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Computer glitch prompts 50 raids on elderly couple's home - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010...
You'd think that after the first 10 or so they'd take action
- Keith Barrett
from Bookmarklet
Re: Well That's Just Great - Even Mickey has his dark moments. Ag - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Quick! Get in the will!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Even Mickey has his dark moments. Ag - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"Quick! Get in the will!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Flipping channels tonight I lingered for too long... - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"Nope; I don't watch it. Just caught it a few times flipping channels. I don't even know when it's on or what channel."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Flipping channels tonight I lingered for too long... - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Nope; I don't watch it. Just caught it a few times flipping channels. I don't even know when it's on or what channel."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"My caption for this would have been "standing next to a big selection of fresh donuts!""
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - http://wellthatsjustgreat.tumblr.com/post...
"My caption for this would have been "standing next to a big selection of fresh donuts!""
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"My caption for this would have been "standing next to a big selection of fresh donuts!""
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - It's November Awareness Month. - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"What can I do to raise money to help people be more aware of this? Let's stamp out November in our lifetime!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - It's November Awareness Month. - http://wellthatsjustgreat.tumblr.com/post...
"What can I do to raise money to help people be more aware of this? Let's stamp out November in our lifetime!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - It's November Awareness Month. - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"What can I do to raise money to help people be more aware of this? Let's stamp out November in our lifetime!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - foreigncontaminent: comicbooks: (via... - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"I love this! It's how no-talent people like myself view all of these "draw yourself" projects."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - foreigncontaminent: comicbooks: (via... - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"I love this! It's how no-talent people like myself view all of these "draw yourself" projects."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - foreigncontaminent: comicbooks: (via... - http://wellthatsjustgreat.tumblr.com/post...
"I love this! It's how no-talent people like myself view all of these "draw yourself" projects."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Flipping channels tonight I lingered for too long... - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"Have you noticed that the leader is always drinking from a sippy cup? Rag journalism is a very dehydrating business!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Flipping channels tonight I lingered for too long... - http://wellthatsjustgreat.tumblr.com/post...
"Have you noticed that the leader is always drinking from a sippy cup? Rag journalism is a very dehydrating business!"
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - Flipping channels tonight I lingered for too long... - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Have you noticed that the leader is always drinking from a sippy cup? Rag journalism is a very dehydrating business!"
- Keith Barrett
HyveUp: What Happened To Oosah? - http://hyveup.tv/2009...
Looking at the new Google dashboard I discovered I still had a connection to this service.
- Keith Barrett
from Android
Re: Well That's Just Great - How Stupid Gillette Hopes We Are - http://wellthatsjustgreat.disqus.com/well_th...
"I remember when Saturday Night Live use to make fun of the Trac II razor (a razor with 2 blades, that I actually use) by showing a mock commercial for the triple trac razor and how with 3 blades it can get even closer to the skin than anything. It was hysterical and it was obviously a stupid idea. Well now they actually produce such a razor, plus more."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - How Stupid Gillette Hopes We Are - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"I remember when Saturday Night Live use to make fun of the Trac II razor (a razor with 2 blades, that I actually use) by showing a mock commercial for the triple trac razor and how with 3 blades it can get even closer to the skin than anything. It was hysterical and it was obviously a stupid idea. Well now they actually produce such a razor, plus more."
- Keith Barrett
Re: Well That's Just Great - How Stupid Gillette Hopes We Are - http://wellthatsjustgreat.tumblr.com/post...
"I remember when Saturday Night Live use to make fun of the Trac II razor (a razor with 2 blades, that I actually use) by showing a mock commercial for the triple trac razor and how with 3 blades it can get even closer to the skin than anything. It was hysterical and it was obviously a stupid idea. Well now they actually produce such a razor, plus more."
- Keith Barrett
Microsoft Past, Present and Future - http://keithbarrett.com/blog...
practicehacker liked this
This is a great piece for many reasons: not the least of which is, I agree with your position. I too am old enough to remember computing before Microsoft. I also wept as MS destroyed or diluted every good idea that stood in the way of its mediocre products; and now that they are considered "normal" any suggestion of a better alternative is either inconcievable or too late because you...
