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Bad news from the tax assessor: our home value has dropped $350,000. Good news: we'll save $5,000 on taxes. So in 70 years we'll break even.

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Well, at least you get to save some money Leo - Roberto Villegas

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So not all bad news. - Jari Hakkarainen

Just don't go and sell that house now! - Denis Dervisevic

Shouldn't California INCREASE their assessment so they can collect more taxes, to climb out of their financial problems? Someone has to turn it around. - Keith Rowland

Holy crap, what was it worth before? - Daniel Drysdale

"dropped 350,000" or "dropped to 350,000"? - Robert

I'm in California. You can't get a one-bedroom condo for $350,000. - Leo Laporte

I would guess that it lost $350,000 in value - rob friedman

Are we "stimulated" yet? - Mattb4rd

LOL! If your value dropped $350,000 you'll excuse me for not losing too much sleep over your hardship. - Fat Geek

That reminds me. How do we get this tax assessor out to our house? - Robert Scoble

Is that the drop in the year to date? I guess so. - 1x29

The TWiT cottage? Nooo! The bubble is officially popped. - Bob Evans

Isn't that the second bubble (ball) to have popped at TWiT Cottage? ;-) - 1x29

$350,000!!!!!! My God What is is actually worth???? - Anthony Everitt

Does that mean something in the Bay Area is actually affordable now? - Ken

I cant believe that they are lowering your value, California is turning away money? - Christian Burns

Guys, get over the amount! - James Nobes

LOL I wouldn't mind too much loosing $350,000 at least then I would have had it to loose :) - TheBigBentley

Keith, California should stop spending money they don't have - that will turn it around - Jero

Good as long as you weren't planning on moving or forced to move. - Phillip Stewart

As long as you're not planning on moving out, I don't see why this would be bad news? - Tom Ribbens

Now thats what I would call a Market Correction. Things are only worth what you can sell them for. - Christian Burns

I'm getting in to real estate. Going to invest 10k in an area that is not yet developed, wait 50 years and I'll be selling condos for 100 times that. - Myles Cloutier

Wow... I prefere indianapolis! hahaha Houses there are almost free. - Alberto Lung

If my house dropped 350k, it would be worth -150k! - Ed Naggiar from iPhone

same here Ed, you know us regular guys that bought houses we can afford, we're not the problem. - Charlieray

Wow...different tax guidelines where I'm from in Illinois. My value went down by 35% and my taxes actually went up 15%. - Steve Council

I live in TN. My house is worth $103,000 and it's four bedroom with a little land. lol $350,000 will get you a mansion with 30 acres here - cbmeeks

Guys, $350k is nothing in CA. Leo's house is probably worth over a mil easy. I knew my TWiT donations made a difference. lol - cbmeeks

I'd love to even own a house at half that value... - dann

Cbmeeks, in West Tennessee, half of that will get you a mansion!! - Benjamin Deming

That's really good news unless you planning to sell soon. I'll buy it. how much do you want for it? - James Glenn

Good thing I'm a renter. I could have lost $350,000! ;) - Sarah Lane

LOL Sarah - Bill Heslin

While it hurts, I consider it a value correction. http://tinyurl.com/luym3x - David Eckard

Consider yourself a bit lucky Leo. I had the same thing happen but I'm still stuck in an adjustable rate mortgage. Yikes! - Bill Heslin

I bet many homes are worth what yours dropped in value. $350,000 is a decent price for home already (for here that is). - lelapin

I received one of those assesments too--Ouch - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) from iPhone

Take your accountant and property advisor off your christmas card list - Matt Jarvis

Maybe things work differently there, but here tax assessed value is always lower than actual appraised value, by as much as 20%. Here's hoping it's the same for you. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We took it on the chin for over $200K too. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

$100k+ here. :( - Tad

A few months ago a mortgage on a building I have was called by the bank because the value had dropped significantly below the balance due. That was a scary few days. Made me empathize a little with folks in the same boat with less avenues of recourse. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

Bummer if the previous value of the house was $350k - Jason Tokarz

We have a "don't laugh, it's paid for" house - didn't skyrocket, didn't drop. I'd never sell, though, so it's irrelevant - heretic_twit

It's the house value that went down...not the home value. The value of the housing market isn't of much consequence until you trade down or sell up entirely. The assessors value will go up again soon enough. In the mean time enjoy the extra cash. It's still the same home with the same family in it. - Chris Nixon

If my house dropped $350K, it would be worth -$250K - Michael

My house increased in price by 350million, don't know what all the fuss is about. - Mark

If my house dropped $350K it would be worth Negative $200K - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Your primary residence isn't an investment. Without it, you'd be paying rent. Now, you're paying rent (in the form of a mortgage) at a higher rate but you wind up with some of that "rent" stored up at the end. - Trent Hamm

Don't complain ... in 3 years it will increase by $1,000,000 and they will access taxes at ful value instead of 25% - Stephan Romeo

Join the club bro. We are in the same spot. Not $350k thank god. - Nathan Gibbs

well if just dropped to $350K.Reality is in the coming years it will drop further.This is unfortunate, but we are in the beginning of the restructuring of the U.S. and European economies.Be prepared to see housing values to go down further as we go through this shift - Baba

be a good liberal and send them the $5000 anyway... think of all the people on welfare that depend on you Leo.... dont disappoint them... - John Hillestad

That's only relevant if you bought it at a price between the higher appraisal amount and the currently lowered value or (big OR) if you refinanced or took out a second mortgage and the total mortgaged value is at anything above the currently lower value. But if you bought the home at a price lower than the new value and haven't refinanced then you're fine, you never really had the value... more... - Lon Cohen

We're not upside down yet, but nearly all our equity is gone. This isn't a mansion, or even a McMansion folks. Just a modest 3BR, 2 1/2 Bath, 2000 sq foot home in California. It's the "Northern California" part that makes it so expensive. - Leo Laporte

You lost my house 3 times. - Mark Chandler

I think a lot of people miss the point. While I'm sure Leo will be fine, how many people have lost all the equity in their home? How many of them had worked hard to earn that equity over 20-30 years? And how many of them were planning on that equity as a large portion of their investment income when they retire? That's the point. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

If it's anything like here in FL they are taking into account the foreclosures in your area when assessing your property values. It stinks! - Dayngr

Time to buy if you're in the market for getting out of renting and into mortgaging. - Emmanuel Losier

That assumes your home will NEVER go back up in value which is not the case. Statistically you should be back up in 5 - 7 years. By the time your mortgage is paid off you should be up quite a bit. The fact is that if you need a place to live it doesn't really matter what it is currently worth. One of the reasons the country is in the shape it is in is because people treated their homes... more... - Chris Johnston

Another reason the country is in the shape it's in is because mortgage companies and banks were too greedy and leveraged their money 60-70 times over while forcing people into mortgages they couldn't afford. When I was buying my house in California there were a table full of people (realtors, brokers, etc) trying to get me to buy a house that was 3x what I was comfortable buying. I had... more... - Robert Lindsley from iPhone

Hey, Leo, I thought you wanted to pay MORE in taxes for socialist agenda items since your friend achieved the White House, - Mike

Robert Scoble

Shhh, don't tell the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts, but I will follow anyone who comments here (on FF):

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No comment. (disabling comments on this thread - that would be funny :D) - Micah Wittman

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Micah: I'm already following you! :-) - Robert Scoble

is a like the equivalent of a comment? And by follow you mean on FF or on Twitter or on both? - Sean Scott

Sean: not really because if you comment I can see if I'm already following you. And, yes, I mean on FF. - Robert Scoble

Hello :) - Brandon Roeder

That's really awesome of you, Robert! - Harald Nesland

Spammers ruined email and now they are hitting Twitter in a major way. How can we stop this scum? - Chris Rodgers

Beau: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Awesome. Hi Robert :) - Andy Parkinson

It's an ugly world when Scoble stops autofollowing. - Michelle MacPhearson

Did FriendFeed make you say this? - Social Nerdia

No love for SEO experts? AWESOME. - Than R

@robert i think we're already following each other on FF. :P - Sean Scott

Thanks for posting Robert. I enjoy reading your material. - Allen S.

Didn't send that one from Twitter. ;-) - Kathy Fitch

Are you openly admitting to being easy? - Lydia Sugarman

I am not a bot, I am a human being!!! - Daniel Buckley

@stevenmhall likes this -- thanks for your work. and the great green picture - steven

Nothing more to say - Mel Buckpitt

I already follow you, but interesting experiment - Cam

I just gave you "High Five"! Check it out: http://bit.ly/5sHMZ You should send me a gift back ;) - Louis Gray

✔ Thx for ☛ Follow :-) Good idea. I do not speak to those things anyway - RetiredTeacherD

SocialNerdia: no. - Robert Scoble

really? neat... - Jorge Chapa

Follow Sunday? ;) - Ideas At Random

LOL ... this is fun. - Richard Laksana

awesomesauce scoble p0wns again ;) - sam from twhirl

At least I'm not the only one who thinks SEO isn't everything. - Leon Bacud

Hmm… I may just be more active in FriendFeed. - Evan Hindra

The above is an actual DM spam I got today. :) - Louis Gray

Leon: if you abuse SEO types they send Google Hate your way, which, by the way, is the same thing as Google Juice. - Robert Scoble

neat idea! - Aloke Fernandes

So we get to be in the cool club? Yay! ;) - Vicky Teinaki

watching this list expand is more fun than anything on TV right now. - steven

But Robert what will all the Bots do without your input. - Pentaxfan

This is fun! lol. Follow me! @thehenry - TheHenry

Is Google juice akin to Google Kool-Aid? - Stefan Holmes

evangelizing aint ya - Luka

I think Robots get a bad rap ;) - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

What's this FriendFeed thing? Back to my safe, comfy home on Twitter. - Dan Grossman

I expected more comments, oh thats the idea :-) shhh everyone - Andrew Nimick

Is there something to be gained by following someone on both FF & Twitter? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

WT?? @pogmohoin needs to be loved again.. now how did you do this cleanout again?? Australia Out.. - Pogmohoin

I'm already in but i wanted to get in the fun! - Fee501st

I just noticed that Scobleizer unfollowed but am glad it was for the above reason and he unfollowed a lot - Allen MacCannell

Cannot wait to see you (again) at Gnomedex after that sensational news panel at #140conf. You set the bar high for yourself there ;) - Maya

I am all flesh and bones Robert :D - Antonio Montero

Rob: FriendFeed is better. - Robert Scoble

Louis, NOW I know where all those are coming from. Time to blacklist you ;-) - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed FTW! - TheHenry

Not a bad filter at all. - Robert Anderson

Why would you want to follow me,i have nothing to offer but my ears to learn. - Paul Downing

Hi Robert, I'm a real person and would love to be followed. - Steve de Mena

What if the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts all comment here? - Andrew Trinh

Word up - Charlie Haims

Scoble smash Twitter spammer like Hulk! - Peter Hodges from iPhone

Dare I? - Spidra Webster

and then I will comment on whoever follows me here... - Alpay Erturkmen

Louis, I recently got the "high five" DM spam, too. So off-putting! - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

I just need to spend more time setting up FF so it is my friend that intercepts all my social media content but only from who I want to read! - Pentaxfan

Friend feed seems like mainstream to most serious ones? - jibzy

Friendfeed has it's strengths once you get it setup - Chris

@robert whether or not FF is technically better than <insertsocialnetwork> its really a question of said network reach - Sean Scott

Once a week I go through my followers and delete most/all of the spammers, but I only have like 50-60 so it's not hard to do. - Allison Warnock

Let's hope the spammers and bots and etc don't attack us here on FriendFeed next. I won't tell them if you don't. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Sean: well, FF has better search, grouping, real time, a better community, and more. - Robert Scoble

Sean, you have to start somewhere! - Pentaxfan

Really Robert? Will you follow me here or Twitter - Kevin Krewell

Last time I checked I was human. - Luke™

What, even if I've got these hot videos where I ... Haha, not really ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

Kevin: here. - Robert Scoble

I think you're already following me. - Danny Minick

In two years on Twitter I have never used any bots nor even tried to sell anything. I always look at profiles personally before following anyone and have never been concerned with how many are following me. - Gord Young

That's nice of you. - Michael Owens from iPhone

Why? - Stefano Maggi from iPhone

Yea, i dont want FF to get has "known" has twitter, I'm selfish - Fee501st

Mainly on Twitter myself, but everything updates to here + I tie in a couple things through here to Twitter. - Chris

Will you actually read my posts? - Kimber Scott

oh really :D - Sinem Co

See, cross posting that offer to Twitter is misleading - Kevin Krewell

It is fun to watch my follower ## on Twitter go between 200 and 230 it is a constant battle to see what I post. Just not that interesting at times! - Pentaxfan

Interesting project! Please follow us @streamfile :) - Kimmo Gläborg

Checking in here...hope we continue to follow each other, Robert! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Even if we write in Turkish? - Emre Güneş

@robert again not arguing with you. I think better community in your POV but from marketing / UX pov not yet. - Sean Scott

thank you - - pat o'bryan

I'm pretty sure I've commented here before Robert, but you don't follow me here or on Twitter. Not that I want you to under just for the sake of it... - Gurpreet

Today's secret password is "cheese". - Andrew Smith

And you don't have to read everything we say, my God we can't keep up with your feed! But it's nice to always be assured there will be something in my Friendfeed from Scoble. And more Scoble and more Scoble! - Keith Rowland

...only if you actually find my tweets interesting enough. - Gurpreet

It's Unfollow Sunday. Just purged all the bots, spammers, SEO/social media types from my own Twitter account. I never autofollow. Still got the "high five" DM spam, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Nice when you integrate Facebook and twitter and multiple accounts so you can read all at one place. I have to say I use Seesmic to read posts more than FF. - Pentaxfan

Count me in too, please :) - 1x29

bit bucket... here i come :) ps: scoble, what if we just "like" your post ;) - simran

@pentaxfan of course. not wanting to start a FF vs Twitter debate. just saying the glasses through which we judge better or superior are diff based on our interests. Plus in the end FB will take it all :P - Sean Scott

This is a sly way to get us to sign up for FF :) - valb00

Shhhhhhhhhh - candy from Nambu

@valb00 said it! - Dennis Jernberg

According to my following list, Scoble was the second person I followed after joining Twitter. A long time ago that was. - Stephen Sclafani

UX tip for FF. Be nice to be able to click on the comment link at the end of a comment stream. Having to scroll back up on these long threads breaks flow. - Sean Scott

Kimber: wait and watch http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see if I like any of your posts. I read a LOT and if you are posting interesting stuff I'll probably like it. - Robert Scoble

Sean: click twice on the time stamp and you'll get a window of just this chat and you'll see a comment entry area at the bottom. - Robert Scoble

Kurt: maybe! - Robert Scoble

Sean Scott: Click on the timeline (the '5 minutes ago' bit) :) - 1x29

You will end up following me anyway. They all will. :) - Matt G

But you're already following me here on Friendfeed, Robert. How is Twitter going to be different? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

FriendFeed is better, deeper, yet Twitter works better on the go - Majento

There's a lot to like about FF, except it needs a bigger community. Twitter is like the iPhone - for iPhone it's all the applications, with Twitter (and Facebook) it's all about the number of poeple. - Kevin Krewell

following me is good stuff :-) - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

@Sean, that is why we are always looking for new and improved apps to operate at a better level with more consistency. Take it easy! I'm off to bed for my 5 hours of mediocre horizontal time out. - Pentaxfan

Hi Robert, you are obviously going to be following a lot more people. Thanks. - Rob Zachritz

And I return. (Just cleared my account so I can start afresh with friend lists) :) - BeauGiles

Is this an experiment? - Theresa Shin

so will you follow me too - aybars badur

Theresa: no, I do this from time to time and always find interesting people to follow. - Robert Scoble

FF hmmm about that... - Philip Small

Robert, you have lost a lot of followers. I have been watching all night. - TheHenry

I don't get the appeal of auto-following. I for one would not want thousands of updates showing up in my timeline. - Alex Knight

Twitter -ly ♪ and FriendFeed -ly ♪ livin' in perfect har-mony ♪♪♪ LOL Why can't we be friends ♪♪♪ - RetiredTeacherD

Just created a corporate FF account so you can follow our corporate Twitter at http:/www.twitter.com/senderok - Plug-in with anti-phishing icons for the inbox and photo business cards in the header pane - SenderOK

I'm here I'm here! :D just curious, what do you have against SEO and Social Media experts? - Celia

Really? BTW I'm just a regular geeky gal. - Teresa O

TheHenry: and I will lose even more this week. No biggie. I don't define myself by who follows me, especially if they are there just to get a follow back. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer is a man of his word - Charlie Haims

Zomg you has to follows me!! I r teh most important persons here!!! - Tom Vohs from iPod

Okay Scoble I'll bite... - SalvadorM

Joining the experiment - Jan Schultink

robert, you are a "pearl" under all the blogger,.........and i'm sure, you know that!!! sunshine and light to you from france, martin - martin

I'm awake and listening! - Graham Lawrence

To all those new to FriendFeed, remember to add your Twitter, blog, Flickr, YouTube, and other accounts so we can see all your stuff! - Robert Scoble

...and I was wondering where is my one-lost-follower...here on FF. - Danica Radovanovic

hello, I am an italian SEO expert :) - Roldano

I have nothing to say - Paul Denlinger

@Paul, I was going to say that. - Justin Yost

You should follow a game designer, Robert :) - Federico [Kurai]

Wait, does this mean I need to spend more time of friendfeed? - Shea from iPhone

Federico: I'm already following you. Roldano: I'm already following you too, but don't let it get out. - Robert Scoble

Shea: yes. This is where I spend most of my time! - Robert Scoble

That's encouraging - Keith - @tsudo

I cannot recommend following me, I rarely have anything interesting to say. - Shaun William

What's the catch? - Rory Conway

We're already facebook friends. And I think friendfeed friends too. But FF just hasn't hit critical mass yet. It'll be cool when it does. Nice job throwing another rock at the hornet's nest! :-) - Dan Becker

Rory: the catch is I might like one of your posts and then you'll have to deal with my other friends. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm glad to know that you are still interested in hearing from us :), I'm @tsudo - Keith - @tsudo

scoble i like you man, but you're crazy - patrick

I applaud your mass unfollowing, but following back via FriendFeed comments seems inefficient (says me, the efficiency consultant). - Marina Martin

Dan: well, that's what Twitter gets for treating me like a lame early adopter that isn't needed anymore. - Robert Scoble

Cool - I'm in. Thanks Robert - from the land down under. - Monte Huebsch

Marina: you haven't discovered that FriendFeed has groups yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

patrick: crazy like a bat! - Robert Scoble

I need to better utilize FF groups. - Justin Yost

Ouch Robert! Telling it like it is to Twitter - Keith - @tsudo

Do you never get SPAM in FF? - RobinDotNet

You might regret that :-) But thank you - Stephen Baugh

Hi, i had created a new website name http://bit.ly/Od5Xx now please guide me in increasing traffic - mohammadhassam

Robin: I have only seen a handful of spams here. They are easily blocked and there are other defenses against them that I won't talk about here. - Robert Scoble

Are we not allowed to comment if you are already following us? - RobinDotNet

Are all those SEO types you're unfollowing now following me?! - Dennis Jernberg

@Justin, try this for a starting point for using groups http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... - Keith - @tsudo

