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So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Nicholas James, Aaron Strout, Joe Dawson and 48 other people liked this
Robert has come home once again to early adopter-ville...
- Allen Stern
Great advice, Robert - not only for someone submitting a resume, but also for hiring managers and what to look for to find the "cream of the crop."
- Vince DeGeorge
Allen: early for what? Recession advice? :-)
- Robert Scoble
Insightful article + great comments. But seriously, the pay needs to be $15-$20 or else you won't interest the career type - only the mass-mailing, money desperate grad student :¬P
- CannonGod
Resume is dead. Got my new job without it :)
- sean percival
Resumes do indeed suck for telling your story, but until HR people change how they go about getting people to submit for jobs, that's what we are stuck with.
- Alex Scoble
I'm curious. Why is applying for a job that you are overqualified for an automatic ding against you? What if you are someone who wants to get out of your current career and start a new one that you happen to be overqualified for at the moment? Also, in Scoble's post, he said he wants someone who won't settle for a $10-$12/hr job and looks ahead in his/her career. So how does someone who's overqualified in experience not fit that description?
- Cheryl Jones
Cheryl, because it'll show when you work there. Overqualified people make it clear that they are overqualified for the position they're in, and it comes out in salary negotiations, task delegation, and dealing with superiors.
- Mark Trapp
FYI overqualified will not usually hold up in court if someone decides to sue. At least, that's what they taught us in HR class.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Glen: sue for what? If "overqualified" was code for racism/sexism during job selection?
- Mark Trapp
for not selecting the most qualified applicant.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Let me get off the iPhone and expand. If you post a job listing certain qualifications, and you bypass someone who meets all the qualifications but is "overqualified" for someone who doesn't quite meet everything, then that person may have a case for employment discrimination. We are encouraged to write our job descriptions very carefully to be sure that we find the right people. An "overqualified" person may very well be looking for a simpler, easier job to handle until he or she retires, and it may even..
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
...be on the advice of a doctor. You put yourself and your company at risk by rejecting them as "overqualified" without considering them. You're safer if you can find some legitimate way to disqualify them.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I commented on the post. Impossible is Nothing
- Christopher Harley
...except an adidas slogan.
- Shawn Farner
Love this post Robert. This plus Seth Godin's post Why Bother Having a Resume? http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b... are keepers.
- Hutch Carpenter
What's a resume? Oh yeah, I vaguely remember getting my first job out of undergrad with one of those things.
- LogEx
@Cheryl... right on! I always thought it would be fun to pick a company you liked, and try to go in totally entry-level with no documentation, and just see what could happen.
- LogEx
Robert: here were some of my observations on resumes a few months ago... http://www.stagetwoconsulting.com/wordpre...
- Jeremy Toeman
Robert, good post. My experience is people should not apply for posted jobs for the very reason they will likely be lost in the crush of applicants. The more savvy strategy is to discover the outfits you would LOVE to join and then apply for the job that is not yet available. Do your homework and reach out to everyone from the CEO down. The key here is how you are treated as an outsider. Pushed off to HR. Not provided any response. These are indications they are not the company you want to work for.
- Dave Martin
few things: as someone who desperately wants a career change, I appreciate the tips provided. Second have you considered a viritual admin assistant? One area of disagreement, the video. While the person might get high marks for creativity, they run the risk of being blond and the hiring manager having preconceived idea about blonds, what if the room they use is in their home and it is...
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- R. Ferguson
Ruth: if someone is going to judge you based on your appearance, they're going to do it in the interview, as well. Showing judgement about where you film the video is fair game: you chose to shoot the video, why would you shoot it in a messy house?
- Mark Trapp
Jeremy - that's a good post.
- Hutch Carpenter
Mark, you are right about appearance. But perhaps if your resume is strong enough they once they finally meet you, it is possible you have a strong advantage that a glance at a video would preclude. Messy room was not a good example but I will give you that point.
- R. Ferguson
Regarding overqualification: I'm not opposed to that, but you MUST point it out on a letter to me and explain why you are applying for a job that is so obviously "beneath" you. Remember, my producer used to be a software developer. He changed careers and has worked out very well. But you've gotta take on that objection head on in your cover letter or you'll get tossed.
