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"I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live." "I was referring to my prison guards," McCain said, "and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends." McCain made it clear that his anger extends only toward his captors. As a senator, he was one of the leaders of the postwar effort to normalize U.S. relations with Vietnam. Campaign officials do not expect the controversy to hurt McCain, either in tomorrow's South Carolina primary or later in the campaign. "If people understood the context, they wouldn't be upset," Mike Murphy, a senior adviser to the campaign, said last night. - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

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Then say "THOSE" gooks, Senator. THOSE gooks. Easy word to say, fuckwit. - (that)Kenny

I'm not sure how I feel about this. lol - Mona N.

"If people understood the context, they wouldn't be upset," -- cop out. way to legitimize racism - Cee Bee

You clipped it...so something however slight, is felt - Anthony Farrior

That's from a long time ago. I'm sure he's all better now. - jeneane 'This One' sessum

But as a POW, how can you not, at least have some hate towards a specific race. It doesn't excuse racism, but at least he's honest... In some ways it's almost comforting? that he can admit that. Whether I want someone that has resentment for president or not is a WHOOOLE different story. - Mona N.

I'm just not sure that a would-be president should use racial slurs, regardless of the context. I have no doubt that he hates those people, but there are plenty of derogatory terms he could choose that have nothing to do with their race or ethnicity. - Bren

I agree with you Mona. Whether it's understandable or not, I don't want someone with that kind of hatred to run my country. - Carmen

Well, yeah. Buddhists monks would have a hard time after what McCain went through. - (that)Kenny

Nah, I think this is completely OK. So the guy has some choice words for his captors who beat the crap out of him and his comrades. Think YOU wouldn't hold some animosity? Bet your ass you would. Imagine what he calls them in private... This is probably pretty tame. And understandably so. So, if you're OK with G.D. America from the right rev. Wright I'm sure you're OK with this. N'est pas? - Gerald Buckley

I think Bren stated it more eloquently. ;) - Mona N.

Agreed. I can certainly understand his sentiments... but I'm not so sure that's a characteristic I would want in the President of the United States. - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

I wonder if someone will call him out on it. - Mona N.

what does the reverend wright have to do with this story? you people need to get over it just like mccain needs to get over his anger - Cee Bee

Even if a black person tortured me, I would never say that I hate the "ni**ers". It's offensive. That's it. - Andru Edwards

And... Our beloved President Johnson had even MORE colorful language along the racial slant. And, Roshan, au contraire mon frere. I believe it DOES give him LOTS of passage into that particular realm. And, Carmen, let them break your arms and legs and spirit and see if you don't harbor some choice epithets. Or, is it all forgive and forget? Do we really want a milquetoast, unopinionated, overly cautious with words, PC-to-the-hilt COMMANDER in chief? I prefer tell it like you see it transparency. - Gerald Buckley

Gerald- Non-sequitur is my favorite logical fallacy, too! Unfortunately, Rev. Wright is not running for president, so the comparison really doesn't hold. Not to mention that Obama publicly denounced Wright, whereas McCain's people have asked us to just 'be ok' with his display of racism. I will restate that I understand his anger, and don't begrudge him that. I just don't want a president who would use a racial slur such as that, because it shows a decided lack of judiciousness. - Bren

There's no excuse for this. - Rodfather

Bren - Let's suppose he never said those words. *POOF* they didn't happen. Are you now going to vote for him? At least he's laying it out there for all to see instead of ALIGNING with people who harbor absolute HATRED for this great country of ours. - Gerald Buckley

Just ask a Vietnamese American how OK it is for someone to be using the word "gook." - Victor Ganata

This Presidential race has now, officially gone past "stupid" and is well on its way to "ludicrous." In deference I will no longer offer logical, cogent argument and only offer inane snark. - Mark VandenBerg

