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Ref question help needed. I'm not much of a sci-fi reader. A patron wants to know of earliest story line in sci fi where the theme of a corporation running the world is presented. All I know of is Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any better suggestions?
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Pohl & Kornbluth's The Space Merchants might qualify, although it's more about advertising.
- John Dupuis
You might also want to check the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, if you have it handy.
- John Dupuis
"Market Forces" by Richard Morgan
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
"Running Man" by Stephen King
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
Kim Stanley Robinson?
- D0r0th34
"Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
Would Bester's The Stars My Destination work?
- Katy S
Most William Gibson novels.
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
Oh, EARLIEST. Okay, forget KSR, then. LeGuin, The Word For World Is Forest, would be my suggested entrant.
- D0r0th34
The Stars My Destination is from 1955, fwiw
- Katy S
Space Merchants is from 1953 and indeed businesses rule the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- John Dupuis
Thanks everyone! Librarians rule!
- Stephen Francoeur
For those that are interested, I got some of the same answers on Ask MetaFilter just now http://tinyurl.com/6abgek
- Stephen Francoeur
I'm wondering when Peircy's He, She and It came out....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
This is not that early, but the 70s novel by John Brunner, called "The Sheep Look up" is one.
- Michelle Murrain
from twhirl
"The Machine Stops" E.M.Forster 1909 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Edward Vielmetti
Have just posted on rec.arts.sf.written - will let you know of any results.
- Deborah Fitchett
OMG, librarians luv them a reference question! Thanks everyone!
- Stephen Francoeur
wow, time warp.... how would I even get to rec.arts.sf.written????
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Google groups is easiest but not optimal. They're not showing my question yet and... they do a lot of things that seriously fubar the way usenet works. That said, they are the easiest if it's just casual.
- Deborah Fitchett
Suggestions on rasfw so far: H.G.Wells "A Story of the Days to Come" and "When the Sleeper Wakes" (1899) with "enormously powerful company". "It's debatable whether and how they actually run the world."
- Deborah Fitchett
And _Looking Backward_ (Edward Bellamy, 1888) "has the US effectively run as one big company and it seems likely it will eventually merge with all the other inevitable nation-companies".
- Deborah Fitchett
Dangerous! I'm getting ideas for more books I need to read.
- Katy S
russell davies: patina - http://russelldavies.typepad.com/plannin...
Interesting thought. How does a website get a patina? How does anything digital get a patina, for that matter? Do bytes fall out? Chips in the CSS? Dirt worn into the cracks of the program?
- mitten
time to take a belt-sander to those gradients
- Edward Vielmetti
@s_francoeur i'd like to hear the anti-twitter argument. i have many of my own, but here i am.
See Ed Vielmetti http://tinyurl.com/4bolx9 Argument = search for content when you need it, don't overwhelm yrself w/ too much data
- Stephen Francoeur
gotcha. i can relate. i'm an inbox zero fan myself. this same logic is why i don't spend as much time aimlessly visiting FF these days.
- J450N
not so much anti-twitter as trying to modulate the use; my poor brain can't keep up with as many people as the software can.
- Edward Vielmetti
Yesterday 9.4% of Techmeme visitors used Chrome, down from 14% a week ago.
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if you assume that techmeme users are the bleeding edge, this is not a surprising fall back; time for another Chrome release if you show < 5% !
- Edward Vielmetti
Easter brunch bunny bao (steamed buns) | Just Hungry - http://www.justhungry.com/easter-...
I was looking for our family bunny biscuit recipe, and discovered I hadn't put it online yet; here's an asian version.
- Edward Vielmetti
from Bookmarklet
produce station cafe has wifi
but it's crummy wifi; back home
- Edward Vielmetti
My esteemed client wants to know what are the favorite web tools of folks 40 and older. Can anyone point us to reliable research?
Edward Vielmetti liked this
Anecdotally (ie among my age cohort) email is the favorite tool; if you are busy enough to do nothing else that's what you use.
- Edward Vielmetti
My favorite museum in the world is...(fill in the blank).
Laura Lou Who and Thomas Brox Røst liked this
The Warhol in Pittsburgh.
- Jàson Puçkett
L.A. County Museum of Art. Mostly because of fond memories from my High School years.
