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+1 David. Be sure and stop at the Multnomah Falls Lodge (http://www.multnomahfallslodge...). It's a gorgeous stone building. On a cold fall day with a huge fire blazing in the hearth, I had the most amazing eggs Benedict with salmon. Oh, the falls are cool too :-) - todd

I'm going to do one of these.. - Kyle Lacy

Skyline Drive through the Shenandoah Valley or farther down the road from it on the Blue Ridge Parkway when the leaves are turning - Jeff Quinton

Corie "Viper" Jones posted a link

10 Notable Staircases

July 31 at 2:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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so cool! - Anna Haro

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those would even be fun to fall down on. - XDpaul

Note to self: Do not get drunk and try to go down these stairs. - Michael

...or up for that matter. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Corie- hee! Falling up stairs has been named my special gift by my sisters. A lifelong talent of mine. - Donna Mugavero

Beautiful death traps :D - Evan Sims

I really love the floating staircases. - "Czar" DJ Peterman

Yeah, I think that's my favorite as well. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Me, too... but it scares me. - Donna Mugavero

These are really amazing. - Anne Bouey

Aesthetically, I am with Corie and Czar...but from a practical standpoint I love the bookcases! - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

Bren, I really like the staircases too. Sooo nice!!! - Corie "Viper" Jones

would be nice to have somewhere inconspicuous to keep all my books... - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

Same with me. I have a crazy amount of books. Someday I want to have a huge library with a rolly ladder. :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones

yay, rolling ladder...and walnut built-ins, and a great chair (maybe an eames lounger)... - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

It's like you're inside my head. LOL. - Corie "Viper" Jones

sympatico...great minds think alike - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

True that. - Corie "Viper" Jones

I can't believe I'm up at such an hour, discussing my future library. - Corie "Viper" Jones

just look at our last.fm convergence.... - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

That is true. Mos def some random music in common. - Corie "Viper" Jones

:) - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

Is it wrong to want to put some of these in a random frat house and record what happens? - Kevin Bondelli

Sounds like a great idea. Hidden cameras everywhere! - Corie "Viper" Jones

Kevin - As an age4d "frat boy", that would be both funny and mean. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I have enough problems with an 11-month old and regular stairs... - Chris Rivait

Beautiful! - Mitchell Tsai

My Top 3: 1) Bookshelf Staircase - For its amazing practicality 2) Drawer Staircase - again for practicality and 3) Stairs with a slide - just because it keeps you so young! - Michael Beck

I always thought it would be fun to have stairs and a pole (like in a fire station)! :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones

Some of those are cool. I really went out on a limb there. - RAPatton

Mona N. posted a link

At-Pic: Rare Blue Geyser

July 29 at 5:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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That looks awesome. - Kevin Bondelli

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Double-Erruption of Strokkur Geysir (Iceland) Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Mona N.

Makes me thirsty! - Mo Kargas

LOL did you watch the youtube clip?? it's crazy! - Mona N.

It's all fun and games until someone gets burned by scalding hot water spray. - LiquidLag

Did you see TimoBaader's comments on the youtube site? Made me laugh a little... - Jay Martin

Dude, Jay. That's like.. gay HA ;) - Mona N.

:/ - सत्याग्रह [Bren]

That's what the comment says LOL!! - Mona N.

That is really awesome, beautiful. - Shoaib Hashmi

"Czar" DJ Peterman posted a link

Launch Dates of Social Network Sites

July 30 at 5:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Raoul Pop favorited photos on Flickr

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“After visiting Twitter I'll be headed to Disqus to hear about their roadmap to integrate comments into FriendFeed more.”

