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I love Excel! - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

I love Google Docs! - Call me Bronco

NEEERRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!! - Chris Cavs

Chris: yeah? So? - Call me Bronco

*WEG* - embee

lol - mikepk

Oh how I love that. - Roger Benningfield

so it's Epic, but you kinda like it? i think "epic" just jumped the shark. - Chris Cavs

it's impossible for epic to jump the shark. it's too epic. - Veronica

As Rick Davis said last week, Sarah Failin: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sam Harrelson from twhirl

Charlie Gibson allegedly got the first interview. two parts. from alaska. when her kid deploys. - Erin @queenofspain

go Sarah. kick some ass. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Noah David Simon

good....the longer they wait the worse it will be for their ticket...what kind of "leader" or politician is afraid of the media...they've only got a couple short months til November! - Amber Horner

Based on the last week, what could Sarah possibly be afraid of? - Oldengrey (Jay)

they are waiting for some more appointments from the Obama campaign. here are a few other appointments. I'm thinking Bigfoot for Secratary of State. I mean if Kerry gave Carter consideration. Why not these guys? http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... - Noah David Simon

respect and deference? is she the pope? - Jeff Woelker from twhirl

If only the press had shown such acumen in the run up to the war. Agendas aplenty. A pox on both their houses. - Sprague D

If she becomes president (a real possibility), won't she have to deal with tougher questions and more determined desires to bring her down than anything the American press can dish out? And she doesn't want to play unless they play nice? - Ro (Lilyhill)

MOre of the same. Bush White House limits access to information and media. So does McCain. More emulation of bad Bush policy. Typical Republican approach! - Michael VanDervort from twhirl

Well, we've all seen how much Dick Cheney and GW have given the press access to themselves. Just another case of more of the same. - Alex Scoble

Rick Davis said "timetable." Even when these guys are on message, they are off message - @baratunde from twhirl

Chris Wallace isn't as much of a dick he usually is. Good for him. - Tony Hung

How lame, that we, the American people, need to wait until Palin's handlers have her "ready" for prime time. If she was chosen to be McCain's VP then I expect her to be ready for prime time on the very day she was announced as his running mate. This "when and if" crap is just that: a stinky, soiled diaper. - Scott Jarkoff

Yep...Biden was ready to hit the ground running from day 1. Just goes back to the experience gap. - Alex Scoble

It doesn't auger well for the VP debates - Sally Church

Ah -- so NOW the MSM suddenly wants to do its job, and be more than a propaganda conduit for whoever is in power. How convenient. - Chris Baskind

Seesmic has a natural hype cycle because of the celebrity behind it and the celebrity that installed it (it's a seriously who-you-know-connecton-coup)-- but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's interesting to note where circles and tribes move-- the 'my friends are there'. Part of this could apply to Rejaw too. It's not about whether or not the service has some differentiated feature/benefit, it's about where it lands on our personal timelines. Has anyone experienced this with Seesmic or others? - Eric Rice

I'd also like to note how many services FORCE social first, and groups second (if at all). When I refer to anti-social media, I'm really referring to 'discrete' media, not private (or media = networking, whatever). I'm loving things that give me the ability to have 'small social' because of the various theories like Dunbar's number and such. Community evolves into society, and those are two different things entirely. - Eric Rice

i don't know Eric, there's still a core group of people (many of us from the early days) who interact with each other on a regular basis: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Cavs

Yeah older than that. Actually, those pictured that I met there--- we've moved together into other mediums and spaces AND maintain a higher level of relationship-- which is a hard thing to do when everyone is look at me-me-me--- how do you stand out (so to speak)? Note: I do think video is one of the most powerful mediums for connections and human interaction. - Eric Rice

BTW, by 'older than that' I meant, to me, that group is second gen... not sure what generation we're on now... at least 5 or 6. - Eric Rice

well, *I* was there in November. I do remember those folks, and yeah, most of them have moved on. I'm actually a little bummed about that. But I've made some great relationships with those people in the picture. So yeah, video is a very powerful communication medium. I'm still not sure why you don't post though? There are more people now, so you have to be active to get noticed. AND...there are different times during the day that are more active than others, with different people engaging. - Chris Cavs

Maybe there's just certain people too arrogant, too needy, and too self-important--I'm wholeheartedly including myself here--to be "just another member" of a gigantic group and who need to be always part of a select few. I'm not good with crowds... - Seth Eagelfeld

well, i miss you there. not that i'm there often with my webcam issues, but i got a new webcam today, a 2nd wind and I pop up twhirl to see what's going on and it's--once again--a whole lot of nothing. there's too many cliques there and since i don't belong to one, it's back to me observing like back in april. - Admiral Anika

