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Techmeme is about who has done the best articles in the PAST. Not about who has legitimate news to break tonight. It also is NOT about linking behavior. None of these articles got any links. Techmeme's algorithm decided on the ranking based on past behavior. Unfair? Hell, life isn't fair. I just love pointing this out so you know that Techmeme isn't about news, it's about popularity. - Robert Scoble

Who cares about the Palm Pre? - Scott Loftesness

Scott: a lot of people do. Plus Palm forced Adobe to hold the news until tonight. Adobe told me about every other announcement but said that one of its partners had forced it to hold the news until 9 p.m. Sunday night. - Robert Scoble

That partner was Palm. What's funny is that at least one of Palm's PR people worked at Apple. That's why I knew that Palm was the one, because only Apple PR people do shit like this. - Robert Scoble

why are you still reading techmeme? :-) - Duncan Riley

Scott: back to your question. The Palm Pre is the one device that beats Apple's iPhone in experience (I've seen them all). It is the one device I will stand in line for this year. - Robert Scoble

Duncan: :-) - Robert Scoble

Removed Techmeme from my feeds months ago.. - Matt Hooper

good to see palm are still going. i love my TX. i hate to see a company like that go under. - Terry O'Fee

I find that Friendfeed has taken the place of Techmeme in my "what's hot right now" searching - Bastard Operator From FF

So, O'Reilly's on board? http://biz.yahoo.com/bw... - Scott Loftesness

I can't wait for the Pre (v 2.0-- I'm not a 'ealry adopter-type') - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

tech websites talking about other tech websites .. hhahah it seems to be the norm these days.. - Terry O'Fee

Aaron: when I have news and know it I expect to get onto places where news is supposedly shared. - Robert Scoble

Am I wrong to take it that the first article on TMM does mention Flash on the Pre by way of saying " will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems. ". Maybe it's not such big news? - Jef

Jef: the first article has the news. All the rest do not. And even CNET couched it just in case it didn't happen. It's article was written on Friday. - Robert Scoble

Aaron: good point. But TechMeme usually tracks those places pretty strongly. Much more strongly than in the past. Oh, and now I'm on Techmeme as of 10:03. Goal achieved. - Robert Scoble

Aaron: complete indeed, I'm going to bed! :-) - Robert Scoble

Aaron: I think Gabe is having fun now. He just posted a PC World headline that had the news. - Robert Scoble

The Palm Pre doesn't exist yet right? So saying it will get flash is kinda meh. - Omar Shahine

Omar: from what I'm hearing the Palm isn't that far away. This stuff is important for developers especially since the Palm is going to be a very hot selling device. Developers care about technology decisions BEFORE a device ships so that they can build apps for it and have them out on day one. - Robert Scoble

Robert made Techmeme at about 10:15 Pacific. http://www.techmeme.com/090216... - Louis Gray

Honestly Robert, glib line aside, there's far better ways to get a tech dose.FriendFeed and Twitter are one outlet, combined with some select pics in terms of blogs. Techmeme got into farce territory last year when it became clear he banned and ranked down sites he didn't like. I've never believed in one person showing me what's going on, nor should you. Sub-feed at best for techmeme, until they renounce their selective ways, which from what I've heard, have gotten far worse now. - Duncan Riley

Duncan: Gabe insists only one person has been banned from Techmeme. - Robert Scoble

Robert, maybe if you wrote longer articles you might rate higher on TM. 127 words of analysis is not enough. - Paul Montgomery

Seriously Robert, the Pre is crap no matter how much you try and build it up. - Donovan Slennon

So, Donovan, have you actually used one? Robert has, and for that reason alone I suspect his opinion carries more weight than yours. - Ian Betteridge

too much news about mobile tech and not enough about photography on Techmeme me thinks. - Thomas Hawk

But I think an under reported piece of this whole story is how RIM is not a part of it. Blackberry is slipping further behind, which is very disappointing. - JT Perry

Since Scoble made it to Techmeme, albeit not as soon as he would've liked, can we now say that it IS about news? - coldbrew

JT, RIM was one of the mobile phone companies making the biggest gains in sales last quarter - so I'm not sure what you mean by "slipping further behind". - Ian Betteridge

coldbrew: funny, the article on top right now is not one with the Palm Pre news and I'm gone again from the headlines. Life still goes on... - Robert Scoble

that's why I follow you on twitter ;o) "breaking news as it happens!" - sofarsoShawn

