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Is Netflix Worth It? - http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009...
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it is if you have a tivo - streaming rocks
- Dave Hodson
For me it is.
- Spidra Webster
Also, unless you are prone to overdue fees, check your library system first. We get on the catalog web site from home and order any movie in the county's system to be sent to the closest branch... which happens to have a drive through for pickups.
- Alix Whitmire
Aaand, if you already have Netflix, and want to see if you're getting your money's worth: http://feedfliks.com/ will tell you how much per movie you're paying. I'm paying $1.50 per rental... .75 if you count Instant Watch.
- Alix Whitmire
Pope Unhurt After Being Knocked Down by Woman at Mass http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
big oops!
- Dave Hodson
Attack Disrupts Web Sites - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
"Multiple Internet sites, including those run by Amazon.com Inc., were temporarily disrupted for some Web users after a company that provides them directory services suffered what it called a "denial of service" attack."
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
Looking for some early Alpha feedback on PersistentFan.com (http://www.persistentfan.com) -- let me know if you are interested
The service is designed to help fans easily stay current on a range of topics. We're in early Alpha, adding tons of features and looking for feedback.
- Dave Hodson
Cool concept/idea!
- TrafficBug
I love the fact that we had an after party and and after after party. Not quite Tracy Jordan/30 Rock style, but pretty good for a guy who's normally to bed by 9:30. :)
Anna Haro, rowlikeagirl, sofarsoShawn and 30 other people liked this
On your wedding night... you had an after party and an after after party? Alex... sir... YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!
- Johnny Worthington
How do you figure that, sir?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
*Sits Alex on his knee*... You see son, when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much...
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny's right...
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
LOL...you guys kill me
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Hah. Our after party was us having a little dinner and then going to sleep.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I saw the pix on Dotcom's and Griz's facebook pages. You really had a good time.
- Bryan R. Adams
I love it, Alex. There are only so many opportunities to have the people you love in the same place. I think I'd rather celebrate with my friends than try to have a 'traditional' wedding night with all of the cultural expectations that entails after what must be an exhausting day. I'll probably do what Akiva did, though.
- joey
Pulleeze.. people.. I'm with Joey and Alex. Party with family and friends.
- Uncle CW™
We spent the better part of the week leading up to the wedding with family and friends. The wedding and wedding night were all about *us*.
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
Yeah, unfortunately because the fact that most of our family was from out of town and this was a winter wedding, we didn't have that luxury. The honeymoon will be all about us.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
@Bryan - LOL
- Dave Hodson
If one or both of you are virgins, then what Johnny said. If you've already well-debugged each other's code, and interfaced with all the addons the API affords, then what joeybean said.
- Matthew DeVries
I was, of course, being facetious with my first comment. I'm really glad you guys got to enjoy your family and friends, and the wedding went off well!
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
Congrats, Alex.
- Kevin Pedraja
IMO, there is no wrong way to do it as long as you're still married at the end of the night ;)
- joey
I don't mean to be crude but... Now that you are married, Alex, you will come to know there are few times when it's a lay down misere... Know those times well and take full advantage :P
- Johnny Worthington
Concur, joey! That was our mantra for weeks leading up to the big day
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
In order for you to be crude, Johnny, I'd have to know what you meant hehe
- Alex Scoble
from IM
"A Misere bid usually indicates an extremely poor hand, hence the name. An Open or Lay Down Misere, is a 500 bid where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table. Consequently, 'Lay Down Misere' is Australian gambling slang for a "dead cert"; a predicted easy victory."
- Johnny Worthington
Is that a bridge thing, Johnny?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
500
- Johnny Worthington
Cool...not familiar with that card game.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
After parties are the awesome!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Most Americans don't think Obama deserves Nobel - Israel News, Ynetnews - http://www.ynetnews.com/article...
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"US president on his way to Oslo to receive Nobel Prize for Peace just as he issues orders to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. In meantime, majority of American public does not think Obama deserves prize. Neither do most Norwegians"
- Sean McBride
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"No support at home or abroad. As US President Barack Obama boards a plane from Washington for the Nobel Prize ceremony that will be held on Thursday in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, some two thirds of Americans believe their president is not deserving of the prize. According to a poll conducted by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, only 26% of Americans believe Obama deserves...
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- Sean McBride
Who cares? Most of the world doesn't think he deserves the nobel either ;-)
- Richard A.