Okay )) - Alexey Ivanov

Yet another comment, from an ordinary twitterer not a spambot. :-) - Joshua Lee

is this a bait to get more people to use friendfeed? ;-) - Ritu

Robin: I like all comments. I can see who isn't following me because their icons are white. Yours is blue. - Robert Scoble

speaking of spam, twitter seems like it's about 90% spam lately - Derek Chilcoat

Robert -- that's good to know. Those people are insidious. Will you ever tell us how to block them? - RobinDotNet

It'll be interesting to see who follows the leader to @schoolpr. - SchoolPR

The SEO experts, bots and social media experts don't have good content, and FF makes their crappy content easy to hide, and ignore, too. - Andy Bakun

Thanks @Keith - Justin Yost

Andy: bing! - Robert Scoble

Robert, was that an endorsement of bing? ;-) - RobinDotNet

SEO experts endorse bing. ;-) - Joshua Lee

@Justin (1 more) my friend Ken did a great post on groups as well http://www.changeforge.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

Why, oh why is my first thought to respond with "FIRST?" - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

I'm not a bot :-) - Nir Ben Yona

Jon: I want to respond with "penultimate." :-) - Robert Scoble

Even me??? - Kevin Arth

Can't imagine this won't end in a big mess... - Justin Howard

Nir: I know you aren't a bot. That's why I follow you. - Robert Scoble

wwooww :) - Emre BAHADIR

So far not a spammer has shown up. - Robert Scoble

commented! - Jeremy Lane

I think scoble is on Twitter just to get people to read friendfeed. :-) - Joshua Lee

Joshua: no. I'm here to talk about the 2010 web. :-) - Robert Scoble

This is some elaborate mind game, I'm sure:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Can we put some restriction on bots . means use some software who block them - mohammadhassam

Joshua, i liked your Bing comment :-) - Majento

and the 2010 web is.... friendfeed! - Joshua Lee

Thank you, Sir. I'm impressed. :) - Kevin Arth

Joshua: the real time web is only one part of the 2010 web. - Robert Scoble

Ah, I think you may already be following me, but just in case... - Ranger Craig

Nice - Fred Morales

Thing I don't like is that FF doesn't have a very good topic when the primary line is directed at twitter. There may or may not be a link to something after FF part. Which means FF becomes a bit of a treasure hunt. I like FF for commentary but I hate the initial post. - Justin Howard

SPAM. :) - Jason

BACON :-) - Stephane Tsacas

Even your archnemesis? - Erik K Veland

Mona :-) - Majento

Mmmmm. Bacon. - RobinDotNet

Erik: I would even follow Mike Arrington, yes. :-) - Robert Scoble

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer? - RobinDotNet

what are some other examples of 2010 web, Robert Scoble? - Joshua Lee

Ok Robert I got it ;) - Roldano

Count me in :) http://www.twitter.com/stanley... - Stanley Tang

Robert: Thanks mate, interesting and probably efficient idea. I'll do the same for quality content, tired of those "I just used whateveryoucallit.com to gain 300 new followers right now!". - Nir Ben Yona

whateveryoucallit.com domain name is already taken :-] - Stephane Tsacas

Hi Robert, I had to do the exact same thing to nail all the twit spam I was getting. Hope you get it all sorted! - James Brown

Even as we sit here, my iPhone dings with new follow e-mails from spam/marketing people. Sigh. - RobinDotNet

Stephane: LOL, probably. I took this line from Chris Brogan's "Twitter Etiquette Guide". - Nir Ben Yona

Robin: on Twitter, though, right? - Robert Scoble

wow been fascinating watching this exercise :-) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

So this is like a captcha? - Dylan Verheul

also on twitter? - Sinem Co

The joys of not being internet famous means I can check out followers personally, block where required and I've only ever got about 2 DM spam. But with the volumes that Robert gets, it's obviously not possible. - Rachel Clarke

TwitterEtiquetteGuide.com is available ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

I think Twitter needs something like captcha to keep the bots to a minimum, IMHO. - Dennis Jernberg

Nope, I'm just following here. - Robert Scoble

But feed your Tweets in here and what's the difference? - Robert Scoble

OK, thanks :) - Sinem Co

Hi Robert, I've been following you quite some time, and what you do here is very open and brave too, congrats! - Kaan Bingol

This must be a plot to move everyone to FriendFeed ;-) - Masatake E. Hori

Masatake: plot #458. - Robert Scoble

Great thanks for the offer and follow - Stephen Brown

Masatake: I think you're right. :-) - Joshua Lee

Robert -- yes, on twitter. It seems the more you tweet, and the more people you communicate with, the more spammers follow you. Hoping for auto-follows I guess (I disappoint them in that regard.) - RobinDotNet

No offense, but what is the utility of being "followed" by someone who already follows tens of thousands? - Derek Pangallo

Good way to filter, you know the spammers don't actually read anything or participate - Justin Luey

Derek: why don't you see http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see just how many people I touch. - Robert Scoble

What is the utility of being "followed" by someone who doesn't tweet and who follows thousands? What do they do, sit at their terminal and watch the tweets go by all day long? - RobinDotNet

hi Robert u r already following me how r u? - Gaith

I dont get it. - Andru Edwards

yeah? I think most spam bots have the AI to search for such threads! - Rohit

Derek: or how many people I interact with. Check here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... 28,000+ comments. - Robert Scoble

oh, hi there! - Jeremy

Gaith: doing fine, gotta work on my videos, but thought I'd do this instead. - Robert Scoble

Robin: I'm guessing the mass followers rarely take a look at the flow - it's about being able to talk about the numbers - Rachel Clarke

No - Michael Fidler

Yes - Michael Fidler

follow me on twitter please... - Özgür D. Cyric

First day on Friend Feed and Robert Scoble is available. What a welcome.... Carey@holisticdds - Carey O'Rielly

What will you do when the spammers/SEOs infest Friendfeed, as they will, or do you believe this is better crowdsourced and will be able to hold against the hordes? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Rachel -- But numbers alone don't mean anything. Are they that shallow? That must be a stupid question. - RobinDotNet

Is this going to be the 'most-commented-ever' post on Friendfeed? 240+ already! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Aaman: FriendFeed is FAR more defendable against spam than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

and how would this benefit people who follow Robert Scoble? - Seyfi Erol

Mahendra: probably not. - Robert Scoble

That seems like a good idea, but I think you're already following a lot of these people - Carlton Prest

Seyfi: why don't you follow me and see how it goes? - Robert Scoble

I've gotten 4 follow e-mails since my first post here from people I don't want to follow. Do the bots start running right around midnight? - RobinDotNet

Mahendra, you're not following the threads in Russian (that's my only hint) :D - Micah Wittman

Robin: oh yes. But I'm never sure what's worse. the people who just want to talk about the numbers or the people they may be able to impress. - Rachel Clarke

Aaman - Friendfeed doesn't make link-tracking easy, so it's less interesting for spammers to infest. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Is this a test of interaction or more likely a sort of audience verification? - Gilgamesh

Robin, it's 9am ! - Stephane Tsacas

Gilgamesh: it is what you want it to be. For me I followed you. - Robert Scoble

If twitter is noise, and FriendFeed is conversation, Robert Scoble followers are their own discussion. It's like using an entirely different website. - Carlton Prest

Rachel, that's a good point. Is Facebook the same way? I joined that and suddenly got all these people I've nothing in common with who want to be my friend. Creepy. - RobinDotNet

@Micah: Oh, good I don't read Russian! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Scoble: you convinced me! (thought you just needed self-validation, sorry) - Derek Pangallo

Derek: heh, yeah, I am watching this, among other things running across my screen. - Robert Scoble

Robin: Facebook is the same but I think to a lesser extent - it's harder to find people I think. But still got a load of friend requests that I ignore as I don't know them - Rachel Clarke

Robin: you mean like people you went to high school with and didnt' like adding you on FB - Derek Pangallo

I already do. what i mean is if we don't keep FF, Twitter limited to our interests, wouldn't it be garbage we already try hard to get rid of. Or how far can we extend our interests in life or amount of information we consume? - Seyfi Erol

Derek -- I mean people I really have NO connection with at all. I've only friended a couple of people I work with, and 2 other real friends. I'm getting friend requests from people I don't know at all. - RobinDotNet

Seyfi: you haven't discovered FriendFeed's groups and lists yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

I got a Russian-speaking follower on Twitter. I didn't follow him because I don't understand a word he tweets. - Dennis Jernberg

Mahendra, And I've been told http://translatorize.com has successfully translated all 6000+ (oops - update: 7000+) comments http://friendfeed.com/ideali... from Russian to English :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks Robert! - Jan Ignatius from iPhone

Seyfi: you can separate your friends into lists. That way you can keep your quilting buddies separate from your football ones etc. - Robert Scoble

I'm the spammer u follow alrdy HA! - Rich Weaver

Did you know that Facebook has started selling parts of itself to the Russians? At end of May, they sold 1.96% stake of Facebook to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies for $200M. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I shouldn't have underestimated you. You probably have started much longer comment threads on Friendfeed before. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, Robert, I agree, FF has been very good at keeping out junk - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Micah: Uh, wow! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra: I have. I gave away $5,000 once and got more than 1,000 comments on that. But that cost me a lot of cash. Can't afford to do that again. - Robert Scoble

DST is run by Alisher Usmanov who is closely tied with Putin. You feel ok to that, but re-read the company's user agreement where it says it can share all of your info with third parties. Of course, it's irrelevant to this thread, but I thought it was interesting. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I think your Twitter follow is worth more than that? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Even if it's a lame comment and I don't actually say anything? Woohoo! FF looks interesting anyway,,, - Matt Harward

Yes, Matt! :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm @odie on twitter - Odi Chi

FF is interesting assuming the topic is FF... and/or Scoble's next devilishly clever stunt to generate FF comments - John Hardy

John: there are lots of interesting topics here on FriendFeed. Did you know you could search by them based on number of likes? Click "Advanced Search" and try. - Robert Scoble

John: Nope. Twitter's 'bout Trends, FF's 'bout Friends. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Very bold, I like it, are you going to keep the people you follow under 2000? - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Tell me the newest best way to use FriendFeed! - Shoichi

I notice that one of the prolific thought-leadering traffic drivers I follow on twitter basically tweets everything he reads, before he reads it. This has lead to spam a few times. disappointing. - Derek Pangallo

I'll not tell anyone ;) - PaperDoll

I hope I am interesting enough to be followed! lol - Carlton Hackett

Some of the reactions to what you're doing are pretty interesting, Robert. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

Social media experts? What are those? - Alasdair Munn

But what if someone doesn't want you to follow them :) ... It's not me.... - Amit Nangare

lmao - Andy Ghozali

woww! that is a lot of comments. - Sumanth Kolar

Joining bandwagon. - mwydro

Yo Robert: a man has to do what a man has to do, so one surfer to another: go for it! - Geer

Here here! A good cleansing is good, now and then... Starting fresh is the way to go, get all of that nonsense out and maintain a core group of people for solid conversation! - Brian Partridge

Great taking the tour w/ you, Levar Burton & @VegasBill during CES 09 at the Atomic Testing Museum. I would appreciate the follow back. Thanks Robert! - Chris R

There is change in the air... - Zack Brandit

Chris: I'm already following you, no need to beg! :-) That was fun times, wasn't it? - Robert Scoble

You've got to admit anyone who's on friendfeed instantly gets more exposure since it nicely imports people's public @ reply's anyway? - Matt Randles

I'm a ff fan;) - Cheray Bressler from iPhone

Thanks for following back on Twitter Robert. Cheers from Las Vegas! - Vegas Bill

I'm pretty sure we're friends here, only just wish there was a easy way to check... and if there is, that some one will let me know.... - Grant Bierman

this is such a classic move! well played. - laura

So why can't SEO people be tech as well? Actually requires a good tech aptitude. - Paul M Evans from iPhone

I'd like to see how many comments this one gets :) and i'm assuming you mean follow here on friendfeed. - Bhowmik Shah

Make sense, Scoble :) - Grant Laird Jr

Just out of curiousity, why are there fewer spammers and bots on FF compared with Twiitter? Is it because they haven't discovered FF yet? - Sally Church from iPhone

there are occasionally spammers on FF but I think they mostly get handled quickly vs Twitter where more than occasionally clusters of spammers just follow each other... - Shannon Clark

Choose wisely :) - Ozkan Altuner

Go FF its the Best - Robert Wheeler

followww meee - Thomas Christory

Scoble-plicity .-) - Del_

I use TweetLater to vet new followers. Helps get rid of spammers fast. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Wow! I've never seen so many people comment on Friendfeed as much as this! - Armand

Yo! peteryared on twiter :) - Peter Yared

This is #scoble at server irc.friendfeed.com I beleive ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

Your biggest fan and follower in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the DuoFertility video. Great as ever. - Philip Baddeley

Fantastic, I want to be followed :-) - Antonio Correnti

What if your already following me? Do I still need to comment here? - Uncle CW™

Sally: I don't explain spam defenses in public. I don't want spammers to figure them out. But there are quite a few defenses against spam here. - Robert Scoble

Refollow me on Twitter! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

nice one - Ken Post Jr

I was surprised about the spammer comments, until I started getting female nude model followers and I'm a women. Maybe a nude male model but not Sparkle or Hootie McBoob - Corrine Pearce

Corrine: hope you don't see that here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you doing this? You have one of the best listening audiences on twitter! Is there a point to prove that we will post here or go to wefollow? - David Cole

Now those not on FF will miss this one;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

David: actually that's not true. Most of the Twitter audience I had has moved over here. - Robert Scoble

I'm intrigued and will watch with interest -- and hey, you're always interesting. Well worth the follow! - Don Tamihere

real-time on FF is awesome - nchenga

David: and I can prove that. Twitter's audience has become less and less engaged lately. - Robert Scoble

Wow, powerful shift by Robert Scoble, I'm really interested in seeing how this works for you Scoble. I slept through all the big news here tonight. - Jimminy Fuller

Always up for your social explorations Robert. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

And you're not even halfway through the unfollowing process. :) - Ken Brady

wao, let's good. - naokits

Interesting experiment. This is probably one the most commented feedfriend threads in history! - Menno te Koppele

Plus, David, if you all are listening, you are listening because of my ability to find cool stuff. Mostly that's been because of FriendFeed over the past 18 months. Now I've seen how ascerbic Twitter's spammers have gotten on my accounts. - Robert Scoble

agree, it's an interesting experiment. - nchenga

Menno: actually it's not. There are many 1,000+ comment threads here. - Robert Scoble

Here's a search with all 1,000 comment threads displayed: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Interesting. This is going to boost 1000 egos for sure :-) - Freddie Benjamin

So will it be a matter of just trying to say ahead of the spammers by jumping from one early adopted social network to another? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

JP: no. I am not leaving Twitter. I AM, however, deleting all their accounts so I will no longer be passing them juice. - Robert Scoble

I wonder how will your FF homepage look like after this. - ahmet bulent

Does this make you anti-social media? - Cory Brown

To follow commenters from here on Twitter will be a lot of work for you Robert. Or do you have some magic tool that helps? - Tibor Holoda

