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7th Annual NORTH BERKELEY SPICE OF LIFE FESTIVAL 10/4/09 - http://www.gourmetghetto.org/
10/4/09 10a-6p - Shattuck Ave. from Rose to Virginia St. 5-block long food/art fair celebrates the spice of life with cooking demos and samples by local chefs, gourmet food, beer and wine, a farmers market, artist exhibitions, yoga and bodywork demonstrations, and lots of kids activities.
- Da
ghost fleet of the recession east of Singapore, Close to 500. An armada of freighters with no cargo, no crew - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home...
ghost fleet of the recession anchored just east of Singapore, Close to 500. An armada of freighters with no cargo, no crew. last year, an Aframax tanker capable of carrying 80,000 tons of cargo would cost £31,000 a day ($50,000). Now it is about £3,400 ($5,500)
- Da
Frisbie Street Art Still (in) Motion. 9/25-27/09. Frisbie Street alternative art space, Oakland - http://frisbiest.com/blog...
Still (in) Motion group exhibition of photography by women exploring stillness and motion through the camera lens. 9/25-27/09 Frisbie Street alternative art space. 204 Frisbie Oakland
- Da
free concert. Colbie Caillat, Train, etc. 9/27/09 San Francisco - http://www.radioalice.com/pages...
free concert. Colbie Caillat, Train, Howie Day, Dashboard Confessional. Radio Alice's Now & Zen Festival, Sunday 9/27/09 Sharon Meadow Golden Gate Park San Francisco 12:10p-4:15p
- Da
GIMP 2.8 and its (huge) improvements to the User Interface! - http://www.gimpusers.com/news...
hi Andrew -Oakland Invite from an Omnia
- Da
I'm never mentioning a brand-name again. Holy weird-ass when Tro pic ana, Thi nk Ge ek and Co ff ee Ma te have twitter accounts and reply.
hi la rious!
- Da
Netbooks have a huge impact on the PC industry - http://eeepc.itrunsonlinux.com/the-new...
slashdotted
- Da
S60, Jail, Cloud - http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_...
S60- closed source but anyone can develop programs for it and does not depend on Nokia to allow or certify anything. Jail- iPhone, no multitasking and Apple is pretty opinionated on what should run on the iPhone and what not. Cloud- Android shares private data w/ Google servers in cloud
- Da
Friend is moving to Germany to escape "socialism". This was my response. [pic] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
The United States has the greatest educational system in the world!
- Da
Anybody interested in a weekly Qik-cast where I demo a #netbook #Linux distro? #gnuafternoon to complement #mondaymoanin'?
do it
- Da
LEAKED: New iPhone Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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friggin' hilarious, yo!
- Da
Health Insurers Have Already Won, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit
- Da
Congrats to http://news.cnet.com/ on the big Cialis banner ad buy http://yfrog.com/0tficp
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Marcel Weiß liked this
They must be desperate, from their gadget blog a condom ad: http://news.cnet.com/crave/ Keep it classy cnet.
- Greg Byrne
hey, it's the right demographics
- Da
People who don't like my green avatar are not nice. That said I will change it soon.
AJ Batac, iquanyin, Alex Puchianu and 36 other people liked this
SCOBLE. SMASH!
- Jesse Stay
I think it's kind of cool. Green looks great on everyone.
- Chris Baskind
Scoble has become the Hulk | Saw this for the first time :-)
- Palin Ningthoujam
Hey, whatever it took to get your battery fixed :-)
- Todd Hoff
Looking at it all day only then realised its Scoble as the Hulk
- Nick Stone
Nooooo!!!. It just needs some more color.Like red horns or something ;-)
- Tapio Kulmala
I vote it stays for at least a month.
- Thomas Hawk
i don't mind with green, but the face looks scarry :-)
- Eris Ristemena
It's not easy being green.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I just thought that was a photo after all of the tequila!
- Lou Paglia
I say keep it. Most avatars are very drab. Not yours.
- Daniel Buckley
Keep this avatar. It looks cool. It looks like you had one too many glasses of green beer and then got pissed off after being irradiated at the hospital.
- imabonehead
Oh, it's not that hard. Kermit is such a drama queen.
- Chris Baskind
Looks fine to me
- LPH™ and his dog P™
After listening to the Gillmur (sp) Gang, I am shocked he literally didn't turn into the Hulk and smash Mike Arrington. :P
- Molly, New Ears :P
Don't make Scoble mad. You wouldn't like him when he's mad.
- Aaron Tinling
@thomashawk WOULD like it because he made it. Personally I love it.
- Robert Scoble
Okay, I'm starting to get it. Real time is FUN!
- Aaron Tinling
Aaron: it is even more fun in bed! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I like it! It's funny!
- anna sauce
Robert: twss
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I love it
- Loic Le Meur
I'm with Loic - think it's perfect.
