Ummm... which debate were you watching. Or did you take a hit of acid first. She recited every word she said from a script for half of the debate. - Stephan Miller
Did anyone else notice the fact she was petrified when she started, and probably just shy of tears? - Jaemi Kehoe
Loren: Palin showed up, finally. She didn't win the debate, BUT she proved that she was capable of answering questions. I wasn't personally impressed by her answers, but she definetly wasn't giving Katie Couric answers. If the bar to winning for Palin was to show that she wasn't clueless, then perhaps she won. But from an analytical standpoint she didn't win based on her responses, in my opinion. - Jim McCusker
Sir you're missing, at least, one word or more likely two... Add a "not" to your send. - Prolific Programmer
@Jim 1) she had cue cards 2) she clearly read from them, as there were several phrases repeated multiple times 3) the moderator let her off easy 4) so did Biden 5) most importantly - don't you want MORE in your elected officials than "capable of answering questions"??!?!?! - Jeremy Toeman
@Jeremy - I agree. I totally saw that she was reading some kind of cue cards..although we'll know for sure when the photographs are published tomorrow (that's what the black window was behind the VP candidates). If you READ my comments you'll clearly see that I thought Biden won. - Jim McCusker
@Jim ah, there it is at the end - sorry about that! - Jeremy Toeman
What debate were you watching. She did better then most thought but she only answered one question, appeared nervous most of the time, spewed a large amount of BS, need I go on? - Mathew Ballard
@Jeremy - Read again... I gave the win in my 2nd sentence. Sorry... I'm fired up... people just hear (and read) what they want to I guess.... - Jim McCusker
@Loren - I was watching the debate in HD... she was definitely reading SOMETHING. maybe notes.. the photographers behind them will show the truth tomorrow if she had cue cards. But you can not say for sure that she didn't have cue cards. It simply looked like she was reading from something. I personally never saw her writing anything down.. but I'll go back on my TiVo to verify. Just don't be too difinitive until you know for sure. - Jim McCusker
Thankfully not everyone in America is a puppet. Palin won the puppet vote, I think is what Loren Feldman is saying. - Robert Scoble
She doesn't need to read anything. She was coached for days. Anyone can memorize. Even someone who replaces you with ya'. - Stephan Miller
Well then it's fair. She was coached for days, and he's been coached by insider politics for decades. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct
I don't know if I'd go with brilliant. How many times did she say 'nucular'? - Aaron Krug
@all: Read all your comments to Loren's assertion, and none of them even try to aggressively turn back the tide of the assertion, you had your chance, times up, so it looks like she won. who'dathunkit? thanks for voting. - Morgan Warstler
@Stephan - I have it Tivo'd and she definitely was reading from something for some of her responses. Eyes lowered, moving left to right...clearly reading something. - Jim McCusker
@Morgan America has made it's choice. It likes stupid and phrases like "dog gone it". Yes, I must move away from Idiocracy. Our education system shows it. Happy in stupidity. What bliss. - Stephan Miller
@Stephan, glad you finally found some happiness. - Morgan Warstler
“There are no cue cards at debates. She was looking right into your eyes and your not used to it. Not since JFK has their been since a compelling performance. She rocked.” - loren feldman
The polls I've seen so far say Biden won. So, Loren again proves he's an expert on puppet feelings, not those of real America. - Robert Scoble
Performance is right, why couldn't she answer the questions offered by the moderator but instead brought up her own topic. Shows to me she was only prepared to answer her bulleted list rather than engage in a debate, the reason for being there - Bryan
I'm thinking Biden walked off the stage and chugged bottle of scotch. He didn't even know what hit him. - Peter Simard
puppet feelings? OMG that was funny! - Susan Beebe
Loren - Do I need to clip the video where she was clearly reading something for you to believe me? Seriously, try to take your partisan hat off and look at this objectively - Jim McCusker
Yes, she was reading something. Her own hand written notes that she took during the debate! They all have paper and pen in front of them. It's always been that way. - Dawn
Correction: He did not mention how his deregulation policies made massive loan fraud possible. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
