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Best Friend. | The Foray - http://theforay.com/ww/?p=27
Otavio Ferreira, Soup, Steve C and 23 other people liked this
this is true eh...Unless of course they've killed you in that 2nd one and are dragging you to a grave.
- Zee.
OMG this is hilarious. :P
- .k.t.c.l.i.n.g.
"A friend will help you move, a best friend will help you move a body."
- Michelle Jones
Mythbusters also confirmed that an iPod will NOT stop a bullet. Information like that is extremely useful
David H. Chu, Becca, Wizetux and 12 other people liked this
A motorola cop radio will stop a bullet.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
@Jay depends on the radio, some of the newer ones I think would not stand up to a bullet...
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
Yeah, the old non trunked radios were tanks.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Who the heck thought that?
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
guess I'll move my iPhone back to my pants pocket from my shirt pocket if this is indeed the case.
- Thomas Hawk
++Thomas Hawk
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Of course, the question it, it won't stop it, but will it deflect it?
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
I saw that. Apparently 14 pizzas in boxes and insulated carriers will stop buck shot, though
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Good to know. Bet it was fun to shoot those overpriced things though :).
- Becca
Voting for Obama http://m.kyte.tv/show...
Chris Zlatis, Duncan Riley, Christian Van Der Henst and 29 other people liked this
Your a good man Scoble-Brown.
- CW™
ایول رابرت , شیره هر کی بهش رای دادی :دی
- Mil∂d
whoops, missed a bit of the square. VOID
- Andrew Smith
I took the same pic (with the same candidate) and uploaded it to facebook. Just received an anonymous email telling me it's illegal to take a picture of your ballot. WTF?
- shaun mclane
yes, in most states it is illegal... why? I don't know for sure... but they take the privacy of the booth very seriously
- Shawn Duffy
from twhirl
It is illegal and will be posted on the wall before you enter.
- Richard Gallo
Driving 69mph on the freeway is illegal too. Sue me. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Good to be so forthcoming to share that, surprised that it is so secret when the elections are so public.
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
It may be illegal in some places, but I am sure it's not illegal to take a pic of your sample ballot filled in.
- April Russo (app103)
obama ftw! respect Robert!
- Apostolos Papadopoulos
it's not illegal to photograph your ballot. that's nonsense. I photo'd mine and uploaded to Flickr.
- Karoli
I believe in some jurisdictions it's illegal to take photos at the polling place, as it has implications RE intimidation, tampering, etc. Photographing your individual ballot however? Eh.
- Ken Sheppardson
You drive 69 out here Robert and you get passed, 75 on many of our freeways :)
- Bob Schwartz
in italy is highly illegal (immediate arrest)
- Danilo Paissan
might give some punks a reason to invalidate your ballot. THAT would be hilarity
- Daniel Morgan
If I pay you to vote for me you cannot prove you did, but now that cell phones have camera we can easily get proof of how you voted. That is why it's illegal to photograph your ballot.
- Bob Gannon
Is Obama President yet? - http://isobamapresidentyet.com/
Yu-Jie Lin, Christoph Thelen, adolfo foronda and 3 other people liked this
Daughter of slave votes for Obama - http://www.statesman.com/news...?
Anthony K. Valley ©, Kol Tregaskes, Sarah Miller and 40 other people liked this
"Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee. The middle child of 13, Jones, who is African American, is part of a family that has lived in Bastrop County for five generations. The family has remained a fixture in Cedar Creek and other parts of the county, even when its members had to eat at segregated barbecue dives and walk through the back door while white customers walked through the front, said Amanda Jones' 68-year-old daughter, Joyce Jones."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Wow.
- Vincent X
Amazing.
- Cyndy
"Secretary of State spokeswoman Ashley Burton said Texas can't confirm whether Jones is the state's oldest active voter because there is too much voter information to sort through. At the county level, there are other challenges. An election official in Hays County said its records are not searchable by age ..." Please someone hire these people a programmer!
- Chris Lamprecht
That is awesome....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I love this story... saw it recently and was really moved by it...very cool!
- Susan Beebe
This is the kind of story I like to have in my back pocket for anyone who wants to tell me that slavery was a Loooong time ago. Not quite, son.