Scoble, looks like you've been clustered below the VentureBeat post. - coldbrew

coldbrew: yeah, but if you're not a headline it really doesn't matter. Very very few people click on anything other than the headlines. - Robert Scoble

Is TechMeme even influential with people outside of Tech blog producers? I've only been to the site a few times and found it rather boring. So is there anything to suggest that it still helps form opinions or drives traffic? - Andrew

I'm not sure if this answers your question, Andrew, but here are some stats:http://www.avc.com/a_vc... - coldbrew

As of today, my view is post one place but aggregate everywhere else. For example, I don't post much in Facebook because you can't easily get data out, but you can pull data into Facebook pretty easily. Posting on twitter gets it into FB, FF, my blog, etc... - JT Perry

I'm mixing up FF and twitter for my posts. Some go to all with ping.fm - Justin Rains

Like I just posted : 'Techcrunch has new UI, More Ads than ever before'. Never mind ... I posted wrong. Ads would have nothing to do with it - Tyler (Chacha)

That's right. The ads are hosted by third-party services, so it would make sense that load time would degrade. More things to load. - Steven (optionshiftk)

But I have to *look* for the story. That is not a good design to me. After a few visits I would find it, but if I was a new visitor or unsure of who it was I don't think I would come back. - JT Perry

I think the new design is to provide more space for ads though... - Tyler (Chacha) from IM

The new UI is too chopped up. Too many things for the eye to look at. I liked the old design better, although that is normally the case. - Steven (optionshiftk)

Chacha: BTW, do ppl even click on ads anymore? Certainly not the tech savvy crowd reading tech crunch. - Steven (optionshiftk)

I don't even go to the site anymore. Its all about the RSS. - Tyler (Chacha) from IM

The top bit looks exactly like a rip-off of Gawker (see: my feed) - Bryce, Low in Sodium

Bryce: I think the same can be said for many sites. Web design has become very generic among these popular sites. - Steven (optionshiftk)

they have done a good job to be fair - Zee.

wow, afraid to check it now on mines..gees - Susan Beebe

I dont really like the design. Adds too many widgets and takes a helluva lot of time to load. Have less scripts and images @techcrunch - Sidharth Dassani

there is a bug in the layout. it's obviously supposed to be 100% advertising, but if you look really hard you can see some readable articles have mistakenly crowded out some of the ads. - Karim

+1 Karim - Tyler (Chacha) from IM

1UP Karim - Akiva Moskovitz

And mostly some guy called Arrington on some supposed controversy. - ld

They should just install IWPhone for Wordpress and be done with it. They can customize it later. - Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay is exactly right. that plugin works great, right out of the box. there's also a good one for BlackBerries and other mobiles by Alex King. Both installed on all my WP blogs.. - Karoli

The TechCrunch logo needs some work, jaggy edges look yucky. - Mike Davies

Couple of nasty accessibility issues - like image links with no alternative text or null attributes, duplicate text in other links. The markup has some weird peculiarities - like the search box table, and the problem of block-level elements inside inline elements (which does unexpected stuff when the inline element is an anchor). Probably a result of futzing around with an existing wordpress template. - Mike Davies

Did Arrington sell TC to Nick Denton? Design looks rather Gawker-y. - Ryan Sholin

Ryan: Agree completely with you - Sidharth Dassani

+1 Karim - Sidharth Dassani

Site is way too busy. The design looks like a standard premium wordpress theme. - Spencer

There's way too much clutter on the frontpage. And the top looks so amateurish... yuck - Sebastian

terrible. - Rob Sellen :o)

steve - you need to go outside - its damn beautiful out today - good breeze and not super hot! - Allen Stern

Yeah, watching CNN right now. those planes look like a flock of seaguls on a beach full of dead fish. - ~C4Chaos

it is manly - RAPatton

To compensate, carry him around by cradling his head in your left hand, with his body lying on your arm, and gently pull him into your side to keep him stable. You know, like a football. - DGentry

@Denton, I do that often, with either one. But my wife got a sling big enough to fit me this evening and it's not that bad. Lets me use the laptop as well. :-) - Louis Gray

Being a dad is the most man you can be. - AJ Kohn

You have produced offspring... you no longer have to worry about being manly - you are the very definition of it by that act. - Internet's Tad

It's only when you start breast feeding that you have to worry. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

