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if you havent had a look at the new Yahoo calendar, you should. It's so neatly done you wonder why not all calendars work like that
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click on a day in month view and the day expands to show you a more detailed view WHILE REMAINING IN MONTH VIEW. That's one annoyance I have had forever with calendars (that usually when you click on a day from a week or month view to add an event or meeting, it does not return you to that view afterwards but whatever its internal default is - usually today or 5 day) not only gone, but solved better than I'd have dared ask for.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Seriously, have a look - I bet you'll think "now that's a clean and neat way to do it" and if not, I want to know what you're using :D
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
oh fair enough, no link? http://calendar.yahoo.com/
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
perhaps i should do a little film so people "get" the beauty of it. or perhaps i am being totally geeky flipping on a feature like this
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hmm I wonder if this came forth out of an acquisition. One Indian company demoed like technology a year ago or so. Hmm on second look, it doesn't look anywhere as well-rounded as theirs. They had very nice time zone support as well (probably coming forth out of their intensive overseas collaboration).
- Meryn Stol
might very well be - once you use it, you just dont want to enter things in the other web calendars anymore...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
here's why I won't be using it over gcal... In gcal I can click anywhere on the calendar and it lets me 'quick add' an event in a nice popup. I don't see that here in y!cal.
- vijay
It was called Scrybe. http://iscrybe.com/ and it's actually more like three years ago. :) Youtube videos date from September 2006!
- Meryn Stol
It's built using a lot of Zimbra code. And vijay, it's two clicks in Y! calendar instead of one, but it's still pretty easy to do.
- Michael Lodick
it's not 2 clicks Michael. I have to click each time at the 'time' combo box to set the event. This means click open 'hour' combo scan and scroll down to the time I wanna add, click again. Then click add after typing the event. In gcal, I already know the time now as there's this neat little yellow line cuts across the calendar, click, type, add. I do this about 10 times a day so Y!cal = nope for now.
- vijay
As most people I have a yahoo account with a calendar, a google account with a calendar, and a windows live account with a calendar - each subscribes to the other's ical feed so everything appears everywhere.Shame ical does not work better as a 2 way r/w thing
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Vijay - it all depends on your way of working/thinking - I add events a lot less often than I check events, and often when adding an event there's a lot of juggling, so it is nice to have an overview of a whole month while seeing the details of an event instead of having a day details view that loses the month overview. If you do a lot more of entering and less juggling, then a...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
true. I'm talking only about my particular case.
- vijay
sorry vijay, you're right, I was mistaking Y! Calendar behavior with that of Zimbra Desktop
- Michael Lodick
no worries M. ; )
- vijay
hmmm, I don't see the new Yahoo calendar. Just the old terrible one that I wouldn't leave GCal for in a million years. 8^P
- Chieze Okoye
I will say that the change is pretty nice, based on your description and pics, Joelle
- Chieze Okoye
Looks kinda like the iCal on Macs. Funny how that seems to happen with apps. ;) By the way, is there something I have to do on Yahoo to get my calender to look like that? It's still the old style for me.
- Heather
there would be a "switch to the new calendar" option somewhere, perhaps from the mail screen?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Historically, people will look back at Apple's iPhone as being the tipping point for a shift in the computer industry.
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Not to mention, you know, the cell phone industry.
- Kevin Pedraja
Knowledge Management 101? | Above and Beyond KM - http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009...
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"A far better approach is to think hard and then think harder again about human nature — how we learn, how we know and how we share what we know. And then, put your organization and colleagues under a microscope and study them until you have an accurate understanding of how the knowledge ecosystem within your organization works. When you’re ready to do this, here are some useful guides to help you along your way"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
from Bookmarklet
Timely - currently being compelled to supplement the existing Sharepoint, wikis (because one is *never* enough), and network folders full of Word, Excel and Visio docs, by adding new information to a new wiki. But we don't want to move stuff out of the existing knowledge stores and into the new one. Oh, no - we want new knowledge! Guess who's going to be writing many pages of hyperlinks to other places? :-/
- Andy Bold
Andy, sounds about typical - expect people to not use any of it in the end, because with so many places to check it takes too much time to locate information. Install a good indexing tool and search engine. Your best option is to figure out how to write a migration script to gather it all in one place if at all possible
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Oh, we have several search engines as well, all doing their own poor job of looking in different places :-/ People are starting to come to me to help them find stuff... Need to put that down for my next performance review - "Search engine" ;-)
- Andy Bold
that's hardly the optimal use of your time! DM me and I might have some pointers, perhaps (mostly on how to pitch/sell a migration)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Thanks - think we have it covered though! I've been speaking with my US boss, who also thinks this is a SNAFU, and we're figuring it out.
