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My iPhone drops calls 3 times as much as the WinMobile phones I've had in the past. Never thought of using it as an excuse to duck out of calls though :)
- Dare Obasanjo
WSJ and Sen. Grassley are raising issues and questions about the fact that Sec. Tres. Elect Tim Geithner didn't pay social security taxes on an illegal housekeeper. Are you kidding me? Who the hell cares?
Kevin Scott, Atul Arora, Bob Gannon and 5 other people liked this
Please tell me the WSJ isn't calling cabinet nominees '[post name] Elect'...
- Kevin Fox
Isn't there always someone in government who gets tagged with this issue? It's not worth wasting our time.
- William Beem
If that's all they can find wrong with the guy then it sounds like an automatic confirmation to me....
- Jeff P. Henderson
That is so 1988.
- Shawn Thompson
@Kevin, yeah, I'm sure they're not. My bad there. Nominee :)
- Thomas Hawk
The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...
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Gaming revenue in Clark County, which includes downtown Las Vegas and the Strip, is down 8.5% for the year, to $8.3 billion. But the revenue for October, the last month for which figures are available, is off an ominous 24.3% vs. the same month in 2007. Visitor volume is down 3% over last year, though the city's convention business is holding steady. The Strip's restaurants have seen a proportional decrease along with overall visitor traffic. David McIntyre, vice president of food and beverage at MGM Grand — which counts among its stable of high-end eateries such restaurants as Shibuya, Nobhill and a pair from French maestro Joel Robuchon — notes that visitors have become more careful with their dollars. "They're still going out to eat; they're just not spending as much money," McIntyre says. "They might not have that second glass of wine." (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas.)
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Welcome back Thomas. I enjoy your economy stories.
- Russellreno
thanks Russell. I just wish we could get some more positive economic stories. Unfortunately though I don't think we'll be seeing very many for a while.
- Thomas Hawk
My boss just came back from LV for a wedding last week and said it was stunningly empty.
- ronin
I've seen Vegas during slow times. It is very strange despite the great parking. Vegas is best served with a side dish of mass humanity and a dash of insanity.
- Mike Lewis
I would think that with the low price of gas, the Vegas casinos would be advertising in Los Angeles big time. They're not - or I haven't heard it.
- Ontario Emperor
The hotels have dropped prices several times for CES, which is unheard of. It will be interesting to see what the attendance figures are for the show. I was going to attend, but at this point I can't justify the cost. Maybe 2010.
- Chris Mayer
I'm in las vegas now. My flight was full and the hotel I'm at seems busy. And I'm definately ordering a 2nd glass of wine!
- Tom Wentworth
SkyFire: An iPhone-Like Browser for Windows Mobile - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
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Robert Seidman: Hey Apple, What Am I Supposed to Do With My Old iPhone? - http://www.youhavetobekiddingme.com/2008...
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One hopes they will allow us to convert these into iPods.
- Steve Rubel
donate it to a good cause.
- Russellreno
you could donate it to the USO so they in turn could give it to a member of the armed svcs so they can call home
- John Blanton
from twhirl
I'm giving mine to a friend who has wanted to take the plunge.
- Steve Isaacs
Support Network for Battered Women accepts used cells. Help some women be safe from her abusive jerkface spouse. http://tinyurl.com/5tyyxg
- Vinny Green
FriendFeed Adds a "Block" Feature - http://friendfeed.com/bret
Ed Bott, Cristi, Mike Fruchter and 2 other people liked this
Note the link under people's names.
- Steve Rubel
Five technologies i'd rather not live without. Mobile Phone/Email, TiVo, GPS, PC, iPod. You?
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HDTV, smartphones, WWAN, home broadband and PC/Mac.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Mobile Phone, iPod, Tivo and PC.
- Mike Wills
WiFi
- Pat Hawks
Five technologies I can't live without: RSS, Google, Macbook, iPhone, bookmarklets.
- Steve Rubel
RSS, SMS, IM, EVDO and HTML!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
DirectTv (the Nfl package is a must), PC, Mobile, iPod, GPS
- Mike Kavis
WiFi, dSLR, my Mac, Plumbing, Electricity (low tech is still tech)
- Jim Goldstein
PC, GPS, Phone. The iPhone will be all 3 in several years.
