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Barack Obama posted an entry on Obama HQ

Open Thread

July 16 at 9:53 pm - Link

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/o... - Noah David Simon

After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money. Once he threatened to filibuster a bill to protect telephone companies from liability for their cooperation with national security wiretaps; now he has voted for the legislation. Turning his back on a lifetime of support for gun control, he now recognizes a Second Amendment right to bear arms in the wake of the Supreme Court decision. Formerly, he told the Israeli lobby that he favored an undivided Jerusalem. Now he says he didn’t mean it. From a 100 percent pro-choice position, he now has migrated to expressing doubts about allowing partial-birth abortions. For the first time, he now speaks highly of using church-based institutions to deliver public services to the poor. Having based his entire campaign on withdrawal from Iraq, he now pledges to consult with the military first. During the primary, he backed merit pay for teachers — but before the union a few weeks ago, he opposed it. - Noah David Simon

After specifically saying in the primaries that he disagreed with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s proposal to impose Social Security taxes on income over $200,000 and wanted to tax all income, he has now adopted the Clinton position. Obama’s shifts have nothing to do with altered circumstances, just a change in the political calendar. is this the so called "Change" we were promised? - Noah David Simon

http://urbanthoughtcollective.... Obama electrified the nation by articulating a bold, new vision for the United States. But lately he’s starting to sound like just another politician. Voters are not checking for that and if Obama continues along this path he will lose an election that should be his for the taking. - hisherness

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[PewResearch.org]: What Surveys Show About the Attitudes and Priorities of African Americans

July 14 at 10:52 am - Link

"Are critics like Jesse Jackson more in touch with the African American public? A look at what survey data tell us about black attitudes and priorities. " - newsjunk.com

i'd say the african american public isn't on board with the reverend (?) much. http://urbanthoughtcollective.... - hisherness

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[WSJ]: McCain Retools His Economic Message

July 3 at 1:14 pm - Link

"The McCain campaign will focus next week on the economy, with an emphasis on job creation. The Republican candidate will not announce new proposals, said a top aide, but rather repackage his current ideas." - newsjunk.com

"Will not announce new proposals, but rather repackage his current ideas." Why is that not a shock to me? - Sean

100% post consumer content. - hisherness

hisherness shared an item on Google Reader

Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos

June 12 at 9:38 pm - Link

there can be no order in the myspace chaos. myspace must be destroyed, the world cleansed of its cancerous influence by fire. or at least bleach. - hisherness

hisherness posted a message

“HURRAY FOR THE VA! they won't give me medicine anymore. now i get to choose between medicine and rent! i choose medicine, i like being able to walk. maybe now i *will* start a blog. how to be a homeless, disabled veteran in Los Angeles. i'll call it Purple Heart Retirement.”

June 12 at 6:24 pm - Link

on the plus side, i'll be spending a LOT of time in libraries, so that'll be fun. we have damned good libraries, if you know how to use them. it'll be an adventure in urban hermitage. - hisherness

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Head-to-head: Refuge for deserters?

June 10 at 10:34 pm - Link

sorry, son. there's a big difference between you and many deserters given refuge for Vietnam. you weren't drafted. you signed on the dotted line of your own free will, so i suggest you learn your regs (LOAC/UCMJ) well enough to identify an unlawful order and back it up at a court martial. get your tail back to the states and deal with the consequences of your decision, because that's what it was ... YOUR DECISION. and yes, i've spent over a year out there, so don't tell me about the war. i *know* about the flippin' war. - hisherness

on a related note, y'know what song i really hate? "Bodies" by Drowning Pool. i HATE THAT SONG. ever imagine what a dog used for fighting feels like when its cage is rattled before a "match"? it feels like that damned song. i heard it once on the street when i came back, someone's stereo at an unreasonable volume. it was so hard not to scream. i hate that song so much. i understand why they want to run. i do. but it still wasn't a draft, and they don't have that option. - hisherness

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US Wants 58 Bases In Iraq, Shiite Lawmakers Say

June 9 at 6:57 pm - Link

seriously. just leave Jack Burton alone. - hisherness

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McCain gets a free ride?