If he is addressing the word at Vietnamese, then I'm pissed, but if he's exclusively using it to refer to folks that tortured him, then I have no problem with it at all. I don't like language police. I don't think McCain is a racist. That said, I don't like McCain's campaign and I will not be voting for him. - Tad - the Meme Maker

I agree, bad choice of words....he would've been better off saying "Fuckers" - Sean McGee

Gerald- I would not vote for him for a number of reasons. Again, non-sequiturs do not carry a lot of weight in an argument with me. To intimate that Obama is aligned with people who harbor hatred for this country is also, if not disingenuous, then simply mistaken. I am also appalled by the idea that if you love this country it means you can't hate it's policies, or the people running it, or any other aspect of it. Love of country without the possibility of dissent is absolutely Un-American. - Bren

Besides that, whatever happened to the Christian values of forgiveness? I don't want an angry President with a grudge who tosses out insensitive racial slurs so easily. - Rodfather

Gerald, are you saying that Obama aligns with people who hate America? I haven't seen any proof of this. McCain does say racist things about Asian-Americans, which would be bad for foreign policy, and offensive to a large segment of our population. I like the n-word analogy. He would never even be considered for a president if he said that. - anna awesomesauce

Doh! No better than using the "N" word. - Jeff P. Henderson

I don't get why people are defending the use of the word. I find it highly offensive. - Rodfather

Rodfather - good point. If McCain professes to be such a strong Christian, he should put his money where his mouth is. - Andru Edwards

Bren - rigorous debate is totally palatable here. And, "you're known by the company you keep" is every bit as in play here as any comment McCain has made. Non-sequitur or not. Face it. We're all locked into our positions by now. We're not affecting one another's positions. All we're doing is galvanizing one another. @RodFather - When was the last time we DIDN'T have an angry President. Beats the hell out of the alternatives. - Gerald Buckley

First off, it should be noted that this was a long time ago and he apologized and forswore future usage of "gook," though the apology was weak. Secondly, this is not about McCain being a racist or not -- there's no real reason to believe he is, despite this incident. The real issue at hand is the quality of the judgment and tact of someone who would say this in public and resist apologizing for it when (justly) criticized. Do you want this person being our country's front-man in international relations? - Chester

I love this clip by Jay Smooth on being a racist. It's not that he's a racist or not, it's *that he did a racist thing*. His lack of apology and understanding is HUGE, and that lack of sensitivity (bring in the n-word analogy here) is a problem. Like Bren, though, I wasn't going to vote for him because he lines up with most of the republican party on issues I don't like, so this incident was more "another nail in the coffin." - anna awesomesauce

Yes, Chester, given the two (or three) choices... I most certainly do. Was there a better candidate along the way? YES! But, unfortunately that's off the table now. - Gerald Buckley

You're entitled to your choice, after you weigh the facts. I was just putting the incident within what I consider to be the appropriate frame of relevance. As for your previous comments...Rev. Wright does not hate America. He was engaging in (admittedly incendiary) very stiff critique of U.S. policy throughout history. To portray him simply as someone who "hates Amurrica" is either disingenuous or ignorant and does not bolster your argument for voting for McCain, which can otherwise be perfectly valid. - Chester

Gerald... If it is so important, how do you reconcile Palin's 'company she keeps' with a terrorist witch hunter from Kenya http://www.alternet.org/electi... or her husband being part of a movement for Alaska to secede from the US, a group she made a video for earlier this year http://cspanjunkie.org/?p=389 . What it means is that if the election now comes down to 40 year old weak aquintences, witch hunters and militans..., - John Worthington

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! - John Worthington

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Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability

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On Thursday one of FriendFeed's co-founders, Paul Bucheit, will be on a FastCompanyTV webinar with me along with Matt Mullenweg and Nat Brown, the CTO of iLike to talk about how to make a system that stays up and responds quickly, even with millions of users. I can't wait, but I'm also terrified and need your help. - Robert Scoble

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A link from work (Not sponsored, not an ad) for anyone interested. It's related to Robert's topic: http://www.bluearc.com/dataflo... (And don't shoot me for blending the work life with FriendFeed) - Louis Gray

very cool - Zee from WeDoCreative

Thanks Louis, checking it out now. - Robert Scoble

I would like to hear their opinions on Rails and if the scalability issue is a myth. - Mona N.