- Andy Bold
bummer, thought I'd get a lucrative migration advice contract ;) But glad you got the message through, unless you wanted your job title to change to "librarian"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, you may not have won that lucrative migration contract, but you did start a conversation. So, thank you!
- V Mary Abraham
Thanks :D There is a tendency in KM to forget that knowledge is a living thing involving people using and extending it, knowing then doing. It's not enough to buy tools and systems - what you get is a butterfly and rock collection, not a living ecosystem. So many intranets and repositories are put in place but not used, not updated etc - because not covering the needs, or too inflexible...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Another problem is that our tendency to focus on the concrete (e.g., capturing explicit knowledge, organizing documents, etc.) sometimes lets us avoid the messier questions of human behavior with respect to learning and knowledge sharing. It's easier to count the number of documents in a repository than it is to count the number of satisfying interactions.
- V Mary Abraham
I couldnt agree more - theoretical efficiency <> satisfaction. Which gets me on a tangent story which I think will illustrate... I spent some time in my career in scientific publishing and bibliographical databases. Part of the job involved teaching people how to search using the different tools, in universities, hospitals and research facilities. Made it obvious to me what a huge gap...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Well, does that imply inefficient design? Based on your story, I would have to say yes.
- Mike Shields
Not as much inefficient design as design by the search experts for the search experts... something a lot of technology systems fall into - which makes it inefficient for the real users, who might be science experts but dont want to be search experts.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Design by experts for experts. So why do amateurs like us buy the stuff?
- V Mary Abraham
Because we share the same needs, and have long learned to put up with things. It takes years to get away from the "oh no, what did i do wrong?" reflex when dealing with complex systems that are unintuitive or inconsistent
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Too bad. It makes us sitting ducks for vendors.
- V Mary Abraham
Twitter: sucker's game that boosts elite - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Happily paying my taxes today. I appreciate the opportunities I have been given in this great country and honor our social contract. #teabag
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I got to pay taxes for the first time today, a whole $74 worth!!!
- Zack
I paid my taxes early to just get it out of the way
- Chris Strange
The older I get, the more refunds I get. It's kinda weird, but the child + mortgage credits work out in my favor.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Did you really tag this #teabag?
- Andrew Leahey
Well you're doing a good well better than I am. I can barely scrape by, and having to write a big check while recently laid off takes some of the "joy" out of paying taxes.
- Kyle Sellers
long time listener first time caller... great attitude dr. laporte. paying taxes i don't mind, it's the wasteful and inane spending of those dollars that greatly dampens my mood... (to be clear, thats a dig at both houses of congress)
- Ted Bradford II
I don't really find a problem with taxes. I'm paying for the services I received for "Free." Essentially the government loaned me money to pay for roads, my student loans, things of that nature, and then they didn't charge me interest on that loan. It's really kind of cool. I just wish my employer wasn't taking forever to mail out a new copy of my W-2. I have to file for an extension because it hasn't arrived yet (my old one got trashed after my mom forwarded it to me).
- Ivan
i got to pay several grand last year. Wish i had your positive attitude then...thanks for bringing me back into a healthier perspective! We forget how fortunate we actually are!
- Lori Wilson
I don't get why anyone would mock a group of people organizing online to promote a cause they believe in. Isn't that how Obama got elected? The whole #teabag tag reminds me of a bunch of spoiled kids who don't want to share their toys (the internet).
- Kyle Sellers
Had to sign up just to say this: I don't mind paying taxes necessarily, such as sales tax and etc., but the Income Tax is wrong no matter what President or what party is in power. The govt. doesn't own my work, and giving them our hard earned money doesn't give them an incentive to shrink to Constitutional-approved levels.
- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy
Going to a teabag party today
- Randy Pollock
I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning! :)
- jcunwired
I can hardly wait to find out if the money they have been withholding from each paycheck I've earned over the past year has been enough to cover the burden I've created for society by being born. Yay taxes!!!
- midnightgolfer
I understand that paying taxes is a responsibility/privilege as a citizen of this wonderful country. I do not mind paying my fair share. I get upset when those who spend these taxes do not see any responsibility themselves.
- Chris Gardner
Oh, I got soo much joy giving USPS my checks for $28,000 the other day (Year End & Q1), guess the government will do better with that money then me. I was just going to use it to buy a new car (and perhaps keep some people in jobs), nothing important.
- Craig Ochs
Kevin: That makes no sense. They either have the right to take your money or they don't. Saying it's okay for them to take your money when you pay someone else for something but not when someone pays you is just nonsensical.
- Ghworg
worst tag ever Leo
- Joseph Akbrud
I must have been given a lot of opportunities, because I am paying a lot of tax. Happily? not so much. :(
- Bob Townsend
AIG, Goldman & GM executives thank you. It's not easy living in Manhattan & Connecticut on $50,000 a day. Your contribution helps!