- Jason Toney
Jason - true; in some ways, it feels like slavery still affects us more than stuff that happened leading up to World War 2
- Chris Lamprecht
Twittering Journalist Wiki Compiled - http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewse...
Hernan Garcia liked this
Thievery Corporation in SF NYE: http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo... I'll likely be going
Jesse Stay and Hernan Garcia liked this
Interesting. My husband likes them but I'm not sure I want him to know! =)
- Cece
I know it's so wrong...but I can't help but laugh... - http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2008...
Mo Hall, ronin, Mona Nomura and 36 other people liked this
and laugh some more...
- Zee.
i'm laughing now, but i'll hate myself in the morning...
- .LAG liked that
totally laughing
- Nils Hitze
from twhirl
Hopefully so Sheryl Lol :)
- Zee.
LOL!! HAHAHHAAAA!!!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
glad i'm not the only one then Rah.. ;)
- Zee.
God you're evil. LOL It's a beautiful illustration and ejem ... a funny joke. LOL
- Cibeles
ROFL! Oh, that's so wrong. :-p
- Dread Pirate PJ
:/
- Anna Haro
hilarious.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from NoiseRiver
good friend...really - http://flickr.com/photos...
Kyle Weller, Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie), Christopher Hagner and 10 other people liked this
Hehe
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
from Bookmarklet
Air pushups, harder than they look.
- Todd Hoff
Wow, that's a nice picture! And perfect timing also.
- Kristian Salonen
20+ Freaky Deaky Hairdoos - http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre...
Toby Graham, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Brian Bufalo and 10 other people liked this
ok, i admit -the first one was me a couple of years back...
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
yeesh!
- MikeAmundsen
ewwwwww!
- Vicky
haha - love the matching chest/belly hair combo....:)
- WorldofHiglet
That guy just won't go away
- Josh Haley
Holy crap. I didn't even notice that. My Horrifimeter just went from 18 to 100%.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It took a second look before I noticed that his body hair is heart shaped.
- Morton Fox
Just lost my appetite.
- Larry Kless
dreads gross me out sooo much. ugh.. *shudder*.... i once had a long dreaded friend visit me in ny (friend from miami since we were 13), i gave he and his girlfriend my bedroom, after the weekend the pillow on his side of the bed was yellow/brown, and smelled like rotting meat.
- Melissa Maskevich
you killed it with those last four words Melissa...urgh..
- Zee.
Oh god so wrong! SO WRONG!!
- Soup
I’d never have a wacky hairdo as my neighbor gives me a #4 every 6 weeks of so for free. Low maintenance that… shower and go. Still to each their own. We all express ourselves in different ways.
- Ian May
hehe I was going to make a joke about having heard of #1s and #2s so what does that make #4, but I decided it wasn't worth it....
- WorldofHiglet
NOoooo oh these pics are nasty! LOoooSER!
- Susan Beebe
Missing girl's father finds help through Twitter - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
Rodney Rumford, Hernan Garcia, Phil G and Damien Franco liked this
i tweeted this earlier today
- Rodney Rumford
Pictures of the morning - http://picasaweb.google.com/anafrie...
david beckwith, Christopher Sacca, winckel and 37 other people liked this
Wow, that's a lot of tickets
- Casey Muller
Alternatively, if the smog is that thick and doesn't dissipate to show a blue sky, you could probably just paint it blue...
- Kirk Kittell
More faked pictures, huh? ;)
- Paul Buchheit
there's haze which is what you see most often in Hong Kong, and then there's pollution which you see in China. You should be able to see through haze, hope no sandstorms happen either
- clarke thomas
Thanks for sharing all this!
- Anne Bouey
Smog. Awful Olympics:(
- Igor Poltavskiy
They're just doing their part to patch the hole in the ozone layer.
- Jim Norris
The answer is totally different. The smoud (like smog but cloud-not-fog) cover is to protect the networks from pirate satellites that want to use their powerful telescopes to view and broadcast the Olympics live and for free.
- Kevin Fox
Does the haze in Hong Kong result from air pollution in Guangzhou and Guangdong? EDIT: Nevermind, i found my own answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- John Lam
In an independent effort to monitor air quality not far from the Bird's Nest, the Associated Press began measuring and publishing data in this interactive feature. Updated daily, it shows how air quality varies dramatically, depending upon winds and prevailing conditions. http://hosted.ap.org/special...
