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Good morning, FriendFeed. Here's your daily moment of ZOMGWTF horror.
Jennifer Dittrich, Phil Glockner, Neya and 40 other people liked this
Morning Steven! Looking great ;)
- Parth Awasthi
Good morning, Parth. You think? I know I scared the birds away. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Good morning Steven, love the do :D
- comix aka martha
Good morning, Martha. Thanks; I did it myself. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Good morning, Kaia. And don't act surprised - you've seen worse after a night of handcuffs and silk scarves. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Good morning, Mohammed. :)
- Steven Perez
from IM
Off to the shower and work. Thank God I have the day off tomorrow. I'm gonna need it.
- Steven Perez
from IM
You're not supposed to drink your hair gel, there. ;)
- Josh Haley
*flees screaming* :D
- Mo Kargas
Good morning, Steven. You show pretty much how I feel ...
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Wow... I have been bested. Well played, Mr. Perez... well played.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
The vest completes the look - is there an 'after' pic? :)
- WoH: Minding her Steves
dude, i wish i looked that good when my alarm went off!
- Joe The Sausage
Josh: What? LA Looks Hair Gel Smoothies are the bomb first thing in the morning. :D
- Steven Perez
Matthew: spiders fear me. Therefore, no worries. :D
- Steven Perez
Slayer: hope you're happy now. :D
- Steven Perez
RefD: This is me looking good. You should see me after a rough night. :D
- Steven Perez
Mo: You've seen worse, Tin Head. :D
- Steven Perez
Good morning, Ms. Aden. :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning, Rene. :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning, Karnatos. :)
- Steven Perez
GOOD MORNING!!
- Abhishek
Good morning, Abhishek. :)
- Steven Perez
Oh, crap. This just showed up on best-of-day.
- Steven Perez
lolz
- holly #ravingfangirl
Tune in tomorrow, when I try and look even more horrific.
- Steven Perez
i should take a camera phone shot of myself just after i take off my CPAP mask in the morning. i look like a fscking corpse, and not a fresh one.
- Joe The Sausage
I think I just won the Embarrassing Photo Meme. Forever. :D
- Steven Perez
...you look like Tony muthaf*&@#n Soprano! how about some gabagool and provolone with that face. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Yeah, those t-shirts I wear are klassy. :D
- Steven Perez
Bumping for the sheer horror of it all.
- Steven Perez
Awwww... you're so sweet, trying to replace the horror of my barefoot working photo with your own terrifying visage. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
I would like two of these to go please
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Looking stylish!
- John (bird whisperer)
That smoothie was muy delish, btw. :D
- Steven Perez
How did I miss this hotness earlier?
- Sparky, lurking
I hid it real well. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
If you don't look this bad on Monday morning, then thank your choice of deity (or not), because your day won't get any worse.
- Steven Perez
Lookin' sharp!
- LB so u no it's real
I am so reposting this in the morning. :D
- Steven Perez
WIN =D
- Anna Haro
Wha? This is great.
- Ayşe E.
Happy Birthday, Mark Vandenberg!
- Josh Haley
You look a bit like Patrick Gallagher here.
- Spidra Webster
Oh, noes. :P
- Steven Perez
never looked better :)
- WoH: Minding her Steves
One of my favorite photos of Bunneh! =)
- Beau Liening
Good God, Y'all
- Brent - Yes I am
Almost nobody understood my earlier webapp idea, so I'll try again. Imagine you were looking at a website such as FriendFeed and you wanted to create a near pixel-perfect copy but in a way that you could move things around, adjust shadows, etc. I want a tool that makes that easy.
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And without taking screenshots or copying the html, since the point is that it should have the power to quickly create something that looks just like our current ui. Also, it should be web based, because then fonts, etc will be right, and also I hate installing things. My previous attempt at explaining this: http://friendfeed.com/e... (Balsamiq is not what I want). It does not need to produce html though, so it can cheat anyway it likes.
- Paul Buchheit
So you wanna something like "html to png/psd"? Editable graphical interface with layers and stuff?
- Selim Yoruk
No, not at all. My point is that you could look at the the FriendFeed ui (with your eyes) and then create something that looked just like it.
- Paul Buchheit
Fireworks is pixel perfect, correct font sizes and previews image in browser. Yes/No?
- Toby Graham
Are you looking for something like what is mentioned in this article - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
- Atul Arora
Are you want something like web-based rich page editor which works with objects in manner the human see them and want change them?
- gmarketer
I guess it's difficult to explain something that doesn't exist :(
- Paul Buchheit
thats piracy!!!
- Arjun
Paul, I like the idea, it's got merit. There's plenty of tools that do half the job, that is, snip the page. The second part, i'm not overly familiar with the tools out there. The manipulation. I guess you could snip the page, and embed into your tool a js library, like scriptaculous, and attach special event significance to the controls/tags, for moving, dropping, dragging.
- Stu Andrews
I think I get what you mean now and I agree. That's not very helpful but hey. In the mean time you could edit the page live using firebug maybe?
- Toby Graham
It seems to me like you want the Visual Studio Win Forms designer for web apps hosted and served to designers as a web app. Drag and drop elements onto the page and adjust their properties in a property grid. Then send a link to others so you can share your concept.
- Eric Schoonover
For this, I use simple vector graphics editing app, like Xara or InkScape - I just make screenshots and use them as raw building blocks - usually I cut out from them small elements like controls/text-blocks/images/etc... In vector graphics enironment managing such kind of blocks is much more easier than in photoshop.
- philsmirnov
remembers that this idea has been described by David Siegel in 1997 in his book : Creating Killer Web Sites (http://tinyurl.com/5skw63)
- Oaksun
Paul, i think the edit-page command on ubiquity with the ability to: visually edit css and publish the changes is close to what you are describing.
- Ian
Eric pretty much nailed the description of the dream tool that I think Paul was asking for. In my dream the web app is truly collaborative and has an active GUI. So you can adjust those properties using a mouse or tablet and anyone else on your design team can watch as you do it so they can make suggestions and modifications as you work.
- David Muir
Let's say you want to make a mockup of FriendFeed called "FriendFood". You want it to generally have the same layout, only the top blue bar will actually have a background made of lasagna and a font that is made of French fries, and what shows on the page is everything people write about food on the regular FF, like "pasta OR bean OR potato OR steak". But you'd like someone to be able to do that from the web and without messing into much coding. Is that it?
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
I use OmniGraffle for this purpose.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Could you achieve it by using Firebug and tweaking the CSS?
- Shakeel Mahate
So something with the usability of say, omnigraffle, but that only used webkit for its rendering. With text controlled and positioned by actual css so that line spacing etc were correct, although again with a simpler UI than CSS has.
- Robin Barooah
Paul - I _just_ came across a site that did exactly that. Unfortunately, Safari's browser history is failing me and I can't find it anymore. Doh!
