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Want to set up a basic wordpress blog with nice theme for a friend; looking to keep costs low..any suggestions?
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Why not simply go to wordpress.com? Otherwise all you need is cheap hosting. It's an easy install.
- David Bisset
So I am a bad blog administrator. But no one died. I am not in jail. I don't owe millions. My sons still hug me. There are worse mistakes!
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Damn iPhone dictionary changed hug to huh.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
yeah seriously. lets move on. mine got hit as well. its back up.
- Sameer
i dunno...you might want to have another think about that... :)
- Simon Hicks
you should hire someone to do the occasional WP updates :-)
- Holger Eilhard
I am about to move to squarespace anyway
- Shawn Hickman
I would anticipate that an update to WordPress in the near future will have the ability to push automatic updates. Its nearly there now.
- Doug McCaughan
Holger: believe me they are being done now.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
in the social economy, its' not money or health that suffers. This one comes out of your reputation bank account. No worries, you are rich there
- Warren Whitlock
Ah well....the perils of making your mistakes in public instead of in quiet peaceful anonymity and obscurity like the rest of us..lol :-)
- Julia Ault
I realize you are a lightening rod for these types of discussions Robert. but I have had many discussions with web designers/developers who are about fed up with the amount of updating and securing involved w/ self-hosted WordPress blogs. some have had similar experiences as you w/ regards to being hacked.
- jbrotherlove
Opportunities like this excite all the "you should"ers. It's all good until it happens to them – and if they're interesting enough, it surely will.
- Jason Hargrove
Beginning to see cooler heads today on this issue. Yesterday you would think everyone was on crazy pills.
- David Bisset
Doug: Problem with the update system I've seen until now is that it requires to have an FTP account to the machine. (?) I try to stay away from that insecure thing as far as possible and only use SFTP via ssh...
- Holger Eilhard
There are worse things in life. Singing offkey and torturing billions as a result is one :D
- Sean Kearney
jbrotherlove: Maybe those designers/developers aren't up on the latest. Wordpress has a one-button update. How hard could that be? Haven't been forced to update Wordpress blogs in a while... plus there are ways to make your Wordpress site more secure, backup databases, etc. blah, blah, blah... :)
- David Bisset
Tim: yadda yadda yadda ? :)
- David Bisset
Holger: I'm an sftp/ssh fan myself. Perhaps we should encourage the wp team to push for a more secure AND automatic update process.
- Doug McCaughan
... therefore you're a «D'Oh! Dad» : good! :-)
- Claude LaFrenière
Doug: Yep, we should! I've been wondering too why they're ignoring the fact that FTP is insecure! On the other hand I just did a quick search for this and found this post: http://devioustree.co.uk/2009... Or there should be an option to put the up-to-date version of WP into a given folder manually and have wordpress automatically update from there. Shouldn't be too complicated?
- Holger Eilhard
David Bisset, you're right. there is a one-button backup option. but it has not worked as well (or at all) for some users (it worked for me). as for all the ways to make WP more secure, that's great if you are tech savvy with 1-2 blogs. when you are an "average" user or have multiple clients using WP, it's not so attractive.
- jbrotherlove
There are ways to make Wordpress more secure (outside of keep it updated). I'm betting now that you'll be seeing it in newer Wordpress versions by default. As a Wordpress developer, it's also my responsibility to spread the word.
- David Bisset
jbrotherlove: Well, it's up to Automatic or someone then to figure out why it doesn't work for everybody then. I've had no problems with it, and you noted you didn't either. Users with issues could be using crappy plugins perhaps? Just a guess.
- David Bisset
Since time before time, asses will try and take what you've got. // "Massive ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem" http://is.gd/2XE6K (CNN) ///// I wonder how many holes those people felt obliged to continually patch.
- Jason Hargrove
After trying many platforms like Joomla, b2Eveolution, and others, for blogging, CMS, and sites, Wordpress is still a Best Solution even during it's growing pains.
- jacky
In my line of work if I screw up, someone's life or property is in jeopardy. Sometimes I wish I had your job. :-)
- Captain Jack
certainly are...like forgetting anniversary present ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
lol at least you admit it unlike all the other people who get hit with security issues when they don't update their software then claim it's not my fault lol
- Rob Cairns
Demonstration why hash tags are not needed anymore:
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That page aggregates all posts/tweets etc together that have anything to do with the Dream Machines show yesterday. How was that page built? Friendfeed's search engine and adding the term "dreammachines09" into the comments somewhere.
- Robert Scoble
Now that we have this really killer live search engine we don't need hash tags anymore. At least not here on friendfeed. Over on systems that have no metadata you've gotta do lame things like take some of your 140 characters to post #dreammachines09 or something like that.
- Robert Scoble
Inclusion of cryptic information in band though seems like a lame solution(both in FF and Twitter)-- some sort of meta data solution would be better.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: the neat thing is that as a friendfeed item gets more comments it gets more searchable. For instance, you can search for the words "cryptic information" and find this item now.
- Robert Scoble
I heartily disagree: http://re-searchr.blogspot.com/2009...
- James Ostheimer
Agreed Robert. I am actually building twitter apps and experimenting using Friendfeed to power the more advanced content pulls.
- David Bisset
Wait, your argument is that we don't need hashtags because you can add hashtags via comments? (Sure, without hash marks, we'll have to call them wikitags, or just WordsStuckTogether)
- Joel Bennett
James: I did just that with the dreammachines09 word inclusion. The thing is I didn't need to include that in the top-level item and I didn't need to steal any of my precious 140 characters to do it.
- Robert Scoble
are you talking simply about the actual hash mark? (#)
- Kenley Neufeld
Hashtags are still the best way to participate in a Twitter chat convo like #journchat or #blogchat. Probably why you're better off on Friendfeed, Robert... ;-)
- Danny Brown
Joel: I call it metadata. Kenley: no. For Twitter to find your Tweet you need to actually include that word INSIDE your Tweet. I don't need to do that. For instance, if I want to find this item under "foobartweets" I just include that word OUTSIDE my original item as a comment.
- Robert Scoble
Danny: that is really lame. Over here we get live chat that you can only dream about in Twitter. Here, join the live chat on this item here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... new comments will flow into your screen as they are posted.
- Robert Scoble
I've said this since day one. Hash tags are almost 99% useless. no need for the hash!
- Jamie
Danny so they are used like a communally defined room on Twitter? This agrees with the simple wins meme.
- Todd Hoff
maybe I'm confused. If you run a search on Twitter, you get the results whether you hashtag or not. You have to use a distinct term so people have something to search (as you did with dreammachines09), but it still shows the results. Is this somehow different?
- shaun mclane
Here's the search for foobartweets: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... this item was indexed in a few seconds, really amazing technology here.
- Robert Scoble
hashtags work well as a way to FLAG or bring attention to a particular topic but searchwise, I never understood why adding a # made any difference.
- Andy Sternberg
Dont think this is legit argument to eliminate any need for hastags. They are still great user generated filters.
- Cody Heitschmidt
but wouldn't a "standard" mark be helpful for being able to find specific information that's referenced by common words. For example a common search I use on twitter is for #jobs so that I don't get all kind of tweets unrelated to job postings.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Hashtags are metadata, and are useful, a tweet with a link and a hashtag is a delicious entry, so is delicious not useful anymore?
