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It's not the age of the man that bothers me, it's the age of his ideas. Even my 80 yo mother can surf the internet, skype and email. - Sally Church

Hysterically funny, but Borowitz usually is. - Warner Crocker

Sally: even his advisers are frustrated that McCain's inner circle doesn't get this. Obama's advisers tell me they are going to make this a big deal during the election cycle. - Robert Scoble

Robert, wow. Sometimes it is moments like that where you realise that time has moved on. - Sally Church

Sally: here's a note from Kevin Werbach "Technology Matters:" http://www.circleid.com/posts... - Robert Scoble

i know a president could successfully run our country without ever touching a computer, but the fact that he doesn't understand them at all... i just wish these politicians would have a skills draft or something and pick influential people from all areas to help their cause. - Kyle A Koch

Couldn't get mapquest to work??? 5 days to figure out on line shopping. This is a mistake, he should have just let it go. - Victor Ryden

What is scary about this is the lack of *CURIOSITY* about the world, the mental rigidity. Dangerous traits for an American president. - Sean McBride

Victor: the article is a joke. But the sentiment behind it is not. McCain doesn't feel he needs to learn about technology and doesn't feel he needs to have a serious technology policy. All the congressmen/women I interviewed felt it was important to have a national policy toward broadband, network neutrality, advertising and privacy, child protection, and a host of other issues. Will someone who rarely is online, or who only understands what's happening on the Internet from other people be able to lead? - Robert Scoble

Robert - McCain doesn't feel the need or urge to learn about anything -- it's not just the Internet. Thus the endless stream of "gaffes" (ignorant misunderstandings about the world), McCain has a few core beliefs, fanatically held; empirical data matter not a whit to him. - Sean McBride

Robert - Wow, that's a relief (I think), I had already saw a couple of comments so when I went to the article I didn't look carefully at the context. I agree that the most important issue is going to be his choice of advisors. - Victor Ryden

Permit me to speculate that some of McCain's top advisers may actively hate the Internet -- it represents a threat to their monopoly control over public discussion through the traditional MSM. The Internet is blowing the MSM to smithereens, and the owners and controllers of the MSM are not happy campers. - Sean McBride

I hear he is very excited about Geocities... - Johnny Worthington

Robert, from your sources, is "Victory Co-chair" Carly Fiorinna more than window-dressing? Surely she has Something to say about tech policy. Maybe she can propose a tech country for US to acquire...the way HP acquired Compaq - Michael Markman

For me, this issue isn't just about tech and the internet per se, but also about wider issues of how technology now affects our everyday lives in science, medicine, education etc. The impact of science and technology is becoming increasingly complex; sometimes I wonder how much many of the baby boomers in Congress really understand and grasp the mettle. How can you have and implement policies on stem cells or genetic testing, for example, if you don't even understand the basics, never mind the big picture? - Sally Church

If Obama gets all of the geek vote, he'll only need 49.899% of the rest to be elected. - eggsy

Obama is likely to get the vote of all those who are worried that a grumpy and angry old man is going to embroil Americans in another trillion-dollar disaster like the Iraq War. Last I checked, that was a solid majority. - Sean McBride

Perhaps this is really about communication through technology... I've been impressed with the way Obama's staff are active on Soc Nets and answer questions via pm's or forums etc, even though I'm for less government. Many Gen Y are active on FB, grew up with technology and being able to communicate online. How many of those new new voters showed up in the primaries? - Sally Church

am torn: congress is/should be the major actor in most tech considerations VS but the president has a much larger bully pulpit to generate issue support; the next president will have much more important and immediate issues to deal with VS tech will continue to grow in importance; u can't know everything, this is what advisers are for VS tech will continue to increase in importance - at the end of the day I totally understand why this issue resonates but its far from a voting issue for me - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

this has nothing to do with technology. this has everything to do with elitism. ...and that is nothing new for tyranny of the left. Robert Scoble... you and your elitist private feed friends wouldn't know innovation if it slapped you in the face. http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2007... - Noah David Simon

@noah - i'm not sure it is in this case - I think it is a reverse example of the power of these tools - usually they allow us to find points of commonality and understanding of one another through the mutual sharing of an array of little pieces of information - those connections impact the way we process one another's information - we are more likely to give the thoughts of someone we have something in common with the ben. of the doubt. Tech is a passion of most here, mccain has indicated he doesnt share it - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