- Patrick Lightbody
Paul, not sure if you're still reading, but are you looking for interaction design changes as well, or just appearance?
- Mark Trapp
Did you try "PENCIL" an add-on for Firefox http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/
- Francois Lamotte
I had never heard of Pencil, but it sure looks a lot like what I think Paul is describing.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I use ScrapBook Firefox extension to capture the page as is, and then edit that using Firebug.
- Jughead
Thanks @Francois. Pencil looks quite promising...
- Ashwin Bharambe
Firefox Webchunks? Does only the snipping part though. Perhaps an add-on to webchunks that will let us use all those chunks together.
- Vamsee
it'd be kind of like pushing edit on a wiki, right. like, firefox would have an edit button then you could visually redo the page
- Coleman Foley
There's also Axure RP, something I found a while ago. http://www.google.com/search...
- jho
Dosen't ASP.Net do that already???
- Roberto Bonini
One quick tip in Photoshop is to turn off anti-aliasing and use your various web fonts (Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, etc.) and use your preferred font size in pixels/points... This will provide you with screen accurate font appearances and sizes. The biggest problem with a "pixel-perfect" browser rendering is that it will never be consistent from browser to browser. They all render ever...
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- Nathan Chase
Virginia is Twitter crazy! TV news talks about it. So have three radio stations. It has gone big time big time. Heh.
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VA is for lovers!; Twitter Lovers
- Y. Esenkal
Robert, you're in Northern Virginia which can be considered a completely different part of Virginia. All that Washington, DC influence. :)
- caj needs a haircut
Heh!
- Robert Scoble
I live in No. VA and follow Twitter lovers in VA Beach, Charlottesville, Roanoke and Blacksburg. We are ONE commonwealth - I reject the notion of a "fake" and "real" Virginia.
- Catherine S. Read
"a completely different part of Virginia." - it's not "real Virginia." Even though (or maybe because?) Nancy Pfotenhauer lives in Oakton. ;) Robert, if you're looking for a good restaurant, Delhi Club right outside the Clarendon Metro escalators is the best Indian I've found.
- John Craft
I thought the entire world loves Twitter like we do in Fairfax - Virginia! :)
- Paul M Done
Hey Robert - so is Des Moines... Would love to have you stop here in flyover country
- andy brudtkuhl
Rochester NY has fallen in love with Twitter too! Newspaper, news, weather, etc... media is goin' for it!
- Susan Beebe
Official Google Blog: Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Congrats, Lars, Jens, and Steph!
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I don't want to wait for Google Wave - Browseology lets me collaborate in real time, available now! http://www.browseology.com
- Joe Pestro
Wave looks a little confusing (then again I'm at work, so I couldn't read the whole blog post), but the concept is interesting. I don't think it will be able to compete with Twitter if that's what they were aiming for.
- Ocean
I wonder if the FF designer brigade will dis this like they did the new FF UI?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Ocean - people will actually be able to get work done with Wave :P
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm just thinking of the people who are not even on Twitter, how will they digest this :)
- Ahsan Ali
I have the same concern - if middle management can't easily participate from their blackberries, then it's dead in the enterprise water.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
So my interpretation is that this is like an extension of email, that can integrate closely with other services.
- Daniel Sims
No prizes for guessing what my first idea for an application is....this looks very cool
- Cameron Neylon
It would be interesting to see how well this could work for collaborations.
- Pedro Beltrao
Sounds like advanced email service, where the email message is "alive", wiki type collaboration is evolved. Email+Wiki+Twitter meshup. And the UI is really not that much googlish . Very eager to see it!
- Nenko Ivanov
from the article and slides, it looks like FF rooms with live chat functionality and extensibility. FF is almost there already. maybe the presentation video when available will explain any differences better
- Wladimir Labeikovsky
FF as it exists currently *looks* like the enterprise collaboration holy grail. Its only problem is that no one wants to buy into a closed service hosted externally. Even if Wave is nothing more than a free self-hostable Friendfeed it will still blow the doors off of E2.0.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
[NINJA EDIT] And by "no one" I mean "no Fortune 100 CIOs". I'm sure you guys at FF aren't out to sell directly to the enterprise yet, but it's my area of interest and I've been daydreaming about how awesome it would be to use FF as a part of my official workflow. I think Wave is more likely to get there given your current featureset versus their current vaporset.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
good point Daniel, i had somehow missed that Wave would be a Google App and thus amenable to self-hosting, etc
- Wladimir Labeikovsky
I understand Wave team's desire to integrate and leverage existing, accepted forms of communication and collaboration. But doesn't that also limit innovation? I'd love to see someone take a "blue sky" approach to the problem of business communication and collaboration, rather than build on existing models.
- Larry Hawes
I know it may seem hard to believe by watching all the crazy stuff they show in the video, but it's actually very easy to use. Click 'new wave', start typing, add a recipient. Or you can add a recipient first. So in some sense it's actually simpler than email, because there are a lot fewer opportunities to make irrevocable mistakes (like, oops, sent too early). I can't wait to be able to use it publicly.
- Joel Webber
Nenko, I think you've done a superb job of succinctly describing Wave. Or, at least my perception of Wave after using it for a month or so :). And one thing people should keep in mind: this has been in development for a long time, so it's not like three months ago, Google thought, "ZOMG! Must respond to [insert other service name here]" :-)
- Adam Lasnik
Daniel, if "FF as it exists currently *looks* like the enterprise collaboration holy grail," how do you explain to these enterprise folks, that anyone can edit and delete their past contributions after the fact, thus soiling the conversational record? Business can not be conducted in such conditions. Clearly, before being of use FF would need to "stratify" their basic types of collaborative primitives - beginning with non-editable posts and comments.
- ianf ⌘
I didn't mean "looks like" as in "feature complete" just "resembles". Lots of the latest and greatest parts of FF are features that would make any E2.0 toolkit much more powerful. The rooms and multi-threaded DMs are particularly sweet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I can't see this being ready for the enterprise just yet, but sme's and startups definately. If they can also produce a mobile version for the iPhone and android markets it potentially is the next killer app.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
ianf: "Business can not be conducted in such conditions." Are you kidding me? What about the telephone conversation. Business uses that just fine. It's one tool.
- Nick in Manila
It certainly wins on ease of use, but that's not enough in a business context. Accountability, being held to account, is. Truth be told, we really don't know if FFeeders paid any attention to enterprise use when originally designing it. Perhaps it can be evolved in this direction without lots of shouting, perhaps not. @Keith - FF is extremely text-input-centric. Neither of the two mobile devices is very good at this. But, fine, it does represent a step above even the most intelligent of mail/Gmail etc.
- ianf ⌘
Nick, there's a difference between telephone and print. As soon as text records are involved, there's the problem.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: Agree. It's not an auditable text record. But we've adapted to Wikipedia. It only takes you so far. You have accept it's not an absolute and use it for what you can.
- Nick in Manila
My problem with FF in the enterprise (and I try to use it that way) is the goofy name and logo.