Up next, mini-van! :-) - JT Perry from twhirl

I second AJ. It's manly. As your wife. - Chris Baskind

Baby Bjorns are heavenly - maybe I've just become numb to the manly part - Jesse Stay

I used a Baby Bjorn often. It was a much easier way to carry the munchkin. - DGentry

Our Baby Bjorn is good, but Matthew is less fussy in the sling, so far. - Louis Gray

The sling has always felt weird for me (like I'm crushing the kid, when I know I'm not)... and the regular carriers, well, the kid was always sticking out in front of me too far, keeping me from reaching things (or typing). Laid kid out on a blanket between me and the keyboard many nights, tho, and got a lot work done. He slept right through it. Doesn't work for long, tho, as they get too big too quickly... - abacab

As long as it's not a pretty, sparkly, flowery, pink sling, I think you're okay. - Lisa L. Seifert

Lisa, it is a dark brown. My wife's looking out for me. - Louis Gray

Phew. That was a close one. You know brown and pink are the trendy thing right now. Is it reversible? ;-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Hey, guys can wear pink - what are you saying? ;-) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

<rant>you could always put some really big sub woofers in your car and get a loud Harley and some tattoos and go to the shooting range</rant> Seriously, manly? I don't let *anyone* define that for me. - AJ Kohn

Those slings kick @ss - so much better than a Baby Bjorn. For one thing you don't take near as many crotch shots with a sling. For another you can look down and go "oooooooh, a baby!" whereas w/ The Baby Bjorn all you get is baby skull all up in your grill. Not that that's not cute, but the little Geddes-esque pea in a pod visual has to be immensely satisfying. - J-P Voillequé

Its only manly if you are fighting off lions and tigers while carrying the baby. Its a man rule! ;) - Moved to Facebook

Turn in your man card. :p Just kidding ofcourse. Enjoy your kidlets as much as you can while they're that little. I miss it. - Mattb4rd

All depends on how you wear the sling. Baby in front = woman. Baby in back = man. Any other position results in confusion between baby and purse ;-) - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

it's totally manly! Fatherhood brother! - Thomas Hawk

It's more mommy porn. Best you keep it coming. - Mrsth

...you're a daddy now...it's good. - JA Castillo

Internet-generation has learned the ways of one-handed surfing so that they can... er.. take care of babies with the free hand ;) - Jemm

also interested what tools you are using to communicate. Can you elaborate? - simonpure

Robert, can you make the dinner tonight? Bring the baby :) - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

atlanta is one of my favorite towns to travel too whata great place to work lots of cool companies doing cool stuff - Jonathan Jesse

I see this as an increasing trend as travel becomes more inconvenient and expensive while bandwidth and technology track on a completely inversely proportional curve. - Paul Reynolds

Virtual Scoble 1.0 has hit again! - CW™

I gave the whole talk via Stickam. It went very well. - Robert Scoble

Interesting to hear. Have you documented how you use it and other software down to some kind of tutorial for other interested people? It would be interesting thing to see and could give much for some. - Daniel Schildt

You too? alskdjfalsjdf;laskjdf;ladjsf;ladsf - Mona Nomura

(like for Matt's comment) - Mona Nomura

So does yahoo throw away YUI and redo entire content site in Flash? :-) - JT Perry

Matt, or it asks you to update from 8.1.0.32 to 8.1.0.32a - Johnny Worthington

I'm waiting for the inevitable Digg rumor. Also will be counting the number of blog posts about this rumor. - Cyndy

The last time I repeated something from Gnomedex itw as a lickroll. That seems like more fun right now. - Erin @queenofspain

duct tape, paper clip, and pocket lint... - .LAG liked that

Ice cube, USB thumb drive, and plastic spork - Adam Helweh

duct tape, USB drive, and MacGyver. - Nine

duct tape, swiss army knife, and a bar of soap. - Yolanda

@yolanda question is... what kind of soap? - Adam Helweh

A towel, low-discharge NIMH batteries and a multitool with locking pliers. - Alex Scoble

Shammy (sp?) towel, multi-tool, duct tape ... From time on submarine....multi-tool and duct tape can fix *anything* - JT Perry

Is it shammy or chamois or either? - Alex Scoble

Ahh it appears chamois is most correct.... - JT Perry

I would have a magnifying glass, alcohol and Wilson the football (Castaway)!!!!! - Joe Dawson

