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Wow, where? - Bret Taylor

Uh wow! What happened there? - Erica Baker

Fire. Like. - Christopher Galtenberg

Looks like a good time to play "Where am I?" - Kevin Fox

whops. was this a movie shot or real life ? - Peter Dawson

good timing for you pic, bad timing for the drivers...... - Chris Hollander

Wow! No really, to have camera at the ready and capture that, Wow! - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

I think it would be a beautiful scene, except there's a burning car in the foreground. - Glen Campbell

KEVIN DID IT! - Terence Washington

Oh dear! - Kol Tregaskes

@Chris I suspect movie shot - Erica Baker

Mob hit..."Chirp-Chirp...BOOM" - Live4Soccer

The cigarette lighter had been giving him trouble for weeks. Dousing the seats with kerosene that day seemed like a good idea at the time... - Josh Haley

Dude! That isn't good. - Lurking Grue

I used film because digital cameras weren't that good when the pic was taken. - Kevin Fox

I think Erica is right - 80s-vintage vehicles, and other clues. Or maybe John McCain heard the latest polling. - John Craft

ouch - Janet Fouts

movie shot ? north beach../Fishermans wharf. parking zone ! whatever, still a kewl pic :)_ - Peter Dawson

Has to be a movie shot. Note the security people keeping everyone at a safe distance. - Martin Buhr via twhirl

road cones, junk yard "stand-in" cars, and prepared spectating on-lookers... coastal SF, I'm guessing - definitely a movie shot. Awesome photo - Enrique Gutierrez

All the cars around the burning car look OK which is somewhat surprising... - Bindu Reddy

You're trying out your directing skillz by shooting an unofficial GTA movie. amirite? - Hao Chen

Oops, looks like somebody left a gasoline bomb out in the hot sun! - Gabe

These were from 1998 when I was working on the Embarcadero (coincidentally, in what is now Google's SF office) and they were filming an explosion for Nash Bridges in the lot across the street. I happened to have my (film!) camera with me, and sat there for about two hours as they readied the shot, knowing we'd have almost no notice before the explosion. I just added all three pics here: http://friendfeed.com/e/dc72fb... - Kevin Fox

awesome!! - Susan Beebe

Anybody call it a Photoshop? - possible248

possible248: Do you think I photoshopped all three? - Kevin Fox

portable - Hayk

Requirements: Runs either Windows XP/Home or Linux. Still possible for there to be a Mac OS X netbook, but I don't think this will stay open much longer. Atom CPU. - Dave Winer

Hayk, you're right, portability is very important. I added Battery Life as #3. - Dave Winer

Added "Rugged" to the list. - Dave Winer

Why doesn't the Macbook Air count as a netbook? (besides the Apple tax) - Eric P

It doesn't qualify under: 2, 3, not sure about 4, 5, 8. So it's pretty much not a netbook. I'm sure it's a good computer, but I didn't buy one, primarily because of the battery, but I also knew that a single USB port wasn't going to work for me. - Dave Winer

How about the, "Hey, what's that" factor? Let's admit it, we all feel cool when someone looks at one of our gadgets with awe and envy. - Robert Clockedile

People confuse Laptops & Netbooks, I think. I'm looking at a netbook to provide me with general internet access, and to minimal word processing. I'm not looking to play games on it, or do advanced graphic editing/design. Once people accept its purpose, they agree on it's specs. - clarke thomas via fftogo

Except for small size, my HP with it's 12cell battery meets all those requirements. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

clarke: netbooks are laptops, there's no confusion there. The difference is that it is "even more portable" (1,2,3,3a,5 fit here). - ☂Marcos Marado

So which one did you end up with? I have looked at the Dell Mini but that keyboard is so daggone small. It's not sluggish at all but I'm a touch typist at about 120 wpm... - Justin Long

An Air's battery cannot be replaced by user, hardly anything is built-in. It's one of the most useless over priced electronics and IMHO, the worst "portable" product ever. (mobile phone -- even HAM radios included). Good morning, everyone! :) - Mona N.

agreed - netbooks are what it says on the tin - they have "internet notebooks" - jon bradford

I guess the mistake is that, most people look for a laptop as a replacement to a desktop. I have a laptop for a mobile/light travel device, I'm not looking to do CAD on it. I've bought a Dell Min9 with linux to be my easier travel device, for short trips for unloading photos to flickr, friendfeed, email, web surfing only - maybe video chat. - clarke thomas

Have you tried SpinRite? http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite... - Morten Prom

Macbook Air is an elegant piece of hardware and after the new MBA release, old MBA is even more advantageous. It's a choice and I choose to have the lightest with greatest screen with good looks. You might go for a netbook instead but most of them suck big time design-wise. - Burak 'cyrus' Bayburtlu

http://www.scripting.com/stori... - Dave Winer

I like my Wind MSI because now my subway ride (35 minutes each way) has become my writing time. Yes, the subway is now my writing studio. :) - Jorge Escobar