- Nick in Manila
Wikipedia is a special case, but I have yet to hear of it being acceptable beyond colloquial use. FF is fine if treated as multi-threaded dialogue platform. Perhaps it's just me, but I always assumed that any heavy-duty business use presumes that a company runs it off its own/colo servers, not from platform-provider's own. We really don't know much of how FF works, but I suspect that...
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- ianf ⌘
ianf: Yes re enterprise use. But as the enterprise becomes more and more atomized, this will become less and less of an issue. Although that's not the immediate future of Fortune 100s - which gives a huge advantage to smaller co's.
- Nick in Manila
@ianf: There *is* an auditable record. Didn't you notice the part where they show how you can always go back through the history of a wave to see its edit history? Not only is it possible, but it's easy and only takes a few seconds. It's really useful for getting context on a large wave when you come into it late.
- Joel Webber
is there an app for that yet? :-)
- Chris Cotsapas
@Adam Lasnik I'm sure that Wave is not a respond to any existing service. At Google there are smart people thinking ahead and I think that wave is a step forward in personal and corporate comunication
- Nenko Ivanov
FriendFeed might actually benefit from Google Wave, see http://nicolas.lehuen.com/index...
- Nicolas Lehuen
Actually the platform looks like a response to Live Mesh and the product looks like a FF client powered by Gears but the interesting stuff is the protocol which could be used to bring consensus on how to, finally, implement track.
- Alberto Saavedra
Isn't that a bit premature to ask? Wave's just been announced, we don't know how FF will develop in few months' time, yet already now you want us to speculate whether some vaporware will be killerware of existingware rhetorical q.
- ianf ⌘
nope it isn't. i think this is the time for asking this.
- Yusuf Nays
@Yusuf: I have to say I think the comparison is pretty inappropriate. The two products solve different problems completely. I use Wave at work, and even once it's fully open, I will continue to use FF, which I love as well. Besides, does the world really need another "Is X a Y killer?" poll?
- Joel Webber
@Yusuf: I have to say I think the comparison is pretty inappropriate. The two products solve different problems completely. I use Wave at work, and even once it's fully open, I will continue to use FF, which I love as well. Besides, does the world really need another "Is X a Y killer?" poll?
- Joel Webber
@Yusuf: I have to say I think the comparison is pretty inappropriate. The two products solve different problems completely. I use Wave at work, and even once it's fully open, I will continue to use FF, which I love as well. Besides, does the world really need another "Is X a Y killer?" poll?
- Joel Webber
Whoops, sorry for the triple-post. I obviously have some better error-handling to write.
- Joel Webber
lol @Joel - so exactly how good _are_ those robots..
- Nick Lothian
BROKEN BACKBOARDS!!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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U.S., Europe Are an Ocean Apart on Human Toll of Joblessness - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
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"In Germany, losing his factory job didn't stop Alfred Butt from taking a Mediterranean vacation this winter. Thanks to generous jobless benefits, being out of work "hasn't changed my life that much," Mr. Butt says. In the U.S., Dylan DeRoberts lost similar work -- but there's no seaside getaway for him. Instead, he's giving up life's little pleasures, like riding his snowmobile, because he lost his insurance, too. "I've learned to live at a new level," Mr. DeRoberts says. Unemployment is taking a very different human toll on opposite sides of the Atlantic, which helps explain why Europe and the U.S. can't agree on how to attack the global recession. The U.S. is spending hundreds of billions of dollars -- including increased assistance to the unemployed -- to prop up the economy, and wants Europe to follow suit. But most of Western Europe already has a strong, if costly, social safety net, so governments feel less pressure to spend their way out of trouble."
- Eric P
from Bookmarklet
I was talking to a guy in the UK who had a company car and a far higher per diem than we did... working for the same global company. I was always thinking they were being overly generous. Then I read something like this and wonder if the costs don't even out over the long run.
- David Muir
Here's the 'cast, Re-Booting the News #8. We hope you like it... http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Hmm, interesting. This is why I hate when my posts get heavily dugg, redditted or stumbled (as opposed to getting linked by bloggers I admire) - I get the inappropriate kinds of readers, not the kind I try to nurture on my blog.
- Bora Zivkovic
People are already listening to it! How are the levels this time? I assume you can hear both of us??
- Dave Winer
Excellent sound and volume, Dave. back to topic: But the difference is that the crowds from Digg come and go, but Twitter followers stay for a long time. I can survive a Digg storm (hey, nice for the paycheck, which is based on traffic) for a couple of days and move on. Perhaps a dozen or so of them ARE the kind of readers I want and they will stay. But on Twitter, they would be there forever, posting inappropriate responses.
- Bora Zivkovic
√ The suggested users list on Twitter and my decision to opt out of it, √ what Josh Marshall has accomplished in re-booting the news, √ celebrity logic will get you ... are the three dominant themes in this one.
- Jay Rosen
With a special guest appearance by German social critic Jurgen Habermas and his notion of "systematically distorted communication." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jay Rosen
made me check: http://twitter.com/BoraZ... and I am very happy with the gradual, slow rise, coming in one at a time, through links and rewteets, without suspicious bumps.
- Bora Zivkovic
Loved the Habermas reference.
- Bora Zivkovic
TPM segment - I was thinking....many bloggers operate the same way, though they did not build a site with several different parts, or started employing people. DailyKos is similar in a way. HuffPo is similar in its own way. Though HuffPo has it's own problem with the reality-based community (http://friendfeed.com/noahgra... ) for pushing science woo and medical quackery (hmm, a topic for next week?).
- Bora Zivkovic
John Battelle explains the problem it's supposed to solve and what's lame about Twitter's suggested users list. http://tr.im/kqHr
- Jay Rosen
Very late entry to the "Me as a kid" meme. Oh where did it all go so wrong?
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Here's Rebooting the News, #7 the podcast for April 27, 2009. http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Postel's Law, Jefferson's Simplicity, Winer's Inventions, Rosen's plea to the press: Participation, Information, Democracy and Code. Oh, and we talk about torture, Cheney, journalism and truth at the beginning.
- Jay Rosen
You mention a book about history of media and technology - what is it? amazon link?
- Bora Zivkovic
This is the book http://www.amazon.com/Televis...
- Jay Rosen
Thank you!
- Bora Zivkovic
The "paving the cow paths" reminds me of an ancient post about Lakoff and ideology, i.e., how different ideologies go about choosing where to pave: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... do you impose your rules and aesthetics, or do you see first where the cows (or people) are going, in their efficient ways?
