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LOL - Josh Haley

CAN IZ HAZ CHANGEBURGER? - Johnny Worthington

Best LOLCAT ever! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

it was bound to happen, expected something better though - Dobromir Hadzhiev

yeah, i know what you're saying Dobromir - Zee.

HAAAAaaaaaaaaahhahahahahahhahaaaaaaa!!!!! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Instead of the traditional dog, Obama should adopt a lolcat to the White House. - Jemm

oh God no, have you not met Mona? :) - Zee.

Awesome! - Susan Beebe

It was suggested by friend on Kwippy.com that I run in 2012, so long as I pick a "hottie like Sarah". I said that I would tap Mona and our campaign slogans would be "OMG KITTENS!" and the crowd would chant "O RLY" and we would yell back "YA RLY!" and every time we were attack in an ad our response would simply be "SRSLY? LOL!". - Neal Jansons

++ Neal! - Ladybug Heather

@Neal: that about sums my estimation about the future, when current internet-generation takes over ;) - Jemm

I like what censorship does for our creativity tho. There are so many wonderful, fun-sounding alternatives. - Doug Haslam from twhirl

I personally like "douchewaffle." Turns out you can add -waffle to almost any existing insult and create something unique and fresh. - Viktor Cea

My reply: http://scobleizer.com/2008... - Robert Scoble

Wow....Bottom line; YES that is a TON of time, but you wisely defended it as you're migrating your "content" here on FF, generating more buzz for your blog and engage way more people. I, of course, am biased cuz I need "intervention" too. I was going to launch a "blog" but found that FF became my blog for short term writing / sharing needs. I still plan to launch a blog in 2009, but am planning that out - Susan Beebe

Ask him when he's taking up @guykawasaki on his absence from Twitter for a week bet - Jesse Stay

I would like to see more of you doing short video responses via QIK than reading. Seeing you is much more interesting that reading, and it makes you much more "real". You can SAY more with an INFLECTION in your voice than a paragraph of words. - Ari Burton

I think another gain would be the broadening range of topics you are able to cover in dynamic discussion versus a static (by comparison), drawn out blog. Twitter is to blogs what the Internet was to newspapers. - Jim W

Hello, my name is Alan and I'm addicted to Twitter :-) - Alan Kodzasov

Nah I like Peppermint :P - Ari Burton

I think you should do it all. Blog, tweet, and 'feed. What the split should be? I dunno. - Eric Florenzano

your realtime funnel of friends is impressive - Genaro Bardy

We have Scoble and YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK! :P LOL - Ari Burton

you're saying you chave 68000 people you can show potential sponsors. Did you ever ? - Genaro Bardy

What are there 40,000 BOTS answering Scoble? LOL :) - Ari Burton

Michael, you're funny. Genaro: I haven't been asked by my current sponsors yet, but they can look at all the people I'm interacting with on FriendFeed to get a good sense of who is here and on Twitter you can see all of my followers. Same on Facebook. So, sponsors generally have a pretty good idea of what kind of people I'll reach. - Robert Scoble

I can't help it I love this http://i.friendfeed.com/01c01f9... - Ari Burton

Robert you are doing a fantastic job pioneering new apps and showing us all the way, keep going and ignore the criticism. You are practising being a Thought Leader without the need to blog too. - Thomas Power

What you have done is balanced out your activity between Twitter, FriendFeed, Blogging, Videos, etc. Others who would prefer you stay siloed don't like that you've diversified. Why close the door on a significant audience, like one here, to maintain an old one? - Louis Gray

What?!? You blogged your response? You're falling right into his hands. - Christian Anderson

Robert and Michael, call me paranoid but I bet you guys both organized this rant & rave together to raise some valid questions about the changing nature of the social web. I think there's a place for focused writing of blogs but I can't help thinking Robert's experiment of jumping into the fray is both bold and worthwhile. It could easily be said that M's clinging to the old for reasons like thought leadership could possibly put him in a position of being obsolete very quickly. Love both of you! - Lance Shields

