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A Big Fake Interview Between Charlie Sheen and President Obama **This is a FAKE Interveiw** It never actually happened. - http://www.infowars.com/twenty-...
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Actor Charlie Sheen gets 20 minutes of President Obama's time and grills him about 9/11 conspiracy theories. Here's the fake interview.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Given Sheen criminal history I'm surprised that the president would even meet with him. I guess a photo-op is still a photo-op, but I'm not surprised that Sheen went a little crazy on him.
- Davis Freeberg
I bet Charlie never gets a second chance for a 20 minute interview with the President.
- Thomas Hawk
That's almost embarrassing.
- Spencer
LOL... Charlie. Didn't Obama see Malkovich, Malkovich?
- Adrian
Author’s Note: What you have just read didn’t actually happen… yet.
- CW™
Oh my. I'll have to read that later but what I did read makes me think that this is 20 of our Presidents time we will never get back.
- ChiliMac
Please see CW's comment. This is a fictional transcript. Charlie Sheen has never met with President Obama. When I was reading it, my reaction was that there was zero chance this was an actual transcript of spoken words.
- Stephen Mack
NOT REAL! See last line: "didn't actually happen" (EDIT: heh, now I just look shrill -- but two people had comments before this comment, one expressing amazement, the other asking if this was real. Those two comments are now deleted by the commenter.) Thomas, please edit the first comment and/or subject to indicate this is a work of fiction.
- Stephen Mack
@Thomas: I'd like to echo what the others have said. Jones posted this as a publicity stunt and didn't even include the "DISCLAIMER: THIS DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN" note until much later today, and even now he buries it in the footer. Frankly it makes me mad that his stunt "worked" ..
- Anthony Citrano
I like how there was a graphical ad mid way through that says: "Ammunition supplies are low! Food is next! Click here!" - damn nut jobs....
- Ňicķ
this is the site: http://www.efoodsdirect.com/ammo-fo... with such bon mots as: "Three years of a drought in California combined with “tree hugger” politics leave dust fields where crops once grew."
- Ňicķ
That would have been the last time Charlie Sheen interviews Obama. :)
- Louis Gray
FICTION ALERT FICTION ALERT FICTION ALERT! Repeating again, just in case: This is just fiction. Last line of article: "Hasn't happened." Article shows a picture of Charlie Sheen writing (MAKING UP) the transcript. Thomas, please modify subject and first post. (Louis, I'm assuming your use of the subjunctive means you know it's fake.)
- Stephen Mack
Fake. Boo.
- Matt Cutts
Doh!!!!
- ChiliMac
This is a kind of proof that people will readily believe what they WANT to believe. Take what the gov't says with a grain of salt. Take what conspiracy whacko's say with a pound.
- John
Reading the comments on that thread -- it may say something about the BS detection skills of some of those who side with the conspiracy theorists, because so many people there seemed to think this was a real transcript. C'mon. Anyone who has ever heard any real interview with a president should be able to detect that the speaking patterns in this "transcript" did not sound natural or real.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen - yes, I edited my comment after tweeting and deleting. :)
- Louis Gray
hahaha, it's a fake? I had no idea actually. Amazing!
- Thomas Hawk
I updated the post above to indicate that it's bogus.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks, Thomas, although I don't know if "apparently" is strong enough since the author has indicated it's 100% fictional.
- Stephen Mack
ok, removed the apparently part. :)
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Thomas :) Now, now everyone knows this is fake, we can begin a 1200+ comment discussion about the merits or lack thereof of Charlie's arguments.
- Stephen Mack
Perhaps those digging for “truth” about 9-11 could use one more revelation: “with friends like Alex Jones, we don't need enemies.” The assface crashed an event I was at a few years ago - he's a real class act.
- Anthony Citrano
[Also Thomas, your initial comment refers to it as a "transcript" - which it is not.]
- Anthony Citrano
Ok, fixed that too. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
good script for a never happened conversation! i hope someday sheen can ask these questions directly to the president or maybe even a sign from obama that he read the script and he would take it into consideration would be a good start! (it's too obvious that i'm not an american isn't it?)