- Bora Zivkovic
And I am also one to always try to look at history. Even in grad school, in biology, I took 4 history of science classes I did not need because I though they were essential for me to know what I am doing as a scientist. A lot of my blogging on various topics starts with a historical context, e.g., http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
"As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things." http://is.gd/uSm7
- gnarlytrombone
Listening to Dave's update on the 40tweets app, I'm struck by a few things: a) After using tr.im and trying out some of their widgets, I definitely want more control over displaying the data they collect. So, there's demand. b) The tr.im API looks like fun: http://api.tr.im/website/api I wonder if anyone wants to track examples of its use and create a wiki for them, a la the Twitter API wiki? c) If there's enough demand for this sort of thing, there must be more than 1 developer working on it.
- Ryan Sholin
Double duty: Polamalu, Fitzgerald to grace 'Madden' video-game cover - http://www.nfl.com/goto...
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Just realized I wrote "reigns" instead of "reins" in a blog post last night. That's been up for eight hours. On Row Three. Shoot me now.
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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey: When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy.
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I loved the Deep Thoughts series. Had a great calendar of them.
- FFing Enigma
My wife and I always crack up at them.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
My favorite is still the one about keys. "If you every drop your keys into a molten lava flow don't bother trying to get them out because man, those keys are gone". LOVE
- FFing Enigma
When my brother was in Saudi I would put a Jack Handey quote at the bottom of each letter over to him.
- SteVe C
Evolution of a Career in Advertising - http://www.iamprettysure.com/evoluti...
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Why Dominos video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch... is going to be textbook:
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1. They did it in video. THAT is the way to respond. Not text. Video says MUCH MORE than text can.
- Robert Scoble
2. They went overboard with the response. They closed down the store and "sanitized it."
- Robert Scoble
3. The CEO did it and repeated that nothing is more important that our trust. He demonstrated he understood the issue.
- Robert Scoble
4. He thanked influencers for helping Dominos understand the issue and making sure that others knew about it.
- Robert Scoble
5. He responded while the issue is still "hot."
- Robert Scoble
6. He responded on YouTube, which is where the crisis started, not on their own video platform.
- Robert Scoble
7. He communicated that there was "immediate" action including arrest warrants, and people getting fired.
- Robert Scoble
Impressive.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
He didn't look straight into the camera, however - as pointed out by Steve Garfield.
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8. He knows that the real problem is that they hired idiots and are "reexamining" all hiring practices. THAT is the best way to make sure you get a good brand.
- Robert Scoble
9. He used personal language "it sickens me." Not marketing speak.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting mix of being apologetic and totally pissed at the same time. Overall thumbs up from me.
- Mike Doeff
10. He is working to "regain our trust."
- Robert Scoble
Is there anything else he could have done to answer this crisis?
- Robert Scoble
He didn't offer us a coupon to make us feel better. I didn't feel condescended to.
- Kevin Fox
Good lead, Robert. Glad to see discussion around the response.
- Valeria Maltoni
Now if he could just work on making the pizza not taste so bad.
- Dave Roth
Fantastic job, I thought.
- Matthew Freeman
I don't mind that he didn't look straight into the camera. That shows he isn't "slick" or "overcoached."
- Robert Scoble
Yes, it would have been better if he had looked into the camera, but given that a teleprompter is an expensive item, and rigging a two-way mirror with a magnified view of a printed script is a hassle... I think the minor shortfall can be forgiven. All seven of Robert's points remain absolutely valid.
- David Muir
Matthew: Here's the background: http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Textbook is the best way to go. Swift and done. Now in time, people will forget, crave cheap, fast, and delivered food, and it's over.
- Mike Lewis
Very well handled. I agree with you, Robert, this will make its way into textbooks alongside Tylenol's response to the poisoning crisis three decades ago.
- Stephen Mack
Matthew: I already posted a link to the background. http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Or here if you wanna go straight to the source: http://consumerist.com/5210648...
- Stephen Mack
They just taught a lot of clueless PR people how to handle a crisis like this. Well done.
- Inside Alaska
I think theyve been handling this like pros from the getgo. Good job
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Pretty slick. Many can learn from it.
- littlegingerkid
The woman is also a registered sex offender apparently: http://ncfindoffender.com/details...
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
so far this year, that's, what, rats in the peanuts, perchlorate in the babby formula, prescription drugs in the drinking water, snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?
- Karim
Bravo, Dominos. Nicely done. Speak up or be spoken for.
- kevin j higgins
But he's using a teleprompter. He's evil.
- tehKenny
tehKenny: I don't think he was. I bet that he was looking at some notes, though. It didn't come across like he was reading. For someone not experienced with a teleprompter you can not use one and not come across like you're reading.
- Robert Scoble
Their response was appropriate and in a timely manner which is key now.
- Christi
Anyone who has ever used a teleprompter realizes how hard it is to use one and how hard it is to look natural doing it. I bet he had someone off to the side of the camera he was talking to who was holding notes up to remind him what to talk.
- Robert Scoble
I wasn't there, obviously, but watching the CEO look off-camera yet speak as if to a person made me think he was looking at a person to stay "real" and "personable" and not canned or offering a performance.
- Bloom Seed
It's just pizza
- Ari Braginsky
Carmen: "W" had a LOT of media training and a team of people to tell him how to do it. I doubt this CEO has had much media training.
- Robert Scoble
rewatching it makes it clear that he's reading notes (his focus starts at top, moves down as recording proceeds). Still, though, comes across as a real person. Not everything needs professional actors, producers, makeup, sets...imperfect may be the new perfect, as far as communicating genuineness.
- Bloom Seed
Comes across as very heart-felt, and almost makes me want to order with them (I'm not sure we have them here in this town)! Shouldn't they have added something like "We'll now be installing cams in all our kitchens streaming direct to Ustream, making us the ONLY food delivery you can trust to not mess your food"? :)
- Philipp Lenssen
Philipp: well, that would certainly be cool but would be way beyond something they could deliver on in two days.
- Robert Scoble
I mean, I'm not a big fan of Dominos, but this helps them establish themselves as giving a crap. Good PR move.
- Mike Nayyar
Great video response straight from the company president. As for watching food getting prepared, the Papa John's locations that I've been to are open and you can basically see them making your pie. Not sure if Domino's has stores like that...
- Doug
Carmen, it's the "polished" vs "timely" tug of war: http://fftogo.com/e...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
solid performance-- came across naturally and believable, blend of professionalism and good ole fashion ass-kicking anger. It was smooth but not overly slick; no suit or tie and shot in store surrounding. Content was solid too, assuring customers everything that could be done was being done. One minor tweak: he doesn't appear to be looking directly at the camera.
- mark ivey
I wonder if they thought about making it a response to "that video" on youtube to get the eyeballs needed to make this count..
- Tom Masiero
Ari - it's more than "just pizza" - it's the livelihood of 125k employees. We are focused here on a textbook response, but this is also a clear demonstration of the power of leverage that SM holds: two idiots can do major damage to the brand, the company, and by ultimately to the employees. Hat's off to Mr. Doyle and his advisers.
- Bill Sanders
good response for sure, way to go
- sean percival
Rewatched it and yes he is reading it. Regardless, I think it was handled pretty appropriately.