- Kårín Dalzĭel
The Uffizi
- Greg Schwartz
the Art Institute in Chicago.
- laura x
the Met...for now :)
- Abigail wants more eggnog
Art Institute Chicago. Followed by the National Gallery London, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the Getty.
- s t e v e
The Metropolitan in NY or MOMA or the Wyeth Museum
- Sir Shuping
The Met in NY though I remember liking the Art Institute in Chicago very much.
- Lisa Finder
American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Followed by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (if that counts) in LA.
- MegvMeg
Field Museum, chicago.
- royce kitts
SFMoMA because it's close, but Guggenheim if I were closer.
- AJ Kohn
The George Eastman House & Museum in my home town of Rochester, NY
- Michael Sauers
The Mario Lanza museum at the Street School of Music in South Philly.
- Mary Carmen
The Mauritshuis in the Hague
- Sia Stewart
Meg, I'll vote for the Museum of Jurassic Technology, too, which sure as hell counts.
- Stephen Francoeur
Salvador Dali's about 6 blocks away from my house.
- Nancy Sp♠id
reserving comment until I can see museum of surgical history & leather archives, both in chicago. overall, i'm not a huge museum fan.
- Rochelle Rochelle
from fftogo
if i HAD to choose: the MACBA Barcelona contemporary art museum. there was an AV/art exhibit of performance art and music from the 60s. Cage's 4'33" was on display. Could still be there going through it now if they'd let me live there 8). http://www.macba.es/control...
- janimal
Metropolation Museum of Art in New York
- RAPatton
I see a trip to Chicago in my near future: surgical history, leather archives and the Field, sounds perfect! let's all go!
- marthalib
I fail because I haven't been to a lot, but I have been to the Louvre and it was one of the few things I liked about Paris. For something completely different I absolutely love the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and I'm quite partial to the Toledo Museum of Art because it's my hometown and one of the things I enjoyed about living there (and it's free!)
- Heidi Blanton
I liked the Toledo Museum of Art when I went there, Heidi.
- laura x
The British Museum. Then there's the Museum of Hunting and Fishing (Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum) in Munich, Germany - for their permanent Wolpertinger (rabbits with antlers) collection. (Really.)
- Thomas Brox Røst
the British Museum
- Laura Lou Who
the next museum I visit...
- joe is...
Should also put a word in for the Transit Museum in Brooklyn, too.
- Stephen Francoeur
Upon visiting it today, I am forced to add the Tower Museum (Genoa, CO) to my list. Seriously amazing, lifechanging (to me, at least).
- MegvMeg
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, MI, with the bell from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
- Edward Vielmetti
Ooh, and I forgot the Corning Museum of Glass. That place RAWKS.
- Laura Lou Who
The Cluny in Paris, if I had to choose only one.
- Candy Schwartz
Musee d'Orsay
- Dave Martin
National Museum of the American Indian
- Alix Whitmire
is trying to learn more keyboard shortcuts on the Mac.
"smash 8" - control, option, command 8 - puts the screen inverse video for bright sunlight
- Edward Vielmetti
Yahoo Launches Delicious 2.0 - Does Anyone Care? - http://furrier.org/2008...
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i just hope they haven't messed up my delicious
- Edward Vielmetti
I care. I just hope it doesn't mess up my FriendFeed stream.
- Louis Gray
I do -- the FF implementation is awesome
- Jorge Escobar
From the blog post: "The first version was a hit with early adopters but just didn’t seem to cross over to mainstream like what Twitter has done. After Yahoo bought it things just went south." Hmm, that seems a little harsh. They added very few features (media player, some Flickr integration, etc.) but I didn't notice any degradation in the service. And there are some people out there who are just fine with that.
- Mike Doeff
I care as well - I was so against the ancient interface of the service that I was actually looking forward to seeing a new one. But to my disappointment this one looks kind of childish :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
the not logged in view interface looks ok, except the # of posts per page is too small for my normal habits. now to log in.
- Edward Vielmetti
That new grey font is making me squint too much.
- Stephen Francoeur
I care. I don't know that it loads faster but it's a good upgrade... I use it every day.
- Stefan Hayden
Yes, I care. I use delicious everyday. Just signed into the new 2.0 site - nice!