I wanted to agree with this post but Ari's comments are making me laugh too much. - james rock

Michael, I think Robert mainly gets input from his readers. That said, advice is also good for grown ups - Alexandros Georgiadis

I like michael´s funny comments here. I never bothered reading anything else but the headlines from TC before but now I may take a closer look (get it, michael..? ;) - Thomas Bøhm

This reminds me of the ladies who cried fowl when computers came along..."Noooo don't take my Smith-Corona away!" - Susan Beebe

I don't have a Tech Crunch comment account so I am pasting this here. In response to Susan Beebe, Michael Arrington stated: "and the “conversation” is fine. But Robert’s brain is better used actually writing articles that I want to read. Watching people grunt back and forth is entertaining but hardly educational." My response: "Rude." - Mona Nomura

If you were just a regular guy with a regular job OK, it may be a little much. But..you're a leader in this business and trying to keep us informed. Frankly, I'm a big fan, and feel like I would be missing out if you contributed less. - Missionary Broadcasting

Thought Leader = Adopting Today What Others Will Be Doing Tomorrow = Robert Scoble - Joe Lima

Mike makes good points and he does it out of respect for Robert. These are two of the hardest working guys I've come across. Mike sees the value he is building at TechCrunch and sees the value Robert is building for Twitted/FriendFeed. As far as I know, Robert doesn't get anything for that. I don't agree that Robert's time is not well spent, but can definitely see Mike's point. - Christian Anderson

"S**gate" getting a mention here from Robert every time there´s talk of storage is better promotion than plain ads on his blog. They should be happy about that, and I´m sure pay him equally well for that. - Thomas Bøhm

Yeah, I agree with Christian that M has good points and I think this debate is very good to consider. How do we spend our time? What is truly valuable? Is Robert poorer than he used to be? ;-) - Lance Shields

Your audience is more qualified than any else... That's interesting. No Media can link to facebook / twitter / ff accounts to give insights about its audience ! That's Power my friend - Genaro Bardy

Mona - I posted a response to Michael here http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Susan Beebe

Hey Robert! I hate to say this but I kinda agree with Michael on this one. I use to read you blog every day. I loved how insightful your post were. I could tell that you put a great deal of thought into your blog, and in turn, your blog provoked me to think. I like following you on friendfeed, but it is just not as thought-provoking. I have also started visiting your blog less because there is just not as much there. - Craig Fogle

I think Robert's brand is portable enough that he can survive outside of his own domain. At the end of the day, it's about engaging people through whatever means possible, whether that's your blog or FriendFeed, Twitter etc. For what it's worth, I had never read Robert's blog before I used FriendFeed. In some respects there's probably an element of Michael using Robert's popularity to drive a bit of traffic his way. Looks like it worked too. - Sam

Mike hasen’t noticed your videos, does that tell us more about Mike or your videos? - paul mooney

How about spending time where it matters to you? Maybe Mike should spend less time worrying where others spend their time. It's your time, spend it where you want. - Brett Nordquist

Your post a while back on *real* productivity, helped me a lot and I feel answers this already. Outside of your family what you want to do more than anything else is have lots of great conversations with people. FF enables you to do this more than your blog can. So by that standard you don't need an intervention - you're possibly the most productive person on the planet! :) - Matthew J Hendrickse

How do I sign up for this rehab thing? seems like all the "cool" people are doing it. - Bob Blunk

Honestly, I believe all these services should be merged somehow... Maybe if Friendfeed allowed for longer posts (although then it wouldn't be microblogging, but isn't Twitter for that?) people would start to move here. FF is a very young service yet: let's see how it expands and then we'll be able to choose between FF and traditional blogs. - Jordi Soler

Honestly, I feel that half the time I spend on Friendfeed could be more productively spent elsewhere. It *is* addictive, and you don't want to miss out on anything, but I've spent hours there without much to show for it. On the other hand, there are times where it's sheer genius to have that much input. - Mistletoe Glen

Once nanoblogging and picoblogging catch fire, this microblogging will seem tedious and time-consuming. Last Thursday, at 10 AM, I picoblogged an entire week of bloggage. Took about ten minutes. - david beckwith