This website may help with your research: http://highscalability.com - imabonehead

Mona, here's a Google video on "Ruby & Scalable Architectures" (note this also includes Rails) - http://is.gd/3A7C - imabonehead

"Breakthrough Failures That Help Sites Scale" - http://is.gd/3A85 - imabonehead

There is usually a session at mix with the myspace crew. It's Microsofy centric bit might help. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

Robert, I left you a comment on your blog post - but maybe it'd easier to catch you here. Come on up into the city anytime this week before your interview, and it'd be my honor to help answer your questions, and take you through what we did at Technorati (and now at Offbeat Guides) with regards to building scalable systems - including all the mistakes we made, some of them not so obvious! Give me a ring at 415 846-0232 or DM me or whatever, we'll set it up... - David Sifry via twhirl

I'd ask a simple one about the fact that traffic spikes can happen at any point, day or night, how do they deal it? Do they have round-the-clock staff or any type of early warning system? - Cains

I've built several sites for Yahoo! and give conference presentations on website scalability. Would you like to chat before then? - You Betcha Glen Campbell

http://blog.broadpool.com/2008... some thoughts on scalability. - You Betcha Glen Campbell

I have a bunch of conference presentations on scalability; let me know if you're interested (might be too technical for your audience) - You Betcha Glen Campbell

Glen, I guess many of us are interested so if you can share them we would be very grateful! - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

These guys have all answered these questions before and know how to talk about the topic. So I don't think you are on the hook for deep insightful questions. More of just getting the conversation started. Maybe take it from an uber user point of view and ask for stories about how they've scaled, made performant, and made reliable some of your favorite features with special attention to challenges and how they were solved. The proud parents will do the rest. - todd

All this time I thought Glen was just this funny guy on Friendfeed :) Love the anonymity! - Charlie Anzman

There's some excellent videos over at parleys.com, especially: http://parleys.com/display/PAR... and http://parleys.com/display/PAR... - Jason Carreira

http://files.broadpool.com/ has directories for various things. "dcphp2007" was a presentation entitled "Drinking from the Firehose"; "phpconference2008" was on service-oriented architectures; "webinale2008" was on the best ways to bring down your website (and how to avoid them). - You Betcha Glen Campbell

Scalability is about identifying bottlenecks that keep the system as a whole from achieving the goal of linear scalability (adding 2x as many boxes gives 2x as much throughput). Ask about what typical bottlenecks they avoid, and which bottlenecks they're still fighting. Also, the largest cluster-size they've run, and where the tipping points are for when certain bottlenecks become a problem. - Jason Carreira

todd, -10 for using the word "performant" :-) - You Betcha Glen Campbell

Allow me to mix together a few prior comments by pointing out this great article: "Scaling Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App " http://highscalability.com/sca... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Glen, Jason: thanks for the links :) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

Anytime Glen. Creative blending of obsfucation and bloviation is a talent :-) - todd

I think a good question to ask would be what assumptions each of them made that ended up being wrong and the most expensive to fix? All developers/architects make assumptions ... about how much traffic they'll see, what kind of traffic they will see, what the most important performance metric will be (the responsiveness vs. throughput question, which anyone building a scalable application needs to answer for their domain) ... Did any of their assumptions in these or other areas lead to big problems? - J. McConnell

IMHO the biggest problems I've seen with up-and-coming web apps is that they tend to think of scalability as something you "add on" instead of something you build in. If you've designed the architecture properly, you can increase the scale by simply adding hardware; any solutions that require additional coding or extra software (i.e., "just recode that using memcached") simply are not properly scalable. - You Betcha Glen Campbell

