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I think some people should just stop crossposting all their stuff including @s and RTs to Facebook, it is pollution in most cases

May 20, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I post ev ererything from FriendFeed to Twitter to FB. Keeps the followers to those who are interested - Steve Gillmor

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Oddly, no one has ever acknowledged the massive number of entries that Friendfeed pumps into my Facebook stream. - Vezquex

Agree! Especially if u use @peoplebrowsr like me ;) really need to clean up the autopost mess. Wish somebody could invent some smart cross posting strategies and share their wisdom :) - Jan Friman from Nambu

I do it selectively, see http://www.jeffsandquist.com/synchro... - Jeff Sandquist

I don't feed any of the SM stuff to facebook, waste of time, both for others and myself. - Richard A.

Yeah, I'm with Gillmor, using FF as the primary tap into the SM hose. Figure it will eventually build brand and traffic back to FF. - Thom Kennon

I agree with Loic and disagree with S.Gillmor, as much as I admire him, crossposting is broadcasting. Each of these services have their own flavor, a different set of friends. A different interaction is appropriate in each. It works best when we respect the differences and create unique exchanges on the various services we use. - stephen harlow

Steve, problem is that you don't get the replies and FB comments so you don't really interact except on FF comments right? - Loic Le Meur

Here's how I do it, Loic: http://www.slideshare.net/louisgr... - Louis Gray

loic, I do get the replies via Twitterspy and FB comments via email. When track returns I'm all set - Steve Gillmor

i don't mind getting stuff twice, makes it less likely i miss something - Christopher Harris

What's Facebook? - Richard Carter, FCD

@Richard Carter, FCD - I think it's something like this:- http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/photoal... - Graham Steel

I found something very interesting. I posted almost nothing on Facebook for the past year, so I didn't lose any of my high quality followers (which include CEOs and big name press from across the tech industry). But then I tried putting friendfeed/Twitter in there and I started getting complaints, so I stopped it. I now post things specifically for my Facebook friends on Facebook and try to let everyone know that my main place of posting is friendfeed now. - Robert Scoble

I'm still trying to find the optimal ratio of posting. The problem is there simply isn't enough technology to do what I want. I may write something if no one accomplishes what I need for this. - Jesse Stay

I never used facebook extensively and like to keep my accounts separate. I think friendfeed is the most intelligent of all social web apps. - Ashish

Agreed. I've been more mindful of cross posting and never did it with my FB status. - Mark Gehrke

I agree with Loic in cases where people use Twitter primarily as a tool for one to one or fragmented communications and the fact that he used "some people" and "most cases" leads me to believe some people don't fit the mold. I find myself being one of those. I currently cross-post >90% of my stuff to FF/FB/Twitter. That said, I consciously make an effort to put context in every one of my outbound messages & if something doesn't warrant cross-posting I don't do it. - Mark Krynsky

A discreet compromise would be to use something like the Social RSS application in FB to show your routine Twitter traffic on a tab separate from your main page. - Paul Robertson

When you get multiple duplicates of the same message on friendfeed because it's also posted to tumblr, thats the worst. - Matt Robson

thank you all for your feedback. Looks like there are very different styles and the comments here are mostly from friendfeed lovers (which I understand why they like it), very different pattern from what I see from non friendfeed users though - Loic Le Meur

and your point? - Steve Gillmor

Have you seen Jimmy Fallon's dupes, he needs to get his PA on it ASAP it's the social media equivalent of stuttering - The Real sofarsoShawn

I had some problems with duplicate posting at first, but once I figured it out, it's been fine. FF is my principal gazinta, and it aggregatges all my gazoutas, but it doesn't multipost. That said, I try to keep the signal to bullshit ratio high.... - Alan Chamberlain

I like to be able to select (from FF0 what goes to FB like we can with Twitter. - Kol Tregaskes

Loic 1 Gillmor 0 Let's keep them channels separate, they will find you if they love you. I love your Gillmor Gang however Steve! That's a sweet channel everyone should check out. - Chad Harris

I have my Tweets going to FF and Facebook. Minus the @'s on Facebook. But I reply to comments on all three as I have notifications for Twitter and Facebook coming into FF. - Araceli from Nambu

Araceli: How did you set that up? - Garin Kilpatrick

Twitter should not be fed directly into Facebook in most cases, FB and Twitter are two completely different animals. Despite this bringing Facebook to Twitter is okay. The @replies are what pollutes the Twitter/FB Integration. - Garin Kilpatrick

I agree with Loic and Scoble. Facebook is more real life friends and I share more personal and less techy stuff. Twitter is sort of like my id. Although now I'm giving friendfeed a go for a week so I may be making the switch full time. But, for the most part, I consider friendfeed and twitter to be the same result by different means. For me though, it remains to be seen which means I like better. - James Poling

Garin: I use http://apps.facebook.com/twitter... to publish Twitter to Facebook. It doesn't post @s. For notifications I bring in this RSS as an imaginary friend for Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notific... and for Twitter this one: http://twitter.com/replies - Araceli

I'm with Gillmor - post here, almost exclusively, feed all to FB and Twitter. - Thom Kennon

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Ballmer stumbles starting a video on HP slate. He shows off the problem: the "standard W7" interface is too small for fingers.