I care: I think it's outrageous that he is receiving the prize. If he had any core principles, he would decline to accept it.
- Sean McBride
@Sean - Robin Gibbs pretty much said Obama doesn't think he deserves it either. Not sure why he didn't decline
- Dave Hodson
Nobel Prize Award has been a resounding success. Make Room, Al Gore: Obama’s Nobel Prize is Also For Climate Change - Environmental Capital - WSJ http://bit.ly/4IWMAC
- Eric Logan
To be honest, I like Obama a lot and think that he's filling in the role as well as can be expected, but no way did he earn the Nobel.
- Chieze Okoye
IMO declining it would have its own air of arrogance.
- Andrew C
Vevo: First Thoughts - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"But I wonder if cordoning off the "official" music videos into a separate site will achieve this goal. We'll see. I'm not that optimistic about this one"
- Dave Hodson
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ACORN Report Finds No Illegal Conduct | TPMMuckraker - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi...
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"The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles's comments"
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
DO ANYBODY NO WHY THE BEATLES ROCK BAND GUITARS ARE TWICE AS MUCH AS REGULAR ROCKBAND GUITARS?
Joe Pierce, Anna Haro, Alex Scrivener and Morton Fox liked this
The Beatles logo
- Johnny Worthington
The Beatles™
- Mo Kargas
Ringo sets the pricing with peace and love?
- Johnny Worthington
I blame Yoko.
- Kevin Pedraja
cause they can
- Dave Hodson
Get a real guitar and learn how to play. :)
- Cristo
shut up and drink your gruel.
- Davis Freeberg
Kevin FTW.
- Kevin Fox
to recoup money they have lost by not being on iTunes for years.
- Joe Pierce
Has Twitter Dumped That Hated Retweet Function? - http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009...
Lee, Tapio Kulmala, Brian Sullivan and 2 other people liked this
ah - *that's* why I haven't seen my Retweet today
- Jesse Stay
Liking just because I can :-)
- Jesse Stay
No, it's still there. And you know what, I prefer it to the point that I've started unfollowing people who persist in RT'ing the old way. But only if they're also using a client that I know supports the new way. Use the Retweet for proper Retweeting, and use Reply if you want to add a comment. Don't repost other peoples content as if it were your own. I've always hated that, now I have a good reason to ignore jackoffs who do it.
- Otto
Otto, it's only there for some people. I don't have it right now (and I use both styles of retweet depending on my purpose - TIMTOWTDI).
- Jesse Stay
I'm just ignoring this feature, sure that it will die a thousand deaths
- Dave Hodson
Jesse: I thought they enabled it for everybody already: http://mashable.com/2009... While some clients don't have support for it yet, I am taking that into account. However, by the end of the year, I will no longer follow people using "RT" or /via, and I will block anybody who RT or /vias my own tweets. I consider it to be content theft and will not stand for it.
- Otto
Otto, read the article - it's broken for some right now. My suggestion: don't post on Twitter if you don't want to be retweeted. I won't stop using the RT for some reasons (I think it's a better way of getting someone's attention), but I also use the new method when I don't need it to take up as much of my stream.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I don't mind being Retweeted. I don't like being RT'd because that's just somebody stealing my content and claiming it for themselves.
- Otto
If they're claiming you wrote it I don't see how that is claiming it for themselves. They're not getting the credit for it - you are.
- Jesse Stay
If you do it "the old way", then their name and picture shows up next to it, not mine. QED. The fact that it has @myname in it is meaningless. They've stolen my content and repurposed it, without permission, without authority, without even so much as asking me. I think Twitter should ban the letters "RT" and "/via", and begin to block clients that allow that sort of thing.
- Otto
The API is still enabled, I'm still seeing new style retweets in Tweetie.
- Bryce Roney
from iPhone
What really annoys me is that an old style RT breaks the metadata chain. If somebody RTs my content, and somebody else Reply's to that, I can't see that reply. I have no idea it happened.
- Otto
Otto you are welcome to unfollow me for using the old way - it's not going to stop. Full credit is given. It complies with Twitter's terms of use. I suggest not using Twitter if you don't like it.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: Like I said, that's exactly what I've been starting to do: Unfollow people who persist in stealing other people's content, and Blocking people who steal mine. Note that just because you attribute words to others does not give you permission to reproduce those words. Copyright and such. BTW, check those Terms again. I gave Twitter the rights to reproduce my content, I didn't give the same rights to you.
