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November 11 at 8:06 pm - Link
""C'mon baby, this has never happened before..."" - John Staton
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August 17 at 11:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I love Pandora! What are we gonna do? - John Staton via Bookmarklet
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August 10 at 2:53 pm - Link
"Haha....and Barry Manilow lives. I thought the same thing..." - John Staton
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“How come every time I login to MySpace I feel I need a shower afterwards?”
August 9 at 8:03 pm - Link
I know the feeling... - John Staton
I agree. Unfortunately, all my *alleged* real life friends are on MySpace. - Michelle Martinez
I hate hate hate using MySpace. - Bill Sodeman
I hate it too - I just have some friends who are stuck there and can't leave - like frozen Han. - Morgan
@Morgan. Same here. They just haven't learned! - James Ferguson
Ugh. I only go there to keep in touch with certain friends, but for the most part I don't use it. Some of my die-hard Myspace friends are migrating to Facebook. - Sarah
I need a scrub down just thinking about myspace. - Pete Delucchi
Myspace.. lol - Mona N.
I can't believe people use myspace. There are so many bad pages in myspace in terms of colors and overuse of animated pictures. Horrendous! - imabonehead
Ack! Myspace! The reason why so many direct friends of mine refuse to have anything to do with social media. - Pete Delucchi
Shouldn't anyone wash their hands after handling feces? - ·[▪_▪]·
+1 nicerobot - Morgan
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August 9 at 9:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
WTF? This is so sad. - John Staton via Bookmarklet
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August 8 at 5:12 pm - Link
still reading...but my jaw is dropped right now! - Justin Korn
Wow, that's unbelievable. - Chris Rivait
Blint and the SFMOMA can kiss my...time to get a group of photogs to all go in together? Let me know when the beg to apologize. - Justin Korn
It is pretty crappy. To accuse someone of using a telephoto to spy on his employees is a crappy charge and not something that one ought to get kicked out of a museum for. If the SF MOMA doesn't want their employees that sit in the atrium appearing in photos then they should not have a "photography is allowed policy" per their website in their atrium. Simon Blint is like plenty of other assholes I've run into over the years. A power trippy person who gets upset when someone challenges their word. - Thomas Hawk
thanks Justin, appreciate the digg and support. - Thomas Hawk
TH: This is absolutely ridiculous! I don't have that much (any?) power, but I'm going to do everything I can do get this story out (not that you don't have enough followers/supporters) - Justin Korn
"Blint obviously knows nothing of photography because the 14mm ultra wide angle lens on my camera body was about the furthest thing possible from a telephoto lens." Ultra-LOL - Johnny Worthington
Sigh. Amazing that they are still being jerks about photography. - Robert Scoble
It appears that they have (just?) changed their policy on the website. "Photography is not permitted in the galleries. Flash photography is permitted only with a handheld camera in the Atrium." http://bit.ly/4sm86V - Jauder Ho
Jauder: But TH was in the Atrium, and he wasn't using a tripod, so his camera was handheld. Do you interpret the policy as 'only flash cameras are okay. Cameras without flashes are not'? - Kevin Fox
So 'handheld' must only be point and shoot... - Johnny Worthington
Kevin: Upon initial reading of the policy, for some reason I fixated/associated it to mean only P&S. My bad. I do not like what happened to TH and would definitely like to see a reponse from MOMA addressing this. - Jauder Ho via twhirl
sounds like the Curator of the SF MOMA needs a slew of emails , in protest . Perhaps a large photography meetup at the SFMOMA . Press Office commassistant@sfmoma.org - johnpiercy
A photowalk with video camera would be lots of fun! Then we could have a segment about "what to do if you are accosted by an asshole." :-) - Robert Scoble
I'm in for a photowalk over there. I just sent an email to the curator as well. - Justin Korn
http://www.google.com/search?q... I hope this is just a wake up call for him and that he doesn't lose his job over his poor behavior. - Erica Baker
Sounds like a good human interest 'new story' for a local TV station or Newspaper. Works every time - Charlie Anzman