Glen, maybe the reason they're up-and-coming is that they're thinking in terms of value to the user, and not thinking, e.g., "how much harder will it be to shard our data if we implement this feature?" - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

Mr. Scoble - If I had one question to ask it would be "How do you BUILD for an predictable spike?" Say you're WalMart.com and you KNOW your biggest day of the year is going to be day after Thanksgiving. Walk us through preparing for surviving the spike and servicing all the transactions. If I had time for a second question I'd ask about the current state of cloud computing (namely Amazon's EC2)? And, a third question would be framework related (ala Ginger or MaryAnn?).... Rails or C? - Gerald Buckley

Bruce, absolutely true; however, it's actually cheaper to build scalability in at the beginning than to add it on later. And it doesn't have to be more difficult (sharding data? no one at Yahoo! does that, so why would a smaller company need to?), just a different architecture. - You Betcha Glen Campbell

I'd suggest that database sharding is a bandaid solution for the wrong up-front architecture. - Jason Carreira

My main interest in scalability (and the most problematic in my 10 years of experience) is always the database. I'd ask if there's a rule of thumb for the design of databases to support a truly scalable application. - JungleG

Scalability is all about CAPACITY PLANNING. Numerous aspects of systems design (and potential failure) must be examined and well planned in order to avert potential future failures. In an ideal world, you'd know the limits your system will need to scale to. But we don't live in a perfect world now do we. So product managers must work with IT architects to build a system that can "scale" to meet burgeoning demands as their product "takes off". Get your crystal ball out to start forecasting demand. - Susan Beebe

Cont'd: CAPACITY PLANNING involves all 7 layers of the OSI model. GO from the electrical plug in the wall to the "presentation" layer (screen) of the customer's view of your product. Now consider all the potential SPF (single points of failure) along the way; whether that be core infrastructure issues like bandwidth, load balancing (web servers handling the load), memory caching, DNS, optimized O/S, application design, database design, well structured queries, smart technologies like Java and AJAX - Susan Beebe

SCALABILITY actually refers to the concept of a Production Application running withing acceptable SLA limits without downtime or performance degradation, which can be caused by a slew of offending issues. Volumes have been written about scalability. Focus on key bottlenecks: bandwidth, infrastructure hardware, application design, data storage, especially as it pertains to database / query design. Sometimes large queries, reports, sprocs, batch jobs can hose a good app (needs smart devs to optimize). - Susan Beebe

Where are your users and where are your servers? Scaling globally. When did you move away from managed hosting and run your own racks? What do you consider successful site responsiveness? Have you noticed positive correlation between really quick page loads and user engagement? - Niall Kennedy

Great webinar, Robert, I posted some of my thoughts here http://cli.gs/L4bDzV - JungleG

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“TC50 is streaming live now: http://www.techcrunch50.com/20... working great.”

September 8 at 9:38 am - Link

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Keeps cutting in and out on me. Hope they bash their own execution like they did the Olympics. - Otto R. Radke

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Keeps breaking up for me also - Aryeh

Having no problems on this end. Receiving 5x5. The intermission hip hop is blasting through nice and bright. - Gerald Buckley

I was just going to say they need a better DJ ;) - Dave Pook

I think I will tune in in about an hour for the Goolge Announcement. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

I like the choice in music during the breaks. :) - Daynah

I made the comment because I find the music too intrusive (I hate cheesy pop) which means I turn the player down in the breaks risking missing the presentation, I could leave something more ambient on quite loud. - Dave Pook

I watched for >1hr with only one hiccup that lasted 3-5sec. No complaints here. - Abbas Haider Ali

Same stream, with live chat: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/... - Majento™

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On my talk on Friday I told my audience that I would never use Powerpoint again because I had worked at Microsoft. That got a HUGE laugh. And I'm serious. Even with tools that make PowerPoint more useful, like this one, I just hate what it's done for presenters. Most use it badly. The ones who use it well are really great, though. It's just that I've sat through so many bad presentations that I'd rather not encourage anyone. - Robert Scoble