Chris: maybe because it's the same social effect of going to a new club making new friends and starting over from scratch? (well almost)... the one thing I dont think any web 2.0 folks look at is the issue of *social* scalability. Servers and code = easy. Scale socially? That's waaay different. - Eric Rice

Seth: I will be straight up honest and say that there are some people there who I just couldn't effing STAND to see-- not that they had anything to do with me drifting (maybe they did, heh) but yeah, that's a huge part of it. Maybe there's this 'do i want to become that barfly' in any social service? - Eric Rice

aww <3 faboo although interesting we interact more here and we're both from different 'generations' so to speak. God I love these weird-assed scientific social things. This is why we need sociocyberneticists and sociologists in social media, not more Twitter fanboys lol. :) - Eric Rice

do i count as first generation? :o) ...i feel bad. i dropped off too. more because of work and the fact that i'm still waiting for them to roll out group functions. but i am thankful to have met some really nice people when i was actively using it. hopefully when they roll out groups, there can be a reunion. :D - Christine Lu

I was just checking for group functions and GOOD GRIEF on your avatar Christine <3 - Eric Rice

Eric, the scalability issue is definitely a problem. But I'd certainly welcome you back! it's funny, because I started in November, then in January, I fell off until April after PodcampNYC. Now i'm on there again, and there have been at least 2 "generations" since then. Crazy. - Chris Cavs

feel ya eric - moved on awhile ago but i do that a lot, i try everything and only stick f/t w/ a few - it's a time mgmt & balanced life sort of thing for me, nothing against the service or the people - its all my fault or seth's maybe ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

glemak makes a good point. There are just too many socnets now. Some will fall through the cracks in our lives. It happens. I'm on both Seesmic and Phreadz, and Phreadz has kind of fallen through for me. Twitter & Plurk are my main microblog sites, while rejaw, pownce, jaiku, and identi.ca all fell through. - Chris Cavs

Yeah I get evangelized on Rejaw a lot and it's like come on, enough. They might have better features, but it falls into the trap of selling features, not benefits-- and there's high barrier to switching. And even tho there's differentiators, it's not different enough to prevent it from being Yet Another Twitter Clone. (this was kinda off topic, but had to address Rejaw honestly for a moment. (It's social scalability sucks) - Eric Rice

interesting about phreadz, chris. after a lot of berating (peer pressure me?) i got an account. it's been two weeks and i just recorded a video profile today. the thing is that, i look at the users and it's just another clique of people. pretty much the same people who ignored me on seesmic. do i need that? - Admiral Anika

yes, eric...it's not loss on me we interact more here even though we 'met' on seesmic. funny considering the text limitations, though a lot of what you share and i remark on here won't translate to seesmic. - Admiral Anika

I haven't left the house except to go to work in like 2 years. :) I'd say I'm an introvert. - Adam Turetzky

I would have to go with Introvert/borderline extrovert myself. great article. @adam your comment made me chuckle a bit, good times. - Percival

I own a t-shirt that says "You read my t-shirt. That's enough social interaction for one day." So, yeah. - Marci Maleski

I'm very introverted, but that doesn't mean I don't want any social interaction at all. Social media helps me handle more social interaction (and control it better) than I could in person, without being exhausted. - Nathan Howell

social web gives a place for introverts to be heard and those who would be ignored because they don't have the right look, job, degree or other defined posture. - R. Ferguson

Who's your favorite mythbuster? What's with all the red hair on that show? :D - Mark Forman

Jamie: he looks like my former brother in law. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I love Mythbusters! I also love to stare at redheads... I find the rarity of it fascinating... hmm.. - Jasmin Smith

I love Kari! Her, Jamie, and Grant are my favorites. :D - Daynah

pure comedy! - Morgan

"NEVAHR plug 120V gadget into 220V pover zocket. Eet took even our bezt doctorrz three hourrz to vipe the zmile from her face". (whoever gets the quote wins a complete - ehm - kit) - dario

o_O - Louie

My innocent eyes!!!! LOL classic - Jim Goldstein

You have to be kidding me?!?!!? That is classic! - Jose Perez

Talk about a viral campaign - Brian Sullivan

talk of 'passion pants' :)_ - Peter Dawson

"suffered no long-lasting ill-effects." What would they have been if she had I wonder? - Vicky

You can't make that stuff up. - Zach Underwood

Fark worthy - mjc

definelty fark material - johnpiercy

umm...not a bad way to go down. ;-) - Anna Haro

Funniest thing I have read all day. - pcnerd37

Well that just made my day! - Jeff P. Henderson

That's hilarious. I never understood how people could use those things in public, now I know I was right - they shouldn't. You need to be in a sae place, ha ha! - Morgaine Swann

Anyone else ever been to Nathan's Coney Island? Stand up and be counted. - Mark Forman

I've been there twice now. not a big nathan's fan, but i had to have the experience. - Chris Cavs