Robert, how many of the 100k do you think you'll still be following when you are done? - RobinDotNet

~~~> Robert!! Follow me back again. [a] I'm a real fan of the @Scobleizer... and [b] I'm much nicer than some of these sassy bloofers. ;) - Kim Sherrell

1,100 - Robert Scoble

That's good to know. - George Hall (Australia)

So what if you have all 58k + comment on here? And you have to keep everyone! And your plan is foiled, sir. Okay give or take 10k for the neglected abandoned twitters and the spammers. Btw, you're already following me on both twitter and here. But come on, you're not really. : / - Lise

That's cool. I am finding the spammers too much to manage these days myself. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I promise I want tell them - Noel Kelly

Because I can't keep myself from doing math, that's 1.1%. - RobinDotNet

Lise: I see you a few times a day, but you're right. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Are you trying to make a point about FF v Twitter? I have spammy things to say about my amateur photography, potential homelessness, and run-ins with public-run health system in the US. Isn't all Twitter spam--just spam you want? :) - Dean Hall

the auto-refresh on this thread is mind-blowing, fun to watch - nchenga

Do you ever worry about SM burnout Robert? How do you pace your self? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting to note many of most commented threads are in languages other than English. Can we suggest FF has a better international appeal than Twitter? - Kaan Bingol

Good idea, as you say, stop juicing up the spammers - it'll be interesting to see the stats once you've finished. - Andrew Piggott

Dean: your Tweets aren't spam. I might keep you. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I only followed people who were interesting to me, otherwise it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of brain dumps. - Daniel Durrans

Exactly. So I expect to be cut. And considering I'm in a crowd of close to 60k, it'll be the same thing. - Lise

There should be a counter in front of the comments... - Willem Karssenberg

okay seriously ? - Asankhaya Sharma

What sort of comments do you want Robert? - Travis Koger

Lise: actually no. On FriendFeed I can absorb quite a few more people than on Twitter thanks to Groups. - Robert Scoble

a good cleansing is wise once in a while :) Power to the (real) people. - Benjamin

Travis: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Lise: and because FriendFeed's search engine is better here too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah I know. Thought you might have meant for your secretscoble twitter account ;) - Travis Koger

It's kind of like a giant SM break up Robert. *Oh the hearts you are breaking...* - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I'm fairly selective about who I follow and I follow so maybe you will follow me back! - Richard Cunningham from iPod

Robert, care to explain how you use groups in this kind of context? Because I don't get the point of following people who are then placed into a "I don't read this much" kind of group. How do you use groups so that you're (1) not overwhealmed, and (2) actually read what people are saying? - Ian Betteridge

How many people do you expect to end up with, Robert? What is a reasonable number? - Lise

You don't have to follow me on Twitter. I think the FriendFeed party palace is mighty fine. - Josette Torres from fftogo

(Not that I'll probably see your response, btw - something at the bottom of 350+ responses is effectively buried until FF has better threading tools. Which I'm sure it will, some day.) - Ian Betteridge

@Ian I believe that it may come in Google Wave. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

@Daniel - ditto, and for me it is generally development related also. Robert - I know you have to try and keep up with everything going on in the social media space, but I'm always surprised when people follow so many others as it must be extremely difficult to find the wheat in amongst all the chaff. - Donald Matheson

Robert: I did not know about that search trick. Thanks! - Menno te Koppele

Why? - Scott Hanselman

looks like a lot of comments - Rory Partalis

Ian: a "I don't read this much" kind of group is awesome for serrendipity. Also, anyone who I find there who is high value gets quickly moved to a smaller group. - Robert Scoble

What? Are you saying you're not following me already...? ;-) - Jarno Peschier

Lise: on Twitter? Less than 2,000. I can't follow more. - Robert Scoble

Done. :) - Smeerch

Jamo: I am already following you. Scott: why not? I am already following you too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it might be a problem for me re-gaining your following as my tweets are not 100% English only (whether that means trying to speak English or no English at all ;). How do you deal with occasional non-English tweeters? As that's clearly a noise for you. - Tibor Holoda

if only twitter were as engaging as FriendFeed has become, and as instantaneous as things like this comment thread, then maybe I would use it more. Hence why I'm all for unfollowing who you conceive as uninteresting; and if that includes me, then so be it! - Nick Soden

Tibor: I just skip over most of them. Sometimes I translate them to see if I was right. - Robert Scoble

It is my hope that I provide you with something as interesting as what you provide me with. Either way, I will continue to peruse your posts with interest. - James (!?)

hmmm - imran

Hi, I'm still newish to this social media thang - but good on you for taking a stand. - Jus

Do you prefer night owls? Because what about all the poor people in SV who went to bed at a decent hour and missed your post? Bummer for them, huh? - RobinDotNet

I'm back from picking my wife up at the airport and ran across this on my way back to sleep. - nuBound CEO - Mark

shhhhh - Luigi Filograna

Robin: heh, all the real geeks in SV are still up. - Robert Scoble

Interesting idea. I firmly believe SEOs are working day and night to figure out FF. - Ian Ceicys

Ian: I bet they are too since FF is starting to pull better on Google than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

I am such a sheep. @markmeyerphoto - Mark Meyer from iPhone

I have nothing interesting to say, don't follow me. - burc sahinoglu from BuddyFeed

what about me? ... sniff - Andy Ghozali

Me me me ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

looking for owls? - Dave Senior

Well I am out for the night. Good luck on your mass un-follow Robert. I look forward to your report on the results. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Robert, this is looking like a long thread already. :) - Robert Miller

Andy, Alemsah, and Dave, I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Do you consider FF to be less spammy if you are trying to find your new Twitter "friends" here? - Dušan Šimonovič

Dusan: are you a spammer? - Robert Scoble

lmao on here you are, not on the big T tho nevermind I will follow you there too, been a fan.... - Andy Ghozali

why? - Tolga Akmazoglu

bold and yet gutsy move...love the trending topic already! - Feersum Engine

:) - Ruchit Garg

Follow on FriendFeed or Twitter? :P Or Google Rader? :P - Qbat

Türkçe ne diyor arkadaş ? - Sinan İŞLER

The wild and woolly blogosphere is replete with all sorts of good stuff. Hard to follow 500 people, let alone 1000. I applaud you for trying to take the reins. - Jack B

hey there - deadmanwriting

And will you unfollow me if I send a DM ;)? - Sudar

I don't get it - Sheldon Levine

Qbat: I'll follow here on FriendFeed. Sheldon what don't you get? - Robert Scoble

Sudar: no, if you send me DMs here, that's good. - Robert Scoble

How long is the unfollow process going to take? And do you think FF will have as much noise as Twitter? - Duc Nguyen

So it's Twitter DM that you don't like? - Sudar

Sudar: right. - Robert Scoble

I'll make one comment and raise you two more. :) - Bryan Lee from iPhone

And will you follow me? don't know if you ever have, but I am following you on twitter. - Jus

Hey, Thanks for following me - Michael_techie

Would love your company, Robert. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

Even worse is Twitter DM spam, of course. - Dennis Jernberg

It funny you put spammers, SEO experts, bots, social media experts all in one bucket. What are you implying? Btw, I'm none of these... - Peter Chee

.. and it works!! Just got a mail saying Robert is following me now... :) - Sudar

Peter: I did that to piss off the SEO experts. :-) - Robert Scoble

This makes me realise that posting from Twitter as opposed to "to twitter from FF" allows the Twitter stream to grow on the back of FF comments ! otherwise not : as in my case - what do you think Robert ? FF to Twitter ? Or FF aggregating all your tweets ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Nicholas: shhhh, you are discovering my secrets! I'm doing more and more from FriendFeed lately. - Robert Scoble

I comment and you follow me. Its totally worth it - Arvind

Do I have to follow you too? :) - Mobilepax

Arvind: even better I was following you before. Mobilepax: no. I really don't care about followers. Inbound is more important than who is listening to you. - Robert Scoble

and does that mean I have to write in English from now on :) - Mobilepax

Awesome. I'm the 439th commenter. :D - Jhay Rocas

Mobilepax: no. I translate interesting posts to English. - Robert Scoble

More than 400 comments in about 2 hrs. Not bad. I wonder if there'd be nearly as many twitter responses/mentions. - Franz Binder

Franz: no way. Not even close. - Robert Scoble

Nice one - it's cool that you give friendfeed (and all the commenters of course ;-) much kudos. - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

If you just follow everyone in this thread, won't you just wind up with noise from 'engaged' people. I mean, does this solve the problem? - Missionary Broadcasting

Good thing its 4am and my car alarm went off, otherwise you wouldnt follow me! I had to look up a video online how to break the key fob apart becuase aparently its battery leaked and was self activating the panic switch. Damn VWs! a replacement key is only like 150 bucks!! - Charlieray

Missionary: no. You have not discovered that FriendFeed has groups and MUCH BETTER search. - Robert Scoble

Its funny that if you say "SEO" on twitter its an instant 10 followers - Charlieray

A friendfeed promotion experiment? - John Mandia from iPhone

What is a comment? - Meriç Dağlı

I'd rather follow you on Friendfeed, Robert. Your tweets get cross posted here anyway, and there's a much greater sense of engagement in that conversation than there is over at Twitter. - Andrew Terry

John: no. Meric: you just made one. - Robert Scoble

John: I've been promoting FriendFeed for 18 months. Where have you been? - Robert Scoble

FF rocks :o) - Cowan Group

Everyone that "follows" you really does know you love FF. So did you build a tool to follow everyone back that comments on here or are you seriously going to manually follow people back? - Peter Chee

Theres 451+ comment here, do you really follow *everyone*? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

woohoo! I'm in :P - Tim Bergman

Because I am up at 1:20 a.m. PT, why not... I must be your target audience then. - Georgiana Comsa

It must show you how many people enjoy engaging with you Robert, with the number of people posting here. - Steve Farnworth

Amazing to see the comment thread to this entry expand constantly in real time. - Christian Bolstad

Peter: I've manually followed everyone on this thread so far. - Robert Scoble

Peter: although to be fair I've already followed quite a few people who have commented here. - Robert Scoble

Hi, you are already following me. My solution to get rid of spammers on Twitter is to block them, that is what I do. If everyone started blocking them, I think things would improve - Asgeir

Are you going to sleep tonight, or watch the fun?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

is that enough to get followed? - Ouriel Ohayon

do I accumulate credit, maybe towards an afterlife? You are already following me :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

really anyone? :D - Francesco Marconi

What about the SEO experts who accidentally find this feed? - phil baumann

Robert, but you're following commenters here, not on Twitter, right? Not that i care about Twitter that much, as for me it's just a pipeline. FF and FB are conversational platforms for me, or the places i hang out these days. - Tibor Holoda

Spammers being blocked doesnt do anything as they are hoping for that 1 in 100 hit of someone clicking that link, eventually they get banned and create a new account. - Charlieray

Aaman: Sleep? some of us are just starting the day. We're waiting for the US to go to sleep so we can talk about you ;-) - Rachel Clarke

the term SEO expert is a crock of shit - Charlieray

like that's gonna work... - thinkingpot

I hope you like hype machine loved tracks. - Neil Godfrey

FriendFeed is better only if U want feedback and have the time to check it out. - Marko Dvornik

Hello from the UK... - robkeynes

Marko: not true. It's better because it has very little spam. It's better because it has a better search engine. It's better because it has comments and likes. It's better because it's an aggregator. And more. - Robert Scoble

you don't have to follow back. but i'll take the chance to say great work with building 43. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

where's the 'hide button'??? :-D - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

Massimo: right up top. Heheh. Alexandre: thank you! - Robert Scoble

After 6 months out of the social media loop I came back to a whole bunch of follows that I either couldn't remember who they were or why I had followed them - how can that be relevent? So, I culled my follows back to less than 200. I'm now just looking to find the signal amongst the noise. - Colin Walker

What about FriendFeed? Is there any @notsecretscoble too? - Ludwik C. Siadlak

Friendfeeding for Scoble to follow me while on vacation in Montauk. There is something wrong with me. - Mitchell Schneider

:) - امیرعباس

Mitchell -- you just don't want to miss the fun. - RobinDotNet

robkeynes -- nice to see you up and about - RobinDotNet

Ludwik: no, because here I can just start a new list of users. - Robert Scoble

Well, this has been fun to watch, but it's almost 2 a.m. and I have to be very smart tomorrow morning, which is easier when I'm not too tired, so everyone have a great [whatever comes next in your time zone]. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm trying to understand this follow/unfollow strategy you are applying as Napoleon Bonaparte on a battle field ;) Interested to know the result - Thierry R. Andriamirado

pushing this thing to its limits just to see what happens? interesting. - livefast

I really do think the way Twitter has changed in the last few months, with all the media attention, certainly begs for it to be used differently now. - Nicola Quinn

SEO what?! :) - Kobayashi

Wow that's a whole lot of people commenting in the last 2 hours, Rob - How many of the new people you are following from this list are NEW to friendfeed? (estimate?) - Roy Herrod

i'm new! - Luigi Filograna

Roy: 40% - Robert Scoble

Does this constitute a comment or are you looking for some insightful commentary on the state of new media? ;) - Iwan

40%? This must have turned out to be one of the biggest promotions in FF history, even if it wasn't intended that way. BTW, I'm new to FF too. - Dennis Jernberg

guess it's good to clean up the list once in a while. - shadow

Ha ha, nice.... So any major ramifications from the mass unfollow? - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair: other than losing about 1,000 followers so far? No major ramifications. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm coming out with a project in the Continuing Medical Education field in the next weeks so if you are interested, I wouldn't mind if you will follow me :-) - Marco Fabbri

Won't tell anybody, specially Seo people, ssshhhh..... - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

No comment ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Too late. - Alex Gonzalez

You had me at don't tell the spammers... - Sean Kelly

I think it's a hoot. Now I'm wondering whether to reverse my recent move towards following more, not less. I do believe that from my experience so far FF is more attuned to building/maintaining community than is Twitter. - Des Walsh

Great move Robert - I like it a lot - Robert Davies

Des: on FriendFeed you can do both strategies at the same time. You can follow a lot more in one list while following even fewer in another. - Robert Scoble

Des - Once more people re-engage in the conversation here, they'll realize the continuing outright potential of Friendfeed. I still some here before I read my e-mail - Charlie Anzman

Hi Mr Scoble, I'm with you (but on a smaller scale) I unfollowed about 150 users on Friday, felt good! I pretty much hang out in FF now at my home page and my groups - Lee from iPod

wow...just wow :) Robert, you have many fans !! - Hayk H.

Good luck on hiding from the bots, they have ways of finding people.... :) - Chris Holm

well, who am I to refuse such a nice offer? here I am!!! - niccolò vecchia

Good to hear! I have only ~2000 followers, but I can't follow more at the moment due to Twitter's follow limit rule. - Martin Lindeskog

I can't resist. skeptical, however. - thinkQuick

Robert maybe the effort to get to 1 million is too great?? LOL Look forward to being in special company - Wayne Mansfield

lol! ;-) - auro

Following for the sake of it - Rudi

follow, unfollow. it's all work... - punkwithgun

Great way to test the chemistry between FF and Twitter. I like it. - E-Advocate Network

Robert - I'am definitely not a spammer when it comes to broadcasting anything to people, who doesn't want to hear it :) but I do sometimes respond (mostly on twitter so @reply) to some tweets not aimed on me, but that's what everybody actually asks for when publicly broadcasting anything. - Dušan Šimonovič

Lovely. - Kevin Montgomery

Scoble is a superstar :) - Peter

Woohoo. :) - mjc

Enjoy your tweets - Keith Humphreys

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. Himitsu o shiri tai. (Secret secret. I've got a secret.) - Rich Puskarich

Welcome! - Bob Stewart

Shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm neither of those (the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts,) though, I like the heck out of the concept of this thread... - Vincent Wright

@euaneggs :) - Euan Rowlands

Good idea about the unfollow. It was an interesting experiment whilst it lasted but given your lifestyle I'm sure most Twitter messages just passed you by. I never DM'd you however, it was nice to think that I had the option if I wanted to. Anyway I've been on FF for ages now, and what I need is a good FF app (for pc), any ideas anyone? - Nick Bristow

Nick: I just use a browser with FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Only 530 comments so far? Come on people you are not even trying. - John Cooper

FIRST... well almost - Rhys Amos from iPod

oh,i'm 538? - M∂hmood

hello hello! - May Wong

I am really curious to check the result of this experiment... - Alessandro Galetto from twhirl

why are you doing this again ? - startup ticker

To confuse you. - Robert Scoble

LOL - nice one Robert. - Darren Rowse

Lol! that dude definitely sounds confused :-) - Freddie Benjamin

:-) well done - Johni Fisher

Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me. - Gilbert Harding

Nice! Subscribe me!!! ;) - stakhov

cool~ - kang

promise? - David Semeria

well i'm only bemused, is that close enuff ? - startup ticker

so quick~ - kang

I'm interested to see how this turns out for you. - Brandon Eaker

talk about noise! - Miles Media

550 commants!!!! wtf? - Rob Sellen :o)

Good to know. Scoble is a superstar. - jaspio

@Rob Sellen, did you see the comments on the most recent ffundercats podcast entry. http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... Over 1000 in a very short period of time. Although I expect that this post will also get up to those levels. - Travis Koger

Ah Scoble allways busy. - erwin blom

NOTICE: I am closing comments here because I gotta get some sleep. I'll consider doing this again sometime. Sorry if you didn't get in, but see you tomorrow night. - Robert Scoble

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Since I am half the writer @paulcarr is I will just take a picture of my sushi: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

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As seen in front of me at Sushi Main Street in Half Moon Bay. And Paul I haven't been sick in ages and I didn't need to drink any free crap that Sarah Lacy gave me. :-) - Robert Scoble

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Robert: perhaps you're twice the photographer that Paul is, then? - Mark Dykeman

Recommendations algorithms on feed aggregators will disrupt the established new media (it'll become the old new media) - Charbax

Don't post your nasty raw fish on here! It will make me want some. - Charlieray

OM NOM NOM - Charlieray

Since you are so close, swing by Mill Rose Inn when you are done and I will give you a tour. - Terry Baldwin

sushi and food anytime yummie :) - polou/indigo_bow

Terry: damn, I'm already home. How about tomorrow afternoon? - Robert Scoble

Apostol: the founder begged and I liked it and it works FAST here on FriendFeed -- it was one of the first apps to support FriendFeed's SUP protocol. - Robert Scoble

That looks lovely. I sure do miss sushi in Tokyo -- so good and so cheap. - Christopher A Carr

Bwana ☠

Yes, I still use Yahoo. Check out the redesign - http://www.yahoo.com