- Jay Neff
good job. small nit: next time they need to move the teleprompter (or cue cards) either over or under the camera.
- MikeAmundsen
Video is good if Good Messenger (which Domino's guy IS) But also put the incident on my radar screen, which hitherto I was unaware of.
- JimmyJet
Wasn't aware of the incident but sure feel bad for the independent operator..
- MiaD
The woman in the Wendy's chili fraud case ended up sentenced to 9 years in prison and her husband (who bought the finger off a co-worker who lost it in an industrial accident) got 12 years. http://www.bluemaumau.org/wendys_...
- Kevin Fox
I wish that he was looking at the camera instead of a telepromter. Just sayin.
- Andrew Baron
Andrew: he's not looking at a teleprompter. I bet someone is holding a notepad with an outline on it for him.
- Robert Scoble
I haven't had Domino's in a long time. But, I'm happy to see that they put up this Video response to the malicious destruction of their Brand and business practices.
- rob friedman
good job. that was a classy way to 'avoid the noid.'
- grant fox
Hey Robert, can I use some of your reasons in a blog post in writing up about the Domino's issue?
- Kenneth
Kenneth: yes, feel free!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert!
- Kenneth
"Everyone else is doing it right." Yeah, right. [What are the odds of that?]
- Craig Brownell
I kept hoping he'd actually look into the camera.
- James Miao
I agree with James. I was hoping that he would look at the camera like he's talking to his customers. I get that he needs to make sure he says exactly what needs to to said, but the way he kept looking away from the camera made it seem a little "stiff".
- Kenneth
like when dirk diggler looked into the camera during his documentary. that was powerful stuff.
- grant fox
Kenneth: that's a mistake someone who isn't media trained makes. I actually don't mind that because it makes it less slick.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is that they're multiple cameras and he's looking at the expensive one
- Bwana ☠
Robert: Really? If corporate heads are on camera, they should NOT look at the camera especially if they're not being interviewed? It looks natural not to look at the camera? You're definitely right...I'm not media trained. :) Looks like he was reading off of a script and didn't notice a camera at him.
- Kenneth
Kenneth: the only time you should look at the camera is when you want to speak directly to the viewer. You are right that he should have been speaking directly into the camera. Knowing where to look is part of media training. A good PR team could have helped (IE, one that had worked a lot with video before) but I can't really blame him. I still have trouble figuring this out. When I was on the BBC it was very difficult to look into the camera (it was aplate on the wall).
- Robert Scoble
i just have to say, that by him not looking in the camera, or really doing any of this before it seems adds to his character that he's a regular guy, not some PR trained monkey doing a dance for us.
- rob friedman
I dunno, I think it's more important that the response seem unrehearsed. I'll bet he did it in one take.
- Ken Morley
Well done Robert: not a surprise to see this crew recognizes excellence when they see it. Dominos did virtually everything right on this aspect of its response. having seen a few crises, this example is among the best. blogged it here: http://www.mediadeluge.com/post...
- Christian Anderson
Just to let folks know: the teleprompters I am familiar with allow the newscaster or talking head to look directly at the camera AND read the script. The result is like a HUD (heads-up display) for those familiar with video games or jet fighters.
- David Muir
Right David, but there are all kinds of "teleprompters" some low tech and some higher tech. the point is he was reading. It was okay, he did a great job in one take. It would have been better if he hadnt read it and looked directly at the camera, but because everything else was so well done, the reading gets a pass
- Christian Anderson
Not a fan of their pies, but kudos to Dominoes for the forthright reply and apology for the miscreants who brought this upon them. Hope they rebound well from this.
- JA Castillo
Very lucky that they had a CEO that even was willing to talk for YouTube in the moment; let's not now criticize him for his media training, or none will ever have the guts to do it again.
- Francine Hardaway
Rich: This is deadly serious for him. He's right to take it seriously and I'm sure he genuinely does.
- Michael Krigsman
So the real question is, who feels comfortable enough to order Domino's this weekend?
- Chris Bartow
I do Chris, even more-so now than before. This weekend will be the cleanest in the franchise's history :)
- Bwana ☠
@Karim: "snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?" Years ago, I ordered a pizza (not from Domino's) and was surprised to see a piece of broken glass in it — and this particular glass shard had part of the pizza company logo on it! When I phoned them about it, they replaced the pizza in record time; of course, they asked for the broken glass back, too, so I couldn't keep the evidence.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor *shudder* i think i would have just given up eating pizza after that :-D
- Karim
The comments on You Tube are negative I don't agree with them, what is your opinion abut them? (They say Doyle is not sincere)
- Maurizio Goetz
Rule #0 - Youtube comments have the value of a single molecule of feces
- Bwana ☠
+1 Bwana!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
His response was right on and pretty smart for doing it via a video. It's sad but we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food. :-( I kind of feel bad for the kids because what they did shows a complete lack of intelligence. It would be nice if they took responsible and apologized in some sort of public forum.
- John McCullough
@John McCullough "we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food" and people who pilot the planes we fly in, treat our municipal drinking water, etc. I daresay we only appreciate them when things go horribly wrong.
- Victor Panlilio
@Chris White "The founder of Domino's supports Right to LIfe and Operation Rescue, which IMO, is worse than putting farts on sandwiches" Really? Watch the video at http://www.abortionno.org/ and see if you can stomach the idea that we dispose of unwanted human beings so cavalierly.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, your comment as well as John's above you, reminds me of that line in Fight Club: "We do your laundry, cook your food and serve you dinner. We guard you while you sleep. We drive your ambulances..."
- Aaron Kurtz
@Aaron - almost everything we take for granted in "civilized society" depends on the everyday goodwill (and conscientiousness) of anonymous others. I've always thought that we need to become more mindful of the benefits we daily receive from these enablers of our well-being. Count your blessings, etc.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, I couldn't agree more.
- Aaron Kurtz
20 Ways to Engage Contacts in Social Media | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis - http://kylelacy.com/20-ways...
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Check out the Matrix on Friendfeed - hover over the main FF logo. - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
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I did it just by chance
- Varun Mahajan
;)
- Ankit Ahuja
Google's CAiro Offices.... too funny. I'm reposting that to a tech room. ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
... or I would, if the stupid website collaborated with the bookmarklet. Can't select the picture though (and too lazy to cut-paste-screenshot-whatever).
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
what's stupid? http://friendfeed.com/e...
- LouCypher
unrelated. danger! this kitten definitely means danger. :] warning: mature audience. http://www.rathergood.com/lightsa...
- pb:
ha, is that just for today? is today matrix day or something?
- Laura Norvig
no, .. on friendfeed, you see, there is a matrix day everyday. every living minute [:]
- pb:
I thought it is only for today. Is it for everyday?
- yezi
Explosion On 280 - a set on Flickr (don't worry - it was staged for a TV pilot) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Photos of a staged explosion on the 280 freeway in San Francisco. SFgate has the story... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
- Mike Doeff
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Omg the 101 traffic must've been HORRIFIC.