It's just a train ride away but I haven't been there in years. Glad to see it's still around. - Sprague D

Sprague D which train? - Mark Forman

yes, my sister and her friends took me when I was about 9. - edythe

What the fucking shit are you trying say, dammit? - Akiva Moskovitz

bad words are generally common words which come to be associated with ideas, groups, and behaviors considered taboo or unclean at some time by someone. for example, "faggot" means kindling (as in, material to start a fire), but came to be a bad word due to a redefinition and the taboo nature of homosexuality in the context of certain societies. edit: i just had a "am i *really* that dorky" moment. - idnan

I remember I was punished in first grade for dropping the f-bomb. So, my first grade teacher said they were bad. But, generally, there are words that turn off some people in your potential audience. If you're OK with losing them, go ahead and say them. By the way, our media and government has banned certain speech on our commercial media. Partly to avoid losing audience and partly because government gets pressure whenever, say, 5% of people get pissed off enough to call a Senator. - Robert Scoble

@akiva - ROTFLMAO. @idnan - I understand the use of words in a negative context, but that wasn't my quandary (rather, I don't know why people call them "bad words"). @scoble - You used the f-bomb in the first grade? I have a whole new respect for you, my man. - l0ckergn0me

words only have the power that society gives them. If everyone decided 'nutfreak' was awful, then ... it would suddenly be bad. - AJ Kohn

No word is bad if it can convey a thought. If it can't, it's useless, not bad. Profanity conveys information just as well as non-profane words. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I think the touchstone for words that are bad are that they are hurtful. - Victor Ryden

George Carlin talked about this at length, I think. It's another superstition. Just like my Catholic friend in High School was convinced that certain physical objects, like Ouija boards and pentagrams were "bad." - Internet's Tad

It is kind of a double edged sword. It makes no sense at all to my why words would be taboo, especially as Jack said words that convey information/thought. On the other hand if they weren't considered "bad" then they wouldn't be as impactful or useful. - Joe Pierce

Chris: my parents still laugh about that. The teacher called them, forced them to make me apologize to the class. So, what did I do? I dropped the f-bomb again. But this time not to one kid, but to the whole class. - Robert Scoble

It's all a matter of context. Nothing in of itself is inherently bad. It's how it's used and the effects of the use. We don't try to shield our kid from "bad words" because it's silly. But we do tell him those words only have power if he lets them. And we caution him that other people don't really understand that so he needs to be careful how he uses them. - Lindsay

scobel that's awesome, I was expelled from catholic school in first grade for dropping the f-bomb - Bryan Thatcher from twhirl

Why do I try to refrain from using such words on my blog? Well, lots of companies will block your blog if you trigger certain words. I still remember getting an Apple II and using certain words with the spell checker my dad bought. It wouldn't correct the spelling, but, rather, said "you should clean out your mouth." - Robert Scoble

Chris - Robert dropped the f-bomb because his teacher took away his oregon trail on the apple IIe :-P - i always tried to cross the river btw - Allen Stern

There are two meanings to every word. The meaning to the speaker, and the meaning to the listener. - Jennifer

Jennifer - one of my mentors always said - it's not reality that's important, it's the perception that is. - Allen Stern

I'm pretty sure when Scobez was in first grade they were still using chalk on slate boards. :P :D - Internet's Tad

Don't they still use chalk on slate boards in school then? Seriously, don't they? - Ian May

I meant on their desks instead of paper and pencil. - Internet's Tad

Ian, these days when kids drop the f-bombs in class, and get caught, they're writing their lines on a whiteboard with a marker. - Pete Delucchi

Wow, I completely forgot about Oregon Trail up until right now - Nicholas Molnar from twhirl

Every computer that I've ever owned that was capable of it has been through at least one play through of Oregon Trail. - Joe Pierce

In all seriousness, I avoid curse words because I feel the more sparingly they're used, the more effective they are. My wife knows that when I drop the f-bomb, I am truly pissed (unless I'm using curse words for comedic effect, of course). If I cursed constantly, as I used to do, they'd become ignorable, ineffective background noise. - Akiva Moskovitz

They were tagged long ago as terms not to be used to describe something. Theory would be there would be something unspeakable that was decided upon - Chris Miller from twhirl

Jesus, damn right! - James Tenniswood

@idnan... ^_^. They are only bad words because some group of people decided that they are offensive. You know, the same can be said for the "good" words. A group of people decided these are okay, those are not. - Yolanda

Yolanda, that just points to the fact that people today don't understand even the concept of vulgarity. We live in an everything-is-permissible society (in the West) because many people reject the notion of arbitrary or abstract rules. For example, take 100 people who have no problem illegally downloading music and then put them in front of a record store and tell them to go shoplift a CD or two and see how many will do it. They reject the abstract consequence but are afraid of the physical one. - Akiva Moskovitz