- John Lam
TechBlog: Memo to geeks: You are not your customers - http://blogs.chron.com/techblo...
Melissa Chang, Hernan Garcia and Jeremy Toeman liked this
Amen to that. A broad perspective is best.
- Steve Rubel
Absolutely. My biggest customer segment is over 50, still learning to use email, and visits my site once a month.
- Tony Haenn
@greggscott you'll soon get why I'm so hawkish on FriendFeed. Twitter sucks for conversations.
Mike Reynolds, Adewale Oshineye, Tanath and 19 other people liked this
Robert: No question about it. With Friendfeed's direct posting I'm spending a lot more time here. Won't be long before a lot more folks arrive methinks.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
from twhirl
I am spending much more time at and contributing more to the discussion at FriendFeed
- Rob Greenlee
Yes, it does. But I'm curious what you like about Friendfeed over Jaiku or Pownce? Actually, I think Jaiku is most like Friendfeed.
- Cheryl Jones
it sucks for in depth, threaded conversations, but don't overlook the fact that Twitter has enabled a lot of new conversations where they didn't exist before.
- Duncan Riley
from twhirl
I too would like to know why Jaiku hasn't had mass adoption, given that it has threaded conversations. Well, there is of course the problem that it is by invite only.
- Morton Fox
re: Jaiku. Maybe Google bought the wrong company?
- Thomas Hawk
Well Jaiku invites are very easy to get hold of: http://jaikuinvites.com/need-an... Would anyone who is currently on FF/Twitter be more likely to join Jaiku if it had open sign-ups? Or is there something else missing?
- Adewale Oshineye
I was on Jaiku since the very early days. I never took to it. I didn't like the UI. I didn't like the community. It also was too early back when we were all discovering Twitter and Facebook. Now the early adopters have those things all figured out and are ready to try something else along with Twitter and Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
I miss when it was simpler and all we had to follow were blogs.
- Steve Rubel
And don't you think Jaiku is much slower at picking up your twits, and not so reliable?! I think that's the reason why jaiku is not popular!
- Philippe
Although, it is an excellent place to start a conversation to continue in FF. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I prefer twitter for posts, but rely on friendfeed to show them. Why post on FF alone, when you can kill two birds?
- InsaneNinja
If I remember correctly, you have to click on a "Comments" link in Jaiku to get into the conversation....on FriendFeed, you can see right away where the action is....no clicking on links. I give the advantage to FriendFeed there.
- Chris Rossini
With Twhirl, I no longer need to rey on Twitter as much. I follow a lot of people to network or keep up to date with the industry - friendfeed on twhirl does that 100 times better
- Elias Bizannes
from twhirl
Twitter is a lot like the chatter you hear at a cocktail party on the way to the bar, where FriendFeed is like stopping along the way to participate.
- jcunwired
Without a doubt. Half the time I forget to read replies on Twitter. Threaded is so much better.
- Sean Alexander
twhirl feature request - ability to increase friendfeed conversation font size
- Boris Gordon
from twhirl
I like to start the topic from Twitter; easy to text from phone. Then this becomes my FaceBook status and threads can develop in FriendFeed. This works better for low traffic posters--LLiu said his FB friends got sick of all the status updates from Twitter. BTW Gordon, Alert Thingy is more readable than Twhirl (and merges into one window).
- Mark Arend
from Alert Thingy
I tried AlertThingy, but I didn't understand the twitter part. I must have been tired last night...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from twhirl
AlertThingy is OK except it doesn't push old tweets/friendfeeds wth new comments to the top like twhirl does.
- Boris Gordon
from twhirl
@scoble I have an idea for a good FriendFeed article, and how it emphasizes "name share".. not fully developed yet. would like your thoughts.
- Phil G
Boris Gordon: Seems to work like that on mine
- Stephen B
from Alert Thingy
Stephen B: it might push them above other friendfeed items but not above tweets it seems.
- Boris Gordon
from twhirl
That said, I don't like the fact that there is not a bookmarklet version which allows me to add a thought without forcing me to put a link too
- Anand Sharma
I would like better filtering in FriendFeed, and the ability to sort comments, other than that, I'm happy here.
- jcunwired
I just saw someone riding their bike down a busy street without a helmet, with both hands in front of his face, texting on his Motorola Q.
karl dotter, Rishabh Mishra (p248), Voyagerfan5761 and 5 other people liked this
Perhaps Darwin at work.
