Here in England, we couldn't guess what a Hockey Mom was. Is she in the opposing team? - pazzer1
Does McCain's arm represent the glass ceiling she refers to? ;) - Jonathon
In England they might call them a football mum. It's referring to a mother that's involved with her kids sports. Which in the case of Sarah Palin, is Hockey. - Barrack Obama Scoble
Nope. We have no football mums, soccer moms, hockey moms, etc. We call 'em the "Chelsea Tractor Brigade" - Slippy Lane
Hehe, well there you go...whatever you call them, you still have them. - Barrack Obama Scoble
I think that's a good comparison. But then I'm a Cnn hatter. :D) - Colide81 (James)
I'm not terribly fond of CNN either but, comparing Leo Laporte to someone on CNN when you involve something like Twitter is kind of silly. You're comparing new media to mainstream media. It just doesn't work out. Plenty of my family watches CNN and you're lucky if they have an e-mail address (some of them have MySpace which is very "in" you know?). Say Twitter and they say "Wha?" - Candace Holly
Candace: that's not ridiculous. CNN has a much larger audience than Leo does. And, they've been talking about Twitter non-stop on his show it seems (and others). What that tells me is that going after the mainstream isn't going to bring companies that holy grail they think it will. - Robert Scoble
It says to me that regular people haven't quite picked up the concept of Twitter yet. Anyone I talk to at work, in my family etc have no clue what Twitter is. Where as the audience of TWiT will use *anything* Leo is using. - Candace Holly
Candace: it's NOT kind of silly. CNN is making a huge bet on Twitter. Yet its viewers aren't showing up. I find that interesting and worth studying. It's also worth studying how unengaged CNN's audience is. Why do advertisers pay to get in front of such an unengaged audience? - Robert Scoble
If CNN's putting a big bet on Twitter, I think they're nuts. I'll bet money that a good majority of their audience won't/don't want to use Twitter. - Candace Holly
They get a lot of interaction from iReport though, don't they? Maybe Twitter has to pick up some steam. - Shawn Farner
People "watch" TV. it isn't an interactive experience for people (yet). Sure there's a web page, and you can send them an email, but for the most part you sit on the couch and watch. Leo is much more interactive with his audience with live streaming and live chat rooms while he is recording. I think that's the difference. And Leo keeps begging for followers so he can catch Obama and Rose. - Mark VandenBerg
Candace: you should watch CNN. They talk about Twitter a LOT. - Robert Scoble
Says he needs to be on Adult Swim more - Outsanity
+1 Mark. He nailed it. People *watch* television. They don't interact. Please don't make me watch CNN...I really would rather not :P My brother watches it enough for four people. - Candace Holly
@WoH I think so. Once Robert explained a little more I saw what he meant. - Candace Holly
It says that CNN isn't relevant to the internet generation and they (CNN) know this. The last 3 major news events that were breaking live (earthquakes) had people finding out first and being reported as finding out first via Twitter and not CNN which had always been the go to place for current information. So CNN is trying to coral the Twitter effect by bringing it into their newscast in an effort to keep people from drifting away from CNN and instead running to Twitter and the Blog-o-sphere for news. - Adam Turetzky
it's all fun and games until Nancy Grace attributes cross-dressing NAMBLA sexual assaults to a sect of DeKalb County twitterers - Andy Sternberg
Interesting idea, but CNN may be way out in front of the curve. Also CNN (as well as FOX News and MSNBC) doesn't seem to have the tech-savvy demographics that suggest the average viewer would be a user of advanced social media vehicles. http://www.stateofthenewsmedia... (Demographics at the very bottom of the article) - Mark VandenBerg
Leo has increasingly NOT been using Twitter. According to him on a recent Twit...he's switched over to identi.ca primarily. - Eddie Sherman
Leo: 55,800 followers; Sanchez: 16,000 followers. I'd say this backs up Robert's point that Sanchez with a larger audience isn't reaching his audience in the same way that Leo reaches his. And yes, Eddie, Leo only Tweets a couple times a day anymore, but it doesn't change the numbers. - Mark VandenBerg
Three observations. #1. IT"S RICK SANCHEZ! He's from South Florida..no wonder. That guys' a serious tool. Can't believe he made it to CNN. #2. I'm not surprised most followers aren't real. #3. Why is the picture of Calacanis on that site making him look like a tool? o.0 - Candace Holly
Interesting post, Robert, but this part makes me wary: "I defined a “real follower” as someone who follows less than 300 twitter accounts..." By that definition, neither you nor I are a "real" follower, which isn't particularly accurate. - Lon Harris