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I agree, but I think the problem has more to do with a presenter's inability to understand the theater behind what they're doing. PPT does make people lazy, but I have a feeling even if their design department put together a kick ass Flash animation for it, they'd still end up just reading the bullet points. - Ciaoenrico

So what do you use Robert? - Brad Nickel

Brad: I stand up in front of the audience and talk off of an outline and I demo things when appropriate. If I had to use PowerPoint I'd do it like Larry Lessig does it. Lots of photos, very few words. Tell a story with visuals. - Robert Scoble

I moved to images and one thought per slide about 2 years ago. Works beautifully, but your method reminds me of my debate / extemp days. May have to think about going back there. Why do I need an image for every thought, when I am a persuasive public speaker, eh? Thanks. - Brad Nickel

Seriously. Since when did it become okay or useful to paraphrase what you're going to present and then project it on a screen while you present? My company has an Acceptable Usage policy for the Internet; we need one for PowerPoint. - Tim Harding

few tech guys know theater, or story-telling, or art ... all of which need to be part of a visual presentation ... otherwise, just speak, hand out notes. - Gregory Lent

Yes, use PP in a manner that it doesn't look like PP. Like Paul Isakson's well-known presentation: http://tinyurl.com/37sbht. - Marko "Bon" Bon

Look at Steve Jobs presentations. He has everything, including the theater. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

@Brad Nickel I like to think of the visuals as emotional buoys. Your speaking is the navigation but the reefs, as well as the moorings, need to be given some prominence. - Christopher Harley

I use Powerpoint to keep the flow of information going and to be sure I don't skip something important. Otherwise I might talk the whole hour and a half - being engaging and entertaining - but neglecting some key points.(I teach branding/marketing workshops for small hair salons) - Aura Mae

slides are *not* a script. if you need reminding about what you planned to say, a: use the presenters notes feature and b: this means you need to rehearse more. if you don't know your material inside and out how can you hope to get your message across to the audience? - h1ro

Yeah. I use SlideRocket now, with one eye-popping image and a few words of text per slide. If I have an important set of data to present, I'll put that on a slide--in a recent presentation on the workflow for my podcast, one slide listed all the software I use. But generally it's just an image and a thought. - Brent Newhall

Wonder how Edward Tufte feels about this update? He was always one to rail on PowerPoint (and especially the presentation style that it fostered.) Does this move presentation style in the right direction, or wrong direction? (I understand it allows you to "drill into" a slide to show information contributing to that slide... which is hard to do ad-hoc with linear slides.) - Wade Dorrell

Presenters notes only work if you are standing at your computer. For a workshop where the presenter is moving about the crowd, they are useless. Moving to the next slide is the cue to move to the next topic. Perhaps a workshop (interacting with the audience) is different than a speech which could be memorized? (I can rehearse my content, but it is hard to rehearse the unexpected input from each audience.) - Aura Mae

I still think LaTeX is the best for presentations: writing one couldn't be quickier, and the result, without being a "show", is accessible, readable, good looking and professional. - Marcos Marado via fftogo

this is like blaming wordpress for sucky blog postings and spam blogs. just because it is the most used software does not make it the reason for sucky presentations. (btw I just ordered the office 2007 although i despise the ribbon and what it does to my productivity. it is just that everything other offering of office software is so not on par with needed features for smart working. then again i am a power user who knows what she is doing.) - Nicole Simon

@aura you can never anticipate every possible audience interaction but depending on the content, you can use questions or interactions in an adaptive manner in order to bring the conversation back to your main talking points. you are on stage - you are in control of the conversation. if you are giving a presentation not a workshop. if it's a workshop style event then the rules change. if it's a presentation, you are there to move the audience to understand what you are trying to share - h1ro