I am UK so for me a football is the circular shaped ball where as your 'American Football' is just an adapted Rugby ball hey? ;-) - Joe Dawson

bubble gum, pen cap, paper clip - anna sauce

MacGyver doesn't need a toolkit. -

Duct tape (tighten things that are loose) WD40 (loosen things that are tight, explosive) and a multi-tool AS LONG AS said tool includes a fingernail file and tiny flat-head screwdriver. If multi-tool cannot meet those requirements, then I will instead opt for a 6in long round file. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I'm with Abby. sonic screwdriver. Done. - thepete

Leatherman tool, GPS receiver, cell phone (to call someone who can fix that :) ) - Morton Fox

I'm surprised no one gave me props for the Hitchhikers' Guide reference. And if I was traveling with Dr. Who's sonic screwdriver, hopefully I'd also have a long ass funky colored scarf on and jelly babies in my pocket. - Alex Scoble

Gummy bears and bacon - Mona Nomura

@Mona you opting out of the 3rd thing? - Adam Helweh

Sorry no its GummiBar! - Fred Grott

GummiBars, Bacon, Legos - Fred Grott

Gummi Bears, Bacon, and LEGO!! - Mona Nomura

multi-tool, lighter, duct tape. - Stellina

One Lego? Which ONe? - Fred Grott

chamois, someone asked for the spelling bot ;) - mjc

ball bearings, WD-40, and one can of Easy Cheese - Morgan

Can-o-cheese FTW - Mona Nomura

Paper clip, rubber band, Chuck Norris - Johnny Worthington

Um, I believe the correct spelling is shamWOW... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Toothpick, paper clip, and book of matches. - ::Kristen::

I am pretty sure a piece of chewing gum is in there. I am a bit confused about why you would need more than that. - Tim Wright

1 stick of WIN, 1 pack of AWESOME and 1 can of WHOOP ASS - Josh Haley

I've been hearing it, too. I think it might be normal. - David Risley

it seems that way doesn't it. - Duncan Riley

I'd love Biden, but he has a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth, so I'm going Bayh. - Jason Carreira

Biden. - Mark Trapp

Bayh - Hutch Carpenter

Why only those three? Count me as an abstention then, since I'm guessing Richardson. - Kevin Fox

None of these. - Alex Power

Wonkette has a link to a story saying it was accidentally leaked early and it's Bayh: http://wonkette.com/402006... - Jason Carreira

michael bloomberg! - peter

I'm all about Biden. He was my candidate before he dropped out (not that he ever had a shot) - Geoffrey Hamilton from twhirl

I "voted" Bayh. Biden better Secretary of State, afraid of skeletons as VP candidate. I just seem him getting blasted. - JT Perry

Sam Nunn should be the Secretary of State. - Jason Carreira

bayh, but I'm a hoosier... - Clare Dibble

I would not be against Nunn either as Sec State - JT Perry

Powell - Fred Grott

Biden - Krishnan Subramanian

I have a hard time "liking" this. - Patrick Beard from twhirl

Only 41%? - cjmart

I'm curious what this number will be in twenty years. While my gut reaction is "yes" he is the worst president *ever*, I wonder if I will think he is only in the bottom 10 a few years from now. Reactions are always the strongest when in the middle of an event, they seem to moderate with time. - JT Perry

Only 41%? In any other country, such a character would have got impeached long back and his party wiped out of electoral map. Nowhere in the world, a president has lied about national security and his party have a fighting chance in the next elections. It is a shame. - Krishnan Subramanian

Krish: Any other country? Pretty broad brush to paint with. But also is labeling someone the "worst ever". Many people in surveys will not take extreme positions. Bring in party affiliation like the article suggests and it gets even crazier. You will have a signficant portion of party loyalists who will answer one way or the other for "the good of the party" without even considering the question asked. - JT Perry

It's an interesting set of statistics. I personally think his job performance is poor, and suspect history will show him to be one of the worst, perhaps the worst of this generation. But I'm not a presidential historian, and don't feel qualified to write about my opinion or to answer polls about this. I have no framework to provide an intelligent response. I suspect the same is true for most of the people who did respond. I'd like to see better questions asked, questions respondents are qualified to answer. - Charlene Kingston

Krish, whatever it is your smoking pass it this way bro. yikes! - Nathan from Alert Thingy

@JT Perry: As far as I am concerned, Bush's lies are no different from the lies of Sadaam kinds. I couldn't consider it to be a very broad brush to paint with. The kinda lies this administration had unleashed on the citizens including dubious and cheap selection policies in the most important department in a democracy (justice dept.) makes it worthy of calling him "worst ever" and using "any other country". His election in 2000 makes the comparison much easier. - Krishnan Subramanian