- Otto
Otto, well block away then - it's not going to stop
- Jesse Stay
No, it will stop eventually. Why do you think Twitter introduced the Retweet feature? Real reason: They suddenly realized that every single RT was a copyright infringement lawsuit waiting to happen. It's only a matter of time before they block "RT" and "/via" and such.
- Otto
Otto, good luck with that
- Jesse Stay
No luck necessary, it's simply inevitable.
- Otto
Otto you still haven't blocked me
- Jesse Stay
I'm not following you. Wasn't following you to begin with.
- Otto
You don't need to follow me for me to retweet you
- Jesse Stay
I didn't have the Twitter RT function last night- haven't checked today.
- Kurt Starnes
Hmm Otto, I am pretty sure RT's would be considered fair use if you really want to take your complaint to the Copyright gods..
- Rasmus Lauridsen
And I appreciate all RTs in whatever form they appear!
- Kurt Starnes
Ras: No, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't pass the four criteria for fair-use. Nevertheless, you wouldn't be able to prove any serious damages either, so it's not really something you could get away with in a court of law.
- Otto
Otto - Are all of your tweets your own original content? Do you reference other stuff? Just curious.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: I've stopped using old style RTs since Tweetie 2 got updated to support real Retweets. But I never really RTd that much to begin with anyway. I can only find 3 times I did it in the last month, out of a couple hundred or so. I don't tend to follow people who RT a lot anyway, as they're just clutter and spam as far as I'm concerned. I'm interested in people with something to say, not in useless aggregators.
- Otto
It could easily be argued that the purpose of the retweet is a comment, critiscism or news reporting...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Ras: The RT with additional comments on it is a rare beast indeed. 9/10 times it's just a verbatim copy.
- Otto
I would pay money to see someone actually get sued over a retweet
- Jesse Stay
Well the RT in itself is a copy and if done right attributed to you. The person RTing is saying he agrees with you and that what you say is worth repeating. You might actually gain one or two more of those precious followers if others like what they see. happened to me after I got RTd the other day. The great thing about the followers you get like that is that you actually have something in common with them. I can't see that the new way is better than the old. It's different and confusing in it's own way.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I see the RT as a way for the original content to be dispersed. As long as it's properly attributed, I don't see a problem.
- Kurt Starnes
Otto - Of course there's nothing wrong with your preference for getting the original content from the source. Personally, I am unable to find and be exposed to all of the original content. I have found some great stuff via those who share/RT. YMMV.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: Again, I state that the mere fact that you give somebody attribution does not give you license to copy and/or modify their content. They own their content, not you, and you don't have the right to copy it. The new Retweet avoids that problem since it is just putting your mark on the original content and then pointing it out to your followers; nothing is copied or modified there. I...
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- Otto
Otto: What method would you find acceptable for me to show someone else your content? I would likely post a link to your content in a Tweet with a comment like "This article by Otto is cool." My tweet about your content would probably include your title, too. IYO, is that stealing your content?
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: Don't get me wrong, the new Retweet functionality is fine, IMO. It's only the older "RT" method that I'm against. Retweet doesn't copy the tweet, RT'ing did. If you want to add your own commentary, then you should use a Reply, so that there's a metadata link back to the original tweet. Also, with a Reply, it's perfectly possible for your followers to see it by default, just don't...
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- Otto
Either my Aunt's Facebook account has been hacked or she's genuinely offering to send me erotic photos of herself. I'd guess the former.
VAL D. Zone, Admiral Anika and Laura wishes you peace. liked this
You never know
- Dave Hodson
I seriously hope not. My dad (not her brother) got the same message - which means her kids probably got it too. Frightening. :)
- Martin Bryant
8% A whopping 8% of Obama's administration have ever held a real job. Any wonder why they are having a hard time with employment?
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If they keep going the way they've been going, they're gonna find out all about it.
- Steven Perez
'Real job' = ?
- Brian Sullivan
Private Sector, Brian.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
How does that compare with the general public - I am guessing it is about the same.
- Brian Sullivan
How does it compare to administrations in the U.S. in general past and present?
- Brian Sullivan
Some administrations have had as high as 51%. EDIT Searching for the link but it's hard on an iPod in the bar...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
So what is your point then?
- Brian Sullivan
I'll take a stab at this one: it's hard to empathize with other people's problems when you have no direct experience with the types of problems they might be undergoing.
