This is EXACTLY what's needed to help bump up Identi.ca usage (for me, at least). Very exciting. - Brad McCrorey
these PR people are influential enough to make a network owner scared. But we can't let @Jack get away with being a coward - Noah David Simon
libel is no reason to delete a person's account. I never broke any terms till they changed the terms. - Noah David Simon
Ooo.. Bummer. Requires me to turn on XMPP for identi.ca. That would mean I'd be getting simultaneous notifications in gtalk as well. :/ - Brad McCrorey
twitter is obscene. listening to @AmandaChapel and @PurpleCar is the last straw. We can't let hysteria rule online - Noah David Simon
"As the brines reach the near saturation point for salt, brine shrimp no longer reproduce. Consequently, their prey, the organisms lower on the food chain, multiply. These are halophilic bacteria, sometimes referred to as blue-green algae. The most dominant, Dunaliella, actually changes the color of its protoplasm. As the brines grow saltier, the algae darken and its orange hue transforms into a brilliant vermillion– coloring the brines the same vivid red." http://www.cargill.com/sf_bay/... - bob
WOW SO COOL!! Like a huge strawberry icecream!! - Suzi via twhirl
I have tons of burner friends, but I've never felt compelled to go. I won't bore you with the list of reasons it fails to interest me. I really enjoy checking out flickr just afterwards though. I've also enjoyed seeing how burner culture is slowly being integrated into mainstream Bay Area life. You can't go to a geeky gathering like Maker's Faire or Yuri's Night without getting a taste of it. Kids and families like (some of) burner culture too. I like it when it's closer to home. - Jason Wehmhoener
I stay in SF for all the empty bars and restaurants! - Veronica
No. I support limitations on carbon emissions. - shelisrael1
On the subject of carbon emissions, I totally agree. I was more than a little horrified by the video my friend showed me of "Crude Awakening" when he returned. That shit is just plain stupid, excuse my french. - Jason Wehmhoener
Thomas: A big set of Burning Man photos from you one of these days would be awesome! It'd be a great addition on your journey to the million. - Vincent X
No. I can't plan far enough ahead and by the time it rolls around it's just too late. - Kevin Fox
Crude Awakening's total carbon footprint was the equivalent of half a gallon of gas per participant. If you're that concerned about carbon, you shouldn't travel by car anywhere, ever, for anything. Burning Man *looks* extravagantly wasteful of fossil fuel, but the fuel burned simply getting to the event (or any such event) dwarfs all the pyrotechnics. It's kind of ridiculous to go to, say, SxSW, but not to Burning Man, based on ecological consciousness. - ⓞnor
sorry nor, but that argument pretty much falls flat for me. BTW, I drive very little. - Jason Wehmhoener
back in the early days I was thinking about going but I heard that you had to get your camera registered and that it seemed like such a pain in the ass to get approval to shoot it. I've heard it's lightened up since then though with regards to photography and SLRs. - Thomas Hawk
One of my buddies always brings his SLR. I live vicariously through him, heh. - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason: If you basically never drive anywhere, and wouldn't consider going to any sort of recreational gathering that requires travel, then that's commendably conservative of you. But that's nothing specific to Burning Man - you would have to give the same answer to the question of whether you go to any other event (SxSW, PAX, E3, Woodstock, AAAS, whatever your thing might be). - ⓞnor
Sounds interesting, now that those who are "too cool" dis it.... - Wilma Stoneflint
No thanks. A) I'm a family guy B) Burning Man might have been cool once but seems to be the workaholic answer to a vacation - least the folks I know who have gone seem to fit this mold. 'Work hard, play hard' type people - not my kind of crowd. - AJ Kohn
"As for Sarbanes-Oxley, or SOX, the hope was that by now firms would have gotten over the hump of learning to comply, and auditors would have stopped obsessing over minute risks. Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission explicitly advised firms to focus only on material threats to the integrity of a firm's financials. "The SEC's heart was in the right place, but the accounting firms' hearts are not," says Mark Heesen of the National Venture Capital Association. He adds that the Big Four accounting firms "continue to feast on SOX audits."