- James Ostheimer
Shaun: right, but what if your original tweet doesn't have a good way to include that word in it? Or, what if you are out of characters?
- Robert Scoble
Computers are fast enough that they don't need hashtags but for humans it's different. When I'm scanning Tweets I find the hashtags useful as they draw my eye to the keyword. For human readability the hash character is the equivalent of bolding or underlining a word.
- Troy Forster
I also like that you don't *actually* have to conform to a 140 character limit on Friendfeed. Certain conversations, like this one, lend themselves to having longer messages. I don't buy the argument that Twitter makes people better writers...
- Tim McDougall
and unfortunately it appears that FF filters out the # mark
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: got it. Term can appear anywhere in the comments (and one time is enough).
- Kenley Neufeld
Demonstration why they're still needed: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... Sadly, it doesn't work because keywords are only as good as the posts they are in. FriendFeed could still benefit from community generated tagging of content (by author or by readers)
- Kevin Kuphal
Troy: so you can still use hashtags here too if you like them for visual purposes. #stupidhashtags
- Robert Scoble
Troy: but here note that now you can search on stupidhashtags, but I didn't need to include that item in the original Tweet.
- Robert Scoble
I think it is still needed.
- Alp
Robert...I think we're saying the same thing here. Except now I think this is more a Twitter VS FF argument. If you run out of characters, you can't add a hashtag OR the togetherwords. The actual # symbol only accounts for one character. Maybe I need to re-read this.
- shaun mclane
I've posed my above question a few times, and still it's not really been addressed
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Seems more of a side-effect of the commenting engine on FF rather than anything to do with hashtags themselves. Twitters lack of context makes this an impossibility for them
- Kevin Kuphal
the lack of need for hash tags is truly only as good as the posted data.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Of course, wouldn't it be nice if we could markup tweets, FF, etc posts to use bold and underline. I'd prefer that over YAMS (Yet Another Markup Syntax)
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
Rob: which question, the one about needing a standard mark? I disagree. Everyone who saw my dreammachines09 knows what I was doing. Does including a hash like #dreammachines09 make it better? OK, up to you.
- Robert Scoble
tell me how to search on "jobs" and not come up with steve jobs then
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Troy: I wish I could import photos and videos into comments too. Flickr, for instance, lets you do that and I really like it.
- Robert Scoble
I tend to agree with guruvan, in the value of elevating benign words above their typical use in conversation. I wish twitter search didn't ignore hashtags.
- Derek Shanahan
Rob: learn to use the friendfeed search engine. You can remove all items that mention "steve" for instance. Here is how you do that: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
it's not an arguement against intelligent posteds like yourself robert, just an observation that a standard mark is a simple way to distinguish common words...."dreammachines09" is not exactly a "common word"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Or, Rob, pick a set of words that indicate employment too. You can do "AND" searches on friendfeed, for instance, so here's a search that includes all items that include the words "jobs" AND "employment." http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
wouldn't things like hashtags still be of some use as a low-load search mechanism? I mean full text search is far more expensive to run - whereas hashtags would be something the system can pre-index, hence making a search that is far lighter. And once you multiply by millions of users, it can matter
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
but there's a zillion things I don't want to come up with on common terms -startup is another prime example...I don't want to have to list a ton of "- word" to get just what I want. the # makes it simple to get just what I was looking for
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
A hashtag without a hashmark, in the comments ... is still a hashtag. Yes, it WOULD BE FAR BETTER hashtag because other people can add it, and it doesn't take up space ... except that your search is VERY NON-INTUITIVE. You're really just proposing a new way of marking things (which NOBODY ELSE is using yet), Maybe instead, you should ask FriendFeed to just natively support keyword TAGS as additional metadata. THAT would actually be way better, instead of just different.
- Joel Bennett
sean mcbride in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.... ;)
- alphaxion
Joelle: we get full text search here automatically and it's quite well done. See my first comment for a demonstration.
- Robert Scoble
And I do know how to use the search here at friendfeed....this is how I know what some of the limits are
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Joel: no, it's not a hashtag.
- Robert Scoble
Because they don't work everywhere
- Outsanity
robert, posters are lazy, and "jobs AND employment" took too many characters on twitter, and so it wasn't posted like that
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Well, a hashtag is not required because you can just create a room for that #topic and cross-post to it.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
while the hashtag might not be necessary, it is useful in some circumstances.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I can tell it's well done, i was just wondering about the impact of thousands of people having multiple live search and filters - but clearly if it can cope all the better. That leaves hashtags as a mechanism to create special labels for memes - not for the machine anymore, but for people to know what to use should they play along a meme
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
That's two extra steps Ahsan.
- Todd Hoff
find out how many terms you have to exclude on the search term "startup" to just get posts about startup businesses (and not starting up your computer)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: Don't you think that your search could easily get cluttered? What if a user started adding 'dreammachine09' to random unrelated posts? I agree that Friendfeed's search is much better than other sites, but there is still a lot of room for improvement.
- Tim McDougall
Rob: well, then, just remove anything to do with Steve and Apple, but I agree that it'd be nice for friendfeed to search on the hashcharacter as well. Funny, it seems that friendfeed turns a Tweet with #jobs in it to a hotlink to the Twitter search engine. Almost like admitting that doing hashtags is better over on Twitter's search.
- Robert Scoble
If I'm not wrong, hashtags were introduced on twitter because it was difficult to organize posts around a certain topic.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
and then on the same startup search, find me a term that is ALWASYS posted along with it to indicate startup businesses
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ironic because @twleung just declared that he likes #hashtags. Key point w're often missing is the end-user experience: it's easier for many to use #ht in their simple desktop client rather than having to setup a search engine query. In (related) news: https://shane.curcuru.name/blog...
- Shane Curcuru
Tim: if someone started doing that they would break the social contract here and would earn blocks from people and, if they were doing it on my items, would get their comments deleted.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Maybe I don't have the right picture of how this works. Are you saying that if you block someone, then I won't see their comments under this post?
- Tim McDougall
@Todd, ok I admit only people creating a topic would want to do that. (like on tinker.com)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Seems that this "social contract" could also be used by incorporating tags into FF so that users could tag posts with various categories, etc making the search more valuable by searching on those tags rather than taking a whack at full text. I'm sure some nifty ajax could even suggest categories/tags like eBay does when posting an item for sale to jumpstart it for each post.
- Kevin Kuphal
In most cases, you're absolutely correct Robert. If the poster is smart enought to make up a common search term that can be used to find the data then you're correct. But how is that really any different than having a standard mechanism like the hashtag to find the data? how is "dreammachines09" really any different than "#startup" to find specific data?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan: I already demonstrated how it's different. For one, it isn't needed inside the originating item. For instance, I can put #stupidhashtags or stupidhashtags inside the comments here so that this item shows up on a search for stuidhashtags. No need to waste my 140 characters above to make sure my item is searchable or included in some weird conference hash tag.