I've become desensitized to my potty mouth. - Yolanda

@yolanda of course. communication is a necessarily collaborative effort. communal decision (and often submission) is how languages are created and how they change, how conventions are adopted by a society and rejected. - idnan

F-U-C-K = Fornication under the consent of King :)- IMHO, thats the how the the common verb come along :)- - Peter Dawson

Yolanda, for some reason the phrase 'potty mouth' is one of the most subtlety amusing ones for me. - Akiva Moskovitz

In Scotland people use certain "bad words" a lot but not in any "bad" sense - more to put more emphasis on what they're saying. You must watch this for a laugh on swearing - http://tinyurl.com/56s5zs - Steven Livingstone-Pérez from twhirl

He's back - sort of. He can't follow anyone. http://twitter.com/tibbon - Ontario Emperor

He's not alone: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... I follow some of the people that got deleted and they were certainly not spammers! Is there still hope for Twitter? :( - Alja Sulcic

This is bad on many levels: It sucks to see my friend get screwed. It sucks more to see this happen to many people. And, ultimately, we'll stay. Now, what can we do as users to either a) vocalize our collective irritation, or b) migrate somewhere else? Can we mass-migrate? We would need leaders with balls... People with lots of followers, willing to urge them to go elsewhere. Chris, do you have balls? - Dan Patterson

This is starting to sound like another story of grasping failure from the jaws of success. - Rob Diana

@Dan - that's actually why I went to check out Jaiku. Thing is, there's no summize. There's no way to slice and dice the stories, so for someone with a larger audience (me), I can't accurately *see* everyone, and that sucks. So for ME, the requirements of shifting are: SMS or a 3rd party client, a way to see who's talking about what (robust search with RSS options), and ideally, a way to port social graphs (but I'm not holding my breath on the last one). - Chris Brogan

Yup, my twitter account was deleted. No word why yet. - Connie Crosby

@tibbon's got a good post up on how Twitter *should have* responded http://twurl.nl/zj3odp - Clay Newton

victims include @conniecrosby @pfanderson @narain @skalik @marjanpanic @davedelaney at a minimum - Patricia F. Anderson

Chris, have you explored Identi.ca more? I'm REALLY pleased so far ... no SMS yet, but there's track through IM, robust search, and integration with Posty and Twhirl. New features + apps everyday. MOST important: it's open source and federated, so YOU own your data, and WE can fix bugs instead of waiting a year for someone else to. - Marina Martin from Posty

I follow Jyri on twitter; he's one of the guys who started Jaiku, which was sold to Google. It sounds like Google is close to integrating it, so there might be some movement there soon. In the pre-sale days, Jaiku went straight to Google so I'd search there, and this probably still works. I wouldn't dismiss Jaiku just yet. - Linda Mills

Other things about Jaiku that I guess few knew: they had groups from almost the beginning, and the on/off features of what you could see, much like how it is on FriendFeed, was always part of the service. I only wish they'd let more people in so they could see for themselves... - Linda Mills

Any word from twitter about what exactly happened? Why these users were selected? Why they were reinstated? No info on the twitter status page. http://status.twitter.com/ - Steve Garfield

hmmmm, not good. These services have way too much power to delete people. - Robert Scoble

The question is: can we keep up the noise until @biz and @ev have to respond appropriately? - Neil Weisenfeld

I see lots of people migrating to identi.ca.. good service. i'm on there as unclr as well - Roger R

WHY did this happen? Twitter is shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly lately... I seriously question their Management abilities to run twitter. They lack so many fundamental customer service and IT web app dev mgmt skills it's scary. I only use twitter occasionally as I, and many others, have happily migrated over to Identi.ca where they really seem to care about their users and release new features very often (also real open to suggestions). Check it out --> http://identi.ca/susanbeebe - Susan Beebe

The concept of "OpenMicroBlogging" needs support from the likes you all. Twitter, FriendsFeed etc. are private gardens where the owners can do as they like. Read this critique by Fidler -- http://bit.ly/3IP9VY ; we need to strengthen the "Open Network Service" idea. As leaders you can make a difference. - tom sparks

Know what's silly about identi.ca ? There's no easy "Chris is being followed by" page so I can figure out who I haven't added back. C'mon. Make it easier for me to build relationships (again) please. - Chris Brogan

It looks like Twitter employees are joining the conversation over on Get Satisfaction - http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Same thing happened to me... for no reason at all. They claim I violated the TOS... but I'm just a normal user here... - http://getanewbrowser.com/2008... - andy brudtkuhl

Chris, there is a page that shows who is following you, linked from your profile page: http://identi.ca/chrisbr... Are you looking for a list of people who are following you that you don't follow back? I think that would be convenient, too... especially in reverse chronological order. - Evan Prodromou