Ms. Mitchell says the "SOX tax" runs up to $3 million per year per company, which can reduce a firm's market value by much more." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
"Last quarter marked the first time in 30 years that not a single company backed by venture capital went public in the U.S." - Louis Gray
Sarbanes-Oxley was a kneejerk reaction to appease the masses that wanted some sort of assurance that the markets weren't going to implode. After the dust settles SarbOx will be amended--if not removed--and all will be back 'to normal.' On the same note, expect similar witch hunt and follow-up legislation for this go-around. We're already beginning to see indictments for fraud pertaining to the mortgage markets... - grant
I think most new laws are kneejerk reactions to appease the masses that want some sort of assurance. - Gabe Schaffer
I found the comments about entrepreneurs building low capital investment companies to sell to the larger competitors to be quite interesting. Could it be that these people are valuing personal freedom over still having a set of bosses? My guess is that there are far more people who want to create something, than who want to become 'industry titans' with all that entails. The out come is not always a good place for a person to be - compare Jerry Yang to Steve Jobs, or Larry and Sergei. - Robin Barooah
@ Chris: do you mean that trying to find the next Steve Jobs is worth doing? Because a witch hunt only brings to mind all the collateral damage of impostors and accusations. - Clare Dibble
Clare, I was responding to grant's comment about the mortgage markets. I meant that in that case, some witches are real, and worth pursuing, as opposed to the traditional view that witches aren't real, and therefore witch hunts are inherently bad. - Chris White
Thanks for the clarification, Chris. In your opinion, who/what is the witch? the mortgage market itself? I've heard you say before that real estate prices never go down, especially in San Fransisco (except when they do). - Clare Dibble
IMO, the housing bubble was enabled by low interest rates (the Fed), lack of down payment and income requirements, interest only and variable rate loans (banks), real estate speculators, real estate agents who tell clients prices never go down and you must get in now if you are ever to own a home, and borrowers who couldn't afford the homes they were buying and then took out secondary loans to buy cars and plasma tvs. Generalizations to be sure, but largely accurate I think. - Chris White
I got people in SAP and FastCompany kinda like a Tyler Durden thing. Anyway SAP was livid at last weeks show, demanded that Shel is gone. He was hated at Fast Company so no one really cares there. Scoble needs to step it up or he's finished as well. Ed Sussman is not doing a very good job. He's put a team of real losers together with no apparent skills in their chosen fields. Lynne Johnson -Social Media? Shel Israel - Journalist?, and the best, Scoble to run video? - loren feldman
@1938media: Man, sounds like they'd be better off hiring a nobody like me who has demonstrable technical skills, a clear voice, but no group baggage, let me assemble my own team, and be ahead of the train-wreck curve. I'm not, y'know, sayin', I'm just sayin'. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
@markcooper: Note to Self: Use pictures of squid or octopi instead of my own image if supposed to be on camera ... - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
and how many weeks to finally find out the shows are bad? shaking head - Fred Grott
Alexander Williams, putting his tentacles into social media. - Ontario Emperor
I'm blocked to by Shitbag Scoble but I saw he confirmed that Shel was gone and it seems like that "friendship" ended quick, nice job sucking at life Scoble and Shel - Andrew Fielding
FYI, the Scobleizer.tv production is pretty damn good. Not sure why everyone blames Robert for WorkFast. That's all done at Revision3. - Andrew Feinberg
Andrew Fielding - isn't Scoble (& FastCompany) damned if he did, and damned if he didn't? If Shel stayed, everyone would rag on Scoble for retaining Shel, and when Shel was let go, people will rag on Scoble for jettisoning a friend. Seems he loses either way. - Ontario Emperor
Hey - Robert looked good in the suit - and Shel provided good-natured comic relief. Please - take it easy... - Sanford
Shel has zero personality. His forced delivery and reading off cue cards hurt the show. The guy needed makeup to cover his scorched skin. A guy his age should really use sunblock. Scoble needs to start buying tailored suits. Off the rack suits always look terrible on guys who are overweight. - Rob Safuto