Macbook Air cannot be a netbook IMO, because it doesn't support WWAN/Mobile BroadBand internally. Ever tried sitting on a bus w/ a dongle hanging off? Well you lose them, and break your usb ports. - clarke thomas

Macbook Air is the perfect netbook for me. Asus, et al., with cramped keyboards are unusable. - Dave Gilbert

Here's an interesting follow up to this from Tris Hussey I just came across http://www.trishussey.com/2008... - Mark Krynsky

Static web pages may be dying, but lifestreaming must be mined to generate relatively solid and interactive knowledge structures that span the entire Web. Otherwise it's all just babble and baubles. And that is why we need a robust Semantic Web. - Sean McBride

interesting post, but generally speaking (at least with the broader question) I'd say no. I actually think that we're due a backlash soon on putting everything out there. We will eventually get to the Ben Elton novel stage, but in cycles - Duncan Riley

Duncan - have you seen any backlash stories yet? Surely it's just a matter of time - Edd McArdle via twhirl

Really Duncan? Can you elaborate? I thought embarassing drunk photos on MySpace was about the worst backlash possible. I actually like this new era of transparency. - Mark Krynsky

Thanks for all the likes folks...but not many really feel like adding to the campfire eh? - Mark Krynsky

Not if all the services disappear. We'll all be updating our .plan files again. - l0ckergn0me

yes lifestreaming is the beginning of the next thing online - Mich D

Haha Chris .plan files that's a good one. Guess we'll have to start using Gopher again too. But you bring up a good point. These guys better figure out a monetization strategy soon. Ads or Freemium are fine by me. - Mark Krynsky

Sorry, gotta disagree - we're being blinded by the bleeding edge here. Most people still consume web content through conventional websites, and I suspect that's not going to change anytime soon. - GerryBot

is (mobile) lifestreaming not part of the trend which links online and offline life - jon bradford

I am finding I'm spending more time in places like Friendfeed, and less time actually blogging. As for static web sites - I do have one or two, but I'm moving more and more to blogging. One, even for a web designer, for my own needs (not talking about clients here) a blog is simply easier to set up, and two, it's much easier to update. - Ian May

Duncan, you may be right about public lifestreaming. I'm looking at the top 10 OurDoings users in terms of photos uploaded, and 7 out of 10 use only unlisted URLs. And of the remaining 3, the only one who puts out truly public content is me. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

About the larger question, I really, really hope lifestreaming grows. I run OurDoings, which is real-life streaming with words and photos (as opposed to an aggregator). I think the biggest photo-sharing sites 5 years from now will be ones that are blog-like. I hope mine is one of them. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

We we might see is an ability to see individual lives as a pattern and on top of that see societies as a pattern of interacting patterns. - todd

I wouldn't go so far as to call it the 'death' of static web pages. Seeing that a lot of old web things we have pronounced the death sentence on, still exist in one form or the other. - Vijayendra Mohanty

todd, do you think that can happen even if the individual lives we see are a totally non-random sample? - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

possible, since it can lead to more services being created to enhance the lifestream.. and to connect with others' lifestreams...for example, i thought yongfook's sweetcron was a good start for a personal lifestream, but that again's just the tip of the berg and there's scope for plenty more....lifeblob is another service, that allows bridging of different lifestreams... but all this might take quite sometime to become ubiquitous.. by then, we'd be having this discussion about web 4.0 on our lifestreams? :) - manuscrypts

GerryBot, my post was more about how the logic behind Lifestreaming (data aggregation) is playing a role in the next phase of the web. With Mint.com you have a vertical implementation of Lifestreaming with clear benefits added by analyzing the data. As far as users are concerned these _are_ conventional websites. - Mark Krynsky

Hm, interesting Bruce. Is there a bias? How large is the population? And what are the objectives of the study? In my thinking I'm looking to predicatively use similarities so I am not concerned about about making correct inferences outside the population. But as a general ethnographic mechanism it's definitely inadequate. - todd

todd, when you mentioned societies I thought you were talking about nation-scale societies. If you only want to look at online societies the bias problem is a lot smaller. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce, certainly global civilization is the goal as that will give the broadest life examples and the best opportunity to learn from those lives. - todd

@Krynsky Have you noticed that you are far and away the biggest Depeche Mode fan on Agglodex? http://www.agglodex.com/profil... - Jesse Hattabaugh

@Jesse, yea well the last 24 hours saw quite a bit of love for Depeche. Perhaps you need to tweak recency & frequency settings :) btw Agglodex is coming along nicely. - Mark Krynsky

Lifestreaming has become such a popular trend amongst the evolving web. - Amir H.

Remember the days when you had to update .log files? - Amir H.