 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Sean Savage › Comments
Why does everyone fight to board planes ASAP, instead of last? Why spend more time crammed in than necessary? Earthlings are so bizarre...
It's about getting your overstuffed carryons up in the top storage and avoiding the $15 bag check fee
- Arthur Law
Right. I understand why the minority w/ overhead carryons fret over it. It's everyone else doing that who I don't understand.
- Sean Savage
Previous session was on a new theory of sex: that sex optimizes not for fitness, but mixability, & therefore speciation. #fooeast
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin
- Sean Savage
My SXSW goal: find people who are thinking big. Know anyone who is doing that? Tell me here:
Squid, paul mooney, Kol Tregaskes and 42 other people liked this
Yes...@jjsnyc will be at SXSW and we're doing some BIG things here...check out http://www.BIGOmaha.com
- Jeff Slobotski
I know a couple ;)
- Marcus Nelson
I just started a company, so I'm thinking big — will be good to see you at SXSW: last time I saw you was at SXSW 2005 and the time before that was at a conference you were running and I was speaking at in New Orleans in 2001 so it must be a 4-year thing :-)
- James Tauber
Robert.. I realize you have a job and a role. However, there is nothing bigger than getting the truth out about 9/11: http://billgiltner.blip.tv/journal...
- bill giltner
No one's thinking bigger than Uservoice - cheers Marcus Nelson - represent for Santa Cruz this year.
- Sol
Robert - can I suggest you look for people who not only are thinking big but are playing or want to play big!
- Krishna De
I'm thinking big about my new book Escape from Cubicle Nation -- it would be fun to connect at SXSW. More here: http://www.portfolioimprint.com/2009...
- Pamela Slim
Can't help but recall this quote "Go Big or Go Home!"
- Walt Ruppar
We're thinking BIG here in Aquila TV in Birmingham, England. We're also all about diversifying and collaborative work, because we know that this is where our industry is heading. I'm @melkins on Twitter and will be in Texas next week for SXSW.
- Mars Elkins
Even the thoughts are big in Texas. ;) How about: our work to accelerate the demise of the office building and the rise of the sentient city: http://bit.ly/ehUs
- Sean Savage
@respres & @billlubin have created Social Media Marketing Institute. I think that's got potential for strong growth as a training entity. Might be worth chatting with them. As to tech start-ups, @doverbey with @roost is worth watching. (www.roost.com)
- Paul Chaney
Most of them lived in XV century :) Romain Gary in XX
- Vitaly Pimenov
I'm thinking big...if, by big, you mean changing the world ;) I'm the founder of http://www.EpicChange.org & http://www.TweetsGiving.org & will be speaking on @jeffpulver 's "Social Media for Social Good" panel on 3/16 at Stubb's BBQ: http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archive.... Hope to see you there! (Funny, my first real step into the social media space was on @SamLawrence 's blog "Go Big Always" http://gobigalways.com/guest-p...) Hope to meet you at SXSW!
- Stacey Monk
Just chiming in to echo the Uservoice sentiments already expressed here. Go Santa Cruz!
- Nick
WE ARE! (www.turn2live.com) Come check us out at the Porter Novelli entrepreneur's lounge at Fogo on 3/13 and 3/14.
- Cliff
My son-in-law, Saul Griffith, is making the case that the entire economy needs to be turned towards sustainable energy. That's big think.... See http://blog.longnow.org/2009...
- Tim O'Reilly
Hi Robert, @TugglMatt here, founder of Tuggl.com (very beta!). Our goal is to create a competitive atmosphere around corporate responsibility, rewarding local businesses that are doing good by their customers and their community. By quantifying social responsibility and sending more customers to those businesses doing it the best, we can prove that doing good is good for business. Would love to tell you more about our venture and how we plan on changing local commerce and building better communities.
- Matt Buchanan
Have you ever interviewed Lee and Sachi LeFever of CommonCraft.com? They're big (explanatory) thinkers.
- Darren Barefoot
I hope you get a chance to see what we're up to at Minggl these days, I think you'd agree we are thinking big.
- Marcus Irven
These are all great ideas. We'll have many of them on the SXSW show on Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/sxsw -- this is going to be a lot of fun, the channel is being done by some very creative people/musicians (Peter Himmelman, for instance) and you'll hear more about it later in the week.