- maliforever
I think I liked it better when it was real, now it is just bad joke
- Davis Freeberg
the bigger conspiracy to me is why there is a character called Bud Fox in my father's copy of Wall Street 2, and yet he isn't officially signed yet for the movie. Charlie makes no secret of his politics, but no conservative takes Alex Jones seriously. it is true however that Sheen is a Troofer and would be right at home in a friendfeed nuthouse.
- Noah David Simon
Thomas, ha ha ha ha! Love the new description updates :) Thanks for making it clear.
- Stephen Mack
Saudi driving lic and Passports were also recovered from Pentagon site.
- imran
I agree with @irwebreport for the most part the most interesting Twitterers follow fewer than 2,000 people.
cheapsuits, Jimminy, Keith Dsouza and Iñaki Rodriguez liked this
I agree as well
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Can anyone follow that amount of information? 2.000 Twitterers is a great amount of noise
- Iñaki Rodriguez
agree and I am one of them :)
- Keith Dsouza
Inaki: There are never 100% of your followers Tweeting at the same time. I'd guess that for me, I get like 50% of them on during peak hours.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I'd think the most interesting Twitter users follow less than 500 folks, or even LT 250. Why? Coz interacting with too many people is plain impossible when you've actual (interesting, geeky, worth discussing ...) work to do.
- Sebastian
I have noticed most of the Twitter people I consider that add little or no value and or spam have high follower counts.
- cheapsuits
from iPhone
Official Google Blog: Finding great stuff to read with Google Reader - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
rchk, consumed, Keith Dsouza and 2 other people liked this
"What blogs do tech, foodie and fashion bloggers read? Visit www.google.com/powerreaders to explore and subscribe to any of their reading lists, or to any individual items that they recommend."
- Atul Arora
from Bookmarklet
damn that would have to suck
Keith Dsouza, Frode Stenstrøm, Dave Hodson and 24 other people liked this
ho oh ohly... lol That's gotta hurt...for both of them.
- Zee.
wow
- Lindsey is Fierce!
omg that is bad
- Susan Beebe
She must have a million dollars.
- Jimminy
I wish there was a 'don't like it' selection. Totally horrible. Only thing worse is if she met those 2 dudes on Facebook
- cheapsuits
from iPhone
I came *this* close to posting this image earlier today. 1UP Steven.
- Josh Haley
ouch
- Rachel Lea Fox
I call fake. iPhone SMS places the bubbles *you* send on the right and in green, so the person who took this pic is the one who wrote the conversation. Less likely that they posted it to the net.
- Kevin Fox
Stay tuned for scenes from next week's episode of CSI - Silicon Valley
- Josh Haley
iSlut, the new device from Poison Apple. Get yours today!
- Morgan Haley
The funniest part is the friend's reaction. "Two?" The correct reaction is... "Really?" Otherwise, it's clear the friend had an idea.
- Louis Gray
it probably continued with: 'Damn dude. I would understand if it was your mom. But your wife? That sucks."
- Morgan Haley
Zee it's only going to hurt both of them if they touch swords
- Toby Graham
He is 1 man, and no matter how good he is, he can not fulfill a fantasy like that all by himself. And any man that ever catches his wife with 2 guys shouldn't take it personal. It's not about love and emotional feelings or any sign that you haven't made her happy. If anything I would question why she felt she couldn't share that desire with him and tell him what she wanted. There had to...
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- April Russo (app103)
and if it was her finding him with 2 others (guys or girls or a mixture of the two) that would be fine too? Nah, she totally betrayed the trust between them. If she had gone to him and either sought permission or to get him along for the ride, it might have been better, but to do it behind his back speaks volumes. He's better off without, just as she would be better off if the position was reversed.
- alphaxion
If I caught my man in bed with one woman, I would be jealous and freaking out...but 2 women? I can't compete with that. I don't have enough body parts. Or with 1 or more guys? Again, I can't compete with that. Seriously though, I'd be asking myself why he felt he couldn't tell me that's what he wanted. The lack of open communication would concern me more than anything else.