- Adam Turetzky
midnightgolfer, that made me laugh out loud. lets just take the smartest, the most successful and the best looking out of the herd, leaving the "rest of us". then, the "rest of us" will drink the Jim Jones Kool Aid so that the burden will be far less on those left behind.
- Ted Bradford II
I like schools, interstates, bridges, libraries, clean water, police patrols, firemen - oh yeah and of course the military that protects us - so... I paid my taxes. Its okay #teaparty peeps - you can still use my roads and I won't sick the military on you. #teabag
- Ken Newton
Social Contract? Please explain. I dont see anything in the constitution that requires me to pay for people to stay in homes they couldn't afford in the first place, feed able bodied people that make no effort to sustain themselves, and subsidize banks, insurance companies, corporations and industries that have driven themselves into the ground by poor management. It is insanity to believe that the government is somehow better able to manage our lives better that we can ourselves.
- Jim Bednarz
ken newton... the things you mentioned are not wasteful spending.
- Ted Bradford II
@ Ghworg - There is a substantial difference between a direct tax (income) and an indirect tax (sales tax). Read up on your constitutional history, and the federalist papers. @ Ken Newton - Private business could do it better and cheaper... so try again. I started my day listening to the Housemartins... specifically the song called "Sheep."
- Jodon Bellofatto
Jim - That's what makes it a social contract and not an actual contract. It's inferred. We took care of approving it for you.
- Matthew DeVries
Got a tax credit for having a baby and for buying a house. The last time I will probably ever get money back from the government. I am enjoying it.
- Fleagle
Wanna pay mine, then?
- Rochelle
Ghworg: I wouldn't mind getting rid of the sales tax too, but simply I think that's stretching it even farther than getting rid of the Federal Income Tax would. This country ran perfectly fine for it's first hundred or so years without a Fed Income Tax, until we began adding more and more social services as part of our federal government. Keep in mind originally the income tax was ruled unconstitutional: it took a Constitutional amendment to allow it to occur.
- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy
@Jim Bednarz: the social contract is a long standing idea within the US government ideal and structure. John Locke, sound familiar? Perhaps this will help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
" Keep in mind originally the income tax was ruled unconstitutional: it took a Constitutional amendment to allow it to occur." and why did it get amended? Oh yeah, to save the bankers who ran their businesses into the ground! We're like a broken record. Keep the rich people rich at all costs!
- Adam Turetzky
I don't get these hard left Gilmor Gangistas, they are sooo out of touch with their Austro-libertarian listeners who want Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman shot !
- Adrian
My wife and I work till May 23 for the federal government so we can bail out crooked bankers and lousy car companies.
- Joseph Kelley
My husband and I work until April or May, I think, but it's to pay $0.50 on the dollar for a war I don't agree with.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Then why not pay even more taxes? You'll be ecstatic.
- Morton Fox
Leo should pay me for being a devoted listener. Yeah, that's it...
- Mike Nayyar
While I think this whole #teabag thing is complete nonsense and just a publicity stunt for the Republican conservatives, I'm no fan of the Democrats either. Taxes are just one more way of a government to exert power over it's people, it's stupid. Throwing teabags in rivers in 2009 is even more stupid. Really want to send a signal? Don't pay your taxes. If everyone at these stupid teabageries would not pay their taxes, it'd have a hell of a lot more of an effect.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
@Ted Bradford II - you are correct. I have yet to hear a good reason for the #teaparty. Wasteful spending? Where did the 3 trillion go that was handed over to G.W. in '01? Oh yeah - its in the pockets of A.I.G. and Halliburton. That money would have gone a long way towards solving the current problem. Would we even be here if it wasn't for absurd tax cuts for corps and unmitigated spending over the last 8 years?
- Ken Newton
Glad your doing so well Leo, I too appreciate the opportunities the US has provided me so much so that I volunteered and served my country Militarily, I'm sure you have also, While I too have always honored (and will continue to do so) "my" social contract I only wish the politicians who work for "me" were "honorable" enough to reciprocate or perhaps I wish I had "your" money.
- Jim Kells
Don't mind paying taxes for appropriate functions of govt. Also, everyone should pay their fair share which is not happening today. The upper echelons of income earners are paying a disproportionate share of income taxes!
- Derek Cook
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Fiance and I got more than $5000 back this year. Hmmm...Ah well.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
FYI - anyone wishing to pay more taxes than they are required is free to do so. The IRS will let you do that.
- You.
"The upper echelons of income earners are paying a disproportionate share of income taxes!"...you're kidding me, right? While it may be true in terms of actual dollars, it is not even close in terms of the effect on a family's lifestyle. Those of us who are blessed with success should be willing to help our fellow Americans by giving back in amounts relative to the opportunities we have been given. In that way, others may hope to share in our success. When did we stop caring about each other?
- Peter May
I would be at a #teaparty today - but I am not part of the upper echelon upset about paying taxes. I wish they had more money to give to the gov so they can be bailed out again when they run their corps in the ground. Where were the #teaparty last year when the bailouts began?
- Ken Newton
@ Ken Newton - The original intent of the #teaparty was to admonish and speak out against both Republican and Democrat alike. Ironically, in many locations, it has been usurped by opportunists on both sides... which is why I will not be attending. And, yes, this economic situation was inevitable due to poor monetary policy that dates back to the Nixon/Carter days, and before then, the establishment of the Federal Reserve.
- Jodon Bellofatto
In this country, we _are_ the government. Anyone who isn't happy with their tax situation has only themselves to blame. Nutjobs who rail on about "the gubmint" stealing their money are hopelessly out of touch with reality and politically naive. Don't like the way things are going? Just use your powers of persuasion to convince the rest of us that you're right. Hint: blathering on about...
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- Brad Farris
from twhirl
Leo, this was a wonderful message to see this morning. Thank you for saying it.
- Karoli
@Brad um....you do realize that the government right now is controlled not by "us" but by the banks and corporations? That's just it..we became too lax and allowed the government to do things they should never even be doing. I would like to say that we should be taking all the blame, but it's not that simple. This all started back in the early 1900's. Our grandfathers and fathers started this whole mess. The minute they let the government step in and "cure" the depression, we the people lost control.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
@ Peter May: So taxes should be based "the effect on a family's lifestyle"? That is just wrong. Our tax system should be unbiased. Each American should be treated equally. While I do agree "those of us who are blessed with success should be willing to help" it should also be voluntary. That is part of why I'm a proponent of a flat percentage tax rate.
- ChiliMac
@Leo: Most of the people I know supporting the #teapartys would agree with your sentiment "Happily paying my taxes today. I appreciate the opportunities I have been given in this great country and honor our social contract". The issue we have is that the government is taking advantage of that and wasting our money. It is getting out of hand.
- ChiliMac
@Jodon Bellofatto - 'the establishment of the Federal Reserve' - thanks for bringing that up. I have been down that rabbit hole - and just lost sleep over it. I just realized my true objection is the distortion of the message by political pundits and corporate hacks. There be wisdom with you Jodon.
- Ken Newton
I seem to recall that the #teaparty had some issues with double-taxation. Like @Leo, I work for myself and gladly pay-in for the services I receive. However, in addition to Federal and State income taxes, I'm also taxed on gross receipts by the city of Los Angeles, and then 9.25% on everything I purchase. Sounds like we dumped tea for double-taxation, and now we get to eat cake. One of the things that I love about this country is that it allows for change. Probably time to reboot the system.
- Jeff Fischbach
And speaking of double taxation... every other tax you pay, you pay for with income which has already been taxed (some are allowed as deductions or credits, subject to limitations)... real estate tax, personal property tax, inheritance taxes, sales tax, inheritance tax, luxry taxes, sin taxes, etc.
- LogEx
Maybe if the politicians in Washington would have such an happy attitude about paying taxes we could pay for the 10 trillion dollar bailout of everyone-but-us.
- Mot Faerin
@Mike. I hear what you're saying, brother, but we live in the here and now. "The government" is you and I, friend. If it's not doing right by us, we have the power to fix it. Of course it's a hard job, but that's what living here is supposed to be about - doing the hard work to make our country function the way we want it to. It's hard to get the right people elected. It's hard to...
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- Brad Farris
from twhirl
What you call "crying about it" is actually rallying political support for change. The government can be influenced in other ways besides voting.
- You.
"Happily paying my taxes today" Must be enough left then. ;)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
from twhirl
@Dave, If you're thinking that I'm opposed to "rallying political support for change," you're wrong. In fact, that's exactly what I've said I think should be done. There's a qualitative difference betweein "rallying political support for change" and simply whining about paying taxes. Don't confuse one with the other, and don't confuse "the government" with anything besides you and I.
- Brad Farris
from twhirl
what's the quantifiable difference? [edit] and who's doing the latter?
- You.
Taxes... got 5400$ back this year... massive REER investment (it's a Canadian thing)
- Julien Bérubé
Now that I think about it, isn't @Leo Canadian? That alone probably makes paying taxes here a relative-pleasure. On the other hand, he may just be pandering to avoid deportation.
- Jeff Fischbach
Sorry, Dave - where did you get the impression that I did that? I didn't mean to give that impression, and I certainly feel that it's good for our "conservative" friends to involve themselves in some organized public protest from time to time, just so they'll be able to understand how strongly those anti-war protesters feel when they get out there and hold up signs. I've looked back...
