Jorge Escobar

Does this video scare you? - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet

they've got about $6 billion in cash, $7 billion in secured debt, and $45 billion in *total* debt. their options are bankruptcy and bailout right now. but if they file chapter 11, that means somebody has to make them a loan so they can restructure the terms of their debt. and uh, nobody is doing that. (listening to a podcast about GM right now, which is why i know these facts seemingly off the top of my head) - tiffany

We can loan $25B and never get it back, and then wait for another couple of months for the next ask... or you can downsize, optimize, make better products and become profitable on your own. - Jorge Escobar

"To all may followers on Twitter HI! I am going to be working on my Blog all day today, Sunday 16 November, full launch is in a day or two. Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment please. My Twitter is http://www.twitter.com/mtaylor" - Daniel J. Pritchett via Bookmarklet

Mark is a Memphis tweeter who I believe I met at BarCamp Memphis (#BCMem). I'm glad to see him adding a long-form blog to his already busy stream of tweets. - Daniel J. Pritchett

@mtaylor congrats on the blog -- you should put the URL on your Twitter homepage ;) - Jorge Escobar

Congrats on the blog! Creating the perfect home for your content is hard work! - Glenn Batuyong

I like the guy getting propellered in Indiana Jones - Toby Graham

Some of those old Peckinpah Spaghetti Westerns were pretty amazing! - Robyn Hawk

I have to go with Josh on this... Adam Goldberg's character in Saving Private Ryan getting the knife to the chest. When I think about that movie, I always think about that scene. - Neil Bernhart

I have a wonderful Golden Retriever, he's 4 years old and looks like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k... - Kol Tregaskes

We have a full-blood pitty named Delilah. http://friendfeed.com/e/c91df6... - David Cook

Have a beagle/black lab mix ... call him Bud or Kenny (where is that from???) http://i13.photobucket.com/alb... - Amani

My Dad is a journalist. Since a young age, I was exposed to typewriters, printing presses and the smell of fresh ink. Back in the early 70’s, newspaper production was a difficult cycle that took a lot of effort and manual labor. What hasn’t changed from those years is the need for professional, thought-provoking and unique content. Providing this content should be the focus of the newspaper industry. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

My Dad is a journalist. Since a young age, I was exposed to typewriters, printing presses and the smell of fresh ink. Back in the early 70’s, newspaper production was a difficult cycle that took a lot of effort and manual labor. What hasn’t changed from those years is the need for professional, thought-provoking and unique content. Providing this content should be the focus of the newspaper industry. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

Agreed. Although I'd call it the news or journalism industry. The paper part of it is irrelevant when it comes to content. - Badger Gravling

I do agree that newspapers will still be around for the foreseeable future; they will just change distribution channels to web/online instead of paper. There will be a lot of reorganization to make them profitable, but we still need these beacons to navigate the world of information, combined with blogs and other informal channels. I wrote some other thoughts in this post: http://cli.gs/Xvm63P - Jorge Escobar via FriendFeed MT Plugin

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Thanks for the nightmares - Zehn

There are extremes to everything. A well-toned female body can be breathtaking to look at. This though, it's too much. Way too much. - Jason Huebel

Squee! How pretty! :-) - Ladybug Heather

ha3rvey, it's styro. :P Cee Bee, yeah that's cold. ours is 15F... brrrr.... - AJ Batac

It feels good to be inside - Juan Pablo González

here's mine http://twitter.com/jungleG/sta... - Jorge Escobar

Mine: http://twitter.com/ambertides/... - Alix Whitmire ƸӜƷ

heres mine http://twitter.com/snehal/stat... - Snehal Shinde

"A comprehensive weight tracking program that allows you to monitor your weight, follow the changes of your body and let others see your progress. Your friends and supporters will keep you going, even at the hardest times." - Chris Messina via Mento

Looks like it's a closed beta/alpha? - Jorge Escobar

Yeah, seems like it's not open at all yet! - Chris Messina

Imagínate que estás en el futuro. Te despiertas, tomas una taza de café y te sientas en tu terminal de red. Tienes un decreto de energía para revisar. Abres el resumen del decreto, lees cómo podría afectar las relaciones diplomáticas de tu país, pero también como podría ayudar la economía. Revisas los comentarios de otros ciudadanos. Finalmente te decides. Oprimes el botón de “aprobar” e inmediatamente lees un gráifco de lo que pensó el resto del país. Te vistes y sales al trabajo. Bienvenido a la democracia de código abierto. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

Imagine you are in the future. You wake up, get some coffee and sit down on your network appliance. You have an energy bill to review. You open the summarized description of the bill, read how it could affect your country’s diplomatic relations, but how it would also be good for the economy. You browse what other citizen’s comments are. Finally you make up your mind. You press the “approve” button and immediately watch a graph of what the rest of the country thought. You dress up and go to work. Welcome to the open source democracy. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

"what the rest of the country thought" is not as valuable as one might think ... - Gregory Lent

Now picture a powerful player who wants the bill approved... paying hundreds of thousands of "employees" to sign in and post their comments while the rest of us who actually have to work, can't spend our entire day on those forums. Welcome to Mob Rule 2.0. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Imagine you are in the future. You wake up, get some coffee and sit down on your network appliance. You have an energy bill to review. You open the summarized description of the bill, read how it could affect your country’s diplomatic relations, but how it would also be good for the economy. You browse what other citizen’s comments are. Finally you make up your mind. You press the “approve” button and immediately watch a graph of what the rest of the country thought. You dress up and go to work. Welcome to the open source democracy. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

I got this paper today in Union Square and it took me a while to realize what it was. It apparently is from a group called "The Yes Men". - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

An interactive way to test jquery selectors - Jorge Escobar

Put Twitter on your site with jQuery widget - Jorge Escobar

Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based off of Scrum. - Jorge Escobar

tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications. - Jorge Escobar

Very interesting! I'll have to try it and see how it compares to Skype. - Squirrel Girl

You can only use firefox on the mac for this one, what is a bummer as well, hope they will include safari as well, or webkit in general.. - Jaap Willem

gmail's color scheme in that screenshot is different, and the ui a little bit cleaner, looks like the one they used when they introduced aim support in gchat http://googlesystem.blogspot.c... - Mateo Yadarola

This guy's blog is fun - constantly posts ideas for products he has. Always interesting. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

this is amazing stuff! - Jorge Escobar

So could you literally carry the one then? - Louis Gray

And of course the file is either missing or somewhere else or named something else in the Windows version. Since Apache is a democracy, you decide. Let me know. BTW the feature is ProxyPass. Grrrr. - Dave Winer

I'll see your Apache and I'll raise you sendmail. - Tudor Bosman

Sendmail wins. - Matt

I've got half a case of Clif bars! - ha3rvey