He tried to make himself look like a victim just like everyone else, when his policies have screwed so many middle-class Americans. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
Yes, I liked the conciseness of it. cohesive narrative of the problem and why the solution needs to be supported. - Melanie Reed
this is like the financial version of the dotcom bust, but at least 5x worse - imabonehead
Saw it tonight. Good ad. Look, I do actual stuff on a PC. Apple made it seem like you couldn't open a program without Vista crashing. Ridiculous. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I like these news ads, but I also liked the Gates/Seinfeld ads. The I'm a PC ads really have a message though. - David Ward
Awesome awesome awesome ads. The mac ads won't be that funny anymore. I'm a mac and a pc :) - Metta (Kamath)
Last time I used Windows, that's how it felt. If I installed the wrong app, it would bork my registry and force me to reinstall the whole os. I hear XP is not as bad as that anymore, but first impressions can be scarring. - Victor Ganata
Now, aren't Macs really PC's since they're running Intel chips, just without Windows?!?! - David Ward
These ads are the natural follow on from the Seinfeld ads, so I wonder where they were heading. These new ads are a good start but I think they need to go further - we know lots of people use them, they are the number 1 operating system in the world. What we need to know is why we should switch/not switch. - CJPhoto
Well, uh, PC stands for personal computer. My Commodore 64 was considered a PC in its day and age, as was my school's Apple IIe. So yeah, I'd say a Mac was a PC as well, but not necessarily because it uses x86 tech. - Victor Ganata
an advert is not going to make decide to switch or not switch. waste of money microsoft. spend some of this wasted money on fixing more bugs. - Joe Breen
i can hear the meeting now ... hey, you know that dancing guy, that went around the world? let's do something like that, only we'll have a bunch of people talk about a pc, like, you know, show that everybody uses it. cool, eh? that should got the yokels talking. - Gregory Lent
I was in the minority appreciating the last set. But these are pretty compelling. - Chris Baskind
I liked the last ads and I think these are dreaful. What's more they feel so patronising, like some kind of Government ad that makes its obvious point in a silly, clunky 'inclusive' isn't this clever way - PaulJohnson
Absolutely genius. This is so true, and hits the point. - Ryo
Microsoft have done a really good job with these ads... trying to break away from "that" stereotype and not really going head on with the Apple ads - James Cooper
Really? You like that? What about a better product? Something with WOW factor? - Christopher Welle
I'm a Mac fan, but this ad is actually pretty good. Saw it on TV last night. Was impressed. - Kate
2 more on the site now. And they're really good. - steplow is Steve
These are pretty good, I like them. Nice to see a graffiti artist in there :) - Thomas Hawk
I was sort of disappointed. It definitely has a clearer message, but I'm still waiting for them to show me: a) why I should love PCs or b) why I WILL love PCs ... not why I have to use PCs. - Tim Hoeck
1st I'm a 'both' but... Where is the one "I'm PC and I just use it for spreadsheets" or "I'm a PC and I use it to send emails to my grandkids" or "I'm a PC and I play videogames"... The Mac ads worked because they talked to how I use the computer, not how others do... Interesting start though :) - John Worthington
The show a little imagination. I liked Seinfeld including the extended version. Will we get the directors cut and unrated versions soon? - Michael VanDervort
These aren't great, but they are by far better than the other ads. - Bryan
Great Ad... except my Windows doesn't boot any faster or run any more reliably. This warm and fuzzy won't last. You know, You can put lipstick on a pig... - Phil Yanov
night and day. gates/seinfeld = disaster. "i'm a pc" = almost good, suprisingly - cjmart
Excellent. Making Mac look mean for saying the rest of us (most of the world) aren't cool. Good marketing can make anything cool. The election has shown us that. - Roadgoer
not a bad ad for a flexible "it's OK to be just OK" hardware platform, but what does it have to do with Microsoft? Nothing. Fail. The "I am GNU/Linux" comment makes a good point, too. - Kevin Williams
good point regarding the elections. seems everyone is concerned with how well an "entity" presents itself rather than what it actually does. i could give a shit less how awesome any mac or pc ad is or how well obama speaks. just let me compute and fix the economy. - Todd Kitta