- Susan Beebe
Mike: i never got into it after a few times maybe the new version will be a better UI
- John Furrier
I'll give it another try
- John Furrier
I care. Still the web service I use more than any other (outside of Gmail)
- Deepak Singh
They did it right in the middle of my presentation on social media tools. Logged me out and I couldn't get back in. Grrrr! (Doesn't the whole world revolve around me? :))
- Kevin Gamble
from twhirl
I use "Shareaholic" add-in to my FireFox browser to quickly save my delicious bookmarks - very easy. Of course, there's a delicious add-on too, but I prefer the Shareaholic one as I can share across multiple products like FF, Facebook, Digg, etc.
- Susan Beebe
I use Delicious every day. It's open right next to twitter and google reader all day long. That said...I really like the redesign. It's clean, fresh, and still text centric.
- Justin Whitaker
I like the new design, but I don't like the new URL.
- Egon Willighagen
the new design has shown me how disorganized my bookmarks are. I need to reorg now.
- Rob Diana
me! i care!
- Sarah Perez
my tagging velocity is down with the new data entry screen - but it's much better at helping me retrieve stuff. all in all a plus. nice to have a new view on 10000 old data points.
- Edward Vielmetti
From Twitter: leese Yay for del.icio.us 2.0!
- paul mooney
I care! I love delicious!
- Mack D. Male
I care and what does Schachter really mean with his statement?
- joergkurtwegner
I don't use delicious as much any more, maybe this will entice me to start using regularly again.
- TDavid
delicious is still a big player, plus I like the design so I do care
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I want my old del.icio.us back I think... but I've only looked at it for a few seconds. Maybe it will grow on me.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
from twhirl
anyone have the traffic numbers on delicious? My firefox plugin just crashed on install.. i'm checking out shareaholic
- John Furrier
I almost never actually visit del.icio.us on the web; I use either Pukka, Cocoalicious, or a firefox plugin. I never would have noticed the change unless it broke any of those clients.
- Mike Hussein Cohen
I care.It looks like FF Like.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Susan: Yeah, Shareaholic saves my day everyday. Maybe my favorite extension next to Web Developer.
- Chris Baskind
Yay, new delicious.com neé del.icio.us - looks awesome!
I agree that the new delicious is nice - trying to figure out how to use it as effectively as I used the old one!
- Edward Vielmetti
Does any city really need 116 Radio Shacks? - http://gothamist.com/2008...
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i'd like to see a map of the starbucks to radio shack ratio on county by county basis
- Edward Vielmetti
do they really need 341 dunkin donuts?
- Sir Shuping
actually heard they were merging and rolling out a brand new "Radiobucks" chain -- specializing in overpriced coffee made by people who don't know anything about technology.
- J450N
341 Dunkin Donuts in NYC? It appears that Boston's plan to undermine NYC by way of subterfuge is going as planned.
- Liam Sullivan
Ok watches - in or out? I stopped wearing one two years ago.
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Out. I use my mobile to tell the time
- Glenn Slaven
Good question, I got back and forth on this myself. I think its just a personal choice rather than fashion trend.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
It depends on your style. I'm always wearing one if I'm not home
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Out. Look at the sun to approximate. And let your calendar-syncing phone's notifications tell you when you're about to miss something big.
- Wade Dorrell
I still wear mine, though I often just look at my cell phone.
- Mack D. Male
I look good wearing one, so I do.
- Ricardo Rabago
I would feel naked without it.
- Victor Ryden
haven't worn a watch in years - obsolete and redundant. I'd love to wear something in that slot if it had some function
- Internet's Tad
in. One of few dude accesories.
- Kevin Doohan
I blogged about the death of wrist watches last summer http://bit.ly/1wgCdH
- Tac Anderson
Wear mine all the time.
- Hutch Carpenter
I wear one all the time. Wouldn't feel right without it.
- Dave Winer
Out, except for posh events when I don't take my mobile
- Sally Church
Haven't worn one since 2001
- Deepak Singh
watches: no longer for telling time. Now: ego and fashion statements.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Feel naked w/o one.
- Larry Huffman
Out! Clocks are every where. Whay a ticking thing on your pulse point; we have enough stress.