- Adam Lasnik
So your point is it would have been better if he'd been wearing a helmet?
- j1m
No, if he had been texting on an iPhone
- Jim Norris
I wonder if there was more to this, you only have 140 characters remember! Perhaps he also caught fire went through a hoop, landed in a straight jacket, chained up by a masked guy then thrown in a river and finally becomes the masked guy. David Blaine's latest stunt!
- Joe Dawson
he's participating in work on your bike day!
- karl dotter
Just as well there wasn't a pothole or open manhole then
- Sally Church
from Alert Thingy
at least the sidekick has a better keyboard for that kind of activity
- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
Session variables in Javascript without cookies - http://reddit.com/goto...
kuchin, Random Duck Encounters, Elias Torres and 32 other people liked this
He's using window.name for object storage. This is a really interesting and potentially useful hack. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's clever. Never thought of that possibility before.
- Meryn Stol
Brilliant!
- Mohamed J
Although, if you do an "open link in new tab/window" that will, effectively, end the session, I believe. In many ways it is not as robust as cookie based options. Hmm...
- felix
As the author points out at the end, this technique is insecure and subject to XSS attacks. This is because the value of window.name is available across domains. It's an interesting hack but I don't think you will find a lot of people using it for this reason alone.
- Kevin D. White
@Kevin developers have done stupider things :)
- Steven Hodson
Kevin, that's also part of what makes it interesting -- it's possible to do cross site sessions :)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul I agree the idea is intruiging. I just can't see most dev groups deciding that in this case the reward is greater than the risk. Afterall most groups that aren't terminally stupid are more concerned about not carrying data across domains. I don't want to belabor the point. It is a cool hack. I just think the utility of it is pretty low.
- Kevin D. White
This is interesting for limited applications, but the security flaw is troubling. Perhaps it would be useful for "one-page" or "flash" session data where you have a multipage form and don't want to POST between pages.
- Gary Burge
The second comment notes that both Firefox and Safari *crashed* if you tried to stuff > 32 MB into window.name. Sooooo I'm not sure the security implications are limited to XSS ;-)
- Karim
Session variables in Javascript without cookies - http://m.reddit.com/goto...
Amund Tveit, Aviv, Kamath (नमः) and 5 other people liked this
Paul, just curious -- did you add this link yourself, or is this a hiccup from your previous post? I see that one of the reddit links goes to reddit.com, and the other to m.reddit.com (mobile?), yet both point to the same article.
- Erik Dafforn
It seems to be a reddit bug. For some reason their feed will occasionally return a different url. There's already code for when they add a port number to the url -- I guess now I need to add "m.".
- Paul Buchheit
kate.png - http://picasaweb.google.com/lh...
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Amir Beitollahi, mhmazidi, Hernan Garcia and 26 other people liked this
cool，how long does it take?seems drawing a western girl more simplier than an Asian one.
- kelvin
This took about 1.5 hours. It was easier because I was working from a black & white photograph. I find Caucasian faces easier to draw than Asian faces because the features tend to be more pronounced / less flat -- more shadows and highlights to work with.
- Jess Lee
Wait, don't you do this all with software?
- j1m
Draw me! Draw me!
- Rob Schonberger
I really like the eyes -- a bit of the Keane in them.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Dang, I cannot even draw stick figures with any aesthetic beauty whatsoever.
- Adam Lasnik
beautiful
- Steven Hodson
Very nice!
- Vince DeGeorge
I've been pretending that I could learn to draw. Even dabbling at doodling. Your portrait reminds me that it takes talent which you obviously have in spades. Great job.
- Seek Ground
Very good job!
- terry radford
It is a perfect art，espeically as if the eyes could speak.
- Zhang Zaoyang
Wow - very impressed by the hair looking natural & not distracting.
- Joel
jess you for sure captured true beauty in this peace :)
- Kyle Weller
99% of the time, sending me to your "mobile" website only makes things worse. Please stop. Now how do I get to the "real" GoogleReader on my iPod Touch?
Robert Scoble, Voyagerfan5761, Dennis and 16 other people liked this
What don't you like about the iPhone version of Reader?
- Adewale Oshineye
I think so.
