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Open Thread - http://my.barackobama.com/page...
http://www.nysun.com/opinion...
- NoahDavidSimon
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...
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- NoahDavidSimon
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?
- NoahDavidSimon
http://urbanthoughtcollective.com/2008... 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
[PewResearch.org]: What Surveys Show About the Attitudes and Priorities of African Americans - http://x.newsjunk.com/0UW
"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.com/2008...
- hisherness
Evernote Web gets drag-n-drop! - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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
[WSJ]: McCain Retools His Economic Message - http://x.newsjunk.com/0O7
"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
Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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
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.
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
BBC NEWS | Americas | Head-to-head: Refuge for deserters? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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
US Wants 58 Bases In Iraq, Shiite Lawmakers Say - http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/click...
seriously. just leave Jack Burton alone.
- hisherness
McCain gets a free ride? - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
well, that's sordid.
- hisherness
Jeremy Gerard: Hillary Loses Again - http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/click...
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
How McCain's Website Can Beat Obama By Becoming a Platform - http://x.newsjunk.com/BQ
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
The Olbermann Effect - http://x.newsjunk.com/BL
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
3AM For Feminism: Clinton Dead-Enders And The Crisis In The Women's Movement - http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/click...
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
L.A. to sue Time Warner Cable over poor service - http://www.latimes.com/busines...
the lawd's own truth.
- hisherness
Retired justice O'Connor unveils video game - http://x.newsjunk.com/5N
will children play this game in schools? because if it's not Oregon Trail, it doesn't belong in the classroom.
- hisherness
Bunk beds pose dangers to kids and adults - http://www.physorg.com/news131...
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
DNA reveals sister power in Ancient Greece - http://www.physorg.com/news131...
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
Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use - http://www.physorg.com/news131...
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
The Waiting Game - http://whafford.livejournal.com/23685...
archaeology sounds difficult enough without all of this red tape nonsense. ganbatte.
- hisherness
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl - Movie - Part 1 - http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-3...
that's not the little matchstick girl *i* know. swallow, swallow, little swallow, do as i command you.
- hisherness
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suffolk | Anger over 400 houses left empty - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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
Drinking at an early age can lead to later alcohol dependence - http://www.physorg.com/news131...
noooooo shit.
- hisherness
Looking For Group: Page 153 - http://www.lfgcomic.com/page...
lord ashendale? ... LORD ASHENDALE?!? i adore this comic.
- hisherness
BBC NEWS | Europe | Row over French bogus virgin case - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
i can't even form a coherent response. i'm tempted to say i agree with the court inasmuch as the lady lied and the decision to marry was based on that lie. i don't know that you can define the reasons for marriage, really. is it illegal to want to marry a virgin? maybe no more than it's illegal to want to marry an engineer. had he lied about that and she requested an annulment, would that be OK? meh. i'll have to think about this.
- hisherness
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Sderot and Gaza: third letters - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
these six letters are very interesting. i want to say i wish for peace in the world, but i'm not foolish enough to think it can happen while humanity survives. if there is one human left on earth it will set its left hand battling its right before it submits to peace.
- hisherness
BBC NEWS | Europe | Swiss hold crunch citizenship vote - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
i think, if they compiled information without alluding to ethnicity (i.e., didn't use pictures or names), then they might not have this problem. give a better CV, maybe require so many letters of rec. divorce the decision from ethnicity by divorcing the information from ethnicity, but let the people make the decision.
- hisherness
Cool and Crap Awards of the Week [Cool And Crap] - http://io9.com/5012040...
oooh, i didn't know Stephenson had a new book coming out! sweet! that'll be my bday present to ME.
- hisherness
Archaeology team meets resistance from illegal settlers - http://www.topix.net/science...
now that's a demmed shame. smart smugglers would move away from that site, and/or control their fires so the site wasn't threatened and no additional attention was focused on their arson activities. plus, i'm upset that they're willing to damage the site, because that implies they may have destroyed other sites already.
- hisherness
Indiana Jones and the Movie Mistakes of Doom - http://www.topix.net/science...
oooh really? i haven't seen it, but that's too bad. i wouldn't expect accuracy, but i also wouldn't expect the Maya to hang out with the Inca,,,
- hisherness
Twitter blames its users - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Brian Bufalo, Jed White, Stanton Champion and 31 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
from twhirl
"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
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
from 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
from 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 ☠
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 ☠
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
@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
Lets not forget hat they went down on the day of the Tweet Out as well
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
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 ☠
"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
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
@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
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
from twhirl
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
from 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
Hey, Scoble - stop breaking Technorati! They're down :-(
- Lars G. Sehested
http://xrl.us/bmazc tweets totally f#(%ed twitter
- NoahDavidSimon
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