- Robert Scoble
Ruth: one thing that I'm looking for is a little risk taking behavior. Doing videos is risky, yes. But if you want to stand out of the crowd you've got to do something different. That requires taking a risk. On the other hand, I'd be very careful about taking a risk and I'd get lots of people's opinions about it.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the comments regarding overqualification, everyone. I had always heard about this "faux pas" and wondered why an employer wouldn't like someone overqualified for a job. For example, I heard about someone on a discussion forum that the hubby reads who recently came into a lot of bad luck, lost his job, and couldn't get another because there were none in his field, and he was overqualified for other jobs, like retail work. I thought it was insane that he couldn't even apply for a job at McD's...
- Cheryl Jones
...or a bookstore or something to make ends meet while he couldn't find anything in his "native" profession. That didn't make sense to me at all, and is kind of scary, considering how I'm in a volatile field (software engineering) and would like to know that I could at least have something else to fall back on in case the very worst case scenario happens and I'd have to take a job lower than what I'm supposedly qualified for.
- Cheryl Jones
when I applied for a number of jobs last year I found a large number of people demanded word files instead of PDF's :S I also don't get the problem of a person being over qualified for something... surely it means they would do better than someone that needs plenty of training. After all, they applied for it so they are showing an interest in doing a job you see as "below" them!
- alphaxion
I am in the process of tweaking my partners CV, I gave her some feedback, didn't go down well! This post is submitted from the naughty step!
- Joe Dawson
Robert, I wrote a similar post back in March titled "Hiring in a 2.0 World" http://tinyurl.com/39dy8d
- Aaron Strout
? so if you google a potential applicant, and land on their social network(which isn't biz based) do you downgrade them if they may be wild in the personal life?
- clarke thomas
clarke: not necessarily! :-)
- Robert Scoble
wow, what an interesting and yet disappointing experience. I was expecting you to receive a gamut of well appointed resumes. So, this is really odd. Bummer!
- Susan Beebe
@Susan - our last job posting (craigslist + linkedin) generated >200 incoming resumes, I phone-screened ~30, in-person interviews for 7, follow-ups for 2. Hired none. Most recent hire came due to our blog post for the job...
- Jeremy Toeman
@1938media we do not allow personal attacks in comments on FastCompany.tv as a matter of policy and have removed several comments like that.
Nick O'Neill, Parth Awasthi, Karim and 47 other people liked this
Where's the comment policy about this? I can't find it.
- Matt Craven
some of the comments I saw before they got deleted were maybe harsh but they weren't personal attacks. they were about the quality of the show not about attacking you or shel. you just deleted every negative comment.
- Marcel Weiß
All comments except one sycophantic one was deleted. And that one looked like it was written by PR. I am really surprised. My suggestion would be to turn off comments. FastCompany is a censor? That's not something their PR people would like as a lead item.
- Frank Roche
To all the folks crying here -- Here is an idea. Create a better show you can. And please don't whine if your comments got deleted. Don't want to get your comments deleted - here is an idea - setup your blog, write a blog post on your blog criticizing to your hearts content. Nobody will delete that.
- Vic Podcaster
Is there any way to delete @vic's comment here? It seems overly negative and sarcastic.
- Frank Roche
This cottage industry that has formed around criticizing Robert and Shel is getting tired and worn. I think the people who are complaining are being disingenuous when they say they are just looking after SAP's money. No one seems to complain about the production quality of certain poorly lit loudmouths spewing in front of an isight. The censorship issue is clearly a red herring. I think someone is jealous of a couple of guys who actually have a sponsorship.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
The comments were attacks and were not constructive criticism.
- Robert Scoble
That's simply not true. I read the comments myself. They were hardly personal attacks.
- J T. Ramsay
Robert, please define "constructive criticism" as you see it. It makes no sense that some of those comments were deleted.
- Slobokan
@Scoble - you are normally pretty open about stuff. But your reply seems like a pretty lame cop-out.
- Tom Quinn
blackmailismylife: well, we judged them as attacks. There is, like Jay noted, a group of anonymous people who are just saying negative things about Shel in a way that's personal and attackive. I'm not going to put up with it anymore, at least on FastCompany.tv. Wanna do it somewhere else, like here, fine.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, they are baiting you.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Constructive Criticism: next time ask a question without saying "um." Attack: you're an idiot.