@Nathan In fact, it is because of people like you, Bush kinda people has got the balls to lie blatantly. If anyone has to come out of the dope, it is people like you who don't even realize that he has screwed this country. - Krishnan Subramanian

I don't know if he's the worst President ever. He's certainly been the worst President in my lifetime, and that includes that rat bastard Nixon. - Steven Perez

As much as I dislike Bush, it's hard to say he's worse than Grant. (or Hoover, or Coolidge) From what I've read, Grant was an epic FAIL. I'm with Steven and Sean, he's definitely the worst in my lifetime. Even worse than Reagan. - Ha3rvey (not Akiva)

Coolidge was the best president we've ever had. Bush will be judged just fine. Winners of wars don't ever look that bad. - Morgan Warstler

To quote that eminent philosopher Charles Brown: "Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything." Last I checked, Bush had two losing efforts on his hands. - Steven Perez

You should check agian - Morgan Warstler

Traditionally the US people treat presidents who make hard choices badly at the time. I'm not saying Bush is right but folsk hated Reagan too, ya know? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

"Even worse than Reagan"? That's not hard to do since Reagan easily ranks in the top 3 or 4. - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

Morgan: lessee ... Taleban making a comeback, Osama bin Laden still on the loose, security in Iraq holding as long as we keep making payments to Muqtada al-Sadr ... yep, DOUBLE FAIL. - Steven Perez

The worst administration in American history doesn't begin to cover the cascade of superlative fails: the worst, the most criminal, the most incompetent, the most destructive, the most ideologically fanatical, the least intelligent, the least pragmatic, the most anti-conservative, the most anti-liberal, the most anti-American (anti-U.S. Constitution, anti-U.S. Bill of Rights), the most... more... - Sean McBride

While I think GWB has been a disappointing president, I also think an earlier commenter is correct in saying that it will be several years down the line before we get a true sense of how history will judge his administration. Even so, there is no way his is the "worst administration in history." I suspect Jimmy Carter will hold on to that record until humans no longer roam the earth. He did an excellent job at being the worst president ever. - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

Rolling Stone http://tinyurl.com/n2f4m "George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And... more... - Sean McBride

Gregory: Carter? Wasn't he the one with the military misadventures, high inflation and out-of-control gas prices? ... Wow, deja vu all over again. - Steven Perez

Yes, Steven, as a matter of fact he was. But, unlike the high gas prices of today, which can't in any way be blamed on GWB, Cartrer's disastrous economic policies are to blame for the meteoric rise in gas prices during his administration. Based on that criteria, it seems that GWB might not be the worst president in history for very long. Four years from now, we may very well be saying... more... - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 28 Years Ago http://tinyurl.com/99nye Consider President Jimmy Carter's April 18, 1977 speech. Since it was given nearly three decades ago, when many of the reporters in Bush's White House were children, it's understandable that they don't remember it. But it's inexcusable that Bush and the mainstream media (which, after all, has the... more... - Sean McBride

He totally did. Drew the wind right out of her sails. (Trying my best Borat here...) "NOT!"... So, hard to pull that off. How did he DO that? It was her's to lose. And, she did a marvelous job of it. - Gerald Buckley

I don't like this talk of "X screwed Y's chances." I didn't like it in 2000 when people blamed Nader for Gore losing, and I didn't like it in 92 when people blamed Perot for Bush losing. My major beef with it, aside for any factual-ness arguments, is that it plays RIGHT into the hands of those with a vested interest in maintaining the two party system (i.e., the parties themselves). Then you've got the the assumption that if, for instance, Edwards hadn't been in the race that everyone who voted for him... - David Worrell

would have voted for Clinton over Obama. - David Worrell

That really could be taken a few ways :) .... - Charlie Anzman

How did Edwards have anything to do with Clinton losing? From what I can tell it was mainly due to her complete inability to manage her campaign staff and the huge tactical holes they gave to Obama's campaign to exploit. Sounds like sour grapes to me. She lost. She needs to own up to the fact that she lost and move on. She needs to take responsibility for her failure instead of pointing figures at everyone else. - Alex Scoble

On the radio ? - Charlie Anzman

Hype Machine is good although its hard to keep track of everything on there its updated constantly. - Sean Davis