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I use Yahoo too! =D - Shevonne

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Always use Yahoo...it's a hard habit 2 brk. LOL Like the redesign... - CarolAnnB

Thats a geek cred hit right there! - Charlieray

I have no problem going against the grain Charlie. Thanks for the confirmation - Bwana ☠

Like the new site, but I prefer the simplicity of Google - Zachary TG

Yeah. I use it from way back and use it everyday - but I use other sites, too. - WorldofHiglet

flickr and sports coverage are really the only two things I use it for any longer. - Bill Kinney

Zach - http://search.yahoo.com/ is about as simple as one can get - Bwana ☠

I mostly use it for news, finance, sports, and messenger [Edit: and movies. I recently stopped using Yahoo games] - Bwana ☠

http://ysearch.com shorter version - AJ Batac

Nothing wrong with using Yahoo is there? I wouldn't trust their search but they have pretty solid content otherwise don't they? - Kamath (नमः)

Charlieray

Looking for love, 650-pound virgin loses 410 - http://digg.com/health...

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"Wait till your switch flips when you are about 30.... you'll catch up to the rest of us." - Charlieray

Veronica

Michael Jackson Dies | TMZ.com - http://www.tmz.com/2009...

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Holy shit. - Veronica from Bookmarklet

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Ouch. - Thomas

Oh man. Too much death this week. - Dave Friedel

They come in waves with celebs. He makes three (Ed McMahon and Farah Faucett). - Thomas

I am just, just, shocked. - Mark

Whoa... Very strange day. - Aaron Hood

Some sources are saying an overdose of sleeping pills :( - Mark

Shock. Shock. Shock. - Dave Friedel

I maybe over blowing this I just thought Leo Laporte would have broken into his shows to report the news. The death of Jackson is a cultural event of epic proportions. - Mark

I'll remember where I was at this moment. - Dave Friedel

I was just thinking that Dave. I remember where I was whern Diana died too - Mark

Is this real? - Fleagle

CNN.com still doesn't have confirmation on their site. Either TMZ rushed it out or CNN's late to the party again... - Thomas

TMZ is more ballsy and has less of a reputation to protect than CNN so they took a chance I guess - Mark

I noticed that, Thomas. We'll see! Hopefully we're not putting him in his grave before his time. - Veronica

BBC News Live http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... - Mark

BBC are being VERY cautious about the Death thing - Mark

The mainstream news beat Twitter on this story. - Mark

Twitter.com is being hammered. Not suprising. - Mark

Wouldn't be the first time FF or twitter jumped the gun... - Thomas

CNN Live: Fire dept won't reveal his state due to HIPAA laws. Blitzer can't get confirmation. - Dave Friedel

this is insane - Veronica

latimes; he's in a coma, CNN: he's alive. - anna sauce

According to LA times blog, he's in a coma as of 2:46. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow... - Thomas

I will take a COMA any day over Death. Fuck yes there may be hope!!!!!!!!! - Mark

I hope tmz was just jumping the gun - Jason Tullos

I had a friend who had a cardiac arrest and was revived... but died a few days later. It's worse than a heart attack. - Dave Friedel

Depending on how long he wasn't breathing, he may be technically alive, but... - Thomas

We will worry about bringing him back later, if he is in a coma at least he is alive - Mark

It's interesting that CNN isn't even mentioning the TMZ article. You'd think they'd at least reference it and say "let's wait for confirmation"... - Thomas

thats what the BBC is doing Thomas - Mark

"unconfirmed" etc etc - Mark

Lets just hope he is in a coma. I mean he is either dead or in a coma right? - Mark

Twitter is dead, too. - Steve Hampton

CNN now going with the coma story - Thomas

LA Times has changed from Coma to DEATH - Mark

Is this bigger than John Lennon dying? - Steve Hampton

LA Times is going with dead now: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow... - Veronica

its big. Very VERY big - Mark

CNN HLN Update: Michael Jackson is in a coma. - John Fox

RIP Michael! - Fee501st

Probably as big as Elvis', Lennon's deaths - Mark

So CNN is about 30 minutes behind - Thomas

way to go, CNN - Veronica

They're the news leader, right? :) - Thomas

Well, either they wait and get it right or call it early and possibly get it wrong. They're supposed to be reputable. - aldenoneil

CNN just called based on CBS and the times - Jason Tullos

Certainly for people around Veronica's age including me, this is probably the biggest cultural death in our lifetimes that we are old enough to understand - Mark

MJ in Coma according to CNN! - Divya Mistry

I'd say this is bigger than Lennon and Elvis. MJ is a huge icon in Asia. Especially in India. - Srujan Ameda

LA Times is confirming the King of Pop's death. - John Fox

CNN just announced death - Thomas

@Thomas Dammit, if I'd have had it confirmed by CNN 30 minutes ago, I could have.. erm... - Ian Betteridge

Hope you're at peace finally MJ. RIP. - Dave Friedel

Poor guy. - Andrew Leahey

BBC are saying its a shame cos people have tickets for his show and wont be able to go. Unbelievabe - Mark

Last time I felt like this was 12 years ago, staying up all night when Diana passed away. The space-time continuum shifts and you always remember where you were at that moment. - Dave Friedel

CNN just made that Diana comparison... - Thomas

CNN is saying itll be devastating for the Jackson family. You don't say? - Andrew Leahey

I remember Diana's death very well. I was up late watching SNL with a friend of mine during a sleepover party, and the news came on and interrupted it. We didn't know if it was part of the show or not. - Veronica

Yeah, Twitter is not holding up well right now. - Veronica

Yeah, I was moving at the time Diana died. The TV was the first thing I hooked up... - Thomas

I was playing Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo when I heard about Diana. - Mark

Not at all. - Andrew Leahey

The threes thing is always so weird and creepy. And true. - Veronica

Ehh, its usually a stretch Scott, since theres never a clear time-limit on the 3 rule. - Andrew Leahey

There it goes on DIGG.com - Mark

Wow, look at all the people gathering... - Dave Friedel

I just got back from a friends house and my mom was crying, thats how i found out! (about Diana) - Fee501st

No doubt most digged story in history - Mark

This is going to be a major world-wide event, obviously. - Veronica

Is it just me or is the internet in general feeling sluggish? - Andrew Leahey

I am sure tens of millions of people are on the net than would normally be - Mark

Yep, this feels just like Diana. That was worse because there was over 6 hours of waiting to find out. But it still is shuddering to see a milestone in life go by so fast. - Dave Friedel

Micheal Jackson is/was a world wide music icon to all! Sad day in the music industry for such. - Bryce Campbell

I remeber when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, I was in 3 grade class and we was watching it live on TV, its was scary at the time - Fee501st

Its not just a sad day for the music ind Bryce, believe me the world will mourn - Mark

CNN anchor was talking about how everyone always expected him to return to the top some day. Totally did. - Andrew Leahey

Millions will take to the streets in cities around the world - Mark

I really hope this wasn't a pill overdose. - Dave Friedel

I'm sad for his children. What a strange, sad life. - Veronica

Did not see that coming - Joe Demartino

See we are about the age in which we only really knew his weird phase, not his talented phase - Mark

Mark, agree totally! - Bryce Campbell

I am anyway. 21 years old - Mark

BBC just confirmed. He is officially dead - Mark

Mark, you're making me feel very old. :P - Dave Friedel

I was an 80's baby, so I remember the talented time. - Veronica

this is so sad. don't know what to say. I grew up with his songs, in the 80's. - diego morelli

I'm 23, but totally remember him for his talent. He's still on my playlists. - Andrew Leahey

The pop icons from the 60's-80's are slowly disappearing. - imabonehead

He was like Reagan or video games. He was the 80's. - Dave Friedel

For any of you too young to remember or experience it, Michael was the most amazing person to set foot on a stage. He completely changed the game. IMO the most amazing performer of all-time. This is truly devastating. - Fleagle

adding his songs to my Napster Library as we speak - Edgar Rodríguez

whats his best album im going to download it on Spotify - Mark

I would have loved to see him perform. I remember waiting up all night to see the live premiere of the Scream video with Janet. Loved it. - Veronica

Mark: Thriller - Andrew Leahey

I agree: Thriller - Veronica

Veronica: I remember too. CBS News aired it later that night. - Andrew Leahey

I remember seeing him in the Wiz. I think that was the only movie he starred in wasn't it? - Dave Friedel

Oh no, the news are starting the rumours not that he was overworked for the 50 tour concerts - Mark

Thriller was his best, he had a lot of great songs on so/so albums after that. - Andrew Leahey

Yea, Thriller by far - Fee501st

Man in the Mirror. - Dave Friedel

I'm 19 but I think honestly that Michael Jackson is the most important star of the 20th century. Thriller was his best, in my opinion. - Diego Espinoza V.

After they confirmed he was gone I turned off the news, I feel like them going on about his talent is rubbing our face in the fact that he's gone. - Andrew Leahey

Beat It was my favourite - Iain

Smooth Criminal for me ^____^ http://is.gd/1dxdV (havent been on friendfeed long, is this the most active post anyone has seen?) - Anthony Kam

I know Andrew but they have to fill the air :/ - Mark

Don't forget Smooth Criminal - Fee501st

Don't stop til you get enough - Andrew Leahey

Say say say. - Dave Friedel

Can you imagine how popular he would have been had he not had the scandals? - Andrew Leahey

Dave: Moonwalker: http://www.imdb.com/title..., and we musn't forget Captain EO. - aldenoneil

I know what you mean - Mark

Oooo, Don't stop till you get enough. Good call Andrew. I love that song. 70's! - Dave Friedel

CNN playing MJ tunes now. - Veronica

Moonwalker! who had the game? A friend had it, i remember playing it - Fee501st

Beat It! - Dave Friedel

Oh man, these songs are so good. - Veronica

Some news channels are saying he was not upto 50 dates of his upcoming concert, but you can't predict a heart attack. A 40 year old man in perfect health can have a heart attack. - Mark

I Want You Back - Jackson 5 - Andrew Leahey

Beat It was right before Thriller the video. The Thriller video was like a movie launch. Everyone sat around on the premiere night to see the longest video ever on MTV. - Dave Friedel

Oh c'mon, iReport? - Veronica

His creditors are not going to be as sad at the news as we are, thats a fact. - Mark

Yeah thanks Mark for pointing that out... - Dave Friedel

iReport? REALLY? - Divya Mistry

Yay, CNN... - Thomas

Playing Billy Jean on soptify - Mark

Jon Stewart just did a bit on CNN giving up and using iReporters. - Dave Friedel

I don't care about David.. WHo's this guy? Get off phone d-bag. You tell 'em Veronica - Divya Mistry

Ah soptify - is that an new and exclusive service Mark? :) - Iain

yep - Mark

lol - Iain

Jeff Goldblum died too aye? - Andrew Leahey

CNN... you learn it in middle school "Show... don't tell" Show MJ, don't tell me about MJ. - Divya Mistry

This is MIND BLOWING: He ultimately sold more than 750m albums worldwide and won 13 Grammy awards. - Mark

I saw someone else report the Jeff Goldblum thing too. That had better be fake. - Veronica

Nope, fell to his death. - Andrew Leahey

Jeff Goldblum? - Mark

Dude, the person I read said car accident. Rumor spreading? - Veronica

Yep, filming in New Zealand. So much for the rule of 3. - Andrew Leahey

Can you contemplate selling almost a billion albums? 13 grammys! I mean come on. - Mark

Dude, that would suck. So much for the buckaroo banzai sequel... - Thomas

Not heard about Jeff Goldblum dying - when was that? - Iain

he sold more ALBUMS than there are VIDEOS on youtube - Mark

Jeffs wikipedia entry has not said anything about that yet! - Charlieray

Better be fake - Iain

There is nothing on Google News about that at all. - Veronica

Chaos theory. - aldenoneil

yea i call fake! - Fee501st

http://jeff.goldblum.mediafetcher.com/news... - Andrew Leahey

Total fake - Andrew Leahey

Jeff story is a fake, for sure. Nothing on any news story, besides we'd hear that right away on CNN. - Divya Mistry

Google's robots are not "that" quick i guess - Srujan Ameda

Very suspicious that his name is in the subdomain. - Andrew Leahey

Totally fake. - Veronica

http://hashtags.org/search... just rumors atm - Anthony Kam

Search twitter though, spreading like *wildfire*. - Andrew Leahey

woa - biggzipp

this is the michael jackson thread tho xx - Mark

sorry mark! we'll make a new thread. - Veronica

Did anyone load that jeff golblum link on twitter? Wondering if it's a phishing site... - Thomas

Showing confirmed both on MSNBC and Fox News. - Kim Landwehr

Who is this CNN lady? First of all, she's putting words in that iReporter's (?!) mouth. - Divya Mistry

I loaded, I'm not sure. Checking out mediafetcher.com - Andrew Leahey

Kim - Fox news confirmed, and then immediately said that their reporters are waiting out side till UCLA Med Center confirms it - Divya Mistry

His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage. <------ I was just too young to experience that :( - Mark

Dang, no kidding? So.....what else is going on? - Tdubya

celebs dropping like flies, veronica you need to be careful for the rest of this week - Anthony Kam

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Tech Crunch Says the Web is suffering from too much traffic - Mark

9-11 was like this (in terms of net overload). FriendFeed's ajax updates make this the best source for me right now. Interesting... - Dave Friedel

BBC confirmed it around 5 mins ago.. - Mark Aitken

Right now dozens of authors are beginning work on the Michael Jackson tell all stories hoping there book is the one which will sell millions - Mark

The news RT's on Twitter look like a FriendFeed commercial since this gives me no results: http://search.twitter.com/search... while this does: http://friendfeed.com/search... and with much less noise... - Patrick Mackaaij

Maybe he still has time for one more "Thriller" dance. - Ruben

UCLA Med Ctr website is down! - Divya Mistry

CNN had confirmation from the coroners office apparently - Iain

Sad, sad day. :( I loved him when I was young and his music is still awesome. I always felt sorry for him too - he was clearly fucked up and it wasn't his fault. - Amy

Man had issues, but holding the baby out the balcony... I can sleep soundly while chalking that fuck up to him. - Anthony Kam

Like all artists, I judge him by his art, not his life - anna sauce

A weird individual, but he encountered challenges totally unique to child stars - anna sauce

Well said Anna. - Mark Aitken

I also think his popularity shouldn't be underestimated- friend went to a concert 6 years or so ago in Germany and was astounded by how many showed up- 10K? or something insane - anna sauce

Macaulay Culkin's and Corey Feldman's phones are ringing off the hook. - aldenoneil

@baery i luld - Anthony Kam

Leo Laporte

Leo is one proud papa.

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Are the good report cards all in order this evening? - Charlieray

Charlieray

LA Cops Getting Electric MINI Coopers - http://digg.com/autos...

June 22 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

"I do work for a BMW engineer. He drove one to our shop in NJ a month ago. He says the thing hauls ass." - Charlieray

Charlieray

Are You Sure Dad Wanted This? [PIC] - http://digg.com/comedy...

June 21 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

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Charlieray

What Will the Return of Steve Jobs Mean for Apple? - http://digg.com/apple...

June 21 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

"Apple is a ticking timebomb." - Charlieray

Dan Van Hoy

Can any of you aviation types out there answer a simple question? Why don't Flight Data Recorders (black boxes in commercial aircraft float?

June 2 - Comment - Like - Share

They probably would if they weren't attached to heavy things, like airplanes. They are designed not to detach in a crash. - Charlieray

Bryan Green

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Boy, hams from your locale look much more relaxed (and healthy) than the ones from the east coast. - Charlieray

Leo Laporte

Looking for input: who would you like to hear on TWiT this Sunday?

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Been a while since Dvorak, always enjoy him - Jan Ole Peek

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Dvorak & Curry (waiting for deletion in 3, 2,1... ;-) ) - Holger Eilhard

Patrick Norton!! and PLEASE... No more Wil Harris - Jim Connolly

Only Dvorak - Charbax

With Trek out, perhaps Wil Wheaton and/or Levar Burton - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Allen Stern - Allen Stern

Patrick Norton - Bradley Goetsch

John McEnroe - Charbax

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Veronica Belmont, Becky Worley (Techtv old school) or Justine (new school) - Harvey Birdman

I'd prefer no "social media experts" - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

One of the Brits you've had on before - that nice liverpulian (can't remember his name) - Jonathan Grimes

Dvorak! - Michael Kaiser from Nambu

Veronica Belmont - Harvey Birdman

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Calacanis - Phillip Stewart

Wil Wheaton. EDIT: Levar Burton too. - Roberto Bonini

Stephen Fry? (I KNOW he's not a scouser, BTW) - Ian May

John C. Dvorak + Lisa Bettany + Brian Brushwood - arjo

Dvorak and Calacanis are always good. - Scott Breakall

Dvorak and Becky Worley (she was awesome too on 188) - Charbax

Dvorak and Patrick - Anton Tanderup

I agree with @Charbax. Dvorak and Becky Worley were a great combination on TWiT. - arjo

Robert Heron and/or Sascha Segan, perhaps? - Christopher A Carr

<---- myself :P - Adam Jackson

All of your regulars are likable, but Dvorak and Calcanis are the only ones that drive the show into new and interesting territory. - casey wright

J C Dvorak,J Calacanis, Lisa B .Please - Ken O'Kelly

James Whatley aka @Whatleydude - Ken O'Kelly

Bwana and Dvorack. - robby

Molly Wood and John C. Dvorak - Eduardo

Norton and Dvorack would be awesome. - Ronald Bandish

Jimmy Fallon ;-) Maybe Kevin Rose can introduce you. - Mark F. Heil

Dvorak, Norton, and Rose please! - Jonas Dionisio

Star Trek cast - Robert

Bwana, and Veronica Belmont! - David Ford

MEEE!!! - Alphonso Lizcano

You can't go wrong with Dvorak - Bryan McAffee

Garnett Lee - Lou Buran

wHil wHeaton!!!! will harris, and of course dvorak - Mark

Patrick Norton and Bwana, just to get confused with their voices! - Jack Truong

Brain Brushwood, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton - Billy Shelton

Cali Lewis or Patrick Norton (no Dvorak please) - Ted Ellis

Bwana is always good. John C. - Willowdale

Peter rojas - lamont

Calacanis and Amber MacArthur - Stephen Lecheler

Dvorak and Patrick Norton. Lots of good news this week, so the less Twitter talk the better. - Jerry Voelker

Dvorak, Bwana, Sarah Lane, Becky Worley NOT LISA B she's horrible. - Charlieray

I would like you to do the show alone, but do voices for Dvorak, Calacanis, Will Harris, and Lisa Bettany. - Larry Roth

Physicist talking about quantum computers and an update on where we are with them. - Gilfeather

the guy from scam school.he's good - lamont

Ultimate worst topic: Brett Farve Twittering about Manny Ramirez. - Richard Hoskins

Dvorak. Always have him on please. You and him ARE TWiT. Wil Harris is also very enjoyable. So is Calacanis. Cory Doctorow also. - Emil Alexander Swenson

star trek twit wound be timely, will levar and veronica - Todd Proffitt

Oprah, Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray, and most important of anyone else in the world -- Tyra. - Walter Lounsbery

Ed Bott - Larry Basham - cornedbeefgents

How about a Patrick Norton and Leo twit? - Joe Dearman

Cranky twits Leo, Dvorak, Sebastian Ruplee, Calacanis - Charlieray

how about @jack to talk about his new "project" - patrick

hey Steve Jobs??? Could you pull that one off? - Dan Krivolavek

Bwana - Nolan Alston

cigars and wine - Richard Hoskins

With upcoming Hubble service mission, Bad Astronomer Phil Plait and Trek tie in with Levar Burton. - Doug Torneden

Dvorak, Norton, Rose, and Calacanis... - Gary Hise

We haven't heard Molly Wood on TWiT in a while. - Matt Chilcote

Dvorak, Curry, Calacanis, Patrick Norton, and yes cigars and wine - Aris/Theft

Has Curry ever been on TWiT? I'd love to see Worley on, Dvorak possibly, but if you get those two, maybe add some other old TechTV'ers if possible. Calacan would probably be good too. - Chris

NINaccess - Richard Hoskins

YLNT - Larry Basham - cornedbeefgents

Mitsubishi's "Download a Car" project. http://torrentfreak.com/downloa... - Nicholas Young

Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, and Molly Wood would melt my pants. - thechadster

How about Andy Walker? - Willowdale

Molly, Dvorak, WilW, Jason Howell is under exposed, Tom Green, Harry Shearer, Veronica, mix it up Alex A sans Kevin, Merlin, yes please Merlin. And a bit less wine... - Tom Hofstatter

(Buzz Out Loud + No Agenda)*GDGT Weekly/YLNT = TWiT - MacNeurotic

Dvorak please - russellcoleman

amber - Archie Maclean

DVORAK!! - Carlos Jackson

i'\ - Tad

