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Sanjeev Singh posted a link

Metrics 2.0: Richest 2% Own Half World Wealth; Bottom 50% Own 1% - UN Report

May 16 at 1:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jay Collier, тупо человек, Brian Johns, Thomas Brox Røst and 10 other people liked this

I was surprised that Africa only accounts for ~25% of the dirt poor. India's share is bigger, but they get a lot less press. Same deal with the poorer Asian countries. - Sanjeev Singh

So there's more poor people in Europe vs. China? Is that Russia? Still, I would think China would have more poor people. - Bradley Taylor

If you redistributed all the wealth of the richest 2% evenly, we would each get....$10,000. If you discount the people only millionaires due to their houses, we each get $6,000. Not a lot of money. A good reason why people have killed each other for wealth, and abused poor serfs. If you factor in environmental damage, I'm not sure that humankind has learned how to make wealth yet. See Cap Gemini's 2007 World Wealth Report http://www.capgemini.com/indus... - Mitchell Tsai

If a hypothetical alien landed on Earth and was as wealthy as all humankind, the richest 1 creature would own half of world wealth. Would the rest of us be worse off? Is what matters the relative wealth (in which case we'd be better off after WW3, and everyone lives in poverty) or absolute wealth (which seems to be getting better for just about everyone)? - Amit Patel

Fascinating, though it seems a bit manipulative to section 'Rich Asia-Pacific countries' as its own category. A little bit of selection bias there. I bet there are some other ways of making this data even more interesting, such as animating it over the last 200 years. - Kevin Fox

Some people say that the first $10,000 of absolute wealth brings much happiness, but after that money isn't worth so much... When my mom grew up, she only ate chicken once a year on your birthday (and her family was considered a wealthy Taiwanese family). The US relative/absolute wealth debate is mostly a middle & upper-class problem. I just read a journalist's article from visiting rural China, where he made a girl unbelievably happy by buying ONE stuffed doll. She'd never had one before... - Mitchell Tsai

Brian Rakowski posted a link

Data visualization: Clinton vs Obama

June 6 at 9:26 am - Link

j1m, Christos, Tom Stocky, Satish Thomas and 27 other people liked this

This is so cool. I had seen this on the front page of NYTimes.com, but thought it was just a graphic for how men voted and didn't click on anything else. Watching the boxes move around is amazing. - Ana

That is a nice tool - RAPatton

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Oh, that is nice! Pardon my spam while I tag this everywhere I can. - Harvey Simmons

One quirk is the "favor neither candidate" ends up on the Obama side. - RAPatton

I believe it doesn't fully include caucus results, so will skew slightly toward Clinton. - Mike Reynolds

Very cool. It would have been nice to make the size of the boxes proportional to population. - Dror Shimshowitz

Very cool! - Karen Padham Taylor

Paul Buchheit posted a link

FriendFeed: Be good : Technology : Los Angeles Times

June 5 at 11:09 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kishore Balakrishnan, Aqfery, Nenad Nikolic, Nicolas Gosset and 116 other people liked this

"Be good" - Erhan Erdogan

I love this: "Tamagotchi effect: If you take care of your users, the right investors will rally around you and talented hackers will line up to work for you." Graham +1 ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

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I like that :). And I appreciated this paragraph in particular: "The curious thing is, this elixir is freely available to any other company. Anyone can adopt 'Don't be evil.' The catch is that people will hold you to it." Friendfeed, clearly, has opened up with clear expectations to "be good." People will hold it (and them, the employees) to that standard, and I think that's awesome :) - Adam Lasnik

I wish more nonprofits operated using the Tamagotchi effect as a basic operating principle. - Allan Benamer via twhirl

Be good! Reminds me of E.T, good post I also like their transparency it gives me confidence in their vision and objectives! - Joe Dawson

Take care of this user please and make it so when I jump from the normal search to the advanced search, my search query won't be lost :) [also, please give me the link "Search all of FriendFeed »" even when the other search found some results] - Philipp Lenssen

do you guys need a marketer? Or does that not fall into 'be good" ar ar - anna

That red chair sure looks comfy. - Kevin D. White

@Philipp The Friendfeed Feedback room is your friend :) - Erica Baker

@Paul: Invent a new slogan for FF. You 'll be needing that in future. - Varun Mahajan