I don't care if he can buy a book at Amazon or not but not having first hand experience of the Web culture is a huge deficit, imo. - Tom Guarriello

Funny how the dirty slurs of politics morph over time. How did "elitist" become the slur du jour? And how did it come to label people who question an enviornment that protects the wealth of the super rich at the expense of the middle class? That's just screwy. We had a class warfare. the rich won. (and they call the losers "elitists"): http://snurl.com/32t96 - Michael Markman

elitists are the people who live off of hierarchy. the rich don't give a damn about the hierarchy, cuz they are already rich. it is the nouveau rich that back stab their way up. Regardless, ur idea of what tech is betrays your ignorance when you think web dialog is high tech. Most high tech people are not big dialogers. Tech folks tend to not be into argument. I went to Carnegie Mellon.... more... - Noah David Simon

friendfeed is a forum... like a coffee shop on the left bank of paris. this isn't a bunch of mechanic geeks tooling around. The tech stuff is mostly consumer based. I'm not buying the pretensions. yes folks.. wake up and smell the coffee... you are elitists. it might not be a bad thing if there were more transparency within the forum, but most of your agendas are hidden behind your... more... - Noah David Simon

It doesn't bother me when politicians don't use computers, because they are in such an old school meatspace business. politicians do their work in person. not their staffs, but the candidates for sure. what bothers me is that the internet is not like anything but itself. metaphors don't work. so if you don't have it as part of your life, you have no idea what it is and you aren't qualified to make policy related to it. - Lucas Gonze

Definitely the next monopoly potentially, and maybe the biggest ever -- my opinion. No limit. - Sean McBride

No, it's not. Sorry to burst bubbles. Desktop apps will still be more efficient. The real battle is between who can convert offline content into online content (and vice verse) most effectively. That's why Google offers a rather weak offline service and Microsoft is trying for an online OS. I actually think that Microsoft is really well positioned (outside of the cloud) with their push... more... - John Budnik

Yes desktop apps are more efficient, but do we really need them for most common tasks? Furthermore, Flash player 9 is installed over 98% of computers, Flash 10 will propose 3D effects API, and sound API. Microsoft is proposing Silverlight starting from scratch. Tough fight ... - Antoine Brunel

John: in which areas of cloud computing and webtop computing is Microsoft ahead of Google and Amazon? I have trouble envisioning your scenario. - Sean McBride

I guess other players want to enter the game http://www.webcloudworld.com/headlin... - webcloudworld

coool pic!! I'd love to be able to crunch my FF thru this app!! code? - Susan Beebe

now that is cool.. if it was interactive and you could highlight a name to see where things were going from/to, it would be perfect! - Tim Hoeck

Tim: oooh coool idea!! interactive FTW! - Susan Beebe

Nice map! - Robert Scoble

Your network data can be obtained via ffsixdegrees, just click on the "Export pajek .net file" link. Then load the data into Pajek and do some visualization magic. Or send me a mail and I see what I can do. BTW: if someone knows a good interactive visualization toolkit, tell me! - Benedikt Koehler

Benedikt: here's my email: smbeebe {at} gmail dot com ... very interested in this for my social network here on Friendfeed; use my account "susanbeebe" Thanks! - Susan Beebe

Susan, is your FF account set to private? I haven't integrated authentication yet. :( - Benedikt Koehler

that's awesome! - Mona Nomura

Benedikt; OK I just unlocked it...no longer private... go for it! - Susan Beebe

I successfully ran your script, yeah!! Thanks, I love it! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

Hey, I just received the visuals from Benedikt on my FF social network --> http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

Looks like somthing to come out of CERN, eh Scoble! - Roberto Bonini

Benedikt - I would also like to run your script against my friendfeed cloud. I sucked out my data from ffsixdegrees. Can you work some visualization magic and get me the results? ffuser: infinitelymeta email: brian dot eisenberg at gmail Great Work! Thanks. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Benedikt - Want to connect on Facebook and share Nexus graphs? http://friendfeed.com/e... We're connected directly through Timo Heuer & Mark Fruchter, and we can trace some of our 2-3-4-5-6 level connections in Facebook via our Nexus graphs. The Nexus visualization tool is neat (e.g. you can type in a person's name to highlight them in the graph). Perhaps you could contact them to share their code? - Mitchell Tsai