- Mona Nomura
Favorite line from the SFgate article: "Fans of things that blow up started arriving at 19th and Texas streets at the top of Potrero Hill at 11 a.m."
- Mike Doeff
Wacky. I was on John Edwards plane with Reille Hunter and Chuck Olsen, who was there from Rocketboom. - http://blogumentary.typepad.com/chuck...
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Ahh, who knew I was so close to a news story that would happen 1.5 years later? I didn't see any hanky panky going on. I like both Elizabeth and John.
- Robert Scoble
Get any video or pics?
- John McCrea
John: we're looking. Podtech took them all down, from what I can see. I didn't have any video of her, unfortunately, that I remember. Rocky's looking through our archive, although PodTech owns the copyright on anything we do have. Oh, well...
- Robert Scoble
I do have a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Robert Scoble
I have a picture of both of them together on his plane, historic photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Robert Scoble
Ah, context.... http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jay Cuthrell
better make sure the AP doesn't lift it from your Flickr link!
- Nancy Babyak
wonder what those shots are worth...
- annie heckenberger
Nancy: I gave AP permission to use my photos. All my photos are open for anyone to use. Steal away!
- Robert Scoble
I'm glad you shared this, but I have to say, that picture makes me sad.
- Stacy Bond
http://www.flickr.com/photos... (I think that's her videoing John, too).
- Robert Scoble
You ever notice when someone has an affair... they always post the ugliest picture possible at first?
- Dean Clark
Annie: if I were to sell them, maybe tens of thousands of dollars. I doubt they'd bring more than $100,000 cause they aren't technically that good so they wouldn't be able to get on a cover of a magazine.
- Robert Scoble
My whole John Edwards set: http://www.flickr.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
@Robert I really need to keep my good camera with me at all times...
- Andrew Feinberg
You're the man! That's pretty EFFing cool that you got to travel with him. I guess it's good Edwards didn't win the primary. We'd really be EEF'ed then. Despite this scandal, I still like the guy and people should just back off. I hate these types of scandalous stories around personal and private matters. yeah, yeah, he's a public figure, but it's still a personal and private matter!!
- Miiko Mentz
Nice picture set, even if they're not all A+ grade but for the environment proposed, it's pretty good!
- Zu from AOD
I have a clip from Reille Hunter's John Edwards video 'Plane Truths' in my Vlog Soup episode 21. http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008...
- Steve Garfield
Robert, isn't it amazing the circles you've ended up travelling in the past few years! It is inspiring to me.
- John McCrea
John: it is absolutely amazing. It just gets more and more surreal.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, saying "who knew I was so close to a news story 1.5 years later"would be no different that if you had climbed Mt. St. Helen's in Nov of 1979 only to hear of its eruption in May of 1980. You being on that plane has NOTHING to do with this story. Nice try, though.
- Dave Madison
Dave: interesting point of view. But in this case the affair was still going on. At least I didn't die to get these pictures like I would have if I had been at the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
- Robert Scoble
Robert you r being silly. You wouldn't have risked dying because you wouldn't have been there. And u weren't there for this bimbo eruption.
- Dave Madison
You just happened to get a picture of Reile 1.5 years before anyone knew what was going on. If I got a picture of Lewinsky walking down Penn. Ave in 1995, does that mean "I was there?". Hey! I got a random ok picture of Spritzer on a shuttle to DC. Guess that makes me a part of history, too!
- Dave Madison
Dave: the thing is I WAS there. Just because I didn't know what was going on at the time, doesn't mean I didn't capture the two of them together. But, whatever, I really don't care either way. If you had a picture of Lewinsky and Clinton together on Penn Ave. you would have had an interesting picture too. Your argument doesn't hold, though, because if I had a picture of St. Helens at the time it exploded I would have had a historical picture, even if I didn't understand what I had taken a picture of.
- Robert Scoble
wow. totally forgot about Rocketboom. What are they up to?
- annie heckenberger
Jobs Comes Clean. He’s Not Well. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Tyson Key, Sullivan and 8 other people liked this
It's hormone problems. Not cancer. It's really not as bad as people think it is.
- Michael Forian
We all knew Jobs wasn't "well". At least it isn't cancer again.
- Sullivan
If he needs body mass, I'll be happy to donate some of my Christmas pounds. ;)
- John Craft
"We are now obsolete" (rotated)
udo, Logan Leger, April Buchheit and 25 other people liked this
Kind of sad. If they were bigger, they could just get a bailout or sue their customers or something :)
- Paul Buchheit
wow, that is kind of sad. Bailout LOL hahaha....funny! Too bad they just didn't adapt with the times and modify their business model to something edgy that users didn't have on their desktops.
- Susan Beebe
how ironic that this picture is posted on a site for the world to see just a few minutes after it was taken!
- dario
a haiku: business model, like / a candleflame, it Flickrs / and then is put out
- Karim
kudos on the "Flickrs", Karim. Brilliant!
- dario
gracias :-)
- Karim
Many more happening like that.... like the paper factory that closed just before Xmas because all it produced was CARBON PAPER. All that negativity about the closure misdirected at the public for not continuing to use Carbon Paper when the management should have been kicked for not diversifying.
- Ian D. Nock
It seems like they did expand their business to include digital. After that, what else is a photo lab going to do other than become a whole entirely different business?
- Gabe
:-(
- Emily Miller
I always think that my kids have not even seen what we used to call a "tape"
- Loic Le Meur
I can't remember what US university publishes a sort of yearly recap of what progress means for that year's class. As in "students in the class of 2009 will never have bought a cassette tape or rolled up the car window" for example. Cassette tapes. ha. Vinyl records. Or the fact that you "dialed" a phone numer by actually inserting your finger in a PLASTIC DISC and TWIRLING the dial.
- dario
Some of my students think I'm "Old School" because I had a 2nd generation iPod.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
@Dario - That'd be Beloit College's Mindset List: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset...
- Richard Chen
@Richard: that was exactly what I was referring to, thanks! ("There has always been Pearl Jam" - now this is just... cruel.)
- dario
CHALLENGE: US Auto Manufacturer Bailout - yes or no and 1 sentence why you feel that way.
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Yes - because to not do so would make the last month or so seem like "the good ol' days."
- George Smith
No. They've had more time, and more second chances, than most industries to fix what was wrong.
- Rick Powell
I'm conflicted - primarily because family members work in related industries and their jobs would be affected; some are already on work/hours reduction.
- Katy S
No because when it will stop.
- orionstarr
No. The sooner we burn out these warts the better.
- Joe The Sausage
Bush's tax incentive to small business owners to write off most or all of the price of a large vehicle over $60,000 was like a gift from the heavens to the American auto industry. They had that gift for 8 years, dropped directly in their lap. So many vehicles were sold through this tax loophole that now we have a glut of giant trucks and SUV's on the road. And yet, after gas goes up a dollar or two, Detroit goes immediately in the toilet. This was bad business all around. I say no bailout.