Hopefully this will 't say "missmiss, but I'm not convinced NASA/other govenment bodies would admit something hitting the earth so far in advance of the event occuring - Ben Metcalfe via twhirl
I'll be 75 then, maybe ready to see big fireworks. - Jack Carlson
I'll be 50, and praying they shoot it out of the sky! - Martin Bryant
It will miss. Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime naked eye skywatching target, though. I'll be ... uh ... 67. It's supposed to be visible in Europe and Africa. Who wants to meet me in the French countryside in 2029? - Chris Baskind
I won't even be 40, and I say it better miss. I think it will - people here read badastronomy.com? - Yuvi
Lets hope that Bruce WIllis is still alive in 2029!! - Joe Dawson
vote Republican, cuz the missile defense systems will come in use. besides Bruce Willis is a Republican. or he was... - Noah David Simon
Make a good bye message on Seesmic and get laid! LOL - Igor The Troll
Loic you better have backup servers on the Moon! - Igor The Troll
me girl is pissed. she doesn't like me online all the time. I had better hope that astroid hits if I don't get in bed - Noah David Simon
Probably we will get ahead of it by destroying Earth ourselves with global warming - Marilín Gonzalo
Nice (not really) blanket statement, it's not that black and white. It's really just what people say when they dislike something that's popular. - Sonciary Honnoll
one of my favorite videos by Honda is "Hate Something" (on YouTube) - dave mcclure
Loic, that's so sad! (Is the opposite true, if everyone hates you then you must be a maestro!) - Dave Winer
Loic be nice or I'll block you on Seesmic! LOL - Igor The Troll
Can I assume since I'm seeing Dave Winer in the timeline, etc, that he has unblocked me? Dave? - Aaron Brazell
@davew: Your implication is not logically true :) @loic come on NoiseRiver ;-) We have better than "hate this" - directeur via NoiseRiver
@Aaron Dave says thanks for reminding him :P (*kidding*) - Shey
Boring people don't have enemies. Not all interesting people do, but boring folks never do. If you're lucky tho - your friends like you as much & as passionately as your enemies hate you. - Lucretia Pruitt
Next time someone tries to do a block on me, I will retaliate with DOS denial attack on their server! Block per Block! lmao - Igor The Troll
Loic, Does this mean I have to become the only person that doesn't like you to save you from a life of mediocrity? I love seesmic so much I would do that for you. - Cathleen Rittereiser via NoiseRiver
I'm pretty medicre but my friends have lots of haters. What does that mean? - Robert Scoble
"We are sorting ourselves out by choosing to live with people that we agree with," Bill Clinton quote from today. Is this true of FF community? - Cains
@cains: It's true of every community. The alternative: What, you're going to force me to be with people I DON'T like? Who gave you the power to choose for me? And what about freedom of association in the Constitution? - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
This brings to mind a couple versus from R.Kipling: ... If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it... - Franklin Naval
What's wrong with being mediocre? Doesn't mean you can't do extraordinary things. - Jim Kukral via twhirl
It's not possible for everybody to like anyone. If everyone else in the world likes a person, then my husband will hate him/her. - MiniMage
If you always try to get everyone to like you and never say anything that expresses your true feelings for fear that someone might be offended does that mean you hate yourself? - Guilty Party
Part of me really agrees with the quote, but part of me also thinks it's a load of crap. I think that if there's someone everyone likes, that person is probably hiding something or not allowing themself to be fully transparent. For me, I prefer total transparency - I want to know if I'm going to like you or hate you. Any middleground just wastes time and energy. - Sam Dodge
I agree to a point. You have to have an opinion and stick up for that, but you can't just be generally abrasive. - Jeremy Vaught
I was thinking about this some more Loic. I think this statement is bullshit propaganda tripe spouted by people who think being a dick is "interesting". No, it's just you being a dick. Being liked is a good thing. Let's not try to claim that good people are boring as you suggest. - Jim Kukral
Asuming you're good, I think it's easy to be disliked and come across as arogant. It's far harder to be good and liked. - Ben Metcalfe via twhirl
