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Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim - Kelly S. Kim

Congrats, Robert and Maryam. - Derrick

Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :) - Nicola Quinn

So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby! - Mark Krynsky

Congratulations! - Surachart Opun

What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy! - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Congratulations - testbeta

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-) - Yvette Ferry

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up. - Sandra Large

he's so cute... - Sinem Vural

Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie! - Mike Fruchter

Wow, congrats to all of you! - Paul Salzman

Congratulations to you both! - Forrest W. Kobayashi

Great news guys! All the best! - Chris Nixon

الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته - joupy

congratulations!! - Jeroen De Miranda

Congratulations to you and your wife Robert! - Randy

Congrats Robert! - Terry Jones

congratz and welcome RSS! - Jon Winters

Congrats Maryam :-) - Terry Jones

Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son. - Victor Panlilio

congrats and best wishes! - Mike Chelen

Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Jeff P. Henderson

Congrats!! - Tan Kaiquan

congrats and best wishes to all. :) - Naor Mark

Congratulations - Meral Alabaz

I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy! - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :) - Gary

:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Congratulations to you and Maryam! - Elwin Witzke

AmazinG!! congratulations :) - Nakul

cutie pie baby - Debby Bruck

Congratulations :) - Baard @ Pixum

Ryan, good to see you. - Burçak Çubukçu

تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations! - ‎‎Emad

Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying. - Irene Koehler

Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!! - Arne Krueger

Congrats to both of you :) - zephyrlily

Congratulation....best wishes to all - Opium

woooow like :) - کلیشه

Congrats M. & R. - Giuseppe M.

ووووی مبارکه، به مریم خانوم هم تبریک ما رو بگو - Zahra (raoros)

Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan! - Andrew Wardlaw

Contrats!!! I'm so excited!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock! - Georgiana Comsa

Mazel Tov to you and Maryam. - Michael Markman

Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Congrats! - George Mitsopoulos

Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us. - fatima

Congratulations! I - Michael Fidler

Wonderful news. Congrats. - Keri

Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Congratulations Congratulations !! - Farzad

Congrats - Sandeep Swaminathan

looking to to the same in 3 weeks - ROBIN SMITH

Congrats on the blessed event! :D - Joel Lovato

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congratulations, Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations to Robert and Maryam. - George Hall (Australia)

Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom. - Robert Anderson

Congratulations! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF? - krystyl

Congrats!!! - eric susch

welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world - Michele Costabile

Congrats!! - Olivia Lovag

Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS - Shaun Trennery

Congratulations to you all. - Roland Harvey

Good luck beatiful baby. - Oğulcan Selçuk Akbulut

Congrats, Robert! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan! - Giorgio Zarrelli

Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers! - Louis Trapani

warmest congratulations - Peter Holland

what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=) - Candan Celik

Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers! - Marla Schulman

Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures! - Jordi Soler

Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy! - Ed Richardson

Congratulations ... enjoy! - Hitesh Parashar

Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you! - Martha

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-) - Rasmus Lauridsen

happy birthday BABY - ≤ M@RzI

Best congratulations!!!! :) - Lucio Riccardi - CantorJF

Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy! - Gianto Widianto

congrats! - Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan

Congratulations! - Steve Garfield

به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :) - RokhSaare

Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =) - zʍıɔ

WoW,Congratulations! - atalmatal from MojiPage

Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan - Jazz Baker

Congratulations! - Jim Hearts FF

appena nato e già dal dentista? - paolo beneforti

Congrats :) - Maryam Ardakani from FreshFeed

He was delivered by a Blue Man? - paul mooney

Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory! - Rui

What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom. - Dave Winer

آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون - mohammad

My goodness, congratulations! - DGentry

Congrats! - Ivo Mortani

Congratulations!! and best wishes - Johni Fisher

congrats! - masstrovato

Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?! - Holger Eilhard

حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه - mohammad

Congratulations, Scoble family! - Bill Scherer

wonderfull - braciolanet from BuddyFeed

Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures! - TiffanyCarr

Congratulations, Robert. - motownmutt

Congratulations! - :: Kim Sherrell ::::

congrats :) - £lham

مبارکه :) - خیزران Has gone

Congrats! - Roozbeh

Congrats to Robert and Maryam! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work! - Robert Couture

Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :) - LANjackal

Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats. - Carl Jacobsen

Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-) - Duliece

One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics. - Kevin Sablan

Congratulations :) - A35G

Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-) - PXLated

Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations! - Steve

Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats. - Richard

Congrats! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Congrats! - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats Robert!! - Taehoon Kim

Congratulations! - Thomas Hawk

Congratulations to you both :) - 1x29

Congratulations to all! - malackey

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - michele ficara

Awe!! Congrats =) - Brodie Beta

Congratulazioni!! ^______^ - Andrea | amnesiak1978

congrats!! - Clarita

Congratulations to your whole family, Robert :-) - Glen Campbell

Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family! - Tim Probst from iPhone

Congratulations!!! God bless.... - Bob DeMarco

Congrats! - Jason Williams from iPhone

Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you. - Eiso Kant

Congratulations :-) - Jalada

Congrats! Enjoy. - Jim Peake

Congrats - BeeLing

Congratulations!! - Paolo Leonardi

Congratulations, Robert and Maryam! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Congratulations. - ashish

Congrats - Brian Appleby

oooww wonderfulll :)) - Ucandepik

Well done, my son's name as well. - Robert Kenney

Congratulations - Caleb Scribner

Congrats - Manuel Mas

Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family! - Lenny Post

congrats ^_^ - Furkan Tunalı

Conga Rats! - Michael R. Bernstein

Wonderful! Enjoy! - Alan Morris

Hello! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan! - Loren Heiny from iPhone

Congrats :) - Hasan Al Shehabi

Congratulations to both of you. - Roberto Bonini

OMG Congrats to both of you, he looks healthy and promising. - Jeunelle Foster

Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;) - Altan Khendup

Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment. - trey pennington

Congrats! - Ben Parr

what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him! - testbeta

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

hiya RSS! - Laura Norvig

Yah!! Congratulations. - Micah Wittman

Congratulations to the whole Scoble family! - WorldofHiglet

Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times. - Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

best wishes to all - Hamza Şamlıoğlu

congrats Robert and Maryam - Kevin Tunis

Congratulations, Robert! - Sabri Küstür from FreshFeed

Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to the whole family :) - Chris Saad

Congratulations - Samaneh

Congratulations. cute :) - FFTornado

Congratulations. First picture on twitter! - Cindy Makonin

I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations - Sherrie Belken

Welcome :))) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

congrats;) - خاتون

Congratulations to the Scobles! - Carlton Prest

Congrats Robert! - Jorge Escobar

congratulations, Robert and Maryam. - Valeria Maltoni

congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

WOW - what a miracle - congrats! - Mark Harai

Congratulations Robert & Maryam! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Congrats from Italy, Ryan! - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes - erfan

He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations! - William Mougayar

May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam! - Melanie Reed

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! - Greg Ness

congrats :) - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Congrats Robert & your family :) - Sampad Swain

what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on! - B.L. Ochman

great day, congrats - imran

Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :) - David Richardson from Android

Congratulations - Eric Logan

Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats man. That's so awesome. - Got Love For DB™?