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Nor is Arrington or Calacanis. Sooooo, the author wrote an article about three non-existant Twitter accounts? - Mark VandenBerg
the twitter feed loses meaning after 150 followers (who are real), I'm guessing - anna awesomesauce
I'm from a small town...only 1 other person in my town uses Twitter. - Eddie Sherman
Robert, when you compare numbers between Sanchez and Laporte shouldn't you be taking into account the amount of time that they have been on Twitter? I haven't checked this but I would imagine that Leo has been on Twitter a lot longer than Sanchez. I'd like to see how long it took Sanchez to gain 16K followers and how that pace compares to Laporte, Kevin Rose, Obama, etc. - Mike Doeff
I'd say this is another real world/mainstream example of just how wide the chasm between web 2.0 early adopters and mainstream adoption really is. The number of people who watch CNN is exponentially higher than the number of people who have ever heard of Leo Laporte. - JonathanJoseph
One of the problems that I think CNN is having is that whenever Rick Sanchez mentions Twitter, he also mentions that he can be reached on Myspace & Facebook. If CNN wants to focus on Twitter, stop having him mention the others. And get someone to explain to viewers what Twitter actually is all about. - Mark Wilson
I'm still laughing just because it's making you laugh so much. I haven't had any milk in ages, but I can feel some getting ready to come out of my nose. - Pete Delucchi
This thursdy is my daughter's first kindergarten day. I'm insanely proud, and yet a little sad/scared at how fast she's growing. First few years people's "enjoy it, it goes fast" I'd be like "No, it could go faster actually". Now, her mental, physical and social growth is exponential and I wouldn't mind things slowing down some.... - Leif Hansen
Filezilla here too, was CuteFTP for years heh, did the job. - Mo Kargas
I just love the latest version of SmartFTP - multiple tabs - so you can upload to multiple sites at the same time. Also great that it let's you unzip files in the browser and that it creates a Que for files that need to be uploaded. Dit not find that on alternatives like FileZilla, Core FTP or WinSCP - Erno Hannink
I liked CoreFTP when I was on Windows. - Andrew Trinh
@Rasheen, downloading FireFTP now to investigate - thanks - Erno Hannink
heb moeite met FileZilla - kan niet meerder sites naast elkaar open hebben als in SmartFTP. Ook moet je wachten om een volgende directory te uploaden todat deze klaar is. Bij SmartFTP gaat dat in de Queue. - Erno Hannink
At Frank Sinatra's suggestion, Marilyn Monroe kept her life inside two filing cabinets - letters, invoices, financial records and the mementos that meant the most to her. This secret trove would remain virtually unknown to the world for more than four decades, until photographer Mark Anderson began an epic two year project documenting it. - Emma
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"10. The Telegrams Telegrams were one of the methods of communication Monroe’s friends and acquaintances relied on to reach her during her frequent travels." --- I want to send someone a telegram - RAPatton
There is a lot of stuff her to go through. - RAPatton
I am hoping someone like the Smithsonian or the like will be invited to catalog it at least. - Michael W. May
Read the same article yesterday about Google/Digg. I was trying to scratch my head to find a acquired success? Jyri is super smart but Jaiku has been killed by Google. - sam sethi
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The GrandCentral acquisition has me gnashing my teeth - it was a great start for a service but it has some rough edges. And Google acquired them more than a year ago and did nothing with them since. - Mitch Wagner
google is like general motors buying up cool carburetor ideas and hiding them? - Gregory Lent
yeah mitch, GC is a sad example. Such promise and it seems they haven't moved an inch. - Anthony Citrano
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I really miss Jaiku and Jyri. Love Twitter but adore Jaiku. Since it was purchased by Google I did not do much with it anymore. Shame. - Erno Hannink
mmm, don't blame Google for "sacrificed startups" - IMO they are done with sell-off in mind and doesn't necessarily desgined to exist long time, like diploma or course projects in university... as for Jaiku - well, guys/girls who stops you to use it, your mother or any other Significant-Other? - silpol
any single survey is just set of opinions but definitely not a truth in last instance - I mean when figuring out scientific-based facts, democracy tools shall be used moderately - silpol
