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Mythbusters paint the Mona Lisa with 1100 paintballs... fired at the same time!

18 hours ago - Link

Yea, looks just like the orginal </sarcasm> still cool though - John Wesley

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Five Things Steve Jobs Must Do Before He Dies

18 hours ago - Link

"This is really pathetic attention whoring from Forbes. Leave Jobs alone!" - John Wesley

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Michael Jackson at 50: From a Child Star to a _____________

Thursday at 8:43 am - Link

"ZOMBIE!!!" - John Wesley

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Tequila endangered by switch to biofuels

Wednesday at 4:17 pm - Link

"The true tragedy of oil addiction." - John Wesley

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If Web Ads Would Only Tell the Truth

Wednesday at 2:50 pm - Link

"Amen. Knew I'd seen that before. Bury if you hate spam." - John Wesley

Social Media: Igor The Troll posted a link

Social News: TechCrunch's secret Digg army

August 8 at 3:01 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"How do TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends, of course. Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, now a foe of editor Michael Arrington, posted a screenshot from his inbox revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear; two from TechCrunchIT, Arrington's incomprehensible enterprise-tech spinoff; plus two or three interns." - Igor The Troll via Bookmarklet

Holy crap! If that is true and diggs team knows that, I think techcrunch url maybe banned/punished. - k00pa

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No, TechCrunch URL certainly won't be banned, no way, really. We have been banned once and I know it does not happen to sites like TC. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Yeah Kevin Rose is Captain Crunch boy! LOL - Igor The Troll

I wonder if Kevin will ban TechCrunch for a few days to get some hype for Digg? He definitely will get some PR out of this! LMAO - Igor The Troll

they are all dirty. - Noah David Simon

you can actually buy diggs -- i 4get the website but you pay $20 plus 1$ per digg. - john conroy

@john: Really? You mean you really-really can buy diggs? That's an amazing surprise to me! - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

this has been written about, speculated about ... true? not sure... and don't care enough about digg'o to investigate - gregory lent

gregory: It's just that I've seen tons of places and people trying to sell diggs. But it is just so obvious that all these patterns are penalized that I am surprised anyone still bothers. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

i happen to submit there stuff to digg, but thats b/c i like it. interesting stuff, will look into it. - Leximo

shocking news; explains alot of stuff tho. ;) - genieyclo

This should be no surprise, all the big players are starting to do this. Chicago Tribune employs a Digg spam force. - John Wesley

@John - shouldn't it mean social bookmarking is on its sunset boulevard? - Markingegno - Donato

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Giz Explains: Batteries, Tech's Choke Point

Wednesday at 11:22 am - Link

"Hope this gets solved -- iPhone 3G battery life is pathetic." - John Wesley

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120 Proven Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

Wednesday at 11:06 am - Link

"I would take one way that actually works." - John Wesley

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10 Fixes For the Planet

Wednesday at 10:36 am - Link

"11. Exterminate humans" - John Wesley

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Landfill Mining, the Next Boom Industry?

Wednesday at 10:36 am - Link

"1. Create plastic from oil 2. Throw plastic in landfill. 3. ???? 4. Profit!" - John Wesley

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Solar Map: Over 30 Utility-Scale Solar Plants in U.S.

Wednesday at 10:34 am - Link

"Solar is going to be huge -- its by far the most efficient of the alt energy technologies. Great mashup in Gmaps!" - John Wesley

Social Media: Harry Chen posted a link

“Question *again*: do you worry about Google knowing too much of what you do online?”

August 19 at 1:21 pm - via Reshare - Link

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say "yes" or "no" - Harry Chen

They have a trillion pages indexed. Facebook should worry you more, IMO - Mona N.

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google, i don't care, it is who they give it too that could be worrisome - gregory lent

No, there are more important things to worry about in this world, if it's not Google then its someone else who knows, whatever - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

No. - Steve Isaacs

A little, but not too much. - Simian DA (Amber)

Yes. - Dimitar Vesselinov

I try to spread my participation across a variety of sites so that no single organization gets too complete a picture of me. But I admit Google probably still knows more than might be desirable. - Jill O'Neill

I don't worry about Google as much as I worry about what people can find out about me on Google, if that makes sense. I don't think Google, Inc really cares about me personally to do anything with the data they have for me. But some nefarious person could put together a lot of stuff about me through Google's services. - Fitzgerald Steele

No. - Steve Isaacs

Not as much as what other companies can gain access to in court cases. Google isn't necessarily benevolent, but I don't think it's stupid enough to abuse the data it holds... - Badger Gravling

no. - annaliese via twhirl

no - Alan Le

No - rule #1 "don't be evil" - jason

no - Rob Record

no - Baard (not bored)

Yes, they could crush anyone if they wanted to... - John Wesley

no - Alex Barredo

John Wesley commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: louisgray.com: Social Media Experts are the New Webmasters

July 17 at 10:21 am - Link

""There's no money to be made Digging up stories, hitting the StumbleUpon button or refreshing FriendFeed or Twitter, after all." True, but there is a boat load of money in using these sites to drive traffic and attention to a business. That is the ability a social media expert should have, above merely being a user." - John Wesley