@Erica incompetence at a high-level position like that where interfacing with the public is priority #1 is exactly the sort of reason he should be severely reprimanded or terminated. That's the last thing a museum needs is bad press. - Pete Delucchi
Thomas - want to come visit DC's Union Station with me? - Andrew Feinberg
Nice shot from the Atrium BTW - Johnny Worthington
Reprimanded yes. Fired? Only if he has an established pattern of this sort of behavior. - Erica Baker
I dugg the post, and sent an e-mail to relay my astonishment. Looking at the other staff members' e-mail addresses on the PR contact page, it was pretty easy to guess at Simon's. - Tom Harrison
like, dugg, shared and whatever else you need to help :) - Tim Hoeck
I'm sorry you got kicked out, Thomas! What I really don't understand about his accusation of your spying (and it seems to be a common excuse to try to stop photography these days) is that newer P&S cameras are capable of crazy zoom. If someone were spying, do they not think they would want to be the LEAST conspicuous? It makes no sense. - carlotta fancypants
I can't believe this happened. I hope everyone talks up this issue and something changes. I noticed that people react differently when you use a DSLR instead of a small point-n-shoot. - Tom Newman
Ppl freak out when I pull out my DSLR..... - John Staton
But more and more people have DSLRs these days -- I think they will just have to get used to it - Brian Sullivan
facebook profile -Simon Blint http://www.facebook.com/home.p... - johnpiercy
Wow, what a muppet. - Andrew Garrett
I just delicious tagged and anonymous tipped your story for SFist... we'll see if they pick it up... - Richard Walker
Tomorrow night I'm going to see two friends who work in the SF MOMA dungeon. I'll ask them about this miscreant. - Richard Walker
I left an hour before this happened but not before I had to body check the over zealous security girl who literally got within 6 inches of my personal space because I refused to acknowledge her 2nd request to turn my off camera. - Mrsth
Simon Blintz is a douche nozzle. He needs a good kick in the nuts. - Noel Kleinman
Something tells me he's going to have come to his senses by Monday. - Pete Delucchi
If you haven't dugg it yet (only 200 or so have!) do it...http://digg.com/travel_places/... - Justin Korn
Holy sh**. I took tons of photos at the Louvre and no one cared. - sergiooo via NoiseRiver
Ridiculous. This type of stuff really annoys me and makes me wonder about the future of public photography in general. I'm amazed at how quickly our photographic freedoms are being torn away by unbased bias and fear. GRRRRRRR. - Sam Dodge
Interestingly, Simon seems to shoot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. http://flickr.com/search/?q=Si... His behavior seems more douchey to me now. - Erica Baker
This man needs to loose his job over this incident. Not even a public apology should save him from getting canned. I've had a similar incident regarding my camera at a NY Islanders game in the Nassau Coliseum and have been following Thomas Hawk's series of posts about the museum with interest. David Pogue wrote about this as well after a motocross event incident a few months back. - Tony Vota
Wow! 12 pages of ff entries on "Simon Blint" in just 19 hours. http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Jesper K. Hansen
What a nippy arse. Hope he gets read the riot act. - Chris Nixon
There are some comments over on SFist from people with first-hand opinions: http://sfist.com/2008/08/09/sf... - Richard Walker
Oh, and one more thing to all of you that are trying to make this an issue of Hawk's or Blint's character, I think the real issue stems from trumped up "security" meant to keep us "safe." All sorts of power-tripping security guards and police have become accustomed to people immediately accepting restricted rights with the magic words "post 9/11." The reason it is such a hot-button issue is that most people have not pushed back against the Patriot act and all it (theoretically) allows law enforcement to restrict. But sure, go right ahead and make this a "Diva" vs. "Employee" issue. And may thee forever lack moisturizer on thine inglorious vacations. - Richard Walker
Sorry this happened to you Thomas, it's strange to see how close minded and arrogant are some of the people in art institution. What happened to you and to me last week is a sign of the times: photography is increasingly seen as a danger as it cannot be controlled. http://digg.com/arts_culture/A... - Davide Bedin
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Anyone try this? - John Staton via Bookmarklet
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August 3 at 3:45 pm - Link
iDelete ...EPIC FAIL!! - Susan Beebe