Happy Babbie Day! - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Congrats! - Zachary TG

Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life. - Muammer Okumuş

Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future! - Mike Nayyar

Welcome, Ryan - you picked a good family! - Matthew Blaisdell

congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS! - Joshua Allen from fftogo

congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan - Dario Salvelli

Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan! - Marco Fabbri

Congrats! :) - Emmanuel Anumonwo

Congratulations! - mlazopoulou

Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan! - Red Label

O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too! - Ladybug Heather

What's Ryan's Twitter address? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations - Jan Valjan

Congrats, best wishes. :) - Hunt

حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو - مـــــــــمد

woohoo! congrats! - Tyson

That is a wonderful moment! All the best to momma, baby and the family! - Mary Gilmour

Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan. - Mitch Baldwin

Happy parenting! Congrats! - Natallini

Groovy + one geek on the planet - Yann Ropars

Congrats!!! Robert - Steve Chou

To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!! - Bonnie Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - kevin fitts

Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you. - Morrie Johnston

Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :) - buvanesh

congrats Robert! - Joshua Guffey

Congratulations! RS - Sean Kelly

Congrats :D - Emre Misvaklı

Congratulations. he's so cute :) - Armando Grati

Beautiful! - Ryan Sholin

Congratulations - Kreg Steppe

Congratulations! - Gordon Saunders

Congratulations! - Hamid Reza

Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-) - Alex Marrow

Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless...... - Alex Marrow

Mazal Tov! - Raanan Avidor

All the best! Fun Times!!!! - Jim Turner

congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby - Debra Moore

congrads ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Congrats and Best Wishes! - Tracy Benham

Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist - Steve Borgman

Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Nikolay Kolev

MOTODEV Studio for Android - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...

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5-Way Navigation with the Motorola CLIQ & DEXT: Android Developers, are you curious to know how the new Moto.. http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5...

September 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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MOTODEV > Documentation & Tools > Android Technical Library > Android App Development: Wondering Where to Start? - http://developer.motorola.com/docstoo...

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Come on DEXT! - achean from Bookmarklet

Marc

at @skillsmatter tonight: Developing with Android, GPS, OAuth and MOTODev: http://skillsmatter.com/event...

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RT @motodev New Blog Post: 5-way navigation on the Motorola CLIQ & DEXT - Read more and ask your questions at http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5... RT @claudia

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Michael J. Fox is on @KQED (radio) right now. Always seems like a great guy.

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Motorola introduces the MOTOBLUR Android skin - http://www.engadget.com/2009...

September 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Waiting on XDA to port this over. I want those widgets. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. At this rate (and with the crazy Cyanmod performance increases) I'll be riding my G1 to the end of it's contract next year. I can only imagine the crazy devices they will have by then. It's going to be hard. - Adrian

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Video: Motorola CLIQ Android smartphone quick hands-on [Engadget] - http://www.engadget.com/2009...

September 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Want! - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

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will it save Motorola's mobile phone business? Touch and go I'd have thought - winckel

Looks similar to the Nokia N900. - Vezquex: God of FF

@winckel either it will save Motorola, or they are screwed. Android is Motorola's only hope. This device has the potential to become successful. - Pavlo Zahozhenko

That was a hands-on? I saw a guy take a couple pictures of it. :) Looks like a decent phone, but nothing special. I think it was a very smart move on Motorola's part. - Tim Hoeck

more comprehensive video - http://www.engadget.com/2009... - newmedias

Mitchell McKenna to Mitchell's feed, Android

Pandora and Facebook land on Android - http://www.slashgear.com/pandora...

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Pandora released their personalized radio station app for Android, supporting the creation of custom playlists, rating of individual tracks & streaming over cellular or WiFi connections. There's also a new native Facebook app to play with, offering access to comments, statuses, news and wall posts." - Mitchell McKenna from Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble

davewiner: "Yahoo should work to be a better place to use Twitter than Twitter.com." Interesting idea. http://tr.im/wXQP - http://twitter.com/davewin...