- Roxanne Darling
from twhirl
In. But well, not a traditional one, has an build-in MP3 player =)
- Hakan Deryal
Totally in, I love my watches
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
how about - i don't care :) I want my watch - who wants to pull a phone out to check the time?
- Nicole
I'd wear my watch again if I could charge it up via USB. I hate having to find a jewelry store that does free battery replacements. :p
- Rachael
always wear a watch when flying - and when im going to events - otherwise no
- Allen Stern
Only if going out really dressed up.
- jcunwired
what the hell is a watch?!
- royce kitts
out
- Kishore Balakrishnan
In as fashion out as timepiece
- Tim FitzGerald
jesus you fashion trainwrecks of course in if not for the accessory purpose only
- adolfo foronda
Don't wear jewelry - have enough timekeeping devices on / near me already
- martin english
from twhirl
A watch? I stopped that about the time newspaper subscriptions stopped. Don't miss it at all. Most of the time, my guesses are within minutes anyway.
- Mike Sansone
A watch is jewelry. You no longer need one to tell time, since we all carry at least one smartphone-type device that syncs to an atomic clock on the telco network. But a wrist is bare without a watch.
- Bryon Thomas
I use my phone, but I've never liked watches
- Kate
Watch. Much less effort to just look down than to pull out my phone. Plus, I check it every five minutes that it would just be absurd.
- Sara Jacobson
It depends on how important it is for you to be on time. I say in.
- Henry DeBardeleben
from twhirl
Haven't worn a watch in, umm, 10 years. Compulsive cell phone time checker.
- Jason Lovett
Out except for formal occasions or activities like sailing, hiking, and diving where accurate time keeping is vital.
- Kevin D. White
I have a Casio G-Shock I've worn for about 5 years now. I bought it when I started culinary school because I'd heard they were indestructible. When it gets greasy or dirty, I just clip it to a rack in the dishwasher. Good as new. I also have a really neat "dressy" watch my wife bought me a while back. I like it, but I only wear it with suits and the like.
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
In.
- Steven Perez
out
- Peter Dawson
I bought a waterproof watch in 2006, when we went on a cruise. I was going to be playing in the water, and I wanted to make sure we were on the ship when it left. Other than that, I can't be bothered. Work makes me wear a pager, and my compulsion makes me carry an internet-enabled PocketPC Phone.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Out (unless it has GPS, then in)
- Nik Kalyani
In. Analog, accurate if set correctly, plain. An engagement gift.
- Edward Vielmetti
On the wrist, in the pocket or around the neck? Clarification please ump...
- Vince Green
Out. Haven't worn a watch in ten years. I found a couple of my old watches in a box recently, of course the batteries were long dead.
- Nathan Howell
My mobile¬ebook help me
- Igor Poltavskiy
I haven't worn one for at lest 5 years.
- Chris Rossini
My watch mainly gets used to time my film developing, pushing the stopwatch buttons just as I pour into the dev tank. C41, 3m15s dev, 2m0s blix, etc.
- Ian Tindale
out
- Amy J. Kearns, MLIS
A watch...what's that?
- Nik Kalyani
[Webware]: Why Rafe had a bad Webware day - http://x.techwheat.com/1ED
Dave Winer liked this
"At the moment, the ratio of bad Web products to good (or even interesting) products is worse than usual. Here are few reasons why."
- tech.newsjunk.com
is this different from sturgeon's law in general?
- Edward Vielmetti
ourfounder shares old ourfounder (J. LeRoy) music here: www.woodwardstudio.com/sourcesgallery/press/jleroy.htm I thought this stuff was long gone.
plurk feeds into friendfeed lose the urls
- Edward Vielmetti
[FriendFeed]: 5.8 magnitude in LA (USGS site linked here) http://bit.ly/1qivfC
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shake em up baby
- Edward Vielmetti
Here in Santa Monica, where soil liquefaction has a pretty serious multiplier effect on quakes, it was maybe 12 seconds of shaking. It didn't even trip the gas shutoff. Cable news is, predictably, going nuts, but they're scaring out of towners for no reason I can see.
- Bill Barol
notes that the Bennigan's chain is closing. Like today. All of them. I am not sad, mind you.
Edward Vielmetti liked this
bennigan's shutdowns elsewhere confirm. what will I do when I'm hungry for fun? http://www.nbc5i.com/money...