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- practicehacker
It's a shame I can't yet consolidate comments from other platforms (like Facebook) to here because there were others that also agree. Just yesterday systems admins performed a "sanity reboot" of a unix server because it had been up for over 180 days without incident. There are just so many things wrong with that point of view I don't know where to begin.
- Keith Barrett
Keith - do you use BackType? That's what I use to consolidate my comments.
- practicehacker
from email
I was using Disqus. There is a newer one out (can't remember the name) that grabs all the comments from across all social platforms.
- Keith Barrett
Skype Founders File a Copyright Suit Against eBay - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Skype is a great service and I fear for its future
- Keith Barrett
from Bookmarklet
RT @danschawbel: REPORT: 85.37% of people tweet less than once per day http://www.emarketer.com/Article... (I am in the other 15%. heheh).
Leif Hansen liked this
I'm betting a large number of us are :-)
- Keith Barrett
from Android
Robert I'm sure you're in the !% that posts every minute :-)
- Keith Barrett
from Android
@didic Engadget was reporting $799.
That's a lot of money for a netbook!
- Al Stevens
Then it's not going to suceed. Even co-branded it seems unlikely the price would drop to the ~$250 price point it would need, and that's not counting your monthly service.
- Keith Barrett
from Android
A new way to tell whether a web service has gone mainstream or not:
Alex Kapranoff, Jason Pollock, Eugene Choo and 17 other people liked this
If Scobleizer is at the top of most popular list for the service, the web service has NOT gone mainstream yet. For instance, a year ago I was at top of Twitter. Today, no. But today I'm at the top of FriendFeed. When I get passed you will know this has gone mainstream. Compare Twitter's popular: http://twitterholic.com/ with FriendFeed's http://www.ffholic.com/Users...
- Robert Scoble
You are way ahead of Kim Kardashian on here. Congrats.
- Ben Hanten
I say when porn starts move to a service, it becomes mainstream. Same happened to Twitter, streaming videos and so on.
- Veetrag
Yes, Twitter gamed this list by doing a suggested user list (@techcrunch had fewer followers than I did before they did this list and didn't put me on it) but lots of these people would have passed me anyway like @oprah -- so, this is how you can check if a service has gone mainstream.
- Robert Scoble
I thought it was when a Hollywood celeb claimed he or she was responsible for the societal adoption
- Keith Barrett
Seems reaonable
- David Damore
It is interesting, though, that popularity over on Twitter hasn't passed over to popularity on FriendFeed. Most followers that come from "mainstream" won't try new things.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: I expect it. The real measure, by the way, is NOT follower counts, which is why these lists aren't very good, but engagement. Do people click favorite, retweet, like, comment, do things because of the content you are making and the things you are putting into the system. That's the real measure of popularity that I wish sites like ffholic would track.
- Robert Scoble
@Oprah doesn't follow back, so she's not as much fun as you are.
- RobinDotNet
+ Robert!
- Myrna
Robin: that's not why I'm more fun. I'll actually comment back. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Ah, the John Lennon test. ("The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.") ??? (not meant to be as snarky as it sounds)
- Laura Scott (@lauras)
Robert -- EXACTLY! Oprah's just using it to broadcast stuff, and not often at that. Zzzzzzz.
- RobinDotNet
Robin: I hate the idea that being followed is what makes you important. I wish that those numbers wouldn't be published in public. I'd far prefer seeing an "interaction" number. That would still show popularity (after all, if 20 people are following me, and 10 are following you, and we interact the same, I would still have twice the number of you). Actually, I wonder how you could measure that?
- Robert Scoble
One of the things that bugs me about Twitter is that they refer to those you follow as your "friends". I actually don't like the term followers either. I don't "follow" @aplusk nor am I his friend. I read his tweets because once in a while he says something interesting. I do have friends on Twitter, but most of the people I read have never corresponded with me and they do not read my...