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Techstars is just getting started in Boulder, Colorado. We are about to see the birth of 10 new companies. More here:

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Power to the Thursday morning Techstars. Can't wait to learn more. - Holly Rae, FFer

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You can search for "Techstars" and see the live chatter. - Robert Scoble

Colorado is an amazing hotbed for startups - Zoli Erdos

View from uptop: RT @jedwhite David Cohen with a full house up on stage at #techstars http://brightkite.com/objects... - Yann Ropars

Why exactly is it a hotbed Zoli ? - Kashif Khan

Yann: I'm in the front row. ReTel is up first. They help stores and restaurants optimize their operations. http://www.reteltechnologies.com/ - Robert Scoble

Kashif: Boulder has a higher percentage of educated people than any other city in USA, from what I was told last night. - Robert Scoble

Kashif: Boulder is also very beautiful and geeks who come here for College don't want to leave. I totally grok that after walking around last night. Finally, there's a good community here that supports startups. - Robert Scoble

the mentor crew is impressive, me thinks.... looking at http://www.techstars.org/ - Holly Rae, FFer

ReTel is interesting. Takes security video from retail stores, slices that up, sends it to workers around the world, who then analyze that video for him. Helps catch employees stealing from businesses, etc. - Robert Scoble

aah thanks Robert, Ive heard about the natural beauty of Boulder, but now that it has geek points I need to visit that place - Kashif Khan

Do they have Ustream.tv anywhere? anyone knows? #techstars - Yann Ropars

Boulder's been a tech hotbed for a while - I had dealings with Republic Telecom (they made a Voice-over-Frame Relay system) there in the 1990s. Make sure to get to the Gold Hill Inn (up a dirt road into the Front Range) while you're there. - John Craft

Everlater is a cool way to record your travels around the world. I'll have to try it out. http://www.everlater.com/ It builds a nice story site from all the things you've put into social networks and Flickr. - Robert Scoble

Check out a page that the Everlater team built for Fred Wilson, very nice: http://www.everlater.com/fredwil... - Robert Scoble

Salt Lake City is just as beautiful and has just as many, if not more startups. Boulder just gets the cred because they have one central source for all those startups. - Jesse Stay

Now TimZon is on stage. http://www.timzon.com/ this lets you share visual feedback. Combines audio, video, whiteboard, and screen capture. - Robert Scoble

Interesting about TimZon...I might be able to use it in my web design business. E-mail feedback is remarkably inefficient. - Sam Guzman

Now on stage is Take Comics http://www.takepublishing.com/ which is trying to bring high quality comics to both mobile and web. - Robert Scoble

Robert - any more thoughts about timzon? - Tobin Truog

Tobin, nah, I have to use it to see what I think of it. - Robert Scoble

Now on stage is "Next Big Sound" http://thenextbigsound.com/ measures the growth and popularity for bands across major web properties and sells actionable insights around that data to band managers. - Robert Scoble

Wow, Next Big Sound is example of a trend: getting data out of social networks and presenting this in new ways so that people can make better business decisions. - Robert Scoble

Is there something specific about "Next Big Sound" to apply it just to bands? Can it also track brands? - Kevin Krewell

Kevin: I'll ask. The whole shtick and UI, though, is really focused around music analysis. - Robert Scoble

is there a ustream for this stuff? - Darren Stuart

Thanks. - Kevin Krewell

they are doing awesome stuff - andy brudtkuhl

Vanilla rocked. Cool new forums. - Robert Scoble

SendGrid is on stage right now, they are improving email for email marketers. - Robert Scoble

Spry gives you insights to software projects. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for documenting this, fun to see you, have a great time in town! - Andrew Hyde

Ana

Three Apps to Take to the Wine Seller - NYTimes.com - http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

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"There is also a wine journal that lets you photograph a wine label to add to your collection. A “share’ button automatically makes an e-mail with the name and price of the wine you’ve chosen with a link to buy it. For the truly insufferable, there is an instant Twitter button alerting people “I am drinking this wine.” - Ana from Bookmarklet

These didn't get very good reviews on the iPhone App store. About 2 stars out of 5 for the first two apps. Most of the complaints were that they had too many bugs. - Cristo

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Qik video editing supported on Android, T-Mobile myTouch 3G now ... - ZDNet - http://news.google.com/news...