- April Russo (app103)
#gnomedex "badge sex" photos:
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Ozer Wrzl (EN), Robyn Hawk, Keith Dsouza and 62 other people liked this
Annother cool innovation at Gnomedex: everyone has a little card. You drop it on the Microsoft Surface table. Then you can drag your contact info to other people's cards. It is badge sex. A lot more fun than business cards.
- Robert Scoble
from email
Yes that is Pirillo. I am off to get a beer.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
definitely a lot better than just a business card. cool innovation.
- rama mamuaya
So this is it? You guys are shmoozing at #gnomedex right now?
- Marilyn Jansen Lopes
wicked cool. i'm excited and i'm so not a geek.
- Trish Haley
Is that using the microsoft tags? http://www.microsoft.com/tag/
- Dave
Dave: no.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
You have a *title*, Robert? Whoah. Just sorta seems all old school for some reason.
- Ken Sheppardson
How many people have you mated with? I mean your card. With other cards.
- WorldofHiglet
A few, I don't know and I need sleep. See ya tomorrow.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Cool
- Marilyn Jansen Lopes
I remember a pair of suits theatrically posturing "Beam me, baby!" pointing their then-new Apple Newton MessagePads to exchange cards.
- Ian Tindale
That's innovative, but badge sex! The outcome is a reproduction of information so I guess it works. For the life of me I can't come up with something so catchy and memorable :)
- James Stratford
Nerd Porn - http://www.inquisitr.com/28977...
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Andy Bakun, Moved to Facebook, Marco Barreto and 4 other people liked this
LMAO Which one is Arrington? hahhahhahahahah
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
One looks like Scoble, the other is Mike! WoW
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I'm in trouble @sarahcuda is in my bed. No photos. :-) So is @paulcarr. Oh boy. What a wild London night!
Alex Sauceda, Michele Lorito-Chase, Ryo / Fuck Facebook and 12 other people liked this
Since its after 2AM, you got some splainin to do! :)
- jcunwired
Hah! No explaining at all. So is @rocmanusa and Blonde 2.0.
- Robert Scoble
Lol Robert is having all the fun, you didn't mention what they are doing there :P you now 3 or some
- Keith Dsouza
I would prefer you finish our Scrabulous game on FB...
- Wayne Porter
Robert's always up past 2am, and they're all geeks. They're all probably just fiddling with their iPhones Twittering and FriendFeeding right now ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Heheh. http://twitter.com/blonde20 is in my bed too. I'm so lucky and @maryamie is gonna call soon and ask "wtf?"
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: you know us too well.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse, lol, Hi Robert, u b nice now!
- Myrna
rolling eyes and shaking head in amusement
- Kim Landwehr
I've been to too many of those "gatherings" :-)
- Jesse Stay
Must be cuz you are a cheerleader.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Funny thing is some of them have been virtual
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: shhhhhh.
- Robert Scoble
*blank stare*
- Mo Kargas
Mo: you know Paul and Sarah are hot, right?
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like my normal Saturday night. And Paul and Sarah are hot, but not as hot as Ayelet!
- sean percival
Sean: Ayelet was in my bed too, but I figured you wouldn't believe that! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Who wants to call Scoble's room?
- Mark Drapeau
Mark: it's 204 but everyone just left. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
You might actually have to sleep.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: sleep? What's that?
- Robert Scoble
I think there's a wikipedia page that explains it. It's awesome. Not as good as FriendFeed, but sleep is a close second.
- Bruce Lewis
Who says geeks and nerds are boring?
- George Hall (Australia)
George: not me!
- Robert Scoble
+1 Robert.
- George Hall (Australia)
Hey Robert!!!!!!!
- Myrna
You're cheating. You said you were going to sleep.
- Myrna
How many convos do you have to close now?
- Myrna
Nice.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Seems everyone within 30 miles is getting their oil changed today.