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- Brad Farris
from twhirl
You edited? Sorry, I answered the question you originally posed. I guess maybe you realized you'd overreached. It's all good.
- Brad Farris
from twhirl
It's not the paying that bothers me; it's that we get so little return on our money.
- Robert Hafer
Robert, you're getting a ton for your money. Unfortunately, half of it is military and with so much of that abroad right now, you don't get to 'see' what you've bought very much.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What a nice little lemming. Hiel Geithner.
- Joanie
20% of it is in defense out of the entire budget, the 50% number is only true of the discretionary budget. The discretionary budget does not include Medicare and Social Security.
- RAPatton
Wow, a lot of single post people over here to give what they got to Leo. Why don't you folks stay and join the discussion on FriendFeed if you'd like to have real reasoned debate.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Robert, the discretionary budget is what actually comes from income taxes. Social Security has its own kitty and its own contributions, so it is deceptive to include in a breakdown of "where your taxes go" since most people assume "your taxes" implies the stuff that's due today.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
We may be getting a ton for our money, but we are paying for 100 tons. 99 tons of waste.
- Robert Hafer
I am very well aware of where Social Security comes from and how its "surplus" is pillaged and about the Medicare shortfall. But if you are only talking income taxes 32.6% of people pay absolutely nothing for defense, unless you count the funds borrowed from Social Security.
- RAPatton
Paid mine yesterday, after having to call the IRS to get my AGI for last year to file THIS year. Sheesh.....
- Anita Pesola
Converse to that, Robert, is the fact that the people who are paying more towards the military by paying more of the overall tax burden are also in many cases the same people who are profiting the most from military action.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"the people"? So, when you earn a certain dollar amount you profit more the military?
- RAPatton
Not what I meant. Military contractors, the companies that are receiving redevelopment contracts, etc. That's what I meant. Though, there are those that argue that the wealthy in general do benefit more from the military in general, since they have the greater assets to protect.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I heard that Comcast, the parent company of G4 TV, is in financial trouble, maybe some of your tax revenue can bail them out of the rut they're in. Love ya Leo, thanks for the pothole repairs!
- Matt Pak
@ChiliMac: Voluntary? Oh yeah, that would work. Imagine how much those pigs on Wall Street would pay if the system was voluntary.
- Peter May
@Peter May: My comment may not have been clear. I don' t think taxes should be voluntary, just non-discriminatory. The volunteerism I mention is the extra help. Let people give to charity if they want to help certain sectors of society. Our federal government should not be forcing that on us.
- ChiliMac
They say a large tax bill is a "glamorous problem" :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Leo, I'm glad to see people in positions of prominence such as yourself speaking out in support of the tax process. Too many people on Twitter are bemoaning the fact that they have to give back to their country.
- Eric Geller
We actually don't mind rendering unto caesar, either. It's just that when the caesars try to trade our children's future for today's bread and circuses, you gotta ask, "Is it time to cleanse the temple?" Also, give us a break, we're kinda' new to this whole loud street protest thing.
- midnightgolfer
Leo, I'm in debt a few thousand dollars because of taxes. If you'd like to help someone out and actually see positive results, let me know. I only need $4000 to pay my tax debt. What if you buy $4k worth of ads from me at: http://twilliondollarhomepage.com
- James Thomson
James Thomson, even I know that your ad here in these comments is lame.
- midnightgolfer
@midnightgolfer - why lame? Leo says he likes to pay taxes so why wouldn't he want to help one of his listeners pay their tax debt? It's a win-win situation. He gets an ad for 5 years, can deduct the expense on next year's taxes and it helps me pay off my tax debt. Hell, I don't care how I get the money... if he wants to just give me $4000 straight up that's fine too: http://twilliondollarhomepage.com
- James Thomson
If you have to ask... anyways, maybe it's just that I feel like twitter is already starting to get kind of spammy as it is.
- midnightgolfer
Leo, if you love paying taxes so much, why not donate even more money to the government or help someone else out that cannot afford it. I am unemployed, no income and have prescription drugs I need on top of my tax bill. Seriously, I don't understand your logic.
- James Thomson
@James I think he's saying that he feels he gets value for his dollar. Do you offer to pay more for something every time you feel this way?
- Edward Zwart
We weren't doing anything
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Like mother like child! Awesome!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Omg such a cute pic!
- BEX
That doesn't even need a caption.
- Kate Schmidt
Love it!
- Reggie L.
LOL!
- Anurag Gupta
Great shot! How cute.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Uh Mom?