- Robert Scoble
2.. 1.. we have lift-off! :) James Ostheimer+ semantic metadata are more needed now than ever. I get the impression that linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and natural language processing are not fields that have captured Robert's attention with much force. :)
- Sean McBride
Also, a lot of times people can't figure out what the hash tag is before they start to post. When I was posting/tweeting from the Under the Radar conference last Friday I had no idea what the hash tag was. But by the end of the day I figured it out. So, it sure would be nice to be able to go back and add the #utr tag to everything. But on Twitter that's impossible. Here? Just add it like I just did. Of course that introduces noise to under the radar searches, but oh well, just remove Scoble. :-)
- Robert Scoble
hashtags are probably used for things that could be better done on FF, and this scrolling comment feed is a good example of a way to 'find' a conversation, which is one of the uses hashtags has served users (#journchat). i still believe that hashtags can elevate mundane words into a highlighted conversation that you can go grab, and in many cases a hashtag will enlighten you to that conversation, which you otherwise wouldn't have known to look for.
- Derek Shanahan
Sean: no. Because normal human beings will never learn any of that. We did learn how to use Google. :-)
- Robert Scoble
you didn't demonstrate that it's really different. You simply substituted one extra long term for the hashtag. On specifically made up searchable terms like "stupidhashtag" it's obviously not necessary, but on more common terms where I might wish to include or exclude all the possibles like "startup vs. #startup" it's still a useful mechanism.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: I agree there.
- Robert Scoble
agree it's different:You can add it outside the content, and *I* can add it to *your* posts. But better? Not really. #hashtags advertise their presence for a reason: because only by doing so will others follow along and tag their posts the same way so you can follow a thread of commonality.
- Joel Bennett
I wish the friendfeed search engine would let me also include the hash. Then we'd both win.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I wish they'd support tags as separate metadata and allow the crowd to add to it. Then we'd have something to dance about ;)
- Joel Bennett
There is nothing really different here -- only that the tags can be added after the fact.
- Brian Sullivan
Joel: and that system totally sucks. How many people figure out what the hash tag is for a conference by the beginning of the conference, for instance. Not many. Even yesterday we had to figure out what the official tag was for dream machines. We talked with the head of PR for the event. He didn't know. So we had to agree on our own. Are we catching everything? Probably, because friendfeed's search engine is so good (and so is Twitter's, by the way). Humans are good at figuring this stuff out.
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble: what would be the easiest way to say that a post is PRO Barack Obama or ANTI Barack Obama? Or that someone LIKES Britney Spears or DISLIKES Britney Spears? How can one perform sentiment mining on Friendfeed posts? Think, Robert, think.... The truth is, most of the basic semantic data locked in Friendfeed posts is still unminable and unusable.
- Sean McBride
And it doesn't have to be a hashtag (but people are used to it) ....It could be any agreed upon mechanism....we could all agree right here that from her on out on FriendFeed a ^TAG would be a searchable meachanism (and then the hashtag would still go to twitter search)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Brian: and I can add a lot more tags to this item than you can to any Tweet so this will be much more searchable.
- Robert Scoble
Sean: for negative sentiment you search for words like "hate" "sucks" etc. For positive search for "love" "great" "awesome." Etc. I can remove posts with either sentiment pretty easily here.
- Robert Scoble
That point is very true Robert
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
interesting read
- polou/indigo_bow
Well since the tweet is only 140 characters, is stand alone and the tag is in band that falls out naturally.
- Brian Sullivan
It's much easier to find data on FriendFeed, but that's primarily because of grouped conversations and the availability of more characters per message
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
What we need is the ability to embed widgets into the stream so there can be some form of custom structure. All these methods are informal ways of adding structure to free form text.
- Todd Hoff
they are totally not needed, but they are FUN #givescoblemoretequilla
- Erin @queenofspain
Robert -- I think you are missing the point: most people don't know how to use HTML, but HTML is still enormously valuable. Semantic markup will provide much more leverage over documents than HTML. Only a small percentage of the human population needs to use semantic markup to elevate it into a powerful tool that benefits everyone.
- Sean McBride
while we're at it, let's ask for #underscores_in_hashtags ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Robert: that method of sentiment mining is crude, imprecise and weak, and misses or misinterprets the majority of sentiment expressions.
- Sean McBride
#ok_ahsan_you're_on_I'll_ask_Paul_and_Bret_myself_lol
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sean: that depends on how thorough the searcher is
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ahsan: you win...i concede ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Seriously though, instead of hashtags, FF can just provide simple comma-separated tags with a post
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
@Robert RE: @Joel. Community tagging would solve the "conference tag" problem quickly. Sure, at first tags may be misapplied as people settle on what it should be but rather quickly they will converge and the community can fix itself and all those mis-tagged items become properly tagged.
- Kevin Kuphal
Sean: I can make up a few examples of where that type of minig is imprecise, and misinterprets data, but those case are probably extremely rare in real world situations
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Robert - thanks for noticing that lame is my middle name, many people don't.
- Danny Brown
Ahsan: yes if the tags are metadata not part of the actual post, then that works...but if we want to use terms in the post as tags, then a marker character can sometimes be necessary or useful
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I would prefer the "out-of-band" tags method myself
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nah, #we@really//need.namespace.support:in-hashtags?right But a key difference is if (any) system intelligently supports some real metadata, or simply gives you text. Raw searching is improving, but real metadata will add a ton of extra meaning - and someday, it'll be easy to unlock.
- Shane Curcuru
If FF really wants to take meta-data to the next level, give us proper tags (external to the post). Otherwise, people will just start using hashtags, like they did on Twitter.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
A sentiment mining challenge: show me a program that will parse this conversation and accurately label each comment as pro-hashtags or anti-hashtags. Robert: any pointers? #hashtags+ (I just stated that this comment is pro-hashtags in a way that is machine-readable.)
- Sean McBride
I agree with Robert, half of the power comes from the direction the coversation takes in the comments which is frequently much more broad than the author originally intended so would never have had the hash.
- David Ziembicki
Agreed, but unless the search engine here changes they're going to have to be some other character than #
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Friendfeed should develop its own semantic markup conventions that go well beyond Twitter's hashtags. This would not be a difficult project.
- Sean McBride
David: Conversations are probably much easier to locate than simple posts
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
By the way, I think that slashtags offer a more promising route for semantic markup than hashtags.
- Sean McBride
Have not tried...are they working in the FF search engine?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
P.S. Robert: Thanks for the "stupidhashtag" it made this conversation really easy to remember and find ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Great discussion here...I'm chiming in a but late but wanted to capture a couple other drawbacks I've noticed about twitter hashtags: 1) you can't necessarily depend on everyone knowing about a particular hashtag and using it, even with a topic that is well-known and especially considering the influx of non-geeks to twitter...
- Steve just Steve
2) depending on the hashtag, you can encounter 'hash clash' with a hash that may be in use for an unrelated topic (a good sports-related example is #rangers...are you tagging the NY hockey Rangers or the Texas baseball Rangers?)
- Steve just Steve
As always, there is a someecard for the occasion: http://www.someecards.com/usercar...
- Gregg Le Blanc
I think that posting to a specific feed/room is the FriendFeed alternative to in-post hash-tags. On top of that, reader-tagging of posts would be nice. That's the model followed by Delicious, but then applied to FF conversations instead of the whole web. It would also help you to find your favorite conversations. FriendFeed should just implement social bookmarking.
- Meryn Stol
Quite sensible Meryn. Both this idea, and Robert's very successful idea of making up asillytag to find the conversation work quite well. Reader tagging effectively as simple as posting a comment with anothersillytag.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How do you set the topic for the backchannel? seems like you are simply removing the #
- andrew
Anybody know what happened with WordPress 2.7 final release? It was schedule to around November 24th, but there's nothing until now...
