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Robert Scoble posted a message

“I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision?”

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I think so. - Robert Scoble

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Half of it was right. - Chris White

Time will tell, but I think it was correct decision. - imran

It's made you one of my favorite bloggers, if that makes you feel any better about it. If you weren't heavy on the social exploration I probably wouldn't read. - Daniel J. Pritchett

what outcome were you going for? - zach

From my perspective, yes. It's a much more interactive and broader experience for all. - Kevin C. Tofel

The right decision from which perspective, Robert? Did you increase "eyeballs?" Revenue? Both? Other? - Mark VandenBerg

Scott Beale posted an entry on Laughing Squid

The Monty Python Channel on YouTube

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Looking for "The Bishop"... - William, CPU Media

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FriendFeed Feedback: Rolf Schewe posted a message

“REQUEST: FriendFeed Firefox Extension. A Delicious-like FF extension with buttons on the browser toolbar to open or hide a Real-time FF sidebar. Also bookmarklets can be installed. Options can offer functionality like switching to different lists on the sidebar. Thanks”

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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“What's interesting is Motrin didn't use social media, it was a 'safe' ad. Will this increase or decrease their interest in social media?”

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Benjamin Golub posted an entry on FriendFeed Changelog

Two FriendFeed Fix-It Days

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"de-lameify validator error types" - epic - Josh Haley

Some graphs: http://friendfeed.com/e/059a93... - nadim

NEEDS MORE CUSSING. - John Morrissey

Marco (aureliusmaximus) posted a message on Twitter

“36 degrees in cinci, hopefully it will be warmer in tennessee - I didn't pack well for this trip otherwise”

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Ontario Emperor shared an item on Google Reader

City threatens blind woman over unpaid 1-cent bill (AP)

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Forget about the blindness; think about the economics of the issue. It probably cost more than one cent to send out that notice. *facepalm* - Ontario Emperor

I couldn't get land-line phone service for a few years because of a 10 cent delinquent bill with Bell South. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

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Report: Millennials Will Route Around IT Departments

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In the past, I've agonized about my employer's IT restrictions. I'm obviously not a millennial, who probably would have ignored the restrictions and demanded better bandwidth for video streaming. - Ontario Emperor

Yes, millennials buy iPhones which aren't controllable by IT departments. Or, they get EVDO modems for their computers, which also gets around IT departments. Or, they just wait to get home to do Facebook and Twitter. - Robert Scoble

jjprojects posted six messages on Twitter

“I have a sty in my eye, it woke me up at 5am. It was really hurting.”

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“@sammartino If the production and sale of SUV and gas guzzlers it's working, why bail it out!”

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Dion Almaer posted a message on Twitter

“Finally heading in to MAX at Moscone. Looking forward to seeing all the fellas. Some great announcements so far!”

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Allen Stern posted a message on Twitter

“call for companies for our 2008 days of holiday gifts! free to participate! http://tinyurl.com/6dqngn”

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Ontario Emperor shared eight items on Google Reader

44-Year-Old Stripper Claims “Age Discrimination” In Firing

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From JR Raphael's post: "Ouwroulis is not currently listed on the club’s “Girls” page (warning: may be NSFW). There is, however, some useful info about the venue’s “1/2 Price Chicken Wing Sundays” special." - Ontario Emperor

Bush's pardons

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AMERICAblog speculates about Bush's pardons, and figures that a Ted Stevens pardon is likely. - Ontario Emperor

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Joi Ito published photos on Flickr

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“Just landed in San Francisco and Twitter is down. Blame Scoble.”

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it's funnier when other people say it :) - Christopher Galtenberg

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Hey Robert broke twitter ... no wait, it's just twitter's way of saying, "Welcome Home"~!! - Susan Beebe

What's Alex done to Twitter? Alex? Robert is saying you broke twitter..... - WorldofHiglet

I really don't think it's your fault..... this time. :) - JCLeftie

http://friendfeed.com/e/4df2dc... - Tanju Yıldız (mavisland)

Awesome blog title -> "Twitter went down as soon as Robert Scoble landed in SF" - AJ Batac

Yeah. Nice work Scoble ;) I bet you brought some Chinese twitter virus back home - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

And, being that you're Scoble, you're still able to Tweet about it. - DocileWalnut

Another Blame Scoble meme? - Roberto Bonini

It went down right as I ran my auto-follow script for SocialToo - it's probably my fault ;-) - Jesse Stay

Googel reader having problems as well... you must not have read all your feeds and now they have an out of memory error - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

See I cannot even type properly.. must be Scoble - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

Mitchell Tsai posted a message on Twitter

“MyStock - Bought SSO 23.5, TNA 29.0 (1st time trying "Direxion Small Cap Bull 3X Shares" ETF)”

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Loic Le Meur posted two messages on Twitter

“@pilchardmusic m.seesmic.com is browser based so it works on any mobile phone with a browser, even the G1 Google phone plays videos now.”

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“we have a new version of m.seesmic.com if you want to try, especially on the iphone :)”

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Todd Jordan posted three messages on Twitter

“@Hardees Are you running some cool social networking projects?”

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“@Hardees Do so miss the chicken though. :(”

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“@Hardees Hey there! Thanks for the Tweet. Wife and I enjoy your ThickBurgers and the biscuits and gravy.”

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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Crosstown Traffic: Adobe and Microsoft trading spaces

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Alex Williams posted a message on Twitter

“video shooting with @unclernate at #backspace, #vidoop and soon on to # fongchong. took 46 minutes of footage. talked bacon with @kveton.”

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FriendFeed Feedback: Tanath posted a message

“Bookmarklet breaks when typing in the comment area (using Firefox).”

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As soon as I type in the comment box, it changes to look like the pic. - Tanath

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Any Greasemonkey scripts? - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Think it is specific to you Tanath... works fine for me... - Brian Roy

mjc: None for FriendFeed. Brian: What browser & OS? - Tanath

os x FF 3.0.4 - Brian Roy

Using Fx 3.0.4 on Ubuntu. - Tanath

It also does it in Fx 3.0.3 for Windows (in wine). - Tanath

Also, typing multiple lines worth simply scrolls within the text box. The text area does not expand. - Tanath

Still doing it. :-/ - Tanath

try changing your cookie settings? - sofarsoshawn

I don't think it was my cookie settings. Fixed (just) now. :) - Tanath

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“New blog post: Is the panic over Detroit real? http://bit.ly/KsPX”

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Avi Mehta, Kevin Pedraja, Paul and 3 other people liked this

Dave, this post hops over a lot of the parroting of pundits that usually fills the blogs. It has stunned me that the same folks who felt the world would end if Wall Street companies that pay hundreds of hustlers millions of dollars would fail, however, an industry that pays millions of workers hundreds of dollars can go down without serious consequences. - Phil Boiarski

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Not to mention that GM's brands are very popular in China, so by killing GM we'd be removing one of the few things that gets money to come back here from China (there aren't very many left). - Robert Scoble

GM has made many, many mistakes. Why should we let them stay in business? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: they have made many, many right decisions, too. My Saturn Aura is a great car (it is made by GM). When I was in Shanghai I saw GM cars all over the place. They employ something like seven million people around the world. So you are ready to put seven million people on the street? Why don't we put you and your business on the street? I'm sure you make mistakes every day too. - Robert Scoble

Chapter 11 doesn' have to put people on the street, as long as the govt provides a guarantee on DIP financing. See today's NYT Sorkin piece for details:-) - Francine Hardaway via IM

Yes, but my business isn't going bankrupt. Hey, I drive a GM car, I don't want them to go under, but why should my tax dollars save them? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: because if you put those people out of work they'll cost you tax dollars and you won't get anything in return then. - Robert Scoble

The bailout money would be better spent on assitance to those who are impacted... re-training, relocation assistance, etc. Now (NOT, I meant NOT) wishing for GM go go away - but they have big issues that NEED to be addressed... not patched over (again). - Brian Roy

But what would I be getting for a bailout? If it's anything like the banks, it seems like more of the same! Will GM diversify, streamline and stop making gaudy SUVs? If they are to be bailed out, someone better should be running the company. Where's the hybrid cars? Why aren't they making more of them? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: I agree with you, mostly. It's just that if you dump tons of people on the street to teach a corporation a lesson it increases the problems greatly. You also aren't going to find jobs for many of these workers, even after retraining. They simply aren't there. So, short term, I'm all for keeping the jobs going. - Robert Scoble

Tyler, that would be the point behind any kind of bailout. GM is told build hybrids and more fuel efficient cars in order to get the money. Use the bailout money as an incentive to restructure the industry. - Paul

Everyone keeps assuming all these people will get "dumped on the street", but I'm not sure I believe that. Will they shut down entirely? No. So how are 7mill losing their jobs? - ♫ Rahsheen™

"GM has made many, many mistakes." The mistakes were made in design and product decisions, not on the assembly line. Those who made decisions to manufacture Suburbans and ignore hybrid technology should suffer, not the guy bolting it together. And we'll either pay in "bailout" (which we might get back) or in unemployment benefits and other safety net spending (which we won't). - John Craft

A bailout is just a bandage. If it's not fixing the real problems, then why do it? Won't we go through this again? Instead of a bailout, why doesn't the gov't buy the damn company, fire all the upper management and subsidize sustainable/hybrid techology? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Hopefully there are enough STRONG rules attached to the bailout to force both the execs and the unions to change direction and start making good cars for the long term. a straight bailout will just prolong the business-fail-as-usual mentality that exudes from Detroit. - Glenn Batuyong

Rasheen, at some point another manufacturer (e.g. Honda) might buy some GM assets (factory). But the delay, and uncertainty, will further erode confidence. No one wants to prop up "business as usual" - the goal is to ease (and demand) the transition. - John Craft

Tyler: if you put all those workers on the street you'll have far more pain for far longer. Yes, we should get something in return, but I don't live in an ideal world and I don't always get what I want. - Robert Scoble

"why doesn't the gov't buy the damn company, fire all the upper management and subsidize sustainable/hybrid techology?" - Isn't that essentially what's happening? Have you read the bills introduced in the House and Senate? - John Craft

Rahsheen, any layoffs by GM, Ford or Chrysler is going to have ripple effect. It will cause layoff in their suppliers also. So the layoffs are going to be a lot larger then just GM..... - Paul

John- yes, but this isn't a takeover, it's a bailout. Just as Glenn said earlier, there must be STRONG rules to make sure this isn't just a handout. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Let them burn. The airlines had to restructure so will the auto makers. Enough with the fear mongering already. Fucking lemmings. - Leather Donut

CNNMoney weighs on on what the :real" problems are - http://money.cnn.com/galleries... - Bill Pennington via twhirl

Leather: where do you work? Can we say the same thing about your business? I'm sure your management hasn't made every best decision either. Plus, next year lots of businesses will lay people off. Should we cheer if you are one of those? - Robert Scoble

"there must be STRONG rules to make sure this isn't just a handout." Agreed. The House plan is pretty strong. http://www.freep.com/article/2... - John Craft

I think we can all agree that American automakers relied too heavily on SUVs. But what's the solution? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: that's because of our emphasis on quarterly results. I sure wish our markets would reward long-term thinking rather than worrying about this quarter and next. Capitalism itself brought us these problems. - Robert Scoble

Tyler: the solution is to take 10% of oil industry profits and put those into developing newer cars that'll get us off of oil. But that never will fly past the lobbyists. - Robert Scoble

+100 Robert - the short term thinking of today's day trader/hedge fund market create many of our current problems. - Brian Roy

True. Side note, has everyone here read Hot, Flat and Crowded? Fascinating. Great look toward what we SHOULD be doing. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: I watched Thomas Friedman give a speech while in Shenzhen, China. I saw everything he was talking about right outside of my window. This is the #1 problem for the next 20 years. By far. Friedman's work is very important, he just travels a lot so sees the problems in a way that the rest of us can't. - Robert Scoble

Robert, if short term thinking is what caused these problems, then why does Apple create awesome products? What really concerns me is when all this bailout stuff is going to stop. We are going to have this same conversation over and over for each bailout, until we cause US Treasuries to lose their AAA rating, and China, Russia, and the Middle East will start using another currency to trade with. That's what we are risking with these bailouts. - Chris White

Here's a thought: why not eliminate all tax breaks for and/or apply all windfall profit taxes on the fossil fuel industry toward the auto industry bailout? Jack CAFE standard up dramatically and, as others have proposed, commit the Federal Government to a complete overhaul of its vehicle fleet within 5 years, with the prerequisites that replacements must be built in the US and use alternative fuels or new technology. ... - Kevin Pedraja

That would ensure that 1) energy prices don't fall so fast that alt fuel programs wither 2) car makers are both required and incented to invest in new technology. - Kevin Pedraja

I would rather use my taxes to pay unemployment for all of US auto assembly line workers than use my taxes to bail out their braindead asleep-at-the-wheel management. I want my taxes to support American workers, not American executives. - Bjorn Stromberg

I was just thinkng today, how many times have we heard "The consequences of failure would bring chaos" during the past year? It's been the year of the Shepherd Boy. - Ted Gilchrist

Sarah Perez posted a message on Twitter

“I probably shouldn't admit this, but I unlocked the new taskbar in my copy of Windows 7..& omg...I almost can't get used to how EASY it is!”

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Ontario Emperor posted an entry on mrontemp

African pirates in the two centuries since Thomas "Dubya" Jefferson

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Scott Beale posted an entry on Laughing Squid

Cat Riding a Roomba

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Aaron Baer, Robert Haas, Neal "thePuck" Jansons and 3 other people liked this

This is what YouTube was made for. - Mike Doeff

I love how the cat actually helps scoop a little dirt into the Roomba at the very end. What a helper! :) - Kevin C. Tofel

I LOL'd. No really, I did. - Phil Glockner

Its great how compleatly un-fazed it is, happy just sat there spinning about. - Simon Wicks

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Allen Stern posted a message on Twitter

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Louis Gray bookmarked a page on delicious

Brand Management with Google Alerts | Korn on the Blog

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Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com

Should Every Outward Facing Employee Have a Web Presence

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Simple answer: yes. Same question: should every outward facing employee have a face? - Lars Trieloff

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Absolutely - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I almost said no, because janitors and other people don't really deal with customers, do they? But then I remembered the lady who cleaned my hotel room. She said hi and asked if she could make my stay better. Made my feelings about Sheraton go up. So, everyone affects the brand and everyone is customer facing and everyone can affect our understanding of what the company does, or help us have a better experience with it. - Robert Scoble

Yes. It makes them easier to contact and simpler to manage. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Robert: I'd argue that janitors and cleaning staff aren't outward-facing employees. - Kevin Fox

Kevin: I'd argue that they are. Everyone comes into contact with other human beings and they all represent the company in some way every day. If you hire great people all the way through your organization, you won't have to worry. If you hire idiots, then I'd worry about this stuff. - Robert Scoble

No. Most outward-facing employees are already outward-facing and present in the ways they need to be by default. Plastering them on a billboard for people unrelated to see, or opening them up personally for disgruntled customers to stalk... seems to be going a bit far. - abacab

I would say it depends. If you have a sales team with 100 people why not a blog for the team and then each individual member can blog. 100 blogs is maybe taking it a bit far? - Sofia

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FriendFeed Feedback: Daniel J. Pritchett posted a link

“I keep getting FF notices via GTalk 30+ minutes after I read the comments on friendfeed.com”

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We just fixed this issue - notifications should be caught up now. Let us know if you continue to see this issue. - Bret Taylor

Devyl posted five messages on Twitter

“@r_wolfcastle *giggles* I hoped you would like that :D”

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“@Hunee **hugs** for when you wake up”

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Ontario Emperor stumbled upon three sites on StumbleUpon

MessageSling - the future of voicemail

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From the page: "With MessageSling, contacts, greetings and messages can be organized into groups making it easier to search and store information outside of your mobile device. The best part, MessageSling has no limits on the number of messages, contacts or greetings that you keep. MessageSling makes it easy to import contacts from existing email accounts so that no familiar caller goes unrecognized. Plus, with every message, the caller's number is automatically added to your contact list, helping you to keep track and manage your contacts in a service that is accessible from the web and other mobile phones. " - Ontario Emperor

CommVault: Solutions: Oracle

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From the page: "CommVaultÂ® software covers the spectrum of what your company needs to manage Oracle data, starting with database and transaction log management for the Oracle system itself, and extending to broad server systems management to ensure that your entire Oracle environment is managed and easy to recover. CommVault software also fully supports your Oracle RAC deployments." - Ontario Emperor

UK AWAY FM local english radio station for Lanzarote &Fuerteventura

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From the page: "Established in 2001, Uk Away fm is the first and only English Language radio station to broadcast entirely from Lanzarote. Our music policy combines popular and specialist shows to cater for a wide variety of tastes. We also provide local, international and sports news and weather to keep our listeners up to date with events as they happen." - Ontario Emperor