Kol Tregaskes, pea ♥ fierce as a woozle, Lu Tao and 19 other people liked this
Jiffy Lube hasn't even given us a work order yet. The twins made it clear they needed to be bribed with food in order to behave.
- Louis Gray
from email
Awwww. :-)
- Joanmarie
Hmm fascinating. I'm getting my oil changed right now. Pretty crowded too. Maybe I should change the wipers.
- Jose Alvear
from iPhone
I know I was at Jiffy Lube earlier today :)
- Justin Levy
Behavior and bribery seem to go hand in hand at critical times in life; such as hanging out at your local Jiffy Lube. ;)
- Mark Evans
matthew grabs a quart of 10w40 so lube his feet for the next hallway race
- Allen Stern
Docs Are Old-School, We Need PageRank for People - http://threeminds.organic.com/2009...
Michael Hansel, Christopher Mayfield, Kevin Gamble and 67 other people liked this
"PageRank assigns a reputation score to the URL where content is published. This makes it a great fit for content that stays put in one location. However, evolving content distribution via blogs, RSS, guest columns, and syndication are a challenge for PageRank. Tweets, retweets, micropublishing, ratings, and comments - even bigger problems. The solution lies in associating reputation with the identity of the author - a PageRank for People."
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
Reminds me of "wuffie" where personal reputation replaces monetary wealth in Cory Doctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM.
- Liam Watts
I love that comic. Makes me chukle every time.
- Roberto Bonini
Doctors are catching on to this and have slipped a "patient will not post online comments about doctor" clause into their standard forms. You don't even know you've agreed to it unless you read the whole thing, and who does that?
- jjjobst
Desirable, but immensely difficult: how do you define a "person" for rank purposes? We are talking here about a huge collection of disparate things. And, what if, contrary to the online reputation, the real reputation sucks?
- Nikos Anagnostou
Agree that we need a soltion for this but a Nikos touches upon is need to agree definitions of scope. Others male valid point also some further discussion and thinking required.
- Najeeb Mirza
PersonRank tied to (possibly) OpenId anyone? ...Everytime I click „Like“ FF brain is assigning whuffie to the author of a message.
- Mindaugas Dagys
Great analogy Liam. Loved that book.
- dthree
Doesn't Googles Sentiment Analysis a step in the right direction? It infers sentiment to rank http://www.seobythesea.com/... and “service,” “value,” and “general comments.” Aspects are defined in one of Google’s papers on sentiment analysis as “properties of an object that can be rated by a user.” Unfortunately, Google is attempting to Patent this process.
- Greg
"But you shouldn't !"
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Yup. This made me think of "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" too. If you haven't read it, it's worth it.
- Chad McCoskey
I would say not desirable - relevance is highly relative when it comes to people, and frankly anything that ranks people by the noise they make online and how many people they can get to claim they are great... will produce the wrong kind of behaviour
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I agree with Joelle, mostly. The exceptions would be for trolls and spammers -- it's too much work to be on a constant lookout for trolling, and I'd really like to have an automatic metric which would enable me to automatically filter out such rubbish.
- Nathaniel Thurston
leo: yes indeed, and such a content filter would work well by taking into account the distance through the social graph between the author and each reader, rather than using a fixed measure of the author's reputation for all readers.
- Bob Hitching
from fftogo
But I think it's more fair to rank a document, than a person. This is something we shouldn't do at all.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Nathaniel - I might agree for spammers, but "trolls" are a difficult thing. Many game changing people were labelled troublemakers first, today we'd call them trolls...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Is There Anything Cuter Than These? - http://www.desicolours.com/is-ther...
Ayşegül Şamiloğlu, Iain Baker, Wayne Lewis and 55 other people liked this
WANT: the kitten :O
- Praveen Vasudev
kendini koala sanan kopek fantastikmis..
- Sets Turan
I said, "AWWWWWW" all the way down the row.
- BEX
Smilin now :)
- Janice
the dog pic is some 10 years old. I had it when I was using a syrix CPU.