There's no such thing as "everybody." There's nothing wrong with mediocre. Being hated does not mean you are more [interestng, intelligent, creative] etc. Being liked and being mediocre are factors independent of each other. - Roxanne Darling via twhirl
You can be liked by many people, but it is impossible to satisfy everyone. Sometimes you will bump into people that you don't like. I would say "If everybody likes you, you are not honest" - Erno Hannink
yes that is 100% true unless you are an antagonizer. Notice Amanda Chapel is both intelligent and has people listening to her. - Noah David Simon
To be a real jerk in social networking brings people to you. but it makes ur life a nightmare. I would prefer mediocrity - Noah David Simon
in an optimized system (social or economic) mediocrity is healthy =) (retweeting myself here into FF, since FF doesn't pickup the twitter conversation) - Thomas Knoll
I got my twitter account back @NoahDavidSimon and I notice by not being there I still have around 1000 followers. - Noah David Simon
by not tweeting I got a better share of listeners... but not really. I just didn't piss them off yet - Noah David Simon
I would rephrase it : “if you want attention from everyone, you are probably ZERO" or "if you want to be liked (loved) by everyone, you are mediocre" LOLOLOLOL - Lora Lufark
"Several sources told me TechCrunch has been in off-and-on talks recently with Time Warner’s AOL (TWX), which wants to pay from $20 and $30 million for the site." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
Do you think it's a fair price? It seems like a fairly low multiple of revenue when i do my back of the envelope math and factor in revenue from the TC50 conference as well. - Robert Seidman
I don't think Michael and the crew would be all that interested in selling to AOL. But maybe my own bias against AOL is really speaking here. Not to mention, I think Gavin's number is still rather low. I was thinking more 75-90 million. - Marcus
I think Arrington is looking to "roll up" others, not be rolled up himself. - Ben Metcalfe via twhirl
Keith, i don't think your method really works at the higher end. You have TC at about 1/2 what CBS paid for CNET (if I use the 450mm), but if this is anywhere near correct, CNET has more than 4X TC's traffic: http://trends.google.com/websi... - Robert Seidman
I would venture that TC viewers could be monetized at a much higher rate than CNET viewers. - Kevin Fox
I'm not as sure Kevin. CNET has big eyeballs for computer and electronic hardware (HDTV) products -- big ticket items on the high end and video games on the low end. $20-$30mm for TC definitely seems too low though. - Robert Seidman
What would such a sale entail, the domain name and brand or the actual bloggers? - Philipp Lenssen
A business that's based on a handful of personalities could be difficult to sell. The acquirer may fear that those personalties will leave or slack off. Does this apply to TC? I'm not sure. - Paul Buchheit
When a large company acquires a venture-backed startup they will often include a "carve-out" in the offer terms. The carve-out specifies a percentage of the proceeds to be distributed amongst the key employees as a retention inducement. The retention package will specify the length of time the employee must remain, and often include some other goals or metrics which must be hit, in order to receive the package. The carve-out provides strong motivation to make the acquisition work. - Denton Gentry
@Tracy I think I am with you. All those apps and 3g are going to suck the life out of that really quickly. - gfurry
may sound cheesy but I am also kinda attached to my v1 iPhone as it was the first iPhone AND a gift from my soon to be wife (getting married in Saint Helena, CA next Wednesday!). I refuse to sell it and the only person I would give it to would be her. I know, I know... cheese. - Tracy
Tracy, that is so romantic and geeky at the same time! Love it :) - Veronica
yeah, I agree. Gps would be nice, but I'm not going crazy over upgrading. - Dennis Jackson
Personally, I'm excited because I never bought the first one. It's time I catch up with the gadgetry crazyness. - Justin Korn
@Tracy I agree the 32GB is the one to wait for. The new software far out shines the new hardware this time around. And yes, that is some serious gouda!! :) - Ryan Cates
Not weird at all. I wish I didn't have to get one right away, but I'm writing part of the Ars interview *and* my wife and I gotta hit the road for a Chicago road trip asap Friday. Otherwise I'd wait through the weekend or into next week, at least after the nutball campers are gone. - David Chartier