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10 Countries To Meet A Girl When Personality Doesn’t Matter

June 27 at 5:33 am - Link

"hisS guy just flipped through a Sports Illustrated swim suit edition from 2000 and listed all the babes. There is no hook as the title implies. Disappointing :(" - John Wesley

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7 Ways to Use iPhone to Impress Women

June 17 at 11:23 pm - Link

"Poor Canucks. iPhone should be a universal right. One for every child and one for the childlike wonder in each and every Digger." - John Wesley

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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:59 am - Link

"One thing I wonder about....with much of the conversation moving to Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. (Services that no-follow links) Will individual voices stop getting the link juice they deserve?" - John Wesley

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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:59 am - Link

"One thing I wonder about....with much of the conversation moving to Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. (Services that no-follow links) Will individual voices stop getting the link juice they deserve?" - John Wesley

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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:41 am - Link

"My ideal domain is jo.hn. It's Honduras. We'll see if the guy will ever sell." - John Wesley

John Wesley commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:41 am - Link

"My ideal domain is jo.hn. It's Honduras. We'll see if the guy will ever sell." - John Wesley

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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:39 am - Link

"It's too bad you don't own you own name on Google or the juice associated, but it makes sense not to leave. Building an online brand takes a lot of effort and you've done a great job with your blog. You bring a lot humanity and intelligence to the VC world. All the same, if you were starting today what domain would you use?" - John Wesley

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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

June 9 at 2:39 am - Link

"It's too bad you don't own you own name on Google or the juice associated, but it makes sense not to leave. Building an online brand takes a lot of effort and you've done a great job with your blog. You bring a lot humanity and intelligence to the VC world. All the same, if you were starting today what domain would you use?" - John Wesley

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Blog Stats - May 2008

June 3 at 6:00 pm - Link

"Listen, if you want to get on Digg you have to at least create content that blends with the rest of the site and could be interesting to the community. This is just obvious." - John Wesley

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Firefly Is Now On Hulu! (Direct Link)

June 3 at 2:58 pm - Link

"By the way, has anyone else seen that the Captain is now on Desperate Housewives?" - John Wesley

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Re: The Weird Economics of Information

June 3 at 1:58 pm - Link

"This makes excellent sense. When you share an idea with someone, the first thing they are likely to do is poke holes in it. The more flaws you are aware of, the better you chances of adapting and surviving as a business." - John Wesley

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Medical NLP - Latest Developments

June 3 at 12:17 pm - Link

"I don't see this doing well on Digg." - John Wesley

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Newton's Second Law in NSFW (PIC)

May 30 at 2:45 pm - Link

"Yes, that pic is sadly SFW." - John Wesley

Social Media: Danica Radovanovic posted a link

Poll: "What do you use Twitter for?"

May 30 at 12:37 pm - Link

Still trying to figure that out - Kit Krash

I ticked 3 scopes :) - Irek

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Status updates, to announce stories I like! - Joe Dawson

yes, some to stay in contact and some for ranting/expressing emotions. i fav' them all. my recent: http://tinyurl.com/5d8gsu and this one:) http://tinyurl.com/5kwr2e - Danica Radovanovic

Complaining about everything. Except that Twitter is down. I complain about that on FriendFeed. - John Wesley

Spamming my followers with links to manipulate them via SEO 2.0 mind bending techniques to vote for me on social media - Tad Chef

At the risk of sounding like a real billy-no-mates...to make friends and chat to interesting people. God, I do need to download a life, dont I?? - Julia

No way, it's all about the interaction and making new friends! - Joe Dawson

The most useful feature for me was to track keywords over the IM bot, which, of course, is still down. - Wil

Not much, right now ;-) - Brian Carter

At first, only for direct messages to RTM, gcal, etc. Very useful. But I'm enjoying following several folks and making attempts to contribute to the flow of conversation. - Larry Huffman

http://xrl.us/bmazc tweets totally f#(%ed twitter - Noah David Simon

Sorry what do I use it for? Or what do I want to use it for! It is down half the time! How about finding a contact for someone who in a specific industry Tweeted you a week ago? Do you think it is possible? - Igor The Troll

Social Media: Geoff Corey posted a message

“So does anyone see any parallels with the dot-bomb bubble of the late 90's?”