- Dallas Cao
get ready to say "aaaw" about two dozen times....
- Stephanie Segel
kawaii
- 老巫师
(:
- Cherry Mei Chan♥
CNN: you should be ashamed. Horrid news judgment today. Absolutely horrid.
TranceMist, Paul Jacobson, Dr. Seun Jun-O and 165 other people liked this
Totally agree. If it wasn't for the internet, I would have no idea what was going on in Iran.
- Derek Coward
about what? Iran? I've been at a car wash for my daughter all day
- andywergedal
Do elaborate
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
I can't believe how bad CNN is.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, ridiculous indeed.
- Soso Sazesh
People actually watch CNN?
- Jim Hague
I read conflicting reports that Mousavi has been arrested? Is this true or not?
- Carlton Prest
From what I've heard on the news updates- he has been taken into custody. This is not good.
- Jim Hague
CNN has been terrible forever. I follow them on twitter simply to see how much less informed I feel with every post.
- Katie Metzelaar
Is there a link to the article or video?
- Ron Hixson
I gave up on CNN years ago.
- Steve Lowe
Huff Post has some pretty good coverage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
- Soso Sazesh
Yes, no coverage of Iran. Larry King is on with stupid motorcycle show.
- Robert Scoble
What are we talking about here. Reference plz?
- Mitchell Schneider
the most amazing thing was filtering Twitter hashtag and watching the updates come in sometimes hundreds within 10-15 minutes periods. an incredible way to immerse into the real-time interest cloud.
- Thom Kennon
Robert, I came to the same conclusion of CNN years ago.
- Taylor Marek
I love this tweet from the CNN tweetbot: Tehran on fire"... "Palin vs. Letterman Who's Right?" with panel discussion {priorities: fail;}
- BryanSchuetz
We are talking about Iran's election outrage
- Soso Sazesh
There is a letter from Mousavi in both Farsi & English circulated for hours. He is under house arrest. There are reports of Ministries on Fire. Twitter has been lit up for hours.
- Donald Wilson
One of Australia's sunday morning TV shows wasn't any better, it's lead story was that a bank was introducing muslim-friendly loans
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
The real-time coverage from Tehran today was on Twitter http://twitter.com/jimsciu...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Let's agree that most TV news networks decided long ago that they would control the news. Remember swine flu? People blame the fuss about that on Twitter, yet it died everywhere as soon as the MSM stopped making it a big deal.
- Carlton Prest
Blogs have been active, but TV networks have been dead. Including CBC in Canada. Unbelievable!
- Donald Wilson
Pavan - they did nothing and they should have
- Soso Sazesh
A brilliant guy at my gym, a BU professor, refuses to work out to CNN, insists we change the channel.
- Halley Suitt
So hard to believe we have to go to Twitter to stay on top of such important news as the protests in Iran.
- AirDye®
That gym prof has the right idea.
- Katie Metzelaar
What the hell's going on with the US media. The unrest resulting from the Iranian election IS IMPORTANT!
- Don Whittaker
How great to actually see some WOMEN in the streets!
- Halley Suitt
@don they are too busy working out who would win in a fight between Sarah Palin and David letterman
- BryanSchuetz
It's the weekend. There is no one in the newsroom on the weekend. When I worked there, we had to absolutely drag someone in for the Princess Diana accident...the community was going nuts and there we were, with no broadcast news, no confirmation, no nothing.
- Karoli
Were the elections free and fair?
- David Lloyd
Front page on Foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story...
- Kirk Harnack
Not according to the letter from Mousavi, and from reports coming from Iran.
- Donald Wilson
@Mark They were corrupt beyond farcical http://twitter.com/jimsciu...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Livestation.com. You can watch France 24, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and Press TV, the Iranian propaganda channel. Coverage on all of those
- Andrew Leyden
I have to say the Nambu search ( searches twitter, friendfeed, one riot, yahoo news) has been great for keeping on top of this, and it's essentially real-time: http://img.skitch.com/2009061...