June 8 at 9:17 pm - Link

well, that's sordid. - hisherness

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Jeremy Gerard: Hillary Loses Again

June 7 at 1:08 pm - Link

why didn't they find a woman to report? for the love of ... how petty can you get? here's the idea of equality. they don't go out of their way to find women to report. they don't go out of their way to prevent women from reporting. equality isn't a silver platter. geez. - hisherness

newsjunk.com posted an entry on NewsJunk.com

How McCain's Website Can Beat Obama By Becoming a Platform

June 7 at 12:32 am - Link

what i like about this headline is that McCain's site is beating Obama, not McCain himself. it made me laugh. a good article, very interesting. - hisherness

newsjunk.com posted an entry on NewsJunk.com

The Olbermann Effect

June 6 at 7:32 pm - Link

so what ... let journalism reflect both objective facts & subjective editorialism - freedom of the press & all responsibilities associated with the First Amendment are made strong by the "market" of competing viewpoints ... Go Keith! Go liberty! Let the sunshine cleanse the "messaging" to the benefit of ALL Americans! It is our Nation - each of us ... "liberal"? Hardly, dismiss talking points in favor if vigorous & open debate ... - Scott Moskowitz

ah, debate ... making sure we don't believe everything we hear by making us hear something we don't believe. until Soma comes along, i'm all for it. - hisherness

@hisherness let the sun shine and cleanse "belief" from context ... "good day sir" -kinda response - pols works for political capital - that capital is equity that belongs to the people - even you - whatca scared for? "messaging" versus equity (no entity can claim victory in a zero sum game if it comes at the expense of the people with whom this country must account to - regardless of "belief") - Scott Moskowitz

i think my English isn't strong enough to untangle you at this point. thanks for the response, though. - hisherness

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3AM For Feminism: Clinton Dead-Enders And The Crisis In The Women's Movement

June 6 at 4:56 pm - Link

so, what you're saying is that "stay at home mom" now means "rampant immature angst-ridden stupidity." right-o. and people wonder why sexism won't go away. here's a tip: separate yourselves based on a characteristic and that characteristic will be an issue. do so and behave like an idiot, and that issue will become an -ism. if you weren't so foolish, the rest of us women could make a bit of progress. - hisherness

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L.A. to sue Time Warner Cable over poor service

June 6 at 7:12 am - Link

the lawd's own truth. - hisherness

newsjunk.com posted an entry on NewsJunk.com

Retired justice O'Connor unveils video game

June 4 at 6:25 pm - Link

will children play this game in schools? because if it's not Oregon Trail, it doesn't belong in the classroom. - hisherness

Evernote posted an entry on Evernote Blog

Evernote Web gets drag-n-drop!

June 2 at 11:29 pm - Link

Anol, Paul David and Adarsh liked this

i keep forgetting evernote because my scanner's on the fritz. they've killed Fritz! ahem. looks nifty. thanks for all the hard work. - hisherness

I get the error "Unknown exception (java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unattached drop target. You must call DragController#unregisterDropController for all drop targets not attached to the DOM.) during operation (Unknown)." when I try to drag a tag to a note in Flock 2 beta 1 (based on Firefox 3) on Mac OS X 10.5.4. - Jon Price

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DNA reveals sister power in Ancient Greece

June 2 at 9:11 pm - Link

the problem with this is now i'll have to make up stories about these siblings in the stormy chaos of what remains of my mind. dang it. who could they be? - hisherness

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Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use

June 2 at 9:11 pm - Link

oh, now, that's going to have a bit of the wailing and the gnashing of teeth. down and up? ooooh, you hate the p2p. you HATE it. - hisherness

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Bunk beds pose dangers to kids and adults

June 2 at 9:11 pm - Link

bunk bed related injuries? it's a gold mine of hilarity, but i bet some kids actually do hurt themselves, so i'll leave it. bunk bed related injuries. - hisherness

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The Waiting Game

June 2 at 8:34 pm - Link

archaeology sounds difficult enough without all of this red tape nonsense. ganbatte. - hisherness

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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl - Movie - Part 1

June 2 at 8:34 pm - Link

that's not the little matchstick girl *i* know. swallow, swallow, little swallow, do as i command you. - hisherness

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suffolk | Anger over 400 houses left empty