0. for a systm geek round: patrick norton (in the house this time, no wandering around & connection issues), dave randolph, and david caulkins 1. stephen fry, conan o'brien, jimmy fallon for a talk show host round (if you can get them), 2. as gunny wallen put it 'no social media experts'. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

molly wood and brian cooley - erick

Molly Wood - Keith Hobin

How about Bwana and Patrick. They can do impersonations of each other. - Joe Dearman

Anyone related to Star Trek I guess ... wonder if you can get JJ Abrams though :p - Clarence Chiang

although very unlikely, would be funny to have george lucas & a round of star trek actors. heh :p - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

I don't like listening to people act like they know everything and yes I'm talking about Brian Cooley .. I agree with all the other choices though - John Blanton from twhirl

It's always funny how one person's favorite is another person's worst nightmare :) I always enjoy Dvorak, Patrick and Veronica. - Jeff

Molly Wood - Renee Pie

Pete Cashmore was cranky and great although probably not popular. Ryan Block and Will Harris are always good. Worley and Molly are very good. Curry would be fun since he is opinionated. Basically choose folks who are very knowledgeable or Type A. No squeeky women who start each sentence with "um" or "well". - Techboy2000

Wil W pls, he's a fan of both Twit and Star Trek... - Denverken

Check out Andrew Dubber of New Music Strategies: http://newmusicstrategies.com/ He's a New Zealander living in Birmingham, England, and he specializes in all sorts of ideas on how musicians can find a market and fans online. - Darren Landrum

Leonard Nimoy, Wil Harris, Dvorak, Molly Wood - chipster621

Patrick Norton, Lisa Bettany, and some Star Trek with new movie out so will wheaton & Levar Burton - Matt Pollari

Winer, Gilmore, Calacanis and Doctorow - that should be fun. - Geoff Schaadt

James Theodore Kirk - Richard Hoskins

Tiberius! - Michael

Seriously, Johnny C, JCal, @WilW, and Levar Burton. Ever ask Barry Sonnenfeld? - Michael

Gina Trapani, Calacanis is also always interesting. - Sung Choi

Scoble maybe. - Jason Shultz from Nambu

Robert Heron is my number one choice. Dvorak ONLY if there is no wine and young women on at the same time. - John Little

Dvorak, Burton and Rose - Mike

Dvorak , Curry, Rose - Ron Acierno

Dvorak, curry, Calacanis and Kevin - americanm

Rebert Heron also - americanm

What about that Pogue guy? Or Robert Heron, Bwana, or for the lulz, have Winer on! - Mike Lewis

Dvorak! and more Dvorak ! - John Hillestad

I agree with Dunny: Wil Wheaton and/or Levar Burton. Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Bwana! - Christopher Theberge

Patrick Norton! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Levar and Brushwood are the best of the newest twits - Eric Marden

Molly Wood and Dvorak. Veronica, too. - Robert

I think Adam Curry might still be in town; should invite him up to the TWiT Cottage. Bwana too. - Hawklu

Dvorak, Curry, Alex Lindsay - Matt

Wil Harris, Andy Walker and some of the old gang from The Lab. Someone to talk the effects of technology in the entertainment field such as theatre and concerts - Stephen Dean

Woz? - Hawklu

Mac vs Windows: Paul and Merlin - lofti

Jon Udell, Michael Nielsen, Ben Fry and Toby Segaran. You get cool accents and über brains - Deepak Singh

alex albrecht - Mike Vail

Thurrott & Lindsay - Kurtis Land

Molly Wood, WilW or LeVar, and Calacanis - Patrick Sullivan

Want to hear Dvorak tell all, how Twitter saved his life! - Craig Anderson

Dvorak, Adam Curry and Calacanis - Adam Marsh

molly wood, dvorak, kevin rose, not curry, calacanis - Randy Klassen

John Hodgman (pc) & Justin Long (mac) - Chris Pugh

Ryan Block, Scoble and Dvorak - Mike Getz

John Davison of WhatTheyPlay.com ~ http://www.whattheylike.com/ - monkeystick

bring back udell - get rid of dvorak - mike "glemak" dunn

Dave's Winer ? ;) - americanm

IHNATKO - Richard Hoskins

Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Andy Ihnatko! - americanm

Robert Llewellyn is in town, isn't he? - Amac

Dvorak, Curry, Dave Winer, Scoble - Kiko Cherman

Dvorak, Norton, Wozniak, Belmont, Wood - Harold Benfield

What is it and the love for Dvorak? Let's take Dvorak out and have someone else in who is interesting. - Stephen Lecheler

Curry, Scoble and Lewis - Matt

Molly Wood. So smart. - Darrel Davis

Wil Wheaton (since Star Trek is out now and he can talk about it--Levar Burton's a good idea too) - Stevon

Dvorak & Curry & Mr Norton! - Adam Horne

Thich Nhat Hahn, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Bill O'Reilly - Richard Hoskins

The Google Goats - Bill Heslin

Dvorak (always!), Levar Burton, Adam Curry, Amber McArthur - Steve Visscher

John C, Wil Wheaton, Sarah Lane, Veronica Belmont - Larry Vogel

Oh, and Lisa Bettany - Jan Ole Peek

Loren Brichter (Tweetie) and Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) - kirk

Have you ever asked Josh Topolsky - current editor of Engadget on Leo? He has a lot to say about Kindle2 and the "future" of e-ink - winston smith

Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca. - Richard Hoskins

Joel Spolsky-- no kidding. - Richard Hoskins

Looking over the list, 95% of them are already on, or have been on the TWiT network. Lets get a little more imaginative. Like Josh Topolsky though. - Bill Heslin

Steve Gillmor, Merlin Mann and Jason Calacanis. - Wo

Kevin Rose, I know you don't like having him on, but he is nice to see every once and a while. Veronica Belmont would be nice again, Patrick, Maybe John. - Dakota O'Neill

Sam Ramji, Open Source Director at MS. Talk about cognitive dissonance! Very smart guy and excellent speaker. I can introduce you if you want. - John Kordyback

Josh Topoksky, Geoff Farinha (up and coming podcaster) - Shawn Roberts

I really enjoyed Twit 188 with Becky Worley and Devorak. Calacanis is good too. Not a fan of P Norton - Allison

Wil Wheaton and Levar Burton would be awesome. - Jason Elliott

John C, Rose, Norton, and Worley. Second list is John C, Harris, Swood, and Curry. - Kacy

Patrick, Wil Wheaton, and JJ Abrams. - Matt Smith

Dvork he's always good - Annika from Nambu

Leo - I'd like to hear from Bret, et al, from FriendFeed and what they've experienced, learned from the very first major outage they have suffered (due to their colo provider losing power) - Robert J Taylor

Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon… just finished it… awesome. - Mike Meiners

I like Jerry Pournelle, if he's up to it. - doggy

Heard about that Daniel Suarez. Looking on Audible right now for download (Insert Audible Ad here Leo) LOL - Bill Heslin

Molly and Lisa--Star Trek geeks; Brian; and Patrick but, as has been stated, only if he's in the house otherwise he leaves early/gets disconnected/gets called away. No more than four - MikeNNN

I forgot. John Gruber, he's the best. - John Kordyback

Definitely could use me some Molly Wood. Also, Veronica was nice. Hell, make it an all BOL show, bring in Jason and Tom too. And I agree with John, Gruber would be sweet. - Mike Nayyar

another new suggestion considering the fate of 3d realms: 1UP.com editor Garnett Lee - friend of Patrick, frequent Cranky Geeks guest and all around smart dude on tech subjects - winston smith

I love the new product reviews like Pogoplug and sling iphone and using eye-fi for instant slide show from camera! LESS ALCOHOL! - Stephan Romeo

Jason Calocanis - Star Trek Guys are a good Idea too - Shane Burgess

How has no one said Molly Wood? She hasn't been on in a while. She definitely has a great amount of geek cred. - Chris Kourmoulakis

Chris, Molly has been all over this biz! - Mike Nayyar

Patrick Norton, Jason Calicanius, Or perhaps Bwana? Levar Burton is always awesome too. - Crystal Tillman

Trent Reznor - Baron Sekiya

For selfish purpose, I'd love to come on and talk about how we're using social networking to help America's homeless. But aside from that (and pardon the plug), I like Baron's choice, Trent Reznor would make for an interesting guest given the present circumstances with Apple. I also would love to see Molly Wood. - Brandon Mendelson

Wayne Sutton - Wayne Sutton

Well that's just sneaky, Wayne. Mike Nayyar! :P - Mike Nayyar

Norton, Dvorak, Wheaton and Burton - Howard

John C. Dvorak of COURSE, Becky Worley (who seems very insightful and is able to hold her own with John) and lots of wine. Do not under any circumstances allow Calacanis on to do any more impressions, god that's annoying. - Barry Ferg

Why doesn't Gibson ever do TWiT? - Daniel E. Renfer

Johnny Worthington - Josh Haley

Ken Ray, aka Mac OS Ken. He's great. - Dave S.

dvorak ftw! His dour outlook is always appreciated - Dantrag0

This is why FF needs ad hoc polls. i.e. user voice, skribit, etc... - Jay Cuthrell

Dvorak, Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Dr. Kiki, and Amber MacArthur - Rocky McVey

John C.Dvorak, Steve Gibson and Jerry Pournelle. You can call it Grey Haired TWiT - dewtheone

CALACANIS!!!!! Sarah Lane is cool too. - Steve Wilson

ijustine!!! - Victor Alarcon

The Real Twits John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton & Kevin Rose return to the roots! - Alan Abentrod

Dvorak, Wil Wheaton, and LeVar Burton. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

You should do Dvorak and a roundup of your hosts from your other podcasts: Paul, Amber, ... - Steve Fumarolo

I'd like to see more of Paul Thurott, he's only done one TWit - Joe

kevin rose, Jason, and @ev :D twitter talk. ~!!! - Kar Soon

Being a ex-pat from UK, Wil Harris, obviously. Also Dvorak and Calacanis - Tony Veale

Shwood and Dvorak - Jim Garrison

Oh and iJustine. She should be on every week, and every show for that matter. - Tony Veale

Wheaton is a terrific idea too! - Jim Garrison

Steve Wozniak - Leo A. Novelli

the ffundercats!!! - (jeff)isageek

wayne sutton - (jeff)isageek

Dvorak - Charlie Wilson

Alan Watts - Thomas Cooper

Tom Merritt is always good. - Thomas Cooper

Kate Botello!!!! SS Reunion! - Brad

Love to hear Pogue if you can get him. If not, bring back Brushwood! - Joseph

Calacanis is always interesting and how about Levar Burton and Sarah Lane Wil Harris too - Shaun

FriendFeed crew, MG Siegler, Mark Spencer, Scoble, Joshua Schachter, Kevin Rose, Veronica Belmont, Lisa Bettany, Bwana, Jeff Pulver, Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, Gary Vaynerchuk ! - Jay Neff

Scott Johnson from Extra Life Radio. - Sandy

This Week in Trek? - Ken Sheppardson

Robert Schoble and Tim O'Reilly - Scott Wesson

Bill O'Reilly! - Mike Nayyar

Becky Worley and Trent Reznor hands down would be fantastic - Fragtastic

John McEnroe would be awesome. Howe about Mike Vosseller..he's an up and coming tech guy - pauldougherty

cory doctorow please! - Rodolfo Sanchez

I totally think I should be on - I could explain my new theory that explains how dinosaurs aren't actually extinct, but instead exist in a parallel dimension where, among other things, purple is a flavor. - Tad

Devorak, Shwood, Patrick Norton & Cali Lewis - Anthony

Shwood, Wil Harris, Robert Heron, and Patrick Norton! - Brandon Kester

Just get Dvorak and Jason Calacanis together again. Both are insightful, headstrong and controversial. - Dave Senior

Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose - Arnaldo Montaner

How about Patrick Norton or Bwana, Brian Brushwood and Frederick Van Johnson just can't talk about Drobo - jackygreen

Brian Gramo from http://www.thestream.tv/ - Tony, Paradox of FF

The FFundercats. - mjc

I 2nd Michael's motion - the FFundercats. - Micah Wittman

Johnny Chung Lee (http://johnnylee.net/, http://johnnylee.net/project...). - Kris Leach

Patrick Norton - Adam Hubbs

dvorak, calacanis, veronica belmont - Brian Waters

Calacanis, Veronica, Levar and Dvorak of course - John Gardiner

Interesting to hear what a tech-savvy VC has to say about the state of innovation in tech - what is likely to get funding - who's under presure - where money helps innovate - where VC money offers no advantage etc etc - Ian Horley

Still on the VC theme, Guy Kawazaki is a great orator, but not sure how good a pundit he is, or how tech savvy he is http://www.guykawasaki.com/ - I think he s in your neck of teh woods too! - Ian Horley

James Patrick Kelly AKA StoryPod SiFi - Dutch [aka fairuse]

why not. the mythbusters vs the ghost hunters - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

I enjoy the usual suspects but I really was impressed by the recent appearance of Becky Worley. She really brought some new freshness to the show. - Mark Krynsky

Anyone that will talk about tech and not swine flu. Dvorak, Patrick, Roger, Veronica. - keith

I would like to hear Bwana again. Also Levar Burton is always good. - Dylan Newstead

Kate Russell from click in the uk to add new edgy tech? dvorak of course, and any trekkies for the new movie, steve gibson to make seriously nerdy, how about roz on her new row - Rob Williams

Bring John C. Dvorak and Jason together please! They are both great to hear in the same episode. - Pigon (Piotr Golebiowski)

Adam Curry, not that bad of a guy Leo... Less Ryan Block, More Calacanis, More Wil Harris - Jim Edwards

How about a Blast From the Past! A show on the old Computer Chronicles and maybe get Stewart Cheifet as a guest. I know it's history, and not really a new tech idea, but if not on TWiT maybe on another show. Maybe TDoT - These Decades of Tech, history of where it all started, with guests like Steve Jobs, Woz, Gates (he's retired now also) Capt. Crunch etc.. There is a lot of history there! just an idea. - HamRadioActive

Dvorak - MλTT

Dvorak. - Paul Grav

Discuss Apple's rumored acquisition of EA. Good idea/not, why/why not? With Kevin Rose (Apple Fanboy), Dvorak (Not so much of an Apple Fanboy) and Alex Albrecht (gamer, TRS etc). - Michel

Louis Gray. He should start a podcast of his own. Perhaps, you could encourage him to start one. - Michael Fidler

Leo - I would be honored and willing to discuss ANY topic you might toss in my direction. Ukiah, Sebastapol, ... all lie near and dear to my heart. any interest in interviewing a 10 year veteran of the enterprise software biz? name the time/place and i'm there. i appreciate everything you do @leo - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Jason Calacanis and Dvorak - Istvan Hoka

Doc Searls and Marshall Kirkpatrick - Brian Hendrickson

Jason Calacanis, Veronica Belmont and Kevin Rose - Anton

Cory Doc, Gina and Wil Wheaton - Dvorak is always welcome (but not sure with Cory)... - Carlos Brefe

Kate Botello - Hector Oros

More brits! - Simon Taylor

Calacanis, Dvorak and Kevin Rose - Anthony Feint

Dvorak, Roger Chang and Becky Worley - Cliff

Becky Worley, Calacanis - Antti Holvikari

In cottage guests make the show more better. Dvorak, Molly Wood, Becky Worley, and a brief appearance of the wine.... - HT

Tom Merritt for the win - Daniel Johnston

Bwana, Dvorak, Belmont, Dwight - Scott H

Regardless of who you invite, I would like to know if this list helped you decide ?? What a mess... hehe. - Brad Kligerman

WILL HARRIS - Derek

Roger Chang - Grace Adams

Calacanis and Dvorak is always gold to me. (but I also tend to like Patrick N. and Will Harris) - Eric Danker

How about Morgan Webb. I miss her cynicism on WebbAlert. She'd be a blast with John C - Edward King

Still love John C....and Molly Wood, Tom Merritt, Gina Trapani. LOVE YOUR SHOW! Carlee S - Carlee Stewner

Kevin Rose - Steve

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Calacanis, Patrick Norton, Martin Sargent and no Dvorak. - Michael Sarge

Hey Leo, looked at Square Space thinking about changing but have a question about my domain, i think you said it's not problem to go straight to your www but do they now take over the hosting for the domain and or email, i still would like to use my own domain and my own email extention, and i just signed up with 1and1 to have imap support, does square space have imap support, not sure how that would all work. - Charles Moore

John C Dvorak. - tommy

How about how the white house could have saved 300k and a job. To do the Air Force One Photo - hire someone to photoshop a pricture of AF1 over the SoL - why did we actually need to take the picture? - Laurence Gold

Molly. Tom Merritt, Dvorak, Veronica, ... how to choose? Good luck making sense of all the suggestions! Oh, and Jono Bacon! ;) - Bert Van Vreckem

Anyone BUT drunk girls discussing 'social media' ;p - Imran Idris

Scott Johnson of Extralife Radio/The Instance - he is holding his annual Nerdtacular today, screening StarTrek in SLC, Utah. Uber Geek. - Devin Baines

Jason Calicanis or Kevin Rose. Patrick Norton is too snarky & know-it-all-ish - Chris Doppler

Becky Worley - Shane Eaton

I can take an hour or two out of my day and help out. Tweet me @fabio26 - Fabio

oh...ohh.... I know.... OBAMA! - David Pincheira

Dvorak/Norton are the best. Molly Wood/Meritt/Veronica are always great, as is Shwood. Wild card Morgan Webb would be neat, but people have been asking for her for almost too long. - Victor Z

Me. Of course. Bon week-end à tous ; ) - Didier Lahely

Why not have an open MIC ? - johnpiercy

I'm available - Russ Broomell

Lisa Bettany and Justine Ezarik please :) - Peter Kruit

Paul thurott - Joe from BuddyFeed

Jason Calacanis - Caleb Elston

I'd really like to see you take it to the next level and turn it into the tech equivalent of the Sunday news shows, ala This Week, Meet the Press, etc. That is, try to get more of the folks who've actually made news in tech this week on the show, combined with analysis of why what's happened this week matters. Just getting a bunch of hosts from TWiT shows and other media outlets talking about who knows whom and promoting their stuff is less appealing to me. - Ken Sheppardson

Levar Burton - May I also add perhaps an iPhone/BB/C-phone app review/recommendation section of the show - I value the panels input on such things - Tyler Johnston

Jerry Pournelle, Levar B or Peter Rojas. Spare us the bubble gum ones like iJustine or Lisa Bettany. Shopping exclusively at an Apple Store and being cute != tech expert/panelist. - Adi

megan morrone - TenderLovePony

Bwana McCallm, Lisa Bettany , STEVE WOZNIAK! - Ian P

Thurrott, Shwood, Dvorak, Kevin - imperator3733 from twhirl

Always love to hear perspectives from Dvorak, Norton, Calacanis, Belmont, Wheaton & Burton, lets add Adam Curry, Economist Paul Krugman and actor Jeff Goldblum to the mix - Dan Beyer

Molly Wood, Robert Llewellyn, Sarah Lane and maybe Dvorak - Molly, New Ears :P

Becky Worley!! - RealJon

Jono Bacon - D Raydrick

Dvorak - Marcus Sasiadek

ALL WAYS TRY TO TUNE IN TO TECH TV WHEN LEO OR THE SCREAN SAVERS GANG IS ON LIVE - daveccorey

Thurrott and Dvorak :) - Vesa Kauppinen

You need some Mom's for a Mother's Day Special - Chris Pugh

Good call on the Mom's Day Special - Bill Heslin from email

Let's have that discussion about US Internet connectivity that you mentioned last week on TWiT. I'm ready if you are. - Debi Jones

Molly Wood, Cali Lewis, John Dvorak, Jason Calacanis - David Z

Cali Lewis + Adam Curry - Joseph Kelley

You should get someone connected with the online poker business, discuss the legislation on that matter. - Pedro Fonseca

More about the National Broadband Policy, please! Did you say "MobileJones" would be on this week's TWiT? - Web Pixie

Jason Calacanis - Kevin Burton

Paul Thurrott - Kevin Burton

How about all adults. Getting tired of kiddie talk. Dvorak is good for a start. - Jim Corkrum

Dvorak!! - John Sullivan

Thurrott and Calacanis - Michael

This guy: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZiW26C... - l0ckergn0me

@loic, @veronica, @ginatrapani, and @scobleizer. - Jeff Harbert

JCal, Dvorak; Wil Harris; Wil Wheaton; Becky Worley - Vickie K

Vernor Vinge. - Michael R. Bernstein

Molly Wood & Steve Gibson. It would be rant-astic! - tamahome

Jerry Pournelle, Molly Wood and John C. Dvorak - Joe Gilbert - Joe Gilbert

Dvorak's New World Symphony would do rather nicely - Antonin Dvorak - David Blumenstein

wow... thanks for the love everyone! my favorite guests to be on with are Dvorak and Kevin Rose. I feel like those shows really rock. - Jason Calacanis

Scoble, Calcanis, Gillmor, Winer and Arrington mud wrestling in pink blancmange! - Make us laugh and then they'll all be friends again! - Jan Simmonds

Dvoracanis part 2! And Miley Cyrus. Or maybe Paul Thurrott & Andy Ihnatko, plus Kevin Rose. - Thunderwing from twhirl

Or Adam Curry, Alex Jones & Michael Savage. Oh, wait, that would be a special episode of No Agenda. Sorry, my bad. - Thunderwing from twhirl

Lisa Bettany, Jason Calacanis and Dvorak. Always. It'd be nice to see Paul Thurrott on TWiT, he's always great and it was a big MS week what with the RC. - Henrik

After listening to todays Gilmore Gang, anybody that sounds more professional then that group would be better. - John Wallace

It would be an honor to be on the show... www.cyberstudies.org - Shane Tilton

Here it is the ultimate Twit Group. Leo, Patrick, Dvorak,Brian Brushwood,& Jason Calacanis - Tom Rowbotham

what about major nelson from the xbox team - Brad Reiter

Merlin Mann & Andy Ihnatko - Chris Weber

Martin Sargent and Laura Swisher - Will

Wil Harris - Fred Hamilton

A more science and tech oriented TWIT instead of social media would be nice. - Taylor Hutchison

sun 10 mothers day 219 atl time VEDIO IS UP AUDIO IS DOWN ON TWIC TV IN WINDOWS - daveccorey

WORKING NOW YEAH - daveccorey

Patrick Norton & Will Harris - Dakotah Jenkins

Want to hear Dvorak tell all, how Twitter saved his life! - Craig Anderson

HamRadio & DigitalCulture: Charlieray

shackadelic.net a new site for the RF horizons!

May 8 - Comment - Like - Share

OOPS it cross posted to twitter but give an easy link to help discuss the site - Charlieray

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i like the prototype format. - ka3drr