- Steven Perez
Brian, because my view is coloured with a general disdain of all politicians, my point is that this particular group doesn't know the first thing about what a job is, let alone how to save or create one.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Probably 8% or more of the people in the US are public sector workers - so you are saying working in the public sector is not a real job?
- Brian Sullivan
I hold public service in fairly low regard, yes.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Government jobs have something like a 5% firing rate (don't have a cite but I'll look for one). Private sector jobs tend to advance based upon merit while public jobs tend to advance based upon time. I've met plenty of people in government jobs who'd never survive a week in a private sector job. I can't say the reverse.
- Rob Haas
So teachers, social workers, policemen, firemen, soldiers you hold in low regard?
- Brian Sullivan
Rob I could say the reverse - I've done both sides public provate - both sometimes have their hidden agendas and both can and do at times promote by the good ole boy network but both also have some damn competent and caring people. blanket low regard says more about you....
- WarLord
Good to know that MVB thinks so highly of me.
- Derrick
I'm sure there are plenty of private sector jobs with good ole boy networks, but it seems pretty much built into the public sector (having worked both sectors myself). The only time I've seen people let go in the public sector is for breaking the law, never for poor or incompetent performance. I hold teachers, police, etc in high regard myself, I just wish we could get rid of the bad...
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- Rob Haas
As with anything there are no absolutes, of course, but for the most part, Brian, yes.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Derrick - Me too! And my mom, the former social worker, who chose to help people (specifically children since she worked in children's protective services) rather than go to law school like her undergrad adviser wanted her to do. Yeah, that's a job we shouldn't respect. Anyone off the street can deal with child abuse. /sarcasm
- Katy S
Yeah, anyone else would have turned around the mess they inherited by now
- Dave Hodson
I'm sure people said that during Reagan's first year, as well, Dave.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I thought I was doing okay being a public librarian. Imma go emo now.
- Miriella
No, Reagan inherited different problems, such as double-digit inflation, gas lines and 18% mortgages.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
The gas shortage was IMO way less of a big deal than the financial system threatening to completely implode.
- Andrew C
Reagan is your example of choice? The choices he made during his administration caused financial distress after he left office and have had a ripple effect that led to the latest downturn as well. Hardly the prime example of a great president.
- Alex Scoble
sigh... It was just one of many, many US presidents that inherited major problems coming in to office. Good lord, people... Pick a different one, then. Jeebuzzz...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
FDR would be a better example, MVB. Or even Truman.
- Alex Scoble
Or even Gerald Ford if you want a Republican for example. Talk about a rough time of it.
- Alex Scoble
We'll go with FDR.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Need I remind you that it took FDR like 4 years to fix the problems handed to him by the previous REPUBLICAN administration?
- Alex Scoble
Librarians suck! Anyone who puts serving others ahead of making lots of money sucks! Only rich people are worthy of life! (sorry, I get defensive for the librarians)
- Lo
Alex, the example was one of who inherited problems and the public reaction to they not immediately solving every problem, not the outcome of their term(s). Is this so hard to understand? Honestly... Tangent much?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
unemployment report released today, 120409 http://www.bls.gov/news...
- chaz2b
No Mark, not a tangent, I just didn't understand your statement. I NEVER LEARNED TO READ!
- Alex Scoble
And for the pedants, I'll clarify it for you: If you have a public position that does not have a private sector equal, this generally means your position is only sustainable through tax dollars and not on it's own merit. I believe I now have excluded Derrick, Katy, Katy's mom, Katy's cats and firemen from my disdain. If you have a public position that does have an equal in the private...
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- MVB (Grinch of FF)
From the article linked by chaz2b: "The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) rose by 293,000 to 5.9 million. The percentage of unemployed persons jobless for 27 weeks or more increased by 2.7 percentage points to 38.3 percent. (See tables A-8 and A-9.)" This isn't good news, even though the overall rate fell.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
MVB Agreed.
- Melanie Reed
The amount of private sector experience claim might have been bogus anyways: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o... : "Which brings us back to how Beck used Cembalest's data. We'll acknowledge that rating someone's degree of private-sector experience is an inexact science, and it's true that Beck...
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- Andrew C
You forgot my brother, the medical research scientist at a state university. ;-) I get your point, though, but the way you initially stated it alienated a lot of people who do good work. fwiw, my grandfather and my dad were both morticians. While that is private sector work, they always approached it as a public service-type job. Having worked in both the private and public sector, I do...