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- Paul The Raven
Paul: Exactly. I made a "get satisfaction" request of Twitter a year ago to allow us to create categories of people, so I could distinguish my real friends from people I just follow. It got some support, but was never done. One of the many ways Friendfeed is better.
- Keith Barrett
@Keith Barrett The beauty of Twitter is its simple model, complicate like you are suggesting and it will implode. There are plenty of apps that provide those functions, like Tweetdeck, Seesmic - use them if you wish to break out into categories.
- Amy Flynn
Robert! I love your new new measuring tool! I am going to ask every service I encounter what their "Scoble Number" is and if they can't provide me one, I'm walking!! ;-) I'll take it a step further, I think all blogs should have a Scoble Number we can display, the number of visits and reads from Scoble! The Scoble System... it's plan and it's doable! You on it?
- Amy Flynn
Amy: heh. That is taking things too far.
- Robert Scoble
What's the "Scoble Number" on MySpace ... I hear it's the next big thing. ;)
- Paul Holmes
Good morning to my 47,000 friends here in FriendFeed.
Tyson Key, Erdinç 2.0, Chris Rogers and 45 other people liked this
Good morning Scoble!
- Michiel Sikkes
morning
- michael sean wright
Hey Robert.
- Jim Connolly
I just passed the 47,000 mark and lots of you joined this week. Hope you stick around.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Good morning, Robert. I hate I missed you in San Antonio this week!
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Good Morning, Robert.
- Marty
Good morning (afternoon in the UK)
- Mark
morning!
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Morning Robert Wats up
- Amir
I'm going to start calling it ScobleFeed :-)
- Stephen Borchert
I have no idea why I liked this.
- Akiva
Or commented on it.
- Akiva
Good Morning
- Nolan Alston
Hey Robert how are you lets talk!!!
- Vernon Ford JR.
Morning/Afternoon
- Duane @PreppyDude Myers
hey there.
- PaperDoll
Abimsin sana milyon kez like :)
- Hamdi Yaman
booya
- Mark
Good morning to you:o)
- Mike Pennell
Good morning, Robert!
- Dave Martin
Good mornin', O Captain, my Captain. ;)
- phil baumann
Mornin. and why is twitter down again?
- Jack
afternoon by now sweet cheeks.... :o) mwah
- sofarsoShawn
Well, it's 1:24am here so it's technically morning. Good morning Robert!
- Jonas Dionisio
Jonas: Where are you?
- Jim Connolly
Mornin'. Need coffee. Honey, Scoble says g'morning. Ooops I typed that.
- Absentee
Jim: SE Asia
- Jonas Dionisio
Jonas: I'm in UK BTW.
- Jim Connolly
bah humbug. my mom followed me on twitter today. grump.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
hi Robert.
- Franc, a rememberer
mornin'
- Jason Miller
Hi, Robert - any news on why Twitter is down this morning? http://skitch.com/kegill...
- Kathy E Gill
47,0001. Thank you very much.
- Deb Markham
Deb: Don't follow him - it just encourages him :)
- Jim Connolly
Jim: I didn't know my '1' had so much power. I think I like this FriendFeed thing.
- Deb Markham
G' Morning. Where is my coffee?
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
Good morning
- Peter
bella robi, te si che spakki di bruttto.
- BimboMinkia
Greetings professor Faulkin. Would you like to play a game?
- Keith Barrett
from Android
Greetings professor Faulkin. Would you like to play a game?
- Keith Barrett
from Android
hey there robert. its not morning anymore here so I will just say hey!
- (jeff)isageek
Good evening.
- Tristan Seligmann
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy Big guy wwassssssssaa shaking!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Good, uh, afternoon.
- Dennis Jernberg
Good morning Robert (though its probably the next morning by now!)
- Technogran
good morning
- erd
Night ya big LUG, I`m a lil sauced
- sofarsoShawn
Good morning. 4:12 am on the east coast...
- Mitchell Tsai
good morning
- Ali Sözkesen
Good morning. This time, for real. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Buon giorno
- Ciaoenrico
A belated good morning to you Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
おはようございます！
- Robert Prigge
Guten morgen, Herr Scoble.