David Bisset liked this
No idea. I'm downloading the latest beta now to try it out.
- David Bisset
I just read in somewhere that 2.7 final will arrive late this week - probably on Thursday.
- Rodrigo P. Ghedin
It's released.
- EricaJoy
I know it is on my Wordpress.com blog, but not putting it near any of my self hosted ones until post new year - see what gets broken
- Ian D. Nock
Just posted RC 2 this week, so I'm not expecting it until next week.
- Fleagle
It's out now, no?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Elliot Haughin : Building a Web Identity - http://www.haughin.com/2008...
VC Freak, Laura Norvig and David Bisset (sn) liked this
Nice 101 on those not up to speed.
- David Bisset
from Bookmarklet
I want a web identity. I'm not sure what I'll do with it, but I know I definitely want one.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
DRUDGE REPORT: RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA 2008® - http://www.drudgereport.com/flashru...
Charles Nadeau, Muge Cerman, Igor Poltavskiy and 17 other people liked this
"He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Wow...he is a regular Nostradamus.
- Kreg Steppe
May I be the first to say -- Greetings from the Atlantic Coast Dave! (United States of Atlantica?)
- Shmoe
The Onion better watch out. They have a serious competitor in Drudge.
- Rolf Schewe
if it was predicted by a Russian psychic then it would be more credible ;)
- ~C4Chaos
Like for the huge Drudge Report banner
- Hutch Carpenter
I for one welcome my Atlantic coast overlords (I'm in Florida so I assume that's the section I belong in).
- David Bisset
Drudge doesn't miss too many chances to conjure up a Cold War boogieman, does he? Double the defense budget, quick!
- Chris Baskind
Wow, you know how many times I heard that growing up in a communist country. Seems like the LEFT is taken the opportunity to kick the capitalist while they are hurting on the ground.
- Marius Ciortea
I remember seeing a map of the (dis-)United States in Harper's or some such mag over 20 years ago along with an article about regional/cultural distinctiveness and the possibility of not being able to overcome it. Now it's news?
- Steve Lowe
That's how he gets all those hits. Outrageousness attracts us like flies to poo.
- Phil Boiarski
Will the Cannnies make me say aboot? :P
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Watch out for us ...1812 ... we never forget. We already have sleeper agents on American soil ready to activate.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm going on record predicting the breakup of the Soviet empire. No way that's holding together.
- Chris Baskind
Empires are so last century anyway. Time to move on.
- Todd Hoff
Are you kidding me? who comes up with this sh*t?!~ pretty funny tho :D
- Susan Beebe
Well, with the Russian military hanging out in Venezuela this morning, I think they might have a stake in the US breaking up?
- Helen Sventitsky
JoelGarreau, 9 Nations of North America http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki...
- Bill Seitz
Exactly, and by 'sleeper agents' we mean hard core folks who aren't afraid to "sleep in", will "take a nap for the team" if necessary, and can defensively fall asleep in front of the tube while enduring the more patriotic American programming. These are professionals!
- Micah Wittman
Hm. When they say the "growing Chinese population" of the Pacific coast, that must be a California thing. Here in Seattle, Chinese is not one of the top ethnic groups. I don't believe it's even in the top 5.
- Rochelle
I, for one, welcome my new Hispanic Overlords. Viva la Estados Unidos de Mexico Nuevo! :D
- Steven Perez
Someone needs to put the cap back on the bottle of vodka.
- April Russo (app103)
rofl. what a joke..
- Shawn Farner
@Micah - Wait... taking naps makes me part of the team? I was a subversive agent and didn't even know it.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I thought this was almost credible until I got to the "influence from Canada" part.
- Tudor Bosman
What, no siren?
- Jim Norris
It seems like the Russians are still pissed about Seward's Folly.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
Looks like we'll all be renting Ice Station Zebra now.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
@Aram Yep. But don't get overwhelmed by the new found call of duty - think it over. Sleep on it.
- Micah Wittman
I could see it. Ah-nold so wants to be President. Since the U.S. Constitution won't let him do it, maybe the West Coast Constitution would.
- Victor Ganata
Its an extreme scenario, but a couple of the points are valid. Debt for one could bankrupt the Government. The displacement of jobs and people could see a rise in States acting independently of the Federal Government: millions of people could be on the move as jobs disappear, it's not impossible that some states decide they don't want those people there because their own services/ finances can't cope. Remember that if California was a country, it would be top 10 for GDP.
- Duncan Riley
What Duncan Riley said. No less than Henry Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, has invoked the possibility of social chaos and martial law in the current financial crisis, which is still staggering willy-nilly towards no one knows where.
- Sean McBride
I'm a web developer and I'm using Windows XP for 99% of my work. I am fairly familiar with OSX. How long should I expect after I switch before i'm just as productive/fast with my Mac as I was with my PC?
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it took me just 2 weeks this june, very low osx experience before.
- Yunus Tunak
Depends on your tools and if you're more of a goal-intensive person rather than task-intensive. Not sure how else to explain this but let's just say if you understand what you want to end up with as the end-goal, discovering how to get it done on a new platform is just a small hurdle. That being said, more often than not my ex-Windows-using friends are in Mac bliss. Enjoy the Mac's built-in Apache/PHP/SSH/Subversion
- Glenn Batuyong
tough to answer because i don't know how "into" you are with xp...but yeah 2-3 weeks to get comfortable. Then gradually over the next year you'll learn loads and enjoy it
- Zee.
My main tools are Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Browsers, etc. I imagine I'll have to get justed to the OS interface and a few new apps since my main apps shouldn't be changing. Of course, my next question will be what tools on the Mac should I look into first coming from XP (BBEdit instead of Dreamweaver?)
- David Bisset
@David a lot of web developers (including the entire Rails team) swear by TextMate on the Mac. Watch some of their screencasts to get an idea of its power: http://macromates.com/screenc... ...you can still stick with Dreamweaver if you want a GUI tool though there are definitely cheaper rivals on the Mac like Rapidweaver and Coda. Transmit is a great (paid) GUI ftp tool though there are many free alternatives.
- Glenn Batuyong
Coda and Transmit are perfect couple, my only problem is about turkish localization on any program out there, we were so late on adopting standards so thats our curse for a lasting future.
- Yunus Tunak
@Glenn - Thanks, I'll look at TextMate. I don't use much of Dreamweaver's GUI honestly. I do the old school web standard coding from scratch.
- David Bisset
welcome!
- orionstarr
I use OSX and use Coda and SimpleCSS for all my edits. Coda is fantastic as an editing/ftp program, if you prefer to not use a GUI-based app like Dreamweaver (does anyone even use the GUI view to design anymore?) Getting PHP/MySQL/Apache running locally for testing is a breeze. I think you'll be rather pleased.
- Fleagle
1-2 weeks. Add in quicksilver and it takes about 45 seconds ... ;)
- Tony
everyone's different. took me about a month to fully get all the ins and outs of my laptop. you'll be in good working order in a few weeks
- Cee Bee
it took me one week to get everything in order. the biggest thing for me was not realizing how to install apps. My desktop was filled with .app files. lol
- Joshua Schnell
Textmate is quite nice. I like the subversion features as well as we use that for version control. I use a small but powerful program called Hyperedit as well. It is a PHP editor. Type in basically a text editor, see the results (using the Mac's PHP) in the other window. Great for 'by hand' coders who want instant results.