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- Katy S
My dad did 25 years in the Navy too. Is there a private sector equivalent for that? Or four tours of duty in Vietnam?
- Derrick
Derrick - They're called mercenaries in the private sector. ;) I'm impressed, though. My mom was in Vietnam between '62-64 doing service work and even that was rough. Four tours of duty is beyond impressive.
- Katy S
I have a day off next Friday. If I want to go see a movie, what would you suggest?
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Mr Fox
- Dave Hodson
or the vampire movie (if you're into that kind of thing)
- Dave Hodson
princess and the frog! (i think it starts then)
- Sir Shuping
the new George Clooney flick
- Morgan Haley
*bump*
- Laura wishes you peace.
Fox.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
The Blind Side
- Alex Scoble
Tears of joy/sadness. When was the last time?
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Mine's today.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Tears of sadness: Last Saturday
- Shevonne
the former, ages. the latter, several times a day.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I totally can't remember. I don't cry, really.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Does laughing so hard you tear up count?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Yes that counts Michael.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I cried sad tears when they had a very moving Three Rivers.just reminded me of my dad
- VAL D. Zone
Let's see, when was the last time I saw a sappy TV commercial, cause that'd be it
- Dave Hodson
Oh, if tearing up laughing counts, then that would be in October.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yesterday. Joy and sadness simultaneously.
- Derrick
North Korea Begins Currency Exchange - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
"North Korean banks on Wednesday formally began a currency exchange aimed at wiping out much of the private savings people have accumulated through market activities. The exchange process was supposed to start Tuesday but was apparently delayed by protests to officials of the ruling Workers Party, according to aid groups in South Korea with contacts in the North. Phones were cut off in the country on Monday and a curfew was ordered to quell potential trouble."
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
Your life savings, destroyed overnight
- Dave Hodson
Tiger Woods says he regrets 'transgressions' - MarketWatch - http://www.marketwatch.com/story...
Obama just announced more troops. Economy a wreck. Somehow Tiger Woods is top story on Marketwatch.com? Hello people, Tiger Woods isn't important
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
FRIENDFEEDERS... is Twitter acting up for you today!? It seems its up one minute and then down then next. Let me know your thoughts!:)
Your right, I've had problems with it too...
- Dale Speck
What is this "Twitter" thing people keep talking about?
- Dave Hodson
Dave: LOL!
- Jason Pollock
I remember when Friendfeed was so alive. During twitter problems like today there would be so much activity here.. now its pretty quiet.
- Jason Pollock
They still haven't recovered from Thanksgiving and all the food...LOL
- Dale Speck
Problems yesterday as well. I keep on getting messages that twitter is busy with too many tweets??
- Joanne Carvalho
My login has been hijacked. Says wrong username and password combination and I haven't changed anything since I signed up a year ago. HELP!
- Vickey Williams
Re: Playdar - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Maybe I'm missing something, but this sounds quite a bit like the Squeezebox server (http://bit.ly/4w6I51), an open-source streaming app (GPL license) that can play your library of songs anywhere that you have an Internet connection (plus it has audioscrobble)"
- Dave Hodson
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder... - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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Don't worry Louis. I'll be here to hold your hand as we go over the cliff Thelma & Louise style. ;)
- Cristo
Can I be Brad Pitt then?
- Johnny Worthington
You can be whomever you like, Johnny. And Cristo, thanks. You complete me. (wrong movie?)
- Louis Gray
Johnny, post a photo of you with just your cowboy hat on, and we'll talk about it.
- Cristo
Dude, I just stuck LEGO in my face http://friendfeed.com/jworthi... don't tempt me :)
- Johnny Worthington
I am too competitive to let you be the last
- Jesse Stay
The last to stick LEGO in his face?
- Ken Sheppardson
I left my comment on the blog.
- Mark Krynsky
Agreed Louis. I am still getting new subscriptions on FF ( though not as many as before). FF stays open until the fat lady sings.
- Roberto Bonini
You made very good points, Louis - both why FF has not been surpassed as a solution and why you stating these points is important. Real time has slowed for me in FF so I can actually catch the content and I'm still getting new subscribers. The value I derive from FF is undiminished.
- WorldofHiglet
You had me at "Finding", Louis. ;)
- Grey Drane
Finding Louis? Is that the sequel to Finding Nemo?