- scherbi: bottom dweller
In the spirit of an apparent new school year: "Good morning Mr. Scoble..." (using a nasally voice helps to achieve desired effect)
- Chad Gesser
from iPhone
keep doing posts like this please Robert. I love them.
- Thomas Power
A day late but good morning to you!
- Lester Greenberg
!@hipmomswhowork nah I want to be public with my life. Would love to hang out with ANY geek who visits Half Moon Bay and my phone is public.
Kevin Arth liked this
You are a rare bird. I respect you for that.
- Kevin Arth
Robert; Give me a hail if you find yourself in Orlando
- Keith Barrett
from Android
Young Police Woman stops Bob Dylan for "looking scruffy", and never heard of him - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...
We should be even more upset that people can be stopped by police for just "looking scruffy".
- Keith Barrett
from Bookmarklet
Want to be a chat buddy on Google Talk? If so either DM me or if you're brave enough post here:
Neya, metalerik, Heather Solos and 44 other people liked this
Note don't post your full address here as the spambots will grab it, also I'll add people but I'm being selective. :-) Note too you could actually use FriendFeed as an IM client if you use DMs and turn on IM notifications for them here: http://friendfeed.com/setting... - you're more likely to get hold of me via FF DM #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hey! Would love to be a chat buddy, however had trouble getting to DM you, I think its because of Twitter's troubles lately, for some reason even Friendfeed is not cooperating, doesn't surprise me though because of the integration of Twitter's API , .... so try and DM me I guess (sigh) ... I'll be glad when everything (Twitter) is back to normal (/frustrated) Tim J @ WWW.MHWD.ORG
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
DM me on FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Count me in. You can use the "contact me" link on my site http://KeithBarrett.com, or twitter DM me.
- Keith Barrett
"darksydeavenger" without the quotes would be the addy at which you could reach my gtalk. Not on it much, but when I am I get chatty.
- Jonathan Hardesty
chrisofspades follows me everywhere
- chrisofspades
Yeah for some reason FF would erase the content inputted by me from within the "To" text field in Direct Messages area. I could not get it to stick, not sure why. Didn't have any problems before when I went to DM someone else in the past, got to be a glitch Tim J @ WWW.MHWD.ORG
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
Update: http://status.twitter.com/post... This may be why I am having difficulties ;) Tim J @ WWW.MHWD.ORG
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
OK.
- Kol Tregaskes
Sure - Username wordsforliving (wordsforliving@gmail.com)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
manielse on google, yahoo, aim, facebook, twitter, friendfeed, you get the idea....
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Thanks guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
is it available outside the US? I missed that bit
- Iphigenie
I'm brominet on GTalk. Not sure if you have to add @gmail.com for it to work.
- Brome
Joelle: No mores the pity. :(
- Matt G
Joelle, you mean Gtalk? Yes.
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's my email if your interested in a gTalk exchange; http://scr.im/czar
- Czar
Thanks, Czar. I thought about scr.im. Very useful site.
- Kol Tregaskes
azs.gmu(at)gmail.com feel free to say hello.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Thanks, Aram.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm brave enough, I guess. kendrak@gmail.com I love to ask people questions like, "what's for tea?"
- kendrak
Thank you. Anyone else want to connect on Gtalk? More for company than anything. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Before you leave or before FriendFeed disappears share you Gtalk username here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm at brett@brettkelly.org - fire away!
- Brett Kelly
I am jeffisageek on Gtalk add me!
- (jeff)isageek
Add me on whatever service you please: [firstname] @ [lastname] .org
- Jordan Hofker
bloggingitguy at gmail dot com
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
petegilbert at gmail.com
- Pete Gilbert
abrudtkuhl[at]gmail.com
- andy brudtkuhl
lizasperling at gmail dot com
- Liza + = ?
ajbatac [] gmail
- AJ Batac
I'm ha3rvey practically everywhere.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
outsanitydotcom
- Outsanity
Cool, thanks guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Chat buddies!! guapzz (at) gmail (dot) com :)
- Brian Felix
from iPhone
chilaquiles at gmail dot com
- Steven Perez
If there are any Facebooker's here, check out the list here: http://ff.im/6pQHM
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll have to go through all these tomorrow, thanks again! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
nina.lahtinen - gmail
- Neya
madeliene2007 at gmail
- Bonnie Foster
Thank you.