- Tony C
Science and pseudo science coverage - where are the references and links? How come blog posts, mainstream media articles and even science media websites will write "a study by ... shows/proves/suggests that ..." but there never is a link to the original study, abstract, or even a simple reference to a publication?
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I'd expect every website which covers science or pseudo science to give links or references - in the paper it takes precious space but online?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Failure: The Secret to Success (Honda) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Failure. The mere thought can paralyze even the most heroic thinkers and keep great ideas off the drawing board. But is failing really that bad? We get an inside look at the mishaps of Honda racers, designers and engineers to learn how they draw upon failure to motivate them to succeed. From poor color choices to blown race engines, these risk-taking individuals provide an honest look at what most people fear most."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Truly an inspirational video!
- Sidharth Shah
Sources of Insight » Blog Archive » Lessons Learned from the Bootstrapper’s Bible - http://sourcesofinsight.com/2009...
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Lots of things to think about in this summary of the book - and to someone who started and ran a bootstrapped business for 4 years (it still exists) all of it rings pretty true
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"Figure out key decisions before you run out of money. Seth suggests figuring out critical decisions with your family including whether you’re willing to move, sell your car, and cut major personal expenses to invest in the business. Run with your business or bring in freelance income. If you have enough money to run with your business if everything goes wrong, then go run your business...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Even More on the Stimulus | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicv...
Howard Keziah liked this
"So what’s the best thing for the government to spend money on? Where does one get the best bang for the buck? Lost in the main stream media discussions has been any mention of the velocity of money. If the government spends a dollar on something, how likely is it that it will be spent again, and again? How likely is it to generate revenue? Create jobs? Increase GDP?" If money has velocity, then its mass must be its value. The product of the two is the momentum of the economy. And, as good physics students, we all know that to change momentum you need a force. That, I assume, would be prices: the less the price the more likely you are to spend it, increasing the velocity. But, then, the lower the price the more value the money has - here the analogy with Newtonian physics breaks down. It’s non-linear.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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"I would love to see added to the graph above a bar corresponding to federal support for basic scientific R&D. Even if you just figure that if you give a professor money she spends it all on hiring a postdoc, how does that impact the economy? One of my main worries is that all the science money in the stimulus package will go to “one-shot” big-ticket items, when what we need is people,...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Anyone else notice that http://www.techmeme.com/ has really stepped up its game lately? Here's some notes:
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1. The choices of news on the page are much better lately.
- Robert Scoble
2. I thought with new competitors like http://www.techfuga.com and http://www.alltop.com that TechMeme would lose its luster, but I think it answered the challenge pretty effectively.
- Robert Scoble
I think it's worse personally. Using that new Twitter stuff, I twittered a story I wrote to them and yet they posted a story based on mine as the main page and based from a Tweet that was after the one I sent in. Stupidness.
- Tom Warren
3. They've managed to remain relevant.
- Bryce Roney
3. I assumed that friendfeed would become a much better place to find and discuss news, but it has gone down in quality as more people have shown up while Techmeme has gone up in quality and now, with the addition of Twitter tips (you can send a tip to Techmeme by Tweeting "tip @techmeme" to start your message) it is taking advantage of the news flow that's happening on the social networks, too.
- Robert Scoble
Tom: oh, yeah, I hate that stuff too. Especially when I spend thousands of dollars to fly across the world to actually BE at a press conference and I get scooped by someone who stayed home because they have better connectivity and got released from their embargo a few minutes before I did (and because Techmeme's algorithms weight past success.
- Robert Scoble
News reporting is dead anyway. Look at Techmeme right now. A Google press release is there. What value does any news reporting have over that? Not much. That's why I'm focusing more on interviews and getting behind the scenes.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - Thanks for the tip @techmeme twitter submission process... very cool idea!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: what's even cooler is that you can search for @techmeme on http://search.twitter.com so you can see potential "hot" stories as they get submitted.
- Robert Scoble
4. Techmeme has a wider range of sources and picks better news than Google News or other tech news aggregators.
- Robert Scoble
News reporting is dead? Maybe in the tech industry, but I wouldn't say that with general information (anyway, this belongs to another thread, I think). Techmeme has certainly improved: in my case it has become my main source of information, surpassing other blogs/portals that used to provide that kind of information. Up to the point that I have unsuscribed to most of them.
- Jordi Soler
Robert - ooo that is cool indeed! I am using twitter search (summize engine) a LOT lately.. amazing view of news in near REAL TIME! Techmeme is wise to utilize this more and more. They could gleen data right out of it - would require some intersting logic, but I see a model for news / buzz measurement
- Susan Beebe
Still too many Tabloid stories on Techmeme
- paul mooney
Jordi: well, corporate news reporting. Regular news reporting, though, is also going through major shifts. A guy like me who doesn't sleep and has four screens watching Twitter and friendfeed can aggregate and break news faster than the New York Times can.