- Russellreno
Mobile Phone/Email, my Mac, Wifi, iPod, Digital Camera
- Stephen Terlizzi
HDTV, Windows Media Center, mobile phone/email, broadband, online maps (more useful than GPS to me)
- Ed Bott
iPhone, digital photography, laptop, high-speed internet, *nix
- Jeremy Brooks
laptop, SMS, the Internet, Open APIs, portable mp3 player
- John F Morton
from twhirl
TCP/IP, XHTML, CSS, POP3, and HDTV
- Andrew Smith
Xbox 360, my laptop, camcorders, DVRs, mobile phones
- Roger Benningfield
mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile
- Mary Jo Zilveti
from twhirl
Yep, your list of "Mobile Phone/Email, TiVo, GPS, PC, iPod" +++ RSS, FriendFeed!, Google mobile apps, online banking, BlackBerry 3G unlimited data & internet access! w00t! with GPS geo-location built right in to the phone; plus Mobile Video, Mobile Camera (ok it's only 2.0 Mpx), my "good" digital camcorder; WiFi, NAS data server, ultra fast Cisco routers on broadband internet. Also, my husbands medical equipment: hi-tech Blood Pressure monitor and Full Lipid/Cholesterol Blood analyzer.
- Susan Beebe
Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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just commented on your blog but copy/pasting here: A fine, well judged analysis. Robert said something to me via Twitter recently regarding Twitter's recent problems. I suggested that, collectively, we should consider taking it easy on Twitter as it is, after all is said and done, a free service. Robert replied that it it wasn't, in fact, a free service as he paid for it in his...
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- Scott O'Raw
Well written Steven. Robert will probably enjoy it to be at the center of this one ;) In general I'm thinking that there is only one relevant filter of information and that is the user himself. I have serious doubts that the mass on the Internet even remotely feels the pressure of noise. Why? Because they aren't into this rat race of wanting to know everything first and then echo about it. Chose the people and sources you wish to follow carefully and the noise disappears instantly.
- Alexander van Elsas
We can still discover new things by trying out different sources, but unfollowing is more important than following. If you hit a source of noise (it's personal), then get rid of it. If the noise helps you discover new signal, well, deal with it. I'd rather not use algorithms too much, because they tend to flatten out the world, letting us all hear the same things. Having said all this, I realize I use Google on a daily basis ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Well said Alexander! We share the same opinion on filters, and how the user and I mean the lambda-user, should be the center of content filtering. As I already said, Popularity of the content is the perversion of interest. It's not because something gets popular (by any mean) that it has to be significant for "me". Thus no algorithm that doesn't explicitly consults me on my needs will...
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- directeur
But as I already said: It's up to them :)
- directeur
Commented in blog, dude.
- Mark Dykeman
Random thought: In one respect, social networks do not distinguish between A-listers and listers of any other letter. Thus, the feed from Scobleizer has no more, or no less, validity than All Things Jennifer. Both are different, and both are interesting. I wonder, however, about the average Twitter user with only ten followers; if you only have a few people in your network, perhaps you should only have personal friends.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
@Alexander I definitely agree that this problem is more of an early adopter problem and that the typical web traveller probably won't even consider this discussion anything more than just plain silly.
- Steven Hodson
For a minute there I thought you were talking about what we're doing at http://www.fastcompany.tv (live show starts in a few minutes). I'm also broadcasting at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer and have a chat room there.
- Robert Scoble
@OE it might be interesting if one could assign a importance value to those in our various "friends" lists so that one's near the top would bubble to the surface faster than those at the bottom. As such let's say I gave you and Alexander a higher value than Robert. I would still get Robert's input but anything from you or Alexander would automatically place higher then Robert the moment either of you posted something. Just a thought.
- Steven Hodson
Robert does produce a prodigious volume. But his S/N ratio is still much higher than most bloggers/posters/producers. Even when the ratio slips sometimes the quality of the signal is so high that not listening means you are missing a lot. Others I turn off or on occasionally when their spew gets annoying (Winer, Arrington are examples) but so for I have never tuned out Scoble for even a day. Of course this is always one of those YMMV issues.
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian I agree with you concerning Robert's S/N ration but I find that in FF at least I still see the more important "signals" of his via the "Friends of Friends" option so I don't *need* to be subscribed to him. Previously I was a follower on Twitter but the noise got to be too much. His blog (and link blog) I have always subscribed to except for one very short period when *everything* was video related and I wasn't interested. Like you said though YMMV
- Steven Hodson
My Baby Girls - http://pownce.com/thomash...
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