- Andrew Leyden
Coda is made of win.
- Chris Luckhardt
I come from vim, went through Textmate and I felt in love with Coda. Probably made of win, indeed. (the clickity-click builtin css editor messes up my CSS anyway)
- Andre
I say install VMWare Fusion and install XP on it. That's what I did
- Outsanity
It took me about 2 to 3 weeks but I'm overly obsessive about understanding how it all works. My advice is to start out using OS X as it wants you to use it, and not try to force your Windows habits onto it
- dalesmcd
If you already familiar then it should take maximum a week to work as well as you do on windows. Then you will improve beyond that after 3 weeks or so.
- Nick Stone
I'm kind of curious as to how long it took you to get to your current level with Windows XP?
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
im so sick of big blogs who do nothing more than scrape posts from other blogs - advertisers need to know this
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Name names.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, give us name.
- Amit Morson
oh that could be trouble!
- Jay
Why do the work when you can get it for free? jk
- Valley
I'm too lazy to scrape posts. I'll just click "Like" in FriendFeed instead. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
so hang out with the little publishers like us ;-)
- Valeria Maltoni
The real challenge could be blogs that use FriendFeed as a catalyst for subject ideas.
- Peter Ghosh
You mean the blogs that steal so much they should simply "link" and be done with it? Same here.
- Angela
My blog is a "link blog" for developers. Not much oringial content. Hopefully that isn't what Allen is referring to.
- David Bisset
Do you mean the automated ones? I'm constantly dealing with blogs powered by bots that scrape my articles. Just because it starts with "So and so at Blog X posted..." doesn't mean you can quote five paragraphs of my writing and put some ads next to it.
- Tom Harrison
a fine line methinks. If nobody ever wrote a post using other blogs (or friendfeed or twitter) as inspiration we would have stopped blogging a long time ago.
- sofiagk
@Tom last week someone did a "save as" of one of my posts and changed the title from 25 to 23 tips. Lame.
- Valeria Maltoni
David - nope, not referring to you and I am not referring to automated scrapers - those need to die even a worse death
- Allen Stern
sofia - i am not talking about inspiration - that's totally fine!
- Allen Stern
I've seen a rise of these as well. FF is my obsession, so I rarely bump into them
- Susan Beebe
Allen if we're talking about mere links than yep I'm with you
- sofiagk
So you are referring to live bloggers who publish posts without adding any value? What do you mean by "big"? Popular? Off the top of my head I don't think I can pinpoint many successful blogs that I would consider plagiarists.
- Tom Harrison
Alex, maybe UR too good, that is why!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
This gives a new meaning to the phrase "echo chamber".
- Jay
On a a couple of political blogs, there are people who do this. One guy would go around to black blogs, take posts from there and post them on other blogs as his comment. I'd always respond, "Oops, you forgot to link the source!" and provide the link.3 months after bursting on the scene, he's now a front page poster at one of the top political black blogs. I now rarely go over there, because he STILL posts other peoples blogs as his own.
- Admiral Anika
I'm with Scoble on this. I changed my blogs to get away from the echo chamber the past few days .... It not only works, it feels good :)
- Charlie Anzman
smart move!
- Susan Beebe
This has been killing me as well ... one of them even asked me if I could sell ads for them after they've been stealing my posts ... what the is up with that?!?
- Nick O'Neill
Interesting story Anika, can you DM/email me a link to the offender to satisfy my curiosity?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Name names or this discussion isn't worth it.
- Louis Gray
I agree with Louis. Names!!!! Get out the torches, let's march !!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Names or it didn't happen! :P
- Susan Beebe
Names!
- Jesse Stay
LOL! I was just thinking about this, but who am I to judge :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Allen, you just don't get it, do you? Ganking topics (and half the article) from blogs fewer people read gives those bloggers more time to sell ads. And the advertisers don't care, because their only concern is number of eyeballs. I'm wondering if I shouldn't post the occasion article that's completely devoid of fact and see if those other sites get called on it.
- Cyndy
cyndy - what if the blogs/news outlets being scraped were bigger?
- Allen Stern
Hmmm... that's a good question.
- Cyndy
I hope it's not us :-) There are times you run stories written up elsewhere, someone has to have it first, but where possible we also try to add to the conversation (Steve Hodson on point) or find stuff other people aren't running. Not saying we're perfect at that, but it's a goal we have. Less echo is good practice where possible. PS: we are about to scrape some sites sort of, but only under a syndication agreement, nothing more I promise :-)
- Duncan Riley
not you duncan - you are doing very well over there at inq with the cranky one
- Allen Stern
» Blog Archive » 20 Things You Need To Know About Evil Santa - http://www.toddkelley.net/WP...
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what a creepy picture!
- Trish R
Wow...that's kinda disturbing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
what they said.
- Janet
I prefer the santa from futuruma.
- David Bisset
I think I have the most disturbing santa of all here http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- alphaxion
Are you my mommy?
- Michael W. May
Today's corny pick-up line ... - http://twitter.com/cynthia...
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"Today's corny pick-up line, "I wish you were my homework, so I could do you on the table.""
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from Bookmarklet
hahahahaha *scribbles furiously*
- Kamath (नमः)
Bada ching......
- Katie is STILL hungover
heheheheheheheh funny
- johnpiercy
LOL!!!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
My wife just rolled her eyes. Got anything that WORKS (in a marriage)?
- David Bisset
David: Begging?
- Tad
This is good stuff! Can't wait to try it out
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@David Do the dishes
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
My wife said "Are you being nasty, again?"
- Ian May
My wife gets excited when I do housework.
- Russellreno
Yup, David. There's nothing sexier than a man in an apron. Unless it's a man vacuuming. Josh Haley does both at once, and he's totally hawt: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ladybug Heather
Did somebody say apron? http://www.cafepress.com/ffunder...
- Scott of Two Countries
I think SOMEbody wants to be a guest on the podcast. (Danged kiss-ups!)
- Ladybug Heather
@tad that was more frustration than begging. And if I did the dishes, she would rush me to the emergency room. I do love her.
- David Bisset
Somebody would actually use that?
- Michael Forian
I tried doing housework in front of my wife. She looked at me, said "glad you're doing something useful for a change" and went out. So much for 'Hawt'
- Ian May
TwitterFE - Rewriting Twitter for web best practices - http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog...
Niall Kennedy: "Last week I decided to rewrite the Twitter.com front-end on Google App Engine to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices, exceptional performance, and establish a solid platform for further development. TwitterFE.com is a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best practices anyone can integrate into their web presence."
- David Bisset
Apple Patent: Future iPhones May Have Always-On Display - http://gizmodo.com/5094416...
Susan Beebe, fijidaddy, David Bisset and 4 other people liked this
why?
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
A nice feature if they increase battery life to compensate.
- Fox Tucker
Yeah I agree, why? It's easy enough to push the home button if I want to see the time, mail etc. Seems like a battery waster. Aren't there better features they could/should be working on instead?
- Jon West
Jon, I believe this is just a patent... meaning that they aren't really actively working on this for an near and upcoming iPhone update. There are lots of things Apple has patented that have never seen the light of day yet.
- David Bisset
Signed up for FriendFeed at the behest of Mr Scoble.
oliver gassner, Jon Gosier, Pete Delucchi and 72 other people liked this
for real or is this just a scoble fanboy?
- Christian Burns
ELIZA?
- Alex Haar
http://friendfeed.com/e... For real
- embee
Fo sheazy.
- Matt Mullenweg
Woot!
- Alex Scoble
Yeah!
- Head Ov Metal
Awesome
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
Welcome!
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
Welcome!
- Ladybug Heather
Sweet...immediately subscribed to you and added you to my "A List" list...social media stalking at it's best :)
- Jennifer Van Grove
:) Hola
- Kamath (नमः)
Benvenuto! :)
- Slow
Howdy!
- Andrew
Ooo La from Canada
- johnpiercy
Welcome matt. Great to see you.
- Roberto Bonini
Welcome! You can add your blogs to FriendFeed at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Paul Buchheit
Awesomesauce!
- Sally Church
Hi there Matt!
- Phil G
Word!
- Ernie Oporto
Hi, Matt!
- ♥patricia♥
Hi from India. Wordpress is awesome! Looking forward to 2.7. Kudos to the whole team. :}
- vijay
Glad to have you join us =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Great to see you here Matt.
- Scott Beale
Hi,Matt. Your WordPress is great! Thx.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Matt, give thoughts after a few days of playing with it.
- David Bisset
Welcome to Friendfeed!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I love it when a plan comes together!
- WorldofHiglet
Hi! Welcome to the madness.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Hi Matt - yes, enter the land of Scobleizer and FF goodness :) This truly is an amazing community of smart, funny, genuinely good-hearted intelligent folks! like my extended Family!!! :) Glad you are here! Oh, and thanks for WP!
- Susan Beebe
Excellent!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Cool. Now we'll see even mo' better FF integrations with WP, right? I'm kidding. Welcome to the party Matt!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I added you to Scoble's tech list in my own. ; ) Great to see you here!
- Erhan
Welcome, Matt. You'll find plenty of people here who appreciate Automattic's work.
- Chris Baskind
Enjoy.
- Pete Delucchi
:)
- mjc
I'm sitting with Matt Mullenweg trying to convince him to join FriendFeed and put FriendFeed directly into my Wordpress.com blog (and vice versa). What do you think of that?
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it makes perfect sense to have friendfeed talk to wordpress. why not? i'd like to have friendfeed talk to drupal.
- Lynne d Johnson
I don't know Mr. Mullenweg, but more Friendfeed is more bettah.
- Andrew
I think I like that. A lot.
- AJ Kohn
why not? :) and meanwhile ask him please what michel v is becoming? :)
- directeur
directeur: he doesn't know what michel v is doing other than being awesome.
- Robert Scoble
at least get him to allow the ff plugin that shows ff discussion of a wordpress.com post
- Christian Burns
Cool. and get him to let WP play nicely with javascript, too
- Jim in Real Time
Hmm. As a widget (easy), or each post in friendfeed automatically becomes a blog post? What about there being two different comment systems? Would comments be duplicated to wordpress, or separately hosted and managed at friend feed? Sounds like an interesting conversation though. (edited)
- Mason Lee
I think that is what is wrong with WordPress. Why can't you add your own badges/widgets?
- Dave Hodson
Robert! Ah! thanks for asking him! Michel is in fact very awesome :)
- directeur
actually the lack of javascript is one of the great things about wordpress.com no autoplaying music, no myspace style layouts, no blogspot gettos
- Christian Burns
For the record. Hosted WP is *the best* out there. Flexible and with lots of great plug-ins. Thanks for a great product.
- AJ Kohn
I think that's a great idea! Have him look at the tight integration that ReadWriteWeb has with FriendFeed.. that would be great to have on a default WordPress install, or even on wp.com
- Phil G
awwww helll yeah....
- Zee.
Okay, I'm on.
- Matt Mullenweg
@Matt: Welcome!
- AJ Kohn
Robert you are da man, I wanted to do this too! Thanks, Nicholas the video guy at BlogWorld Expo 2008 http://donotreadthisblogunless.blogspot.com/
- Nicholas Chase
Looks like that took all of 10 minutes, give or take. Welcome to the FF cult, Matt
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
Hi Matt :)
- directeur
C'mon Matt. Do it.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
I am waiting for proof that its really matt
- Christian Burns
Welcome, @Matt!! Thanks, @Robert, as always, for the primo hookups! :-D
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Welcome matt
- Tejas Patel
Ok, now when can i except FF and Wordpress goodness? I smell an ultimate lifestream app in the works.
- David Bisset
Wordpress, and Friendfeed: probably the two online apps I use more than anything else. At least several times a day for both.
- Ian May
Do it Matt!
- David Jacobs
By the way, Matt... find a way to get WordPress + FriendFeed as a native plugin. Will go a long way in the social media / blogging space...
- Glenn Batuyong
There at least need to be a friendfeed gadget for blogs..i would put it on my blog if there were.
- Samuel Lewis
from twhirl
great idea, please make that happen for wp.com users, too!
- Gaby K. Slezák
I love the idea of a friendfeed widget...
- Jean Ann Van Krevelen
from twhirl
Welcome Matt! Please let me know if there's anything that we can do to help out WordPress.
- Paul Buchheit
you heart that...? Lets get these two boys together! :)
- Zee.
YES! Matt - make it so.
- Hutch Carpenter
Please matt. That would be awesomesause.
- Roberto Bonini
Matt, the FF real-time update is so essential to keeping up with really good content as it is being processed. Please include it into my Wordpress.com blog.
- tony
YES YES YES!!! *waves at Matt* Welcome to FF my dear! :) ...oh and THANKS Robert!
- Susan Beebe
I put friendfeed on my lifestream site here: http://www.svartling.net/ I think it looks cool :)
- Svartling
Have those avatars that look like they were drawn (all by the same artist, but i think are computer generated) "jumped the shark"?
They all look the same to me now.
- David Bisset
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals (Unauthorized PETA Edition) - http://www.peta.org/cooking...
Cooking Mama is a popular cooking sim/game on the Wii.
- David Bisset
Twitter down, no fail whale.
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coz the fail whale is bloody knackered...
- Zee.
Fail whale fail?
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
And now it loads again. I guess short outages don't give the whale enough time to make an appearance.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Fail Whale Fail!
- Josh Haley
They must have gone down harder than Paris Hilton
- Johnny Worthington
No "Moan Cone"?
- David Bisset
Fake Car Tent at Urban Prankster - http://urbanprankster.com/2008...
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Artist Michael Rakowitz came up with a clever way to camp out on an urban street, make your tent look like it’s a covered car!
- Andrew Trinh
from Bookmarklet
A few years ago I thought about going to a multi story car park, pay for one of the parking bays and hold a party in it.As long as one of us displays the ticket there shouldn't be anything illegal about it... just never got around to testing it out.
- alphaxion
Surely one parking bay isn't that big, was it a party for one?
- Andrew Trinh
For the discriminating homeless person.
- Josh Haley
You could save parking spots this way, in areas where it's hard to get decent parking. Just would have to add anti-theft in case someone walks away with it.
- David Bisset
Put a fake alarm on it.
- Andrew Trinh
CrunchGear » Archive » Public Art: Finally, a solution to unsightly utility boxes - http://www.crunchgear.com/2008...
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Nice
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I just *know* I'd run into one of those on my bike.
- kris. nuttycombe
bike accident waiting to happen
- Valley
Emeryville has a bunch of these painted as well. http://www.zooomr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
I can imagine some cool America's Funniest moments from these. Makes me smile, err, worry for the public.
- Roberto Bonini
I could see someone walking to (or worse driving) into one of these.
- David Bisset
Does asking questions on Twitter work out for you? It does for @problogger and his 16k followers. My questions often go unanswered. You?
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can be hard to get access enough of a network to get meaningful responses. I use http://aardvark.im to help get answers
- Taylor Davidson
Yes, questions do get unanswered. May be lot of noise.
- Jayavasanthan J
@Jayavasanthan: I get much better responses when I post on FriendFeed. I think it's because FF makes it *much* easier to sort through content. With twitter's web interface my most active subs drown out the others I'm watching.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel: on FriendFeed it is more fun to see all the answers. Before I clicked like, though, this question was unanswered. For me it's fun to help get a good question some exposure and then it's fun to see the answers come in and interact here. It's all a discrete unit, too, so I can link to just this question and answers.
- Robert Scoble
I generally do not get an answer from Twitter, but nearly always do from FriendFeed.
- AJ Kohn
a lot of my comments go by unnoticed.
- alphaxion
It varies. I've asked a couple of questions on Twitter and FriendFeed recently and got no response. In the past it has worked on both.
- Alan Simpson
Robert: Your attitude towards FF sharing is great and I do the same thing when I can. Let's say I like someone's google reader share for instance, I'll cut and paste in a quick summary from the article as a comment and then "Like" the post to share it across my network. I like to think that helps it find its legs.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Alphaxion: Are you sure your comments are unnoticed? Maybe they just don't prompt a response. I certainly recognize your name from FF even if we've maybe never chatted.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
No I don't get answer, because I don't have so many followers... But in FF and some room I get answer almost every time
- Kristian Salonen
Sometimes,Yes.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Sometimes yes, sometimes no...depends on the topic, time of day, chance....
- Sarah Perez
Not often but at times yes. That can be annoying! But that doesn't happen in the case of plurk, fortunately!
- rampantheart
I went ahead and shared this thread with Darren at Twitip: http://www.twitip.com/why-ask.... Hopefully it adds to the conversation there.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I get more answers on Twitter than FF but not every question I ask on twitter gets answered. :) Hardly any q's on FF get replies
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Lazy questions I ask elsewhere, but the ones that really need answers, I take to 3form.org. Don't let the site fool you.Sure it looks like 1995, but it's awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- April Russo (app103)
Perhaps my questions are too mundane or my "audience" is too small, but most of my questions go unanswered. Though, of the two, I will get more input via FF when it is noticed.
- JA Castillo
I try and keep my twitter following fairly small, so I don't really get many responses at all
- Angelo Rodrigues
yep - i tested this by throwing a somewhat random polldaddy poll out there as a public tweet - no response
- Chris Rogers
@daniel When I see the same question/comment mentioned by someone else and it gets a load of responses it hints at going by unnoticed rather than not worthy of response ;)
- alphaxion
*chirp*
- Cory Hendrickson
Chris: I hate polls and I only like some questions.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with AJ. If you want an answer, it's better to do it on Friendfeed than Twitter.
- Shevonne
i get answers on twitter but not on FF... sigh. but that's probably because I have been a little more AWOL on FF due to the fact that I have a lot of work to do and FF is a bottomless pit of non-work interestinginess that sucks my time like a parched vampire.
- Scott Lockhart
I get some questions answered on Twitter. Usually from people I know and have met f2f. People need to want to answer is my take
- B2B Specialist
depends on your importance to those who follow you OR the question you are asking as it relates to their subject matter expertise.
- Don Martelli
from twhirl
@Scott exactly!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
FF = interactive, Twitter = bulletin serv to me personally. Twitter users look for updates and info, not PRIMARILY interaction.
- David Bisset
most of my questions are answered :)
- Apostolos Papadopoulos
I tag questions on twitter Lazyweb and I almost always get a quick and helpful response.
- Heather Solos
@Heather: I didn't realize 'lazyweb' was a common term! I've only really seen it from JWZ: http://jwz.livejournal.com/tag...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I get answers on both Twitter and FF, but it does depend on what the questions are and how you phrase them.
- Sally Church
Daniel, I don't know where I picked it up, but it seems to work really well. I always thank the answerer and we're both happy :)
- Heather Solos
well, this question got answered! I don't ask on Twitter - I save that for friendfeed. I'm a low volume tweeter - occasionally use it to share a resource or blog post.
- Laura Norvig
I find that almost none of my questions get answered and probably 75% of what I ask for are referrals to hire people. If you are looking for a job tell your friends to hook you up people.
- Joe Fernandez
Women find scarred men attractive when looking for a fling - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
Tudor Bosman, Christina Kuhn, Evan Parker and 3 other people liked this
Interesting
- Shevonne
Okay…my next Halloween costume!
- John Lam
Freddy's da man then.
- ronin
I thought it said "scared" men, and I was thinking "oh, perfect!"
- Jim Norris
*like* for Jim's comment.
- Tudor Bosman
"According to the findings, perhaps unsurprisingly, men find women with or without scars attractive."
- Philipp Lenssen
I'm emtionally scarred... does that count?
- David Bisset
Is Diet Coke Poison? - http://www.susanmernit.com/blog...
I switched from Diet Coke to water and it helped me lose considerable weight. I only cheat on the weekends.
- David Bisset
Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Grasshopper (Twitter is Down) - http://mashable.com/2008...
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Twitter down. 3 million tweeple working again. Economic indicators jump.
- Mike Lizun
it is a caterpillar!
- Dan London
No, it's a Cone of Silence!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+1 Tina
- Dave Martin
+2 Tina
- tehKenny, Dork
If friendfeedworked properly I'd use it instead.
- Anton Mannering
I vote for Catacones, a web 2.0 version of catacombs ... which upon research could apply nicely to this type of situation.
- AJ Kohn
I like "Moan Cone".
- David Bisset
no, it's enter "hairy catepillar" and "softy ice cream cone [of silence]" dudes
- Susan Beebe
Tina took my answer!
- Nine
Perhaps they could use a hedgehog.
- Ontario Emperor
Twitter's new maintenance graphic on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Morton Fox, MuratCanDemir, Colleen McMahon and 12 other people liked this
What will you do when Twitter is down?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Why, Friendfeed of course.
- Pete Barry
Yep. Home from China, bursting w/ stuff to say & Twitterville turns a worm loose. Grr.
- shelisrael1
Keep hitting refresh on twitter.com.... uh, I mean Friendfeed.
- David Bisset
Shel Im teaching a workshop in SF, I'll call you on drive home!
- Jeremiah Owyang
So instead of a Fail Whale, what do we call this? Moan Cone? Squirm Worm?
- Abbas Haider Ali
last 2 days have been bad twitter-wise - I don't even get a graphic, just 'failed to open page'..:( But I still have FF :)
- WorldofHiglet
@Abbas "Moan cone" elicits entirely different images in my mind :p
- Neal Jansons
I don't even get a graphic :(
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
"Moan Cone" = wins
- David Bisset
I called it fail snail, but not accurate. Someone else (Tina) called it, perfectly, CONE OF SILENCE.
