JonathanJoseph

Some a capella and vocal goodness: http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh1... - James Williams (willia4)

I just started using Pandora last week, but here is my station (all indie rock): http://pandora.com/stations/8c... - Bret Taylor

Morcheeba as a station always brings in some good stuff. - Patrick Lightbody

You don't need a station, you just need to listen to Bluesky by the Allman brothers, twice :) - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

Eric Lindell - JonathanJoseph

Also! You never got to tell me your "funny pandora story" when we met at the TechCrunch party. Lucia at pandora dot com if you still remember it. ;) - Pandora Radio

You may want to get used to that, or maybe Friendfeed can move that conversation over here? - Mike Lewis

Ah, the joys of walled gardens. The aggregators tend not to talk to each other, though FriendFeed is pretty open. But I did find it interesting to discover yesterday that MyBlogLog directly imports FriendFeed streams, but not vice versa. Strands doesn't import or export with either. - £ogical €xtremes

@logicalextremes Strands let's you import virtually any RSS feed. So you can take your FF feed (http://friendfeed.com/<username>?format=atom and import it over there without a problem. - Jason Herskowitz

@Jason Yes, the miracles of RSS. Sorry, I should have been more clear that I meant native support. Not a big difference in practice I know, but native makes it clearer what's going on (look at all of the RSS feeds into people's FriendFeed streams - often gets confusing where they come from and how to differentiate between them). - £ogical €xtremes

Sounds a lot like "Getting a lot of comments on FriendFeed instead of my blog. Ugh!" Same story. - Louis Gray

well it would be about time.... - Louis Dershowitz

Do you consider a Sports OneBox to be Google Sports? Or do you mean a full-fledged Sports destination site? - Arpit Vaidya

@Chester It's just common sense - JonathanJoseph

@JonathanJoseph: That it was a factor may be common sense, but that it was a "demand" is not. To state that bailout of Mae/Mac/AIG was literally at the behest of the Chinese government is a pretty dramatic contention and I was asking if this was referring to some sort of news report or a statement of personal speculation. - Chester

Not sarcasm. Result of a discussion with PE and hedge fund guys who were parties to bailout negotiations. Confirmed by a regulator. Ask yourself why the Fed wholeheartedly supports Citic deal. - Christopher Sacca

After looking at physics, economics, evolution, conspiracy theories, and politics, I don't trust common sense to be a good guide to the world. Things are much more nuanced, complex, and counterintuitive than instincts guide us to believe. - Amit Patel

I think that's a good comparison. But then I'm a Cnn hatter. :D) - Colide81 (James)

I'm not terribly fond of CNN either but, comparing Leo Laporte to someone on CNN when you involve something like Twitter is kind of silly. You're comparing new media to mainstream media. It just doesn't work out. Plenty of my family watches CNN and you're lucky if they have an e-mail address (some of them have MySpace which is very "in" you know?). Say Twitter and they say "Wha?" - Candace Holly

Candace: that's not ridiculous. CNN has a much larger audience than Leo does. And, they've been talking about Twitter non-stop on his show it seems (and others). What that tells me is that going after the mainstream isn't going to bring companies that holy grail they think it will. - Robert Scoble

It says to me that regular people haven't quite picked up the concept of Twitter yet. Anyone I talk to at work, in my family etc have no clue what Twitter is. Where as the audience of TWiT will use *anything* Leo is using. - Candace Holly

Candace: it's NOT kind of silly. CNN is making a huge bet on Twitter. Yet its viewers aren't showing up. I find that interesting and worth studying. It's also worth studying how unengaged CNN's audience is. Why do advertisers pay to get in front of such an unengaged audience? - Robert Scoble

If CNN's putting a big bet on Twitter, I think they're nuts. I'll bet money that a good majority of their audience won't/don't want to use Twitter. - Candace Holly

They get a lot of interaction from iReport though, don't they? Maybe Twitter has to pick up some steam. - Shawn Farner

People "watch" TV. it isn't an interactive experience for people (yet). Sure there's a web page, and you can send them an email, but for the most part you sit on the couch and watch. Leo is much more interactive with his audience with live streaming and live chat rooms while he is recording. I think that's the difference. And Leo keeps begging for followers so he can catch Obama and Rose. - Mark VandenBerg