- Robert Scoble
Jay: that's cool. Comment policy is important. It's not that I'm getting it right. I used to be far more open to letting people post whatever they want, but I'm definitely changing my view to match what you posted.
- Robert Scoble
Cream rises ;)
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I used to run a pretty busy community driven website, and was continually surprised at the amount of time and effort people would put into fighting with each other over the most petty and seemingly innocuous things.
- Jonathan Beckett
Tony: we wrote a book together, are friends, and I like him a lot -- he's helped launch dozens of companies in Silicon Valley. Loyalty in life has served me well.
- Robert Scoble
Tony: well, there will be major changes to the show starting on Friday. I'd love to hear your feedback about how the show goes. Your feedback IS being heard.
- Robert Scoble
1938 should shut up and move on. This crap only gets press because people keep trying to create a scandal.
- Andrew Ruess
from twhirl
The expression "jackalling" is sometimes used to describe the work done by a subordinate in order to save the time of a superior. (For example, a junior lawyer may peruse large quantities of material on behalf of a barrister.) This came from the tradition that the jackal will sometimes lead a lion to its prey. In other languages, the same word is sometimes used to describe the behavior...
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- Oldengrey (Jay)
Trying to create a scandal? Naw, I don't think so. I think people are just concerned about legitimate comments being deleted from fastcompany.tv. It reeks of censorship from within, and it does not look good from the outside.
- Slobokan
Censorship is an issue here. Deleting comments after the fact is not a good thing. If you don't have a policy then at least have comments placed in moderation first so they never appear. The fact that they were public and then removed just looks bad.
- Tom Quinn
Only one of the negative comments was preserved in Google's cache, but I for one would have left it up. Yes, it included the statement "Shel...do yourself a favor and go away," but it did include a valid comment about having the subject of the video actually appear within the first two minutes of the video.
- Ontario Emperor
@Ontario Emperor: Just Googled the comment you mentioned. Reading the whole comment I can see why it was deleted. Have I read worse comments on say Digg? Yes, but let's agree it would have been fine for the person to leave their feedback that they wanted to see the guest Tim Ferris before 2:27 minutes into the show, sign their name to it, and leave it at that.
- Loren Heiny
Someone should setup a comment mirror site or a wayback machine of sorts for blog comments.
- Eddie Codel
Sometimes bad PR may be good PR and I wanted to watch the interview myself: But I have a question Is there a low(er) bandwidth feed available, preferably without Flash?
- Arnd Gronenberg
Matt: our policy is here and covers all Mansueto Digital sites: http://www.fastcompany.com/service...
- Robert Scoble
Lots of professional media sites remove comments for a number of reasons. I'm happy to review the comments again tonight, but FastCompany’s initial review (they were deleted by a team at FC) were that they were pretty classic “troll” attacks. Sites such as NewYorkTimes.com review all comments for personal attacks before posting comments and we have adopted a considerably more open policy than this. But we'll consider all suggestions as to how we should handle our comment policy.
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: that's not constructive. How would you improve them?
- Robert Scoble
You know who you remind me of? The U.S. Government, you subdue all dissenters
- Andrew Fielding
Andrew: really? I didn't delete your comment here, so that proves you are wrong. There are plenty of ways for you to make personal attacks on the Internet. It's just that we're not going to let you do that on our properties. That's what Valleywag, your blog, or FriendFeed is for.
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: I'll personally review your comments shortly, it's also possible our spam filter is catching some of them. A couple of mine are held in moderation too.
- Robert Scoble
I don't see the big deal. People need to stop hyping this up. Companies have a responsiblity to mitigate risk. Taking down hate speech, abusive language, etc. is not a bad thing. Scoble can use FF, and/or his blog to 'keep the conversation' pure if needed. It's not like FC is the ONLY place for a discussion to occur. 1938media needs to chill.