August 5 from android - Google News - Comment - Like - Share

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SlashGear Qik video editing supported on Android, T-Mobile myTouch 3G now ... ZDNet The Google Android platform is one of my favorite and as aa follow-up to my T-Mobile myTouch 3G post I wanted to let you know you can pick one of these up ... T-Mobile USA myTouch 3G Android-powered touchscreen smartphone now ...Mobile Burn T-Mobile myTouch 3G Hits Store Shelves TodayBrighthand T-Mobile launches next-gen Android mobile phone in the USElectronicsWeekly.com IntoMobile -smartphones.about.com -I4U all 28 news articles »

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Wow, newsgator sincronizara con google reader. NetNewsWire, para los cuates.

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"We will have two Android devices (for the holidays in the U.S.) We also have plans for more devices in Q1 '10.” - Sajay Jha (Motorola)

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CEO of NPR is clear: they won't go paywall. She calls it a "mass delusion" in the news industry http://www.newsweek.com/id... (via @acarvin)

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The new NPR site is really well done. Good interview w/ Schiller as well. - Ken Kennedy

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When paywalls go up, the ones left standing will be orgs like NPR. Smart move on their part. - Matt Mastracci

It really amazes me that the newspaper industry has so buried it's head in the sand and learned nothing from the other media outlets (chiefly the recording industry). It's really kind of sad that the entire industry really can't think, and find ways to innovate in the current realities of news. To me, it simply proves that the current news organizations will in fact die. Newspapers have... more... - Chad Albert

Some great quotes from the article, too: 'Frankly, if all the news organizations locked pinkies, and said we're all going to put up a big fat pay wall, you know what, more traffic for us.' -- Love it. - Ken Kennedy

A remarkably blunt statement, all the more so since she is a former NY Times digital executive. - Jay Rosen

Recall for back story the editor of the Financial Times claiming almost all serious news organizations will go with a pay model. We discussed it: http://ff.im/5jmCo - Jay Rosen

Two questions, which always occur to me when New Media critics roll their eyes and mock news publishers for wanting paywalls: 1). If not some form of subscriptions, what will work? (And the answer, unless you are a genuine "gravedancer" cannot be a variation of Clay Shirky's now-famous formulation:"Nothing will work." I'm looking for real, helpful suggestions.) 2. The alternative to... more... - Jason Pontin

"As senior vice president and general manager of the NYTimes.com, Vivian Schiller presided over one of the industry's best-read Web sites..." Her words:."I am a staunch believer that people will not in large numbers pay for news content online. It's almost like there's mass delusion going on in the industry—They're saying we really really need it, that we didn't put up a pay wall 15... more... - Jay Rosen

NPR has subscription revenue AND $200+ million courtesy of Joan Kroc. Who needs a paywall when you have a moat of cash like that? - Alan Mairson

I don't get it. IF Vivian Schiller is correct, IF it's a delusion, IF "people will not in large numbers pay for news content online," how does the $200 million Joan Kroc gave to NPR alter that equation for the news organizations planning to charge? She may be wrong in her interpretation of history, her predictions about user behavior may be off, but I don't see what the $8 million to $10 million in income from the endowment has to do with the situation for the news companies she's referencing. - Jay Rosen

Agreed, Jay. Schiller estimates in that very article that the endowment (currently about $258M according to Wikipedia) would need to be $8 _billion_ to fully support "the operating budget of a large national-international news organization". 3.5% of that total in the bank is fantastic, but it doesn't make NPR magically immune to financial considerations. - Ken Kennedy

Annual newsroom budget for the NYTimes is about $200 million. - Jay Rosen

... My point: NPR has a business model that doesn't require a paywall—and that business model includes more Joan Krocs. The Washington Post & countless other papers don't have that option. - Alan Mairson

Okay, they don't have that option because no one gave them a $200 million endowment. Message received. I heard you the first, second and third times you made this point, Alan. Full stop. And how does that point bear on the question of whether users will pay for online news? I must be really thick because I STILL don't get it. - Jay Rosen