- BryanSchuetz
to be fair its not only CNN dropping the ball on this one. All of MSM here in America is ignoring Iran today.
- BCK
So....are you all (we) making MSM obsolete?
- Cynthia Chrysler
RT @mistabaka Follow this blog http://is.gd/113ss for amazing pics/vid of #IranElection Pls RT. 5 hours ago
- Donald Wilson
so far I think the best coverage is here: http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/ - and he has more on his facebook page
- glfceo
wut's going on folks?
- Eric Nakagawa
CNN is a mock news feed. It's a misinformation provider.
- troglodyte
Iran's Mirhossein Mousavi = Lech Wałęsa
- johnny2009
It isn't just CNN. If you look at online newspapers and other outlets before going to bed tonight you'd walk away with a different story and all sorts of analysis about how we will continue to deal with the old regime. That still may be the case, but you can tell this was a
- Warner Crocker
Go to Monitter.com (a great site, btw) and type the Twitter search terms in. You can watch them come in real time, no refreshing.
- Obayoo
con't... we're out of here for the weekend story.
- Warner Crocker
I've been following events on Twitter all day. @tehranelection is a student in Tehran. His last tweet, half an hour ago: "I have to shut down for a bit, the police are looking for satellites." Could CNN give us that, even if it wanted to?
- Jill Elswick
CNN does have this on their site: http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- invariant - farewell FF
We don't bother with broadcast TV, so I can't watch any of the stations, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/ currently has it listed as the top news story, as does http://www.cbc.ca/news/ both with firey photos.
- David Sky
CNN has access to Twitter and more. So why can't they give the proper attention to this story?
- Donald Wilson
It's actually all so called TV news outlets. Internet is a better source of news. To be fair though, sometimes, on duty journalists/editors do not have the last say in what's covered as 'news'. Simple politics and ratings. I usually tune in to UK TV channels than I do US for news, that too very rarely. Sad but true.
- Moushumi Kabir
photos from the Tehran http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Johni Fisher
I see more news from my Iranian friends than news TV news outlets.
- Moushumi Kabir
Cnn lost.
- Stalyn☂
My last thought on this, no matter what happens, US definitely needs to stay out. It's Iran's internal matter just as 2004 re-election of Bush was our internal matter. As shocking as it was to the rest of the world (I still struggle with the fact ppl I know actually voted for him - twice!!), US did vote for Bush the second time.
- Moushumi Kabir
For people interested in tracking what is happening regarding the irannian election on Twitter, here is a dashboard: http://www.twazzup.com/search... An amazing showcase of how new forms of communication make it much harder for dictatorships to control people!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
ridiculous.. thank god for the internet. fourthing http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/
- Harrison Powers
It's difficult to get a right news even for me who know Persian, Iranian Tv doesn't support anything about street riots at all, Face book and You tube are filtered over there! No SMS! No mobile, even FF is filtered for them ! :|
- Shandiz
sucks to live in a country without freedom :(
- David Lloyd
Agree w/ Moushumi Kabir!US MUST stay out of this.
- Shandiz
"Horrid coverage" -- otherwise known as typical. Shame shame!
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Good "on the ground" coverage over at allvoices http://www.allvoices.com/Iran
- Joel Richman
What did CNN do-so horridly...is that a word. That's twice in 2 weeks.
- Teriss
Download Livestation to see more coverage
- Eric Haber
from Nambu
re: Teriss - comparing cnn.com to twazzup.com at 10:08 PM Central, CNN has NO MENTION of Iran and twazzup has 3 of 10 Hot Topics about Iran ... looks like CNN is NOT the place to find 'Breaking News'.
- Don Strickland
Really strange.
- Jim Hague
I really like Don Lemon but he seems to think CNN isn't doing anything wrong, which bugs me. http://twitter.com/donlemoncnn
- Shawn Farner
CNN finally pipes up and mentions Facebook pictures inciting violence in Iran - but no update. Oh, yeah, and the fact that access to internet has been cut off. Is that the only news?Now on to the Letterman/Palin fight! I am heading back to online updates.