- Ryan
@Robert - this can be an important point "but FastCompany’s initial review (they were deleted by a team at FC)" - does that mean you and Shel (and I haven't watched, so I don't know) did or did not participate or direct the deletion? Maybe there should be some way to keep the comment, since part of it could be useful, and delete the personal attacks with [PA deleted by admin]
- Sean
Don't see what a lot of people are complaining about. FastCompany has every right to remove comments from their own site. If anyone is upset by this they can post their comments elsewhere. It's not like there's nowhere else to post such comments.
- Paul Grav
I think you may have coined the word 'attackive'. Nicely done!
- Seth Eagelfeld
As far as I see it, a blog author or company has the right to remove whatever comment they want if it reflects negatively on the site or the authors. Free speech is one thing, but it's another when you have someone's name and reputation on the line. I support Robert in the decision. Don't let the trolls bait you anymore.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Thanks for posting the link - but your terms of service open to a blank page (checked on several browsers) and are on fastcompany.com rather than fastcompany.tv - there's no link at all on the fastcompany.tv site - how is someone to know what the comment policy is? Can anyone actually open the terms of service link on fastcompany.com??
- Matt Craven
There's nothing censoring you from saying what you want but, when you are on someone else's "turf" ..even if it is virtual turf..it's their rules. They aren't telling you that you can't speak at all or, you can't say something on your own space. They are just making sure their own site has the look and feel they are striving for. Otherwise, everything would turn into Digg or YouTube with comments. It's not "censoring". It's saying "Go somewhere else."
- Candace
Sean: Shel was not involved in deleting the comments. My bosses told me they were doing that and I agreed with them. So, the responsibility is mine, but there is a team watching the comments and deleting ones that aren't constructive criticism.
- Robert Scoble
Seth -- I'm wondering if there's a way to be constructively attackive or if being attackive is inherently personal and destruckive.
- Omar Gallaga
I wasn't making a personal attack, I was just saying using a politically charged analogy to say that I believe deleting anything other than spam or vulgar comments is something that shouldn't be done as it blocks the ability for other readers or viewers as it may be in your case, to see what others are thinking. I do however appreciate that you are taking a stance on this and looking in to it. I was going to say more but it seems that there is a maximum limit for comments on FF.
- Andrew Fielding
Matt: http://www.fastcompany.com/service... works here on several browsers. Part 3.2 (i) is the part you are looking for.
- Robert Scoble
BTW I just saw Sean's idea and I think that is a great idea, keep everything but the vulgar or vitriolic personal attack.
- Andrew Fielding
Friendfeed is the new Slashdot!
- paul mooney
Strange, the Service Terms won't load for me. No 404, just no content at all. I value sites that remove nonsense comments and spam, but often find the legitimately critical comments the most interesting. The grey area, of course, is tough, and will obviously piss off people one way or the other. Sometimes the "x comments below your threshold" approach is worth the complexity. Let people see the nonsense if they really want to.
- David Sky
Think you could take a hard lesson from @garyvee - Leave everything up. Taking stuff down leads to harsh discussions like this. Leaving it up rallies your supporters and in the end leaves you better off.
- Mark Drapeau
Weird, I'm getting a blank page now too. I'll get the tech guys to figure that one out. Sorry. I think a server is barfing.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: good point, but this is a business site and we're looking for a different tone to the comment area than, say, you'll see on Gary Vaynerchuk's site, or here on FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I guess I don't really understand why you folks think that you have some sort of "right" to have your comments--legitimate or otherwise--displayed on FastCompany's site. I'm not a big fan of the material, but I sure don't have any expectation that FC will "publish" my feedback, even if it is constructive. If you want free/open conversation, you have blogs, FF, twitter... lots of venues. Nobody's "rights" are being violated.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Scoble...if this was still your personal site with no affiliation with FastCompany, SAP or any other, would you have handled this the same way?
- ryangraves
At the end of the day, it’s the right of the owner of the blog to have whatever TOS they want. People have to expect that a more mainstream pub will have stricter policies than a personal blog five people read anyway, no? Still, that’s no guarantee because everyone runs things differently. (Just scan the crap on Huffington Post, YouTube or Breitbart and see that TOS mean jack there.) I’ve also seen personal blogs ban people for things like opposing viewpoints. Bottom line: It’s FC’s blog—it’s their rules.
