I'm all for the wise say less theory... but there is a fiscal crises and stupid people are still high on the idea of email. he isn't president yet,,, but give us a sign Obama. if you give us leadership now then the market stabilizes because fiscal people are terrified of this dude. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
But this thread IS ABOUT his use of communication tools. I am sure there are other threads around about his intense efforts to do something about the economic crisis. - Bora Zivkovic
sounds like Biden... I'm so impressed he can talk... now do something! the issue isn't about the media... the issue now is the message. and there is none. Marshall MCluhan is theory. Reality is we are suffering - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Noah, it's still a month away before he can do anything of substance, but so far, so good. - Tanath
now is the time you talk about ideas...Jan 20th you do them. something is very wrong here http://delicious.com/simonstud... ...none of us are on the inside, but Biden was talking about some major stuff happening. it is time to talk to the people and let us know what is going on. Bill Clinton rarely talked about Al Queda. Is this a prediction of the secrecy we should expect from Obama? What is the matter? the election is over and it is irresponsible to not dialog. this is poor leadership. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
my guess is he is expecting this to blow up in his face and he is laying low. http://digg.com/political_opin... email won't help his cause if he don't have a birth certificate. this sucks for the people in the US who are facing a political climate where Putin thinks Obama is a pushover. ...but hey email... wow! - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Obama's team needs a secure TeamWiki! - Bill Seitz
Obama's citizenship - That story has been debunked months ago. Only the Rush-dittohead-mouthbreathers still cling to that silly story. - Bora Zivkovic
It was quite simple to install. Synced up all my comments just fine. - ♫ Rahsheen™
Using it on one blog to compare with Disqus. Disqus seems to get more eyes. - Jack Carlson
you'll need to uncheck the advanced link option for it if you plan on using it on WicketPixie as it breaks the theme (unless there is a newer theme than the one I am using) - BCK
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Disqus is nice, I don't see any reason to change over right now. It's very clean and works well. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
I'd say the whole company is, but I'm just the peanut gallery. - Pete Delucchi
It saddens me that I had to write this, but bugger it. It's BS in CAPS :-) - Duncan Riley
I should qualify that last comment a little: Renai LeMay was one of the few friends web 2.0 had in the journalist community in Australia when he was at The Financial Review (our Wall Street Journal). I feel it's a double cut coming from him. He knows better - Duncan Riley
the twitterank story they had yesterday completely soured me on the site once and for all - BCK
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crashing here too, and I've seen it eat all the memory as well :( - Richard Walker
I've had to force quit it a couple of times as well...that's when it doesn't just crash at random. Ever since the last update....until then, I've mostly been happy with FF3 - Duncan Riley
Bizarre. 3.0.4 is better for me. Then again I use close to zero add-ons. - Mona N.
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I've continually found FF to be the most constantly crashing browser I have, ever since ver 3. Barring using it's add-ons for web development, have switched almost entirely to Chrome. - Robin Cannon
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3.0.4 also working fine on my macbook and dell d630 laptop. I go zen on add-ons too with total of 6 - del.icio.us, firebug, web dev toolbar, noscript, imagezoom, google gears. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
You're on a Mac, Duncan? I'm noticing a memory leak on FF here. I fixed it, though, by switching to Safari as the default. ;-) - Chris Baskind
I'm around 150K worth of RAM usage at the moment which is odd with the amount of addons I tend to run - BCK
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Crashed on both machines here in completing their auto update feature. FAIL - Paul W. Swansen
Chris, I may well do so :-) the only reason I stick with FF on my main machine though it 2 plugins. Even on the machines without plugins, still having issues and I use Safari on my laptop and the wifes now (yes, all Macs :-) ) - Duncan Riley
It's become a crashing bore. Does Chrome work on Macs yet? - Abby Martin
I now work at moz but ff 3.1beta and Minefields work amazingly well for me. and fast. - Dion Almaer
I use Firefox 3.0.3 with Ubuntu 8.04. It eats memory, but then I have ~ 27 addons and multiple tabs open at all times, many of which contain a lot of information. I think people sometimes forget that you need as much memory as what you have to display, and then some. - Neil Saunders
Same problem here, and it's driving me crazy. I want to use it for the addons, but I'll go back to using Chrome if I need to. i have no complaints with chrome, except it doesn't support my favorite addons yet. Does anyone know when that we will see a lot of addons for Chrome? - Michael Fidler
No problems here, it's working perfectly just as before. - Amit Morson
@Michael - isn't the whole point of Chrome that it doesn't do add-ons? It seriously boggles my mind just how obsessive people are over Firefox... I have it because I do web development, but I barely ever use it. Opera is just a straight up better browser. It's stable, it doesn't kill your computer, it doesn't have a huge memory hole, and it looks nice. Not to mention it renders websites correctly. I always have to code down to Firefox and add extra code in for IE. With Opera my code always works with it and IE and Chrome for that matter. Only Firefox continues to insist on being the odd man out. And then people get on a high horse and code websites "Just for Firefox" GAH! It is incredibly frustrating. Even the latest version of IE is (supposedly) going to move towards standards. When I build websites I get them working perfectly and then realize some small bit of my style sheet doesn't work for Firefox, so I spend an hour or two fixing that, then I have to spend another hour or two getting it working in IE a - Aram Zucker-Scharff
I know this is a bit much now… but Firefox aggravates me incredibly. I had an instance where it was the only browser that rendered YouTube embeds differently and it broke the site design. I think you should all take this opportunity and go download Opera (or Chrome, I guess). Get a browser that just works. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
Duncan: I'm hopping back to Firefox to do a few things (love that Web Developer extension). But 1Password integration in Safari is actually better, I can use MODI for quick page examinations, and Safari is just so light and agile. I'm spending some time in the Webkit nightlies, too. - Chris Baskind
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