Ha! That's awesome! - Aaron Krug

I love it! - David Price

dope. I like the eyesore approach. You steal my sign = Opportunity to illustrate my logic and skeelz. That's frankly what I'd do. - Marko Bon

win win - Melissa

Keeps stealing? They stole more then one sign? I couldn't find anything about their being repetitive thefts of their signage. Either way, it's sad that people have resorted to stealing political signs in this campaign. In the absence of real political discourse, I guess the only thing left to do is commit petty theft. - Jason Shultz

Shows how desperate the McCain supporters are. - Jeff P. Henderson

LOL - Shawn Farner

An excellent deterrent to prevent Obama-dislikers from stealing signs, but what if an Obama supporter steals the sign so the supporter can have his own sign for free? The campaign gets more money, which is the thief's intention, but the money does not come out of the thief's pocket. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

That is a great pic! - Kipp Bodnar

wait... you have to buy those signs? i'm pretty sure up here they put them on your lawn for free... lol - Joshua Schnell

I'm so amused at how popular this post is. - Jason Toney

JT: FF is clearly crowded with Obama supporters. :) - Melissa

Oh this is pristine comedy. Pristine. - Cheryl

You are correct Joshua, let's hope the political parties in Canada don't figure this one out. - Kenton

*steals the entire lot* - Mo Kargas

[love] - Carmen

I would go without the eyesore ... now it just looks tacky. Now they are just asking for more attention. I don't put political signs on my car simply because I don't want any problems. I don't think a sign is going to change anyone's mind... Major props to the design team for all the awesome looking collateral they created, though. - Brandon

This is hilarious - Nicholas Kreidberg

I've been tempted to throw Obama stickers over the McCain signs here in Florida, but passed. I just flip them off instead. - ::Kristen::

Must be nice to be on the left, where the worst that happens is the sign gets stolen. In Democrat neighborhoods in Oregon, McCain signs get firebombed. http://twurl.cc/5wk - Rob Sterling

I need to do that when I replace my stolen sign. Glad I took a picture, 'cause it's lasting longer. - Erica Mauter

Rob - you forgot about the dude that got shot for wearing an Obama shirt. :P :D - Chrimmus Tad

hell yes! A slightly tidier version of this needs to go in my mom's front yard. They (whoever "they" are) stole her sign, too. - Kamilah Gill

They had to buy the sign? I thought they gave them away for people to put up. - Victor Ryden

stupid idea - YAAK

The only problem? Obama campaign takes a loss on every sign they sell. Thief still wins. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Loved it, until I read Mark's comment. - Toby Graham

Classic! Of course, the net signage is now bigger. Thus the total cost per square inch has been reduced. Plus it's getting page views here, so it must also be getting some extra eyeballs in the 3D world. - Mike Reynolds

@Tad: The guy who got "shot" for wearing an Obama shirt was in Great Britain, not America, and he got "shot" with a BB gun. So I don't think that counts. - Rob Sterling

I had my Obama sign replaced by a McCain sign. I should have done something similar... Maybe i will now ;) - Ari Milner

I'd think so, but the question is do the VC's, after all Digg=Kevin Rose in many ppls eyes - Duncan Riley

is digg really that important? who would genuinely miss it? - Nathan Eckenrode

So when do we nationalize, I mean help out, Haliburton? - Barbara K. Iverson

What is interesting to see is how quickly "free market" die-hards will suddenly disavow the eternal wisdom of the "invisible hand" and suddenly embrace the visible, interventionist hand of government policy. P.S. A nationalized Halliburton is called "a military". - Chester

@Chester - Capitalism requires stability to function, so for capitalists, stability is a higher priority than capitalist principles. If the country starts to fall apart and people begin to starve, capitalist principles will neither feed them nor get the country back up on its feet. Social and political stability is paramount. - Rob Sterling

I wonder how many past and current "major political" office-holders that would disqualify? I'll propose another amendment: anyone seeking a major political office must have held at least one non-family-business-related job in his or her past. - Mistletoe Glen