January 6, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Aline Ohannessian to Aline's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, Social Media Club, All Things Google, building43

Google's Picasa Web Albums Are Now More Social Than Ever - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

August 20, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Whose storage limits get used up with each contribution? - Chuck Kahn

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They have also added a new like button (at least it is new to me).. looks like Google is going social!! - Chris Myles

Anybody have samples of shared Picasa albums? - TrafficBug

I even asked the Picasa team for an example.. hard to write against the API if you don't have a sample!! - Chris Myles

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Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law. - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...

August 20, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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This chap sure has moxie. - Rob Munroe from Bookmarklet

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Bespin: Collaborative Coding in the Cloud - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

August 14, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I remember Bespin from a few months ago. Pretty cool stuff. - Rob

Jay Rosen

(After reading coverage of the Friend Feed deal...) If value is being captured upstream from where you are, just buy the dam and dynamite it.

August 10, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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nice turn of phrase - Bora Zivkovic

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That's what going down, is it not? - Jay Rosen

Looks like it, absolutely. I was just admiring your use of language. - Bora Zivkovic

This calls for an open-source, federated, run-on-any-server alternative to FriendFeed that, like the Internets, cannot be owned (and disowned) by any single corporation. - Gary Burge

Agreed. I'm pretty pissed about this deal, actually. And I don't trust anything the participants say about it. Why do I--a proud citizen of the open web--care if a walled garden gets better at search? - Jay Rosen

Wave, rssCloud, Pubsubhubbub... this is the stuff to turn to eh? - Dave Gilbert

+1 PubSubHubbub (but I'm biased) http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com - Brett Slatkin

I learned as much about the deal from this photograph as I did from the news coverage http://friendfeed.com/paul... Maybe I should Tweet that. - Jay Rosen

Yes you should - I also thought that picture (both of them together, really) was the most informative piece all day - Bora Zivkovic

Did you see the photos on Mashable of the empty FriendFeed offices this afternoon? http://mashable.com/2009... - Josette from fftogo

Jay Rosen

There's a new generation of long form bloggers coming. @CodyBrown on what Twitter will resolve into when we see what it is http://codybrown.name/2009...

August 7, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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@CodyBrown... Thanks for the Hat Tip @JayRosen_nyu - the 'long form' style was lifted entirely from seeing you on Twitter + Press Think - Jay Rosen

But few know about the control room at Friend Feed! - Jay Rosen

Maybe you should promo the control room on Twitter once a week. Put a link to it on PressThink as well. - Josette from fftogo

Erin @queenofspain

Seriously you people satisfied with our health care system are lying. You are big, fat, evil, don't want to care about me, lying mcliarpants

August 7, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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or we're just smart enough to realize that the day we get nationalized healthcare, you can forget about ever having a cure for cancer or aids or what have you - Josh Betz

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Josh, do you seriously think that you get cancer research through the hospital system? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

watching Newshour and it makes me sick to think the mcliarpants are gonna carry the day with their shrill brute selfishness. it really underscores the essence of American movement and bedrock conservatices: they dont give a damn about anybody else but them and theirs. makes me sick to think we are not going to get reform cuz of the nasty curs. Feh! - Thom Kennon

I don't normally get involved with political topics but I can't help it when it comes to health care. I'm Canadian and our health care is a joke, you don't want any part of it. The reason most Canadians are against Obama's plan is that we'll have no where to go if we get really sick. Canadians put up with 8 hour waits for simple care because its "free" but we flock to the U.S when we're... more... - Justin Luey

Cancer research, for example, is good and all, but we need to be focusing on prevention. - Nick Humphries

According to WaPo columnist Steven Pearlstein, you're also a "political terrorist" if you get in the way of consensus on health care reform. - Garmon Estes

As if cancer research wasn't already funded by the government. Without the NIH, where would we be? The profit margins on anti-cancer drugs aren't exactly making pharmaceutical companies obscenely rich. Anyway, nothing Obama is proposing will prevent the Saudi Arabian sheiks and European royalty from getting state-of-the-art care in Rochester, MN. And Canadians can still come if they're willing to pay cash. - Victor Ganata

48% of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. 19% rate it as poor. The new polling also shows that 80% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent. That's an awful lot of big, fat, evil, don't want to care about me, lying mcliarpants! LOL - Don Smith

I am sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately, sometimes in a two-party system, when one side doesn't like the way that a particular problem is being addressed, whether it's from the perception that it's being pushed through too hastily, or with too many hangers-on or "pork," the alternative that some choose to express is, "what we have now is better than what is being presented." Here in... more... - midnightgolfer

But it's not mutually exclusive. The 80% who like their current insurance aren't necessary averse to health care reform. And it's all perspective. The U.S. health care system is definitely better than the average developing country, but it's definitely broken in a lot of ways. Nothing is perfect. I think people are at least aware enough that just because they really like their insurance now doesn't mean they'll necessarily have their insurance in the next year or so, given the current state of the economy. - Victor Ganata

Josh, that first comment reminds me of a somewhat famous Paul Tsongas gaffe - he claimed that it was America's health care system that produced the treatment that (at that time) saved his life, but in fact it came from Canada. The fact is, medical innovations come from all over the world... (edit: cite here: http://www.sociology101.net/reading... ) BTW,... more... - Andrew C (✓)

Good god. FIrst of all, we're not getting Canada's health care or socialized health care. The current program on the table lets you keep your insurance if you want to. But you may not because there will be competition. Second of all, I just spent Mon-Friday in the hospital and anyone who is happy with their health care in this country hasn't been in the hospital lately. - Erin @queenofspain

Justin: I'm sorry you feel like but that is not my experience of health care here in Canada at all, nor of most people judging by the reports seen recently. There is an issue of waiting times but they are a problem wherever you go. - WoH: Minding her Steves