- Edward Vielmetti
Reminds me of "Hassle Me"
- Edward Vielmetti
Advertising is Changing and It’s Big - Content and Community is the Ad - http://furrier.org/2008...
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translate: we think we can trick consumers into saying nice things about our products, and that's cheaper than television time. (brought to you by the Michigan Blueberry Council and the International Assocation of Cheese Curd Lovers)
- Edward Vielmetti
BBC NEWS | Branson unveils space tourism jet - http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post...
next, "green eco space tourism"
- Edward Vielmetti
Procter & Gamble is using design thinking to crack difficult business problems - http://www.businessweek.com/innovat...
""Business schools tend to focus on inductive ... & deductive thinking ... Design schools emphasize abductive thinking—imagining what could be possible. This ... approach helps us challenge assumed constraints & add to ideas, versus discouraging them""
- David Smith
abductive thinking - thinking about how to abduct consumers and make them buy your crap
- Edward Vielmetti
Just how the hell do turtles produce wax?!
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It is a slow deliberate process (http://www.instantrimshot.com/)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
You got it wrong -- the wax produces the turtles
- Brian Sullivan
"I like turtles!" - Jonathon
- Jemm
Are they carnuba turtles?
- Jay Wiegmann
It's wax all the way down.
- Edward Vielmetti
Do you ever wake up anxious to connect with people?
Moksh Juneja, Jennifer Van Grove, James Williams and 8 other people liked this
Never! It's one of the things I look forward to actually.
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
No. Perhaps it shows.
- Mo Kargas
"anxious to connect with people?" - do you mean RL or online ?
- Peter Dawson
In this case, I mean online, but only because I'm watching the kids.
- Chris Brogan
yes! When we traveled to Austin and when we ventured up to Vancouver. Definitely! Also when we've had blogger meetups.
- Todd Jordan
Hey, Todd. Good to see you. : )
- Chris Brogan
That's a mighty personal question, Chris. Do you ever wake up needing to brush your teeth?
- Edward Vielmetti
nah. when I wake up the last thing I want is to connect with people.
- Nicholi
Chris, yes, I am human and need to sleep. If I open a convo at 9/10PM in the evening with folks on .AU / .JP zones and then next AM, I am anxious to see what responses are there on thread. Secondly, there are classic face2face when u meet your online friends, is like "its just like old friends meeting for the 1st time" !! anxiety's surfaces and then quickly disappears. However, there is a flip side to this too..online freinds too
- Peter Dawson
Great to run across you Chris. Yes. I'm typically introverted but soc netting has really encouraged me to spread my wings, meet folks online and more in person. Been to several meetups now - tweeters, bloggers, and social media. Always excited about that now.
- Todd Jordan
Edward - I brush my teeth reasonably quickly after waking up. Shortly after I use the toilet and wash my hands.
- Chris Brogan
I hate to admit it, but get on computer before I grab coffee.
- Michelle Martinez
what michelle said - wait coffees ready be right back ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I just woke up, picked up my iPhone, fired up FF to see what's what & saw this...post complete...connected. Good Morning.
- Carlos Ayala
I usually wake up cranky, in a totally disconnected mode, after a few smokes things change a little...
- jk5027a
Anxious isn't the word I'd use, perhaps eager. Every morning it's coffee, a smoke, and a perusal of the morning rush to beat the next guy to publication.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Give me an hour or so. Then we'll talk.
- Paul Whitaker
Yes, I love morning coffee meetings.
- David Finch
I'm a morning person. don't talk to me past 3 in the afternoon.
- Noah David Simon
Sometimes I rush the getting ready process so I can sit down and see what everyone is up to you :)
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
No. Unless you mean filled with anxiety over having to meet with people ;)
- Clint Ecker
No, not really. I get anxious on catching up on whatever I've missed, a holdover habit from my youth. Usually, whatever "happened" is not that important but I still want to get "in the know" whether it is political news or just pop culture. Once I get the basic facts about a situation, I can relax and just talk to people, read stories in depth, etc. That's not anxious, that's normally pure pleasure.
- Liz
Always. Laptop is by my bed, jump on to Twitter.
- Francine Hardaway
more than connecting with people.. it it to know wht these people are upto!!!