June 2 at 7:56 pm - Link

haha! now *that's* the Air Force i remember. how nostalgic ... we lived in condemned buildings while the officers had new houses built and their old houses sat vacant. - hisherness

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Twitter blames its users

May 30 at 7:03 am - Link

Brian Bufalo, Jed White, Stanton Champion, Mark Rodriguez and 34 other people liked this

I think you played it cool. Cool post and you didn't pull an Arrington. In other words, you did a good job toning down the ego and seeing it's a community issue rather than a Scoble issue :-) Even if that IS what Twitter meant. - Andrew Dobrow

"pull an arrington" - love that! - marty nickel via twhirl

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"I’ve sent 3,598 tweets (Twitter messages) — Scoble has sent 12,318. This is clearly putting a strain on the service." That's the equivilent of over THREE heavy users then. Scoble is clearly abusing Twitter's stable system. - Chris Nixon

scoble dude. calm down. - Alex Gawley

I'm wondering will Google also say sometimes that You got our servers down because you send 2000 emails everyday.. where our system is built to hold load of just 30 emails everyday!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT

Alex: I'll calm down when Twitter stops blaming its users and fixes its service. Thanks. - Robert Scoble

FriendFeed is just built better. It has to do the same thing as Twitter, send out messages/information (longer than 140 chars I might add) from one users to 12,000+ followers, etc. FriendFeed isn't having issues. Yes, FF isn't as big as Twitter yet, but I have the feeling the Ex-Google engineers here at FF know what the hell they're doing more. - Ben Parr

Robert, this time you couldn't be more wrong. Read the post carefully once again . Twitter is simply explaining how things can go wrong from time to time - certainly not blaming you. - Ron Emrick

We just have to face the fact, Twitter has hit the limit of scalability now.. They need an intelligent consultant to help them resolve their issues! Anybody, help!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT

Ron, here's what Alex Payne said: "The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession." THAT IS BLAMING. And, since I'm the only one who has 20,000+ followers and behaves like that, they are being very specific in their blame. - Robert Scoble

Twitter just leveled down... bad form Twitter, bad form. - Bwana McCall

They're not blaming you. They are blaming themselves for being unable to cope with you and other superusers. - Jamie

@Ron The point is that the system was designed incorrectly. Either you build it to scale for someone to have 20,000 mutual contacts or you limit the number of contacts. Or you limit the eleventy billion "graph a pretty picture of your Tweets" apps that have access to your API. It is NEVER the fault of any action done by your users unless they are running a DDOS against you, and at that point, they cease being users anyway. And OMG, did I just write a rant defending Robert Scoble? I do believe I did. - Cyndy

That's about as plain as you get. They're saying they can lighten the load by limiting power users in a nutshell. Sigh. - Bwana McCall

Jamie: well, then they can come here and say that and apologize for causing my name to be at the top of TechMeme right now. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'll end by saying its unfortunate you see it as BLAMING when I really believe its EXPLAINING! :-) I think you may be taking this a little too personally. Twitter is finally doing a good job acknowledging the problems they have and communicating them to us all as much as they possibly can. I'm sure they never intended for this sort of discussion to occur when they published their post. All in good fun Robert... - Ron Emrick

and they just got $15 mil in funding? - MikeAmundsen

@jowyang showed us the 'real' Twitter problem - it's the few birds that are flying the wrong way ;) - Kate

Ron: when your name is used in headlines at http://www.techmeme.com, then you can not take it personally. This stuff IS personal. It's called social software for a reason. :-) - Robert Scoble

To me, instead of playing the blame game I would think that twitter would take advantage of its power users learn their patterns and build out to scale. - Kevin Tunis

robert - no offence intended when i suggested you 'calm down' just trying to lighten the tone :) I think that the original post was not very well written and quotes have been wrenched out of context and now it seems much worse than it was. When I read the post I read it as: Our architecture does not scale well and so we can't serve the most prolific users of the service well. I thought it was quite mea culpa... - Alex Gawley

@Kate that's hilarious!! :) The problem being a few birds flying the wrong way! - kosso via twhirl