The portion of our healthcare system that is already government funded is problematic, so it's not hard to see why there are concerns about moving further in that direction. Safety net hospitals--those that provide care to low income, uninsured, under-insured, at-risk populations--play a crucial role in community health, but struggle to stay afloat in the face of late and absent... more... - Kathy Fitch

But the private system is in itself broken, and its brokenness overflows onto the public system, exacerbating the problems they already face. - Victor Ganata

No doubt that the whole thing is overdetermined--the issues and the causes thereof are many and complicated. I've been on lots of sides of the thing: a unionized higher ed worker with utterly fabulous benefits, a stay at home mom staring the possibility of COBRA in its very expensive face, a part of an organization having to provide the insurance to its workers, a part of an... more... - Kathy Fitch

Here's a quote from Rep. Mike Ross, one of the Blue Dogs, bragging about how he stalled the bill: "If it had been based on Medicare rates, I can assure you that it would have eventually ended up resulting in a single payer-type system, because Medicare has really good rates, because they're negotiating for every senior in America. Private insurance companies could not have competed with that." -- protecting his constituency from "really good rates", what a stand-up guy. - (dot)lizard kelly

Well--good rates don't change the actual costs, that's the thing. Medicare doesn't cover actual cost. That cost will have to be covered, though. - Kathy Fitch

@WorldOfHiglet - agreed! I'm Canadian and proud of our health care system. There's waiting times for non-essential procedures, but never anything for a life-threatening condition. No-one in Canada is punted off the plan for a "pre-existing condition" or recission. - Matt M (inactive)

A system not based in profit would go a hell of a long way towards controlling costs. - (dot)lizard kelly

I expect to profit when I provide a product or service. Seems like most of us do. Research and development, medications, blood products, sutures, medical and surgical expertise, specialized machinery and folks to operate it-it all costs. Who in that chain should not profit from the product or service they provide? Even not-for-profit organizations do need to make a profit, it's just... more... - Kathy Fitch

And that is why, Holden, you are a worthy God. ;-) (When did that happen, by the way? I must have been sleeping.) - Kathy Fitch

Hah--well please let us know if you have any urges toward flooding us all out and starting over with a better class of humans. - Kathy Fitch

No fee schedule--public or private--actual covers the prices anyone charges, although Medicare really is one of the better payers. But since the prices aren't at all subject to market forces, how do we figure out what a fair price is? Basically it's arbitrarily set, although I realize Medicare's RBRVS system (which most private payers tend to adapt to their fee schedules to anyway)... more... - Victor Ganata

Victor, yes, the inflammatory falsehoods part is really a key factor for me. Following the money behind the "grassroots" movement to disrupt and block reform leads to a who's who of the most corrupt health profiteers. - (dot)lizard kelly

That's the crux of it, isn't it, Victor? It's like death and taxes--impossible to talk about it any calm or reasonable fashion because it's an inherently emotional thing. Pushing through a huge new model--so huge that no given individual seems to be conversant with it in its entirety--seems like a really bad idea to me, just on the basis of sheer logic. Even smaller things that seem... more... - Kathy Fitch

The problem is, as Kathy points out, the government is already massively involved with health care. With Titles XVIII and XIX and with EMTALA, that pretty much sets the stage for everyone else. And no one is seriously considering abolishing Medicare, Medicaid, or anti-patient dumping laws. Even many hard-core anti-reformists like Medicare a lot, so where does that leave us? - Victor Ganata

Holden, I will keep an inflatable dinghy handy and watch for animals wandering by in pairs, just in case. - Kathy Fitch

Relatively speaking, a public option is nowhere near as radical as Title XVIII and Title XIX were at the time. Single-payer, now that would be pretty radical. The thing is, I'm getting the sense that the most vociferous and most violent opposition is coming from people who have the least sense of how all the pieces fit together, egged on not-so-surreptitiously by the people who have the most to lose should reform happen, and who don't give a crap about the average American. - Victor Ganata

Yup--and on the flip side, wholesale embrace seems to flow mostly from a "this should be better, dammit" space, which is understandable, but not so useful. It matters what happens here, but it's just so darn big. Just go look at all the active bills concerning XVIII and XIX at any given time! Mind boggling! When things are that huge, people are going to default to emotion, no matter which side they might champion. Fear is a powerful thing. - Kathy Fitch

And we're just talking about how we pay. Quality is a whole separate issue. - Kathy Fitch

Ok, I've read all the comments and I definitely don't have the insight of everyone else, especially the specifics of what the national health care plan look like at this point. But I do have a couple things I want to mention. 1) It would not be like Canada's system, it would be more like France (mixed public and private) 2) I live in MA, and next year I'm off my mom's insurance (I'm... more... - <3Heather<3

Cry me a river, srsly - LANjackal

"I expect to profit when I provide a product or service. Seems like most of us do." ... like the police, Kathy? Or is it possible that certain areas of life are not well served by a market paradigm? - Andrew C (✓)

Yes, precisely like the police, who get paid for their work--who profit from it, as should all who work for a living. Is it possible to work for no pay? But of course, I do it all of the time. I call it volunteering or doing pro bono work, and I think it's important. I love psychic income. Unfortunately, no one lets me write psychic checks to cover the bills. - Kathy Fitch

Just because a system is non-profit doesn't mean the people who work there don't get paid. - Andrew C (✓)