no different than the far more successful acquirer in tech m&a - cisco - the negotiating tactics otoh vary widely - Scott Moskowitz
Wow. Well, you never know - it says "Entertain your friends ;)" on there - but this may turn out to be a great example of the art of selling your ideas to investors who dont really know better. I.E. not really a market affirmation. - Andrew Baron
we throw this bubble term around too much, until i see everyone working only in social media and not in other trades i call bs on that. Oh wait I just went to the site, uh err ;) - adolfo foronda
Definitely scary given the lack of monetization in such services. Sure, entertainment can be a real business - but the company should know how to turn it into one. - Svetlana Gladkova
Doom! Dooooooooom, I say! Congrats, looks like you'll have a paycheck for a while. - JD Lasica
I can't figure out what compelled them to combine video and products... - Brady Brim-DeForest
Hi Robert, could not find it in Techmeme, who did they raise from? Interesting... - Loic Le Meur
being in a bubble and seeing companies over funded is totally different. startup overdosis will calm over time. but there is no industry collapse ahead. ad dollars, ecommerce and internet penetration are progressing. so for me no worries - ouriel
Loic: I'm not sure. I got this on Google Reader. - Robert Scoble
haha, wow funny that I found out about the funding through friendfeed first seeing as I know a good amount of the people at that company - Danish Khan
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Well let's see, property and stock markets are down in many countries and there is constant talk of a world economic slowdown. If the tech sector isn't in the same situation, all this is bound to have some flow-on effect sooner rather than later. No, I don't think there is a bubble. - jjprojects
jj: yes, but there are still a lot of companies who have funding that the overall market will not reward. I think there's a bit of a bubble in that there's a lot of people who have gotten funded by VC firms who haven't yet felt the more general economic pain that's out there. - Robert Scoble
Amazing....We have a solution that fits perfectly in the current economic situation and these guys get 8 million? - Brad Nickel
Of course we are in a bubble. that's the way our economy works now. The reason is that we have too many unregulated speculators in the markets today. - Bob Blunk
I would call this "statistical occurrence." It is pure statistics, not a bubble. There are many samples of similar nature which occur. The higher the size of the sample (overcrowded online entertainment market) the more likely is the occurrence of a highly-improbable event. Funding such a startup as redux would otherwise be improbable. good thing about stats is that 90+% of it is there to support the few. - Hayk
Yeah Adblock is good, still don't like the intrusion or the fact I have to install stuff just to dodge this shit - Mo Kargas
Sad thing is I don't really want to block ALL ads - just the annoying stupid ones. I enjoy the interactive Apple ads and there have been a few more that are worth of looking at. But I really, REALLY hate the ads that just have one or two still images that just flitter - like the Classmates.com ad. I will never, ever use their service because their ads exist simply to annoy you into looking at them. - Tad - the Meme Maker
OpenDNS is also a good way to block those Flash-ad serving domains. - Bill Sodeman
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I wonder if when I changed my permalinks to title from number, it got hosed. Solis, sorry to take the PR discussion off track. I'm in trrrrroubbbbleee now!!! i also put the technorati widget on. i'll go take it off. thx guys. as you were. - jeneane "the 6th keating"
For that price I would not only expect it to be nice to type on but also give me a hand massage and make me coffee in the morning - Toby Graham
Chris! You should have waited for the Optimus Tactus! http://tinyurl.com/2szxve Anyways, I am thinking of picking up a smaller version that will not make me take out a second mortgage. - Michael Forian
1600 bucks?!! wasn't it supposed to be more like 180 bucks? way too much. but I guess they will make their profit. - Alexander Kucera
to geeky for me - and way to expensive for a keyboard - Erno Hannink
They did a review on Tekzilla with Ryan Block. Turns out it's not that great of an actual keyboard. - Paul The Plumber
Way too expensive for a crappy keyboard, if it was ergonomic it would still be too expensive... - SoN9ne
I'll wait... in 3 years this will be a $300 keyboard and an option on laptops. - Bill Sodeman
i just don't get it. this should have been vaporware. i honestly have no use for this at all. maybe good for my mother, who has to look down at her keyboard when she types. - revrev
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