I use Pandora constantly. - Morgan

last.fm, browsing iTunes & eMusic. Metafilter and various blogs also introduced me to a few bands - Mike Hussein Cohen

Definitely Last.FM ! - Éric Senterre

Pandora is definitely the way I find new music. I haven't tried Last.FM in a while, I may need to rediscover it. - JT Perry

last.fm - ·[▪_▪]·

Pandora and here. - Yolanda

I recommend Binaerpilot. - Vezquex: God of FF

I have some friends whose raison d'être is finding new music, and they toss it to me. - Kirk Kittell

I don't listen to radio at all. I don't watch videos. Primary source of music is Last.fm and I find new/different stuff via FriendFeed. If I can't find anything I like...I create it. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Cool friends - Noah Carter

Any and every way I can. I especially like getting recommendations from people I trust. Then, if I really dig the music, I will always have that connection to reflect on. - Josh Haley

last.fm, eMusic, and Jamendo. - Steven Perez

Madison, Wisconsin enjoys the benefits of a fine community station and a killer student station (i.e., WORT, WSUM). Always way ahead of the curve. Plus the internets are a bonus. - Dave Martin

Last.fm, Pandora, a few choice blogs and--every now and then--the radio. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

Pandora, BBC 1 (it's new to Americans) and a few di.fm programs. - Andrew Leyden

I don't listen to radio or watch TV since I moved to the UK, so my primary sources now are Last.fm, eMusic, FriendFeed and Rolling Stone. I'd say I'm purchasing about as much music as I used to though - mostly CDs when Amazon or HMV has a sale. DRM sucks. - Jon Price

Pandora, Last.fm, podcasts, & sometimes radio. Friends too :) - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

primarily - last.fm and amazon.com recommendations. secondarily - friend recommendations. I have the benefit of having friends with impeccable taste in music. - Jason Toney

last.fm, hypem.com and podcasts oh and of course friends. - Got80s from twhirl

Corie Allison - Bren, Photophobe

Friends, last.fm, radio, newspapers, movies, tv shows, magazines, concerts, nightclubs, festivals, and FF. - Pete Delucchi

Oh, music blogs and podcasts, too. flux, gramophone, soul sides, rock insider, and the fader are go to blogs. KCRW top tune, kexp song of the day, and indiefeed are my go to music podcasts. But, damn, now y'all know all my secrets. How will I maintain my rockist/soulist cred? - Jason Toney

All I use is last.fm, because somehow it amanages to find new related artists each week despite my massive music collection - Bartek Ciszkowski

I tend to rummage with radio, and internet cause I don't get music suggestions. - Shawn aka ringking

Last.fm - Roger Benningfield

I'm a bit of a new-music freak and take a lot of time out to find new music. I don't ell se last.fm but I am hooked up on the site. While Pandora was available in the UK that was by far the best way I found new music. Since then I browse my iLike Activity page weekly, as well as check my iTunes weekly mail of new tunes from my favourite bands. I also check BBC Radio 1's and xfm's... more... - Kol Tregaskes

Oh and once I do find a new band I hck them out on Amazon and AllMusic and seek out the similar artists/Albums they list. ALso, Radio 1 has lots of podcasts to listen to. - Kol Tregaskes

If the last.fm feeds on FF all hd lay buttons then I would check them out more too. - Kol Tregaskes

I don't, really. Most of my new music is soundtracks. I just don't listen to music. - Brent Newhall

http://www.freeformrock.com (traditional FM freeform, including contemporary Americana, from one of the legendary freeform DJ's) and Pandora for stuff that's new to my hearing, but I somehow missed over the years ( http://pandora.com/share... ). - Malcolm Gault-Williams

Through friends and Amazon.com. Occasionally through the BBC's 1Xtra and the NY Times Arts section. My friends are musical omnivores and voracious consumers. They've introduced me to most of the new music I've purchased in the last year. - tiffany

It says "live" in teh corner of my nbc swimfeed - The Archangel ωαřмaiden

WarMaiden: I already know that Phelps won a goal and set a world record but it won't be on here in California until later tonight. - Robert Scoble

TV is dead. Time delays are dead. In Canada, they don't allow local broadcasting of election results until your region's polls have closed. The Internet has killed that old-fashioned idea. Time delay TV is so 1988. - Stephen Pierzchala

