Inspired by muxtape, each tumbltape is created from the latest songs on a users tumblelog. As new songs are uploaded, we will automatically update your tumbltape playlist. - Jay Cruz
It looks like is going to be like a "series" of commercial type thing. I think. Maybe something like the Geico commercials? I really have no idea though. - Jay Cruz
hm, you might be right, maybe it's the first and they'll get better as it goes along... but still, IMHO this is a very weak start - Jason Kaneshiro
I just want to know if I'm missing something, so far, it seems not - associating it with the TV show would be doing it too much justice. - Jason Kaneshiro
This writing sample analyzer takes a sample of your writing and then calculates the number of sentences, words, and characters in your sample. As it's calculating these statistics it makes estimates as to how many syllables are present in each word. Using these numbers, it then calculates the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, which are three of the most common readability algorithms. Simply supply a sample of your writing up to 5,000 characters and then click "Analyze." - Jay Cruz
Um no and i don't really care if they choose a musician :Mad ! - Victor
I certainly hope you are using that word in it's original context, that of happy or good... and if so, I agree, it is a good way! - John Worthington
Anthony, yes, perhaps "ghey" would be the better spelling. - David Risley
If David you are saying that it's kinda "happy" then I agree and if you say it's kinda "homosexual" then I think that's a good thing. Now, if you think that calling things "gay" is equal to something not good then I have to say that your thinking is not good. Need to rethink your world view. - Robert Scoble
It would probably be in your best interest to avoid that terminology in the future David. You are bound to run into conflict with it. - Simian DA (Amber)
Simian: I think David needs to be sent on a trip to Berlin to study Germany's history and where it went wrong. The use of language against other people is horrible. I won't allow it to be used that way here. David is very close to getting a block. - Robert Scoble
This just earned David a block. David, you really need to go back and study Nazi world history. How you can use a perjorative against any group without expecting to see consequences is pretty over the line in my book. - Robert Scoble
Dude. It's the best explanation of a browser I've ever seen. I can't wait to see Ponzi's reaction to it, if she'd like to make it all the way through (though I do believe it'd be easier to digest as a single PDF). - l0ckergn0me
I gotta head out, but guys, seriously, let's not turn this into a political correctness debate. I meant lame, stupid, etc. I was not, in any way, referring to homosexuals. Guess I need to leave the slang out of FriendFeed from now on. - David Risley
David: when you use language that you don't understand the roots of you come across as not only hurtful but stupid. Whenever you say "gay" it comes across here as "homosexual." That's been a word used in United States to ONLY mean that for decades. - Robert Scoble
And yes, if anybody thought I was referring to homosexuals, I apologize. It was in bad taste, in retrospect. - David Risley
It grabs attention much better than black and white script on a page with a bold headline. It's a great way for people to take notice and guess what? It worked. - ::Kristen::
you can justify your ignorant use of such a term, but it only serves to alert me that you're 11 and haven't been taught better. is that the angle you're going for? i still can't believe almost a decade out, people are 1) still using that offensive term and 2) defending said use. - faboo mama
I am so tired of people using "slang" like this and excusing it by claiming "oh, I didn't mean anything bad." It's the same as calling something "retarded," or "ghetto." I don't like any of those words used as a pejorative, even "jokingly." Grow up, people! - Jim Milles via twhirl
I thought it was very hardcore geeky of them. I don't know if it is gay, but I go all gay for google services. :) - Jay Cruz
Bashing comics in a geek forum? Not sure that's the best tactic to get your point across. - Brian Norwood
Regardless, it's obvious why the word "gay" came to be used the way it has by teenagers and others and you used to sound "hip". It meant "queer, different, lame" just as homosexuals are considered the same by that group. It was not as if someone wanted another word for "lame" and gay was just picked out of thin air. You're smarter than that, and I know your smarter than to think writing that word in that way to the extremely educated users on FriendFeed/Twitter wouldn't be problematic. - Brandon Werner
Brian: Yah, I made two huge gaffes in one tweet. Not my day. - David Risley
Brandon, I do agree. The intellectual side of me, of course, knows that. Sometimes my stupid side tweets without thinking about how it can be taken by others. - David Risley
I just read the comic, and for me, it worked. A lot of information was delivered, and with the benefit of interesting drawings, I felt that I got more from this than several pages of a White Paper. - Henry Burger