Benedikt, I'm getting a 500 error on export of my FFSixDegrees http://metaroll.com/ffsixde... Trying to make a graph like yours using Pajek. - Hao Chen

When can we do this with say, twitter+friendfeed+facebook? just tried to have a look at interactive friends graph on FB http://apps.new.facebook.com/friends.... it's broken. doh - Christian Anderson

Christian, have you tried Nexus? http://nexus.ludios.net/ - Hao Chen

thanks, Hoa. i hadn't. it's cachunking now. i have tried several similar apps on fb, but not that one. - Christian Anderson

got it. it looks like a spirograph picture from when i was a kid. - Christian Anderson

Christian, take a look at this http://www.krazydad.com/bestiar... - Benedikt Koehler

When will we be able to do this with twitter + friendfeed + facebook + myspace + youtube + etc +++ something that will aggregate ALL friends into one list? That would be useful, n'est pas? - Chris Loft

Interesting post, Corvida, as I've felt the same boredom in recent weeks. I do think August ennui has set in and once fall approaches, with all its myriad tech conferences (ahem), new excitement will spring up. - Carla Thompson

LOL Carla. We've always known it as the "pre-DEMO doldrums" when NOTHING new launches and everyone just churns the same content. - Cyndy

Why didn't you send me a memo about that Cyndy. DEMO needs to hurry up and get here. - Corvida

Corvida, we haven't had a good bitchmeme in weeks either. - Rob Diana

@Rob lol very true. What's there to bitch about that we haven't already bitched about? - Corvida from twhirl

early stages of blogger burnout. i've seen it happen to hundreds before. if it were me -- and i've blogged since '99 -- i'd step away from the computer -- and the mobile device -- and do other things for a while. however long it takes. and put the de rigeur 'on hiatus' page on my blog. lol - .LAG liked that

Unfortunately it hits harder if you are blogging on your own. I agree with what Aaron said in the comments. Guest posting. You could find a friend of yours that does not want to start their own blog and just ask them if they want to contribute to yours every now and again. Its likely they would give you great ideas on where to take things. - Amber, Random Time Lord

I wondered where you went. :) Don't worry, it's just a little case of burnout. You'll be excited again soon. - Sarah Perez

There are tons of stories, even in Silicon Valley. I just visited Meebo and learned a ton. They have 10x the users of Twitter. But why is Twitter on Techmeme every week and Meebo isn't? - Robert Scoble

Sometimes you gotta hit the pause button. - Bill Sodeman

I just watched Roberts Qik Video on Meebo and installed a chat room on a web site..Interesting for sure - Ian May

Robert, Meebo mostly just rides the backs of other instant messaging services. Do you want to read about AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Messenger -- things that haven't really changed much in years? Isn't some of the reason folks are so enamored w/Twitter because it is a big change vs. those services? - Robert Seidman

@LAG @Sarah Perez - I don't consider this blogger's burnout. Sarah, we had a talk about my stage of blogger's burnout lol. I still have my desire to blog. I'm just having a hard time finding something of value to blog about. - Corvida

i think it's just temporary burnout - i get it for a week or so here or there - feels like i've been blogging about the same subject forever (more than 1100 posts on the same subject anyway) but then i get back in to it from a spark. it usually starts by me getting out of my comfort area and checking out new blogs and personalities - there's something about fresh powder that stirs the old desire to write. - Morgan

@Corvida: the desire to add value to your posts is why people enjoy reading and following you. more power to you. - .LAG liked that

Corvida - A little confused here. Are you still doing RWW and Mashable, or did you switch? Just curious (I'm sure I'm not the only one ?!) - Charlie Anzman

Charlie I've only worked for RWW and Guidewire Group, not Mashable. - Corvida

this article features my company, TurnHere - I'm super-excited!!! - Morgan

This all makes complete sense. If I'm looking local and I'd like to know more about a contractor or craftsperson, I'd like to get a little more than just the company's hours of operation and their location. Give me some substance and let me hear from the owner or the employees. Content like this makes me a very curious customer and the more I can see, the more likely I am to follow through on my purchase. @Morgan Congratulations on the mention. - Christopher Harley

The VP of Programming for Vision Media TV (the purported scammers) brags out loud on his site that he's converted to Christianity and he has degrees in Philosophy and Religion (http://www.matthewmcmahon.com/). Any time some one brags about these things, a douchebag/swindler/filthy politician alert goes off in my head. Perhaps we ought to write to his church, which is listed on his website, to let everyone there know what kind of a person he is. - Raoul Pop

This game is very common. Every time a breathless mktg pers comes in and says "they want to put us on TV" I ask for how much. - Brad Nickel

and this is where the blogosphere /EFF MUST Step in and help.. and make a ruckus .. WTH sues a for $15M in puntative and $5M as damage.. that company s/NOW be paying th blogger for all the legal stress she us udnergoing ! - Peter Dawson

And we could just buy stuff from her site: http://www.theokobox.com/. That would make it partially worth it. Contacted a litigator I know to rep her. See if he will for the PR factor. - Brad Nickel

anybody with more organizational skills than myself want to setup some sort of fund (heck even paypal?). I'd be willing to chip in some $ to help this person...and no offense to the lesser known people on FF, but my comfort level would increase if it was a well known FF'er... - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I wonder if every blogger that is reading creates a post the rips apart Vision Media TV for unethical practices , would they sue each and every1 of us ?? Call for action here ! - Peter Dawson

I was waiting for something like this - Can you imagine the panic if that kind of headline had appeared in the 50s? - Frederic

News Fail - Morgan

that is unfortunate, but it think Red Dawn foretold this happening. Better call the wolverines. - Blackopsmanners

I regularly encounter issues because of my alias "Ontario Emperor" (which is named for the California city, not the Canadian province). But I've never been the target of an invasion. P.S. Is there really a city in the nation of Georgia with the name "Java"? As if the country didn't have enough confusion already... - Ontario Emperor

Woah. - Corie

lol - Noah David Simon

I've never found a proper source but have heard some urban legends (or would be it be rural legends?) that local farmers flooded downtown Warsaw, North Carolina in 1939 after radio reports and word spread about the German invasion. - Jay Cuthrell

That's what I immediately thought! I thought that the Russians were killing our Georgia! - Nate Pilling from twhirl

OMG. And they said WE were the Northern Aggressors. - Cyndy

I thought noncompete agreements were already unenforceable in California. What did this decision change? - Tudor Bosman

Hope that stands and expands. I've seen some particularly onerous noncompetes in the radio business: employees making at or near an area's median income -- not even managerial people -- prohibited from working anywhere within 100 miles of their current homes for 6 months to a year. Outrageous. - Chris Baskind

That's right: even if you signed a noncompete at friendfeed, it's unenforceable and shouldn't prevent you from coming back to your friends at Google. Just remember lawyer Eric Kastner's condition in that article, "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information", that is, secrets still have to stay secret. For example, as a former Microsoft Employee I'm not allowed to disclose the location of the secret army of evil monkeys. http://www.bbspot.com/News... - Jorg Brown

Ironically enough, I found this very article at "socialmedian" this morning, posted to "twitter" then commenting on "friendfeed". Are we real? - Kenichi Matsumoto

HA - Mona Nomura

I have time for it:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I was with a bunch of real people tonight. What did we talk about? Our jobs, relationships, movies, food/restaurants... you know, things that regular people talked about before the social media timesuck. - Louie

Real people hardly have time to do anything. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Louie is one of those guys who always ruins a party. Sigh. Today I saw Dark Knight, which was OK, but Maryam thought it sucked. Argued politics at one party. Talked about all sorts of things at another party. Now am working on a column about the future of journalism. - Robert Scoble

Ummm why the early 90's have to register to read the article?? - Justin Yost

this reminds me very much of when girls would give us a hard time for talking sports all day. The sentiment is captured well in City Slickers. What's important to some folks just isn't to others. - Morgan

Damnn Robert you are (quite literally) the first person I've heard from who didn't like The Dark Knight. - Mohit

Mohit: I liked it, my wife didn't. - Robert Scoble

Chuck Norris doesn't have time for social media, nobody lives long enough to comment on his fighting skill anyway - Antoine Bertier

Robert, I think FB is the one social networking app that most "normal" people have learned to love. Just not sure if they have room for more than one. - Kate

Even overhearing folks at church talk about Facebook and MySpace. - Todd Jordan

if FB is the social media for "normal people" then I NEVER want to be normal!!! - Dieter Schwarz

I can't seem to access the article, but I get the drift. I like Clay Shirky's talk on video discussing where we find the time: http://tinyurl.com/5o79x3 I tell my colleagues that, yes, a lot of people are busy, but then a lot of other people also just watch TV. I spend hours online instead of (or often in addition to) watching TV. Television has made our minds very inactive over the years. - Connie Crosby

So true. That's why most of my non-geek friends have a Facebook/MySpace account. I guess we all must be living in the Matrix. - darnell

I use Social Media quite a lot, but I probably watch less than an hour's TV a month. I'd rather interact with 'real' people - geeks or otherwise, online, than suffer the largely mindless dross and BS pumped out of the idiot box, which I can't answer back. - Ian May

Hmm, when I try to click the 'About SocialMedian' page, I get that signup prompt. So I have to sign up and then find out what you are about? Weak sauce. - beersage

+1 Morgan - BeeLing

@beersage -- we agree. we haven't had a chance to get rid of some of the remaining registration requirements we put in place during alpha. Will be cleaning that up soon. - Jason Goldberg

I would spend more time with Social Media if I didn't keep getting headaches from reading. - Shelly Weiss

Well, if you look at the entire population of the world and how they spend their time, "real" people are mostly engaged in backbreaking labor in filthy conditions and wondering where their next meal is coming from. So can I be fake please? Thank you. - Karim

It also depends on age demographics. Being 27 - everyone my age and below spends hours on Facebook/Myspace or both. My housemate is just two years old and has a Myspace account but barely uses it. I think Social Media is something the younger generations have as a part of their life and devote their time to it like it was any other entertainment vessel.... - George Smith

Good interview, overall. I particularly liked the advice, "Choose 1 important thing each day, and come hell or high water ensure it's DONE today." - Brent Newhall

Hi, I think the changes you made to the show are a lot better. Good idea going with the Charlie Rose black background. I was one of the guys that posted some pretty direct feedback, but i quite enjoyed this show. :) - sergiooo from NoiseRiver

Mr. Rissell reminds me a LOT of GaryVee. Healthy intensity. - Gerald Buckley

@mike: I don't really think it's all that misleading, I wanted to point that we now integrate FF comments right within the discussion on Profy instead of having it on FF only. And there's no doubt FF is great and can give us a lot, otherwise we would not have bothered to integrate it. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

so why not something less negative like "profy is redesigned, now with improved integration of friendfeed comments" - by saying that you were losing comments "to" ff you've implied that they were taking them from you - which of course they weren't... - mike "glemak" dunn

@mike: This is exactly what they used to do and this is exactly why we argued for so long that FF is damaging conversation on blogs seriously. I don't think it's negative, really, I think it just points out that we have found a way not to lose the comments. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): Svetlana, you never lost those comments. To lose them you'd have to either own or possess them. Your commenters put them where they were most convenient to THEM. You don't own them. Never did. So, yes, your phrasing is not only misleading, it's vaguely insulting. As glemak says, FriendFeed was never taking them and suggesting they were even implicitly just echoes in the original tin ear. - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

i never bought into the damaging conversation issue but i do see the way you've implemented this thread on your blog, which is very cool - most likely i would never have entered into this level of conversation w/ you on your blog prior to friendfeed because profy was just one of ~900 feeds i had in my reader - but friendfeed has allowed this to occur easier i supposed - the fact that its fully represented here and on your blog spliced in w/ your blog-only comments is very slick - well done :) - mike "glemak" dunn

WTF? Semantics! Viral title on point! Since Friend Feed bloggers commenting here not on blogs! So where is the title wrong? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Same as Mike said(plural) and Alexander. Good integration Svetlana. - Mark Forman

This seems incredibly useful. Looking forward to the WP plugin making its way to all my favorite blogs. Stealing, fragmenting, losing, whatever you want to call it: the old system didn't work. - Nicholas Molnar

@mike: Thank you, glad you understand why this has been done even if you don't believe the fragmented conversation is in any way damaging for blogs. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Igor: Can I please ask you to keep a milder tone now that the comments are both here and on Profy as well? Appreciate your support a lot! - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Mark Forman: I'm not the one behind the actual coding but thanks anyway and I am glad that you like the integration. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Nicholas: This is exactly what we think and this is exactly why we had a developer working on it for almost a month. Hopefully it will be finalized soon so that we could distribute it to other interested bloggers as well. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

I tend to think opposite - if FF creates environment which draws comments from blogs to them, then there _is_ problem for blogs as it turns into mere place-to-cast-your-raw-brain, while blog shall be place for conversation/discussion. you can talk a lot about commenters leaving their comments where it is good for them, but for blogs it is still situation "lack of oxygen pillow is lack of oxygen pillow no matter what others say you about that" - A.T.

@Alexander: I don't own the comments by our readers and I don't claim to but since the comments are around the content that we create I believe that it would not hurt having them on our blog as well. BTW, the existing FF plugins already do the same - they just keep them in a separate block under each post. We have chosen to combine them, that's basically it. And I know that the issue of who owns comments is still too acute but it's an old discussion that I'm not sure if I want to go in again. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

It's funny. Everyone on platforms besides WP cried because they didn't have a plugin...now most other platforms have more advanced features than the WP plugin - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): I'm totally for the comments being replicated down. From a technological and personal perspective, it's long past time there was a unified comment distribution mechanism and if FF or even Disqus or an unholy hybrid can do that, all the better. No, what I object to is the provocative titling. Profy NEVER lost comments to FriendFeed. Not once. Those comments... more... - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

without dipping in to the comment ownership fray here the integration is really well done. it leaves me hoping that disqus will roll out similar functionality at some point. - Morgan

@Morgan: Thank you and I myself hope that Disqus or SezWho will roll out something similar soon because obviously it will have better chances for wider adoption. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Alexander Williams: Ok, I guess I misunderstood you initially and I now see that you are more uncomfortable about the title only and actually support the integration of comments. I can see how the title can be misleading but since this is exactly how I felt I chose to use it. But it is too difficult discussion about who actually owns discussion around content and I don't really want to go into it if I can find a workaround. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): Actually, at least in the US, it's very easy to determine who owns the discussion around any content: the writers. I maintain that such is the only reasonable approach to such things as well, else you're asserting authority over someone else's work merely because it's ABOUT your content, which is hard to defend. FriendFeed doesn't own my commentary; I do.... more... - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

I just commented on this Profy blog post and it did not show up here! I guess you have to fix that! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

@Alexander Williams - unfortunately you demonstrate classical US approach "everything shall be US-alike just because /inseart-name-here/ has no other experience, even if there is no indication of US around" ... I happen to live in EU (in Finland when it comes down to details) and I tend to think we shall not artificially bound us to USA legislation and "order of things" even if we have too many loud mouths which tend to think everything around shall be US-centric. - A.T.

@Alexander Williams unless you explain why on Earth I shall expose myself to one of the most wrong jurisdictions in world, I'd rather to call you suggestions silly, ungrounded and shall-be-ignored. - A.T.

Igor, this is exactly what is supposed to happen. There are a few bugs that our guys are fixing right now since this is not exactly stable. As for FF cookie, I am not quite sure it is absolutely possible but I'll check with our guys, of course. - Svetlana Gladkova

Igor, looks like fixed finally - my previous comment has been sent from the post itself. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

Now fixed? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Ok it send the comment here but does not post it on the blog! Did you turn moderation on? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Also when you comment here it does not go to the blog! It use to! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Also when I commented on the blog it brought the comment here but it also brought it to my FF page! I do not know if you want to feed the commentator's FF page also? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Fixed from the blog to here but broke vice versa, working on it right now - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

It is strange! Commenting here send the comment to FF but it places the comment on the blog post in the wrong order! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Let's all use UTC and forget about different time zones! ;) - Markus

All very good reasons. I can't live without my Freemind maps. Whether its planning code or even just problem solving. Its a lot more intuitive than trying to use Planner (or MS Project) to plan something, and can then be easily translated across to Project software if you need it to. Its especially good for defining your own workflow and strategies as well. - Stephen Cropp

I've been trying out mind maps every now and then but still haven't been convinced. What exactly is it about mind maps that make you more productive or efficient? - Benedikt Koehler

I've started to doodle mind maps instead of notes for meetings and it certainly makes more sense to me when I return to the notes - Andy Britcliffe from twhirl

What are the best programs to Mind map? - Toby Graham

Desktop - Mindjet mindmanager - Sasha Kovaliov(.com) from twhirl

I use FreeMind. Open source and multiplatform. - Mario Camou from twhirl

They need to get smarter first. MindMeister gets close with the nodes you can click on to search for pages related to the node. I want to create a mindmap and have it suck in my bookmarks related to each node on the map via tags. That way I can just build the map, have the research I have done before come to me and then move on from there. - Stephan Miller from twhirl

Anyone remember "The Brain"? So much promise - but it didn't quite work. Mindjet is a really good but doesn't integrate well enough into my todo / project managment solution. - Soulhuntre

I loved The Brain. I used it for web site architecture, too - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

Mindmapping is a useful construct. We used it with the major scenarios of our last software release and -- with MMPro and a TFS Plugin -- exported them directly into Microsoft Team System. Cool. - Robert W. Anderson from twhirl

Any good web-based Mind Mapping solutions? Ultimately I'd like an Evernote for Mind Mapping which would run everywhere. - Al Degutis from twhirl

I would lose my mind without mindjet mindmanager - adolfo foronda

As I mentioned early --I'm a mindmapper junkie...and doing it collaboratively via mindmeister in real time has been great with clients. - Leif Hansen

Al: www.mindmeister.com :) (multiple user updating real time, one touch Skype, jottable notes via 1. “My Geistesblitzes” = widget (Windows and Mac compatible) 2. SMS (Twitter) or 3. e-mail plus moticons, smilies, and tons of visuals galore. Once complied, the map can be exported and shared in various ways; which for a free service is phenomenal, plus the data can be exported in multiple ways.. I blogged about it here -> http://bit.ly/1EdpIG) - Mona Nomura

love mindmeister! - Peter van Teeseling

Mindnode! very lightweight and useful. - Akshay Dodeja

@The Doctor: FreeMind isn't as good as kdissert, which is being renamed to Semantik. - Tanath

btw, which plugin allows for friendfeed comments directly on the blog? Or is that a Movable Type blog you've got there... Oh, no it's not. Which plugin is that? - Zee.

Great post, you hit most of my recent peeves. - Heather Solos

@Zee - WordPress: http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpre... - Chris Brogan

strange - sure i have that installed but I'm not getting the ability to add comments directly on the blog which is awesome. Will look into it - cheers. - Zee.

I let it scroll by on Twhirl. I watched Mona's video and am afraid. - Eric Schlissel from twhirl

The annotations don't show up UGH!!! Eric: What's wrong with the way I FF? SHEESH - Mona Nomura

That was seriously painful to watch. She really needs to be on about 1000mg of Ritalin every day. - Gregory Pittman

I don't use client tools. I use Firefox 3 on Windows Vista and just refresh a LOT. I also use the iPhone a ton on FriendFeed. Refresh. Refresh. Click Like. Refresh. Comment. Refresh. Go to the Everything tab. Refresh. Search on a topic. Refresh. Etc. - Robert Scoble

@monasfeed nothing "wrong" per se, I just wonder what you did before FF ;) - Eric Schlissel from twhirl

I can't stand FF in Twhirl, I haven't figured out why yet... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

She dissed the Duncanmeister! :'( - Outsanity

Funny thing, I pretty much use Friendfeed like Mona, except I can't use it when I'm at work. :P - imabonehead

The annotations don't show up here, and it sucks!! - Mona Nomura

Am I the only one who really likes Mona's voice? It was earsmerizing. - Mark Krynsky

I think people are more terrified of my scrolling habits LOL - Mona Nomura

Dangit - can't play it from the iPhone for some reason. - Hutch Carpenter

Mona's voice made me melt like bacon on a hot skillet. - imabonehead

For a moment i thought it's Demo Girl :) - Nir Ben Yona

Yes, her voice is indeed as sweet and refreshing as a mango on a hot summer day - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

looking good - sean percival

Looks really nice. ;) Allen, hope you don't mind, I took a stab if I was to design it using my style (simple/minimalist) -> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244... - AJ Batac

thanks everyone! interesting stab AJ! - Allen Stern

Firebug's Inspect Rocks :) - AJ Batac

Looks very good, is the feedburner url supposed to include the hyphen ? - Majento

it works with/without it (the hyphen) ;) - AJ Batac

looks nice - Marshall Kirkpatrick

looks and works great, thanks for covering the nyc tech scene - Rajiv Doshi

Looks wider. Good job Allen, congrats! - Orli Yakuel

Looking good! - Nir Ben Yona

Thanks - let me know if you find any bugs please - Allen Stern

Looks great Allen - I like the borders a lot. headers and tabs are great too. - Adam

I found a major bug: http://flickr.com/photos... - Orli Yakuel

Nice Allen ... now just keep those videos comin' - Charlie Anzman

orli you scared me - i will get you back in sf :) - Allen Stern

:-) - Orli Yakuel