- alexia tsotsis
Green logo looks scary! Can't show it to my kid :)
- Krishna
liked for the green avatar. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Yes... please change it... it's ugly
- François Lamontagne
Nice or not, all I know is I liked the smiling and friendly Scoble. Beside, this shade of green hurt my eyes. :)
- Moushumi Kabir
I like it too. (but that's only because my mother always told me to be polite to people you don't really know)
- Ton Zijp
I don't understand why people are having issues with your avatar. I mean, really? Get over it. It's you. It's green. Move on, people!
- Lise
Liked "The Green" Nuclear even ...the rest is skerry...vewwwy skeewwy
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The Green Av Rocks! Incredible Hulk Look!
- JimmyJet
If I had the time I would make a pink one - same pic, just pink.
- WorldofHiglet
There are people who don't like it? They must be very strange people... :)
- Grant Bierman
Please don't change it
- Mo Kargas
Do change it
- John Samuel
I have been struggling with its meaning for days. It gives me agita.
- Martha
Leave it, it has that 70's hulk feel to it...and most of us who geekily remember that 70's version get the meaning anyway.
- George Hall (Australia)
+1 George Hall
- chaz2b
Robert: That avatar image is how I picture you looking, each time someone on Twitter accuses you of making "too much noise." Don't blame Scoble for the noise - blame Twitter's lame interface and lack of filters!! :-)
- Jim Connolly
Why does anyone care about the effing avatar?!? I don't get it, it's the content that's interesting. Avatars are only meaningful to the person behind anyway.
- Johan Mellberg
from twhirl
dont change your avtar. it looks me really good.
- shahid
I think you should stick with it, try a new image and associated color every month
- Patrick Boegel
keep it, you're the hulk of sending web traffic ;)
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
I think its cool, maybe people should be able to set avatars for people :o
- Nicholas James
They're green with envy (sorry bad joke I know.)
- Richard A.
Hulky!
- Kelly W.
NO, It's cool green! - A good color to be.
- d. johnson
I can't stand it - where's the smiling guy pointing over my shoulder?
- James Hull
It is not very appealing.
- Walinmichi
Mr. Scoble, how come your "What I hate about real-time web " post in Scobleizer doesn't show up in my Google Reader feed of your FF? http://tinyurl.com/cjacz2
- Da
They're just jealous of your superpowers.
- Kirsti Scott
You should keep it. It is really funny and easy to understand.
- Alp
nothing wrong with that avatar. however, if (avatarColor()==#01C501){ hidePost(); }. j/k
- AJ Batac
Facebook is lucky it missed buying Twitter and now should eat Yelp - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
UrbanRise, Ruth Helfinstein, Mike Fruchter and 8 other people liked this
"Christopher Coulter: I guess in your world it’s OK to take advantage of people who put their hand out and then stab them in the back over and over. I’d rather live in my little world."
- Robert Scoble
Seeing that yelp is best known for restaurant reviews that's a nice pun Robert.
- Mark Powell
Yelp shouldn't fizzle out based on review for money kind of setting. That is not an ideal stuff. If there is any review out of this, then the review becomes very questionable. And the genuine visitors just won't be interested anymore. Note: All the negative reviews which yelp refused to take down, made yelp interesting.
- Jayavasanthan J
"this thread is useless without videos"
- Da
Is California setup for a brain drain? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Susan Beebe, Erwin Blonk, Thomas Power and 23 other people liked this
Doubtful - I just moved here from Australia - and it seems like a LOT of people do that from around the world. And I have a brain :)
- Chris Saad
I doubt it ... I'm considering moving there shortly and I'm sure that will make all the difference to the state as a whole ;)
- Nick O'Neill
Chris: you moved here before the economy tanked, though, and before California laid off a bunch of teachers. You also don't have a family and aren't yet raising one. If you did, Texas Governor's offer would be much more attractive.
- Robert Scoble
Nick: there are a few bright spots in our economy. Facebook is one of them. I totally understand why you'd move here since you're in the Facebook eco system and want to study it. But there are thousands of others who are laid off here.
- Robert Scoble
I do not think in the short term but the ridiculous % of your income that you have to spend in housing will probably push more people to move somewhere else.
- Eduardo
Texas education isn't much better, frankly because the education is so lousy in CA and Texas it drags us all down as they control what text books are printed. Look North if you want good education for your kids
- Clarence Westberg
This is interesting. A decade ago when I was in India, there the talk was all about brain drain to US, now the talk is all about reverse brain drain from US to India, brain drain from Calif to other states. Though I have to agree for parents with Kids and living in bad school districts, California is a harsh place.
- Kiran Patchigolla
Robert: I think you are right in that there are bright spots but that's the case everywhere you look. Here in DC I know people that are getting laid off even though the city will fare better than probably anywhere else in the country.At any given moment you can look for negative signs and positive signs. Right now in time it's extremely easy to find negative anywhere you look. I also don't know the finite details of California's political landscape and the state's crime issues.