When I picked up my iPhone this morning, the salesman was trying fairly hard to get me to sign up for MobileMe but I kept on pushing him off, saying that I wanted to mess with the trial a little more before I committed. Very, very glad I did that. - Akiva Moskovitz
I use MobileMe and so far, no issues. knock-on-wood - Rom Feria
Been using MobileMe since it was called iTools and free with very few issues ever. It keeps my contacts and my calendars and my mail settings synced between 3 Macs. - Adam Turetzky
Is there a known set of circumstances in which this occurs, or are the circumstances fairly random? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
No reason, no idea why it happened? I understand it's bad news for you, and could be for others, but couldn't this be a random incident? Isn't it a little hasty to go telling everyone MobileMe is a disaster? - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
Thanks Robert. Signed up for MobileMe, but have yet to investigate. Looks like you saved me the trouble! - Bill Sanders
Tim: lots of other people I trust are having troubles with it too. It could be a random incident, but I'd rather have my readers be very careful with this. I've never seen this behavior before. No idea why it happened and since it's taken me more than two hours of resynching with Google Calendar to try to get it back I'm not very likely to try it again. Uninstall. - Robert Scoble
Walt Mossberg says not to go for Mobile Me either. What is his headline? "Apple's Mobileme is far too flawed to be reliable.": http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20... - Robert Scoble
I gave MobileMe a rather rigorous testing for a week, and found it to be just one aggravating issue after the next. http://tinyurl.com/6lnzg6 if you care to read. - Evan Sims
Is this just an Outlook problem? Or can it affect iCal too? - John
John: I don't know. I'm using Mobile Me on a Windows Vista computer with Outlook 2007. - Robert Scoble
Thanks. I just backed up my iCal just in case. Apple needs to get their sh!t together. First iPhone 2.0 and then of course the MobileMe disaster. - John
Thank god, this is one of the few mishaps of MobileMe that didn't happen to me, yet. Woke up to deleted contacts on my iPhone one morning. Thank god, they were "only" deleted on the phone, so nothing was lost. But it just makes you remember: "When was the last backup?" - Holger Eilhard
I don't like to rant about Apple, but don't they test this stuff. what about 2.0 firmware for iPod touch and iPhones that is really unstable with the appstore? I know they can't test every config, but atleast try to work out the bugs. Everyday I here of another mobileMe disasters.. I'm happy I still have old treo, which is buggy too, but at least it won't automatically delete my contacts and appointments for me... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
I don't have my calendar on MobileMe, but I know it screwed up my address book. - Francine Hardaway
While there's probably a unique circumstance in which this happens, the fact it is possible at all is scary to say the least. - Sam Law
I have found that redundacy is a good thing. Which is why I keep more then one calendar. - Paul via twhirl
Are there any free and/or open source products which fulfill the same features as MobileMe? Preferably open source so anyone can just up and install as required. - Scott Jarkoff
Before making such proclamations, you might want to do a little homework. Did you even talk to MobileMe tech support? http://www.apple.com/support/m.... There might have been a simple fix had you checked. I've been using MobileMe since July 18th; I sync three Macs and my iPhone and haven't had any major issues. I'm adding an XP laptop next; I don't expect any problems with that either. - Albert Willis
Albert: a simple fix? Google Calendar has been going for six hours recreating my calendar so far. This was a problem with Outlook. I have 8,400+ calendar entries. It's only recreated 2,400 of them so far. Sigh. Macs don't even have Outlook so, of course you haven't had problems yet. Hope nothing bad happens on your XP machine. I'd back up just in case. At least my calendar will be back tomorrow cause I had a backup. - Robert Scoble
That is, there could have been something Apple could have done to restore your calendar entries, assuming you synced your calendars to MobileMe. That would have been worth a shot. Again, we don't know the culprit here, between Outlook, Vista, MobileMe and whatever else is installed on your machine. I've done enough tech support to know we don't have the complete story here. - Albert Willis