@marcos the tool shouldn't matter - i think that people should practice talking with no props or visual aids at all like @robertscoble was mentioning. if you can't tell a story without a 50ft visual aid you might want to rethink your strategy :) - h1ro

@Nicole it doesn't make PowerPoint the reason for bad presentations, but whether the gravity it exerts as popular software has a bad (or good, or no) effect on presentation as a whole is a debate we can have. - Wade Dorrell

+1 h1ro. amen to that. ppt is a crutch. - .LAG

I agree. I enjoy using PowerPoint for instructional pres but I never use it alone, its usually in connection with Camtasia or Impatica. But I've noticed that I will hear people say "O, yeah, I can do PowerPoint" and then you do see what they mean: It's every thing that Edward Tufte warns against and more. It just seems to me that they are not enjoying what you can do with the tool. They don't even explore it. And yes, most importantly you have to have a story to tell. You've got to storyboard. - Melanie Reed

Robert's talk at the New Media Expo was far more engaging because he *didn't* use PPT. - Chris Luckhardt

@Chris Luckhardt ...because Robert didn't use any presentation software at all, or because he did use software but it wasn't PPT? - Wade Dorrell

Wade: I didn't use any presentation software at all. Right. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Unclear whether the "Right" was sarcasm or affirmation. Thanks for the reply. Anyway, do you use any kind of resource to share data spoken & unspoken? (For example, do you have a person post to FF the data/URLs during a presentation? Do you do premeditated handouts of some of the data/URLs you think you'll mention?) Certainly someone in the audience can capture this for you, if it's a big enough audience or an important enough talk it's almost guarenteed... but then that person is a stenographer, not a conversation participant. - Wade Dorrell

but it is a MS only solution and not applicable for Mac Office 2008 :-( - Torsten Eckert

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

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"Early stage venture firm Y Combinator, which has funded over a 102 young startups, has “open sourced” the legal documents that they provide to their startups to use as they seek additional funding. The documents were created with their law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

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Love! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

Link to the documents: http://www.ycombinator.com/ser... - seman

Thanks for the link. Good stuff. - Jason Carreira

Paul Graham is doing a terrific job. FEw days ago, for thr first time, they published a document showing what kind of startup ideas they particularly look for, and now this!!! Cool. - Hayk Hakobyan

Thanks - Harun Baris Bulut

Anyone know why the documents were taken down so abruptly last night? - Gerald Buckley

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My dream car's a 2+2. Consistently good taste in cars Jason. Mustang, 'vette, Tesla... - Gerald Buckley

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@JoeTrippi I think Clinton might have a point about Edwards screwing her chances.”

August 12 at 4:32 pm - Link

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You play the cards you're dealt and she played poorly and lost. She/they need to look in the mirror for the reason why. - Brad Nickel

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He totally did. Drew the wind right out of her sails. (Trying my best Borat here...) "NOT!"... So, hard to pull that off. How did he DO that? It was her's to lose. And, she did a marvelous job of it. - Gerald Buckley

I don't like this talk of "X screwed Y's chances." I didn't like it in 2000 when people blamed Nader for Gore losing, and I didn't like it in 92 when people blamed Perot for Bush losing. My major beef with it, aside for any factual-ness arguments, is that it plays RIGHT into the hands of those with a vested interest in maintaining the two party system (i.e., the parties themselves). Then you've got the the assumption that if, for instance, Edwards hadn't been in the race that everyone who voted for him... - David Worrell

would have voted for Clinton over Obama. - David Worrell

That really could be taken a few ways :) .... - Charlie Anzman

How did Edwards have anything to do with Clinton losing? From what I can tell it was mainly due to her complete inability to manage her campaign staff and the huge tactical holes they gave to Obama's campaign to exploit. Sounds like sour grapes to me. She lost. She needs to own up to the fact that she lost and move on. She needs to take responsibility for her failure instead of pointing figures at everyone else. - "Awesomesauce!" Scoble

I have to strongly disagree here. Iowa second choice polling never showed Clinton doing well at all. Also polling seemed to show Edwards vote going towards Obama after he dropped out. A great write up from Nate at FiveThirtyEight here. http://bit.ly/20OYbm - JT Perry

Joe Trippi posted a message on Twitter

“Elizabeth Edwards posts diary on DailyKos http://joetrippi.com/blog/?p=2...”