May 30 at 8:37 am - Link

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I was thinking that a year ago - a lot of $$ being thrown around with little in the way of proven revenue models... we shall see... - David Harry

Survivors of the that bubble became huge and others just faded away. One that was always speculation that would fail was Amazon. I think we will see something similar. Fast growth of technology and ideas but only the best will survive the long time. - Geoff Corey

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I think people are being more careful this time around. Last time, most start ups didn't seem to have any business strategy and focused more on the fact that employees could play pool all day and bring their dogs to work. - Daniele Rossi

Software platforms have become so accommodating and streamlined that a coder can invest the equivalent of a big hobby into a business and get it popularized and scaled with cash on hand, bypassing the VCs. (Not always, but increasingly.) If you go bust, you lose the equivalent of a new car. Whereas, in the late '90s, you'd cobble together a "Web 1.0" idea, file an IPO, put the money in a pile and dive into it. Extreme cases had half the raised cash go to a lavish launch party. You don't see that any more. - Rick Wolff

no - Kit Krash

Yes, stupid VC money is chasing buzzwords. - John Wesley

Buzzwords are so 1990's - Kit Krash

I don't get it... this is a bubble? It feels like shit. I can't imagine the pop - Noah David Simon

real estate bubble, fizzle, pop. credit bubble, fizzle, pop. dot-bombed already, so money is smarter. survivors of social media will fare well. - Kit Krash

I have been doing some research into the growth of social media recently and it looks pretty similar to me in some ways..in terms of bandwagon jumping by those with money to burn. Ordinary folk just seem to enjoy socialising and talking to people online and as more people are used to being online all the time these days with the spread of broadband and multi-computer homes, there are a lot more people about to chat than there were previously. - Julia

Audience is definately larger and that might be a very important point. Smarter with money may be a different story. We are very conservative at the startup I work for but I have seen other blogs at other startup bragging about buying ikea furniture and aireon chairs right after getting funding. I'm not sure those folks will make it spending cash on frilly stuff. - Geoff Corey

I think this video speaks a thousand words http://friendfeed.com/e/fbcdae... - Igor The Troll

That was one of the funniest videos I have seen in a long time! - Geoff Corey

TechCrunch Arrington should have a look at it! LOL - Igor The Troll

Social Media: Julian Baldwin posted a message

“What would you consider to be your greatest social media achievement? ”

May 30 at 6:14 am - Link

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When someone e-mailed me the other day to hire me and said, 'lately I've seen you around everywhere.' - Susan Cartier Liebel

Learning how to Troll. - Igor The Troll

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I moderated the Xbox forums, assisting and providing news and became a Microsoft MVP from that! Not really Social Media but it was discussion and following on many different levels! - Joe Dawson

Getting Robert Scoble to follow me. After he followed my friend who's never heard of him. - Mark Trapp

Heheh. My greatest achievement? Getting Microsoft to let me carry around a $250 camera without a PR crew, or anyone else helping out so I could get you all inside the walls of Microsoft. - Robert Scoble

When I was called for an interview and they didn't need my resume, or when I was called to speak at a blog bash, or when I was invited to conduct a workshop for a corporation senior management people, or when somebody wants me to manage their social media marketing programme. - Palin Ningthoujam

My natural birth blog! Can't believe ppl give a hoot about what I write. - Kimberly J

I don't think I've achieved my greatest yet so I'll let you know :P - Natitude

being quoted/referenced/bookmarked by the people that I look to for direction - Ryan Brymer

teaching the world that social media doesn't exist ;)...via feedalizr - Marc Nathan

Being thought of at my place of business as an Internet geek. If they only knew how much of this stuff still baffles me (except now it's in a good way). - Rick Wolff

Convincing a University to give me an honours degree for doing just this kind of stuff. - Andy Roberts

maybe I'm a social media under-achiever? - Kit Krash

Developing relationships with many excellent people. - John Wesley

Interviewing with Muhammad Saleem: http://mollermarketing.com/200... - Nate Moller

@Panopticons - Noah David Simon

People knowing and respecting me, thus having followers and supporters on any platform from day one. - Tad Chef

Resisting the urge to define it in these terms. - Noah Carter

hosting columns and radio programs for internet culture and social network stuff. - Jansen Lu

I'm just starter around the scene but I think that I have made some interesting contacts between some people. - Daniel Schildt

Interviewing MSaleem - at least, that's what my blog stats would indicate. :) - Mark Dykeman

Social Media: Muhammad Saleem posted a link

“Social Media in 140 characters. How would you define it?”

May 29 at 10:51 pm - via Reshare - Link

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It's a great question from Ritu and I wanted to ask it again. - Muhammad Saleem

Social media is media that talks with you, not at you. - Ethan Klapper

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"Social media is media that talks with you, not at you" Pithy words! - Igor The Troll

People typing to each other. - Andy Roberts

Virtual Sex! - Igor The Troll

It's a party in your head - Kit Krash

It's just a brain storm. One week offline and you are out. - Irek

Media tuned to the preferences of a specific user or group of users - John Wesley

Networking with a unique twist - a marketing must. - Nate Moller

TWITTER... and I believe the solution to twitters problems would be to create Micro-Twitters. Each Baby Twitter would have it's own supervisory to protect from social harassment. Thus the problems of overpopulation in the central core would never happen again. It is the perfect solution... it could be rooms in twitter.... but each would have it's very own database. - Noah David Simon

@Noah - More like TwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitterTwitter, yes that was exactly 140 words. Coincidence? - Ethan Klapper

Global village finally materialized. All personal news and chatter all the time. - Tad Chef

talkin' - Brian Carter

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