ok, so basically we have to start with writing some articles like "what is this shackadelic stuff all about" "our comunity" "shack showcase" leanring center" "sharing center" - Charlieray

i made you an account so you can write an article, did it email you your password? if not I can go in and remake your account - Charlieray

basic elements and build outward ie. shackadelic mission and vision, our community, shack showcase, learning center, and private enterprise incubator. - ka3drr

yes. i have my password. - ka3drr

oops i just reset it - Charlieray

send dm via twitter. - ka3drr

check your email to see if it tells you what the new one is or I can DM it to you - Charlieray

dm sent - Charlieray

ok let me create the first shackadelic mission and vision atricle and see if I can assign it into a top menu item - Charlieray

my thought process is a simple approach to shackadelic while allowing our concept to grow. essentially shackadelic is a learning environment that builds communities around topics or topics around communities. - ka3drr

would we need a forum? - Charlieray

or just allow users to have accounts and create article - Charlieray

that way people could comment on their articles - Charlieray

i've thought about 'forum' however we may look into open education spaces. - ka3drr

i would support maintaining control on opening accounts. we want value for those joining our shackadelic mission. - ka3drr

ok try reloading the page and see how i changed the menus - Charlieray

first i created an article using the article manager - Charlieray

then i made a top menu item pointing to just that article - Charlieray

i see 'mission and vision' tab. - ka3drr

if you log in at shackadelic.net/administrator you can start to see the backend of how stuff is added and managed be leery of "deleteing" items. is better to unpublish and see how it effects other things throughout the site - Charlieray

there are some great sites out there too if you google "joomla edit menu item" "joomla add article" etc - Charlieray

I used to write all my web pages in notepad, this new stuff makes it really great to add and edit stuff and change it on the fly. teriffic! - Charlieray

i'm not seeing net administrator log in. - ka3drr

http://shackadelic.net/adminis... - Charlieray

i'm in and this is righteous cool. btw -- consider changing the photograph on the front page? more in line with the digital age perhaps just a fill photograph. - ka3drr

ok i made that with the template program so I would have to figure out how to edit it - Charlieray

maybe a psk stream readout - Charlieray

that would be a cool pic - Charlieray

yes, psk31, is a good start. dude, i need to eat because my supper is getting cold. - ka3drr

ok sorry man! Im getting tired anyway. we will catch up later if you find a cool picture, send me a link - Charlieray

no problem and i have a lot joomla to learn. enjoy and catch up on twitter. Great work! - ka3drr

http://www.mathworks.com/company... - Charlieray

signing off FF for now will launch a new discussion for next time - Charlieray

Veronica

Just gave myself a bloody lip eating frozen yogurt. That takes special talent.

May 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Ouch! :( You must been awful hungry! - Fee501st

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yes Veronica, you do have special talent - James Reed

I got a black eye once from eating an orange... - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

If you were eating fast enough, you didn't feel it! - Charlieray

I once stubbed my toe chewing gum, does that count? - Ryan Gerritsen from Nambu

Damn! That IS impressive! lol :P I cut myself on a pepper once...no idea how - I hadn't even got to the knife. - Amy

Ummm...how? - Andrew Leyden

Were you trying that weird thing with your tongue again? :) - Jason Wong

Radio Room: David Billsbrough

What does your Ham Shack look like and is its layout useful?

April 12 - Comment - Like - Share

My hamshack looks like a mess as it is just being built.... but it's the biggest room in my house!! I picture one long wall for radio bench, one short wall for troubleshooting/ test equipment/ hacking and ther other long wall for other hobbies. (rc airplanes) - Charlieray

Leo Laporte

@CarFan_5801 We do several shows which are live only. They'll all become podcasts eventually. Meanwhile visit http://live.twit.tv

May 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Why don't you post your shows as HD video recordings? You could make millions selling your videos as HD video downloads. - Charbax

you have to give something away for free before people would be willing to pay for better content. - Charlieray from fftogo

Thats a shame! Time differences mean that I almost always miss your live shows - Robert Johnson

shaan ware

May 3 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

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sweet - Charlieray

Christopher Chadwick

Pic of UFO over Denver CO, May 3 2009 7:45ish pm http://twitpic.com/4iw41

May 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

looks like a helicopter to me! - Charlieray

andrewkeen

exactly RT @bryanrhoads: I really hate the #FriendFeed links... Such a waste of time, plus I have no idea on what you're talking about #Fail

May 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I almost linked here. Hell with it. I link to friendfeed because the conversation is often better than the originating point. - Robert Scoble

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As is true here which is why I just sent this to Twitter - Robert Scoble

Agree - While it's a little jarring you get focused tributaries separate from your main Twitter stream. I personally find # tags a little unwieldy - Stuart Holton

I love ff links. - Ru Viljoen

ff links allow me to see the whole poop right in one window. - Charlieray

Aerospace/Aviation: Charlieray

http://www.avweb.com/avwebfl...

May 1 - Comment - Like - Share

I wonder what this holds for those of us who work at service stations, looks on the surface as though nothing will change. - Charlieray

l0ckergn0me

listening to "portal_still_alive - " - http://blip.fm/~5e7b8

May 1 from Blip.fm - Comment - Like - Share

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We do what we must because we can... - l0ckergn0me from Blip.fm

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For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.. - Bwana ☠

Love this song. Never played the game, but the song turned me on to Jonathan Coulton. He's some kind of evil musical genius. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

That's like my kid's favorite song... he sings it all the time. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Maybe Black Mesa - Charlieray

...That was a joke, ha ha, fat chance... - Fa La La La Lindsay

This song is so brilliantly put together it gives me nerdgasms. - Tad

Radio Room: David Billsbrough

Who has ordered a Flex-1500 yet? http://www.flex-radio.com/

February 20 - Comment - Like - Share

April has come and gone and their page looks as though they arent delivering the 3000s yet. Wonder what the deal is and kinda glad I didnt order it yet! - Charlieray

Charlieray

GM to announce Pontiac demise Monday? - http://digg.com/autos...

April 25 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

"I know a lot of old people buy Buicks, but please, its the lamest brand out there... Pretty soon with this economy, the old farts wont have any cash to buy their Cadilacs and Buicks and it will be the young people supporting this industry. I wish they would get rid of BUICK instead of Pontiac." - Charlieray

Dave Winer

It's time to topple the so-called "tech bloggers" -- we need fresh blood just like we needed it when TechCrunch came on the scene.

April 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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How do we create the environment to promote your idea? - Damond Nollan

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Somehow I think Dvorak will reject this idea. Just a hunch. - Charlieray

Too much blah and too little analysis, sorry if that offends anyone - Sally Church

I kinda agree with Sally here. - Paul Papadimitriou

You need tech people that know technologies intimetely, not just superficial understanding. - Jose Fajardo

Does it make me a "so called" to say that statement sounds "elitist" and not at all in the culture of sharing? - Floyd Davenport

TechCrunch is a PR outlet for VCs and big companies. There are a handful of people who write for things they call blogs that I trust, but there aren't many. Just do what Mike did when he started TechCrunch, write about products as a user would. Forget all the fancy shit about how one company kills another. For me it was the Hype Cycle piece that nailed it. Somehow the tech is completely gone now. - Dave Winer

Dave - that's what FriendFeed is silly. - Tad

I'd like to throw my hat into the ring. I know nothing, I have no qualifications, but I can fabricate BS and pretend to outscoop people with a sense of arrogance easily. - Mike Nayyar

First they'll need something to write about. - Christopher Galtenberg

We can start by writing about twitter :) - Kashif Khan

Thrilling - another 1000 words on twitter (and no irony there) - Christopher Galtenberg

Even a year ago, TC was still worth reading. Then it simply went pop. What most of the times is missing in the blogs is innovation. It somehow went out of fashion =( - Kirill Bolgarov

I think it's time for some bloggers that don't only write about the big or the supercool new stuff, but about small startups that launched and give them some honest directions on design, programming and business model. Time for some critizing. - Max Schulze

A good chance for the longtail of tech bloggers. For example if i finally start writing in english about IT startups in Russia. Would that be interesting? - Kirill Bolgarov

Here's the thing: The reporting on (almost) all of the tech blogs blow. I love TC, I have a love-hate relationship with Mashable, but the market is starving for a tech blog that is thorough in its investigations and not beholden to the Club atmosphere out west. - Brandon Mendelson

Perhaps gdgt.com is what everyones waiting for - Marcus Beagley

Are we talking general tech or specialists? The problem with specialists, they know their stuff but don't draw a big enough audience. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Definitely good time for a move in a direction more progressively focused than on pumping one's followers and the latest Twitter API skin. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Wouldn't you be afraid that Om will just buy up the blog? - Uncle CW™

Om is one of the good guys. - Dave Winer

Marshall Kirkpatrick (http://beta.friendfeed.com/marshal...) at ReadWriteWeb is really good about unearthing unsung tools and trying them out in public. His willingness to build his own mashups and jump into things like Yahoo Pipes and various Greasemonkey scripts is endearing. He reminds me of Gina Trapani (formerly of LifeHacker http://beta.friendfeed.com/ginatra...) but with a different perspective. - Daniel J. Pritchett

yeh, RWW are the old guard - Kirill Bolgarov

I actually think TC (Did I say that?), RWW, Mashable, Inquistr, CNET and others have all gotten better in recent months .... - Charlie Anzman

It does sound elitist and if you don't like them, don't read them. Good Lord. - George Gray

maybe the top tech bloggers should write a blog post about how they are going to quit blogging in one year. - Thomas Hawk

I would love to become the fresh blood one day but just can't find the time to really commit to writing lately - Joe Dawson

Scoble's always been saying blogging's dead, though punctuated with a just kidding. However he says it so often it make me wonder if he is serious at least in part - sofarsoShawn

i'm 16 and I keep on writing. hehe :) - Apostolos Papadopoulos from twhirl

As people have mentioned, getting started in the game is the big problem if you want to be the new guy's - Jamie Vidamour

Agree with Jamie, I think location also plays a big factor. Not being in Seattle, Silicon Valley ( or close ) etc can also hurt your chances a bit - Kashif Khan

include the opinions of Scientists, Engineers, Designers not just enthusiastic tech end users - shayne catrett

Without naming names, seems to me that a lot of the current crop of top-tier tech blogs have become vehicles for self-promotion. First it's a blog, then it's a conference, then it's a line of branded bathroom products. I'd take a tech blog a lot more seriously if they committed to reporting and nothing else. Once they cross the line into becoming a "media property," they usually start to have problems IMHO. - Kevin Pedraja

TWiT Conversations: Leo Laporte

Live now: this WEEK in TECH 191: Corked, with John C. Dvorak, Shira Lazar, and Lisa Bettany. DIscuss here...

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dare I say, first - Matthew

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Someone had to... - Chris Poulson

btw, that was my first first - Matthew

Ahh wine talk...This is becoming like beers on Diggnation. - Seth

It's all downhill from here. - Chris Poulson

jumped the shark and nuked the fridge confirmed - Matthew

Congrats on your first first :) - Michele

But will it be your last first? - Johnny Worthington

I think I've had a first last before - Matthew

Was that a challenge? - Michele

Friendfeed First First Challenge - Matthew

----- start of show ----- - Chris Heath

JCD: http://channeldvorak.com - Chris Heath

Shira: http://shiralazar.com/ - Chris Heath

My first time watching LIVE with video, it's awesome! - Paul D. Spradling

looks like it'll be a good show but the timezone is against me. Go Leo! - Stephen Breen

Lisa: http://mostlylisa.com/ - Chris Heath

Welcome :) - Michele

You're having a first first Paul - Matthew

I've watches a couple of times before, but today is my first time participating in the FriendFeed. - Chris Dickens

i've been watching live since last august - Chris Heath

Bad guy, Leo. - archaictree

Leo was using mental finger quotes :P - Johnny Worthington

What's the Delicious url again? TIA - Paul D. Spradling

http://delicious.com/twit/191 - Chris Heath

Johnny Worthington, your avatar makes you look like a priest - Matthew

Safe guess that this won't be another episode w/o the "t-word" after looking at the delicious stories. - Tom Langston

http://del.icio.us/twit/191 (oldschool) - Chris Heath

Don't look into her eyes too long... - Bwana ☠

I preach FFunder :D - Johnny Worthington

Tom, hopefully JCD can keep the convo grounded - Chris Heath

Johnny, what's the meaning of FFunder, btw? - Chris Heath

Ashton Kucher is an audience over content person, obviously - Chip Duford

I never catched the LIVE, thank god for TweetDeck notifications lol! - Paul D. Spradling

I listened to the latest FFunder, it was my first! - Matthew

Um... don't really want to pimp myself on Leo's feed but if you look at my feed, you can find out :D - Johnny Worthington

Chris, I don't mind it as much as other listeners but JCD is good about keeping things on focus. - Tom Langston

I try to watch live every day and love Leo's reminders.. "hey my show's on".. - Michele

Everyone can have a voice... only a few will have a listener - Johnny Worthington

Tom, I really enjoy JCD, and he and Leo work well together - one of my reasons for liking twit in the first place - Chris Heath

Alright next topic - bill giltner

I like the term "Comments down to China" - Matthew

I agree w/ JCD here, comments are an integral part of an online article/blog/whateveryoucallit - Chris Heath

And then you publish the comments and blog as a book, and rake it some $$$ - Chip Duford

Content is king, community is the kingdom - Johnny Worthington

Public Provides Giggles; Bloggers Get the Book Deal http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Chip Duford

Opinions abound. - Michele

haha - Jay Neff

i found a site by an author who has turned off comments on his site while he's writing his next book... and says so at the bottom of each post on his site - Chris Heath

link to the betapage? - Jackson Pollock

http://beta.friendfeed.com/twit-co... - Jay Neff

thanks jay - Jackson Pollock

good link jay, i always use the embed page when i'm in a live discussion - Chris Heath

What is the Pinot they're drinking? - Tom Landini

This Week in Flirting - Matthew

drool guard - LOL - Chris Heath

Drunk Podcasting FTW! - Johnny Worthington

LOL - N5XL

ouf, - Jackson Pollock

LOL this keeps getting more entertaining. - Michele

It's a 2005 Pinot... I forget the brand, they had it on the screen at the beginning of the show. - Michele

Please leave john off this show, all he does is interrupt. - Alan Ashley

2005 Solomon Hills Vineyard Pinot - Leo Laporte

how was everybody's weekend - Jackson Pollock

garyswine.com - Johnny Worthington

Thanks Leo. - Tom Landini

That is what I'm talking about :) - Jay Neff

Next shows includes MJ instead of wine! - Michele

Cheech Chong 2012 - Johnny Worthington

Leo just broke out the famous Obama Chong impression - Matthew

John and Leo are raally walking over the guests.. arg. - bill giltner

Here we go... - Chris Heath

the pink elephant - Jackson Pollock

Nooooo Twitter! - Stephen Heron

Jackson: You can click the timestamp on http://beta.friendfeed.com to get here. Like under Leo's post, it will say 19 minutes ago, click that :) - Jay Neff

as bad as Twitter is, it's getting more people into the web instead of looking at the web - Matthew

THAT is why John is on! - Johnny Worthington

Here comes the Twitter talk. Next!!! - robby

JCD is on record, he tried - Chris Heath

5 min max on twitter! please. - Stephen Heron

here's the story JCD wanted to talk about: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/study-l... - Chris Heath

That look between Shira and John! - Tom Langston

All Twitter discussion should only last 140 characters TOTAL :P - Johnny Worthington

Leo is projecting his Twitter bitterness - Phil Essing

Kent Laporte! - Johnny Worthington

Twitterbitter love that - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I agree that Ashton is a non-news news. Yes it happened Does not need to be talked about. - Jean Sebastien Dussault

Let the guests talk (Leo and John). - Alan Ashley

Oprah got $55 million from XM Radio to do a 30 minute show once a week. - Jackson Pollock

can we change the old "hitler rule" to the twiter rule? - N5XL

who the hell cares if celebrities jump on Twitter and get 1 million followers? How does that impact you or my Twitter experience? - Phil Essing

JCD is a guest, people! - Chip Duford

yeah, Howard Stern goes on about it all the time - Matthew

Blogging is so NOT dead imo. My blog is always more than 140 words :P - Michele

twttter is importan because you can follow twitter,com/grandchessboard - bill giltner

Letters* - Michele

blogs are dead to people who live on the bleeding edge of tech, ie Leo - Matthew

how can a person who holds a masters degree in lingusistics use the word "like" constantly - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Lisa is really interesting and very good on twit. - Stephen Heron

Rex Hammock on Oprah and twitter: Twitter is as twitter does http://www.rexblog.com/2009... - Tom Landini

I'm an old fuddy duddy so like get off my lawn - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

this Oprah/Ashton Kutcher Twitter story is big for Ev and the rest of the Twitter owners, as it inflates the Twitter valuation bubble - Phil Essing

Imagine that.. more time on Facebook causes less time studying...? Seriously? - Michele

FriendFeed is my release - Johnny Worthington

How sad the world has become. - Stephen Heron

Wow, good for Facebook lol - Jay Neff

Gunny, linguistics is interested in description (and theory/modeling, etc) not prescription... - Christopher A Carr

I like facebook, but for crying out loud don't send me an easter egg or fling poo at me or ask me to be in your fracking Mafia - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

JCD is cracking me up man - Bwana ☠

Exactly. And listen; you can't read and hear everything. Stop trying to be on top of everything. It is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with everything. - Jackson Pollock

yeah Bwana, I love his commentary and cranky geek style - Jay Neff

Back to TECH - what kind of Blackberry did she lose?? :-) - Chris Dickens

Can someone post a link to that story Leo just mentioned about being cut off facebook? - Keith Barrett

Tend the soil and the garden will grow - Johnny Worthington

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content... - Matthew

When did TWIT move from Tech to Social Media stuff? :P - Stephen Heron

Keith: Links are here: http://delicious.com/twit/191 - Chris Dickens

great. thanks!! - Keith Barrett

Stephen - Majority of tech news is social media lately - Bwana ☠

AHAHAHAHAHHA - Jay Neff

Hahaha... Leo called bullshit! - Johnny Worthington

JCD FTW! - robby

Can we talk about GPUs or something? - Christopher A Carr

Fair point Bwana. Not sure if I like this new tech or not. - Stephen Heron

John is about to wrap it around, watch out folks - Matthew

FTW? - Chip Duford

That was awesome lol. This is quickly becoming my family's favorite show :) - Michele

More tech, less self appointed "social media mavens." - Christopher A Carr

@Christopher Carr - No kidding. Or maybe cell phones or something? :-) - Chris Dickens

This is talking about Twitter WITHOUT talking about it. - Chip Duford

This week in Like Tech - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

For me, block/ban/ignore works GREAT. - Bwana ☠

This was quite a week in social news: Britain's got talent, Kutcher vs CNN, Oprah, pirate bay verdict, - Keith Barrett

lol Gunny - Josh Haley

This Week in Like, Tech? - Christopher A Carr

Yeah they just want you to feed into it and give them attention - Jay Neff

ban/ignore ftw - Jay Neff