Yes, I believe I pointed that out above. Not for profit enterprises must actually generate a profit in order to meet payroll, pay vendors, build, secure loans, etc. "Profit" is not the enemy, and shouldn't be conflated with "profiteering," which is a whole different ball of wax. - Kathy Fitch

It seems to me the health insurance system of the US has tremendous perverse incentives which are basically inevitable results of trying to provide it via a open market. Healthy people willing to gamble may find it advantageous to not get insured, and insurers have huge incentives to dump sick people - both those who have individual plans and those who have small enough employers that the insurers can and will dump the entire group plan. - Andrew C (✓)

And non-profits don't need to make a _profit_, they just need to cover costs. - Andrew C (✓)

Ah, it's splitting hairs, Andrew. They need to make money. A hospital's costs include things like new machinery. To cover that cost, they have to make money--there has to be some gain after all current costs are covered. They roll that profit back into the organization, and then they might be able to afford, say, a decent MRI machine. In any case, not all hospitals are not-for-profit ventures. There are some great investor owned hospitals in the world. - Kathy Fitch

I'm relatively fine with for-profit hospitals. I am mostly unconvinced that for-profit health insurance is workable. - Andrew C (✓)

Seems like we're about to get a chance to compare, doesn't it? I can't pretend to know what will happen. It's going to be an interesting ride. There have been some actual studies that correlate lower quality of care (fewer qualified staff, higher rates of errors) with free market forces in healthcare. If the concern is constantly the survival of the institution, then perhaps the health... more... - Kathy Fitch

The reason pubicly funded institutions and most health care delivery institutions (like where I work) struggle is that there is a huge number of people who aren't insured. This drives costs up for everyone as we just try to break even and what the reform really is trying to address. We're talking about adding about $100 billion a year to a >$1 trillion dollar a year industry. This is... more... - Carey Lumeng

While I am not opposed to health care reform, I am opposed to having the government run health care. We'll end up with mediocrity, just like our government run education system! - Darren

None of the proposals currently on the table intend to implement a government-run health care system. This is a strawman that we really need to stop bringing up if we intend to have fruitful discussions about what direction we need to go. - Victor Ganata

Healthcare isn't perfect, there is many things that can be done to help, however, having the government take it over is the worst thing that can happen. The good thing is most Americans are waking up to Obama and his nonsense, hence his poll numbers dropping. I would also bet that most who still support him, have not read any of the bill. The truth is, the government does not run... more... - Spencer

The statement that rings truest to me is that profit is ok but profiteering isn't. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

The revenue that you have to reinvest in your infrastructure isn't usually referred to as profit, though, is it? And neither are wages paid in fair compensation for labor provided. I realize it's semantics, but I think it would be pretty evil if fire fighters and police actually derived profit from their work, although I'm all for them receiving fair compensation for the difficult and dangerous work they do protecting us. - Victor Ganata

CapEx is a sound investment usually and not one that I would refer to as profit. I would actually like for first responders to get a little extra compensation much as I would for teachers as these are industries where going the extra mile should in my opinion be rewarded. I just become enraged at "for-profit" healthcare companies as they do derive their profits not only from the argument of economies of scales and vertical domination of the market va their "in-house" pharmacies. What a racket? - Mathew A. Koeneker

I'm in my 20s, employed, I've got health insurance from my employer, and I haven't been to a hospital since I was young (and only once then). However, even I am wary of the pain that I will have to go through if I lose my job; I'm sure COBRA would be too costly. Besides, it wouldn't matter even if I did find a new job (not easy to do right now), thanks to pre-existing condition rules... more... - A. Karl Kornel from twhirl

I'm in my 20s and got laid off. COBRA's $145/mth, which has been OK for me. I'm not saying it'll be the same for everyone else, but I'm ok - LANjackal from IM

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan - Don Smith

Everyone misses the key --- the what's-mine-is-mine crowd who "want gummint off their backs" (but i bet they like the interstate highway system, a standing army, state colleges, subsidized cotton, regulated utilities) and the humanists (who believe people all deserve a basic right to food, health, shelter, safety). And the key is this: fee for services. This is the single most important... more... - Thom Kennon

I am not for "Obamacare." I am for having a discussion on things that need changing and making those changes. I don't care how it's done, but these things need doing. 1) Stop dinging people for pre-existing conditions 2) Stop over-charging for prescription drugs 3)Stop giving care that isn't effective or necessary (restless leg syndrome, overactive bladder, etc. We've gotten to the... more... - Francine Hardaway

Glen, what you said happens now. Except, one, the 23 yo bureaucrat might not be in DC, he or she is wherever your insurance company is headquartered. And two, under Obama's proposal, you can keep your current health insurance if you think it's good enough. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

I'm conservative, but I'll be honest, the 66% COBRA subsidy under the ARRA has been a lifesaver. Just FWIW - LANjackal from IM

Francine, yes, everything that takes away from worker productivity has been labeled a condition. The question is, who gets to decide what is effective treatment? Researchers? Clinicians? Insurance companies? Government officials? I do agree that incentives should be geared towards outcomes with objective measures rather than volume of procedures performed but the problem is that the... more... - Victor Ganata

I'm thinking of profit in more basic terms--the amount of money left after expenses have been subtracted from income. It seems natural to me that folks object when the portion that might actually be left, there, is quickly sucked up by the government, which isn't exactly renowned for efficiency and ethics. - Kathy Fitch