+1 @adam... 'world' leaders should at least have seen some of the world - .LAG liked that

:( - Mona Nomura

even if we accept the daughter was hers, her actions are beyond bizarre - Duncan Riley

Where's the documentation? - Jim McCusker

Here's an article from an Anchorage paper: http://www.newsminer.com/news... keep in mind that no one knew she was pregnant until March, when she announced she was 7 months pregnant. - Admiral Anika

Jim, what documentation? her timing in terms of travel, pregnancy etc are all public record. - Duncan Riley

there's no documentation, but there's allegation: http://bit.ly/1mC5DB - judge for yourself but remember not to jump to conclusions. - ~C4Chaos

Wowzers. Beyond belief. - Tsega Dinka

Brilliant! - Sean Kelly

May not be relevant as SHE may not have been pregnant. There is significant circumstantial evidence that the baby may in fact belong to her 16yo daughter. See here for an interesting take on this http://www.dailykos.com/storyon... - Jeff P. Henderson

Ugh. Again, all based on anecdotal evidence and photographs. How would you feel if this was Michelle Obama we were talking about? Get a grip. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark, looking at the evidence you've got to say that it's at least highly strange. Seriously, look at the pics of her at 7mths - Duncan Riley

Anecdotal evidence or not, it is still highly strange if you look at the pics. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

in all fairness the photo which includes the daughter where she seems pregant was supposedely taken in 2006 according to digitaljournal. Don't know that anything is official. If the campaign would simply deal with this, then ppl might focus on the real issue of the abuse of power charge. - R. Ferguson

actually McCain already has been dealing dirt to Michelle Obama. The real story here is, McCain's surprise VP choice was made without doing a background check. So much for his "experience"... more like an example of senility! - Indio Apache from twhirl

Nothing stated on this thread is a provable fact, including Steve's little potshot at the end. Photos of other highly strange things? Bigfoot in a freezer, the chronology of Britney Spears' supposedly fake to real to fake to real boobs, and the loch ness monster. All this does is devolve the whole political process to the tabloids. If that's the type of politics you want, you're welcome to them. I thought the goal was informed and factual debate, though. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark- That's the point - we're trying to be informed. Not misinformed. - Steve Isaacs

I find it immensely ironic to hear republicans cry about provable facts, and about dirty campaigns! Bush and Reagan have yet to admit to one provable fact in 16 years of governance. mccain's mudslinging campaign is hardly an example of informed and factual debate. here's a provable fact: no fortune 500 companies go out an hire 72 year old CEOs, and try to sell them to their shareholders... more... - Indio Apache from twhirl

FYI. there are photos of Palin while pregnant. the photo time stamps are questionable but easy to explain, as i've noted on this thread - http://bit.ly/1mC5DB - i have no interest in spreading ugly rumors but i'm interested at getting to the truth. for your convenience, here's the link to the Flickr thread - http://bit.ly/2VxB9F - ~C4Chaos

I find it immensely asinine you assume that I'm a republican, Steve. I'm sick of it from both sides - I'm not a fan of the Obama is a Muslim conspiracy theories either, but I put up with that crap too. This is on that level. -400 to Steve and -30 to Lindsey for applauding him, since we're playing on this "Who's Line.." scoring system. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

no need to talk partisan politics. stick to the issue (rumor) at hand. here's another interesting take - http://bit.ly/3n1QTo - "There is quite the way-beyond-a-buzz happening on the internet over allegations that Trig Palin is not Todd and Sarah's child, but belongs to Bristol Palin and an unknown father. That's not how I've been hearing it for the last few months at all. As a matter-of-fact, I've been hearing that Trig is very much Todd and Sarah's child while Bristol Palin is actually pregnant NOW." - ~C4Chaos

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck its a duck. for example the ad-hominem attacks, instead of dealing with the issues I raised, this is right out of the republican playbook. - Indio Apache from twhirl