Everyone gets negative comments.. why make a fuss over it? Acknowledge them and move on. People take them far too personally. - Michele

Liek an hour - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

trolls hate me. I'll compliment them in the middle of a rant, and then ban them - Bwana ☠

heya Josh long time... :p - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

haha - Jay Neff

I remember when you criticized digg for having two guys drinking on stage. Bad messagewas the impression. I'm not saying what's right. I'm having some wine right now.You have a very family friendly feed here.Moderators trying to respect deceny. Drinking was not appropriate if I recall. Where are you coming from? You guys are certainly under the influence.Have you changed your tune???? - Newell Unfried

Bwana I LOVE that - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

See, this is why wine should be after the show :) If you're not part of an alcohol charged conversation, it sounds like jibberish :) - Bwana ☠

More John, less maven - Matthew

Bwana that's awesome lol. I may visit and rant just for the hell of it. - Michele

John does. He does everything - Jackson Pollock

Newell this is like Diggnation for Keven Rose's parents - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Bwana: I needed to send you something privately. Can you follow me or DM me an email addr? - Keith Barrett

DVORAK - YOU'RE MY HERO. LOL - Chris Dickens

You have to be real 100% or you get found out - Johnny Worthington

Dvorak is right! Next topic and please make it tech news.... - Scott H

John, there's room on the friendfeed - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

omg a tech story - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Keith - when I hover over your name, I get a direct message link. Are you following me? - Bwana ☠

People play characters on live TV and radio all the time, what is that if not lying? - Ghworg

i know I thought it would never come - Scott H

Bwana: Yes I am, but you're not following me so I can't DM you - Keith Barrett

bork bork bork! - Josh Haley

Leo should talk like a pirate - Johnny Worthington

Toss tha salad - Johnny Worthington

sounded jamaican - Josh Haley

The AP lawsuits and PB verdict ar going to have interesting fallout - Keith Barrett

argh! I'm not gonna be payin'! - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Do an Australian one Leo! - Johnny Worthington

there is the appeal process - Greg

so is Google, Yahoo, etc guilty? - Jay Neff

I prefer his Russian accent - robby

Exactly Jay - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Alcohol should really be after the show. - Stephen Heron

Keith - If I weren't following you, I'd get a subscribe link rather than a DM link :) - Bwana ☠

People with nothing to lose are free - Keith Barrett

The shows have lost something with the wine I'm sad to say - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

*facepalm* - Josh Haley

Ya Bwana if they need alcohol for Twit to function they need to rethink - Greg

ok - bwana@bwana.org - Bwana ☠

They should pour themselves a big glass of "Tech News" - Matthew

I believe those guys that got nipped for Pirate Bay only got their limited convictions because the governments are wanting to change rules so that their activity is illegal, but realize that what laws at the time were not against them. Therefore, it's like saying "Sorry guys, we don't want you to do that in the future and we have to convict you to create precedent going forward." - Chris Dickens

what's everyones blog link? - scott

Bwana: thanks... I'll also check twitter - Keith Barrett

I think it is great, except it should be garyvee wine ;> - Jay Neff

I don't blog anymore my ife is too boring - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

mine is http://yapstream.com - scott

So Ashton being on twitter is a bigger story than the Pirate Bay trial according to Leo? Kind of sad... - jccalhoun

http://www.chipduford.com - Chip Duford

They can APPEAL Leo - Greg

http://ffundercats.com - episode with Louis Gray coming out right after twit. - Josh Haley

Keith - I thought you meant DM on friendfeed.. I follow you here - Bwana ☠

No saunas for 1 year... ya! - Johnny Worthington

it's only a YEAR if they do go to jail - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Yeah, I would love to hear some TPB discussions - Jay Neff

pee break! - Josh Haley

Bwana: OK, sorry. Not use to thinking about FF that way :) - Keith Barrett

The more I use the Friend Feed the more I like it - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I hope they get around to talking about Android. - Stephen Heron

Perahps Gunny. However it could look like Gary's wine sponsorship has changed a shift in attitude.My sense that that's not Leo but it is all about perceptions isn't it. - Newell Unfried

FriendFeed rules supreme - Josh Haley

Show name "Loose and Bitter" - k. chan

------ AD Break http://gotomeeting.com/twit ------ - Chris Heath

*Ding* *Ding* *Ding* Leeeeeeeeeets get ready to rumble! - Johnny Worthington

anyone have an cool iphone apps they've found - scott

Yes Newell perhaps Gary's wines can advertise on This Week in Fun instead. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Good shirt John. Good shirt - Jackson Pollock

if I were leo's other advertisers I'd be ticked - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

the creative whack pack app is kinda neat - Jay Neff

Jumping The Fonz - Johnny Worthington

There probably was no tech news this week - Francine Hardaway

Anyone want to bet who will be first to pass out? - Stephen Heron

Dont think the advertisers are going to want to be associated with tipsie peopel - Greg

ayyyyy - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

tonights episode should be called HOT MESS - Chip Duford

Leo has advertisers standing in line Gunny :) I'm sure he'll manage - Bwana ☠

Watching a shark jump over gotomeeting - Josh Haley

leo will be first, lol - scott

Greg, advertisers only care if people respond to their ads - Chris Heath

I'd say having Winer, Calacanis, Scoble and Dvorak on one show, might be as close to jumping the shark as you can - Jackson Pollock

Woz? - Johnny Worthington

This episode has jumped the shark - Scott H

God bless John Hein - Jackson Pollock

Oh man. Get it together. - Tom Langston

Leo is toasted on wine. I can tell. CUT HIM OFF. - Chris Dickens

More wine please? lol - Michele

winer, calacanis, scoble, dvorak, and curry, now that's a show! - scott

Come on Leo you can pull this off. Keep it together. - Stephen Heron

DVorak sounds sober is he the only one? - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

this show didn't jump the shark, it fell off the ball - Rodzilla

I like it when there's a lot of people in the room all drinking & eating. - Keith Barrett

Gunny Got to tell you I just don't think This Week in Fun is fun.. Like Sarah. Just don't care for Martin.Just don't think it's worth my time. Hope they do well. - Newell Unfried

JCD is fillibustering twitter this show... - Chris Heath

I agree about martin Sargent. I never liked him - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Although as a purely audio podcast this would be a bit unsual - Keith Barrett

GotoMeeting works - I used it yesterday as a matter of fact *corporate gloat* - Bwana ☠

Scott; TWiT Episode 57 - Jackson Pollock

I'm good friends with a citrix dev. Goto whatever rules - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I expect it to be heavily edited Keith :) - Bwana ☠

my favorite citrix app is gotoassist ... it's kind of expensive tho - Chris Heath

So who wants to wager on who gets drunk off the wine first? - Mark

buffering - Chris Heath

Empty chairs are not a good sign... - Tom Langston

This week in like, buffering - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Video feed is offline. - Chris Dickens

Fresh to get the video back. - Stephen Heron

jumping ON the shark? - Josh Haley

Riding on a dolphin, doing flips... - Johnny Worthington

drinking wine and podcasting? - Josh Haley

Let's get on that Josh :P - Johnny Worthington

I am wondering could this be the drunkest twit ever. - Stephen Heron

Diet Coke for me :p - Josh Haley

Great story to get John heated up - Jackson Pollock

It's not fake. But it's a NON-story! - Chip Duford

susan boyle 1999: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chris Heath

john - take a sip of wine every time you say twitter - Keith Barrett

Let's talk Android... - Chris Dickens

The Britan's Got Tallent woman is twit-worthy??? - jccalhoun

Android is dead... like blogs *runs from Chris* - Bwana ☠

how many people have a iphone AND a android - scott

Topic: TimeWarner abandons caps on bandwith - Kevin Leroux

really? - Josh Haley

kills me how her accent is GONE during the singing - Bwana ☠

Keith - I think he'll be physically unable to hit the Cue button on the video mixer if he does that.. :-) - Chris Dickens

I like Android, nice it is open source. - Stephen Heron

Ryan, yeah it's up above 10 comments - Chris Heath

Susan Boyle is tech news... it's valid - Bwana ☠

who cares, she wasn't signed. she's going to be a star if she wants to be. It's no more faked than American Idol, which is the biggest SHAM on TV - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

viral video :) - Bwana ☠

was that sarcasm bwana? no? - Chris Heath

That was a joke, yes - Bwana ☠

Is that an Angels logo on the back of JCD's laptop? - Tom Langston

Tech pundits are quick to declare something dead - Bwana ☠

Gunny. What's really interesting about this show is with alcohol they really let their guard down. I'm not sure they would make the comments they do otherwise.Agree? - Newell Unfried

are any of them watching the friendfeed stream? their just talking away about non tech - scott

viral videos merit a mention and a clip i guess, if they're good - Chris Heath

leo checks it scott, I'm pretty sure - Chris Heath

Wonder if Simon owns part of the recording company - Greg

Paul Potts is the real deal! Susan Boyle is a flash in the pan. - Chip Duford

Wine is Leo's kryptonite - Bwana ☠

@tom: looks like it, wonder where he got that sticker, and do they have it Yankee flavor :) - scott

It takes away his impersonation powers - Bwana ☠

this is true Newell and I think my disgust with this comes from having alcoholic parents and dealing with them. I don't do well with lots of drunkeness - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Mrs. Doubtfire is so, so funny. Robin Williams is one of my most favorite comedians. - Chris Dickens

Leo - where are you getting all these knockout intelligent women in tech? They weren't around when I was growing up - Keith Barrett

what laptop sticker does she have? - scott

If everyone is entertained, and cried, does it really matter if it was set up? - Keith Barrett

This does happen though. - Jackson Pollock

Was it really that good?!? - Stephen Heron

@scott: I think it's based on a famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" - Tom Langston

no keith it doesn't - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Tom Langston

LOL Keith Barrett. - Michele

i agree with JCD these types of shows are horrible, and probably all fixed too - Chris Heath

actually, it was a woodblock print. close enough. - Tom Langston

here is the REAL Susan Boyle story; like 5 years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jackson Pollock

watch this one, and watch the reactions of the crowd and the judges ... they are behind him http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chip Duford

Gunny -Agree. Ditto with drunk parents and friends. Maybe they should youtube the Andrew Johnston youtube singing Pie Jesu. Now that's inspiring. - Newell Unfried

man Kitchen Nightmares cracks me up - Bwana ☠

don't people know that reality tv is constructed in the editing room? Isn't this common knowledge? - jccalhoun

the uk hells kitchen is awesome with Marco Pierre White - Matthew

story link: http://movieblog.iheartmovies.com/2009... - Chris Heath

I think this story just makes torrents more popular - Matthew

i made a tweet about the beastie boys and they followed me within a few hours - Chris Heath

O2 in the UK seem to respond to most people who message them with queries and issues - Iain

Mostly about the iphone - Iain

The Adventureland story is almost 100% certainly fake. It was a set up. I have no doubt. - jccalhoun

Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com - Chris Heath

jccalhoun, could be. they just more people to twitter about their movies - Matthew

Companies contact you if you mention them on twitter. Yet if you try and phone their support lines they try and get rid of you. - Ghworg

It's so great. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jackson Pollock

rofl - Jay Neff

LOL hahahah oh man...JCD... dude is just... wow - Bwana ☠

pure comedy - Bwana ☠

John's BS filter is at 100% today - Matthew

Its also because twitter is public and in the news alot.. companies do not need bad press - Greg

I had to close irc... the flood froze my client - Bwana ☠

Leo is absolutely right. Just review my old tweets to see my recent comcast issues - Keith Barrett

bwana chatzilla always holds up for me, you ever use it? - Chris Heath

I'm using Linkinus for twit irc on Mac now..but my main client is irssi... perhaps I should setup a profile for it there - Bwana ☠

until Twitter is monetized none of this stuff matters - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I've used Chatzilla before - Bwana ☠

Keith: Did Fred send you free schwag and give you a month free? - Jay Neff

customer support via twitter should be a beneficial add on to customers that companies should be aware of but not focus on... I think companies should monitor twitter for mentions of their company to realise the actual state of the way their company is perceived and then work on fixing it - Iain

Bwana, try one of the different IRC channels, like #unfiltered - Matthew

none of this matters. no one but Leo cares. - jccalhoun

LOLOLOL - Matthew

LOL hahahahahahah WOW! wine charged JCD is going nuts - Bwana ☠

This is going crazy! - Stephen Heron

burp - Chris Heath

The fact that companies are responding to users on Twitter better than their normal support channels tells me that they're afraid of advanced Internet users. We spend a lot of money on their products, and we also happen to have the squeekiest wheels when we get so completely ticked off when they screw up. - Chris Dickens

alcohol, Dvorak twitter blocks, canadians - it's a Trifecta - Steve Gillmor

She's bold though.... for a first time TWiTter (see how I did that?) she's doing a lot of talking - Bwana ☠

http://www.bitchx.com/downloa... ftw - Jay Neff

I wonder just how many bits are going through Leo's Intertubes right now - Adam Lewis

No, but @comcastcares did get my situation corrected and made the local VP nervous - Keith Barrett

i did... back up top at the start of the show - Chris Heath

Ownd - Matthew

eh, irssi is my main... you can't pry it from my cold sweaty palms - Bwana ☠

*barf* - Johnny Worthington

good thing you're on twitter keith, i bet your neighbors didn't get that level of service ;-) - Chris Heath

How many hours this week has Leo devoted to talking about Ashton and twitter? If you add it all up I would bet it was at least 5 hours - jccalhoun

JCD is RAW hahahahah he's cracking me up man - Bwana ☠

Oh no ... Leo Exposed - Greg

It's always annoying when people do real work, and early adopters help clean it up, and then main stream takes credit for the discovery - Keith Barrett

Busted! - robby

Bwana: I love JCD - Keith Barrett

Is there really nothing in the way of non-social-oriented tech news happening in the world? - Christopher A Carr

building irssi now bwana - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

twollow.com - Jay Neff

http://twollow.com/ - jccalhoun

lol oops - Jay Neff

http://twellow.com - Chris Heath

Sam - It's the equivalent of airing dirty laundry in public. When the response is public, all B.S. seems to go away and words are chosen carefully... - Chris Dickens

http://twellow.com - Chris Heath

LOL coocher... HAHAHAHA - Bwana ☠

*confused* - robby

http://twitter.com/LeoLapo... - Chris Heath

story about not being able to unfollow: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17... - Chris Heath

http://twitter.mailana.com/ - Chris Heath

pretty cool - Chris Heath

Leo is in such denial. He is not fine with Ashton being on Twitter or he wouldn't talk about him every single day this week. - jccalhoun

How did we get here again? - Bwana ☠

A minute ago we were avoiding Twitter, now we're in a Twitter orgy - Bwana ☠

a Tworgy - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Who do you suppose your audience is? We are flooded with such recommendations on Twitter constantly... - Christopher A Carr

lol - Keith Barrett

http://twitter.mailana.com/profile...& - Chris Heath

Bad JCD... you got sucked in man. - Bwana ☠

Yes we are :P - Michele

that site dead? - Jay Neff

There's your Android Chris - Bwana ☠

Good some proper tech news! - Stephen Heron

google android story: http://tech.yahoo.com/news... - Chris Heath

i'm going to really think hard about android when my iphone contract is up - Chris Heath

Reminds me of a Facebook visualization that I saw a few years ago. Although, it says I should be following people I currently am... - Tom Langston

The iPhone is too expensive for me and the G1 is an affordable alternative. - Stephen Heron

I have a G1... love it. - Mark

g1 battery life would be a big issue with me - hopefully there will be more phones then - Chris Heath

is Lisa still there? lol - robby

Android isn't a "phone," it's not "the Android." - Christopher A Carr

I'd get a Pre before a G1... - Bwana ☠

JCD is quite taken by her - Keith Barrett

Keith - I warned them not to look in her eyes - Bwana ☠

Without a real smartphone OS, Sidekick is meh... - Christopher A Carr

I absolutely LOVE my BlackBerry 8900. The sweetest BlackBerry ever made. - Chris Dickens

hulu on iphone? : http://www.businessinsider.com/hulu-ip... - Chris Heath

Bwana: I can't say I wouldn't be as well if I were there - Keith Barrett

Wobble - Josh Haley

Is it a hardware issue that prevents iPhone from having a bar code scanning app? - Christopher A Carr

Okay, so here's my soupbox -- iPhone OS (iPhone and iPod Touch) is so so cool, but I have to say that it's not "right" for a phone. BlackBerry is so much better. The iPod Touch is a perfect companion where I can do random other stuff when I'm close to WiFI and "communicate" with my phone from anywhere in the world. :-) - Chris Dickens

No auto focus I believe is what is stopping it. - Stephen Heron

I love the paid version of mlb app - scott

I'm looking forward to the Pre being released - Iain

whatever happened to the guy who had the cnnbrk account? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Chris Heath

Anyone know how to change your delicious username? - Jay Neff

Chris: I thought he was going to be on the show - Jay Neff

Jay - you can't... you have to create a new account and import your bookmarks - Iain

me too jay, that's what i was wondering - Chris Heath

My attempt to use Mailana fails with a "we are still loading messages" screen - Keith Barrett

ouch - Jay Neff

I hate when I'm right :) - Bwana ☠

Same here Keith B - Michele

about what bwana? - Chris Heath

All that wine before the show - Bwana ☠

Sorry for the self-promo, but it's relevant; here's a very brief comparison of app switching in Android and Web OS: www.cacarr.com - Christopher A Carr

The N95 battery life has been hugely improved with firmware updates - Iain

Lol. John keeps shoving wine at her - Keith Barrett

It's not the wine ... Becky Worley and JCD and Leo did a TWIT with wine and it was GREAT! - Chip Duford

that show was good chip - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I think this was just too much wine. - Stephen Heron

The Worley episode was GREAT! She needs to return! - Keith Barrett

was that the "twitter" episode? - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

no ... there was more wine drunk on that show than this one - Chip Duford

correct, Gunny - Chip Duford

gunny it was the one before... that was last week's - Chris Heath

Chip - I was on a wine show, but they didn't drink it all before the show - Bwana ☠

I downloaded that from odtv.me - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

John is 'in love' - Chip Duford

there was another one with the guy from Scam School that was also pretty good - Chip Duford

that one was good too - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

also had wine - Chip Duford

that was good too chip - Chris Heath

Dvorak LOL - Bwana ☠

It's not the wine ... it's the people - Chip Duford

it's the wine and the people and the heat and the stories ... there's a lot of things that go into it... - Chris Heath

but ... it's NOT just the wine .. the wine does not need to go - Chip Duford

Well that ad makes me hate Canada - Bwana ☠

I don't think John and Shira and wine make a good TWIT. - Stephen Heron

whereas before I liked it - Bwana ☠

chip, that's not what i was saying - Chris Heath

no no ... not pointing fingers ... just making a point, based on previous TWITS - Chip Duford

John is aroused, I think. - Chip Duford

I love Cali Lewis - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

speak for yourself Leo - Bwana ☠

:) - Bwana ☠

it was a bad connotation 20 years ago - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

geek does not = NERD - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I believe Leo is confusing a nerd with geeks. - Chris Dickens

I thought Geeks bit the heads off Chickens? - Chip Duford

A geek bites heads off of chickens in carnies - Bwana ☠

next topic please - Bwana ☠

http://www.geekcode.com/ - Chris Heath

The word leo wants is nerd - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Ok, jumped the shark confirmed. - Matthew