- Robert Scoble
I'm developing a semantic social infrastructure for OpenID that interlocks the relationship graph and activity graph. Users control social identity and privacy for every situation, all while building and managing digital legacy. Our system turns every person, group, network and event into a portable domain that is semantically linked to all associated domains and semantic properties. Result: A social web that reflects our real lives. Would be happy to demo.
- Paul Daigle
Robert - Thanks for tweeting about UStream Studios - You know I'm excited and you know why. Look forward to seeing you there and watching the justSignal Tracker (right side of link Robert put up) fly.
- Brian Roy
Hi Tim. I agree with you about Saul. If you want to see him and many other really big thinkers speak, take a look at a conferece site I launched last night at http://i2i.xprize.org this is exactly what you are looking for Robert I'll bring you program at sxsw
- Mark Krynsky
I'll be launching a Blog/Internet site focused on QR Codes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...>. Destined to be the next big wave in mobile marketing and mobile advertising. Just look to Japan to see the potential <http://www.japanmarketingnews.com/2007...>
- Roberto Ayala
You should check what the folks at Tarpipe http://tarpipe.com are doing. Big things in a technical way :)
- Ricardo Vidal
Does thinking about big (tall) beers count? If so, I'm a 30-minute video for ya - 2 minutes of best beers talk and just 28 minutes for you and Rocky to provide a bit of filler :)
- Patrick Jordan
You should check out @thepoint if you haven't yet. The founder and the CTO were there last year and are attending again.
- Tim Letscher
@Mark Krynsky - wow your http://i2i.xprize.org site looks awesome!! nice work!
- Susan Beebe
I'm a Venture Capitalist/Serial StartUp launcher in East Africa. If you aren't thinking outside of America these days, I question how big you are really thinking. If you'd like to attend my panel @ http://my.sxsw.com/events...
- Jon Gosier
Jon: I'd love to meet you at SXSW, totally agree.
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert! Our Blellow beta is live and we'd love to give you a demonstration. We'll be at SxSWi, I look forward to meeting you! http://beta.blellow.com
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Robert, indeed meet up with Jon. He can bring you up to speed with all things happening in and around Africa.
- Meryn Stol
misterjt! tiffanybbrown! michellej! etc. etc. seriously though..
- Anna Lynn M.
I'm thinking big.
- Pete Barry
Pete: then I want to meet you. Where, when?
- Robert Scoble
I'm thinking Canadian. Is there anything bigger?
- Chris Luckhardt
Fantastic! I'm in Austin. We don't have to wait for my next trip West to have coffee. Let me know what your schedule is.
- Charlie
Chris, Texas is definitely bigger than Canada :-P
- Jesse Stay
@juliegomoll is thinking big about the future of work over at LaunchPad Coworking
- Michael Funk
Whrrl will make a big splash with some big thinking. come to our party: http://www.facebook.com/home...
- Matty
I'm looking for people who are thinking big about work spaces, what will replace the cubicle, what the office environment will look like in a decade, how we'll be working and how that will impact offices (if we'll even have them). Help is appreciated.
- Chris Stevenson
How Techies Can Improve Democracy and Governance - O'Reilly Broadcast - http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008...
Go Silona
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
Daito Manabe Testing Electric Stimulus to Face - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
  |
john plantada liked this
That could have gone very wrong.
- Pras Sarkar
I'd pay to control that guy's face from my iPhone. Where's the app?
- Sean Savage
YeloCab: People, if you're considering this, you've been in NYC too long! Time for a vacation. - http://www.yelonyc.com/yelo-ca...
"Yelo is about time-efficient, results-oriented relaxation. YeloNaps are available in five-minute increments from 20-40 minutes, priced from $15-$28."
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
John McCain & Barack Obama did a great job making fun of each other last night at the Alfred E. Smith fundraiser in NYC http://laughingsquid.com/mccain-...
Sean Savage, Max Friedrich Hartmann, Julian Lukács and 2 other people liked this
The real win was from making fun of themselves. Obama: "Greatest weakness? It's possible I'm a little too awesome."
- Brian Del Vecchio
Loved the jokes. Creeped out by Senator Palpatine chowing down behind McCain.