Aaah, gotcha - The Archangel ωαřмaiden

We hear this every four years, but if you truly want the Olympcs to be live with the 12-hourdifference, be waring to go at 3 a.m. That said, I notice that at least for the East Coasters are getting some of the big events live while us West Coasters have to wait three hours... But we're used to that... - Chris Reed

CBC is the perfect model. Live, inclusive, no smaltzy profiles, just the sports. - Kathleen Mazzocco

NBC sucks. Why aren't they showing more of the Olympics? At 7 they showed Access Hollywood Weekend, now they are doing "Olympic Zone" live from Downtown Palo Alto??? WTF?? - PC Easy from twhirl

Ben: are you on East Coast? - Robert Scoble

Robert, you sure are in a hateful mood tonight..but I am with ya..so carry on. - Scot Duke

that sucks. here in Detroit we've got the CBC too, although at least on EST, they've had just as much live coverage for the first time since at least '92 - Richard Lawler from twhirl

Scot: I hate it cause people are talking about it on Twitter and I can't watch for three more hours. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Agreed PC. Their announcers suck, their stupid commercial breaks every 5 minutes suck. Ugh, I want decent coverage of this stuff already. - Dennis Jackson

I am with ya on the Twitter talk about it. I have been trying to watch it online and that sucks as well. - Scot Duke

agreed that the CBC coverage has been great so far...too bad they've lost the broadcast rights for the olympics after this year... - Trent Olson

And it appears NBC may have altered the broadcast of the Opening Ceremony to place TeamUSA in primetime: http://tinyurl.com/5pu92v - Peter Svensk

I am so angry that I can't watch my friends who are racing over there...I have to read about it and hope for youtube. Not angry. Outraged. - Andrew Feinberg

And the MSM wonders why people pirate content and feeds.... - Duncan Riley

gee .. like no-one thought this would happen huh .. a corporation re-writing history to help their bottom line .. I am so shocked <GASP> - Steven Hodson

+1 for CBC - JT Perry

Have you tried the NBC Olympics site? http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_... Some content is streamed live... you may have to adjust your sleeping habits to can the next round of competion in four hours from now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Robert - Yes East Coast, but they are back to recorded gymnastics. "LIVE" is gone. - Ben Newton

I'm watching it live right now. Is it a west coast thing? There are tons of live events online this year, even practice sessions. Requires MSoft Silverlight but pretty good quality streams. - Andrew Leyden

I watched the opening ceremony on my TV via Sopcast&Tvants (pc hooked up to TV). Watched it again in HDTV on NBC later that night. This link has all the ways to catch coverage http://howto.wired.com/wiki... - Andrew Leyden

and you are surprised? at all? honestly? - Thomas Vincent

I'm watching CBC in Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics Do you think it would be any different if another network was covering the Olympics in the States? - Phillip Jeffrey

Comcast added two special Olympic channels in the HD section--one for basketball and one for soccer. There is also Universal HD which has some coverage, USA Network, Oxygen, CNBC and MSNBC, and Telemundo. I'd spin around to see if you can find anything live at the moment (I think there is a basketball game on now). - Andrew Leyden

Have you tried nbcolympics.com? I know they are having some events live. Personally I don't have a problem with the delay. With a choice of the races being broadcast live but not seeing them and being able to see the delay I'll take the delay. - ChiliMac

Here is a good list of what is on (all times EDT) across all the networks http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv... - Andrew Leyden

If you want live, unfortunetly the only way is through the web. And they are raw feeds using MS Silverlight. So if your willing to deal with that you can get all of the events in a pop-up window on your computer. : | - Bluesun 2600 from twhirl

On the West coast in .au we are use to 2hr delay for most sporting events, but not the Olympics. Appears to be live at, least on SBS the "complementary" broadcaster, time to settle down for 3 hours of the womens cycling road race. - Nick Cowie

whenever the olympics take place on the other side of the world most events aren't shown live. This is not about broadcasting the olympics as a public service. It's about NBC making their money back. You do understand the relationship between ad rates and prime-time, right? The Internet takes away any suspense about the olympics when they are held on the other side of the world. You ain't gonna get live from NBC. Too much money at risk. - Dave Madison

part of the coverage is live at least on the east coast. there has been some effort to schedule a few important US events in the morning a la Phelps so that they can be seen live on primetime - Ted

Adding insult to injury, my rather capable PowerPC Mac can't even access the Olympics on nbcolympics.com. It's using an Intel-only version of Silverlight. Trying CBC and other foreign networks online all reject me because of my American IP, and I haven't found a successful proxy server that'll let me stream. - Kevin Hessel

loving nbc's use of silverlight working awesome on the macbook pro - adolfo foronda