- Moksh Juneja
from twhirl
I wake up (this includes washing face, etc in bathroom), look at the list of new emails, have coffee, read twitter and THEN say good morning. I tend to need coffee before interacting.
- chelpixie
I sleep with my laptop, to stay close to my connections :P
- Phillip Jeffrey
everyday. Hi, I'm Mona :)
- Mona Nomura
MobileMe Status Page Promises Updates, But Tone Rings Flat - http://db.tidbits.com/article...
Edward Vielmetti liked this
the difference between mobileme fail, amazon web services fail, and twitter FAIL WHALE is enlightening. (the web 2.0 equivalent of the pre dot-com era busy signal)
- Edward Vielmetti
Oct 18, 2008: ARBCAMP2 at Washtenaw Community College: Morris Lawrence Building - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event...
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"ArbCamp: Commercializing BarCamp's values since 2007"
- Edward Vielmetti
Amazon explains the July 20 outage on S3, setting the bar high for corporate communication with customers it values. - http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-2008...
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If only Twitter were so explicit when their outages happen...
- Jorge Escobar
A really great example of transparency which should create long term loyalty.
- AJ Kohn
This is a great example of why you want great PR people to work with. The S3 group has one of those PR teams and my guess is they had a hand.
- Christian Anderson
from fftogo
I think the guys at Twitter are trying, I was thinking of Comcast, who says nothing until they shut you off, deliberately, never apologizing, offering a refund, or explanation. If anyone from Comcast is listening, ultimately this is who you're going to be competing with. You're totally not ready for it.
- Dave Winer
Pity that Apple can not do the same after their iPhone and MobliMe debacle.
- joubert berger
from twhirl
This is a good PR move by being more transparent and open with your customers when something goes wrong with the service your company provides. It pisses the customers less than if you are hiding the problems the customers are facing. When customers understand what's going on, then they tend to be more accepting or else they will walk to another company.
- imabonehead
I think a lot of the bigger companies have tried the lame-o-Twitter approach, but the Exxon Valdez event & other experiences have convinced many that good communication can be cheaper in the long run. It's hard to battle the old "knowledge is power & need-to-know only". Amazon used to delete bad reviews and do slimier stuff. Now Amazon shows (a) the most popular good review (b) the most popular bad review - because many people like it.
- Mitchell Tsai
Amazon needs to spend some time and resources to bring S3 in line with Web 2.0 developers' expectations for reliability and scalability.
- Bill Sodeman
Increased transparency is also beginning in the areas of executive coaching versus traditional psychotherapy. During the past 10 years, there's more effort by coaches to bring their own issues into coaching sessions (e.g. ok, your discussion of issue X is making me fearful & yada yada). We've had 30+ yr veteran psychotherapists come to coaching seminars to learn how the new methods work. People often connect more deeply & faster with transparency (but can be initially scary for the one being transparent)
- Mitchell Tsai
Jason, I had dealings with the guy the NYT wrote about, and he says nice things, but he isn't empowered to change anything. Like lipstick on a pig. I'm sure the Times didn't do any more digging other than talking to some users that the Comcast PR people directed them to. If he had done just a modest search the story would have been much different. Comcast does not have much goodwill among users, for good reason. Nasty company.
- Dave Winer
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Leslie Lamport
- Edward Vielmetti
We took the girls to Dexter Blueberry farm this morning. Managed to pick 1 quart of berries. Many berries were still a little green.
We were there last weekend Dave, lots of green berries then too. still a fun outing!
- Edward Vielmetti
Update on Comcast: Their issue isn't with the security on my net, it has to do with how much bandwidth I use.
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Can't work with them when their method of getting me on the phone is to shut off my service, without any warning. I told them to close the account. I'm no longer a Comcast customer. I'm sure they'll send me another bill, adding insult to injury.
- Dave Winer
but dude, i have it on good authority that @comcastcares !!
- @baratunde
from twhirl
They have internal thresholds for this. Of course they don't TELL YOU what those are to avoid being shut off, but they do exist.
- Todd Dominey
I wonder what it is they care about so much.