- Kol Tregaskes
If and when I'm actually present and available: wasituna{acqui}gmail{dotmatrix}communique.
- Tsali - A dude man
Kol, I don't really use it, but I would like too. Is it just my email address you need?
- Michael Fidler
Thanks for all this again! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
mdfidler at gmail
- Michael Fidler
tyson DOT key AT gmail DOT com
- Tyson Key
Thank you everyone!
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm excited to try Google talk... and not ashamed to post it. ; )
- Fossil Huntress
Fossil, do you have a Gamil addy? Just post the first part (before @gmail.com) so to avoid the spambots. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
laura (dot) botts (at) gmail (dot) com
- LB: #TeamMonique
Thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
PARKINGSTONES AT GOOOOOOGLE
- tehKenny
fcbosa at gmail
- Oguz Serdar
docdemon at gmail.
- Dennis Jernberg
gtpinfobox at gmail.. hope to get all u people on google wave, though we hav to wait for it be public!!
- Gtp19
4phlebas, not around all the time though.
- Sung W. Lim
kamilah.gill at gmail
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Keep em coming. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Any more Gtalkers?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, I sent you a DM, should see it now.
- Richard A.
Ta, Richard. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
qtbrowneyes ☺ gmail blahblahblah
- browneyes
Ta. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
parkingstones at gmail
- tehKenny
Thanks, tehKenny. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
MicahBear78 (duh!)
- MicahBear78
egilchri at gmail
- Ted Gilchrist
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
Did you know you could send tweets from Gtalk, just add twitter@twitter.com as a buddy, also works for PIng,fm (and Hellotxtx), see here for more: http://www.labnol.org/interne.... Any other useful bots?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, twitter does IM again? I wrote im@twitterspy.org which is about where twitter was when I first started. You can do most things you'd do on twitter (post, follow, leave, search) and some things you can't (track, etc..)
- Dustin Sallings
Shame there is no version of Gtalk for my Nokia! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Dustin, ah OK, just it's offline. I use Hellotxt anyway. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Twitter's IM has been offline for well over a year. I wrote twitterspy because that was the useful part of twitter for me (and it's over a year old now). Try out im@twitterspy.org if just for track. That's where I find a good lot of information.
- Dustin Sallings
There's always the ProcessOne Twitter/XMPP gateway. I can't remember the URL at the moment, though.
- Tyson Key
The ProcessOne gateway came out about six months after twitterspy (open source) and still doesn't do much of what twitterspy does, much less better. A few of them came out after mine. Most of them seem to miss the point. Of course, I'm always glad to have people point out things twitterspy doesn't do well enough.
- Dustin Sallings
Dustin, added it. Not sure I like that I have to enter my password though.
- Kol Tregaskes
startoestudio@gmail.com - it's my place for social media!
- Martha
There's the Jingle stuff, although that only functions properly with Google's proprietary client for Windows. :(
- Tyson Key
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
icetigerza@gmail.com
- Kim
Wow - so far I've really been into this user exchange thing, but I can't bring myself to share the IM handle. I love GTalk too, mind you - I just can't handle that much direct communication. It's a bit too much like giving out my phone number, I guess.
- Ciaoenrico
Fair enough, Ciaoenrico. I'm being selectively too.
- Kol Tregaskes
mithrandi@mithrandi.net (my own Jabber server, not GTalk, but it should work anyway); also mithrandi@gmail.com but I'm usually not signed into that much, it's mostly for Google Reader purposes.
- Tristan Seligmann
heathersolos gmail
- Heather Solos
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
easy enough to find me on gTalk or other Google services. Username here is the same as there...just add the required domain after the @.
- Sean Brady
127ajr [at] gmail etc. I'm up for Scrabble on iGoogle if anyone wants to play! :)
- Californian
I am nickb333 over at gmail.
- Nick B.
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