- mtlb
I have to agree with Mark Drapeau. No matter what, it is just better to leave stuff up and let things run their course. If someone attacks and what not, they will slowly lose credibility, even if it doesn't seem that way. I do agree that having people post insulting things is never wanted. When you take an action though you'll always have those ready to pounce and try and discredit you, etc. Just everything in my involvement with online communities has taught me that. Delete dups and link porn lol
- Dean Clark
ryangraves: I've been deleting comments on my personal site too and blocking people here on FriendFeed. I've had enough of jerks in my life. I don't need to have them part of my life anymore.
- Robert Scoble
Ken -- I think it's because people expect guys who are covering Web 2.0 culture to approach it in a Web 2.0 way, not in a "We own this site and can do whatever we want with your (unnecessary) participation" kind of way. I think that's what's angering people. And given the potshots Scoble regularly takes at "Old media" I find it ironic.
- Omar Gallaga
@Mooney: what confuses me is why you or anyone would even want to insult Scoble. he does a very specific thing for a specific audience. he gets incredible access to great companies and people who open up to him because he is genuinely interested in them. that is a rare, valuable thing. he is not the most polished journalist in the world but i and many others are okay with that. i don't like airbrushed journalists who tick off the whos, whats, wheres and whys and move on.
- mike
Dean: I disagree with you. I used to agree. But then I look at how Digg has gone downhill and how YouTube's comments are totally worthless. Omar: Web 2.0 does not mean you have to put up with jerks or trolls. Sorry. If I ever gave you that opinion, then I was wrong.
- Robert Scoble
There's a fine line that needs to be established and enforced with any comment policy, but basically, anywhere you want to be a bully online, if it's not in your own schoolyard, expected it to get deleted. Robert, I think the problem here is that line needs to be more clearly defined.
- Paul Short
Andrew, philosophically i agree with you...but anyone who has run some kind of online forum or even blog comment section can tell you that if you let really aggressive, insulting comments become a regular thing, it can drive away the majority of users who would otherwise have a productive discussion. it's fast company's house and they can throw out whoever they want for whatever they want. that ability can be abused but in this case i think they did the right thing. especially since robert is talking here
- mike
I didn't see the comments, but I saw the video and I wish you had asked Tim more about BodyQUICK. I had to look long and hard to find the ingredients and then showed them to a Herbolist. She was very familiar with all the compounds, but laughed because the best of them would have been cheaply sourced and in minuscule quantities and the rest were fillers.
- paul mooney
Paul: I agree. I'm still trying to figure out where that line is too.
- Robert Scoble
Clearly, personal attacks ought to be axed but the line is fuzzy. I say err on the side of letting negative comments stay and address them head on. A negative comment, even one with a personal attack element, if properly addressed will usually do the trick, at least for the onlookers-- you will not sway the detractor, however. And like David Sky, I find the dissent worthy of notice, not negation.
- Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius
Joseph: I used to agree. But if you let unconstructive comments run rampant it just takes over the tone and things turn worse and worse. It's one thing to do something simple like "I sorta like what you're doing, and here's how to make me really like it..." But it's a whole nother thing to come in and just try to make people feel bad. One is a constructive conversation, the other is just "I'm here to make a political point and rip you down." Er, "I wanna be a jerk."
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: why trust a content site at all? Either you like the content you see there, or you don't. If you care about the stuff you see there, but would get a little more enjoyment out of it if it were a little different, then let's have a conversation about that.
- Robert Scoble
Might it be best to deal with this sort of situation by just following a policy of turning off all comments? I don't just mean on this post in particular, but blogs in general. Push the conversation to platforms like Twitter, FriendFeed, the commentator's own blog, etc. Everybody is free to say what they'd like to say, nobody's forced to provide a platform/audience for views they don't agree with, but yet the material/discussion is still out there for anyone who wants to see it?
- Ken Sheppardson
Should the presidential candidates each have to provide some amount of time, on their dime, at the end of their ads/speeches for the other candidate to respond?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken -- that's a dumb analogy and I mean that in the kindest, most constructive way possible.
- Omar Gallaga
If people dont have the brains to make decent comments, or the balls to name themselves, who cares if they are removed. Robert - Shel, just keep doing what you do well guys.
