from the left to the right: Viliv S5 to check my google mail account, my old Dell Inspiron 700M - still my stationary blogging device, Samsung NC10for checking Tweetdeck and on the far right the Gigabyte Touchnote T1028X for watching multimedia files.
- Sascha Pallenberg
We always come back to the bigger screens for real work, don't we? :)
- James Kendrick
James i can't agree more with you. When i am mobile, my netbooks are really perfect and i love to use them for blogging from a conference or showfloor. But on my desk back in my appartment, the good ole' Dell still is my favorite
- Sascha Pallenberg
You know whats gonna happen if you still have that dell at IFA... Did you see the Ice-T video..
- jkkmobile
Haha, JKK will you kill it? I am just about to get a new fan so i can run it again at 1.6Ghz. Right now it's running fanless @600Mhz :) - So you will be in Berlin mate?
- Sascha Pallenberg
Getting ready to watch the results of the 24 Hour Play Fest. Kids from our Young Ambassadors Guild at Wayside Theatre beginning writing three plays at 7pm last night. Then they rehearsed, costumed, staged, them. They debut in 23 minutes. Should be fun.
I have been testing my new cam and upload settings.. I think i will use these setting when uploading stuff with 3G from CeBit: http://www.youtube.com/watch... It needs to be small but i want HQ button to embedded videos.. Like it?
We were just at Cracker Barrel in AZ! :D
- Internet's Tad
Patrick, I haven't eaten at one in TX, so I'll have to get back to you on that one. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
hahahaa!! no rude staff here in Rochester, NY ... love that big huge ol' fireplace
- Susan Beebe
I sometimes wish there was a Cracker Barrel within a day's drive of here. Other times, I'm glad that there isn't.
- Rochelle
funny. i had markedly different experiences between the ones I went to in the South in the mid-90s, and the one I went to much more recently in Massachusetts. (Southern ones in mid-90s seemed like great, wholesome breakfasts w/ wonderful service. The Mass one felt like a Denny's.)
- Anthony Citrano
@Jason - Yeah, my previous comment is not really fair. We've had a couple consecutive very bad experiences (one bad enough for manager to comp whole meal for blatant rudeness) at one of their venues on I-35, which unfortunately is the only one we ever go to ...
- Patrick Jordan
Ouch. We had a server be rude (and loud about it) to my wife, but also to my daughter, who is 5! Not clever ...
- Patrick Jordan
What a great haircut Patrick. He tried to get to Fry's tonight but it was closed so we are playing in the dirt instead. Merry Christmas, Patrick says!
- Robert Scoble
from email
My guess is that if Patrick came to our place, he wouldn't take apart the Nativity scene and throw Baby Jesus to the ground, right? ;-)
- Louis Gray
Louis: you never know! He might take apart your Tivo instead.
- Robert Scoble
Sweet kids. Patrick is pretty agile, huh? Check out his left leg.
- Migger
Happy Holidays, Robert! I hear I missed seeing the kids at LeWeb...Ayelet Noff and I were saying how adorable they are. Were your ears burning? Oh wait, it would have been Patrick's now that he can hear again! :-)
- Ravit Lichtenberg
cute kids!!! Merry Christmas to and your gorgeous family!
- Susan Beebe
Only had my iPhone camera when this massive cloud ring appeared for a few minutes. Need to start taking the DSLR everywhere. Still wondering what could have caused this formation.
- Kevin C. Tofel
from email
The line between the two has been blurred out. Technology "blogs" like Engadget and Gizmodo are perfect examples wanting to break the news 'first'
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
The main attribute of all of the blogs I read regularly is the distinctive personality of their authors.
- Bret Taylor
Was that before blogs started taking on ad dollars like the traditional media?
- Shawn Farner
+1 Bret - the voice is what forms the elusive context to all this random data flow.
- Micah Wittman
IMO there are new breeds -- Online "journals" like Arstechnica, Engadget, etc. that almost function like online "newspapers" in the traditional sense. Then there are "blogs" like Scoble or Andrew Sullivan which are distinctive authors whose opinions you are collecting as well as information. I apologize for the gratuitous use of quotes... The English language is ill suited for these types of distinctions =)
- Mark Philpot
Tech embargoes many times are for promotions, not news. You often get information spoon fed (screenshots and other product promises & descriptions) which turns out to be advertisement, not fact, and basing an article on that instead of a real-live product review (which finds bugs, quirks etc. a press release would never list) can turn out to be misleading to readers.
- Philipp Lenssen
The most valuable blogs are the sources, the platforms of people reporters go to (or should go to) for the facts and expertise that forms their reporting.
- Dave Winer
Blogging *is* about news, in the first person.
- Dave Winer
@brett - I agree. it is about people writing about stuff they cared about. @Dave Winer... you are right about it being news. but it wasn't news as how we knew it. it was different. it was about finding and sharing things. reporters who cared. not press releases.
- Om Malik
Bhavishya Kanjhan... I agree. Anyway it has been good to get off the embargo bandwagon for me personally. nearly four months and well the only thing i can say - i am glad i take my time writing something.
- Om Malik
Simple: they are not blogs, they are news sites.
- eparody
bloggers when they want to do whatever they want, journalists when they want to be taken seriously.