- Liza
I often find US cable TV insular when it comes to foreign affairs - coverage of Barack Obama's recent speech in Egypt was a case in point. But CNN ignoring the Iranian protests is shameful.
- Peter Dowley
I am an Iranian, protest people are alone, they have no leader and don't what to do, wish somebody help us :((
- Zahra (raoros)
Track now in real-time http://iran.twazzup.com/
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I was always kinda of excited about the prospect of a 24 hour news network. Imagine how many more stories or how much more in-depth you could got on a single item. That really didn't happen. Covering stories, particularly any story happening outside NY or LA, is expensive. So we saw CNN put on a bunch of shows with pundits. They leaned to the left, so FOX could come along and lean to...
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- Matthew McCowan
Twitter is susceptible to manipulation by propagandists--for example the protests in Moldavia. In that case it was a legit election that the protesters just didn't like the result of. A flash mob does not a majority make.
- Joe Knapp
Joe: good point, but many of us didn't fall for that crap and even then it cleaned itself out pretty quickly.
- Robert Scoble
CNN died in 2001, when Tom Johnson retired. Quite a few of the top talent left around the same time, not wanting to be part of Jamie Kellner's efforts to be more like FOX. Cable "news" is a ghetto, and I never, ever, ever turn it on. Robert, you'll enjoy this: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
- John Craft
Photos from Iran http://twitpic.com/photos...
- Johni Fisher
Looks like CNN is finally picking up the coverage today. Christiane Amanpour is live in Teheran.
- Nils Sandin
Just starring to catch up to last nights events. Amazing the lack of big media coverage on Iran.
- Robert Wilkins
Been watching CNN International in China for two days and I can't agree with you. The reporting seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter. Saying they should be "ashamed" is a bit invective.
- David Geller
"CNN International . . . seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter." - CNN-I is a totally separate production team, and has a totally different business model from CNN-"Domestic."
- John Craft
Crowds gather for Ahmadinejad victory rally http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- David Lloyd
http://www.thenation.com/blogs... - "Iran's Ex-Foreign Minister Yazdi: It's A Coup"
- John Craft
Robert Scoble: three bloggers have been on top of Iran developments: Andrew Sullivan, Juan Cole and Robert Dreyfuss. It seems safe to say now that we have just witnessed a coup in Iran.
- Sean McBride
Other interesting reports http://sambrook.typepad.com/sacredf...
- Johni Fisher
Amazing video from the BBC of the demonstrations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- Joe Wood
What's new?
- Kreg Steppe
Yep, "CNN- The Lamest International News Team on Television"
- Dean Kakridas
CNN: Cable No News network.
- Robert Scoble
interwebz wins again!
- stefan
who makes the decisions over there at Cnn?
- Denise
All these comments are so stupid and ill-informed. Not a single one of you has ever tried to take a camera crew into a totalitarian country. I have. You don't just walk around. Easy to twitter for one person. Very hard to get pictures! Go and try it, and until then. Shut up!
- Prokofy Neva
@Sean, i agree we have witnessed a coup--the sustained fight lasting a week with people in the street every day, making police run away, NYT editorial by Reuel Marc Gerecth has a good analysis of what it means, and AlJazeera http://www.youtube.com/watch... has a good analysis. the action on the streets is having a huge effect, not just on Iran but on the Middle East.
- Eleanor Wynn
Prokofy Neva, agreed that no new organizations can get in there, but any of the news channels could rebroadcast key videos, photographs and analysis of this very major geopolitical event--it is really disgusting to go through the TV channels and see the dreck that is on when something major is happening--our local news channels will cover a weather event non-stop, why doesn't a major channel cover this/
- Eleanor Wynn
the citizen journalism tells the story in a way noone else could. you are right there in the middle of the crowd with all the changes of pace and direction, the shaky camera itself tells a story and the sounds. it is like actually being there--that is why the twitter and youtube coverage is the real coverage--they don't have to process, package and add a local angle to it that waters down the effect
- Eleanor Wynn
Drew Olanoff may have the coolest iPhone cover and wallpaper. Do you have a better setup than this?