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I refuse to accept the definition that a PC specifies only Windows/Intel machines. I can't believe Microsoft bought Apple's lie. - Victor Ganata
The whole "file synchronization is just the tip of the Live Mesh iceberg" thing is getting old. Until the 'softies ship something that isn't file synchronization, the Live Mesh iceberg is just an ice cube. - Pat Rice
This would sound less like crap if you weren't the sharepoint product manager. Meaningless fanboy talk sounds pretty shrill from a corporate shill. - Kevin Goldsmith
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You'll see a bit more than "just file sync" within the next month, especially at PDC. :-) - Lawrence Liu
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honestly I like Live Mesh but it will truely wow me when I can integrate more devices to my mesh. I know it's coming, just a matter of when. - Bryan
Kevin, so is his opinion invalid because he works for Microsoft? Or is it only valid if he's *condemning* the product? Or is he supposed to append a legal disclaimer to every single tweet stating that he works for Microsoft and therefore his opinions might be horribly, horribly tainted? :-D - Karim
And Kevin, while we're being all transparent 'n shit, maybe you could go into a little more detail as to your relationship with Adobe Systems Inc.? ;-) - Karim
That sandwich would most definitely be thrown away. - Kenya
To all of the nay sayers, I think most people *WOULD NOT TOUCH IT* so they couldn't throw it away or anything else. They would just leave it there for someone else to deal with. - Andrew Baron
@Andrew it's a possibility, but I toss stuff out in the office fridge because I don't want mold to somehow get involved with my food... - Ben Jackson
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@ben, you should be careful, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsuspecting growth, a total biohazard. Please leave that stuff alone and let someone else deal with it, you could be seriously injured. - Andrew Baron
I mean really "I tell people how to use Twitter/FriendFeed/Facebook for their business". Really? Can't they find that out for free instead of paying you $25 an hour? - Candace Holly
Word. Unless you build it or wrote a book about it, spare us the expertness. Social media expert is the new feng shui consultant. - Eric @ CS Techcast
For $25 an hour, I can tell you how to make your website a perfect focal point and make it peaceful to the visitor, Eric. - Candace Holly
Well, since I'm a social media consult*** Ow! Dammit! That hurt! The whole keyboard? You couldn't have just slung the mouse at me? Geez...I think I'm bleeding... - Rahsheen™
+1 for Steven. Now, Candace, since you're an expert, can you tell me how to use this darned thing? :-) - Robert Scoble
Rahsheen, I'm throwing the mouse next. @Robert - Yes. You click the button saying sign up and fill in the appropriate things. Then, you check your e-mail and you verify it. then, you read the About us section and the FAQ. And you click buttons and type. ..That will be $50 plus a initial consultation fee. - Candace Holly
I've got $25 if you want to go out and get some beer. Ah, peaceful. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Don't drink beer but I'll have a soda. You can have the beer. - Candace Holly
Candace, how can you be a real expert if you are going to only charge $50? A real expert's fees start at $200. - Robert Scoble
I fail at social media expert...ism? I'll keep my day job. - Candace Holly
Candace is being very clever - undercutting the competition ruthlessly until she gains market share. Then we'll all be paying her per Tweet/comment/post on sojal meedja apps and platforms. Plus, she didn't specify what the 'initial consultation fee' is.... - WorldofHiglet
what about Social Media Managers or Community Managers - do we discount their value as well? I take your point, but I think we need ways to define roles which people are undertaking and for better or worse, the term Social Media is recognised by a lot of people, even if it has different meanings for different people. - Matt Hooper
Yes...that's it..I'm undercutting big time. I will show you how to use Twitter and you will be Tweeting like no one's business! As an added promotion *for today and today only* I will also give you this FREE ping.fm beta code. (lol) - Candace Holly
everybody on this thread is an expert at social media...right?! LOL just kidding!! ha, ha! - Susan Beebe
@Matt - If your company pays you to manage your community or, manage your company's presence on the social media front, that's different. But, a "social media expert/consultant" is something I just don't get. Does not compute. @WorldofHiglet - I'll also throw in a free consultation on how to use ping.fm! - Candace Holly