"Be Good" produces "make really Good" software applications! woo hoo! Neat article. Very inspiring to see someone take a stand on "Do No Evil" and then go one step further and commit to "Be Good"! - love it! excellent example and role model for aspiring Web App Devs!! Keep up the "good" work!! :-) - Susan Beebe

I don't know why, but when they described PB as "cherubic" I just had to laugh. It was so cute! - April Buchheit

@April - same here! when they described PB as "cherubic" - awesome! angel face!! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe

I find it fascinating that there are no comments on the actual Times Blog post but plenty o' comments here and acknowledgement by well over 100 people. Friendfeed power right there. - Jason Toney

Jason, good point, one of the things I value most about FF is this interactivity. - susan mernit

I finally read this. Nice article, Paul. Good luck. - Robert Konigsberg

That Paul Graham's article is one of his best - so true and succinct. I guess, the more social the online world becomes, the better (as in "less evil") will companies need to be. - Nenad Nikolic

MG Siegler posted an entry on ParisLemon

I Wish I Knew How To Quit You, Cable

May 29 at 12:26 am - Link

Brandon Titus, Oliver Ortega Chua, Eric Berlin, edythe and 15 other people liked this

Welcome to Comcast San Francisco where sometimes when you try to change channels, it'll get stuck and then....zoom through 30 channels all at once a minute later. Most cable subscribers haven't gone digital yet, with ~60% of cable subs in the US being analog still (no set-top box). You could go with the most basic of comcast options without the STB and save $100+ of what you're paying. Downside: no ESPN, TNT, HBO. The interface stinks, but the on-demand offerings if subscribed to premium channels are excellent. Downside 2 of going analog: when the "digital conversion" goes into effect next year, unless something changes in the FCC regs, your life will get complicated. - Robert Seidman

It's easy, man. Just get a PVR. Yahoo Go. You'll be glad you did. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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I have been off cable for years now, and have never been happier. I got an AppleTV a while back, and while there were some initial kinks, it works quite solidly now. Same with the movie rentals -- serious network problems right after they were released, but now we watch movies on it several times a week without a hitch (I just wish they'd switch TV shows to a rental model, but I imagine it will take a while to get the licensing issues straight). - Joel Webber

It's not hard. I've been without Cable TV for over a year (Moved out). Solution? Download lots from BitTorrent, and subscribe to interesting content from the web (See: TEDTalks, Blip.tv, etc) .. a lot of online shows are not that good (yet) but slowly they are becoming a replacement. - Bartek Gniado

I'm on my sixth year without any preprogrammed video channels (cable or satellite). Do I feel I've missed anything? No. As Bartek mentioned, online video is improving. I watched two seasons of Lost in HD in arguably better quality than DVD. - Jay Collier

I did it. Still here. A little slower but no real significant difference in my case. Back to DSL and DirecTV - Charlie Anzman

could always wean yourself off slowly and reduce to basic cable. - Jason Kaneshiro

I've quit Cable TV numerous times...longest stretch was 3 years and now I am back at it again 1.5 yrs NO REGRETS. I hate force fed programming. CableTV concept is sooo old wow. I am waiting for the day i can just login and drag / drop my own content on my schedule. probably a paid service with a subscription model... fine...just let me control my own time and content with no stinking ads - Susan Beebe

It's called TiVo! I'd probably quit cable too if it weren't for TiVo. There's almost always something to watch when I make the time to watch TV. Of course, a truly non-channel-oriented subscription model would be far better but a DVR makes cable tolerable for now. - Akiva Moskovitz

"unlike" - Mitchell Tsai

another really good headline! - edythe

Akiva is right, TiVo rules. Watch what you want, when you want. It has been years since I channeled surfed. - RAPatton