- Sean Savage
never play the game of pissy telephone - the game of telephone is bad enough for spreading confusion add pissy... and it is a net negative
Too true. But every phrase is funnier when you add the adjective "pissy."
- Sean Savage
I really hope Micheal Moore's new movie doesn't damage Obama's campaign significantly.
Ever talk to folks in red states about Moore movies? His antics get the avid Democrats feeling smug, but they tend to piss off people who are on the fence, and push them to the Republican side of the fence. And this one is focused on the critical swing states...
- Sean Savage
Anti-Theft Lunch Bag - http://www.neatorama.com/2008...
thx @malaparte
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
I'm outsourcing my first work to India... It's going more smoothly than I expected. I should have done this years ago.
More details! What work? What agency?
- Alex Chaffee
Starting with just basic repetitive Web production and maintenance tasks. I won't recommend them/share the name publicly until I spend more time with them and see how well they do. But if you really want to know, ping me privately and I can put you in touch.
- Sean Savage
"Democrats show little expressed sympathy for those who work to make the money the government taxes..." - http://sconover.tumblr.com/post...
Steve sez: "It's not about absence of hostility, it's about lack of interest or empathy in the messaging or policy priorities." Yeah, except that Obama mentions his small business stuff every time he speaks about the economy in public. The messaging is fine, but is falling on deaf ears -- ears deafened by 3 decades of right-wing culture war blather. Same thing with his tax cuts. People just think "dems raise taxes" because of decades of the empty, mocking slogan "tax and spend." (As if they're buying shoes with those tax dollars.) Even though he said "I will cut taxes -- **cut taxes** -- for 95% of all working families" in his acceptance speech and many times before and after, polls show >50% of people think he'll raise them.
- Alex Chaffee
If the messaging is not reaching the audience, then it's NOT fine. We've got to wake up NOW. This is the first dem campaign in ages that has a clue about framing and symbolism here, but so far it's still far from the brilliance of the neocons' framing strategies, and the other Dems are still sabotaging Obama by approaching this fight as if it were a debate tournament in a New England prep school. See Lakoff on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-...
- Sean Savage
Just finished reading "Digital Natives" book. Very well done. Not a lot new to me, but the references are very rich.
Benedikt Koehler, Marcos Marado, Joerg Blumtritt and Sean Savage liked this
There will be a Digital Natives presentation/gathering tonight in SF: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event...
- Sean Savage
drinking a Club-Mate from NYC Resistor private stash & shooting the shit with @bre
Benton and Sean Savage liked this
Club-Mate+++ Man gewohnt sich daran
- Sean Savage
Is doof.com not totally inspired by/influenced/ripped off from iminlikewithyou.com?
Indeed. their "brain workout" smells a lot like lumosity too
- Sean Savage
Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke Welcome You to the USSRA (United Socialist State Republic of America) – RGE - http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini...
"Socialism is indeed alive and well in America; but this is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street. A socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized with the US tax-payer being charged the bill of $300 billion."
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
@disrupsean God damn it stuck at a party on a boat and what do they play? Sandford and son!!!!
Sean Savage liked this
You must learn to accept Sanford and Son into your heart.
- Sean Savage
ok, so what can we do to get Charlie Gibson from ABC to ask Sarah Palin some real questions - petition? write in? call in?
He could disguise himself as a People magazine reporter doing a follow up interview.
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
And more importantly: What can we do to accelerate the obsolescence of media sources like ABC?
- Sean Savage
Future Social – Strong thoughts from Jan Chipchase on changing space uses and social norms - http://www.janchipchase.com/future-...
"[It's becoming] technically possible to make objects that are too small or hidden for others to see. And that with this - the emphasis on social cues and how we plan to use them becomes even more important."
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
@floatingatoll yes but how can I get addicted so quickly. I am already thinking of philz coffee again! damn you @disrupsean !!!
I tried to steer you to Philz' fine tea selection instead. But you were noncompliant...
- Sean Savage
Police raid RNC protest sites in Twin Cities - http://www.startribune.com/2769524...
Elliott Ng, Jeff Quinton, Sean Savage and mjc liked this
pre-emptive eh? Home of the free?
- Dave Pook
As per the article: [the] raid targeted the RNC Welcoming Committee, a group he described as "a criminal enterprise made up of 35 self-described anarchists...intent on committing criminal acts before and during the Republican National Convention." They were arresting criminals, not denying free speech.