@Cyndy - Agreed 100% that the problems lie at the feet of Twitter and not Scoble or any other high profile Tweeters out there. I just believe that the context and intent of the post was *never* to blame but rather to explain. I can understand why some may see it as "blame" but I simply disagree... hope that helps explain my position a little better. - Ron Emrick

Ron: explaining? OK. It's still down. They made it sound like the biggest load is noisy popular users (there's only really one of those in the world) doing rapid tweets. Only I behave that way. So, why is the system still down? I stopped Tweeting, yet IM is still down, track is still down, and the site itself is slow. Does this go to their credibility? Let's say they are right. Why penalize everyone then? WHy not just throttle the popular accounts? Wouldn't that fix the problem? No? Why bring it up then? - Robert Scoble

Robert - shouldn't your ire then be directed at VentureBeat? They're one of the first (if not the first) to identify you as someone to "blame". - Ron Emrick

Why would Robert infer that he is being blamed? He loves to be the victim. Al3x didn't blame anyone, and Robert is twisting this whole conversation around to be about himself. Al3x gave a very frank answer about what specific actions their current architecture has issues with. That's not blaming anyone it's telling the truth, something that people like Robert have encouraged them to do over and over. Now that Twitter is finally communicating with their users, Robert finds something else to attack - Clint Ecker

Lets not forget hat they went down on the day of the Tweet Out as well - Marco

Ron, Scoble is widely known as the top Twitter user. We didn't need VentureBeat's help to figure out who Twitter was talking about. - Bwana McCall

"WHy not just throttle the popular accounts? Wouldn't that fix the problem? No? Why bring it up then?" Maybe because they aren't blaming the users, and think that people like you SHOULD be able to use the service in the way that you do. - Ian Betteridge

Ron, that isn't an explanation. An explanation is "Gee, we didn't realize that our architecture wouldn't be able to handle the load when we have several users with over 5000 mutual contacts, and we need to figure out how to fix that or set limits on the number of contacts. This is why marketing folks wisely keep the programmers away from the public in most instances. - Cyndy

And why doesn't Friendfeed have the same issues? Because it's no where near as big as Twitter. I don't even know why you would bring FF into this whole matter. It's not even close to the same scale. - Clint Ecker

Gah. FF doesn't allow enough characters. I'm just going to hop on the bitchmeme train and blog it. - Cyndy

Clint: >>Why would Robert infer that he is being blamed? << There is only one person who has more than 20,000 followers that behaves in a noisy, bursty way. No one else behaves that way. There is only one possible person they could have been talking about. Me. - Robert Scoble

Robert, again, your 'beef' here should be with Venturebeat who, if you are going to take the line that it "is personal", were the ones who mention you by name - and let's face it, by naming you they are guaranteed to get some traffic. Twitter have not named you personally, and have not, in fact, blamed anyone but themselves for their problems. - Scott O'Raw

i'm going to have to agree that this smacks of blaming users. maybe that wasn't intentional. i hope it wasn't. when you use phrasing that implies, however mildly or unintentionally, that your own users are involved in DoS (even if it's not implied as a malicious attack), that's blaming. if i'm patching a hole and don't have enough drywall, i don't tell my customer the hole she knocked in the wall is too big; i tell her i didn't bring enough drywall, and then i go buy more. - hisherness

i realize twitter isn't a paid service, and i realize some allowances must be made for that, but with the venture funding and all i assume they'll eventually turn a profit. one must start as one means to go on, and this just isn't the way to start. - hisherness

I don't agree Robert. There are several people who follow and are followed by a lot of people. No one set any limits on what they meant by "popular". You only know of people who have a lot of followers but there are TONS of people who follow more people than you. There are people who follow 40k+ 60k+ and I'm sure more. Those people hit the system hard too. Again, they didn't "blame" anyone, if anything they blamed their own architecture for not being able to handle those kinds of actions. - Clint Ecker

@Robert Actually, Calacanis is pretty noisy. I can't follow him anymore either, but I still know the dog names. ;) - Cyndy

Robert, we know you've been singing the Friendfeed song for the past few weeks, so it's not the Scoblizer who broke Twitter. Most of the readers of my blog subscribe via a thing called RSS, but too many bloggers Tweet a link to a new blog and then reTweet it an hour later. So I guess most people are not using Feed Readers or Friendfeeders. - paul mooney