- WorldofHiglet
I so crashed with that not entered big reply, making a post with two OS in virtualization for a screenshot... I'll get back atcha for the usual Disqus thoughtful exercise, I'm not the daily blogger, but I have lots of those ranged comments... my point was with the "even if it's assumed I'm looking denial straight in the face." being an excellent turning for that movie. Finding Louis...
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- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.
- Uncle CW™
You're absolutely right. Which is why I'm sticking around, too.
- Dennis Jernberg
You hit the nail on the head.. that's why I'm staying onboard!!
- Chris Myles
You won't be .... I will ... (and Windows 7 was my idea ..... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Good work, Louis, as always.
- Jim: Dead Like FF
If Friendfeed went under, it would have to be immediately reinvented. I'm still not getting why so many people don't yet get Friendfeed.
- Sean McBride
This seems really straightfwd - the 20% time won't be enough to implement new features etc. I think it is just a matter of time until someone builds on top of the FF API with new/addtl features and launches a site (hmmm, "FriendDig"? "DigFeed"?). The functionality is too compelling to waste away
- Dave Hodson
Re: Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder on Earth... - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
"This seems really straightfwd - the 20% time won't be enough to implement new features etc. I think it is just a matter of time until someone builds on top of the FF API with new/addtl features and launches a site (hmmm, "FriendDig"? "DigFeed"?). The functionality is too compelling to waste away"
- Dave Hodson
Re: I was wrong about full-text feeds - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Have you tried using GoogReader w/just the iPhone (Safari) browser? It is pretty quick for me/works well"
- Dave Hodson
Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d...
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Awesome "no one loves you" defense from Scoble :P ""But my Google Reader account is super fast," I can hear you saying. Yeah, but you don't have any friends and you don't have many things you are subscribed to."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nice Louis! "Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d... 3 hours ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share - Hide"
- metalerik
so, how do you (everyone) feel about google reader?
- chaz2b
I love Google Reader. Everybody knows that. :)
- Louis Gray
Feedly running on top of Google Reader is hard to beat, for me...
- Andrew Terry
I use reader about once a day now. The "magic" view is pretty sweet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I use it a little but it is butt ugly.
- ChiliMac
Everyone uses the tool they like, GReader is clearly my information source and hub. I will skim anything I haven't filtered with my Greasemonkey script. FriendFeed is my second hub with deep interactive conversations, Facebook is mostly a little more personal interaction, Twitter is mostly quick interactions (maybe two replies) with one person. So Twitter is my lowest ranking tool out...
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Can't really live without GReader. Since the GReader upgrades, I have put Feedly on the shelf. It's really the best way for me to follow activity on LinkedIn and all the Ning groups I belong to, as well as the usual stuff you use RSS for.
- Bryan R. Adams
I don't like Greader ui but i'm still using it with Feedly. Feedly is just awesome for reading, discovering and share rss feeds. Twitter+feedly is a good combination.
- David Foucher
from Nambu
I look at reader before I look at my email.... Is that bad? :) (disclaimer, I work on it)
- Jenna Bilotta
I still do e-mail first, Reader second, only because Reader is much more fun, and I would probably stay there.
- Louis Gray
I would miss so much stuff if I didn't use Google Reader. I get so much less noise there.
- Jesse Stay
I've seen this meme in a few places and I guess I don't fit the base use case as I tend to sleep from time to time and can't always be on Twitter.
- Dave Hodson
All these things are such moving targets. So what is the favored anti-virus software now?
- Dawn
Dawn, SocialToo ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I could live without Twitter...but GR with Feedly I use every day without fail.
- Bonnie Foster
Am I unique then? I read all my RSS feeds in my email program on my desktop and read them after I have read my email.
- Sandra Large
Scoble has an assumption that everything of interest is inside the twitterverse. My experience is that the RSSVerse is much more pervasive. To Balance the Signal to Noise Ratio use Yahoo Pipes/GReader/Feedly to munge the data to begin with. In my case I can find many topics that have not posted to twitter
- Robert Higgins
Robert: neither of us can prove that point. I am following almost 11,000 things now in Twitter. You want to try that in Google Reader? Go ahead.
- Robert Scoble
Didn't Congressman Grayson call Scoble an "S Valley Whore"? I think he should apologize.
- Dawn
i hate politicians etc so yeah he need to apoligize
- ffcode
Robert: (I am obviously biased here). it is great that you are following 11,000 things in Twitter and that makes you special and I think that some of the issues you are raising are valid. Where I think your argument breaks down is where you think that soon a lot of people will follow thousand of things in their aggregator and therefore twitter is a better solution than Google Reader....