So Candace, is it true that if you go over your 140 limit on Twitter the extra characters get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider and the world ends? I read that somewhere - and this is the result...http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lh... - WorldofHiglet
@WorldofHiglet - as an "expert" I fear the results are much worse. If you go over 140 characters, your twitter url is given to the underwear gnomes who will then steal the extra characters and possibly take over your twitter account while taunting people with the socks they stole from your dryer. This is a secret only experts know about Twitter. *nods* - Candace Holly
OOohh, I get a ping consultation! Huh, you're all just jealous that you didn't get one.... - WorldofHiglet
Ok, now I'm afraid to touch my keyboard. I think you did your job really well. You'll have to handle all type-related stuff for me now... - WorldofHiglet
That will be $50. Oh, and if you want me to actually type for you that will be an extra $25 per tweet. - Candace Holly
Is this is the real power of the social media expert? To terrify their clients into submitting all power into their hands? - WorldofHiglet
...I think we might have cracked the job description... - WorldofHiglet
Now, I'll email you, Candace, with details of how you will be paid. The fact is, I am a simple person caught in a terrible plight. All my money is tied up in a Nigerian bank account but if you could send a money order of just $50.... - WorldofHiglet
I think the real money is even convincing some people to get on a social network. I'd pay you to, cough, get one of my co-host's, cough, to be convinced FF and Twitter make any sense. They think its a time sink... or maybe they're right? I need to go guys, I have to actually work tomorrow. - Eric @ CS Techcast
IT IS A TIME SINK! that's the entire point! Because...if you don't use Twitter or FF..you'll time sink into something else. May as well do something halfway productive or entertaining while you're sinking time. ...brb going to go play the Wii. - Candace Holly
I'm a.... never mind. I fear the keyboard more than I like the joke. - Brian Norwood
I don't see the difference in this compared to say...a tech support guy that charges you $50/hr for installing windows (oh wait...I did that once) - Nathan Allen Pinard
I've been called that twice in the media recently. I hate the title, but it has $ opportunities :-) - Duncan Riley
I still remember calling Dave that morning and watching as the first tower came down. - Robert Scoble
"There's No Time Like Now. Yeah, there's no time like now to start forgiving, to turn the other cheek, to show the world not that we're tough, but that we're commited to making the world a better place." - excellent Dave - thanks! - Susan Beebe
The "Is the U.S. at war?" survey was my first clue that something was amiss as I woke up on the west coast that day. - Gregg Hartling
Scoble, you're right there on the page. I had no TV so I was pretty much dependent on what I could get from the net and phone. - Dave "Maverick" Winer
I made a bunch of those, left them on cars, and blogged about it, Jason lol - Mona N.
If I made these, I'd use the toughest glue I could find. These losers would have to sand them off. - ha3rvey
+1 they figured out how to monetize their start up ;) - Michael W. May
I did in California. I haven't here in Arizona yet. Maybe because of the concealed carry laws, or maybe just because I haven't found the need to as much yet. I should make up a handful and put them in my car though. I have been tempted a few times. - Jason Shultz
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I could not love these more. Not possible. I need to get these for my sis. :D - Ayşe E.
I hear its illegal. Probably one reason the site Jason linked is better :) - Lindsey Smith
Can we get some "I Drive Like And Idiot" stickers for our 'friends'? - Kate Kapetanakis
Try being an Asian driver, Kate. We get yelled at!!! ;) - Mona N.
I need to buy a bunch of those and put them on peoples cars'. - Justin Yost
i need a box of these, just dealt w/ a benz that did this to me today - had to crawl through my passenger door to get in - always tempted to do petty damage but never have, this would be fitting and humorous ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Between these and those cell phone business cards I am going to be baning friends all over the place... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Ya, this post's kind of a goldmine. I wanna 'like' it, for the links everyone's leaving. :) - Mona N.
Can someone work up a sticker for Hummers? I parked next to one this weekend and was desperately trying to figure out how to write "You're an effing tool" on it. - Carla Thompson