I think what Alex really meant is "It's because 'popular' user dragged our 'bad design' service down." - Panu Tangchalermkul

I agree with Scott. This was mentioned as a transaction processing issue, not a Robert Scoble issue. Not a user issue. Alex was asked what the problem was and gave an honest answer: throughput is challenged under certain conditions - and they're working on it! Thanks to VB, everyone's on the warpath. For what? - Eric Weaver

well, wait until FF gets as many heavyloaded users, then everyone has to abandon the FF wagon, again... - ellaconic via twhirl

Are people really looking this hard for something to make drama about? Sheesh. Is this what happens on a "slow news day" in tech pundit land? - Soulhuntre via twhirl

I'm in the process to completely switch from Twitter to Friendfeed and Pownce - Merrill

I see in the Venture Beat article that Twitter said "Not running scripts which follow thousands of users at a time would be a help" - ermmm. I'm sure I read that Twitter actually enabled/created this FOR Scoble, to 'follow back' all his followers in one go? - kosso

Everything is made with certain assumptions in mind. Ikea probably makes chairs assuming they will inhabited by one person at a time, and that the person weighs less than 500 pounds. If reports of broken chairs surface and Ikea says most of the broken chairs are owned by people who weigh over 500 pounds, you can either read that as "blaming" fat people, or as an admission that they didn't design the chair to fit the 0.02% of the population weighing over 500 pounds. - Karim

If you write an app with a field that's designed to hold 15 characters, and someone enters 16 characters in the field and the app crashes, is that the user's fault? You can either read that as "blaming" the user, or as an admission that the app wasn't designed to hold more than 15 characters in that field. - Karim

Twitter said, "Not running scripts to follow thousands of users at a time would be a help, but that’s behavior we have to limit on our side." i.e. we didn't realize people would use the service this way, but we need to fix this service to prevent this behavor, NOT ASK THE USER TO CHANGE. - Karim

Contrast this to what Facebook did to you when you, as a user, exhibited "unexpected behavior" and used Plaxo to download your contacts. Instead of limiting the service on their side so you *couldn't* eat up excessive resources with Plaxo, they banned your account. They expected YOU to change. They blamed YOU. - Karim

Twitter is losing me.. I am starting to get hooked on this FriendFeed thing now. - Winston Teo

i am finding twitter as redundant tooo ... since i just follow and dont send too many updates ....ff is better - Raza via Alert Thingy

Is there any why to sign up for a Jaiku account? The whole twitter thing is getting bad. - Brian Bufalo

I am using Jaiku. Done. Finished with Twitter. This is beyond the pale. - Andrew Ruess

That's why companies should never let developers talk, open mouth insert foot and gag - Bob Ngu via twhirl

Hey, Scoble - stop breaking Technorati! They're down :-( - Lars G. Sehested

http://xrl.us/bmazc tweets totally f#(%ed twitter - Noah David Simon

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Microsoft’s grand plan to eliminate phone numbers

May 29 at 3:12 pm - Link

Sarah Perez, julie kivell, viki saigal, tsudohnimh and Chris Hollander liked this

i fear this is an early adopter problem, not neccisarily a mainsteam problem. 95% of the people i know prefer to be contacted exactly one way: mobile phone (either txt or call). most of the rest prefer facebook. - Chris Hollander

I see this becoming a trend, I'm privy to information from O2 and participated in a questionaire this afternoon where they mentioned something similar! - Joe Dawson

This sounds like a tall order which even IF the carriers "buy" into it, I doubt that most folks are. My university can't even get most faculty/staff to use "unified messaging" for much more than just voice mail! - Thomas Ho

@Chris @Thomas Our preferred methods of contact change over time. - Kevin D. White

i derive great satisfaction from not answering my phone. plus, it sounds a nifty idea, and here's the main problem i see with adopting the niftitude: control. i give certain people my home phone number, i give others my cellular, others my email, my IM, or some combination. i don't want MS to decide who can have access to me and how. now, i realize, this isn't insurmountable. people could adapt, MS could provide various options, and mostly i don't know what i'm talking abt; just a possible issue. - hisherness

Don't eliminate phone numbers. Just further unify existing communication channels. Part of Gates' quote hits it. - Ken Yarmosh via fftogo

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“2 hours for a stupid simple medical examination. 10 mins with doctor 1h50 wait. Nice US medical system...”