- Juvenn Woo
@paul try Nokia tablet - you WILL see The Diference (disclaimer - i do work in maemo team, but in this case I just only suggest to try)
- A.T.
I personally think certain sites, such as Reader and Facebook have a much easier interface to navigate on the iPhone/iPod touch
- David Adewumi
The "mobile" version generally puts way too little info on each page and makes you click around too much. This is really dumb considering how high latency mobile is -- I want MORE info on each page. The best "mobile" sites are the ones where I can click on a page and spend several minutes reading it. Reddit works well, for example (because it's just their regular site).
- Paul Buchheit
Worst of all are the news sites which redirect me to their "mobile portal" when I clicked through on a specific story.
- Paul Buchheit
why
- qian
To me, the gReader mobile is superior on my iPhone because it will continually format it for mobile reading. While full pages are nice, it's not much fun on an Edge network. I like being able to click to "Read more..." and know that I'm not going to have to wait 10 minutes for a page to load. That said, a perfect RSS feed is where I can read the whole story in my reader and not have to go to another page. CNN has the worst RSS feed as far as I'm concerned.
- Vince DeGeorge
opera mini works well for formatting sites on small devices
- Kyle Weller
It turns out that I can get to the real reader by going to http://www.google.com/reader.... Unfortunately it doesn't work quite right due to that magic scroll bar. It needs a couple of scroll buttons maybe. I like seeing a lot of content on one page though. Scrolling is not a problem, but waiting for a server round-trip is.
- Paul Buchheit
I don't mind using http://www.google.com/reader.... All it needs is a hotkey for sharing and I'd be happy.
- Benjamin Golub
Though I prefer the to use mobile version of gReader on my iPhone I agree with Paul's criticisms. The interface is click happy and woefully underpowered. I've been playing with running everything through a proxy that also modifies the markup and script en route to add the capabilities I want.
- Kevin D. White
I love mobile reader... although, it is annoying that it still can't share with note. Also, I wish it would let you know how many unread there are just like the regular version.
- felix
Yes; not knowing how many are unread is an issue. I like to clean my inbox; if I don't know how many are unread then I don't know if I have enough time right now to finish. It's the hint of OCD in me.
- Benjamin Golub
BTW, we just launched a more AJAX-y Reader iPhone site (in beta) at http://www.google.com/reader/i that brings it closer to the desktop UI.
- Mihai Parparita
Cool, I'll have to check it out! iPhone-specific UIs seem to be an exception to the "mobile sites are awful" rule :)
- Paul Buchheit
if your touch is jailbroken, you can download "Feed" from the installer.app. It uses the gReader API, and is amazing. I think it was released yesterday, and it's already my favorite 3rd party app.
- shaun mclane
Mihai, thanks for that link... Looks and feels great!
- Vince DeGeorge
Back when the Wi-Fi on my PDA worked, I'd try visiting sites in Pocket Internet Explorer (Windows Mobile 2003 SE) and a lot would redirect to a mobile version. Drove me nuts, given Pocket IE's refactoring feature.
- Voyagerfan5761
Grand Theft Auto IV - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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Hernan Garcia liked this
If you get that I think you might never leave the house!
- Jane Quigley
from Alert Thingy
I bought it today! I couldn't wait.
- Tamar Weinberg
If You Put That Picture On The Internet I'll Call My Lawyer on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Emily Miller, Julian Møller, maurycy and 36 other people liked this
"However, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man decided that he now had a problem with me. He confronted me, demanding my camera. Of course, I refused. He got in my face and started threatening me, telling me that I cannot take his photo without his permission. I told him that yes, in fact, I can. He then walked up and bumped into me, trying to act tough. I told him that one more touch and I would call the police. Of course, he didn’t like that very much, and at that point told me that if I put his picture on the internet, he would call his laywer. I assured him that his photo would be on the internet"
- Paul Buchheit
lol
- Kyle Weller
LOLS
- John Spencer
from Alert Thingy
This is how memes are born
- Kevin D. White
I met Mr. Angry Overreaction Man once. He wasn't happy then, either.
- Alex von Halem
LOL to Paul and Alex!! =D
- Paula Hawk
"Mr. Angry Overreaction Man" is the best phrase I've heard all day. Brilliant.
- Matt Harwood
Awesome. I think he deserves to be a new meme. Not only put him up on the internet, but make prints and post them all over the place, make tshirts, videos, ytmnd animations, and on and on and on.