- Brian Carter
...or the caterpillar of doom
- WorldofHiglet
Someone should totally hack twitter's "twitter is down" notices with a "why not pop over to friendfeed instead" redirect.
- Slappy Line
I have to concur with "Moan Cone." I'm following fewer people on FF so I feel like I'm stepping into a mostly empty pantry. I have my favorite cereals but no chips or hearty Chef Boy Ardee meals.
- Cam
Add Identi.ca for a bit.
- Helen Sventitsky
Just added to the Twitter down Art gallery: http://dembot.com/post...
- Andrew Baron
Twitter down. 3 million tweeple working again. Economic indicators jump.
- Mike Lizun
It's funny. I'm in FF now because of the "Moan Cone" and all i can think of is "look at all the potential people I can follow on Twitter". I need the "Betty Ford" equal to Twitter addiction.
- David Bisset
No need for interventions, David! Better to follow people here and you get their tweets plus all their other lovely activity, too. YouTube, blogs, flickr, memes, songs, podcasts.....so much content.....
- WorldofHiglet
so why do DB maintenance in the middle of the day?
- Steve Mann
from twhirl
Yea I mentioned that too -- Who does DB maint during peak hours? I doubt this was planned.
- andy brudtkuhl
How do you tweet that Twitter is down when Twitter is really down? :-)
- Zoli Erdos
I seriously doubt this was a "planned" maintenance as they would have posted a message well in advance... this is an UNplanned event, like most twitter outages.
- Susan Beebe
I cannot deal with the failwhale.
Shit man, now maybe I can get some work done!
- Chris Messina
It's not even the Fail Whale any more. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Michelle Darnell
an ice cream cone and a worm I don't know what to say to that
- BCK
Acid Trip + Twitter FAIL = Talking Ice Cream Cone
- David Bisset
Amazon MP3 has Nickelback's new Dark Horse album on sale for $3.99. I dig it so far, but I'm a sucker for Nickelback and I'm not ashamed to admit it. #deal - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Juan Carlo Rodríguez liked this
You really should be ashamed of yourself... Nickelback!?!?!? Everyone has their guilty pleasure... :)-
- Gabriel Nijmeh
Would be cooler if it cost $4 and you magically got a $0.05 credit back.
- Josh
Is this common? Amazon selling really cheap for a new album.
- David Bisset
Wow that is cheap! And I back that, Nickelback is cool.
- Juan Carlo Rodríguez
What would you do with the domain "socialnetworking.com" if you owed it?
Kol Tregaskes liked this
Ask people what they would do with it.
- Kevin L
Funny. Good thing i don't own it or you would be talking about me! :-)
- David Bisset
Sell it. Social networking sites should have stupid names like smeepo or frimpr.
- Andy Murdoch
If I owed it, I guess I'd have to pay for it... ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
that would be a good domain for a site that reviewed all the socialnetworking services and allowed people to rate them and comment on them.
- Laura Norvig
I second Andy, sell it to the highest bidder and use the money to bankroll a social site with a meaningless name ;-)
- MiaD
sell it for M$
- Minh Bui
My BEST iPhone apps are here!
SnakeDoc, Eric @ CSTechcast.com, Helen Hoefele and 8 other people liked this
Google Mobile App? That's not supposed to be available until Monday. How'd you get your hands on it?
- Mohamed J
: )
- Didier Lahely
You have about six "To Do" apps, which do you like best? why keep them all?
- Helen Hoefele
Thanks for the link but I'm a victim of country store limitations - "not yet available in the Qatari store" :( Same goes for last.fm app (anyone with a workaround?).
- Mohamed J
special mention to Noise.io!
- Didier Lahely
Oh ok. Understood mojay. Sorry... ; (
- Didier Lahely
For a web developer, I user TouchTerm as a fav app. Gets me into servers when before I had to make sure i was in the office to do that. It's a lifesaver sometimes.
- David Bisset
Helen, I am trying them (To do's) but so far, I like Things and Toodledo, because I can access on the net, on my iPhone, on the mac desktop, also they are linked with Ical.
- Didier Lahely
David, I'm a moron newbie, I need VERY simple apps! Haha. But I will try it sure.
- Didier Lahely
Thanks Jason, I will try : )
- Didier Lahely
you should try speakeasy for a voice recording app... one of the most intuitive GUI's I have seen
- James Campbell
No Google Maps surprising, good to see Fring on the list =.= but slightly disappointed with the list
- Ian Cleasby
from twhirl
Hi Ian, it's a screen capture of my applications in Itunes; you can't see the other applications as Maps (Google), Stoks, Cydia, Notes etc. Sorry you are disappointed in "my" list, but it says what it says, it's MY list... I guess any list will be ever perfect because we are all different, designers, accountant, photographers, CEO... So a CEO will find my list VERY boring I guess and will wonder WTF are all these apps??! I only know "Phone" and "Mail"!
- Didier Lahely
Jason, you were RIGHT! It's MUCH easier to use! Now I need to sell my Air Sharing, wouaha. Thanks Jas!
- Didier Lahely
Bootleg Star Trek Trailer Shows Young Kirk, Spock - http://blog.wired.com/underwi...
Jens Christian Freund liked this
Wow, i'm surprised it took this long for Wired. This was a hot topic Friday night.
- David Bisset
Iron Man (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
chrisofspades, Chris Nixon, Kevin Shannon and 17 other people liked this
just finished watching the movie Iron Man on DVD with my two boys. That is one kick ass movie. Loved it.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Still haven't seen it. I tend to avoid movies based on comic books but I've never heard a bad thing about it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
i really need to see this
- drew olanoff
still haven't seen this one...must put it on my to do list!
- Justin Korn
my favorite movie of the year, easily. I SO want to be Tony Stark! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
great movie.. Robert Downey Jr made it even better..
- Tim Hoeck
Small world, I watched it tonight too (and I really liked it when I saw it in the theater).
- Derrick
It really was good and I'm not generally a fan of the superhero genre. Downey did a great job as did Jeff Bridges and Gweneth Paltrow I thought. Glad to here that this is the first of a trilogy with two more Iron Mans coming after this one.
- Thomas Hawk
I saw it last weekend. I quite enjoyed this, the effects were good, the suit was very, very cool. It's better than most superhero movies.
- Kol Tregaskes
If you liked this, I recommend the new Hulk movie (which Downey is in very briefly). Just saw it last night. Not as good as Ironman, but it's in the same "universe" and i thought was decent. Much better than I expected.
- David Bisset
David, we watched that the weekend before and thought it was a bit naff.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've got the Hulk in my queue at Netflix as well. Will report back after I see it.
- Thomas Hawk
Definitely enjoyed the hulk. I like how the seemingly different movies definitely appear to be part of a whole.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Abby: Yeah, the end was rather stretched a bit and this was much better than Ang Lee. It's a decent movie, just don't compare it to Iron Man.
- David Bisset
yeah I was actually a little worried about watching it with Jack and Will who are 6 and 7. Will fell asleep but Jack stayed up to the end. There is kind of that intense scene where Iron Man saves the town and returns the wives and kids to their dad, but my boys seemed to be ok with that.
- Thomas Hawk
was so worried this was gonna suck but i did not!!!
- (jeff)isageek
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