I was so excited to see more of Scott McCloud's work. He does a great job of explaining why the browser is better in ways that laypeople can understand. I only found it ironic that one of the pioneers of transitioning comics into the digital realm ended up making a 32-page print comic to tout a new browser. Note that I would find it a lot less ironic if I got a hold of one of the print copies. - Kevin Fox
It was an architecture document narrated by Engineers, disguised as a comic. I was thinking as I read it "I should do this with my stuff" :-) - Brandon Werner
"gay" is used frequently in australia interchangebly with gh3y and other variants. hey Scoble, the US's prudish view doesn't reflect the world. - David Petar Novakovic via twhirl
Comic book idea is a stroke of genius. - Mike Reynolds
I thought it was pretty clever too. It's just funny. And different. Anime and Manga have made "comics" quite popular the past few years. - Jaemi kehoe
@David Petar Novakovic (dpn): So, what you're saying is that Scoble getting all up in arms about something being 'ghey' is faggotry of the first order? (Sophistry is fun! Irony is fun! My gay friends pwning me in Call of Duty and snickering in chat that my camping spots on Bloc are ghey is ... not so fun, but funny, and I'm willing to accept that.) - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
So I take it the Puritans in this thread prefer that language stop evolving? Frankly I'd rather see gay (and especially ghey) used much more often in a humorous or ironic context. This'll help marginalize the few people remaining on the planet who actually would use it as an implication that someone's sexuality is a valid measure of their societal worth. This whole thread is ghey if you ask me. - Anthony Citrano
"Another way to say it is that being knowledgeable and "well" informed is only one piece of the puzzle of being smart. Generally speaking, intelligence and "smartness" have a lot of stereotypes and assumptions that a lot of studies in cognitive sciences are proving wrong. I guess it's because we are still mystified by intelligence. The idiot savants, the child prodigy, the genius, or the intellectual bookworm. We sometimes forget that getting smart or having breakthroughs (which is the end goal for the majority. not a lot are trying to get smart just for the sake of it) is most of the time really just hard work." - Jay Cruz
I think this is a very good question and one that Linux evangelists never really answer. - Jay Cruz
en mi caso quede absorto con las animaciones de Compiz. Despues vi lo practico y deje de usar los efectos. Llevo mas de un año con Linux full. - Fulano X
I hit «Like» here even though I don't agree with the person who wrote it..not entierly. - Rebkin
It differs for people, but I think cold turkey would be the best way for me to do it. I agree with the "It's a habit, not an addiction" - well, not that it isn't an addiction, but one of the hardest things about quitting is the habit of going on smoke breaks, smoking after a meal, etc.. - Tim Hoeck
Your right Tim. I should've wrote that a different way. An addiction is really a long established "bad" habit which creates a physical dependency. But no matter how bad it feels, (cravings, the bloodstream missing nicotine, etc.) that's the easy part of quitting. I guess you can say that for every type of addiction, but with smoking addiction your not gonna get "sick" and feel pain like a heroin addict for example. - Jay Cruz
1/2 & 1/2. Introvert/Extrovert also Intravert/Extravert (The Myers-Briggs word "extravert" = in an ideal world you would be an "extrovert"). "Introvert" is what you actually do (e.g. my Dad is from Taiwan and in Taiwan he's a flaming social extrovert; however, in the US in a foreign language, he's maybe 80% introvert). - Mitchell Tsai
extrovert. if we're in a social setting and i don't know you, i'll walk right up to you and say hi and start talking. it might scare the sh*t out of you if you're an introvert. :) - Morgan
extrovert- wonder if you can be an introvert - anna
I'm an extrovert online. A bit of an introvert offline until I get to know the people I'm with. Then I'm much more of an extrovert. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Has social media affected your introvert/extrovert behavior in real life or online? - Hao Chen
Introvert but more extrovert as the years pass. - Rodfather
INFP by Myers-Briggs standards; Signal Patterns says, "solitary, organized, unflappable"; why is any of this social stuff interesting to me?I totally don't fit the bill. - Pete Delucchi
If he/she is a good company i'm an extrovert:) - Igor Poltavskiy
I had a blog post brewing in my head about this, but this has said it for me! - Martin Bryant
It used to be someone you cared about and you could count on.... now, post FaceBook, it means someone who saw your name and clicked a button. - Jason Carreira
People online have turned into marketers and PR machines promoting their "me agenda". - Jay Cruz