- Bill Bittner
lets call him MAO - Man with Angry Overreaction
- viki saigal
Also looks like a great picture to imitate for Twitter/FF portraits. Like the chinpose meme. http://chinposin.wordpress.com/2008...
- Bill Bittner
what an inventive way to make sure that your portrait is widely popularized and massively linked to :D
- 9000
@viki is that politically correct? (do we care?)
- Alex von Halem
@viki Ahem! That's Mr. Angry Overreaction Man to you! (MOAM)
- Kevin D. White
From the look of the guy, you'd just better watch out for detached equine crania in your nocturnal rest area. Uh-oh, did Slippy just use an Italian-American stereotype? You bet he did, but just in fun, honest!
- Slappy Line
Oh, I have a LOT to say about this PR backlash: http://www.techmeme.com/080510... I won't, though.
Christian Anderson, Mitchell Tsai, Lucretia Pruitt and 8 other people liked this
I won't because the bad PR people don't listen and the good ones just get pissed off by being dragged through the mud. I have to write a blog post on the new PR, though. What's that? You create interesting experiences for both journalists and bloggers. Sun Microsystems last week, by inviting Neil Young over, did just that.
- Robert Scoble
Which you didn't go to. :-)
- Louis Gray
The PR machine is unrelenting, but it's there job. Just like you have to fill a certain quota for FastCompany, PR peeps only have so much to work with to communicate to the public. So, it sure might seem like spam, and in some ways it might be pretty spammy, but the fact that so many people are trying to make an impression on you is exactly the argument you make about Twitter, and the following metric. Being a high-profile public figure is going to draw lots of PR. It's just a matter of common sense.
- Andrew Dobrow
So write the blog post - you know that there are many people who would listen to you weighing in on this matter - just as many of them picked up on it when you twittered. Your words do hold weight where it matters - so get them out there before people start deciding what you *meant* to say.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Louis: yes, but I was seriously tempted. I just had other things I needed to do that day and I can't do everything cool.
- Robert Scoble
Like I said on Twitter Robert - yeah, we get it, you guys get too much email, a lot of the email you get is terrible, you dont want press releases, we knowwww. But you guys are major influencers, you write about a product or company and they get sales, so those companies want you to know about them. These people are CEOs and boot strapping entrepreneurs that dont have time to pitch...
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- Lisa
Though I'm sure there are PR guys that go way beyond their call of duty, to the point of abuse. And that is what I think Trapani's wiki is perfect for. But not for the PR trying to get their word in, because that's just their job.
- Andrew Dobrow
I disagree. Being a high-profile person is going to draw a lot of ATTENTION but it won't draw PR if the people doing the PR know what they're doing and can find a hook that will speak to an audience. I don't care what Robert Scoble is doing UNLESS it relates to my life - business or personal - in some way that's truly relevant. Otherwise the releases and tweets and events and manufactured noise is just that, static I can do without.
- Jeff Cutler
Andrew I've been in PR for 25 years. It's changed and I understand the email which in part I believe is fostered by emails in databases like Bacons, at least for journalists, and open emails without policies on blogs. So part of the issue is being clear about how to pitch a particular blogger. Now let's take the Twitpitch, that sounds great until the folks who don't understand twitter...
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- Albert Maruggi
Albert: That's the great thing about Twitter is that it's a total voluntary action to follow someone who is "spamming" or Twitpitching. I agree with Robert how e-mail PR can get a little rough sometimes, especially when you're such a high-regarded figure as Scoble, but that's just the price you have to pay I guess, since being well-regarded is not as voluntary as Twitter.
- Andrew Dobrow
I'm weighing in as a journalist and a blogger (not the same thing) and I don't have an ax to grind with PR people, but I do expect them to follow certain rules. First, think like a reporter. If there's news there, then get the fact to me (or my editor) and we'll do the work we're paid to do. But don't take the two paths that infuriate most journalists...1. spoon-feeding us a slanted story that only serves you and your client. 2. treat us to a story that isn't news or anything that our readers care about.
- Jeff Cutler
PR people are under a lot of pressure to show ROI for everything they do. Working for a public company, you still need to do the wire release and ensure your disclosure obligations are being met - there is no way around that for most market-moving announcements. With that said, that doesn't give PR people free license to spam the media and blogosphere. The pre-pitching and follow-up...