I'm not making an argument here, but really just posing a series of philosophical questions: *Do* people have a basic right to healthcare? If so, where do we draw the line? A basic right to immunizations, to health education, to emergency care, to open-heart surgery, to hip replacement, to orthodontia, to treatment for acne or eczema? The difficulty of drawing those lines is one source... more... - Kathy Fitch

I think people have a basic right to health care, both on ideological and pragmatic grounds. The ideology is down to what's right and wrong; the pragmatic argument is that society is not well served by having the poor suffer from treatable problems. I can see drawing the line for trivial and cheaply solved problems like usual teenage acne, paper cuts, etc. I can also see drawing a line for extraordinary costs. Every insurer, whether nationally run or private, for-profit or not, draws such lines. - Andrew C (✓)

Offering carrots and sticks for healthy lifestyles can only go so far. Who knew tobacco was carcinogenic back in the 1940s? Or asbestos? I think the idea that people willingly lead unhealthy lifestyles _because they plan to fall back on health insurance_ is ludicrous; everyone prefers to live a healthy life rather than get by with massive surgeries or other catastrophic interventions. - Andrew C (✓)

When people are in need of new organs, the health care system already does judge them on behaviors, like not allowing alcoholics to get new livers. But I think preventative medicine, at a basic level like annual check ups, screenings for high risk patients, vaccines, visits with a nutritionist, that kind of stuff, is totally reasonable to offer everyone. I mean before I got back on my... more... - <3Heather<3

Very true, Heather. Already, we must make these calls, and already we aren't so hot at it. If we have a right to healthcare, why shouldn't we have the right to a new kidney or lung or heart, even if our lifestyles in some measure caused those organs to fail? The junk food junkie might be the best teacher or counselor in the community, the drinker might be on point of composing the most... more... - Kathy Fitch

Teenage acne, by the way, is not at all trivial to the ones who suffer from it, and it's hugely expensive to treat. Check the prices on something like Doryx, for instance. Might seem like a purely cosmetic issue, but of course it has social implications, and mental health implications, as well. http://dermnetnz.org/acne... A friend of mine always used to say that the definition of "minor" surgery is "surgery on someone else." Just so, it seems, with many health afflictions. - Kathy Fitch

To those of you concerned about a single-payer option and the elimination of Employer Insurance, the President clarifys those concerns in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sharon McPherson

LOL ... That Oburkel! Such a kidder!! - Don Smith

Of course you're right Erin. I have Parkinson's Disease and Fibromyalgia that is going untreated because the Government Run Medicare system says my husband's $500 per wk pay check puts us over the threshold to receive assistance, although our monthly expenses amount to $2400. And my young grandchildren are desperately in need of Dental Care because the State Run Florida KidCare program... more... - Sharon McPherson

Sharon, the problem is that the opposition isn't addressing any of the issues you raise. They are lying about "death panels". Let's address the real issues, please. - Tom Talbott, Jr

The US is the only country in Western World that doesn't have some sort of nationalized system (and it is arguably one of the worst). I am confused at anyone who thinks that a corporation is going to operate in the best interest of the customer. It operates in the best interest of the share holders - it must. It is time to consider some government control, so people don't have to pay +$500 for "mostly covered". - Jeff Waite

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Charles Horner's Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate - http://www.danwei.org/china_b...

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Charles Horner's book, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context, published by University of Georgia Press, was summed up in a review article published in the Asia Chronicle: Horner’s unconventional approach is an effort to analyze Chinese history not as it is, but as it is understood today by both the West and by China itself. His approach is important because how a country understands its own past guides its future decisions and is often a means of defining its identity relative to its past. In this sense, Horner’s methods echo the postmodernism implied in the title and place him in the burgeoning trend of Western historians employing postmodern approaches to interpreting Chinese history. For Danwei the author gives permission for an introduction and an extract. Horner is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. As well serving roles in the administrations of President Reagan and the first President Bush, Horner also did graduate...

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RConversation: Dark days for China's liberals - http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconver...

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"In the summer of 1979, the director Werner Herzog found himself in the Peruvian river-port city of Iquitos preparing for “Fitzcarraldo,” a period epic starring Jason Robards and Mick Jagger that he planned to shoot in the rain forest. Two and a half years later, he was still there, struggling to finish. Robards and Jagger had long since quit, rendering their footage unusable. Locals had set fire to the filmmakers’ camp; the crew fled waving white flags. Robards’s replacement, the German actor Klaus Kinski, had proved so difficult that two Indian chiefs who witnessed his behavior approached Herzog and helpfully offered to murder him. Another member of the filmmaking team had gone completely insane, grabbed a machete and taken hostages. By then, surrounded by bugs and snakes and rooting pigs, beset by injuries and chronically, critically short of money, Herzog apparently found nothing particularly outlandish in what was happening, so consumed was he by a film that all reason suggested he should have abandoned several crises earlier. “I live my life or I end my life with this project,” he said." - Jamreilly from Bookmarklet

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John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft? - MarketWatch - http://www.marketwatch.com/m...