People get millions for what I use to get beat up for in high school now - Keith Barrett

I guess this is tech talk.. right? :P - Michele

She has stolen Geek! And I'll give it to her ;) - Chip Duford

neo maxxy zoom dweeby - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Being excited about tech is not enough to be a geek, but making it your life does - Keith Barrett

Leo - I am (very close) to your timeframe and I am a geek, not a nerd. You're describing a nerd. :-) - Chris Dickens

high school was what 10 years ago for her? - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

nice use of liver JCD - Bwana ☠

I am actually older than Leo, and I agree with him. Geeks were NOT popular back then - Keith Barrett

Hey if being a geek brings female friends that love it, I have no issue with it - Keith Barrett

All these wanna-be geeks!! - Bwana ☠

I'm appauled! - Bwana ☠

coming soon! http://geekadvancement.com/ - Chris Heath

LOL I was about to say.. wait a sec.. I'm my web "guy".. my hubby does our tech support :) - Michele

hahahahah - Bwana ☠

You cannot be a geek if you don't know html :-) - Keith Barrett

I can't code to save my life, but I'ma geek - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Preach it Bwana! - James Beake

/me hands over his geek card - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

I can hack a tivo - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Slutsky? - Matthew

i do my own website - Chris Heath

Gunny ain't lying. - Josh Haley

Gunny: you get to keep for non-irc usage of /me - Bwana ☠

"Geeks" are neophiles with a more-or-less narrow set of technical skills. Geeks often have at least average social aptitude, but have interests that aren't mainstream. "Nerds" might be geeky, but the label is a pejorative in that it connotes an individual who is nearly pathologically deficient in social capabilities. - Christopher A Carr

A geek is someone that can CREATE a hacking instruction, not follow one - Keith Barrett

I did just that Keith - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Jason is not a geek - Keith Barrett

... and here I only feel half geek because I only write html, php, play around with databases and create my own css. - Michele

OK... this is boring. - Christopher A Carr

iJustine is not a geek -- she's a groupie - Keith Barrett

omg, JCD is literally making me lol - robby

NO to ijustine - Jay Neff

not a geek - Chris Heath

They are geek groupies, not geeks - Keith Barrett

we need a new terminology for these web-celeb 'geeks' - Chris Heath

these are just popular people on the web - Matthew

man I wish I was in the chat room - I can't get in - Keith Barrett

Some strive for Geekness, some have Geekness thrust upon them. - Chip Duford

My entire living room is a LAN... (profile plug.. check my workspace pic) - Michele

This show needs to finish. - Stephen Heron

thanks JCD - Bwana ☠

bring some static in the mix :) - Bwana ☠

LOL - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

JCD for President! - Matthew

Keith: scene whores? - Jay Neff

Dvorak preach it - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

finally made it into the chat - Keith Barrett

Dvorak is right I think Ev strongly dislikes Leo - Scott H

i think this whole i'm a _____ thing is a bad direction to take things... brings out stereotypes and catagorizations - Chris Heath

I agree Chris H - Michele

Scott H, how do you know? do you know ev personally? - Chris Heath

another twit is in the can... - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

apology accepted JCD - Chris Heath

Leo kill the show! - Stephen Heron

...it was never about tech news? - Christopher A Carr

I'm beginning to think Ev dislikes all tech people and is a celeb wanna-be - Keith Barrett

There you go! - Chip Duford

that may be keith - Chris Heath

I love Dvorak on No adgenda - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

lord, yes - Josh Haley

nostalgia makes you think things were better in the past - Chris Heath

I think I will listen to one of the old shows just to compare the difference. - Stephen Heron

The new story is that they stopped their testing except for one town. - Matthew

The chat room is 100x harder to converse in than FF right now - Keith Barrett

yep. i remember actually learning stuff about hdtv from Robert Heron - Josh Haley

iframe hell - Josh Haley

How can JCD be so disconnected sometimes - Keith Barrett

The first few shows were quite good - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

they were screensavers reunion shows - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

pretty much - Josh Haley

What total BS. I've listened to all of them The wine was a no no. You guys are looped which you criticized Digg for. - Newell Unfried

welcome to the topic, JCD - Josh Haley

I'm hating the diggbar sorry, why didn't they just improve the Firefox addon? - robby

First place I saw the JS was Daring Fireball, which posted the message basically saying "F you" - Patrick Sullivan

Daring Fireball made the diggbar his white whale. He talks about diggbar more than leo talks about twitter - jccalhoun

Gee. What will their software look like when alcohol is introduced? It doesn't work now. - Keith Barrett

I stopped watching Leo and TwiT when he started his infatuation with Lisa Bettany... oh look another conversation about Lisa's boobs, but lets not be sexist here. - Charlieray

holy sloshed guest, Batman! - Josh Haley

i have a button down collared hawaiian shirt - Chris Heath

they just need to stop now. - Matthew

Someone be sure to drive Shira home!!! - Chip Duford

TWiS: This week is slurring - Phil Essing

just turned off the show my wife wants to listen to a disney podcast - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Did anyone understand any of that? - Stephen Heron

There's some decent conversation.. TechTV :) - Michele

in* - Phil Essing

http://search.twitter.com/search... - Chris Heath

The podcast is going to be 10 mins long - Greg

but what a GREAT 10 minutes, eh?!?! - Chip Duford

Greg - 20 minutes with ads ;-) - Patrick Sullivan

reading the complains in the snotty tone doesn't make the complains any less valid... - jccalhoun

I stopped listening to the podcast now that I watch the live show, so don't throw away comments like that Leo. - Matthew

It was all adult material, not gay specific. People took advantage - Keith Barrett

Live show is more entertaining imo. - Michele

Mob-sourcing - Keith Barrett

dominoes youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chris Heath

it wasn't all adult material. people found examples of things like Heather Has Two Mommies - a kids book- being delisted - jccalhoun

scoble's ff discussion about it: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Chris Heath

He was definitely reading, you can see his eyes moving down in the vid. I think they handled the fiasco pretty well though - Jay Neff

drink http://dvorak.org/blog - Chris Heath

To suggest that any of the hosts have anything intelligent to say would be a stretch. What a shame. Think I'll rethink my podcast choices and go listen to an Audible book. - Newell Unfried

bubye newell - Chris Heath

Where is that feed thing crawl of ff comments - or is this it? - Dan

this is it dan - Chris Heath

try this too: http://beta.friendfeed.com/twit-co... - Chris Heath

to get the feed thing crawl make sure you put beta. in front of the friendfeed url - jccalhoun

'thanks for the mention' leo - Chris Heath

Laporte and Dvorak ARE intoxicated ... with Shira and Lisa! - Chip Duford

Told ya... drunken convos are not fun on the outside... - Bwana ☠

hehe - Bwana ☠

so true Bwana - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Totally agree Bwana - Michele

http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - Chris Heath

Petaluma police breathalyzer will be outside the twit cottage - Greg

so the show has devolved to leo just reading twitter comments? - jccalhoun

LOL perfect setup - Bwana ☠

oh snap - Jay Neff

http://instantrimshot.com - Bwana ☠

haha - Jay Neff

http://search.twitter.com/search... - Chris Heath

JCD makes up statistics lol - Bwana ☠

only 62.7% of the time - Josh Haley

it's not a boot, it's a BOAT - Josh Haley

get your kicks on root 66 - Chris Heath

Let the linguist talk about this regional dialect stuff... - Christopher A Carr

What John needs to realise is that the rest of the English speaking world says zed not zee - James Beake

No Josh, it's a BOOZE - Bwana ☠

lol - Josh Haley

Social TWiT as in Social Geek - Scott

yes, heaven forbid the one with a degree in linquistics would have a chance to talk about linquistics... - jccalhoun

Its also called trying to get filler - Greg

hiyoooooo! http://www.hiyoooo.com/ - Bwana ☠

Should of had the wine after the show - Greg

oh my, that is beyond the shark - Josh Haley

ok, NOW things have gone too far - Jim Bednarz

Greg: http://beta.friendfeed.com/bwana... - Bwana ☠

say "about the house" - Jay Neff

#drunktwit is better than #twit :-) - Mike Mylenbusch

mike people are also using #drunkentwit - Chris Heath

Leo: "I have such a big head" - Gavin

Oh noez! Not the hats! - Bwana ☠

ok...#drunkentwit is better than #twit - Mike Mylenbusch

isn't jasoncalacanis one of the financial backers of this 'we live in public' film? - Chris Heath

my god its 89 F and he is wearing that - Greg

TechTV->G4 as #twit->#drunktwit - Scott

Hah! - Bwana ☠

LOL the many hats of Leo Laporte? - Michele

Props always make up for bad dialog - Keith Dishman

nuking the jumped shark in a fridge - Chris Heath

So Leo's being over twitter is expressed by devoting half the show to him reading comments people are making about him on twitter? - jccalhoun

LOL LOL uh oh...mad girl! - Bwana ☠

TWiT 191 - Nuking the Jumped Shark in a Fridge - Chris Heath

Ashton is not bigger than the Pirate Bay verdict - jccalhoun

I think TWiT is finally wrapping up. - Nolan Alston

This is the freakiest show i've ever seen on twit live. - J.R. Luppold

Sorry Leo, but this really was a pretty boring episode. Guests weren't near tech-related enough (aside from Dvorak), so neither was the conversation. Plus, too much wine, and too much talking over one another (from Shira especially). I might have to finally pull out the "worst TWiT ever" card. Still looking forward to next week, though! - Staticharge

John's trying to get her even drunker - Matthew

Like, why is it like so bad to like talk about, like, omg, like social media and like celebrities...? - Christopher A Carr

there's been freakier JR - Chris Heath

Get Becky Worley back on!!! - Chip Duford

Yeah, Becky Worley was awesome! - Mike Mylenbusch

only? - Bwana ☠

I'm with Staticharge. Too much talking over others. - Dave Wallace

Nuking the fridge and Twit #191 - Greg

wow - Jay Neff

It's hard to do FF and chat together - Keith Barrett

No Bwana ... But she's a great guest when Dvorak is on ... doesn't let him get away with ANYTHING - Chip Duford

This has been the Valleywag edition of TWiT - Matthew

Tony has a VERY long night ahead of him. - Jim Bednarz

hahahahahhahh - Jay Neff

--- End of Show --- - Matthew

Well that was bad. Good Luck Tony. - Stephen Heron

--End of the world-- - Josh Haley

Wine Tasting not Wine Drinking next week - Scott

I don't envy Tony - Dale

Oscar Gold - the american dad james bond episode - Chris Heath

CUT CUT CUT - Stephen Heron

post unedited please - Jay Neff

Good stuff here. Don't worry about the neysayers. Doesn't anyone have to pee yet? Hey, an iphone is runing the Boston Marathon tomorrow. http://www.runkeeper.com/maratho... - Henry (Hank) Guardado

Leo, this show must be cut if not scrapped - Jim Bednarz

keep it real - Jay Neff

The question is not what to cut, but what to keep - Phil Essing

sell an uncut version - James Beake

the uncut show will be at odtv.me - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

if you ask me ... Dvorak was the problem this week - Chip Duford

Leo, you can't edit jumping the shark - Matthew

i would say only lightly edit it ... there's probably 20 or more small edits that could be made - Chris Heath

This makes me yearn for the good old days of the Yellow Lasers episode... - jccalhoun

jccalhoun woz episodes were always good - Chris Heath

Light editing would be ideal. Cut out the jumbled parts with everyone talking over each other. - Michele

I definitely want to see another episode with Becky Worley and Dvorak. They're great guests, and you can actually discuss tech with them. - Staticharge

DON'T LET THE LISTENERS CONTROL THE CONTENT!!! - Chip Duford

TWiT 191: WTF? - Phil Essing

TWiT 191: Hot Mess! - Chip Duford

i agree - Scott H

TWiT 191: Please don't Unsubscribe - Matthew

haha - Jay Neff

lol - Phil Essing

they'll come around - Chip Duford

i like that one matthew - Chris Heath

I would chop it up Leo - you'll be fine with it - Bwana ☠

I second "Please Don't Unsubscribe" - Devon Blugh

the unsubscriber crowd is just bluffing, they'll be bock - Bwana ☠

Cut it down a lot is my advice - jccalhoun

:D - Matthew

TWiT 191: You've watched it you can't unwatch it - Scott

TWiT 191: 2 hours the viewers will never get back... 30 minutes you can avoid wasting now! - Phil Essing

haha - Scott H

I keed because I luv - Phil Essing

TWiT 191: FOO-BARed - Gabe

My vote is for the Don't Unsubscribe - Phil Essing

TWIT 191: Too Hot For TWIT - Mark

leo: twit 191: another twit ...is corking the foo bottle. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

TWiT 1919: We're Sorry, So sorry. - Jim Bednarz

191 - stop staring at my sweaty chest - Josh Haley

TWiT 191: The New Unmentionable Episode - Devon Blugh

TWiT 191: Drunk, Asleep, or Fornicating - Bill Kline

What's not important is whether or not we're mean, it's whether or not we're here... and we're obviously here. - Phil Essing

TWiT 191: John bates, TWiT bites. - Mathias Jost

the chatroom acts as a feedback mechanism ... it cuts both ways (has its pros and cons) - Chris Heath

TWiT 191 - This Sushi is Cooked - Bwana ☠

TWiT 191 - Hot Mess ... I think it fits - Chip Duford

Leo: TWiT #191: Too Hot FOO (Thanks For Everything Oprah Winfrey) - Gabe

twit 191: another twit is in the bottle - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

Gabe that's classic! - Norm Corriveau

TWiT 191: The Social Geeks Reign - Scott

TWiT 191: Twit Sideways - dann weatherhead

As an avid listener to the pod cast, I find the live feed rather disappointing. You are committing the unforgivable sin of being boring. - Andrew Thall

TWiT 191: The Twitter Episode (for real this time) - Mathias Jost

Leo - TWIT 191 "Wine, Women, and Song" - Keith Dishman

just cut the blowhard comment - Steve Gillmor

PERFECT @Keith Dishman - Mathias Jost

Leo: TWiT #191: Too Hot FOO (Thanks For Everything Oprah Winfrey) - Gabe

twit 191 -- blowhards and babes - Dale

TWiT 191: Sorry Mom - sutherland boswell

TWit 191 -- Leo interrupts us - Dale

TWiT 191: What happens in the Cottage stays in the Cottage - Scott

Twit 191 - Whine and Wine - Darren Rowley

As an avid listener to your podcast, I find your live feed disappointing. You are guilty of the cardinal sin of being boring.. - Andrew Thall

Twit 191 Wine of the Geeks - Brian Kirby

Thanks for a great time - Brian Kirby

Possible names TWiT 191: Fully Loaded or TWiT 191: Whine & Cheese or TWiT 191: "Buzzed" Out Loud - ZillaFan

I would definately watch the live stream more if those two ladies appear more. :P - Phillip Stewart

TWiT 191: Dvorak Plays With Dolls. - Chip Duford

TWiT 191: When the TWiT hits the fan... - Brandt Krueger

Leo, is that a chocolate box, or an iPod/phone by Shira's glass??? I hope she didn't forget anything! - Gabe

John fed Shira a lot of wine - Chip Duford

Dang Leo, are the sponsor ads only for podcasts, you should start charging for live feed reads. - Matthew

14,000 viewers during the live broadcast - Steve Hampton

Leo I am in Buenos Aires and BITGRAVITY was a lot better than USTREAM that freeeeez much - Johni Fisher

My title for the TWiT says it all ... Drovak Plays With Dolls - Chip Duford

It's not the wine ... You, Becky, and John C had wine and a great show - Chip Duford

Put on a happy face? - Chip Duford

Leo, I can see how busy you are, but could you give us a quick status update on UGM please? :) - Gabe

I think it was the This Week in Shira Lazar show. All I heard was ME ME ME TALK ABOUT ME - Max Strzelecki

I must be in the minority. I really loved this episodes, but that's why I like TWiT... its great variability and personalities. Also, Grumpy Lisa is awesome and we need more Mostly Grumpy Lisa :D - Bob M. Montgomery

Leo, you should have a new show TWiSM (this week in social media) and put all these social media personalities there (or have them on net@nite). The last few shows 188/189 were great, its always been about your (& guests) opinion on tech stories but this show (191) really went downhill rapidly with hardly any meaningful discussion of any tech stories. - Jayesh

Listening to this episode was painful. :/ - Christian Collins

wow new low for twit wtf was Shira Lazar doing on this show? calling herself a "New Media Maven" and being a "pioneer" I just threw up in my mouth. - adolfo foronda

Unfortunately I'll never get that 1 hour 33 minutes and 54 seconds of my life back (I know, my fault, no-one *made* me listen to the bitter end). I don't think adding the wine to TWiT these past several weeks has been a good idea. - Steve

Yes I'm not so sure about the wine thing as well. If John would spend less time arguing about covering twitter news and just let Leo get on with it, the twitter news would pass much more quickly rather than being hampered on - Andy

I completely agree, Andrew. The wine is getting old and JCD complaining about Twitter talk is getting worse than the Twitter talk. - Joel R

Less models and more real journalists with interesting opinions. Becky Worley hit it out of the park and Molly is good as well. - Techboy2000

Joined just to comment. Love TWIT, but NO more more Shira please, ever. So full of BS and meaningless words. Can't she let anyone else talk, ever? Ugh. Hated it. Will listen again but actively avoid shows with her on it. - Ian

I mirror Ian's statement. Shira was intolerable. I have listen to just about every single TWiT and this is the first one I have stopped before finishing. I made it about 30 minutes in before stopping in disgust. I will not tune in if she is on. Leo, I know you take our advice with a grain of salt, but please don't ask her back on again. - Will Szczepaniak

best infotainment show since i started watching ;) <3 - skyjumpy

Can all this "eye candy" commentary cease? It's sexists and insulting. Clearly, if that's your assessment, you weren't paying attention. Lisa Bettany has a master's in linquistics, which means in all likelihood she's brighter than any of us on this thread in a dozen different ways. She's also a talent photographer, gadget lover, solid writer and just happens to have done some modeling,... more... - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Leo: I've listened to TWiT since episode 1. I'm getting sick and tired of the Twitter talk. Please, please, please, please(enough please) of the Twitter talk!! - Kevin Adair

Bwana ☠

Spaceballs - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...

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What! You went over my helmet?! - Joe Pierce

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never gets old. ever. - Bwana ☠

Comcast made the foolish mistake of making this available on OnDemand. If I have nothing else going on I just put it on. - Joe Pierce

"Whats your name?" "Barf" "Not in here mister this is a Mercedes!" - Charlieray

@Joe - Well, not exactly over, sir. M-more, more to the side. - David Ford

Good Movie. - Patrick from twhirl

Wait, what the hell am I looking at? You're looking at now now. What happened to then? We passed it. When? Just now. ... ... When will then... be now? Soon! ?! - mikepk

They've went plad! - David Ford

So Lone Star, now you see evil will always triumph because good is dumb. - Victor Ganata

ludicrous speed! - mikepk

We ain't found shit! - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Raspberry?! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry... - Joe Pierce

"May the schwartz be with you" - Ferwin from Nambu

Fuck! Even in the future, nothing works! - Victor Ganata

"The combination is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5" - Joe Pierce

Ben Jackson

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Hey Ben, I seen to have lost you on Twitter. Have you been losing contacts? Also, do you work late or get up early? I always see you up beforre me and I get up at 4:30 AM. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

Ben only sleeps during the day.... I hear he's a vampire. - Charlieray

Robert Scoble

Tequila drinking in Half Moon Bay (photo): - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

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@marcschuler and @sarik @joergland from Germany and I are having fun drinking Tres Generations Tequila that was sent to me and a bunch of other bloggers today. - Robert Scoble

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Is the kid having take out sushi? - Charlieray

Which Tres Generaciones did they give you, Robert? - Alex Scoble

Great hanging out tonight, Nice meeting you all, @marcschuler and @sarik @joergland. Have a safe trip home. @Chris, its Robert's Living room, we were at the Ritz earlier but they frown on you consuming tequila you bring yourself. Decent sunset tonight, and lots of fun. - Luke Kilpatrick

It's my house. There's some cookies on the table in front of Milan. - Robert Scoble

...and my doctor says I can only have red wine! hrumph! - Bill Sanders

Good to see you Sarik & Jörg. Looking forward to meeting you soon in Germany again :) - Timo Heuer

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