August 8 at 7:20 pm - Link

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Mrs. E has more class than we'll ever know. - Gerald Buckley

newsjunk.com posted a link

[Salon]: What's next for Edwards?

August 8 at 1:46 pm - Link

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"The former candidate's admission of an affair puts his political future, and a potential speaking slot at this year's convention, in jeopardy." - newsjunk.com

" ...a potential speaking slot"? If they let Edwards anywhere near the Pepsi Center after this thing I'll eat my desk." - Bill Barol via NoiseRiver

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“The new WorkFastTV show: http://tinyurl.com/6r8xy8 -- 10 secrets of highly productive people.”

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Thanks to Matt Rissell, CEO of Tsheets.com. I learned a lot (he's interviewing hundreds of CEOs to find out what makes them productive and successful). - Robert Scoble

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Good interview, overall. I particularly liked the advice, "Choose 1 important thing each day, and come hell or high water ensure it's DONE today." - Brent Newhall

Hi, I think the changes you made to the show are a lot better. Good idea going with the Charlie Rose black background. I was one of the guys that posted some pretty direct feedback, but i quite enjoyed this show. :) - sergiooo via NoiseRiver

Mr. Rissell reminds me a LOT of GaryVee. Healthy intensity. - Gerald Buckley

what a great idea - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

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Pregnancy Tips Gallery

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HAHAHAHA! Mark Wilson, you rock my FF world! Funny FTW! - Anna Haro

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Love "visualization in labor." So true. - Michelle Martinez

if you plan to do the DON'T, wear a bra or do it before the pregnancy. Oh Sally... - Outsanity

HAHA - Mona N.

lol @ the breakdancing - Outsanity

OH nice I looked at this one the other day !! So funny - Luke Jeffrey Smith via twhirl

"Sharing old clothes" is the best! - Justin Korn

Absolutely hilarious -- great link. - Nicholas Kreidberg

Hmmm, mildly NSFW, definitely inappropriate if pregnant ladies are in the workplace, clearly too true to life, and absolutely LOL; oh yes, I will continue to LOL - Pete Delucchi

"Recording the Birth" was my favorite, should have been captioned with a Qik video url. - JodyUnwired

I needed to be reminded to keep my top on ;-) - Kate Kapetanakis

LOVE THIS - sean percival

superb. - Zach Underwood

Awww what friends would freak about a little show of the boobies? - Angie

If I did that at work - I bet I'd get a raise. gotta love newsrooms - Kate Kapetanakis

Oh man - that was totally hilarious. - Tad - the Meme Maker

I am tearing up! - George Smith

ahhh NSFW ads! - Shey

hahaha, I like the sharing old clothes :) - Marcus Hamaker

Laughing so hard just a little pee came out. Awesome. - Lisa L. Seifert

@Lisa, wetting yourself as an adult FTW! ;-) - Anna Haro

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D&D Player’s Handbook: Then and Now | Geekdad from Wired.com

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I have been wanting to get back into the d&d stuff..anyone play here in the kc area? - (jeff)isageek via Bookmarklet

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Jeff if WotC ever get off their butts and get done with DnDInsider they'll have a groovy setup where folks can play across the web. As soon as that's working well enough to use I intend on running a weekly game. Will be looking for players then. Wish I still had my 1st Edition books... my mom threw them away years ago - I had all the 1st edition stuff. *sniff* - Tad - the Meme Maker

That players handbook brings back memories...where's the monster manual? - Mark Krynsky

hey tad if you ever get to that point or do something like it let me know I would love to play again. - (jeff)isageek