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What's shocking is that the cash cows, specifically the Windows operating system and the Office suite, have managed to finance all these idiotic efforts for so many years. While Microsoft's profits and sales were way down this last quarter, it is only a matter of time before losses begin. Read more about the disappointing earnings. The cash cows are dying of neglect. This company cannot keep its eye on the ball because there are too many shiny objects to distract it. Now comes the latest fiasco: Microsoft wants to open retail stores, all of them next to or near an Apple store. - Leo Laporte

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Copycats! How funny that THAT is all they can come up with. Stores...really. I don't like MS and I bet we could come up with 10 kick butt ideas for them that are better than that! - Tobin Truog

MS never innovated anything. DOS was purchased. Windows was designed at PARC. Their initial networking (NETBUI protocol) was flat without routing and was a pain to integrate with TCP/IP, WordPerfect and Netscape were killed by business practices instead of technology, every web designer has a CSS nightmare with IE and cross-browser compatibility, MS invented the idea that computers need... more... - Keith Barrett

I'd say lack of any true innovation is the cause of this. When you look at it, alot of the companies that are dying in this recession because they weren't really doing anything new for long periods of time. That's just the case here. - Hugh Isaacs II from iPod

This article completely misses the source of Microsoft's fastest growing products in the business sector. MS Dynamics products for business-line applications are one area that Microsoft is really gaining share (lumped in with Office sales if you look at their quarterly reports to hide that Office sales are declining). Also, I believe that Microsoft will start to realize different... more... - Chris Reichow

The bigger problem I think isn't just Microsoft, but really any large company, that is "innovating" by buying startups rather than creating an R&D culture/investment within the organization - Chris Reichow

My question for Dvorak is: What can MS do today to stay true to its core business as a software company? The fact is "software" does not have the growth like a few years ago. MS needs to diversify to keep growing, and yes some of those ideas failed. You can't fault a guy for trying - Andre P. Siregar

I propose that Microsoft needs to stop being a "incremental" company, or a "ever fixing company", and start at least using 20% of their resources to come with their "black stallion", they do need to innovate, just watch Google, they have so many things going because of the use of the 80-20 rule thus, if you have for the foreseeable time covered 80% of your business needs, you certainly... more... - Carlos F. Sam Castillo

First step is for BillG to fire SteveB. Ballmer has presided in one of the largest losses of shareholder equity of all time. If the baord was a responsible governing process it would boot him out. Second, review each business and shut those not making money. A slim, focused MS could then return to the fray and maybe even turn things around. Get back to work Bill ... - Jeff

Say what you want, if you havent tried Windows 7 with the Office 2010 stack you might be little surprised. It positively changed my workflow for the better. I still use linux,xp,vista and by far prefer Win 7. I can't wait for a Windows 7, touch screen, notebook, ion, atom, ssd, OLED and WIMAX. MS still has the largest Library like Video Games by orders of magnitude and there is a huge... more... - Robert Higgins

Windows 7 is a huge step in the right direction but I think Chrome is going to change the game. - Trent Hamm from iPod

funny when i read the earnings report it said that revenues took a hit because PC and server sales dropped. because of something called a "recession," which is apparently something that happened to the economy? news to me. but this must be microsoft's fault, right? this "recession" thing? - Karim

Liviu: http://www30.wolframalpha.com/input... might help you decide whether a percentage rise in stock price is more important than, say, the P/E ratio. - Karim

...I agree with those who say that the lack of true innovation is the real problem, but i'm not sure this is the kind of thing you can just flip a switch and start doing overnight. - .LAG liked that

Lode Nachtergaele

Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic" - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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the company has made strong security strides through its Native Client code technology and Chrome web browser, which includes features such as "sandboxing" which could help contain malware. - Lode Nachtergaele from Bookmarklet

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Sources: Google OS lives (and it's coming to a netbook near you) (Ars Technica) - http://www.techmeme.com/090708...

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Ars has learned from two separate sources, one inside the company and one outside of it, that Google is preparing to deliver a Chrome-focused operating system that targets netbooks. - huixing

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Dan Froomkin hired by The Huffington Post (Glenn Greenwald/Salon) - http://www.memeorandum.com/090707...

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w000ttt!!!!! - Josh Wills

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BULLETIN -- ROBERT S. MCNAMARA HAS DIED

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DAMN! - Akiva

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"By simplifying our lives first, we can naturally help others do the same." - Michael Carroll http://www.tricycle.com/blog... #dailydharma

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Great Wall - http://audioboo.fm/boos...

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Great to hear from our buddy Leo. He is puffing from the climb. I would be on the ground. - don robinson

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Super cool Leo! I gotta do the audio recording next time I travel :D - Joel Lovato

Bring back some of that Sticky rice Leo. - wes virtue

These Boo's are great! Keep them up and have a great time with the gang. No pressure but we're all watching... ;) - Adam Horne

Leo another great boo! Thank you so much for sharing you experiences with all of us! Its very appreciated! - Rob from iPhone

Hi leo hope your having the time of your life enjoy your dinner! - javier martinez jr from iPod

awesome! sounds amazing. I am really liking these audioboo updates. Makes me feel like I am there. - Steven Legault

wow how awesom! Yeah the audio really brings it home Leo...thanks :) - Scott Whitten

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Picture Perfect - Why Golden Books are golden http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content...

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It may not have been quite Periclean Athens or Florence under the Medicis, but the eruption of creativity that constituted the quarter-century ascendancy of the Little Golden Books was dazzling enough in its own right, a remarkable convergence of artistic and commercial genius. - Brad Williamson

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OMG, I remember reading "The Poky Little Puppy" when I was little. I loved Little Golden Books as a kid. - Mol, FF Music Lover

when i was young (very young) i remember chewing on the gold spine... - Brent

Love Little Golden Books. My daughter has many of them, because of that love. But I will say, the Pokey Little Puppy is my least favorite. The illustrations are great, but the story is tedious for a children's book. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

I like the Golden Books that aren't religious. Some of them are like, whoa! - Anika

William Moss

Reading: Interesting Dave Brooks column in NYT recaps Niall Ferguson v. James Fallows debate on rising China: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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@illuminantceo Is toilet electrocution a known complication of H1N1 flu?