Albert: no, once the calendar entries were deleted, you needed to move them over from somewhere else. There was no way in hell I was going to let it touch my calendars anymore after that. I know Google Calendar will work. My trust in this is shot. - Robert Scoble
I know it's not as critical a failure as calendar but you should try the gallery...I struggled with using it and sharing it for a week before giving up and going back to flickr... - Kamath ॐ
I didn't have any problems with calendars on MobileMe, but it decided one morning to delete all of my contacts bar three. That was the point at which I decided I'd move back to using Exchange, which Just Works on the iPhone, and (via Entourage) on my Mac. And amazingly, I had people trying to tell me it wasn't Apple's fault, despite it being Apple technology, running Apple software, on an Apple machine! - Ian Betteridge
people love to piss on apple these days, ain't that right? Exchange deletes calendars as well as google calendar. It just happens. Ask an exchange admin how much fun it is to run that b*tch ;) - muzo
muzo: I dare you to come up with any Fortune 1,000 CTO who says that Exchange deleted a calendar like this with a recent version of Exchange. - Robert Scoble
yeah, but from the user end it WORKS. get it? Exchange == most worthwhile product MS produces. Period. I'm going to bed. - Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: right. And anyway, Apple is the beneficiary of more free good PR than any other tech company around. - Robert Scoble
It's a version 1 Apple product - that means "early beta" in anyone else's language. - Andrew Garrett
With every post I get happier that I did not waste my $100 on mobile fail. - Bob Blunk
I'm incredibly sad to hear that this implementation is failing so badly. It's a utopian feature we all benefit from. If Robert ditches this and convinces other to, Apple will really miss out of good feedback from the community. Anyone found out if Apple responded to this major setback? - Mark Aitken
Not worth the very limited utility given the fact that it won't sync up with Google Calendar, either. I got MobileMe through my brother's family plan, and still had to buy Spanning Sync to do that. And I have to keep the intermediary computer on (my home iMac) because it doesn't sync OTA. There's got to be something better than this... - Jason Menayan
Had the initial trouble with MobleMe during the .Mac switch and have stopped using it - even though I paid good money for the service. On the flip side, I'm finding Live Mesh to be surprisingly more useful and it's a free "Tech Preview." Go figure. - Paul Dain
For those who would like to uninstall Movile Me: http://tinyurl.com/6q37oo Talks you through the process. - Paul
I had some initial problems with the service but it's quite stable for me, so far. - John Staton
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41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs
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August 3 at 2:54 pm - via Reshare - Link
"Believe it or not, all of these photos are of real life-size locations or objects. The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking makes the life-sized look like a miniature scale model. The process involves using Photoshop to fake a shallow depth of field and punching up the color saturation. The results are truly amazing". - Nir Ben Yona
RAD! - Mona N.
that's an amazing effect! - Morgan
They are using it in Films from the other direction, taking miniature objects and making them look like the real thing. - Nir Ben Yona
Mind = officially blown... - Johnny Worthington
That's pretty cool.... - John Staton
Yep. little effort - big effect. - Nir Ben Yona
I've always loved this effect. Brings back memories of build cities out of toys. - Andrew Trinh
I need to try this for a few of my photos. - Roberto Bonini
Roberto: please share the results, i'm trying it myself on some of the building i took in Europe. - Nir Ben Yona
There's a great photoshop tutorials on video in here: http://bit.ly/3pjojE Maybe you can find there. - Nir Ben Yona
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August 3 at 3:07 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I gotta try this! - John Staton via Bookmarklet
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August 3 at 9:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Hmm, I'm a real person, I think... - John Staton via Bookmarklet
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Eric Berlin posted a message
“Here's where I'm at today with Twitter vs. FF: When I'm in the mood to "broadcast" a message I'm 50-50 on FF vs. Twitter. But when I want to engage/interact/browse/communicate, FriendFeed is becoming top choice. Anyone relate?”