The BBC have just had to put a bucket into the Olympics studio in Beijing as the roof is leaking! - Rich

@Kevin Hessel: Thanks for pointing that out. Now I'm not happy with NBC either. - ChiliMac

try watching CBC channel 99 on Comcast. I just watched USA creamed China in basketball, live. - ~C4Chaos

NBC focuses too much on the #olympics drama rather than live coverage. bball on primetime? USA already creamed China - http://bit.ly/1cQyX2 - ~C4Chaos

yeah - accesine

I put it on mute. The visuals are astonishing, but their vapid commentary: holy Christ. - Mark Trapp

I can't stand this tape delay bulls++t. They won't show it for another 2.5 hours. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I stopped watching the Olympics years ago when they even put the Atlanta games in tape delay - PC Easy from twhirl

really? you can't watch the whole olympics becasue the opening ceremony was on tape delay? you know you cna watch the sports online and get pretty much everything live. - Richard Lawler from twhirl

Wow, even for the west coast? That's stupid. I figured they'd run it at 5 and again at 8 for PT. - Mark Trapp

I'm watching sports online that I care about, but I want to see the opening ceremonies in all of HDTV's glory. Gotta wait until 7:30 p.m. Pacific to see that. - Robert Scoble

Won't get to see it for a few hours, but I can already envision what you're describing :( - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

Figure rather than tweeting incessantly as I'm wont to do in an event like this, I'll comment here: two words for this, "massively monolithic." It's creepy. HD is doing this great justice. Even if you caught it earlier, see it in HD. - Mark Trapp

It is pretty in HD - RAPatton

Wow, 8 minutes in is a commercial break. This is silly. - Mark Trapp

I must say tho, i'm glad I have the option of CBC whenever NBC gets too annoying - Richard Lawler from twhirl

Oh man, Vladmir Putin and George Bush's seats are right next to each other. To be in the seat in front of them. - Mark Trapp

I was just typing that on another thread, Mark. Anyone able to parse the timing of them sitting there vs. the invasion? - Cyndy

Opening ceremony would've been 12 hours ago, which is right about the time the invasion started. 15 hours ago Georgia attacks militants, 12 hours ago news agencies report Putin has said war has started. The vapid announcers are so clueless: the two of them were probably arguing about the invasion. - Mark Trapp

Don't agree. The NBC team is outstanding! - Franklin Pettit

I'm irritated that this country feels the need to interrupt the opening ceremony with stupid commercials. - Dennis Jackson

It's pretty bad, too: the Superbowl this isn't apparently. Reusing commercials, half of them aren't even in HD. Looks like the only new commercials are the Visa and NBC Olympic promos. - Mark Trapp

here here @dennis jackson - Jeff Woelker from twhirl

I agree Mark, I'm only watching NBC b/c CBC started it an hour and a half earlier. - Chris Rivait

How can they even watch it they don't stop talking!!!! - hellokittiemama

I think they are making the O for Obama! - Chris Rivait

Bob Costas is clutch as an announcer for the Olympics. - James Williams

I love how the Chinese pop singer phoned in his wardrobe with sweats and a t-shirt. - Mark Trapp

the bit with the sliding boxes was effing AMAZING - Josh Haley

i'm so disappointed we couldn't watch this live and unedited here in the usa. it's atrocious. - Cee Bee

Haha, they cut to Bush who's slouching in his chair, tapping his foot, looking around, and checking his watch. - Mark Trapp

@CeeBee try this http://isohunt.com/downloa... - Josh Haley

@Mark I wish I didn't feel ashamed every time I see him on TV - Jason Carreira

Bush checking his watch: "Hey, Laura -- when does the Texas team come out?" - Chris Baskind

You'd think the President of one of the largest nations in THE WORLD could get better than nosebleed seats... - Nate Pilling from twhirl

Doesn't it seem like he's sitting pretty far back? Or is it just me? - Nate Pilling from twhirl

Love how they show Bush when the Iraq delegation comes in... - Nate Pilling from twhirl

Just got to watch the CBC (Canada) version. Amazing they could remain perfectly quiet during the important moments - JT Perry

for those w/ directv, I'd try finding PearlTV, that should be live. - clarke thomas

josh: thanks a lot. very appreciated - Cee Bee