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
So Edwin - Is there an issue with feedly pulling the shared items from specific people you are following? I can hardly get any to come across.
- Amani
i love twitter lists and the retweet feature but i like to use gr to read rss feeds and share the most interesting posts on twitter, while i no longer use feedly
- barbarars
You come upon a cliff and you see dangling from it seconds away from dying, losing their grip, 1 random unknown human and all of the Gorillas on the planet. You only have time to save either the human, or all the Gorillas (they're all like in the same bag or something) Which do you save?
Riddle me this.
- Matthew DeVries
Tell the human to grab the bag of monkeys and save all of them?
- Jordan Hofker
Can't, turns out they're deaf, and can only lip read highschool Latin
- Matthew DeVries
The gorillas.
- Amy
I wonder if the answer to this says anything about a person. I wonder if any person would chose them-self over all of the gorillas in the world.
- Matthew DeVries
Human.
- Jemm
Human
- Alex Scrivener
Human
- Heather Solos
Both
- Dave Hodson
Thomas Sowell : The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III - Townhall.com - http://townhall.com/columni...
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" If you think the government can lower medical costs by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse," as some Washington politicians claim, the logical question is: Why haven't they done that already? Over the years, scandal after scandal has shown waste, fraud and abuse to be rampant in Medicare and Medicaid. Why would anyone imagine that a new government medical program will do what existing government medical programs have clearly failed to do?"
- Alex Scrivener
There was an incredible story on 60 Minutes about fraud in Medicare a few weeks ago. It will make your blood boil
- Dave Hodson
Re: Introducing My Own "Stealth" Startup: Paladin Advisors Group - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
"Congrats - hoping this doesn't cut down on your blogging/Friendfeed time ..."
- Dave Hodson
Space rock buzzes past Earth - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive...
"Asteroid-watchers say a space rock about as big as a garage came with 9,000 miles (14,000 kilometers) of Earth last Friday, just 15 hours after it was detected."
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
This explains the numerous sightings last Friday at 5:10pm PST - the local CBS affliate had people calling in from all over the Bay Area.
- Dave Hodson
CU-Boulder students create Pac-Man Roomba game - Boulder Daily Camera - http://www.dailycamera.com/news...
John E. Bredehoft liked this
"Three University of Colorado students -- with a little time on their hands -- used colorful construction paper to costume the Roomba robotic University of Colorado graduate student Jack Elston explains how he and fellow graduate student Maciej Stachura came up with the idea for a Pac-Man vacuuming game. ( Jeremy Papasso ) vacuums as Pac-Man and his ghostly enemies. The hacked robots used to recreate the 1980s arcade game are creating a lot of buzz on technology sites, giving bloggers geek goosebumps."
- Dave Hodson
from Bookmarklet
I don't play Farmville. Period.
Nicholas Kreidberg, R1CC1, Heather and 10 other people liked this
what.is.farmville?
- directeur
I started to - felt like the whole point was to get me to sign up for offers
- Dave Hodson
I'm pretty sure the whole point is to waste an hour a day doing virtual work for no gain :)
- Alex Scoble
For no gain? Having a virtual black sheep or alien cow is a total gain!
- Miss Elle
I'm illiterate about Farmville, exactly what do you do there? :p
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
This is a man.
- Micah Wittman
(I wouldn't touch Farmville, and FB games in general with a virtual ten foot pole. Disclosure: I did do a few games of Scrabulous back in the day - but everyone has skeletons in their closet, right :)
- Micah Wittman
Darnit stop distracting me. I'm gonna miss harvesting my crops. Hey, do you want to be my neighbor? Can you send me a coconut tree as a gift?
- Jason Huebel
from Android
Hi, my name is Jason and I'm a recovering Farmville-aholic.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
holy..! that's too much. @Jason, you make me want to play Farmville!. I've seen stray cows and even ducks on my home feed, but what about actually selling animals to the industry? (I dunno, it could be interesting)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
The Go Programming Language - http://golang.org/
New open source language released by Google today
- Dave Hodson
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Macau may resort to water rationing: report - MarketWatch - http://www.marketwatch.com/story...
"Macau may need to implement emergency water rationing, as the Chinese gambling hub's reservoirs have dwindled to just a 10-day supply and neighboring Zhuhai, struggling with its own shortages amid a regional drought, is proving unable to turn on the taps, according to a media report"
- Dave Hodson
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