May 30 at 12:17 pm - Link

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Are you going to be on Qik? - Bwana

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Beg Disqus to spend millions to help me track disparate conversations and comments in one place. coComment and co.mments.com only go so far. - Kawika Holbrook

Ditto what Kawika said! - Todd Defren

Scoble, ask: is an *audio* commenting system (aka Utterz) going to be incorporated into Disqus? We're all about the video but, gosh, just as with podcasting, many users may comment on blogs with audio before video. I know I'm one... - Barbara K. Baker

Have a good time at Disqus! - Mitchell Tsai

How about asking them how they compete with FF in the long term? Doesn't it seem to make sense for them to either merge or just compete directly? IMHO neither offering is really "big enough" in the long run. - Jeremy Toeman

Kawika and Todd, I am not sure if that is really on their roadmap. What features were you looking for that coComment and co.mments.com do not do? - Rob Diana

That would be awesome because I couldn't get the FF wordpress plug in to work - Jason Kaneshiro

Question for Disqus: Where are they on comment importing? - Sean Reiser

and *easy* comment exporting... - Bwana

Scoble. I think you and the other heavey A list twitters should jump the twitter ship and just use FF for about a month and see what the impact is. Don't be afraid to do this. It might prove a benefit to eveyone. - facefeed

Using Disqus would be great for comments, I have also been playing with Intense Debate to. I wonder if we could have the option to use Disqus or Intense Debate - Kevin Tunis

say hi to everyone for me Robert. that's my day when i am in SF. - Fred Wilson

Hope Twitter visit yields a change in attitude towards you - their best client! Also, hope Disqus integrates as much as possible with FriendFeed (give Daniel Ha at Disqus a big "Hi!" for me - give him some Merlot...keep talking!) - Susan Beebe

Steve Gillmor posted a message on Twitter

“blaming scoble is bullshit. turning track back on is job one, not demonizing people who popularize service. Clinton spin.”

May 30 at 8:36 am - Link

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Gillmor++ - Bwana

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Gillmor FTW - Jamie

Agreed. They've got to restore Twitter IM. - Morton Fox

What else can we blame Scoble for? How about gas prices? Yeah, that is all Scoble's fault too! - Andy Roth

jaiku is running sweet on google ! - Adrian via twhirl

Except, of course, that no one from Twitter actually blamed Scoble at all. - Ian Betteridge

@ian, maybe not by name, but it did seem that they generically blamed their more popular users who post in rapid succession. At least that's how I read it. - Thomas Hawk

I don't think "blame" is the right word, especially if you look at the comment in context. The original post is chock-full of Alex saying "This isn't working because our architecture wasn't built for it", with no reference to blaming users for that. That single quote has been pulled out of context - and spun into a big story. - Ian Betteridge

I'm with Ian -- as usual, Robert has made it all about him :-) - mathew ingram

@adrian, on google? - Tyler Gillies

Ditto to Ian. All about Scoble. Again. And he turns it into pushing FriendFeed which I love *but* do not find *replaces* Twitter. Not by a long-shot. - Barbara K. Baker

FF has replaced Twitter for me. - Thomas Hawk

Twitter is dead to me. (but not because I have any control over it!) - Michael VanDervort

@michael hehe - Tyler Gillies

This is a moment in time when Twitter will determine survival If so it may grow into something newer/better if not = kaput - Michael VanDervort

twittermeme has launched! - Susan Beebe

Twitter blamed a list of users of which Robert is #1. He has a ton of followers and follows many people and has the most amount of updates. If Twitter wasn't including Robert in that conversation then I have a bridge to sell you - Bwana

Scoble is *only* following 2000+ here at FriendFeed. He's not following as many here as he is @ Twitter. What does that mean? - Barbara K. Baker

twitter management has not only put their proverbial foot in their mouth, but now they've swallowed it and are choking... no help for that! gees! - Susan Beebe

my2cents on the twit blame bit - Scoble is a content provider, along with others, who make twittr a destination hub for an aggregating tech community. If anything, it is a symbiotic relationship. I trailed into twitter off of Scobles blog.. if anything, twitter should consider paying some of their greater community participants. - sedgewick

Barbara - On scoble's following numbers - 1. the culture hasn't built up here, relative to twitters critical mass. 2. It's actually more difficult to subscribe to people in friendfeed. and 3. It is possible that his strategy has changed after following masses of people in twitter.... the 'noise' he loved maybe a bit different with the multitude of aggregated feeds. - sedgewick

http://xrl.us/bmazc Robert Scoble totally f#(%ed twitter - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

IMified posted a link

FriendFeed Jabber/Gtalk IM bot

March 26 at 9:49 am - Link

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I think this is the origin of story!! March 26 was when I added the bot to my gTalk..!! - Jigar Mehta

I like having each service as an individual contact. Much easier. Can we see the same for Pownce? - Chris Nixon

Well, IMified has taken bot to a next level.. I even created a customized option to check my google calendar appointments for today (a quick schedule for today) by interacting with bot! Not sure, if they have one for Pownce.. - Jigar Mehta via bTT

Robert Scoble posted a message

“Just doing a test from Google Talk following the directions here: http://www.labnol.org/internet...”