- Robert Scoble
paul: that only happens on slow news days and is happening less and less as time goes on.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, indeed. But there has to be an original source: if you talk about a Google press release, I agree with you. But not if we're talking about a first-person chronicle of a war, for instance.
- Jordi Soler
All the Techcrunch vs Europe crap made it to the Top of Techmeme several times and all that time Arrington had Lacy in the wings
- paul mooney
The @techmeme twitter search which Scoble might actually be a really cool idea for news on twitter. I got fed up with the news from the Twitter bots, and will welcome twitter meme news.
- Peter Efland
Robert - you've out done me... no sleep here either, but only 3 screens Gah! :)
- Susan Beebe
Paul: and that happened during a very slow news week. That also was five weeks ago and I've noticed improvements since then.
- Robert Scoble
The Man Killed by Cellphone story is still there from yesterday
- paul mooney
Paul: hmmm, I don't see that. And even if it's there there's something like 30 stories on the home page now. Not many are tabloidish.
- Robert Scoble
The question is when it comes memetrackers for more topics. It would be really nice to have more mainstream topics like "Sports" etc but also for niche ones, like "Google", "Science" etc
- Anton Johansson
Look on the bottom right - Man Killed by Exploding Mobile Phone
- paul mooney
Let's face it Techmeme has gone downhill with so many misery meme stories and Arrington's sad life casting
- paul mooney
I agree robert. Techmeme's decison to take in request via Twitter is really paying dividends it seems!
- Sampad Swain
I might be the only one but I never "got" techmeme but I also didn't jump on the digg bandwagon.
- Jason Williams
I get techmeme RSS feeds - and skip over them... it got too corporationy and too mainstream...
- andy brudtkuhl
I wish there was a TechMeme version that only ranks news from individuals. @gaberiviera are you listening? I bet there is a big crowd interested in stuff written by individuals instead of networks. It shouldn't replace the current TechMeme, it would be a nice addition to the portfolio though
- Alexander van Elsas
I never liked the layout of the site. Also I get the feed through Viigo on my blackberry but never read it because it takes too many clicks to read.
- Jason Williams
Rabbit Runs No More - RIP John Updike - http://www.allthingscahill.com/2009...
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Washington D.C. Inauguration Day Satellite Photo - http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSit...
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Former Apple Exec: Tim Cook's Been Running The Company For Years (AAPL) - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
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Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by His Presidency - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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This made my day.
- Howard Keziah
Bush Econ: A Legacy of Little Growth | The Big Picture - http://www.ritholtz.com/blog...
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"How growth in jobs, in gross domestic product and in disposable income have fared during the Bush administration and those of his 10 most recent predecessors."
- Atul Arora
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Joss Stone, No Woman no Cry, Live at Lisbon 01/06/2008 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
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"Mr. Rajan also argued that because banks were holding a portion of the credit securities they created on their books, if those securities ran into trouble, the banking system itself would be at risk. Banks would lose confidence in one another, he said: "The interbank market could freeze up, and one could well have a full-blown financial crisis." Two years later, that's essentially what happened."
- Atul Arora
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So maybe my hack wasn't as straightforward as I thought - how does @daveingland have such a large, animated picture for his avatar?
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Jean Bartik: the untold story of a remarkable ENIAC programmer - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
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No one asked @RocmanUSA what he cut out of @guykawasaki interview. His edits made it way better. Do you like edited video? Or whole thing?
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Both. I like to see what "you" the publisher wants to present. No one has the right to take creative editor away. But I'd ALSO like the option (online we call it a link), to see the edits, or an unedited version, or??? Certainly no one has time for watching 2 versions of every video, especially long ones. But some smart pres of the 'rest of the story'? You betcha!
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Agree with Ed - seeing both is helpful. Plus, it helps me understand your message as well as the interviewee's.
- Chris Rogers
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I like edited video. Video is time consuming to watch and I don't have time to waste - give me the quality content from an interview. I really enjoyed the interview with Guy.
- Howard Keziah
Gregory: you can download our videos and play them from your hard drive.
- Robert Scoble
Master of 500 Hats: Employees Suck. Don't Be One. Don't Hire One. - http://500hats.typepad.com/500blog...
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TechBlips is like Digg but counts external links as well. Very interesting: http://techblips.dailyradar.com/
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Will have to check it out. Thanks!
- Shevonne
thanks Louis...good find I just signed up and created a Friendfeed group :)
- Susan Beebe
I know the team behind it. They also do GadgetBips, MacBlips, BallHype, ShowHype, etc. (The method is like Digg + Technorati, and is similar to Techmeme in that the most linked items go to the top.)