- Nick O'Neill
I pulled my daughter form the Calif. Public school. She now attends online. (suprisingly, this IS still part of the public school system) http://www.k12.com/
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I doubt it. Being in California for more than 8 years, I haven't seen a single person among coworkers, who has graduated in California (correction: my boss graduated in LA about 10 years ago and then moved back to Hong Kong). All IT people I knew were from India, China, Russia or other states.
- Pavel Senko
The people that are laid off will become a much bigger issue months from now though as their unemployment dries up and they're still looking for jobs which is a tad bit frightening.
- Nick O'Neill
Pavel: yeah, but workers who came here from overseas are moving back in droves once their H1B Visas end due to layoffs. I wonder if they'll be back.
- Robert Scoble
Entrepreneurship is California's durable economic engine, fed by local academic machines and the continuous flow of top minds from around the world...that and the lure of riches. Ebb and flow...The best remain while the weaker flee...or their H1B runs out. Makes room for another cycle...
- Ronald Goedendorp
It's about quality of life. I moved to Kansas from Silicon Valley and I did it to be around family, buy a house, and have a slower pace. Within this slower pace I've found more time to cultivate my brain. Robert you wrote a great article and it brought back memories of 2001 when I was out of work and looking in the Valley. I say head to Texas, I've heard good things about their economy!! Plus with FF you can be everywhere :))
- Anne Haynes
I'm a little rusty on Texas tech startups. Who are the big ones?
- James C Kim
@James I'm not sure about the "big ones", but there is some info for you. http://www.texasstartupblog.com/
- Anne Haynes
I actually wanted to live in California all my life, bought the house, and now realize I probably won't stay there. Very expensive to live in California, and the advantages seem to be going away If the education system sucks, trust me the best and brightest won't stay there. They don't live in AZ for exactly that reason. But Texas has some big problems, too.
- Francine Hardaway
Over the years, there have been waves of people leaving California, but the area still has done well to reinvigorate itself during this time. The network effect has remained strong attracting investment and talent. However, as the practicalities of technology and business change over the coming years, who knows if this past trend will continue. I say go to where the other people are that you want to be around.
- Loren Heiny
If you're interested in Green Tech there's no way you'd move to Texas.
- Beau Giles
Loren: I'm finding that the people I want to be around are very disperse now, not concentrated into any area the way they used to be. One of the smartest database architects lives in Barcelona. One of the smartest developers on Wordpress lives in Cork, Ireland. The best supply chain manager, Shenzhen, China. Tons of interesting geeks/enterpreneurs are in Tel Aviv, Israel, etc etc etc.
- Robert Scoble
Beau: I'm interested in all tech, but saw a ton of green tech in Israel. I'm not leaving California, though. Too attached to this place.
- Robert Scoble
I'm a tech worker. I love Austin. I came here in 1989 for school and pretty much stayed. That being said, I wouldn't live in any other city in the state and our education system is a nightmare. The State Board of Ed. is lead by a creationist dentist who wants to do away with science and supplant it with religion/philosophy. PZ Myers has more with links to the TFN http://bit.ly/2mibpU
- Tim Trentham
Austin is a cool town, if only it would move closer to the water...
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
There will soon be an "everything" drain in CA if the state economy continues on its current path. Unless, by some wild quirk of fate, a bunch of hard core fiscal conservatives get elected to State offices, I don't see that turning around soon.
- Robert Hafer
Texas is a terrible place. Hot as hell, nothing but rednecks.
- Greg Guitarbuster
Greg: first off, you gotta go there sometime other than July or August and you need to see all the cool startups in San Antonio, like I did last year. The 8088 chip and wifi were invented in San Antonio. So, unless those rednecks are also engineers that proves you wrong.
- Robert Scoble
I want to make a silly joke related to the title, but stopped myself early :-)
- Richard A.
Robert, I'm only half kidding. Native Texan, software engineer, redneck under the long hair. :)
- Greg Guitarbuster
I don't think California will have a "brain drain," as there will always be people who will want to move here for other reasons—the culture, creativity, opportunities, liberal politics, beautiful scenery, green values and tech, etc. (I'm partial to northern CA as opposed to southern CA.) However, various niches of the tech industry are certainly growing in other parts of the U.S. and the world, so it may not be as centered in SV as it once was, although SV will probably remain in the vanguard. My two cents.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
California’s got a lot going for it- weather, demographic and geographic diversity, within the state- global cities within megapolitans: San Francisco in NorCal, and Los Angeles in the Southland, long history of engagement with the emerging superpower, China. Opportunities in the turmoil
- Da
"For the fourth year in a row, more residents left the Golden State than moved here from other states" http://www.latimes.com/news...
- RAPatton
I don't think California will be running empty because there will always be people wanting to live there. Which is the reason I think a significant number of people will leave given the chance. Not everyone wants to live there but it has been somewhat unavoidable. It probably depends on if entrepeneurs who want to leave for, for example, Texas, and if they see and grab the opportunity....
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- Erwin Blonk
Lost Coast Brewery Team Training Camp, Day 4 - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LZxF3L...
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