Diego Espinoza V., Keith Dsouza, Elena Isayenko and 17 other people liked this
very cool!
- Dee S.
Julius!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Want!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Yes. Wait..no I don't. Not yet at least..so that would be no. Yes..that's a no.
- Bwana ☠
No, but I #blamedrewscancer for not having a better setup!
- Curt Mercadante
Wow, that's pretty nice but I tend to change my wallpaper on my iPhone almost every week, but I've been pretty steady lately with a "smokin apple" nice setup.
- All Mac All Mike
Finally in dual LCD monitor heaven - http://www.winextra.com/index...
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Harry Mahardhika, CW™, CAJ, somewhere else and 68 other people liked this
two monitors is the only way to be! Nice rig. :)
- felix
@felix .. thanks - I'm loving it. Now next up is a rebuild of the hardware part with mobo/memory and processor. That should be a lot of fun especially if I upgrade the drives as well to terrabytes
- Steven Hodson
My husband is also back to a 2 monitor view: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Anika
Been loving it for years. :p
- Josh Haley
Nice setup Steven. I like that you also have the Windows7 taskbar on the side.
- Alan Le
I waffle back and forth. We both had a 2 monitor set up about 7 years ago, but then I got rid of mine and just used the 19" screen. Then we got the 42" monitor and he used that with his laptop at which point, I went back to 2 monitors. Then we moved. I often plug my laptop to the 42" but that's only when I'm doing billing. Now that my desktop blew up, I'm on a laptop or a netbook and like the freedom to move about the house.
- Anika
@Anika - looking good although I prefer the widescreen for both the deals that are out there now for the regular size make it hard to pass up. If I was ever to go to 3 - I still have the S-Video out that I could utilize - I would probably go with a regular size 22" and put it in between the two widescreens
- Steven Hodson
@Brian .. if I see that pic correct you have both the monitors on a single stand ... that is something that I was thinking of doing as well and will probably at some time do. I like the look plus you can adjust them height wise a lot easier
- Steven Hodson
I've been resisting Duals cause I figure I'll never get work done as Friendfeed/twitter would always be in view
- BCK
BCK, it actually bumps my productivity. When I use the 42" it's crazy what I have up on that screen + work. Steven, for what he does, this actually works out. He can do is work on the widescreen and have FB open on the 19".
- Anika
The 42" is kind of unbeatable for gaming because when you sit 4 feet away, you ARE there. Dual monitor setup ideal for productivity. The old Samsung 19" LCD holds up pretty well with a bit of color tweaking, but it's nowhere as bright next to the new Dell 2209WA (which is a lovely new eIPS panel for dirt cheap: http://tinyurl.com/7alg5d ). i7 920 quad super powers to follow... very shortly :)
- Adrian
For reference, Adrian is my husband, so you have a pic of what he's talking about.
- Anika
welcome to the club. Once you have two, you can never go back. I've been thinking about following Brian though and adding a third (just for Twitter) but need a new video card for that. Anika: 42" is insane. 22" maybe out to 30" is perfect size for scope of vision. 42" I'd get a sore head from having to look up and down :-)
- Duncan Riley
Duncan, I said the same thing when Adrian first got it. We used to use it as a work monitor a lot more often when the tower was in the living room. Now, I only hook up my laptop to it when I have to do a lot of billing. It's not that bad. I sit on the floor and can have Quicken open on the laptop, while I reconcile projects ordered vs. projects completed on the 42". Because it's so big, I can even open up the final project. I still have room for a web window and other apps.
- Anika
Compare that to these http://twurl.nl/8hvain I use three monitors on one pc because of the work I do, handling lots of documents at the same time, monitoring activities remotely and constantly on the social media.
- Moses Kpetigo
@Moses ya I remember reading that link before and drool for most of it .. talk about a really sweet setup. For now I'm pretty happy with the dual setup but I am thinking of investing in one of those stands that will combine the two onto one stand.
- