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also here; [http://ff.im/4xLLG] - MikeAmundsen

Lol. It's all mad ramblings of conjecture and fear. Baseless. I thought it was hilarious. ;) - Leon from email

Well, bloggers hate you too, old man! - Dillon K. Hoops

Long thread on this over here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ken Sheppardson

These kids today with their blargs! Off my lawn, ya darn kids! - Leon

Bjorn - so? in this day and age where anything a candidate says can be used against them or taken out of context, they need to watch what they say. - Veronica

One short clip taken out of context. Good fuel for the haters in the world. - William Beem

I don't hate McCain, actually. There are worse options out there than McCain. But saying you hate an extremely vocal community isn't good campaigning. - Veronica

Why would he, even jokingly, say he "hates the bloggers" if he didn't in some way believe that to be true? It's like an offhand comment, like he thinks no one would even care enough to be bothered by it. So flippant. - Veronica

@Veronica It's impossible to "watch what you say". Everything and anything can be taken out of context to be used against you. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

"I hate such and such" is not a statement that can be taken out of context, imho. - Veronica

It's a short clip designed to highlight ONE comment. What was the context for the conversation? It doesn't matter to the people who are trying to find ways to hate on a man. My guess it's people who do stuff like that who were the topic of his conversation. - William Beem

It was definitely a joke, but bloggers are very easily irritated, so maybe it wasn't the best move. I don't think it will hurt him too bad though. - Harrison Hoffman

We're ornery like that. - Veronica

@Veronica ??? What? It doesn't matter what he said. They took it out of the original context. Even then it was obvious he was making a joke. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

the head of the library association said this like 2 years ago and it did not go well for him. - Stefan Hayden

ty shey - it was a joke people - I realize that given his previous regrettable statements about his tech illiteracy that this is the worst joke he could have made in the eyes of this community but for goodness sakes. Between rising energy costs, our economy, the war, Iran, N Korea - we have PLENTY of things that need serious debate right now - do we really need to take a joke and accuse McCain (as I saw on another thread) of jking this way bcause he is agnst the rights of indviuals to freely exprss thmslvs? - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

[Posted this in the parallel conversation over on Scoble's link to the same story. Sigh. I hate FriendFeed] Just dug up this from his Liberty University commencement address back in 2006. Summary: He really does hate bloggers ;-) http://kshep.posterous.com/mccain-... - Ken Sheppardson

Well, do you expect anything less from John McCain? Does he know what a blog or blogger is? I mean, he doesn't use a computer much (but then again neither does Richard Branson - so maybe we should not hold that against McCain).... hmm ... But then ... Richard Branson isn't running for US President.... it's OK if he doesn't use a computer - he prob doesn't need to ... but McCain ... he doesn't need a computer either .. but he does need to understand people who do - because a lot of people do. - Marshall Sponder

It's a rotten thing to say, but he seemed to connect with those people when he said it. There's a large group of people who are actively shunning new media. Afraid of change, as usual. - David Van Vickle

Has he started up an enemies list yet? - Harry Myhre

He probably thinks bloggers are people from Holland who wear wodden shoes. - Harry Myhre

McCain hates bloggers and Obama hates America. It's lose-lose. - Jim the Tolerable

I had forgotten - Paul Newman was on Nixon's enemies list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Harry Myhre

Does John McCain even know what a blogger is or does? - Soso Sazesh

i hate to defend the old man, but doesn't it seem like he was trying to get a laugh? albeit a cheap one. - robert steburg

thats ok, I hate McCain so we're equal - Danilo da Silva from twhirl

I imagine the majority of the population saying "bloggers, is that some new kind of terrorist?" so I don't think it will hurt him much. That, and from my informal online research, most bloggers hated the GOP nominee before McCain's name filled in the blank. - Robert Hafer

He was looking for a laugh since he was acknowledging that bloggers are usually good at holding people's feet to the fire... I mean seriously people? - Matthew Beck

...I have never been a heavy FTP user, but when I have, FTP explorer has always worked well; and simply (http://www.ftpx.com/) - JA Castillo

I'm a fan of SecureFX, but mainly because I have used it for years. Stable and secure. - Jeremy Hall

ws_ftp? Dude, this isn't 1995 :) I suggest smartftp, winscp or filezilla - Bwana ☠

I like FileZilla - Jason Dettbarn

filezilla - Morgan

Filezilla has served me well. - Ben Hedrington

filezilla works well enough for me - Rex

Filezilla is great. - Keith - @tsudo

Filezilla is gret Leo - Joel Ross Housman from twhirl

Filezilla FTW! - Leon

one more vote for Filezilla - Andrés David Aparicio from twhirl

FileZilla IMO. - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

Filezilla is good, I also really like fireftp. - Mike from Alert Thingy

add my vote for FileZilla - nice to easily save profiles etc. - David Pascoe

SmartFTP has never failed me (whereas Firezilla has!) - Chris Ridenour

Interesting leo: 16 replies to this question on FriendFeed. 40 Replies on Plurk, and about 80 on Twitter - Bwana ☠

FileZilla is great for Mac so I can only assume it's decent for Windows as well. - Andrew Dobrow

i'm down with FileZilla - Derek van Vliet from twhirl

I vote for WinSCP and FileZilla - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I use CoreFTP because it's free :) - Bob from Alert Thingy

I have moved over to WinSCP as of late. It has some really powerful features. - Jordan

I use WinSCP whenever I can for SCP/SFTP and SmartFTP if I have to do plain old FTP. - Daniel Shaw

I use FlashPeak BlazeFTP... it works well and free is for me... - Doug Quance

SmartFTP rocks! Its really great! - Jigar Mehta

Ya, I use SmartFTP too, lots of great features and pretty easy - Ralph Poole from twhirl

For a free Windows command line (script-able) FTP with 'over SSL' ability, there's MOVEit freely ( http://snurl.com/2e4fu ). Admittedly, I haven't used it in a few years, but it was great back in the day. - Micah Wittman

cuteftp - Chuck Boyce from twhirl

Do you mean client or server? As a client, Bulletproof FTP has always been good for us, although at home I use wsftp - Thomas Lee

Filezilla is free and it also handles SFTP. It's not pretty like Transmit for Mac, but it's flexible and it works. Happy hunting - Glenn Batuyong

if you're using Firefox, fireftp does just fine - Deepak Singh

SmartFTP is the best FTP client for Windows. - xero

I like filezilla or smart ftp or htmlkit - Matt

SmartFTP - Jonathon

I really like Core FTP Lite - Rickey

FileZilla - Rui Pereira