- Phil Glockner
sound like the auto industry needs investors. hey, auto-dudes, i'll allow the gub'ment to invest in a project for green cars. not $$ for SUVs, or golden parachutes, etc. green cars, get it?
- MikeAmundsen
I want to say no, but $25 Billion is still cheaper than $125 Billion. I don't want to think that way but I can't help it.
- Andrew
No. Let them file bankruptcy and force them to restructure. The airlines did it, right? Again - no more bailouts until WE get one.
- Vince DeGeorge
No, giving money to the auto industry now is only delaying the inevitable, unless they agree to specific changes.
- Kim Landwehr
Yes, but only for the good of those whose jobs will be lost when they fail, however, the money must come with stringent terms with specific goals, lots of oversight, and available to anyone building or designing an auto in the USA. Though I have to say, I really don't want them to get the money, I'd rather them suffer from their past stupidity and greed.
- xero
No. Unfortunately, businesses can't do bad business and then expect somebody to bail them out. Ford isn't going to let itself completely die. I'm also concerned about where the U.S. government is getting this money, and it sounds like the bank bailout is leaning toward a fail. I'm sorry to see people lose their jobs but I don't think this is the answer.
- Patricia
no, they've had the american economy by the balls with their stubbornness and even refusal to adapt to cleaner, safer and more efficient technologies and business models and will continue to operate along the same manner if given a bailout. al these industries are like petulant children -- you cater to them in every way possible and they'll just ask for more and more
- Cee Bee
After watching this morning the Treasury secretary change the last bailout - you know,the one that if it didn't pass the entire economic world would fall - I say no. Better to have a bailout for main street so they have more money to buy cars. What happened to good old fashioned capitalism?
- Chris Reed
No, because the big auto makers have proven time and again how intransigent they are to change. They've been failing for a while now. It's time to let them die once and for all.
- Steven Perez
No. The Big 3 have catered to the worst trends: muscle cars and SUVs as a focus of their product line when we clearly needed quality, fuel-efficient cars. Meanwhile, Toyota made a profit and ALSO supports many jobs in North America -- granted not as many.
- David Muir
Yes - Asking for accountability by the people responsible for the problem is a irresponsible if the problem (which would destroy a state economy and millions of jobs if allowed to happen) itself is not dealt with.
- Adam Posey
No - there is not an unlimited pot of money, why spend it on a group of companies that have a track record of failure?
- Conor O'Reilly
No. Not until the companies who are mismanaged the other bail out we did are pushed to do what should be done with it, which many things point to that they're not.
- Patricia
no - bail out the workers instead.
- MikeAmundsen
yes - because the last time our government similarly bailed out one of the big three automakers, the company was saved, the loan was paid off ahead of schedule, and the Treasury made a $300 million *profit.*
- Karim
No. I prefer capitalism.
- Robert
Bacon Salt - http://www.baconsalt.com/
Threepwood, Christian Anderson, Tony C (Unrated) and 23 other people liked this
At last. Everything in my world can now taste of bacon.
- Carla Thompson
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two of my favorite things combined
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm proud to say there's Bacon Salt in my pantry.
- Jeff Beckham
Mmmm. Because one can never have too much salt. Oh wait ...
- Ernie Oporto
@louisgray Interesting search, sometimes it boggles my mind what things catch on here, but bacon salt...mmm
- michael sean wright
Only on FriendFeed would BaconSalt be old news!
- Carla Thompson
Carla, here's the post from December that brought it to my attention. I promptly bought all three varieties. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Louis Gray
The best part is that it is certified Kosher.
- Joe Beda
December, no less. I am 7 months behind in my bacon news!
- Carla Thompson
yea bacon!
- Tony C (Unrated)
Baconsalt! And now it's selling in UK from www.crazy4flavour.co.uk with quick delivery and way lower shipping cost than getting it from Seattle!
- Stu Nutt
lol. digging graves
- Cee Bee
As per Tad's request: Shey with "Don Draper" hair (Mad Men)
Charlie Anzman, David Muir, Ginger Makela Riker and 29 other people liked this
CHECK THAT HAIR!!!
- Mo Kargas
HAH!!!! That is awesome
- Rah-PM 2012
and yeah, WOW @ that photo
- Cee Bee
*dead*
- Derrick
Blame Tad: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Shey
omg!! more more!
- iTad
Shey, is that photoshop skills you're demonstrating, did you put on a wig, or did you grow that much hair in the week or so you were away from FriendFeed? Ohhhhh....maybe you're drinking the Mystical Elixir of Grow Don Draper Hair...
- Pete D
That's Photoshopped!!!! .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Maybe the guy is bold in real life, but he has no money for Rogaine?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
That's an interesting look for you, Shey!
- Lindsay
haha Pete -- whatever it is I'll sell you some
- Shey
AWESOME! :)
- Tim Hoeck
Thanks guys :) One more coming up, just for you Tad :D
- Shey
Great pic!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
dude, shey...is that a coconut...are you a cast member of "survivor" or something? don't get voted off the island. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
LAG, you haven't lived until you've drank coconut water out of a jelly coconut.
- Shey
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA WTF!!!!
- Mona Nomura
hahahaha
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
WFTV Interviews Joe Biden 10/23/08 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Wow, that anchor is ridiculous. He handled her ridiculousness much better than I would have been able to, for sure.
- Eric Florenzano
Amen to that. I would have walked out.
- Dave Winer
OMG, that has to be the craziest interview I've seen this political season. Congrats to Biden for handling that idiot anchor like a pro!
- Scott Jarkoff
Biden's a pro. Was that woman trying out for Foxnews or something?
- chartreuse
Holy Crap! Very right Rob. Biden definitely stood his ground though....lol.
- Andy Lewandowski
And all the conservatives thought that it was great for Joe to get some hard questions :)
- Christian Burns
Man.. like water off a duck. He handled that very well.
- Adam Posey
That should have been from WTFTV.
- Louis Gray
I like Joe Biden even more now. That was great!
- David Cook
lol :-) That last question about Sweden sounded to me like: "What do you reply if your opponent claims you your goal is to decrease poverty, increase literacy, decrease teenage pregnancy, increase standard of living, reduce crime rate, increase healthy life expectancy for all American citizens?" - "Only the people for the far right would say that this is a bad thing!" :-)
- Björn Brembs
LOL, Louis++. Everyone take note on the last question especially. That is how you deal with an ignorant question. Don't say much at all.
- Rah-PM 2012
I thought the same thing, LG
- Josh Haley
And (of course) this story is the all-caps 40pt headline story on the Drudge Report under the headline: "BIDEN GRILLED BY NEWS ANCHOR: IS OBAMA MARXIST?" For pete's sake.