What Jason said. Also, there are myspace layouts that allow you to change the word "Friends" to something else, and I was using that for a while. Now, Myspace has given you the option of NOT showing your friends. Which I use. I don't need people to see, right off the bat how many "friends" I have, who my "friends" are, and who my "best friends" are. Except my true friends. :p - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy
Online: someone who's content i like for my own entertainment. RL: Someone who would pick me up in a bad area if my car broke down, vice versa. - Rodfather
As Rodfather wrote. The word "friend" now has multiple meanings, depending on context. No horrible social implications. Same thing's happened to the word "post," for example. - Brent Newhall
Ha! and here I thought something was wrong with me for not being able to keep up. :-P - Chris Kim A
I think the real potential for shared feeds and link blogs isn't so much to see which stories are being shared the most, but to be able to find authorities in different fields (gadgets, development, etc) sharing the best items. - Costa Walcott
Yeah, I agree. They post way too much fluff for it to be a usable site. If you are filling up the 200 feed bucket on an almost daily basis, then you are putting out too much crap. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I could do without a lot of it. Like I care what 13 new models of camcorders JVC is launching. Stick to the weird stuff imo! - Geoff Schultz
That's one feed I go through in list view. - Jay Cruz
Engadget has some of the coolest articles but their signal to noise ratio is low. Some of the dumbest stuff comes through. They need to break their feed up into multiple feeds. - Ernie Oporto
My complaint since the first time I encountered Feeds. Usenet Readers (and lets face it, feeds are just a bad implementation of news) had kill and watchfilter plus scoring mechanisms. :o( - Nicole Simon
boing boing gadgets seems to fill the best of the best void without going engadget-like overboard. - Scott Jarkoff
"Your definition is not wrong or bad, I actually like and agree with the take of broadcasting studio and op-ed column, but that's because I'm addicted to the internet and understand the subtleties of the term "blog". You can ask or show a not so web savy user a "forum" or "wiki" and he'll understand very easily what they are; content wise and form wise, but with a blog he will be confused. We understand and can tell apart a blog from other forms of publishing online based more on a sense than on a form. Even though right now blogs have those 5 qualities listed in Daily Blog Tips, they didn't have them initially and will have many more in the future.
The blog is the least agreed upon thing, but I think is just another online meme. :)" - Jay Cruz
"My comment is biased, because I'm an introvert, but I agree with this view. Lifestreaming services tend to have a more "chit-chat" nature to them, which introverts don't tend to enjoy much. I doesn't mean that introverts won't enjoy "lifestreaming", I like and use Twitter, but we wont thrive as much as having a blog." - Jay Cruz
"I would like a time line pagination like twitter. A "posted x hours or minutes ago" thing. That would help in giving me a clue how far away I am from the last updated post a saw. But either way, I'm really loving the redesign." - Jay Cruz
Awesome, I love deli.ci.ous, this is great news!! - Susan Beebe
I deleted my del.icio.us cookies and relaunched Firefox and was able to see the new site. However, like Chris said, attempting to log in brings me to a 403 Forbidden Yahoo page. :( - Nathaniel Payne
My favorite bit is I went to 'about Delicious' in my toolbar menu and it took me to a page that said 'about has no bookmarks yet' - Shawna Benson
Phil, that's why I'm not joining delicious as of yet - Outsanity
I just signed in successfully too!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe
@J. Phil maybe the delicious user DB and yahoo user DB isn't set up to talk to each other as easy as flickr was. they have to link both together, they won't make you sign up twice hopefully. - Chris Harris
I don't have to re.mem.ber where all the periods go. WIN! - Hao Chen
they took their time, but first impressions are that it looks great and works perfectly. - Iain Baker
"We’re in the middle of launching the new Delicious! Please check back soon..." - Philipp Lenssen
This, my friends, is how a revision is done. It maintains the same feel, the same text-centric vibe, with a nice web 2.0 sheen on it. It's beautiful work! - Justin Whitaker
Just started playing with it. In 2 minutes of usage I don't see any new functionality, though the visual design is a lot crisper. Pleasant. - Kevin Fox
I love the fact that they kept it clean and simple, well done Delicious. - Steve Spalding
Seems just a facelift release, can't see functional enhancements. Still can't remove tag by 1 click, delete and remove tag quickly, tag and delete on multiple bookmarks. They still doesn't provide the better way to manage even just 100+ bookmarks. Anyone can tell what actually enhanced? - Baron Mok
I like more the old Delicious'colors.But new freatures are good. - Igor Poltavskiy
I can't believe so many people go wild over the new design. There is just so incredibly much wrong with it. Here are just a few of the complaints: http://support.delicious.com/f... - Peter