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Sounds like an extremely harsh side-effect... - Anthony Pantekoek

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if you say "serviette" instead of "napkin" and ask for a "chocolate bar" instead of a "candy bar", #youmightbecanadian

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Dave Winer

"I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought" http://www.scripting.com/stories...

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I really like this statement - but will people return to blogging as we've known it? - Tony

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Are you perhaps over estimating the allure of thinking? - Todd Hoff

Micro-blogging is good for idealets and infotainment, but it really is turning the web into a mindless medium like TV. Of course, there will always be the equivalent of PBS trying valiantly to raise the bar somewhat. Blogs will always have the possibility of transmitting real knowledge. - Paul W. Homer

The interesting thing for me is I think we have lost the definition of what a blog is. Everybody jumped up and down about what Steve Rubel did, but really I see his change as a shift of platform. If he posted that same content on wordpress, nobody would have said a word. Just because he did it on posterous and called it a lifestream, people took issue with it. So, what is our definition then? - Robert

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmak... - Dave Winer

Dave - I read through the link you sent, thanks for the information. So, in what ways do you think posterous goes against this definition? - Robert from email

I think Steve still has a weblog, he's just submitting posts to it in a "different" way. Like Dave's link says a weblog is "... a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Pretty much sums it up, I think. Steve's post is going to generate attention, and debate, but in the end it's a weblog. - Rob Fahrni

Robert, I know you're asking Dave a question, but I don't think the Posterious way goes against the definition. If I'm not mistaken Radio could post via e-mail, and I know Blogger supports this feature. Maybe I need to dig into Posterious a bit more but isn't that what it does? - Rob Fahrni

Rob - That is my point. This in my mind is one of the major problems with looking for a "new name" for these social products. We see it as something different because it is called something different. Posterous, from what I can see so far, allows for the writer to interact with their "weblog" in a different way, just as you said... - Robert from email

Huh? - Dave Winer

Dave - I think your "huh?" was towards me... We call Posterous a "life stream", I say it is a blog, that we have given a different name to. That is what I am saying.Rob - I agree with you 100%, and that is my point exactly. I keep reading these post about blogging being dead, or blogging being alive... but those that say they are not "blogging" are still "blogging" Maybe I am not making sense, but I hope I am... - Robert from email

Robert - Precisely! I think Posterious is trying to find a why to differentiate their product, so they've coined a new phrase. It's still a weblog, how the data arrives may be different, but it's just a weblog all the same. When I read Steve's story last night, from his new site, I thought I was going to find a link on it to something "new and innovative", then I realized I was AT the actualy site, his "life stream." - Rob Fahrni

Rob - YES... That is what I am saying... Same with Tumblr in my view, it is a weblog... Blogging is not dead at all in my view... - Robert from email

Robert - Right on! - Rob Fahrni

Blogology is a still too young science, and definitio usually comes when plays are over. What I feel sad for is the lack of opportunity future literature and social behaviour experts will suffer not using post's content ( and graphics ) as sources for studying today's world zeitgeist. Borges prophecy is at work, few understands - too many doesn't even know what they're writing about: a... more... - valerio fiandra from iPhone

Robert, the photo sharing site you've used recently is structurally a blog too. It differs from normal blog software mainly in that the chronology is by date of occurrence, not date of posting. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

It's funny that this sentence and a few lines from Anthony Trollope's autobiography should have crossed paths in my consciousness on the same day, since it's almost the same idea, thrown back two temporal orders of magnitude. Trollope tells of a correspondent, a vicar, who had enjoyed his clerical novels but was upset by Lady Glencors'a contemplation of adultery in the Pallisers series.... more... - Amyloo

Bruce - Very true! I'm glad that you are not working hard to call it something different. I'm loving it so far, even though I have not had a lot of time to put a bunch of pics up... - Robert from email

This is silly. Blogging isn't defined by the tool, it's defined by who's doing it. Read the piece I pointed to. I don't mean click on the link and hit the Back buttton, click the link and READ. - Dave Winer

Agreed, Dave. Heck, we blogged back in the day via FTP uploads; that's what moved you towards developing "Edit This Page", in fact (IIRC). - Ken Kennedy

Dave - I did read through it, and I agree that a blog is NOT defined by a tool, I think that is what we have been saying. I do not see where we are at odds on our viewpoints, please expound. - Robert from email

This subject keeps coming back - blogging will never die. - Jesse Stay

Before Web 1.0 we listened, conversed, collaborated and then we wrote. Writing was the synthesis of all the thinking that occurred in the first steps. In the new medium, the thinking process is the streams, both personal and community. Blogging is the synthesis of this new kind of community thought process. - Joolio

Dave - haha! - that is awesome :D - Susan Beebe

I think a large percentage of bloggers were really microbloggers, they just didn't have the correct apps to do that. The people that actually have something to say will keep blogging and those that just like to say something small or share something interesting will continue microblogging, or lifestreaming, or whatever variant you want to name it. Blogging is akin to publishing articles... more... - xero

This was known since the times of IRC: you can only have idle chatter or quick focused questions at that speed. - Michele Costabile

Michele, if that premise is true, then kids only absorb important life-long lessons from their parent(s) when they're sat down for a full length lecture. No? :) - Micah