Well, Jay, I guess you didn't hear the other part of my message, which I've also repeated multiple times: paywalls are a "delusion"; paywalls are a "mass delusion." People won't pay for (most) content. Vivian Schiller is right. We agree with each other. Full stop. Everything okay thus far? .... Good. Now here's the second point: Listening to Vivian Schiller dismiss paywalls is like... more... - Alan Mairson

No, I'm sorry, it isn't. You must be referencing other listeners who, you are speculating, will not be convinced by her arguments because NPR has an endowment, so it's "easy for her to say." So who will they be convinced by? Bloggers with no skin in the game? http://tr.im/u7Ta Steve Yelvington? (career newspaper man) http://www.yelvington.com/node... Jeff Jarvis, who is now seen as an... more... - Jay Rosen

Who is the right messenger? The *current* VP for nytimes.com or the publisher of the Washington Post—because Vivian Schiller, like the bloggers you reference, no longer has any skin in the paywall game. She escaped a horrible situation at the Times—a great career move for her. But she's like the poor girl who marries rich—and then bad mouths all her old friends back home in the projects... more... - Alan Mairson

Absolutely: one's position and investment in the media system should affect how we read and interpret that person. Anyone who says Clay Shirky knows nothing about the media business is behaving like a clown, yes. By your own testimony the statement isn't true. "Can you believe that everyone isn't doing what Google is doing" doesn't describe anything I have said. Nor have I said that... more... - Jay Rosen

Thanks, Jay. - Alan Mairson

Also, http://twitter.com/jayrose... ... "I am myself STRONGLY in favor of having pro journalists who get paid to do great work full time, and I consider them essential to the nation." - Jay Rosen

Alan, I hear your point...but saying "Who is the right messenger? The *current* VP for nytimes.com or the publisher of the Washington Post" --- when that happens, they debate is over. That's like saying that until the opposing viewpoint agrees with me, my argument isn't valid. - Ken Kennedy

In addition, I think the comparison of Schiller to a poor girl who married rich is a bit disingenuous. It's a valid decision to vote with your feet. If her analysis of the situation was that that the NYT wasn't moving from its delusional decision (that charging for commodity news is a good idea), and NPR seemed like a better fit and a more enlightened place to work...calling her a gold-digger is pretty unfair. - Ken Kennedy

aside from the debate over who should be taken as credible in the discussion, isn't much of the newspaper's problem generating subscribers a result of sheer overcapacity? I counted the number of 'original' stories in my local paper this morning: 27% by number. Even less by column inch. If 73% of the news in a paper is syndicated, why would anyone pay for it multiple times and in an... more... - jeff hammond

@jason_pontin, the solution re:news media "pay wall" is here: http://businessmindhacks.com/post... - Alex Schleber

Ken - If Katherine Weymouth says "paywalls are nuts," then the debate would be over ***at the Washington Post***. But it wouldn't end the industry-wide debate. Everyone would wait & see if the WaPo could make it work. See: TimesSelect. ... And yes, of course it's valid to vote with your feet. But sitting at the New York Times and saying "paywalls are delusional" is a negation, not a... more... - Alan Mairson

P.S. (I wrote this in a comment last night, but I accidently deleted it) As Jay knows, I was, until recently, a writer & editor for National Geographic magazine, the official journal of the National Geographic Society. When Joan Kroc dropped $200 million on NPR, you could hear the Society's foundation & grants people groan: "Why not us??" I think it's because National Geographic's... more... - Alan Mairson

I saw the comment last night, Alan. I'm not disputing your industry chops. *grin* - Ken Kennedy

@Alan: wrt your comment, "And to call NPR "enlightened" is to suggest that the NYTimes is not." -- I didn't say that...I [edit] said that, to Schiller, NPR (might) "[seem like] a better fit and a more enlightened place to work". WRT this situation (news as commodity), I'd stand by (ie, agree with) that statement, based on what I know. Also, my point there was that your gold-digger comment was harsh, not that the NYT was a bad, evil place. - Ken Kennedy