May 30 at 4:19 am - Link

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Oh, this is cool. Now I can post things to FF from Google Talk. - Robert Scoble

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Robert: I know you have an iPhone so FF while mobile works well for you but have you tried: http://www.fftogo.com/ yet? I love feedback - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin: I have now. I still like the regular interface on the iPhone. This would work better for my Nokia, though. - Robert Scoble

oh god. the noise ;-) - Alex Gawley

anyone have imified API beta invites? - Tyler Gillies

My firewall prevents me of doing it at work. But just wait until I get home... - Håkan Dahlström

Robert, this is what I was talking about when I said my Google Talk and FF are integrated before few days!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT

great stuff...thanks for this one. My Twitter IM has been down for ages. - Tim Wright

I have lost all hopes to use Twitter over IM again.. just LOST hopes! - Jigar Mehta via bTT

Hakan - you could also do this via Google Flash gadget - Amit Agarwal

jaiku has IM support - Tyler Gillies

it works. that was cool. - Palin Ningthoujam

Everything is connected now....and I am confused which one to follow :-/ - Joel Thomas

@Joel, FriendFeed is the superset right now.. If you follow FF, everything will be aggregated.. Just wondering will somebody create a service that aggregates FF as well and adds something on top of it!! ?? ;) - Jigar Mehta

@Jigar, you can add FF to MBL now...I think I am doing a full conversion to FF - Joel Thomas

"Sorry, error 403 Forbidden! Looks like the bot is being rate limited, we're trying to fix the problem. Try back in a bit. imified@imified.com" - Lizunlong

whats MBL? - Tyler Gillies

just trying FFtogo on my iPhone and its working well for me so far - Peter Cattell via fftogo

@Tyler MBL is MyBlogLog.com - Stephen B via Alert Thingy

@stephen, gotcha, thnx - Tyler Gillies

coool! fftogo makes me happy! just one thing: Links should open in a new window! THX!!!...via feedalizr - Dieter Schwarz

Gotta try this now - Gerard Barberi via twhirl

@Dieter: you can now set where links open: http://www.fftogo.com/settings... added it just for you :) - Benjamin Golub

I like how simple the imified interface is. Great tip! - Robert Merrill via twhirl

It would be better if you could do this through the official FriendFeed bot. - Tanath

@Benjamin; thx a lot!! amazing!! - Dieter Schwarz

just tried and got a note that they are limiting this....via feedalizr - rambn

Robert, I just got Error 403: bot is being limited. - Francine Hardaway

That's the goal right? Aggregation from every social technology. - Jeremiah Owyang

Also got the 403 error ;-( - Aad 't Hart

I also received an error (rate limited)...dang! - Susan Beebe

Scott Beale posted a message on Twitter

“staring to do my Twitter @replies from FriendFeed, especially now that Twitter is stressing out so much lately & disabling pagination”

May 26 at 5:12 pm - Link

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I'm hearing this more and more. I wonder how many people Twitter lost over the past few weeks. - David Herrold

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Me too. Glad to see you over here! - Erica Douglass

Ditto - Todd Jordan

Ditto twice - mathew ingram

Meep. Okay, FriendFeed does have a nice interface :) - Martin Bogomolni

For the last 3-4 days I have been stressed out with twitter as I didn't know why I couldn't get gtalk on my blackberry work with twitter. Well, I found out via twitter help that they have disabled that feature. I wish I knew that 3 days ago. So I have been using twitter SMS on my blackberry and it is definitely a hassle. I will start using FriendFeed alot more now. - Phillip Jeffrey