@Lindsey. You didn't specify. Your meaningless point assignment remains the same because, well, it's meaningless. As for you Steve, I think you need to go check a dictionary on ad hominem. I don't care about your issues, and I don't care who started it. *If* I were a republican, do I control the "Republican playbook" as you put it? Can I control other republicans? No. My original statement stands - this is all stupid and sleazy muckraking, not informed or intelligent debate. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Here's something in response to your comment (and in response to Lindsey's applause): Reagan is dead, you dopes. He can't admit to anything. That's a provable fact. I'm taking another few hundred imaginary points away for that one. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Good grief, it seems obvious at this point. If those photographs were taken at the time it's said they were taken, then Palin lied, and the baby is her daughter's, not hers. That may be understandable from a human standpoint... no, forget that line of reasoning. The tabloid nature of this story is ENTIRELY Palin's fault, and the cultural/political culture of Alaska. She lied. She covered up. AND obviously McCain did not vet her. Who would want this mess on their ticket? Only a very reckless man. - Rick Powell

OK now that Palin has said her daughter is currently 5 months pregant, I think we can consider this rumor closed. - R. Ferguson

This is an awful way to find out that I'm an idiot. - Ryan Kuder

Honestly, that temple looks terribly arrogant. I wouldn't be surprised if people in togas came out on stage. - Ernie Oporto

Last I saw, most Federal architecture in DC was Greek Revivalish. It wouldn't have occurred to me that it was a "Greek temple" unless Drudge beat the crap out of it. - Chris Baskind

the website is awful looking - Gordon Swaby

huh? - Adam Bohannon

the article was as funny as it is asinine. anyway, Greek = Democracy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - ~C4Chaos

bizarre - Duncan Riley

You know, it's really hard to believe something so impossibly childish (and stupid) could appear on a major candidate's website. - Chris Baskind

Come on Dave get a sense of humor, that's kind of funny. - ChiliMac

This is just juvenile but not unexpected. But it appears that the author doesn't quite understand the definition of Nickname (I'm probably the only one who thinks THIS is funny). http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainR... - AJ Kohn

Winer you are an idiot. If the Democrats pulled this, it would be brilliant. You are such a hypocrite. You champion change for the sake of change and that does nothing. You jump down McCain's throat because he doesn't know how much gas is or how many houses he owns, but you didn't say a word about Obama not knowing what CITY!?!? he was in the other night. HYPOCRITE. - Tony Kanzia

Thank you Tony ... thank you. - John Blanton

No, Dave is right. McCain should run for the "President of Douchebagistan." The really funny part is that the thing looks nothing like a temple on television right now. - jakebf

Dave is never right. And the fact that you don't recognize your hypocrisy makes you an idiot too. I mean I'm not asking you to suspend disbelief, just use common sense. - Tony Kanzia

Haven't both parties changed from an historical perspective though? For instance, Lincoln, if I am not mistaken ran under the Republican ticket. Is this not correct? - Melanie Reed

thank you Jay. seems a big narcissistic. - Tony Kanzia

and that's my point - its ok for the democrats to poke fun, but the republicans do it and Winer brands them idiots. - Tony Kanzia

Have you guys seen this?! http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images... - Bush's "temple" from 2004. I'll just go ahead and assume that pissed you off at the time too. Unless you're going to argue the nuance of one design over the other. That's fine but it shows that you really are just adapting your "argument" to suit the circumstance and your desired media narrative. - jakebf

what was that from? accepting a nomination or something presidential? i mean either way its like a bad tron nightmare. what happened to plain old stages? - Tony Kanzia

@Jake: You really are reaching and I think you know it. - ChiliMac

@Tony that was from Bush's 2004 acceptance speech. I actually like his "mound" thing better but both stages look pretty silly. Anyway, we all know this is a made-up meme meant only to piss of Democrats; it's what the Republicans are so good at and covers up their total lack of vision pretty well. Hopefully the American people see through it this time! - jakebf

The problem is that Republicans can't even recognize the tribute to the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King delivered his "dream" speech 45 years ago today. So basically, they can't recognize the memorial to the first (and best) Republican president. - Steve Lowe