The best food for thought always come in easily digestible chunks, however, sometimes you need to digest some larger/harder stuff to give you the ability to digest that chunk. - xero

Xero - That is an interesting thought... - Robert from email

Agreed, well said, Xero. - Micah

I thought completing a thought was the beauty of FriendFeed. - Alan Eggleston

Microblogging is very much a product of the times, very ADD, very video-game-ish; so I agree strongly with the idea of longer. - Rick Cogley

Just FYI, when I started Scripting News in 1997, it was entirely "microblogging" -- look in the archive. http://www.scripting.com/1997... - Dave Winer

This isn't a fight. I love all this stuff. I was just saying what I think. - Dave Winer

Question: Of those of you out there who use posterous, do you use it as a replacement of your blog, a mirror of your blog or something different? - Curt Mercadante

One of the things I like about blogging is the ability to not finish a thought, not to try so hard to say all I have to say or say come to any definite conclusion in a single post. The unfinished thought is what encourages conversation. Let someone else add to your thought. Let others challenge your incomplete premise. I don't know everything, why pretend I do? My thoughts are never finished. - Jack&Cleo

Wow, you're right Dave, scripting news was indeed VERY much a microblog. Interesting & thanks for pointing that out! - Rick Cogley

Just last night, my sister sent out a vague tweet that made no sense to me out of context: http://twitter.com/awarnoc... So I suggested she blog about the topic so that readers like me would understand the context. http://twitter.com/awarnoc... http://zelzega.blogspot.com/2009... - Peter Warnock

Just because you can finish a thought, doesn't mean people will read it. - Will Higgins™

Tell me about it. That happened earlier in this very thread. But at least you ca read it yourself. - Dave Winer

Just as your diary became your journal and then your log, your log has become your stream. The web has become your life..... AND SO IT WAS, that in the year naught-nine, the web-log was renamed to life-stream, dissected, and it's pieces scattered about the hundreds of "cloud" services, from which it could fall as raindrops of thought, pinging here and there in an attempt to spread ideas to where they were needed the most. - Joel Bennett

Here's a picture, even easier than 140 chars. http://tr.im/qrBb - Dave Winer

Haha, love it! - Rick Cogley

Love the idea! - Sampad Swain

Where's yours? - Dave Winer

Me too. :-) - Dave Winer

What do you mean, I have always been able to finish a ... ooh a nice shiny object... - Marcel de Jong

Isn't it ironic that this post contained a clear and concise thesis, in under 140 characters? - Mike Chelen

Good point Mike... - Mark Harai

There's NOTHING wrong with brevity. There is a time and a place for discussion and lengthy discourse. - Will Higgins™

Matthew DeVries: that covers definitions 1 and 2, yet the 3rd is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result," where in this case the expected result was to explain how new platforms prevent thoughts from being finished, and the actual result was to the contrary :D - Mike Chelen

aren't we all copying from the same online dictionary? http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... - Mike Chelen

wow, you got it perfectly word-for-word, remind me to pick you for my crossword puzzle team :) - Mike Chelen

mathew ingram

the NYT has musings about Canada from Rick Moranis, Kim Cattrall, Melissa Auf der Mar and Malcolm Gladwell: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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AP: Republican Norm Coleman concedes to Democrat Al Franken in Minn. Senate race.

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huh - MikeAmundsen

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BREAKING: The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million - http://mashable.com/2009...

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On Elephant Sanctuary, Unlikely Friends ----- (Elephant and dog are best buds. You GOTTA see this! So heart-warming ;-) - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...

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"When elephants retire, many head for the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. They arrive one by one, but they tend to live out their lives two-by-two. "Every elephant that comes here searches out someone that she then spends most all of her time with," says sanctuary co-founder Carol Buckley. It's like having a best girlfriend, Buckley says - "Somebody they can relate to, they have something in common with." Debbie has Ronnie. Misty can't live without Dulary. Those are pachyderm-pachyderm pairs. But perhaps the closest friends of all are Tarra and Bella. That would be Tarra the 8,700 pound Asian elephant. And Bella. The dog. "This is her friend," Buckley says, scratching Bella's tummy. "Her friend just happens to be a dog and not an elephant."" - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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There is a video in this story that has to been seen to believe. An elephant and a dog are best friends and their relationship is absolutely heart-warming. - Brad Williamson

I just love animals! - BEX

Caught this and loved it! Tell me that animals don't have emotion...wrong! They are even picky about who their friends are. I wish homo sapiens would evolve to the level of animals. - Pamela Mayer

Leo Laporte

Landscape Mode Test - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

June 28, 2009 from YouTube - Comment - Like - Share

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We need to see more of these "behind the scenes of Leo's life" videos! - Eric Geller

Are there iPhone lens accessories? Something like a swivel-able periscope case that can shoot at various angles in relation to the screen (forwards, straight up, ahead, etc). - Chuck Kahn

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Book Based on 'Texts From Last Night' Blog Sold to Gotham Publishing - http://www.observer.com/2009...

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"The mini-genre of books based on popular blogs shows no signs of abating, as the folks behind “Texts From Last Night” score a deal with the Gotham Books imprint of Penguin. The blog, which has been in operation for just a few months and, according to the agent who did this deal, currently averages 3.5 million hits per day, amounts to a regularly updated stream of sometimes funny, often embarrassing user-submitted text messages concerned mostly with sex and drinking." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

http://TextsFromLastNight.com -- HILARIOUS site! - Brad Williamson

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