@Ken: FYI - I wasn't trying to establish my "chops" - just wanted to share a story that highlights the problem most newspapers & magazines will have emulating the NPR model. (If anyone could come close, it would be a non-profit like National Geographic. But, as I mentioned, I think Rupert & Co put the kabosh on that strategy. I hope I'm wrong, but NGS has been doing the foundation &... more... - Alan Mairson

Wow. 49 likes. Definitely an outlier in the "likes" department. Wonder why. :-) - Jay Rosen

Liking is a lot easier than paying! - Jim Norris

Coming in late, but... the NYT could only get 225K online subscribers during the paywall era to cough up $50 each. To me, that suggests that even if people haven't yet thought of any good, non-advertiser alternatives to paywalls, paywalls themselves won't work. - Andrew C

If I understand Jay's argument, we are in agreement, for once. (I put aside his reflexive and unhelpful personal invective - "clown," etc. - as a feature of his prose style.) I don't get Vivian Schiller's point, either. People *are* paying for NPR's content - in the form of small donations by the millions of dollars, in large endowments like Joan Kroc's, and in some (dwindling)... more... - Jason Pontin

OTOH, Cook's Illustrated has 260K subscribers to their online site ( http://www.37signals.com/svn... ), but then again that's a very different business in all sorts of ways... - Andrew C

original article is a great read. - Chieze Okoye

@Alan...no worries! I did actually, first pass, misunderstand your NatGeo point. I hear what you're saying there. Also glad we've connected...you're posting some interesting stuff. @Andrew...the Cook's Illustrated comparison IS relevant, IMO, b/c as you note, they're different. The value that people are paying for is about as far from "news [or food, in this instance] as commodity" as... more... - Ken Kennedy

Too bad NPR is so obviously biased. Nothing says "tax revolt" like our tax dollars supporting liberal propaganda. >.> - David C. Cooper

Jarvis with a word on this article http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009... - Jay Rosen

Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

Because signing a multi-billion dollar deal with a giant novelty purple pen makes you look cool... - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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Heh. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

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:D - 1x29

Is that the one filled with disappearing ink? - Kevin Fox

seriously.. does that look like a pen or somethign that looks as the ad in the huslter mag ? - Peter Dawson

the next photo shows Ballmer demolishing the Yahoo sign with a giant blue novelty sledgehammer. - John Fu

Liked for John Fu's comment - Neal Krummell

Seriously though, doesn't Yahoo! consider their very similar deal with Google nearly a decade ago to be one of their biggest mistakes? - Kevin Fox

Kevin: Probably! But that was from a position of strength. Today's deal? A position of desperation is what it smells like to me. - Stephen Mack

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New Android Dev Resources Are Launched - MOTODEV Blog - http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5...

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"I am very excited about everything we’ve been working on this year to get developers ready for Android and even more excited to tell you about three new programs we just launched designed to help developers deliver amazing apps for Motorola’s Android handsets scheduled to be released later this year. Today, we launched..." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

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Where are the dev tools for Linux? - James Britt

James: They must've forgot about you :/ - Holden Page

Holden: They're ruthless heartbreakers! - James Britt

thanks for sharing the blog on friendfeed. As for Linux it is coming. Check out our discussion boards at http://community.developer.motorola.com/mtrl... - Randy Ksar

Thanks for sharing. It will be very usefull for me when i'il start android dev in 2 weeks :-) - François K. from Android

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Motorola launches MOTODEV for Android application development - http://groups.google.com/group...

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MOTODEV > Documentation & Tools > MOTODEV Studio - http://developer.motorola.com/docstoo...

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Robert Scoble

It's Friday night. If I weren't a geek I would be drinking whisky at the Ritz in Half Moon Bay. Anyone want to join me?