Ahh.... recalling days of the DM screen, Gods & Demi Gods, etc. Thanks for that post Mark! - Gerald Buckley

I ATTACK THE DARKNESS - Akiva Moskovitz

IF THERE's ANY GIRLS THERE, I WANT TO DOOO THEM! - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Where'd they get my old Player's Handbook to scan? - steplow is Steve

D&D Online had so much potential. Guess you can't beat the original PnP? - Arlan Koizumi

++ Akiva! And Mark too - I swear I remember some of that. oh yeah and "huh huh, I have high, HARD boots! huh huh huh" - Tad - the Meme Maker

Where are the Cheetos? - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

You'll have to roll a d20 against your Perception to find out! - Tad - the Meme Maker

Growing up, all the computer geeks around me were into D&D, but never me. Maybe it was because my Pentecostal mother told me it was devil worship? - Anthony Citrano

We had a kid who's parents were like that, but they were really only concerned about all the dice rolling - that's SATANIC! So we made him a series of spinners - you know like the spinner for Twister. He had a s4, s6, s8, s10, s12 and an s20. Worked really well. His parents had no other problems with the game. - Tad - the Meme Maker

Where did they get my old Player's handbook for the pic? - steplow is Steve

Mine looked the same... Almost the exact same wear on it. - Tad - the Meme Maker

Tad that's awesome. I just loved the sheer senselessness of their collective dogma. I also remember they were like that about cards, too. You couldn't play CARDS cards - you know, the ones with the actual suits, but you could play other card games (Uno, Mille Bornes, whatever..) or games WITH cards (Monopoly, Sorry, Life, etc.) - Anthony Citrano

Well, it's like the guy I used to work with. He wouldn't let his kids have ANYTHING to do with Harry Potter, cause that's SATANIC, but he was all gung ho about Lords of the Ring, cause a Christian wrote it. - Tad - the Meme Maker

I was one of the few girl's that played D&D in my school - Angie

My dear husband has these very tomes at home and in fact we just played last weekend with some friends. My ranger kicked some ass with a short sword. - Heidi Moon

My mother bought into that Michigan State student spin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... . It didn't matter much, since it wasn't like millions of black kids in Mississippi were playing the game. I played the old console games without knowing their roots. Learned Magic: the Gathering after I moved away for grad school. When I was invited to play ADND and gave the "Eww, Satanism and drugs" response, I learned that I'd kinda been playing for about a decade. Decided to give it a try but be prepared to run like hell. I loved it, still do. I just won't play evil characters :) - MiniMage via NoiseRiver

MiniMage - I don't play evil characters either and when I run games i don't allow them. Kinda defeats the whole point of being "heroic." - Tad - the Meme Maker

I think I have one of those original Players Handbooks buried somewhere in my (or my mom's) basement! - Les Zaldor

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I'm still liking Yves Rossy's get up FAR better. - Gerald Buckley

Unveiling today? - Adam Loving via StumbleRead

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A Collision of Two Galaxies

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Awesome! - Mitchell Tsai

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Evil Eye Galaxy - A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. - Mitchell Tsai

I love the name "Evil Eye Galaxy" :-) - Mitchell Tsai

It can happen. - Andrew Baron

oh the evil eye galaxy approachs...where's the 5th element - tis much needed now..!! - Peter Dawson

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Amazon explains the July 20 outage on S3, setting the bar high for corporate communication with customers it values.

July 26 at 9:31 am - Link

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If only Twitter were so explicit when their outages happen... - JungleG

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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 via 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 Hussein Winer

Seems Comcast IS trying though. Here's a NYT article, where they talk a little bit about Comcast's recent efforts to pull themselves up from the bottom of customer satisfaction ratings: http://tinyurl.com/nytcomcast - Jason Huebel

Pity that Apple can not do the same after their iPhone and MobliMe debacle. - joubert berger via 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 Hussein 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

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