- Dave Winer
It's just like the iPhone battery life. It lasts forever if you don't use it. Stop downloading large, um, media files, and Comcast will leave you alone. Didn't ya know that the Web is only for HTML files? :-)
- Robert Scoble
A more rational way to do it would be to have a set limit, and a status page you could monitor (even an RSS feed) and when you're getting close to your monthly limit, you could hold off a bit. Or in my case I could have switched over to AT&T since I had redundant service. Whatever. This is a company with DNA for soaking customers and keeping them at a distance. And if they let us in on the limits, they couldn't market their service as unlimited.
- Dave Winer
When are we gonna get an "open source" isp w/out the corporate buggery, I've already lost usenet because of some backdoor lawyering by an AC
- Toasterman
Sooo what's plan "B"?
- Anthony Farrior
Toasterman, wait until our bills go up when they pass on the "contributions" that Cuomo is demanding for the "fund" to "combat child pornography." I'm depressed that I voted for his sorry famewhoring self.
- Cyndy
Anthony, I have plenty of bandwidth -- I had a backup connection with AT&T and if that fails, I have a new EVDO modem that's being delivered by FEDEX before 3PM today (knock wood).
- Dave Winer
Have you considered upgrading to a Comcast business account. I think you get a better modem (they said it has 'priority over other accounts' whatever that means) and a static IP. I also don't think it has the caps on it, but am not sure.
- Andrew Leyden
Rational is not business friendly. Marketing it as unlimited is the great equalizer and makes everybody pay the same fee. Giving people an actual limit and way to mesaure their current usage against that limit will make people ask for tiered (less-expensive) plans.
- Franci Penov
Could always spend the couple extra bucks and upgrade to Comcast Business. They don't mess with you then
- Jeremy D. Pavleck
Comcast is really cracking down on the high bandwidth users... glad that i'm not on Comcast!
- Les Zaldor
I'll ask hubby to do some insider research. He's a "low man on the totem pole" with Comcast, but issues like this always make me curious about his take on things. Of course, if we didn't have the employee discount and service was shut off without warning I'd switch in a heartbeat.
- Sally: gift wrapper
I wouldn't bother with a Comcast business account, if they can't be bothered to communicate with the customer in a reasonable manner.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
dave is there a berkeley meraki network? take back the airwaves
- Edward Vielmetti
I seem to remember an article in the AP stating something about Time Warner and Comcast tiering their customers based on bandwidth usage and even throttling their high-end users. I'll dig around for it.
- Steven Perez
No, actually, it's easy for a compnay to be "personal", as in handling these things better and from a customer perspective. In this case, they could send email, or even a letter, and give you reasonable time to decide on which upgraded plan you want. With email it could even be a link to the right place on your website. Also, they can easily put in network policies that throttle heavy users during more loaded times on the network, even doing this dynamicallly. Lots of ways to do better.
- Darius Dunlap
Dave: How much daily bandwidth do you think you were using? I just let comacast back into my life (with much trepidation) because i was too far from the co to get decent dsl speeds.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Who is this Louis Gray? Do we really need another guy with no ideas or point of view writing about twitter daily. Ive never read a more boring guy ever.
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You really don't need to if you find him boring ....it's everybody's right to say whatever they like .... choice is yours ..
- Raza
I'm sure you have....
- Amit Morson
Raza - Agreed It's everyones choice to be boring, thats my point. Why choose to be boring. He has nothing to add. Cool another social media expert, just what we need. WHERE ARE THE FUCKING INTERESTING people. People with something new to say. Not just analysis of nothingness. Louis Gray=Fail. Period.
- loren feldman
will there be a day you ll stop shooting at anyone? it is more difficult to build than to destroy.
- Ouriel Ohayon
Ouriel - What exactly is he building? Tell me, what the fuck is he building? A blog about analysis of twitter and friendfeed? Oh I forgot he's building his "Brand".
- loren feldman
Thats great Vinny, just great. Such deep thinkers huh?
- loren feldman
Loren, i am not referring to him buidling. i am referring to you. All i read about you is criticizing others. I like the way you do it. but i think you are too focused on criticizing and not on buidling
- Ouriel Ohayon
“Ouriel - I've made more funny video than anyone, I've called more bullshit than anyone, I made you laugh and think more than anyone, shall I go on? I criticize others because most of them are charlatan dopes.”
- loren feldman
Yawn! I love your videos and style, but this bitching and moaning is getting old...