- Robert Hafer
@Robert Consider the source of the information you're quoting.
- EricaJoy
@Robert you never question the source? Who says they are criminals? Anarchism is not a crime, it is a political stance,one that is not often allowed to express itself. [I am not an anarchist BTW]
- Dave Pook
Yikes. It's terrifying how eager people can be to blindly believe what authority figures tell them.
- Sean Savage
Here's NYT coverage of the same story. It's a little more restrained about republishing the police spin: http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
- Sean Savage
The NYT hardly counts as unbiased reporting either. The truth may lie in between
- Robert Hafer
@Sean thats exactly why they get away with arresting people who's politics don't fit - on the suspicion they MAY commit an undefined criminal offense in the future in order to stop them being politically active! It's the same her in the UK but not to the same degree, we seem to be a bit more cynical here! @Robert what future crime could you be arrested for right now?
- Dave Pook
Here's a video of Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com interviewing those 'anarchists". Just a bunch of scared hippie kids. http://snurl.com/3le76
- David Monroe
from twhirl
@Dave I have never publicly stated that it my goal to commit crimes and encourage others to do so. Here that is called conspiracy to commit a felony and is a crime. (I'm sure some lawyer will now some legalese minutia and call me a moron). The point is that destruction of property is a crime, protesting is not; and we still don't have an unbiased source quoted yet. Salon sits farther to the left than NYT.
- Robert Hafer
@Robert Who stated that it was his/her "goal to commit crimes and encourage others to do so?" Source please?
- Sean Savage
@Robert the point is no one committed any crimes, and it seems no one was charged with any conspiracy and that is a fact, yet the reporting of this event has obviously colored your perception, in other words mission acomplished! BTW over here in Europe, the NYT would be considered fairly right wing!
- Dave Pook
@Sean I was referring to the original article above. @Dave The NYT right wing? The thought boggles the mind :) The "Grey Lady" often reads like the DNC newsletter. I did read somewhere that US and Europe have similar swings from right to left and back, but they are never in sync; is that true?
- Robert Hafer
@Robert, each country in Europe is completely separate when it comes to politics, so they can't be lumped together. If the mind boggles it probably worth remembering that communists get elected democratically this side of the Atlantic; until the Blair govt the Labour party was a proper socialist party with an agenda of the redistribution of wealth just as Marx recommended. What I am trying to say is that the US is far to the right of Europe.
- Dave Pook
@Robert If the original article is your source, you grossly misunderstood and misquoted it. The article does NOT claim that any of the protestors announced any criminal intentions. In fact, the article reports the OPPOSITE of what you quoted it as saying: 'The RNC Welcoming Committee denied criminal intent...'
- Sean Savage
@Dave thanks for the info. I forget the Socialism is still considered a viable form of government in some parts of the world. It gives me an idea to research for a blog post. Despotism to Socialism to Capitalism to ???
- Robert Hafer
I think our socialism is far more democratic than you think (and considered viable in most of the world outside the US)! I benefit from it on a regular basis as do millions of Europeans, we get universal heath care, free education, we aren't left to fend from the gutter when we get ill or loose our jobs ...... (and erm despotism? I think thats is getting arrested for 'future crimes' when being politically active :) }
- Dave Pook
I was think Despotism as in the wealth held by the power elite, South America around 1950 , leading to Socialism, a redistribution of wealth, a as the population grows people become dissatisfied with an smaller piece of the pie, leading to capitalism as the people desire creation of wealth, to what? A return to Socialism far a new round of redistribution, or some hybrid form of government that is fundamentally Capitalistic with Socialist trimmings, or perhaps the reverse.
- Robert Hafer
@Robert to again despotism (China and Bush Admin). But I do not agree with this kinda progression. If we take the case of India, they went from capitalism (British Period) to socialism (Post Independence Period) to again capitalism (now). The progression need not be the case. India went to socialism as a reaction to what they perceived as atrocity in the British capitalistic era. They are now moving to capitalism as a reaction to global reality and as a reaction to socialist redtape-ism.
- Krishnan Subramanian
@Robert I would say this kinda progression is too simplistic. The move from one ism to another is just a society's reaction to excesses in one form of ism. If we allow the extreme right in the republican party to set the agenda, I wouldn't be surprised if America moved from capitalism to socialism in a century. As Dave said criminalizing any form of political ideology doesn't match what we promote, the so called freedom.
- Krishnan Subramanian
@Krishnan I agree with most of your comment. I also think that labeling ELF and their ilk as "protesters" and not terrorist (I have no idea if RNC Welcoming Committee falls into this group), and other left-wing stupidity also push to the right. Could it be that government is determined by which side is less egregious?
- Robert Hafer
My general posit is that Socialism is an economics system that redistributes wealth and Capitalism creates wealth, and that a concentration of wealth leads to a socialist revolution (peaceful or otherwise), but eventually the people will have (perceive) a need to create more wealth to improve the future standard of living. Economic systems are often tied to political systems, but not always. China is becoming a Communist Capitalist society.
- Robert Hafer
Interesting idea but surely it is inequity rather than wealth that would be the catalyst. It is possible to have a capitalist society where the gap between rich and poor is fairly narrow (eg Sweden in the last century). However in the US and UK, the gap is widening.
- Dave Pook
In a theoretical Socialist system there is no inequity, everyone gets equally poorer as the population increases. With a Capitalist system there will be a difference of wealth, in democratic Capitalist system, anyone has the potential of increasing their wealth. As long as a system maintains an equal opportunity for improved wealth, the perceived inequity is less
- Robert Hafer
@Robert I definitely agree to your argument. Socialist system fails because there is no motivation for creating wealth. There is no second opinion about it. But the success of a democratic capitalistic system depends on the "initial conditions" (in the differential equations speak). If there were no social discrimination in the past, this is the best system. If there had existed social discrimination and the playing field is not leveled at the start, people at the bottom of the social ladder get crushed.
- Krishnan Subramanian
Continuing from the previous comment to Robert: Thatz why we need a system where we achieve a fine balance between the market forces and role of government. A purely market based system will not work in such cases. When market supporters undermine the government in such socially discriminated system, we see a reaction pushing the society towards the other end (socialism).
- Krishnan Subramanian
@Krishnan Very astute observations. I think that perhaps you undervalue the leveling power of a market "the only color that matters is the color of your money" I think that there is also a question of is equality equal wealth or equal oppertunity?
- Robert Hafer
Corn lobby is now running commercials telling you there's nothing wrong with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Hopefully nobody believes this shit.
Andrei M. Marinescu liked this
How can that be legal?
- Sean Savage
I love that I can get in n out of trader joes with a week's worth of groceries in 20 minutes.
why in gods name would you bring a weeks worth of groceries into trader joes?
- Sean Savage
Sarah Palin: "A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why a ship is built... Challenge the status quo and serve the public good."
Sarah Palin, plagiarist: “A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are built for.” – written by John Shedd, 1928.
- Sean Savage
Separated at Birth? McCain, Biden, Muppet Eagle - http://www.cheesebikini.com/2008...
via @anthonymobile + family
- Sean Savage
I vote for the guy on the right.
- Toby Srebnik
New rule in US women's golf - Must speak English to play - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Ai ai ai... America's biggest enemy: ignorant Americans
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
A very curious decision - the LPGA believes they are losing sponsorships because 1/3 of the Top 30 players can't speak English during a pro-am tournament. That being said, as a private entity, I don't know how any protests about this would overturn this decision.
- Toby Srebnik
Mapping Memory: Designer as Information Cartographer – A List Apart - http://www.alistapart.com/article...
"...we must rethink our traditional role as builders of digital monuments and turn our attention to the close observation of the spaces that our users are producing around us. "
- Sean Savage
from Bookmarklet
I'm thinking of joining World Gym - doing a guest pass tomorrow. If you know of something better in Potrero or Mission pls let me know
Mission Yoga – $30 for 30 days of unlimited bikram
- Sean Savage
World's Most Creative Work Environments – thecoolhunter.net - submit your designs - http://www.thecoolhunter.net/offices...
Inspiring stuff, very focused on the photogenic and striking, less so on the functional and livable. What environments are visually inspiring AND can be hacked by the people living in them over time to fit the their changing lives?
- Sean Savage
Opentape: free, open source Muxtape replacement. Allows you to host your own mixtapes. - http://opentape.fm/
via @factoryjoe
- Sean Savage
Other ways to read this feed:
