Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- LogEx
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- LogEx
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- LogEx
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- LogEx
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- LogEx
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- LogEx
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- LogEx
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
Someone will eventually win this. However, since everyone else will have clicked "Hide" by then, they won't be able to tell anyone about it.
- Glen Mistletoe
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan Haley
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- LogEx
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
Will anybody admit to buying and playing the godawful E.T?!
- TDavid
@Abby that was Adventure in all its blocky castle glory, yup.
- TDavid
Used to love Adventure with the keys and dragons. I never had Asteroids but my friends did. Never quite got the hang of it. I would accelerate too much and end up zooming diagonally across the screen out of control.
- Barak B
I loved Pitfall Harry. And even broke the score where you can send in a picture of the screen and they'll give you a patch. but dang my mom, she wouldn't take a pic of the screen so no patch for me. It was devestating!
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
wow, this popped back up from almost a year ago... dang! Do I have to start doing the E.T. noise again?
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I love classic games. I still have an original Nintendo to play Mario:)
- Rob Cairns
I still have an Atari but I haven't touched it in years. I'm not sure if it still works. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to hooking it up again.
- jenali
"This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular. Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Photographer for me, simple as that! :-) I would like to combine my pencil artwork with photography and then my love of cycling to travel around taking photos and drawing what I see. :-) That's my perfect 'job' atm. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd also like a job with a wildlife or nature charity or reserve or something that I can work with animals. Something that gets me away from the computer, at least for a little while, and out in nature. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I have tried to do just about everything I wanted to do, entrepreneur, photographer, musician, teacher, project manager, program director, information security engineer, sailor, world traveler, I have lead a rich phenomenal life, when I work out what I want to do next, I'll probably go do it, I guess I have a reduced sense of fear. But I will say this, it has been fun, and I really appreciate all the great people I met along the way.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I've already done one job I dreamed about and that was to work in the games industry, good times. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd like to work in baseball, in some capacity.
- The Letter M
Scientific photography does exist, Stuart.
- Kol Tregaskes
Marty, yeah perhaps something involving a good would be cool. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I was a photographer and writer for an outdoor magazine (well, I was the Interactive Director too..heheh)
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
@Kol It was the job of a lifetime. 2 weeks a month playing outside with cameras and video cameras. The company died in the Great Internets Killoff. Our CEO failed to understand certain...principals.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
A job where I didn't have to do anything at all ;)
- Peter Kruit
Hehe, that'll be good too, Peter. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I wouldn't mind being a private investigator or some kind of spy. It would be fun to play with gadgets that even the bloggers don't have yet
- Davis Freeberg
I did 10 days of forest firefighting once in Northern Ontario, Canada... would LOVE to do that again.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I want to be on the Mythbusters crew. Getting to blow stuff up would be fun.
- John Ford
from iPhone
I use http://heyspread.com Though most of my views are from Youtube and isn't sending copies of the same videos on all these sites kind of redundant pollution?
- Charbax
thanks robert 4 recommend now will check TubeMogul!
- polou/indigo_bow
Charbax: I find I reach different viewers on all these systems. Tell me, how often do you visit YouTube along with five other video services?
- Robert Scoble
They're doing what other services charge hundreds to do. I had a client one time tell me he was about to purchase something that did only half of what TubeMogul does, and he was ready to pay hundreds for that!
- Jesse Stay
I outsource this task for .30 an upload. 1 video 30 unique titles 30 different sites x .30 = $9.00 100% upload success rate and ZERO time out of my day. I'll take it!
- Bret Rowe
I like pixelpipe for uploading video to multiple sites.
- John Ford
from iPhone
Well, my wife and I have entered into a contest... no sweet drinks, no desserts, and no fried foods for 1 month for me. Somebody get me the ibuprofen now.
The thing I noticed when I gave up refined sugar was how sweet fruit and veggies really are! Especially sugar snap peas (I know, duh! But I never fully tasted how sweet they were when I inundated my system with sugar before.)
- vicster needs a nap
Give 'em up for 18 years and when you try to drink them, you'll spit 'em out.
- Wirehead
Vicster and Wirehead, I can relate. Years back my mother lived on 1000 milligrams of sodium a day, and so did we. After years of living like that, normally salted foods just tasted gross! ... and when I moved back to the south - WOW! talk about salty and sugary... Needless to say, It's time to get a little preventative with our health instead of waiting for a problem to occur.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
"Two dying stars at the edge of the universe and further away than any detected to date have been discovered using a new imaging technique..... A supernova occurs when a massive star more than 50 times the mass of the Sun dies in a powerful bright explosion. Normally scientists find supernovae by comparing pictures taken at different times of the same patch of sky and looking for changes. A new light could indicate one of the explosions. The new technique involves blending together pictures taken over the course of a year, and comparing them with image compilations from other years."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
*thinks about the nature of time and mortality and has a huge feckin panic attack*
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Damn Dead Silence, that's not quite the reaction I was hoping to inspire with this post! But it is pretty overwhelming sometimes to think about how expansive it all is and how insignificant we seem in comparison... :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
none in PS. touch ups in LR and DPP that last no more than 2 minutes and usually involves only basic things like stop/exposure manipulation and minor sharpening if necessary. also i try not to ever crop unless truly necessary.
- Carlos Ayala
Only in PS right now since I haven't had time to look into the Aperture tools.
- ronin
Since LR that is where I do most things, unless I want to do major changes or stitch photos together at which time I open PS.
- Rachel Lea Fox
If Aperture included noise reduction natively, I might never open PS.
- Kevin Pedraja
About 99% of my photos are processed using Aperture only, using the NoiseNinja plugin for noise reduction. I only use Photoshop to merge photos into a panorama or to produce a HDR image and tonemap it.
- Brome
I pretty much only use cs4. I have LR but don't really use it all that much anymore. I have made many actions that make PS quick and easy.
- John Ford
99% in Lightroom... the other 1% makes it to Photoshop.
- Aaron B. Hockley
Almost everything in Lightroom, only rare more complex stuff in PS.
- Michael
99% LR, 1% Photoshop. Lightroom is an amazing application and I run 100% of my photos through it.
- Thomas Hawk
Occasionally I process in PS, but usully I process in Camera Raw.
- Roberto Bonini
Almost everything in Lightroom, I hardly ever go to Photoshop these days
- Bill McFarland
I can't justify buying Lightroom or Aperature when I am as comfortable as I am doing processing in Photoshop. That might change when I finally get around to using RAW but my 10-12mp jpegs are eating up too much disk space already (I am already on the 1.5TB upgrade).
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Define processing? When i touch up photos or add a giraffe or something it's Photoshop. If i'm just doing a quick brightness adjustment or hue change i'll just use iphoto's tools.
- Steve C
I'm thinking of things like selective contrast, dodge & burn, color replacement, etc.
- Kevin Pedraja
No, I'll wait until I have to buy a new computer anyway and Windows 7 probably come bundled with it.
- Morton Fox
I'm going to make my company upgrade my laptop from the Vista abomination it currently has on it. As for personal stuff, I can't see myself buying Windows 7, since I'm a Mac home.
- Joey Gibson
@Joey How did you even convince them to install Vista? (Not that I'm a Vista-hater, I just don't see the business case for it)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Waiting to get a new comp doesn't make nearly as much sense moving from Vista to Win7 as it did from XP to Vista, as Win7 is sooo much better than Vista, and runs great on machines that choke on Vista.
- Christopher A Carr
no. after Vista, MS has permanently lost me. i'll use XP Pro until it won't cut it anymore and then move to linux full-time. hopefully there will be more music production apps for it by then.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Already there. I haven't booted into XP since I loaded the RC. Smooth sailing so far.
- Adrian
Dead: Win7 is light, clean and stable; it's worth giving a chance -- and I've used Linux almost exclusively for the last couple years.
- Christopher A Carr
@Shey I'll be updating to Snow Leopard and Win7 to dual boot. I still occasionally do some Visual Studio / SQL stuff, have a Zune and some games.
- Andrew Smith
Win7/Linux Mint 7/Snow Leo tri-boot would be sweet.
- Christopher A Carr
I haven't had significant problems with vista, but I'm probably going to put 7 on all my computers.
- Richard Lawler
I avoided the VISTA mess and I may be milking XP until it expires then go to Win 7. I still have 2002 and 2005 projects in VS/SQL Server 2005 running sbs.
- Melanie Reed
I'll most likely upgrade to Windows 7 for my PC and also on my Boot Camp partition.
- Arlan Koizumi
What Mona said. And did they say the same to Iran yet? And why now? Why not five years ago when Cisco was bringing in the tax dollars selling warehouses full of hardware to set up the Great Firewall? #inconsistentpolicies
- Andy Bold
Mona - community of nations. I mean, what about the sanctions of South Africa?
- Andrew C
Exactly...why is ANYTHING outside the US our business? We have enough problems inside our borders as it is. We focus too much on foreign interests that the interests of our own citizens fall on deaf ears it seems.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Mike -While this particular thing we have no business meddling in, making a blanket statement like that is naive. - We don't live in a bubble. If you're neighbor's house catches on fire, you can't ignore it. If not extinguished, your house will eventually catch on fire too....
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Since china is now the bigger economic powerhouse maybe they should be telling the US how to act.
- John Ford
My two favorite things I have learned today: 1) If you press the home button twice on the iPhone lockscreen, it opens up basic controls for the iPod. SO MUCH FASTER than unlocking the screen, going to the iPod, pausing or changing tracks, locking again. 2) If you press the power button and the home button at the same time, it takes a screenshot.
I changed my "home button twice" to the search. Might change it back to the iPod. I keep forgetting about the screenshot. Something that I like is that you can tap any picture and it gives you the option to save it to your phone. Great if someone emails you a pic or if you find something online that you like.
- BEX
Yep, the picture-saving one is good, too, and I always forget about it. Also, you can change what the "home button twice" thing does? That's even awesomer. But I turned off the auto-lock mostly because it was such a pain to unlock to change songs while I was driving. So I think I'll leave it on the iPod. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Did you know if you hold down the period key "." on an email or in Safari, it will bring up a fly-out menu to choose from ".com, .net, .org" ?
- Nathan Chase
in iPod (with the new 3.0 OS) you can scroll through a song with higher precision by pressing, holding, and swiping your finger down the screen
- Nathan Chase
I keep forgetting about hitting the home button twice for the iPod *smacks forehead*
- vicster needs a nap
I leave my settings on Home because if you can still get the music controls by quickly double-clicking and when you're scrolling pages clicking once or twice still gets you to the search feature.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
and if you jailbreak, pressing the home button thrice unlocks the phone for you. Not only is it pure single hand operation, it's also faster than power button + swipe to unlock.
- vijay
I jailbroke last night - do I have to set something special to get the three-press-unlock to work? I just tried it, and it didn't.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
ah! it's QuickUnlock on Cydia. I can't believe I missed the most important part of the suggestion .:D
- vijay
Everything pointed out in this post is true and we are far from accomplishing any of it. Anyone interested in talking more about this and possibly taking on such a project...DM me
- Justin Korn
from Bookmarklet
This is something that I have been thinking about quite a lot lately as I am trying to build a webpage for my photos. Would love to hear more of your ideas.
- John Ford
John - I haven't really thought about it in depth yet, but it would be a major project. I'll be thinking more about it over the next few weeks....
- Justin Korn
I will be watching for updates and would love to help out if possible.
- John Ford
woah. there is a sims3 phone app. I am in trouble.
- anna sauce
it's a good app, but i've basically paid about $3/conversation so far. don't really use it much.
- Paul Robinson
Yeah Anna the joystiq(or was it Kotaku) guy was admitting his addiction to it the other day.
- Geoff Schultz
I agree. It is the best app I have ever boughten! :)
- TheHenry
does the app interface with the game somehow or is it standalone? ive never played sims before.
- Frankie Warren
Ive already chatted the price LOL It has Facebook chat built in which is pretty neat. Combine that with FF IM...I'm in trouble. Big trouble.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
It's only pixels. Little dots of color that represent #'s underneath. But Boston.com's Big Picture always grips: this week more than ever. - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
This is my favorite site for photojournalism. How they get such great photography every week is a story I'd love to hear more about. Gripping, especially this week. Amazing what simple pixels on a screen can do to grab you.
- Robert Scoble
"Footage showing the dramatic descent of a probe minutes before it crashes into the surface of the Moon has been released by the Japanese space agency. The final moments of the Kaguya lunar probe were caught by its on-board high-definition camera as it hurtled downwards on June 11 and as it fell the images were beamed back to Earth As it sinks lower and lower the desolate and pockmarked landscape is seen looming ever larger as the spacecraft tumbles toward its final resting place."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
Twitter heading off editorial cliff? (Scripting News). The choices that Twitter has made editorially are wrong and very poor. Sigh. - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Isn't it the responsibility of an individual who they follow? It was my assumption from the start that the SUL is biased and effectively worthless to me.
- SawyerTraining, Inc.
Interesting. I hadn't considered the potentially insidious effect the Suggested Users List could have.
- Teri Gidwitz
Great post and i really liked the link to professional poker and Twitter.
- John Ford
This was an excellent post and Dave is 100% correct - The SUL is total bullshit!
- Jim Connolly
Wow. I guess I didn't realize the extent of this situation. Great post by Dave - very eye-opening.
- Curt Mercadante
Refinement of the system by which it is determined who follows whom could represent the next great leap forward for social networking. As this SUL issue exemplifies, there's a ton of inefficiency in how these choices get made. The SUL will soon give way to subtler, more intelligent ways of sparking connections. The paradigm of each person having static, manually managed list of...
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- Joshua Maurice
the biggest challenge here is understanding that Twitter is turning into an editor/publisher; not just a provider. could be a slippery slope.
- MikeAmundsen
You can see the sense in having a SUL -- some people get on Twitter and have no idea whom to follow. Maybe they'll follow no one and join the large percentage of users who never come back after signing up. So giving some recommendations helps people get involved. But it seems like just about the bluntest possible instrument for achieving that end.
- Joshua Maurice
The SUL as it stands isn't all that useful. It would be more useful (to users) to have one based on a friend-of-a-friend type of algorithm.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The SUL is, sadly, not based on quality - It's based (according to Biz and Ev) on people they 'just happen' to like.
- Jim Connolly
Wait a second, did I read that right? The people on the SUL are working in concert with Twitter to follow a code of conduct that Twitter approves of in order to be selected and remain on the SUL? WTF? I thought it was just a list of random people they thought would be interesting to new users. If commerce is involved as an end result doesn't this violate some laws too? Doesn't this also effect Twitter's Safe Harbor?
- Adam Turetzky
Adam: I was kept off the SUL because I talk about friendfeed too much.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like bitter grapes from W(h)iner. Steven Johnson was put on the SUL and says he was surprised to have been selected. And Robert we know you don't really care because as you've said so many times it's not how many people follow you that counts it's how many *you* follow, right?
- Sprague D
I'm not opposed to the SUL, but I think Twitter should be more transparent about how users are selected and they should probably be selected through a lottery system.
- Peter Warnock
I think John (dendroica) is onto something with the "friend-of-a-friend type of algorithm." Let's try to keep the focus on this constructive question of how to advance social networks to the next level. We seem to be on the verge of being able to integrate semantically annotated content (the "what" of social networks) with the metadata about who, where, and when, and using all these to...
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- Joshua Maurice
Currently the SUL is a list, the next iteration will be a directory and later on natural and sponsored lists generated from keywords will be available to help new users start their Twitter experience, the ideal will be that the lists are ranked by quality but since this is difficult due to the number of profiles we will settle on popularity... sigh
- Alberto Saavedra
Sprague: the number of followers does matter to many in society, as this post points out. By the way, why do you think I say that who you follow matters so much? Because your input will affect your output which will get you more followers. But my point is that you can either get followers by gaming the system (or having it gamed on your behalf like with the SUL) or you can get it by...
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- Robert Scoble
The whole idea of having some people you follow, and others you don't follow, will appear crude very soon -- I will want to see SOME data emanating from even the most "boring" people, and will want to filter out SOME data emanating from even the most interesting people.
- Joshua Maurice
[deleting my own comment after regretting useless snarkiness]
- Fred Yankowski
Seems a tempest in a teapot to me. Most don't even know the SUL is there. And others, like me, make a point of ignoring such lists assuming they'll be fluff and because they specifically don't want to read what everyone else is reading. Many websites routinely post Best Of lists and no one insists they divulge their editorial thinking or hints at dark conspiracies because they do so. So why the hubbub? (Unless of course, they get paid by those being ranked. Then, yes, absolutely, it should be made public.)
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Bob: the problem is that the SUL has artificially raised people's follower numbers. For instance, I've always had more followers on all social networks than TechCrunch. Including on Twitter. But when that account got added to the list it went from about 50,000 followers and today has more than 700,000 followers while I went from about 60,000 to about 95,000 today. So if you are a business that relies on audience (and you could say that about me) you are at a HUGE disadvantage if you aren't on the list.
- Robert Scoble
I posted a comment on a TC article they wrote about twitter asking if the fact they are SUL does that influence the way they report about the company. My comment was promptly moderated into non-existence :0
- David Lloyd
Wish all these threads had ajax or something and I could drag them around in the order I want them. Make it happen please Robert!
- David Lloyd
Mark: exactly. The SUL is a huge gift to media companies and certain people and they all know it and many have even changed the way they deal with Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
When twitter grows exponentially some of these accounts are gonna have 5 or 10 million followers. That's a lot of $'s of value.
- David Lloyd
ive said all along that certain blogs are able to pay at least one writers salary on the SUL bonus
- Allen Stern
For me I guess it's a transparency issue. I don't care about getting on the SUL (I'm not that interesting), but I'd like to know what people and companies are doing to try and get on the list.
- Eoghann Irving
Egohann: lots of people I know want to be on the list. I've heard that if you beg to get on the list, though, that you'll be blacklisted. I wonder how long it'll be before someone creates an account specifically to try to get onto the list.
- Robert Scoble
"Sooner or later someone who they propelled to the top will do something bad." Dave Winer, 21 June 2009
- David Lloyd
I guess the concern is will people start doing "favors" to get on Twitter's SUL? Since there's no defined way to get on the list, it would be very easy to abuse that. You could end up with a lobbyist system almost.
- Eoghann Irving
how does SUL figure into monetization of Twitter? both for Twitter owners and SUL account-holders? when money is linked to the SUL, how does that affect the content of those on the SUL? could you lose your place based on your content? does losing your place remove all your followers? does the content of SUL-ies get preferential search status? added reach outside Twitter? do these values go away if a SUL-ie is bumped off?
- MikeAmundsen
Mike: no one knows because the SUL is totally at the whim of Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert: if a SUL-ie pulls lots of followers, then is removed, i doubt the followers disappear. from my POV, this is another example of @Biz and @Ev not quite thinking through the implications of what they are doing. i admire their success. i'm happy for them. however, i think, as Dave implies, this is gonna turn ugly at some point. and i think Twitter may turn out looking bad in the process.
- MikeAmundsen
mike they dont get removed - when i brought twitter the cupcakes to get on the list - i was told justine was removed yet she keeps her 500,000 followers
- Allen Stern
plz understand that twitter is a marketing network, period.
- Allen Stern
Twitter is used for marketing, but I don't think it's just a marketing network. There are a lot of people using it without any commercial interests at all.
- Eoghann Irving
How do you apply editorial standards to something that lets you post things like: "I'm out of sugar" or "My toothbrush just fell in the toilet"? I think that we sometimes expect too much from social media sites..
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
@Allen: yep - totally makes sense. now i imagine some future scenario where someone on the SUL starts saying really bad things about Twitter (or anything else Twitter-folks care about). Ev/Biz can pull them, but they've already created a monster; can't put the toothpaste back in the tube; etc w/ the cliches. now multiply this by the number of folks on the list and that's millions of bad news threads in the blog-o-sphere.
- MikeAmundsen
Mike - I call this "keeping the top on top" and Twitter isn't alone with this problem...
- Allen Stern
My vote goes to @leolaporte. He gets to do all day what I can only do on the weekends... netcast. He also gets the cool product reviews that I can't quite manage yet.
- John Fox
Gary: no way. Jim Long's job is FAR cooler. He gets to go on Air Force One
- Robert Scoble
Mike: I gotta hear more about this happiness. It sounds like an Amsterdam tour guide.
- Robert Scoble
It's better than Amsterdam because it all occurs locally. No travel!
- Mike White
Robert, I think YOUR job is pretty cool :-)
- Pablo Melchor
John: sorry. Leo wasn't drinking Sake with @garyvee today. Unless he has supermodels sitting on his lap his job his isn't that cool. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble has to be one of them. In geek heaven most of the time... :)
- Amit Nangare
Pablo: Agreed. Anyone who gets to deal with tech and social media all day is cool in my book.
- John Fox
Mike, you might have fun selling it, I'm a librarian who thinks it is even more fun to give it away.
- Carolyn Wood
Robert: Well, when you put it like that... ;-)
- John Fox
Carolyn - I give it away as much as possible, but I have to pay the bills!
- Mike White
Pablo: I can't argue. Hanging out with @garyvee rocks!
- Robert Scoble
Mike, if you are feeling guilty you are always welcome to volunteer @ your library!
- Carolyn Wood
yes being a photo/videographer with great access to important events would be really cool, I had little tastes of it while freelancing for nyt, ap, national geo. but most importantly, you get to play with all the latest digi-toys :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Carolyn - No guilt. I volunteer every week.
- Mike White
I am sitting next to the CEO of Intermec Pat Burn in UA 95.
- Robert Scoble
As I once told @karaswisher, anyone living in the Valley or on the West Coast is spoiled with being in tech's back yard. Nothing interesting ever happens here in Indy, except for BlogIndiana.
- John Fox
Sorry, take my job and multiply it by 100x and you have @newmediajim's job.
- Robert Scoble
There's no competition. Barrack Obama. Fancy plain, gets to call anyone in the world and get called back. Media exposure, travel, awesome house and the job comes with a private plain, helicopter and military force. He's the leader of the free world and when he speaks, everyone (even those that despise him) listen. That job rocks. Tough... but rocks.
- Jason Nunnelley
Leo, Patrick and Martin Sargent came to Houston once ... nothing techie really happens in Houston either
- Kashif Khan
I have 2 extremely cool jobs: I work in craft brewery 't IJ in Amsterdam. And I work in 1 of the best assorted beerstores in the world, de Bierkoning, with more than 900 different types of beer.
- Ton Zijp
Once heard a guy talking about his job as a professional whiskey taster. They provided him a driver. I'd work for any Islay whiskey producer in that position.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Ton, I will be moving to Amsterdam soon... where can I try those 900 beers?
- Gianfranco Chicco
I meant spoiled in a good way, of course!
- John Fox
Robert's job is long hours and hard work. I don't want it.
- Jason Nunnelley
Gianfranco: Well, I work in a beerstore. So you can't drink them there (although I am allowed to do that). You have to buy the bottles at de Bierkoning (just behind the Palace) to take them to your hotelroom & drink them there.
- Ton Zijp
Jim's might not be the most exciting or adventurous job out there, but he certainly provides some very interesting insights and things to look in on.
- Dean Clark
Jason I haven't worked an hour in the last few years.
- Robert Scoble
@AstroMike is the NASA astronaut Twitter-er. But my vote is with Nir Ben Yona. That's a killer job right there.
- Aaron Turpen
Nir: my friend Bill Storage has had naked super models in his house. I would still rather have Jim Long's job.
- Robert Scoble
I like my job, personally. I get to be home with my family all day and set my own schedule. Heck, I'm going to Boston in 2 weeks and don't need to request any time off work. I'll just work from out there!
- Jesse Stay
I think Paul Therotte has a pretty cool gig. I dont know what he makes but seems like a good gig.
- Spirit 2.0
I wouldn't take Barack Obama's job for all the tea in China. I love my own job: helping entrepreneurs get started and grow. As my kids used to say, "my mom thinks on the phone for a living." Now I think online:-) No complaints here.
- Francine Hardaway
It isn't new but a guy I know rode a boom camera for the Donnie and Marie Show (yeah I know) and said it was the most fun he ever had.
- Bob Calder
from twhirl
There is a guy who works for Sports Illustrated who's job is to brush off the sand from the backside of the swimsuit models. I saw it once on a documentary. That would be a pretty cool job.
- Andrew Leyden
We get to travel around the world filming the best organic food, eco-accommodations, exotic locations and some of the true top chefs on the planet...just saying.
- HippyGourmet
The person who loves what they do the most of course... or an eccentric rich guy with no formal responsibilities, that's my dream job.
- Mark Essel
Mythbusters crew. They get to do all the coolest things in the name of good tv.
- John Ford
John, I've got to admit the blowing stuff up (w.out hurting people, cause the pres gets to blow stuff up) is pretty cool. I'm voting on Mythbusters crew. Good one.
- Jason Nunnelley
l'd love to be an artist - musician/painter/cartoonist if only I had that much talent :(
- Krishna Gade
Sorry, the coolest job in the white house has to be Pete Souza's, Chief Official White House Photographer. One of my favorite Souza photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos... or google "obama haircut son"
- Steve Wilhelm
Photographers seem to have hell of a time. They meet new (even famous) people, travel constantly, and have a creative job. Win. Fashion Photographers have even /more/ fun, from the sounds of it ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Not *the* coolest, but mine ain't bad. Recently started driving cross-country in a 1986 RV meeting people and telling their stories on video. http://thehardestyear.com
- John
Robert: I have the collest job in the world, because it was designed by me, so that I get to spend every day, doing what I love the most. I'm just trying to figure out how to get paid to watch re-runs of The Big Bang Theory show too - then it will be perfect!
- Jim Connolly
Jim: anyone who has a job that they love is in a great place, I agree. We're very blessed there.
- Robert Scoble
To me right now, any job that pays enough for me to keep my house is the coolest one in the world. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any of those around here.
- Scott Ohlemacher
You could match my old powerbook! Maybe I should get a gelaskin for my phone too.
- Kevin Fox
Yeah Kevin, I still really like that exploding dog one you had on your powerbook.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Athena and I agree that you should get the one with the squirrel & umbrella with falling implements of destruction.
- Cyrus Lendvay
Athena needs to order one too. Maybe you two can order them together.
- Cyrus Lendvay
I have to say its easier to look at them all spread out together here in FriendFeed than in individual tabs on my browser.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Cyrus, yeah I remembered that. I was planning to let her know once I figured out which one I want. And thanks for the vote, that is one of my top contenders. at least at the moment, I keep changing.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Since iPhone got here early, I should really pick one of these and order or Kevin and I will end up confusing our iPhones a lot. *ponders*
- Rachel Lea Fox
I like the stick figure dude with the big head. Looks like me! Haha.
- Mona Nomura
Me too Mona. Kevin has that one on his old powerbook and I have always liked it. I also like the one with the same exploding dog guy and the big metal dinosaur. kind of reminds me of me and my halloween contraptions!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I would love something like this, but with an image of my own. I'm a WoW geek. i want my toon on there. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Amanda, there is a place for that too. I have to ask Kevin to find it for me though because I don't remember what it is called. I thought about putting one of my photographs on the back, but I like so many of these as well.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm surprised no one thinks I should get king kong!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I like the 'bookshelves' one, and the old school Van Gogh ones.
- Ken Gidley
Ken, If I was going to go old school I would do the Hieronymus Bosch one https://www.gelaskins.com/skins.... I actually had a poster of one of his pieces in my room as a teenager. I was an odd kid.
- Rachel Lea Fox
How well do they fit? Do they have any drag, or do they slide in and out of pockets easily? Do they provide any shock protection or are they scratch protection only?
- Mark Novak
It's basically a sticker, so it fits very well and I don't notice it catching or dragging or anything at all. I've had mine for well over a year and it still looks great and doesn't get in the way. It offers absolutely no shock protection and the only scratch protection is to the back side where essentially the sticker will get scratched before the phone does.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Mark, its mostly just for looks and so I can tell mine from Kevin's.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hmmm... okay. Sadly, I think I'm going to need something more hardcore.
- Mark Novak
I actually don't like having anything additional on my iphone. I've dropped mine a few times and only ended up with a scratch at one corner and other than that have had no problems and I like the slim easy feel much better than if there was a case or something on it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Here's the custom skins site: http://www.mytego.com/ I don't know how refined or nice the end product is though. :-)
- Kevin Fox