Try calling your cable company and asking if you can SUSPEND your TV service. It worked for me. I didn't want to cancel (seemed overly harsh). I called and told them I was going to be in Egypt for an extended visit and they suggested the suspend option. (I made up the Egypt story which seemed to help me move forward). That was 14 months ago and the only cravings are for live events. All else can be downloaded or hulu'd. I get a bill every month for $0 which is incredibly satisfying. Godspeed. - Noah Carter

What a great topic. We've been off cable now for a year, in Australia, a place without netflix or iTunes movies.Good to see we're not the only ones making this choice :) The only thing I appear to be missing is sport. For really important things, though, it's OFF TO THE PUB! Which is sort of a good thing, as it's a good excuse to get my freelancing ass out of the house :) - Brad McCrorey

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Damnit…FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter

June 6 at 12:19 am - Link

mr-mojo-risin, Phil Ashman, Nick Defina, Benjamin Kudria and 101 other people liked this

Come on in, Arrington...the water's fine! - Trent Olson

Trent: Arrington doesn't even use Firefox 3.0 (he admitted such tonight). Why do we want him here? - Robert Scoble

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Yes!..Mike will come along with time as FriendFeed becomes the place to be. Its called the resistance trap of the first impression - Joao

Robert: yeah, I saw the post about Arrington not using FF3...what the heck does he use, then? FF2 has become unusable...Safari? Not IE...that would shatter my faith in you A-Listers... - Trent Olson

Would be nice to get an RSS feed of these summaries. - atzmon

This is really cool feature.... FFmeme ? - Kevin

@Robert I like your response on Arrington's article about the lost database! - Joe Dawson

Kevin, according to Paul and Bret, it's based on your own subscription list, so it's personalized and a bit different than Techmeme. - Mark Trapp

@Kevin - I created a FFmeme "room" on day 1 of the "room" feature as I knew this day would finally come! ha, ha!! http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr... - Susan Beebe

Arrington is getting technically *slow* !!! Doesn't seem quite as tech savvy as he once was? hmm why? and he's STILL not in FriendFeed actively? c'mon Mike, the water is fine! Hey do you remember the Borg on StarTrek? "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." ;-) - Susan Beebe

I love how the top 4 "best" stories on my Friendfeed are about this new FriendFeed feature. Echo chamber. - Erick Schonfeld

Erick -- I noticed the same thing :-) - mathew ingram

Dont necessarily believe the stuff about Michael. He would have said that to upset the Mozilla people. He recommended it to me, I've seen him using it, and he's even written publicly that he uses it...indeed it was FF3 that made him switch from Flock. - Duncan Riley

@Duncan - ok that makes way more sense... I always had the *perception* that Arrington was an early adopter, so hearing he was on FF 2 didn't make sense. Thx! - Susan Beebe

See "Search for best 100 articles from the last day (or 2 days, 3 days...)" http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... using "num=100". I'm finding the 100-item search much more interesting than the regular 30-item search. - Mitchell Tsai

Arrington is drinking the same koolaid as Scoble now, it's in the air, it's in the water, it's everywhere - Bob Ngu

Watch out. - Jason Kaneshiro

I do not want Arrington on FF. He is a Flaming Troll. - Igor The Troll

Great product positioning! The addiction of having to read FF would only get worse. - Winston Teo

Igor The Troll : hide him... oh wait, you can't - directeur

How can we hide Michael the Troll if we Trolling him? LOL - Igor The Troll

I see a motion picture in the making! "The Revenge of the Trolls" Starting Michael Arrington playing himself as a Flamming Troll. Will definitively win an Oscar! Ok, here is the plot. All the people who read his blog for years turn into Trolls and eat Michael Alive. LOL - Igor The Troll

I'm using Safari. and I love it. Where is the "Blame Arrington" script. Why does Scoble get all the love? I say we go medevil on all the Alist. Equal opportunity sodomy for all social pests. Twitter Killers. feed them to the dogs. - Noah David Simon

"Interestingness Filter"... Even if you put a total crap online Arrington their algorithm will still think that it's interesting. I know you won't even read what I'm writing (too "shy" to share with individuals of your kind?) but the fact is it doesn't filter on Interestingness, it does on popularity and this is VERY different. Hear me? Very different :) - directeur

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