- Holger Eilhard
So dont watch anymore Holger.
- loren feldman
Hey Louis - No.
- loren feldman
Louis I'll call ya, lets debate the importance of our twitter follower counts
- sean percival
Sean, discuss this with Louis instead. His tech haiku site, no im not kidding. http://www.techaiku.com/
- loren feldman
thats actually MG's site, hes cool. Well as cool as one can be blogging about this biz.
- sean percival
The wolf? My apologies then. He's earned the right to be silly.
- loren feldman
ha no mg sieger/parislemon, the wolf is too busy panting over knol
- sean percival
friendfeed is a slow-moving parody of itself.
- Edward Vielmetti
dude, isn't everyone on here just talking about twitter and F8? everybody follows the same people and regurgitates the same links back and forth to one another. if you don't like what you're seeing or reading then move on to something else, how hard is it?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Trebor, Different? I'm the greatest video guy in the history of the medium, and he's a douche talking about twitter. I make people laugh and think, he makes people bored. See the difference?
- loren feldman
So I gather Loren got tired of of beating up on Shel Israel and needed somebody else to criticize - pretty weak to pick Louis - but almost predictable
- Frederic
This is boring. Talk about Twitter's downfall or GTFO!
- Outsanity
It seems really odd to me that anyone would listen to Loren Feldman. He doesn't seem to have any manners.
- Todd McKinney
Strange isnt it Todd? The web is an amazing thing isnt it. So many more people listen to me than let's say Oh I don't know, you or Louis Gray for instance.
- loren feldman
Who is Loren and why does anyone care? Does Loren know there's this crazy feature called "Hide"?
- Outsanity
Loren, way to introduce yourself to some possible new followers - I didn't know much about you until recently, but man, you certainly have made a poor impression. Are you doing this to be funny?
- Jesse Stay
If this is funny, he needs therapy.
- Outsanity
Wow Jesse new followers? Really? Jesus I better be on my best behavior then, heaven forbid I scare off new followers. Jesse will you follow me please? Please Jesse.
- loren feldman
He's doing it for his <cough> clients.
- jeneane sessum
Man Loren - you have lost my complete respect - this discussion is over for me. Frankly, I suggest others on here do the same.
- Jesse Stay
I don't know nearly enough about Gray's work to comment on its quality or insightfulness, but why is it so wrong for Loren to call the man boring or his blog pointless? He must simply find Gray boring. Having a discussion isn't about "making a good impression." Who cares? The man's just expressing an opinion. Rather than carping on whether or not he should be doing so, why not respond with a thoughtful defense of Mr. Gray's writing on its merits?
- Lon Harris
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Seriously, how do you make money by mocking a tiny sub-genre of the tech world? Who pays someone to troll tech commentators? And does it pay well?
- Andrew
Frankly Scarlet I mean Jesse I dont give a damn.
- loren feldman
Jeneane - no matter how much you flirt with me, its not gonna happen.
- loren feldman
@loren I've noticed the worst people seem to come out and play whenever you post a message.
- Zach Underwood
zach - they are bored and jealous. Thats all. Human nature type shit.
- loren feldman
I like Louis, he's a good guy covering a subject he loves. I have nothing against Loren, he can say what he wants -- his soapbox, his rules. That being said - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Steve Spalding
Lon - Let's be honest, Loren followed this post up with a semi-cryptic message asking for volunteers at the company Louis works for. That's just trolling. There is no reason to think that a discussion could even take place under those circumstances. He wants to rile up Louis and anyone who likes Louis, not present his case for boring vs. not.
- Andrew
Andrew - All this shit is a hobby for me. I have a billionaire patron of the arts behind me, he howls at this shit.
- loren feldman
Well I respect the patron system so good luck to you, sir.
- Andrew
Yeah, I do this for fun, me and a group of friends sit around and laugh our asses off over all of this.
- loren feldman
yawn
- Mary Anne Davis
Meraki toolbar injected on pages while using Wireless Ypsi. annoyed at first, then noticed the ads are relevant / interesting and wifi free.
screenshot please!
- Bill Seitz
if you do the right close targeting of geography ads can indeed be useful
- Edward Vielmetti
@billseitz: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- l.m.orchard
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