Candace: you should watch CNN. They talk about Twitter a LOT. - Robert Scoble

I'm not sure you've actually got opposing views, here. - WorldofHiglet

Says he needs to be on Adult Swim more - Outsanity

+1 Mark. He nailed it. People *watch* television. They don't interact. Please don't make me watch CNN...I really would rather not :P My brother watches it enough for four people. - Candace Holly

@WoH I think so. Once Robert explained a little more I saw what he meant. - Candace Holly

It says that CNN isn't relevant to the internet generation and they (CNN) know this. The last 3 major news events that were breaking live (earthquakes) had people finding out first and being reported as finding out first via Twitter and not CNN which had always been the go to place for current information. So CNN is trying to coral the Twitter effect by bringing it into their newscast in an effort to keep people from drifting away from CNN and instead running to Twitter and the Blog-o-sphere for news. - Adam Turetzky

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... is an article about Twitter on CNN. - Robert Scoble

it's all fun and games until Nancy Grace attributes cross-dressing NAMBLA sexual assaults to a sect of DeKalb County twitterers - Andy Sternberg

Interesting idea, but CNN may be way out in front of the curve. Also CNN (as well as FOX News and MSNBC) doesn't seem to have the tech-savvy demographics that suggest the average viewer would be a user of advanced social media vehicles. http://www.stateofthenewsmedia... (Demographics at the very bottom of the article) - Mark VandenBerg

Leo has increasingly NOT been using Twitter. According to him on a recent Twit...he's switched over to identi.ca primarily. - Eddie Sherman

Leo: 55,800 followers; Sanchez: 16,000 followers. I'd say this backs up Robert's point that Sanchez with a larger audience isn't reaching his audience in the same way that Leo reaches his. And yes, Eddie, Leo only Tweets a couple times a day anymore, but it doesn't change the numbers. - Mark VandenBerg

Here's another viewpoint, that most Twitter followers aren't real: http://bit.ly/v53lB - Robert Scoble

Three observations. #1. IT"S RICK SANCHEZ! He's from South Florida..no wonder. That guys' a serious tool. Can't believe he made it to CNN. #2. I'm not surprised most followers aren't real. #3. Why is the picture of Calacanis on that site making him look like a tool? o.0 - Candace Holly

I'm actually not real. :-) - Warren Colbert via Alert Thingy

Interesting post, Robert, but this part makes me wary: "I defined a “real follower” as someone who follows less than 300 twitter accounts..." By that definition, neither you nor I are a "real" follower, which isn't particularly accurate. - Lon Harris via twhirl

Nor is Arrington or Calacanis. Sooooo, the author wrote an article about three non-existant Twitter accounts? - Mark VandenBerg

the twitter feed loses meaning after 150 followers (who are real), I'm guessing - anna awesomesauce

I'm from a small town...only 1 other person in my town uses Twitter. - Eddie Sherman

Here ya go hahahah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Eddie Sherman

Robert, when you compare numbers between Sanchez and Laporte shouldn't you be taking into account the amount of time that they have been on Twitter? I haven't checked this but I would imagine that Leo has been on Twitter a lot longer than Sanchez. I'd like to see how long it took Sanchez to gain 16K followers and how that pace compares to Laporte, Kevin Rose, Obama, etc. - Mike Doeff

@Holly +1 - Mathew Ballard

I'd say this is another real world/mainstream example of just how wide the chasm between web 2.0 early adopters and mainstream adoption really is. The number of people who watch CNN is exponentially higher than the number of people who have ever heard of Leo Laporte. - JonathanJoseph

try claratin or some other allergy med - imabonehead

I am on claratin. I'm starting to think that taking it every 12 hours instead of every 24 may help. - Jeremy Zawodny

Somethings are better than claritin. They don't help with allergies, but you forget you have them. - Stephan Miller via fftogo

i just started taking claratin again this weekend. the first tab kicked my a$$. claratin usually doesn't do that. contemplating taking another just now. when i *really* need to breathe (ie before going to bed) i take shot of nostrilla (aka darino for the nose). not the best long term remedy but one has to breathe, from time to time. - James Todd