May 29 at 5:08 pm - Link

ha! i'm glad you're not at a VA hospital. you'd go absolutely mad. - hisherness

That's what motivated an entrepreneur to create the Minute Clinics. - Ranjit Mathoda

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What's the average waiting time in France? BTW I've never waited 1h50 at Kaiser Oakland or Richmond. - Jonathan Leavitt

hey, at least it's not zimbabwe - Cee Bee

That sounds quite unoptimized. - Daniel Schildt

it was bad luck. Generally you don't wait more than 15 - 30 mins in France and you don't pay anything of course! - Loic Le Meur

Find a new doctor. One of the best aspects of my GP is that I never wait more than 10 minutes and often get in early. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

Louis Gray commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Friendfeed is leveling the playing field

May 28 at 12:31 am - Link

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"Bing! (Ask Scoble what that means)" - Louis Gray

It means that article has nailed it. Deserves an award. At Fawcette (where I worked in the 1990s) Jim Fawcette would ring a bell anytime someone did something very cool. - Robert Scoble

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i need to get a bell. that sounds cool - Tyler Gillies

wait, the world is flat? - Ranjit Mathoda

"Bing" also works as a Ned Ryerson quote (Groundhog day) :) - Iain Baker

don't bells go ding? - Tyler Gillies

@Tyler depends on the romanization method. a long-standing debate between very respected schools of bell-romanization thought. - hisherness

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“Tomorrow: Jury duty. I served on a jury once, it was a good experience, but I hope I don't have to this time. http://tinyurl.com/69edfv”

May 27 at 8:46 pm - Link

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i've never been able to serve! i was excited to be called for the first time, but was pretty much summarily dq'd for military service. maybe next time, i suppose. but i can't be called again for awhile, i think! - hisherness

I've been called for jury duty twice. I go, wait all day, and am dismissed. - Sandra Fernandez

It's cool of you to go. Lots of folks try and get out of it, which is lame. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

Hutch Carpenter posted an entry on I'm Not Actually a Geek

Why FriendFeed is Disruptive: There’s Only 24 Hours in a Day

May 27 at 12:09 am - Link

Tasha Saecker, Paula Hawk, Ron Emrick, Michael Beck and 22 other people liked this

Your chart is flawed. You gave way too much time to sleeping, eating, exercising, real time for friends and offline media consumption. Please redo it with real data. :-) - Louis Gray

actually, for my life at least, he is pretty accurate, except i have a 9.5 hr work day - Simon

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It also doesn't take into account continuous parallel attention. You should be able to get more than one of these done at once. - Louis Gray

wow, can you really sleep for seven hours out of twenty-four? consecutively? that's a neat trick! - hisherness

Yup,it's calle destablishing a sleeping patternl. Many geeks miss that concept. - Simon

Hey, what do the quote icons outlined in yellow mean? - Bryan Person

Louis: The chart shows time for a social media user (not addict). 4-5 hrs of sleep, no exercise, and bad eating habits are bad for your health. So are not having *real* friends, not to mention family. In reply to http://tinyurl.com/4pnwr9 - Mo Jawhari

no wonder you are having trouble. You aren't taking away any sleep! - Tim Hoeck

Just waking up after 6.5 hours sleep...I see that the biggest issue with the blog post is too much time allotted for sleep. Ha! So that's where we're going to squeeze out the extra time needed for social media. - Hutch Carpenter

@Louis - 3 hours of family time...that's coming. The little ones are going to want their Daddy time! - Hutch Carpenter

I am going to invent a new TV tray-like device so that I can lay on the couch with one kid, put the tray over the kid, encapsulating them, and then put the laptop on top. The tray will be extendable as the child grows and rises in thickness. - Louis Gray

Is anyone else CRYING from laughing so hard at how little Louis understands the disruptive nature of not only one, but TWO newborns?? That four hours of nightly sleep will seem like a week at the spa it's so out of reach! - Cyndy