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- Rachel Polish
Shhh, don't tell any of those clueless PR people that I'm subscribing to everyone on this thread except for @Prokofy.
- Robert Scoble
I get more krud every day and the good stuff (usually little emerging developers) are getting really hard to find. I don't necessarily agree with some of the names mentioned by it's usually an individual developer or small team that really comes up with something fascinating ... so here's the top secret e-mail ... Naah ... not here :) Honestly think Louis and Robert have it right on this. If you REALLY want to, or need to get to the 'meat', publish your cell number??
- Charlie Anzman
? I'm not even in this thread, down boy.
- Prokofy Neva
It's nearly time to take a little nap until morning, so I'll leave you with one more thought. Robert is spot on with his complaint/comment/feeling that he's constantly being pulled in many directions. When the grappling hooks from companies, PR pro's and journalists get so demanding that he has to make a decision, try to think where you (in his shoes) would focus your energy. I know I would block the companies and the PR folks and go with the writers who genuinely see a story and are going after it.
- Jeff Cutler
I'm not arguing that PR can become a bummer when it's in such massive numbers, but I do think there is a bright side to the madness. The bright side being that, if you're receiving hundreds and hundreds of e-mails from PR people, you have MADE it! Haha, you know? It's a real marker of your status, almost to the point that it should be regarded with gratefulness.
- Andrew Dobrow
PS: Seriously don't think calling out people one-by-one will do anything at all (filters? :)
- Charlie Anzman
social media has become all about filtering. Problem is too much time is spent filtering now... scoble and others don't want to spend that much time filtering PR pitches to find the ones that are actually valuable. PR people don't want to spend the time filtering through blogs to find ones that matter to them. and now, average joe doesn't want to have to filter through the our back and forth on this topic on twitter, so here we all are on FF... I need a second brain for all this filtering.
- adam christensen
The "create interesting experiences" concept definitely hits home, but it takes more resources than most have. Sun can get Neil Young, I can use some tricks to get A or B or C, but for the little guy it should be about persistence and creativity.
- Andrew Feinberg
The problem is bad pr firms and others that send mass mailout to every possible email address for a given domain, the best way to deal with those is to firewall the offending ISP or offending country. Small well targeted email runs atleast don't become a nightmare for ISP's.
- paul
the problem is the email platform is being abused so much that it is almost impossible for it to be taken seriously, anyone should ignore any email from any company that ask you for your personal details or login information.
- paul
So my post was more of a rant than I was hoping for and I never really got to my point which is, cant we please give this a rest on the weekend, I dont want to have to avoid Twitter and the computer in order to not have to feel like me and my profession are getting kicked in the teeth again. I just want to be on to have some good conversations, and this isnt one of them - the PR bashing is exhausting, and it takes a toll every time I see another Tweet come across about it.
- Lisa
OK can I make a small confession? I threatened my PR agency that I wouldn't pay their invoice until they both got onto Twitter and tweeted for 7 days straight and Followed at least 50 people. They basically said I was acting immature and I backed down because I was! Just goes to show you what Twitter-addiction will do to you. I love them both and they are my peeps but for the life of me I just cannot talk them into getting onto Twitter! End confession.
- Elliott Ng
Bill Gates' latest invention... - http://www.capitolvalley.net/2008...
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just shared with my friends in spanish ;)
- Hernan Garcia
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Where can I download free music off the web? - http://askowen.info/index...
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Remember the original mp3.com?
- TranceMist
God I hate business politics, processes, procedures, etc. I just want to make cool shit that makes a difference.
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That message really hits a nerve for me and pretty much sums up why I left the dotcom corporate world.
- Mark Krynsky
you can never get away from it for too long. Every organization, once it realizes a little bit of success, immediately gets the elements everyone like you and I dread.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Rizzn, unfortunately you speak the truth.
- Mark Krynsky
Productivity v. Ingenuity - http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008...
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I just shared it with my twitter friends :)
- Hernan Garcia
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This phrase from the post particularly struck me: "intuitive flashes". Some of my best ideas have that quality - they just occur to you out of nowhere it seems. I know it's not really out of nowhere - something's humming in the subconscious.
- Hutch Carpenter
Wear It Proud (part II) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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