August 2 at 7:39 pm - Link
I've long said that Twitter is a broadcast medium, and FriendFeed is a conversation medium. - Louis Gray
Wow, aligning myself in agreement I'd say, and super quick on the interactive retort! :-) - Eric Berlin
Friendfeed has been a lot less responsive for me when I really want an answer. Could it be my lack of traction yet? - Todd Jordan
agreed. I do my quick broadcast via twitterbar will gazing thru my RSS link farm. This streams down into FF,. so covering both base. But I find better interactions here ! - Peter Dawson
Same here. I also tend to put sillier stuff on Twitter, sometimes.. :) - ha3rvey
You put in words exactly what I've been thinking all day. Despite Twitter's "@" feature, the likes and comments in FriendFeed just make it inherently easier to interact with. - Mohit
everything is a medium - what's a large or a small? - Allen Stern
Todd, you got about 20 comments here: http://friendfeed.com/e/4e677f... . Do you get more via Twitter? - Louis Gray
I agree... - John Staton
Todd, that may be it. Fact that it's been around 60 seconds since I posted and already have 5 likes and 4 comments from people other than me in part proves out the power / popularity of this platform. - Eric Berlin
Peter, you bring up a great point. When I'm in the mood to "live tweet" or do a quick series of successive thoughts, Twitter feels like a good place to do that. There's nothing really stopping me from doing same thing on FF I suppose -- it's more a habit/cultural thing at this point. - Eric Berlin
It's easier for me to follow a conversation in FF, so it holds my attention better (and I'd venture others interact more for the same reason). - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Yep. The most popular threads of past day has become a regular stop for me as well... has kind of replaced in large part browsing of front page of places like reddit, come to think of it. - Eric Berlin
Eric, I also take multiple feeds and dump them into my FF pvt rooms. Then I just reshare links that I want to open a convo on or think has value to this community. However, when I do this, I miss out on a communication to my twitter followers. - Peter Dawson
I am with you bro...I use Twhirl so its 50/50 to post or read both. FF has more to offer. - Photo Larry via twhirl
Interesting use of rooms Peter. They're one of the few areas of FF that I don't use a whole lot. - Eric Berlin
Louis: totally missed that and wow. FF is definitely looking better today. Ha. - Todd Jordan
Eric. the internet comes to me, I don't go to surfing or using any other tool right now. FF is my main aggregator. In fact, in one of my pvt rooms. I added all the RSS feeds on Network /service status. So that give me the health of the Cloud ::)- heres an e.g http://friendfeed.com/e/58d2ab... - Peter Dawson
I've been saying for a while that FF has potential to be the one content aggregator (or smart people network) that Rules Them All... that's another great example of it ! - Eric Berlin
Exactly - Michael Hocter
@Todd, you need to engage . thats the key to being in this space. e.g. If you take a look at Mona's response on twitter it really shallow compared to FF comments and interaction here. I firmly believe that Twitter is a 1-1 convo, where as FF is 1-n convo. The the circel of discovery is every increasing in FF, but w/twitter its echo of thoughts within a closed circle. ( I only see the twit's of them I follow) - Peter Dawson
@Mike you nail it well-VERY WELL :)- "twitter is like the conversation that occurs between two people passing each other in opposite directions on the up and down escalators - its brief, short and cryptic - while friendfeed is like the conversation that occurs while folks are traveling in the same direction on the escalator" - Peter Dawson
I completely agree. - Robert Couture
@Peter - good advice, now how best to make use of and go about engaging on FF. Obviously commenting more, following more, but I think I'm missing some key elements. - Todd Jordan
@Mike love that quote @Peter pulled out. Often seen folks get angry over misunderstood Twitter conversation. - Todd Jordan
I can still sort of see Twitter in my rearview. - Pete Delucchi
@Pete, "objects look closer then they really are " wrt to rearview (mirror) ! :)- - Peter Dawson
I like the conversations I get involved in on FriendFeed. Also FF allows you to reach out to more people, even those that aren't necessarily on your "friend" list. - Monique
Totally! - kamla bhatt
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May 25 at 5:27 am - Link
"You guys are funny." - John Staton
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John Staton commented on a story on Digg
June 25, 2007 at 4:24 pm - Link
"wow...this is shocking" - John Staton
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John Staton commented on a story on Digg
December 12, 2006 at 12:46 pm - Link
"I don't think it's hypocrisy per say -- the croc didn't care what the dudes ethnic background was. But I have to ask, "What's the sound the of one hand clapping?"" - John Staton
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John Staton commented on a story on Digg
December 12, 2006 at 11:29 am - Link
"So I wasn't the only one rooting for the croc? I was hoping for a bit more carnage and dismemberment." - John Staton
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John Staton commented on a story on Digg
December 6, 2006 at 5:41 pm - Link
"I think someone made a mistake - if they had located him alive yesterday, they would've brought him out of there." - John Staton
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John Staton commented on a story on Digg
December 2, 2006 at 1:25 pm - Link
"I remember him from the days of TechTV - one of the cooler guys in my opinion. Let's hope they're OK." - John Staton
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November 30, 2006 at 9:41 am - Link
"This is bad..." - John Staton
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