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Robert Scoble posted a message

“I'm at the Chinese Blogger Conference: @davidfong is livetweet translating. #china20”

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hey there Robert...boring? interesting? - Zee from WeDoCreative

It's hard to understand. I don't speak the language. But the people in the back are very interesting. Great vibe. - Robert Scoble

its @davidfeng - Web2Asia

@Web2Asia, sorry, I just copied Shel Israel. - Robert Scoble

Blame it on Shel :) - anna awesomesauce

you've been there a week, you'd think you'd speak fluently by now...jeez... - Zee from WeDoCreative

If you can't understand it then...ok, nevermind! - WorldofHiglet

Looks like someone should've invested some time with Rosetta Stone. - Akiva Moskovitz

any cool tech company addressing the language issue? seems like a huge opportunity to make this country and whats happening more accessible - simonpure

xiha btw, is a very cool cross-alphabet, polyglot social network - anna awesomesauce

:) - Vista

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“Is there a new power law for social media? http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... says there is. Can you see it?”

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1. Almost everyone on this list rarely participates. - Robert Scoble

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2. Almost everyone on this list is a popular blogger. - Robert Scoble

3. There is a definite tech bent to this list. - Robert Scoble

4. In the first 100 I see only a handful of names that I didn't know a year ago. - Robert Scoble

5. Most of the people on this list have been to at least one conference or event I've attended in past year. - Robert Scoble

And yet the most of use don't really care about them... http://www.ffholic.com/Entries... - Johnny Worthington

So, lessons? 1. it's hard to get onto the top of the popularity lists and wasn't made easier when a new service came out. 2. such lists favor people who network their behinds off at physical events. 3. Participation in FriendFeed helps you move up a little bit, but only if you are both very active and throw interesting content into FriendFeed (like, say, Mona). What else do you learn by looking at this list? - Robert Scoble

Johnny: well, you might claim you don't care about them, but in aggregate I see that most of us follow people who are already popular, not people who actually participate. Of course, since FriendFeed is, at top, an aggregator, just putting your RSS feeds into here is participation, I guess. - Robert Scoble

We do subscribe to them, because they are beacons. But you also have to weigh that list by the amount of 'active' users who subscribe to them. I know of at least 5 people who are members here on FriendFeed, who subscribe to most if not all of the top 20 yet never come on here. The core group is what matters. Those who are recognizable names will always get more follows, but the core of the group http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... is what drives it. Rankings are always skewed. - Johnny Worthington

I think part of this is that many people use FriendFeed as an aggregator. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via bTT

This list just looks like every top 100 for every mainstream (in tech) online service. It shows that in the main, the top 100 don't use friend feed but send feeds to it, I don't think that = participation, at all. - Kevin Dixie

Kevin: there is a participation effect, though. On Twitter Leo Laporte has twice the followers that I do, but not here. Why? The participation effect. I've gathered quite a few followers by participating here. - Robert Scoble

I agree - participation is key to any community see my example here (a userguide to my community) http://www.fuelmyblog.com/inde... Online has the very same rules as offline and glad you are showing that - Kevin Dixie

FriendFeed is far more of a 'community' than Twitter is, participating here counts for far more than almost anywhere else, however, participation (and how much you participate) is also a lot less visible here, in my opinion. FriendFeed (as a system) favors those who create content to import into the stream, not those who contribute to the community. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

The smart people (like you, Tina, Mona, and others) know better. The result is that being active on the community nets your rewards from the community itself, not the system. Is that a bad thing? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Kevin : I disagree, when you are sending feeds in FF, you are pointing at us, poor human, what you find interesting. I think this is a kind of participation. Robert is doing that very well (too well ?). The only exception is twitter for me. I find it very hard to follow a twitter conversation here on friendfeed. - Olivier CASTETS

Good discussion. I interact and participate much more on FF than on Twitter. Why? Because FF is a much better tool for enabling engaging communication. I find myself being very careful conversing on Twitter because I feel it's easy to pollute the stream, whereas on FF you can do this without the same effects. - Mark Krynsky

The first thing I notice about the list is that NOBODY on FF has more than 20,000 subscribers. I reach more people through my blog on a regular basis. Is FF really all that influential? It does seem to be a great way to connect with the geek elite, but is that its only value? - Eric Hamilton

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Way to much at this point. You're supposed to give all your money to Apple anyways for these holidays http://friendfeed.com/e/c2e03b... - Mark Krynsky

macbook pro base model with 4GB RAM purchased aftermarket, 128GB SSD aftermarket, *and* a retail copy of vista business ($187.99) AND office 2007 ultimate (389.99, which you'd be crazy to pay for. most people only need the $100 upgrade versions, but I'm proving a point) is a pound heavier and 133MHz slower CPU but it has much better graphics, a larger screen, better battery life, and better warranty program... apples are definitely better windows machines than this. :P - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

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Remember using Squid Proxy with referer enabled to record all the navigation graph, and it was on the "Web 1.0" or it was "Web 1.0.1"? - Sebastian Wain

@Sebastian: Thanks for the tip. Will take a look if its still live. Did it search the recorded content? - Jonathan

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I do wish Cuban the best of luck. We are rooting for you, its just that the Feds don't play by the rules. Fed Judges work AS the prosecution. - Christian Burns

Unlikely the SEC will fold. Cuban should remember the first rule of holes. - Cliff Gerrish

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“You know that desiccant silica gel they put in gadget pacakges? They're serious when they say "do not eat." It tastes bad and gives you gas.”