I think just having to sift through 8 gazillion iphone fluff stories to find some real news has me burned out to the point that I just could care less about it. - Michael Melton
My employer only replaces phones every two years, regardless of whether a kewl phone comes out before the two years are up. And my employer doesn't buy Apple phones anyway. :) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I'm never getting one, which must make me the ne plus ultra of weird on friendfeed. - Zach Landes
i don't think it's weird - i think its more weird if you're freaking out about it right now... - Morgan
Planning on getting one on Saturday, doesn't seem to be a reason to stand in line before that. (I hope). There are already around 15-20 people in line at the Pasadena, CA apple store. - Morgan Collins via twhirl
I waited a whole year on my 3-year-old sidekick while like 15 people at my company all got iPhones and danced around like they were lollipop kids. I'm not waiting any longer. - J. Phil
I'm probably getting mine sometime today, but I'm not in a rush either - if there is a long line at the AT&T store across the street tomorrow morning, I'll just come back in the afternoon. - Frederic
I'm not rusing to get one, like I wouldn't say "I won't" but I'm not planning on it. Just doesn't interest me - which is funny cos I love gadgets just this doesn't interest me - Ben Metcalfe via twhirl
I'm waiting more better 3G coverage, AT&T is expanding it around here - Robert Hafer via fftogo
I really want the 32Gb. Hopefully one will be out by Christmas - David Wilson
Not weird at all! Shows that you don't buy into hype easily! Hope you enjoy it when you DO buy one! Personally I LOVE my Blackberry Pearl 8120! Almost all the iPhone goodness without AT&T and the new apps! - Jeff Garlick
Finally, a normal person. What's up with this iPhone rush? I mean I don't even like it that much. My Nokia is more than enough, no iPhone needed :P - Dan V via twhirl
Big whoop. Another phone that's going to make me pay thru the nose for non-all you can eat services. I'll stick with my pre-paid phone thank you very much. - Steve Gillette via twhirl
Follow @LenEdgerly for reasons why NOT to get an iPhone today. - Steve Garfield via twhirl
philip: like your analogue of iphone fan"persons" = lollipop kids (works for me)... - mike "glemak" dunn
For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts.
Throughout the day, several news sites have taken steps to disown the photograph that they ran on Wednesday, including LATimes.com and MSNBC.com. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
I find the enthusiasm of media funny. Media should better direct our country's foreign policy than scoring some brownie points on photoshop disasters. How does it matter if one missile failed. What matters is what we are going to do to stop missile proliferation without using our own missile. Scoring such brownie points are kid's play and not media's. - Krish
The Iranians should be writing Photoshop tutorials instead of trying to mimic their missle supply! - John Barker
"If you suffer from Ballistic Missile Launch Malfunction, then Misalys may be right for you..." - Live4Soccer
5 to 1 they used a pirated copy...they need to download a few Photoshop Podcasts for some tips on cloning...better yet, download "You Suck at Photoshop"... - Live4Soccer
That is incredibly disturbing; the Photoshop clone tool will prolly be the cause of the button press on the next significant US-involved conflict. - Clay Newton
Photography can be a powerful tool and terribly politically influential. I watched a photography documentary recently that cited the famous photo of a buddhist monk lighting himself on fire as the tipping point on the Vietnam involvement with President Kennedy. - Thomas Hawk
My Dad told me that it was when Cronkite declared the war "unwinnable" after the Tet Offensive that America changed their tune on the war... - Live4Soccer
seems the bbc hasnt noticed. now they are showing footage of the missile launch that matches the AP photo and then also different newspaper front pages which published the photos, some using the AFP and others AP, but no mention of this. interesting. - Katie Ratcliffe
Let's just drop the old one down the memory tubes to get rid of the double-plus-un-true version. - Nicholas Molnar
J. Phil, okay, then it is me not understanding you can do video easily on an iphone and my team not having the bandwidth to do this yet, thanks for the fact checking - Loic Le Meur
Loic, I think you mis-understood me. I don't know. I don't have an iphone yet. I just heard that video can be done on an iphone, which makes me wonder why apple hasn't done it 'officially' yet. - J. Phil