- Kevin Fox
WFTV is here in Orlando. Off to watch this now....
- Mike Reynolds
my mom made a good point after I showed her this video -- she said that asking such ridiculous questions made Biden's job of clearly defining the Obama platform easy. She is actually helping instead of hindering, since her questions are so obviously extreme.
- Phil Glockner
I think she's a robot. She's way emotionless.
- Derrick
Up to 42,898 views on Youtube. The ironic thing here is that views on local TV were probably a lot less.
- Mike Reynolds
Sometimes people's own words make them seem stupid enough, no need to do more.
- kevin
@phil: not so sure that it helps Obama. She's just a relay of the latest GOP attempts to portray Obama as a Socialist-Marxist, which reinforces what the Republican base want to hear and can potentially scare undecided voters away from Obama
- Stephan Osmont
Now at 53,791 views.
- Mike Reynolds
Gimme a break, guys. That's one of the few hard interviews these guys have had. It stands out because of its rarity.
- David Risley
69,150 views. Not sure why I really care to keep counting, just keeping self occupied between things :)
- Mike Reynolds
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Sarah Palin's $150,000 makeover - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
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"The life of a vice-presidential candidate may be gruelling, but it can also be glamorous - $150,000 glamorous."
- Kol Tregaskes
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"THE BILL: $75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis. $41,850 spent in St Louis. $4,100 on make-up and hair consulting. $4,902 at Atelier, a men's clothing shop in New York. $92 on a romper suit and hat with ears"
- Kol Tregaskes
I find this disgusting... especially in light of folks watching the foreclosures on $150,000 HOUSES.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Wow, when everyone in the country is suffering they spend $150,000 on clothes for her, that's an incredibly stupid move.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm not impressed by these 2 and their campaign but in this case i dont get what the fuss is all about - her existing wardrobe was so normal they had to redo it all, if anything it enhances her image as "normal". Their campaign spends millions on tv ads and the like, it seems logical that they spend some money so Palin looks the part in those campaign dinners etc. Hardly a scandal.
- Iphigenie
I agree that some nice professional wear was in order, but Saks and Neiman Marcus? Thanks, but no thanks.
- Steve Lowe
It's definitely not a scandal but is is a completely idiotic move!
- Kol Tregaskes
you know Mervyns is having that huge going out of business sale, they could have saved some dough and I bet she'd look just as good.
- Thomas Hawk
According to their tax returns, the Palins made $166,000 last year so this is a big "gift" to her. I have a problem with the RNC (or even the DNC, if they have) paying for someone's wardrobe. Where does that money come from? Does it come from our contributions? I understand it's for their "image" but they surely can get the same effect for less money elsewhere.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
I'm with Joelle. The money that both campaigns spend on advertising pales in comparison. It's certainly not a scandal.
- Jennifer Van Grove
Well, it didn't all go to HER, either - it was a makeover for the entire family. Guess the kids weren't cute enough already? Sheesh. Agreed, this isn't a scandal, but it certainly wasn't a wise move.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Sarah Palin would get a better tax break under Obama.... right?
- Chris Hollander
Scandal or not, it's ridiculous. I have a hard time believing that you couldn't replicate that image on AT LEAST half the money.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
let's just consider this part of the bail out plan... afterall, that wardrobe included a democratic looking donkey scarf. i'd say it was worth it as long as she doesn't see the oval office
- Enrique Gutierrez
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It's a scandal not because of the makeover but because of the cost. $150K for clothes is elistist.
- James Williams
I won't hold my breath waiting for an "investigation" on how much Obama has spent on clothes. He has some pretty sharp looking suits. I'm sure if he spends as much everyone will be just as outraged, right? I mean everyone was saying the 750mil he spent on his campaign would trickle-down and be good for the economy.
- Brian Newman
If you're so upset about $150k, where's the national outcry for Obama 'wasting' what, close to half a billion on campaigning? How many houses would that save? In other words, STFU, noobs. It's called trying to win an election.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Such anger, Mark...lol
- Rah-PM 2012
I could care less what the RNC spends their money on but if you are trying to craft a "small-town folksy modest you betcha" persona, don't get caught doing stuff that violates that persona.
- James Williams
Well, it's this false sense of holier than thou so many people seem to posess. "I'm better than you because I would be saving houses rather than spending money on campaign expenses." It's complete BS, and as evidenced by the media coverage and some of the comments here, everyone seems to fall for it. Yeah, that's infuriating.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Obama should cancel his 2 million dollar election night party. Think of how many houses he could save!
- Brian Newman
So if McCain/Palin won, Palin would give all the clothes back to charity and we'd have an underdressed VP?
- Kevin Fox
I don't think it's a big deal. There are so many more substantiative reasons to question her image (palling around with AIP, for instance). I doubt this would even be an issue if it weren't so analogous to the kerfluffle surrounding Edwards' $400 haircut. That wasn't a big deal either; both moves are just a bit tone-deaf.
- Madsimian
See 'How Palin's style compares with other political women': http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Kol Tregaskes
The five best James Bond theme songs - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts...
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What's your favourite? I think might would be A View to a Kill by Duran Duran.
- Kol Tregaskes
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Interesting meeting with a leading Seattle VC today. They will announce 3 deals this month. Not going to hold back on new deals in the future. In other words, if you think you're worthy of VC funding, go for it.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Andrew Badera
Still plenty of opportunities for the great to succeed. Maybe it will be easier to pick out the great from the mediocre that won't try in a macroeconomic downturn?
- Taylor Davidson
Awesome news!
- Susan Beebe
There are certain niches that are going to thrive, heck new niches that are going to be born, thanks to the downturn, make no mistake. I have an elearning client who's benefiting from a growing need to cut travel costs, for instance.
- Andrew Badera
Yaw, I see the travel industry having to cut travel costs to survive..no way to do business even in your backyard without travel....interesting dilemma
- Scot Duke
I am out raising money for www.gist.com and I have heard the same thing from several VCs. Most will act a little slower, but many are still investing and seeing this as a good buying opportunity.
- T.A. McCann
10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes - http://www.docstoc.com/docs...
Karthick R, Capn' One Eye - adrift, Ben Watson and 10 other people liked this
this is great! :)
- Zee.
Applicable to any organization or team, not just startups. Good stuff.
- John Craft
This is great. thanks for sharing..
- Lorraine Ball
Stock trading psychology deconstructed perfectly.
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most awesome
- j1m
bump, because of last week.
- paulm
ha ha!!! too funny!
- Susan Beebe
Perfect time to bump this, indeed. We humans are so smart, yet so predictable.
- Christopher Sacca
McCain self-destructs - THE WEEK - http://www.theweek.com/article...
Roney Smith, Joe The Sausage, Roberto Bonini and 6 other people liked this
It's sad to see McCain fall apart like this. I'm voting Obama but I used to like McCain (2-8 years ago). Hopefully he can maintain his dignity.
- Mike Reynolds
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