- Scott Purdie
I admit it. I've deleted some blog and forum comments too as well as edited out foul language when needed--though I'm more likely to delete than edit. Editing doesn't seem right. I've also walked away from people that want to endlessly argue about one thing or another, hung up on sales reps calling me and thrown away unopened mail. Should we require everyone to attend to everything anyone wants to say to them?
- Loren Heiny
Omar: I appreciate the feedback. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Mike, i have had leadership roles at forums and on large IRC channels and i know it is hard to police and I also know from experience that annoying and unproductive comments make serious people less enticed to contribute but I also believe that good constructive criticism that is not overtly complimentary has an important place in the discussion (comments as it may be) as well. From what i can tell, some of the comments that were deleted fit this description while others were clearly personal attacks.
- Andrew Fielding
...(continued) that obviously did deserved to be either completely deleted or have specific parts of content censored. .... on a completely different note, I thought FriendFeed had no limit to the size of entries, i keep running into the fact that comments are limited in lenght, argh.
- Andrew Fielding
I think you should censor this type of information. I think people at the moment don't understand why it should be censored but then if a personal attack occured to them, they'd want it removed so i don't know why people are complaining about these things.
- Nicholas James
@Nicholas James I've had personal attacks taken on me in various forms at various locations and I take it all in good fun, if someone is wasting their time to make a personal attack on me I figure that means i've done something well enough to garner their attention and make them feel that i warrant a personal attack, this is all about each person's individual philosophy and what we believe should be the presiding philosophy in this instance.
- Andrew Fielding
On my blog, I ask ZDNet to kill all personal and nasty comments. Those comments inhibit serious discussion among other participants.
- Michael Krigsman
I admin a large online community. You have to be very strict moderating and remove personal attacks immediately. You also have to be very consistent. Leaving attacks up for a long time and then taking them down is the probelm here, you have set the wrong precedent. I agree that personal attacks should be removed but you need to do it consistently from now on.
- Chris Paton
I don't thnk comments need to be constructive though. It's fair to say the videos are not very good without offering solutions (as long as it's said in a non-offensive way). I personally have enjoyed watching many of the videos. Scoble and Shel are not TV personality types, they are just two geeks interested in what they are discussing. If they are discussing something I find interesting too I don't mind if they are sometimes little too close to the mic.
- Chris Paton
@mooney - you said, "Robert: You do understand how horrible your fastcompany.tv videos are?" that is pretty insulting.
- mike
@Andrew Fielding - point well taken. didn't mean to imply lack of experience. just trying to make a point that you obviously already understood. :-) and yes the limit on comment size is frustrating....usually leads me to only putting one space between periods and the next sentences.
- mike
Robert: You are getting it right, especially in the charity you grant differing views. This is the Slashdot vs Digg argument rehashed. Discussion management is the factor which determines your target audience. Slashdot routes around this with their own elaborate moderation/sliding scale system which allows individuals to decide what level of cruft they wish to be exposed to. You are catching flak due to *all powerful* editors making that decision for the populous. A common gripe when editors decide.
- Matt Bidinger
Bravo, Robert!
- Oldengrey (Jay)
@scobleizer Man, this comment thread is soooooooooooooo 2003 ;-)
- Hugh MacLeod
I agree with hugh... you should delete the whole thing and see how loud that makes the moaning and wailing! ;) Only kidding. Seriously tho... you have every right to say whatever you want on your own blog, FF, Twitter, and any other platform that allows you to say it. You do NOT have the right to say it on my blog, FF, Twitter, or any platform that I have control over. It's reality people. Learn to cope.
- Lucretia Pruitt
So what is the issue here? Pretend I'm new. Is this a matter of censorship vs freedom of speech? Is this a matter of personal attacks vs constructive criticism? Either way isn't that all best seen from the eyes of the person who has control to allow or decline those comments? No where am I shown that I am commanded to let people say anything they want on my sites.
- Mike Lewis
Simple solution - someone will register slowcorporationtvsucks.com (or perhaps even use the fastcompanytv name - it may be legally allowable in this instance). Only negative comments will be allowed. Verizon can sponsor to show that they "get it." Whatever "it" is.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Loren apparently thinks "transparency" implies some kind of obligation to provide a platform for racist fuckwits and their sock puppets.