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You didn't really eat it did you? - Kevin Bondelli

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lol are you serial? - Monique via fftogo

Oooh! Chicklets! - Mark VandenBerg

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Did you really eat the dessicant gel? Damn man I nearly fell out of my chair and darn near choked to death on my tea from laughing so hard!!!! - J. D. Ebberly

Chris! Those are SPIDER EGGS!!! - Tad, Fool

See Genesis chapter 3. - Karim

No, I... just thought it's odd that they'd have to put "DO NOT EAT" on every package. Maybe the people who eat that shit don't deserve to survive? Darwin... - l0ckergn0me

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“I am going to post my question here and on the apple.com forums. Let's see who responds quickest and most accurate. Why would my MacBook Pro just shut off all the time with an hour left on the battery? I don't get it.”

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its faulty - WIN! - Zee from WeDoCreative

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how old is the battery? I've had similar issues with 2+ Year Old batteries - Sean Reiser

I have had mine since April of 2007. Found a thread on apple.com with numerous people having this issue. Oh no ... http://discussions.apple.com/t... - Amani

Space-time distortion. Happens all the time. - Denton Gentry

It could be the battery is overheating, thus triggering some kind of panic shutdown. I've had this happen to me with two batteries (and I'm not entirely sure what the actual reason is). Apple replaced both batteries for free. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

You could have a damaged cell. Mine started doing it after 300+ recharge cycles although it was with about 20 minutes to go. - Timothy Griffin

@Timothy... that makes a lot more sense. Thanks. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Carlos: no worries. Apple wouldn't replace my battery as they said I'd had over two years worth of use in 14 months -- wasn't too worried, though, as I had abused my poor MacBook and it stood up to it magnificently. - Timothy Griffin

@Timothy... I'm on my fourth battery already (in 2 yrs). But Apple has always replaced them for free (I do have Apple Care, though). - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Carlos: That was my problem, i.e. no AppleCare! It's only my second battery, though, and I am swapping for a new MacBook Pro in a few weeks and this time I got AppleCare. - Timothy Griffin

I believe I am on 375 cycles (what does that really mean?) so I need to call AppleCare. I don't think I have apple care, but I am not sure. - Amani

Amani: "A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could use your notebook for an hour or more one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two, so you may take several days to complete a cycle." - Timothy Griffin

@ Timothy - Thanks for the explanation. It seems like more and more people are having this issue. - Amani

No worries. - Timothy Griffin

Mine started doing that as well, seems to happen when I have a run on plugging it in and unplugging it often. It's in the apple hospital at the moment, let's hope it gets sorted. - Stuart Forsyth

Had a similar problem, I had a bad harddrive, get it checked out before a crash - Bryan Thatcher via twhirl

Apple tested my battery, cells poked so they gave me a new one. Was doing the same thing - from 30% power to off in less than a second :) - Stuart Forsyth via twhirl

I went in over the weekend and they gave me a new battery too. So far so good. I wonder if it is an unwritten rule to just replace the battery but not announce anything formal? - Amani via IM

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what a phenomenal rise.. - Zee from WeDoCreative

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“One visual that sticks with me from China: Going across Hong Kong border they scanned my temperature in 1/8th of a second. Wild.”

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Do they still show your own full body image as you walk by? When SARS was on everyone's lips, it was interesting watching people go by... some wanted to stop and look, while MANY others wanted to race by without seeing for themselves. It gave new insight to me on the meaning of the cliche "whistling by the graveyard" and how prevalent the desire to hide from the truth is.... and just how wide spread the practice of ignoring symptoms of treatable diseases (until the disease is no longer treatable) might really be. - David HC Soul

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No, the lady walked over, aimed something that looked like a gun, then moved onto the next person in the car. It went so fast I didn't have much time to be freaked out until she was gone. Our driver explained that it was a new kind of thermometer that looked for SARS victims. - Robert Scoble

Too bad... I was fascinated by the image and where all the "hot spots" are - I was trying to decide whether the left side of my face seeming to be distinctly warmer than the right side had any significance when they asked me to move along as I was delaying the line a bit. - David HC Soul

You know how many moms would kill for a thermometer like that? That's even easier that chasing a kid to use that thermometer that goes in the ear. We sure have come a long way from the glass rod with the mercury that goes in the mouth for 5 minutes that was used when I was a kid. - April Russo

sars got that tech going .. disaster=progress - Gregory Lent

i commented on this elsewhere, but moms or anyone else can buy these things now. you can find cheap ones for less than $50, but that is unfortunately still several times more than a cheap drugstore digital thermometer, and the accuracy of the infrared thermometers tends to be only +/- 2 degrees on the cheap ones... you could tell if someone was REALLY feverish but not check for a low-grade fever reliably. - Karim