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still @ work :( - Rachel Luxemburg

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I can be there by 7, @scobleizer - Prolific Programmer from IM

Prolific: I can be there too. It's a date. - Robert Scoble

If I were in US, I would love to join. - Katsuya TSUKUI

Katsuya: I assume you're in Japan. I wish I could go to sushi with you tonight. - Robert Scoble

love to join you - the trip from KY is prohibitive, tho<g>. i'll raise my glass here in your honor. - MikeAmundsen

If this were Chicago, I'd be up for taking a drink. One day...one day... - Jon, the Beartato of FF

kewl, Scoble, see you then - Prolific Programmer from IM

You in Hotlanta tonight? - Tim Yonkers

Jonathan: if we were in Chicago we'd go hit Rush street! Tim, if I was in Hotlanta we'd hit the CocaCola museum then we'd hit the Underground. - Robert Scoble

Lets be honest, it's not been a very exciting day today on Friendfeed. - Mark

I thought those Apple tablet rumours on macrumours would have gotten us salivating on FF - Mark

Mark: that's cause I went to FriendFeed. :-) Apple tablet rumors? I think they are lame. I had a tablet back in 2003. - Robert Scoble

You will still buy one ;) - Mark

trying to get others to join us, @scobleizer - Prolific Programmer from IM

Mark, of course! :-) I have to pay the Steve Jobs tax! - Robert Scoble

Speaking of Jobs' when was he last on an apple stage in public? - Mark

Mark: wasn't it last fall? - Robert Scoble

Yeah I think it was September 2008, the Ipod refresh event. Almost one year ago - Mark

outside as usual, @scobleizer? - Prolific Programmer from IM

I will "virtually" on the east coast. - Kreg Steppe

New Orleans is a little far from Half Moon Bay, but a whiskey at the Ritz sounds so nice. - Chris Brakebill

It was really great meeting Prolific Programmer at the Ritz. On the way home I met a neighbor who gave Patrick and me a lesson in raccoon control. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Be a long bike ride :) Last Time I made it out that way was towards the end of a multiple day bicycle tour :) Half Moon Bay's a fun place though. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

Chris: I love New Orleans! Gotta come back. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

but u are geek ? Yes? - viki saigal

I'll be there tomorrownite with the wife if anybody wants to join us. - Randy Ksar from twhirl

Viki: going to the Ritz with a programmer makes it safe. We met a carpenter from Chicago there who owns a horse that came in fifth in the Kentucky Derby. Interesting times! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Randy: at HMB Ritz? We will see you there. Should we bring the smores kit? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

[humble suggestion] Whatever whiskey Robert drinks, Robert must travel to where the whiskey is made and interview the people and video the processes that derive such sweet thunder. Call it Whiskey Geeks and finish the strokes of others that tried but appear to have stopped after the imbibe phase of the process. - Jay Cuthrell

Would love to - but I'm on a different continent right now :( - Jim Connolly

we're done, left a long time ago - Prolific Programmer from IM

Jeremiah Owyang

How HP Integrates Digital and Social, Kathy Durham, VP Marketing - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...

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Well done - you really captured all her points and amplified them nicely - Walter Neary

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RT @peterpham: No that's not a netbook it's @davemcclure and his george castanza wallet.Bkfst with startupstartp :) http://twitgoo.com/1lxyh

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Community Manager: Angela

I'm looking for a few community managers to read and review my new book, "18 Rules of Community Engagement." If you're interested, let me know. Angela@AngelaConnor.com http://www.amazon.com/Rules-C...

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congrats on the new book. I'll email you since I'm interested in reviewing it. - Randy Ksar

Scott Webster

@motodev is talking with Co-Founder of Qik, Bhaskar Roy on air now! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/motodev... #BlogTalkRadio

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Scott Webster

Android traffic has increased 25 percent month over month, has a global market share of five percent. This puts it ahead of Windows Mobile.

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