- Louis Gray
Multiple myeloma regression mediated by bruceantin. [Clin Cancer Res. 2004] - PubMed Result - http://www.2collab.com/bookmar...
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Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking - http://www.43folders.com/2008...
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If you are going to work for other people you must be willing to suck. But, on the other hand, I work to suck less every day. Sometimes I suck at that too.
- Robert Scoble
Amazon iPhone App makes blowing your unemployment check easier - http://www.9to5mac.com/amazon-...
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William Gunn has headlines that are WAY over my head: http://friendfeed.com/mrgunn He's a blogger at DNA Network.
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He is a senior graduate student at the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy. His dissertation is entitled "Investigating the Role of Human Mult... ipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the Repair of Bone", in which he developed a model of multiple myeloma in immunodeficient mice and used it to test small molecule inhibitors of the interaction between multiple myeloma and bone precursor cells.
- Robert Scoble
Got that? Now THAT is what I call a "smart FriendFeeder."
- Robert Scoble
I'm making notes.
- Nicola Quinn
Makes me realize just how little I really know. But, then, smart people always do that.
- Robert Scoble
That's why I find FF so fascinating. Always something intriguing here.
- Nicola Quinn
genieyclo: he has friends, too. It's interesting to watch subcultures evolve here on FriendFeed. This is a VERY positive development! Shows that FriendFeed's growth is real and is sustainable.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, there are lots of scientists here, especially computational biologists, science librarians, and scientists interested in Web2.0/social networks/online apps for scientists, for communicating, teaching and doing science.
- Bora Zivkovic
In addition to what Bora said, there's lot of sci-related rooms. From general life science, through various languages for bioinformatics, science 2.0 initiatives, scientific applications, diybio, synthetic biology, chemistry development kit, devoted to particular scientific or science-related conferences (ismb2008, biobarcamp), devoted to particular scientific journals up to even to small invertebrate nervous system ganglia research (http://friendfeed.com/rooms...).
- Pawel Szczesny
What, there are people here on FF who are not scientists? Whodathunk... lol :-)
- Björn Brembs
Yeah, I always get caught up reading boring Science geek stuff
- Jim Hardy
And I thought I just read a complicated white paper! His headings are insane and way too long.
- Jeremy Campbell
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Most of the long headings are scientific article bookmarks or links. Hardly his fault how they are entitled....
- Nils Reinton
You can search for science in rooms and find some really cool stuff: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Bora Zivkovic
http://friendfeed.com/bersenev Alexey also pipes his paper-bookmarking in here and he's a much more prolific reader than I am. Also unlike me, he still has a top-quality non-neglected blog. @Bjorn, Bora, et al. Yeah, sometimes I forget there's non-science people on FF. I should subscribe to Scoble, but I'm loath to dilute the science-specific signal to noise ratio, something Sally Church and I have talked also about. I
- Mr. Gunn
Life Scientists rock!
- Sally Church
Mr. Gunn, is your inbox buzzing with new people signing up yet :)?
- Deepak Singh
Hey Mr Gunn, I'm currently doing a project on multiple myeloma and new drugs in development post bortezomib for ASH in SF next month. You going to be there?
- Sally Church
@ Deepak http://williamgunn.org/pubpics... I thought it was a spam attack until I saw Scoble's name at the very bottom. @ Sally I can't find a good excuse to go there, since my current work is more assay development and because I'm not in grad school anymore, I can't get my PI to spring for the registration. Let me know next time you're in San Diego, though.
- Mr. Gunn
That is another T-shirt I need: acts like spam. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, that would be a good one
- Deepak Singh
Woohoo! DNA Network shout out! :)
- Ricardo Vidal
Mr Gunn, ah but much of the exciting new developments in assays are in hematologic malignancies from what I see from the abstract book. Am about to do a new project with an assay company in the NE for leukemia. Will let you know if there is some great stuff there and absolutely, if I am in San Diego.
- Sally Church
Robert, they're not actually over your head, they just involve a lot of vocabulary you don't know. Don't be shy about dipping into the fun!
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Sally - I'll see if I can make a case for it. Money's a little tight right now as you know, but I'm really excited about the screening aspect, and I have a proposal for cancer proteomics using our instrument(which is fairly similar to the drug screening application), we just need to get that Series A already.
- Mr. Gunn
The New York Times > Business > Image > The Government’s Committments - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa...
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Mossberg Says Innovation is the Key to Success During the Econaclypse - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Liked for the word "Econoclypse" - a word I do believe I will incorporate into my personal lexicon, thankyouverymuch...
- Steve Isaacs
huh. wall street journal's main product is PRINTED INK ON DEAD TREES, and they are telling us *innovation* is the key to success. was the irony unintentional, or does mossberg just have a very dry sense of humor? ;-)
- Karim
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