- Karim
Wow, this is one of the most serious discussions on FriendFeed ... I definitely agree with Robert on this one ... I think everyone deletes personal attacks ... u don't need a policy ... it is a rule of thumb in blogging
- Nick O'Neill
Overheard at pdf: "The world doesn't need more thoughts... Especially not from me." Craig newmark, of craigslist.
Tyler Crowley, Matt Bidinger, Brent Newhall and 2 other people liked this
I'd like to see a "favorite friends" feature in FriendFeed. Some folks don't post very often, but when they do it's good stuff, and it's easy to miss with a busy stream.
Amit Patel, Varun Mahajan, Marco(aureliusmaximus) and 8 other people liked this
FriendFeedMachine lets you do just that: http://www.friendfeedmachine.com/
- Louis Gray
I've been doing that by manually adding their FriendFeed feed as an invisible friend. friendfeedmachine sounds like a better soluttion :)
- Tac Anderson
from twhirl
I don't like FriendFeedMachine. Every time you click on something, RoboForm pops up and asks if you want to save the login credentials. They seemed to have programmed authentication into every single action you launch, as opposed to upfront authentication and then using sessions.
- Dewald Pretorius
I made a post similar to this in the friendfeed google group... apparently they're working on it. http://groups.google.com/group...
- Frankie Warren
+1
- Varun Mahajan
Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...
Mike Reynolds, Ken Booth, Nick and 13 other people liked this
This morning I noticed several cars parked near a coffee shop that was closed apparently for the free wi-fi that the shop offers. The greater irony is that there is a Starbucks less than .25 to .50 miles away. Talk about conditioned rats:(
- Roney Smith
so they don't turn off their wi-fi when they are closed? i would if i owned a coffee house. or turn it to password protected at night.
- Chris Harris
It's interesting to see some of the top names in mainstream tech journalism signing up for FriendFeed in addition to a lot of the major online journalists and big name bloggers. Who are some of the mainstream media journalists that have signed up so far?
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I know Chris Nuttall from the Financial Times has an account on here as does Jessica Guynn from the LA Times.
- Thomas Hawk
My initial list of "household names" is still a good starting point: http://louisgray.com/live..., but that doesn't touch the mainstream media. Who are you thinking of?
- Louis Gray
well i know that Jessica and Chris are on here. I'm wondering if the sort of polling that Marshall did for his article on the Flickr resignations and the quotes he pulled from here might be indicative of the way that bloggers and journalists begin using FF more in the future. I'd be interested in Jessica and Chris' thoughts on this but also wondering what other mainstream reporters are on here.
- Thomas Hawk
BBC Tech Editor Darren Waters is also on FF: http://friendfeed.com/darrenw.... Anyone know other names?
- Thomas Hawk
Info on our Washington DC trip and party: http://scobleizer.com/2008... -- scheduled to interview Nancy Pelosi, speaker of house. Wow.
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What's the geek angle?
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
I dare you to bring up Kucinich's articles of impeachment and why she's ignoring them :)
- Doug Brooks
Robert, what are you going to talk about in your interview?
- Susan Beebe
Yeah, basically, open up with "Why are you ignoring Kucinich's articles of impeachment" followed up by "What happened to listening to your consitituents, or are PACs now considered the true "constituents".
- Daniel Spisak
from twhirl
Susan: I'm still doing research, but the themes are going to be what I laid out in my post. I'm interested in learning about what they are going to do that will affect the technology industries. Daniel: I probably won't ask about that, sorry. Does that have anything to do with technology?
- Robert Scoble
rambn: I just bought a new suit. I'll definitely have suit and tie on.
- Robert Scoble
have you guys reached out to any of the associations like http://www.siia.net/govt/
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Congrats Robert, looks fascinating. I look forward to what will undoubtedly be fascinating results, and I hope you get the opportunity to educate them on net neutrality - I'm still convinced that most of Washington hasn't got a clue. Safe travels.
- jcunwired
Marco: not sure. Andrew knows a lot of people in the Capitol and he has a whole agenda for us that's quite good. I'll try to get him to answer here.