Twitter is so streamed lined in features it really is hard to believe they are having so much trouyble. - Tony via twhirl

so twitter disabled the gtalk integration?! - acedanger

same here. Now it's reading tweets and tracking that is the gap for me....via feedalizr - Tris Hussey

What does that say about Twitter? Why not drop Twitter for FF? - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart via twhirl

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Advertisement holds web 2.0 in a death grip

May 26 at 8:18 am - Link

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I agree with a lot of what Alexander is saying. I don't think traditional banner ads will work well in "social" media. I do think "advertising" can work, but it needs to provide a fair 50-50 value trade between community and advertiser: so advertiser provides true value (free content, entertainment, etc in a non-intrusive and non-obnoxious way) in exchange for the community's attention and energy. And this new advertising can't get in the way or slow people down. And the community has to control it. And it has to be grown organically. Hard yes. Impossible, no. Movie companies (Disney) and folks at Deep Focus are doing things like this. And Crispin Porter Bogusky is great at this too. - Ginger Makela

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Ginger, an interesting thought. The reason I could see it work is that it could potentially provide everyone with value. But still, the context needs to be right. You can't get in the way of friends interactions for example - Alexander van Elsas

The future of Internet advertising is user made. The key is to make it interesting and/or entertaining. While viral advertising is currently "working" (I believe, I don't have hard numbers), there will be more and more backlash if people feel like it's not genuine. In comes user generated advertising - paying people to make advertisements that other will enjoy. http://tinyurl.com/ydqnf6 is a great example of this. While this is video, I believe it can translate well to other formats as well. - Vince DeGeorge

Vince viral advertisement may be viral, but in most cases the click through rate for any advertisement is really low. User generate advertisement could well work, but there is definitely a trust issue involved too. For example, if you would be paid to produce or to show advertisement, would your friends like that? Difficult to say, but I doubt getting advertisement from a friend is by any better than from an advertiser. - Alexander van Elsas

Working for a marketing agency I can say that while we all know that social advertising means engaging and fun experiences and not boring banner ads, selling this to a client that is still set in the ways of pure product promotion and solid metrics relating to leads is the difficult part. Social networks/media are where peoples' attention is and therefore there is must be an effective way to advertise in this space. But generic banner ads would be the same as running a magazine ad as a TV commercial. - Devlin Dunsmore

I added my two cents to the discussion here http://www.winextra.com/2008/0... - Steven Hodson

I click on ads at my favorite sites just to help keep them alive. - Alex C. Williams

Alexander, I totally agree about the context needing to be right, and that advertising can't get in the way of people interacting with their friends. Seth Godin had a video on his site a few weeks ago that summed this up really well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Advertisers will have to figure out how to be a player in white. - Ginger Makela

Alex, that 'll be a whole lot of clicking you need to do to keep em alive ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues http://tinyurl.com/4wo37z”

May 26 at 10:50 am - Link

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if old media got over itself, it wouldn't be old media - Mark Elster

Brian Daniel Eisenberg posted a link

NASA - News Briefing Image

May 25 at 9:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Wow. First color high res shot. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

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Awesome! - Robert Scoble

So amazing that we are looking at extraterrestrial soil! - Michael Beck

Talking about anomaly on horizon in Mars images at press conference now. Back shell? - Robert Stevens

Agree Michael. I was fascinated by the first couple of Mars missions and still check in on Spirit and Opportunity 4 years later! Amazing science and engineering happening at JPL/Nasa. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

i would like to take this moment to point out that NASA uses Linux and Open Source. - Nathan Eckenrode

sweet mother of strawberry cheesecake. i can't even articulate how nifty this is. - hisherness

Let's see what this puppy turns up once it starts drilling. - zmmiller

Wow, that's awesome although it looks a bit like a scorched earth - Sally Church

I had no idea about this. Awesome! - Alex C. Williams

How cool is this?! Thanks Brian! - Charlie Anzman

Robert Scoble posted a video on Seesmic

PR is now about creating experiences and being "professional relationship" expert

May 25 at 2:00 pm - Link

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Jason, I always appreciate your advice. Can't wait to see the latest on your blog! - Ryne Nelson