- Allen Stern
Allen, I've seen you make that comment a bunch of times. Let's see if I understand what you're saying. You think we're all hypocrites. Did I get it right?
- Dave Winer
What happened was that blogging became part of the news when it became widespread. PR folks cannot ignore the bloggers because they make a difference. And that's a good thing for us bloggers.
- James Kendrick
So there is a definition? Are we all now supposed to jump in a a box and say this is blogging and that is not. And the plain belly sneetches had none upon thars...
- Stephan Miller
from Posty
The whole piece wreaks of a slow news day and self-promotion. There's really very little new here (and, in classic TechCrunch fashion, it apparently worked?!)
- Charlie Anzman
Always an honor to see my name mentioned anywhere Marc Orchant's is. One year isn't enough to fully heal from his loss.
- Kevin C. Tofel
from Bookmarklet
I'm super excited that I get to take my 7 year old son Jackson to an A's baseball game tonight just him and I. He won two club level tickets at the golf driving range by hitting a 175 yard drive into a bucket a few weeks back. He kept trying for the bucket over and over again so that he and his dad could go to a baseball game together. He's such an awesome kid. I'm so lucky to have him (as well as the rest of them and mrsth) in my life.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
@chris & @jerry, you know that Thomas Hawk is not his real name. It is just his pen/stage/photog name. Which in a way makes him even cooler than he already is :-)
- Mark Anderson
@Mark: why you gotta bust my groove in hopes that he'd have a "Hudson Hawk"?? =P
- jerry
Nothing like a father / son outing to a baseball game. Have fun.
- Mike Doeff
That's an awesome story! It's such a treat for both parent and child to be able to spend quality one on one time with one of your children. Have fun!
- Jeff P. Henderson
omg he's adorable. totally going to be a heartbreaker. :-)
- Corie
could be a model ,, TH ,, nice to hear the father /son at a ball game stuff . Hope its a great game ,, Im sure there will be pictures ;)
- johnpiercy
My son is asking another entrepreneur about his business. Makes me proud. Is asking same questions I would be asking: why would I use your service? What makes it special. Entrepreneur answers back "you sound just like your dad." heh.
mini-scobleizer.com (not a real site) :) I saw Loic interview Daniel...Loic said something like it felt too limited, somebody else tried the same thing. He suggested that Daniel do something like organize teen communities for seesmic and he'd be first customer...
- Pokai
Your son should have an account in friendfeed
- میکرودامپ
Daniel is inspiring - he's living the life I wish I could have at that age. The next Ben Casnocha...
- Jesse Stay
Yuvi: my son is into WoW, not blogging or FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Can I send him after Commissioner Tate? She's obsessed with "protecting children"
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: Patrick hates people who try to censor what he sees. But you can't change the minds of people who see the world like that.
- Robert Scoble
*sigh* so, so true...her fact checking is awful though...I've nailed her several times and she runs away from me in heels now. Protection != control.
- Andrew Feinberg
My high school freshmen English teacher had us write a letter to ourselves, and he would mail it ten years later. That was ten years ago. Can't wait to read what I wrote. He was my favorite teacher.
I was in 1st grade during the Bicentennial in 1976 and we made a time capsule. We opened it when we all graduated from high school, added more to it and sealed it up again, to be opened by our kids/grandkids in 2076.
- Trish R
What happened if you changed your address..10 yrs is like a long time ?
- Peter Dawson
With Facebook and other tools its not hard to find people and atleast get in touch with them :)
- Bartek Ciszkowski
that is such an awesome idea and it's great that a teacher would think that creatively. It shows his passion for what he does.
- Thomas Hawk
Hao, we did this too! We were told to write about what we wanted out of life and our greatest fear.
- Anna Haro
We're doing something kind of like it. We're writing letters to be be read again at the end of the year in English this year. Not quite as exciting.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
from twhirl
@Anna, did you get to achieve any of your childhood dreams, overcome your greatest fear?
- Hao Chen
@possible248 I like the way you think. :)
- Hao Chen
@Hao--I'm doing both those things right now...it's an interesting time! :O & :D
- Anna Haro
This is why I keep a hand-written journal. :-) And I actually do go back and re-read them. Used to be every year, but now it's more novel-length.
- Lisa L. Seifert
wonderful idea! Do you think you will have the same email in ten years ? Then it would be a lot easier!
- JegerPhil - Phil
we're doing something like that here on FF, and with our blogs (if you have one)... the main reason i blog is to see how my own thinking evolves over time. sounds like a really cool English teacher, btw!
- .LAG liked that
I found a letter I wrote to my parents in the early 70's. I have not read it yet.
- Russellreno
jeez... i think I'd be a little afraid to read it
- Nathan Rein
I've looked up old Usenet posts that I wrote in the early 1980s. In fact, I'll be using one in a presentation that I'll be giving later this week. While the presentation focuses on law enforcement use of the Internet and other technologies, I threw a few general slides in there. The first shows the header for a Usenet post I wrote in 1982 about the then-new "Call of the West" album. The second shows the current Wall of Voodoo MySpace page. Just goes to show there is nothing new under the sun.
- Ontario Emperor
in 1982 i was posting on local BBS's with a Vic-20
- Nathan Rein