- Robert Scoble
great - would be interested to see
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I wasn't the only one who helped with this, but it should be interesting.
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: I'd like to credit everyone. Can you get me a list?
- Robert Scoble
schedule slammed full?
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Nancy Pelosi has the most secure job in the U.S. house of reps. SF would *never* elect a Republican -- ensuring whatever incumbent has that seat can obtain the Speaker of the House position simply with longevity if they start young enough. Arguably the second most powerful position in US politics and third in line to be President. Gavin Newsom will have the seat after she's done with it.
- Thomas Hawk
I love all questions to do with open government and getting more public information online in a raw format. And the more specific the better.
- Stefan Hayden
Marco: there's a few spots here and there, but unless it's Obama or President Bush or someone really interesting I think we'll keep it full at this time. Gotta have some decompression time in the schedule too or else we'll go nuts.
- Robert Scoble
Can't wait for the movie: "Mr. Scoble goes to Washington." Who will play you?
- shelisrael1
Scoble: Net Neutrality would be a poignant issue to get her exact current thoughts on - is this still a priority for her? She has a good record of standing up on the "free and open" side of this argument. http://www.technorati.com/videos... http://threeminds.organic.com/2007...
- Matt Bidinger
I think Mehlman would be quite interesting and informative for you guys
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
gregory: if you can't figure that answer out on your own, you shouldn't ask the question. I'm there to hear about tech and business issues and will stay focused. She gets asked rude questions all the time and I'm sure if I tried to ask one like that she'd have a pat answer down and the interview wouldn't get done what I need it to get done, which is stay focused on the things they are doing that would affect tech workers and businesses and customers.
- Robert Scoble
Dennis is right "what's the geek angle?" That's why I'm going.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: tried to comment on your blog but for some reason it doens`t like me (again). Anyway subjects for discussion in my mind should include DMCA, Net Neutrality, Patent Reform
- Brian Sullivan
from my tweet: dont forget to ask her about copyright reform, PRO/IP act, etc! http://is.gd/Aun
- Jeremy Toeman
Brian: my spam filter caught you. And people wonder why I love FriendFeed so much! No spam and no spam filters needed.
- Robert Scoble
You have to ask her what her response is to the people who ask what is impeachable if Bush isn't.
- Garrett Fitzgerald
Ask her what her Nanotechnology strategy is. How can the government possibly hope to keep up with ever accelerating technology? What's the plan to keep the US at the forefront of technological innovation and not pass the torch to China? How will congress help get more kids, especially girls, interested in science and engineering? Will an Obama/Pelosi government restore science as a priority for the US?
- Tad
from fftogo
Wow, indeed!
- Eric Hamilton
Tad: excellent questions. However, if she's just going to keep on rolling over for the Chief Executive, what's the point? Bitter? Me? Nah.
- Garrett Fitzgerald
its not the Chief Exec she is rolling over for - not a supporter but she is being very smart
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Good read on the art of paying attention: "The Myth of Multitasking" http://twurl.nl/nmwh6c (in A.M. via Rough Type)
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“Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.” Wow!
- AJ Kohn
@James Mallinson: OpenDNS is throwing an error up when I click that link (organizeit.co.uk isn't responding)
- Jake (aka Jawee)
from twhirl
IQ points only range +/- 5 points with heavy Marijuana usage, and returns to normal after one stops usage. Comparing multitasking to stereotypical concepts about drug usage is digressive. Another source (2005) on this exact topic: http://www.newscientist.com/article... Another source on effects of Marijuana on IQ, since we're drawing a correllary: http://www.newscientist.com/article...
- Matt Bidinger
John Medina of Brain Rules (http://www.brainrules.net/attenti...) just talked about this at Seattle's Thingamajiggr (Joe McCarthy's notes are here: http://tinyurl.com/3naf3m). Just more proof that we need 'Soul Tech' (http://www.sparknw.com/soultec...)
- Leif Hansen
This seems to fit nicely with Nicholas Carr's article http://www.theatlantic.com/doc...
- Nancy Williams
Retweeting @aprildunford: In the U.S., corporate P.C.'s left on at night consume $1.72 Billion in energy, generate 14.2 million tons of CO2
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