Cyndy, I'm glad you're having as much fun with the delusion as I am. :-) - Louis Gray

@Louis Still having a good chuckle over your first comment on this thread. I think everyone who read it nodded their heads like I did. lol - Michael Beck

Great post Hutch. i find that FF is as addictive as smoking.I'm averaging about 6 hours a day spread incrementally on FF lately. Of course I'm on newborn duty for 3 weeks at home on maternity leave. In an 8 hour work day, i spend about 2 hours on FF. - Mike Fruchter

Now with the advent of "Rooms", how much more time has everyone been spending on FF? - Mike Fruchter

I've found most of the traffic from the Rooms is just resharing from the main feeds: I personally haven't found much increase in my usage because of them. - Mark Trapp

It's defiantly increased my usage slightly by an extra 10 or 15 mins for the day.. This latest traffic wave to FF has seem to died down. Is it me or it seems the usage of FF for the past 1-2 weeks was through the roof? partly due to the new rooms feature i think. - Mike Fruchter

@Louis - and inside that tray, there will be a Macbook Air, so that your children can interact with you on your various social media haunts... - Hutch Carpenter

@Mike Fruchter - I'm with you on the use of FriendFeed. It actually has increased my social media time. And BTW - the chart in the blog post isn't exactly my day. I put Facebook in there as a nod to its widespread usage compared to things like Digg or Google Reader. - Hutch Carpenter

Heh - I think Louis needs to enjoy his free time as much as possble before the kids show up - so if he wants to spend tons of time online doing what he enjoys right now, more power to him :) Sleep is overrated ! - Jason Kaneshiro

Brian Daniel Eisenberg posted a link

NASA - News Briefing Image

May 25 at 9:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto, timepilot, Jason Kaneshiro, Sally Church and 22 other people liked this

Wow. First color high res shot. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Awesome! - Robert Scoble

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So amazing that we are looking at extraterrestrial soil! - Michael Beck

Talking about anomaly on horizon in Mars images at press conference now. Back shell? - Robert Stevens

Agree Michael. I was fascinated by the first couple of Mars missions and still check in on Spirit and Opportunity 4 years later! Amazing science and engineering happening at JPL/Nasa. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

i would like to take this moment to point out that NASA uses Linux and Open Source. - Nathan Eckenrode

sweet mother of strawberry cheesecake. i can't even articulate how nifty this is. - hisherness

Let's see what this puppy turns up once it starts drilling. - zmmiller

Wow, that's awesome although it looks a bit like a scorched earth - Sally Church

I had no idea about this. Awesome! - Alex C. Williams

How cool is this?! Thanks Brian! - Charlie Anzman

Erica Baker posted a message

“If this is the age of the nerd, why aren't there any science bars? I wan mix your own chemistry experiment drinks and TV's tuned to the Discovery channel, please and thank you very much.”

May 25 at 1:37 pm - Link

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you should do it! - edythe

Well, a lot of us nerds don't drink or don't drink that much anymore. Too busy building robot girlfriends since the real once won't flirt with us. - RAPatton

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You've never heard of BarCamp, I guess. That's a "bar" for nerds. - Robert Scoble

http://www.scienceclubdc.com/ - ⓞnor

Will you please move back to ATL before opening this bar? I promise to get hammered there as often as possible :) - Joel Webber

Robert Scoble, that you would even mention BarCamp is soo nerdy! - edythe

erica, i'm telling you, i think it's a winner. write up a business plan. - edythe

these are fun: http://www.sciencecafes.org/ - hisherness

Not really a bar, but I'm a fan of the Linux Caffe in Toronto -- good coffee, good eats, good art, and they'll toss you an Ubuntu CD if you need one. - Trent Olson

who needs a bar when you have FF for all you need. I don't drink and drive, so there is no use for me to go to bar!!...via feedalizr - Paul

We have a bar called "Science Bar" in DC - Andrew Feinberg

"Hey baby, photosynthesize often?" Oops, can't believe I just planted that there :P - Adam Lasnik

hee. photosynthesize. obscene! - edythe

@edythe If I knew anything about running a business or writing a business plan, I would. - Erica Baker

it's also the age of self-instruction. go for it. - hisherness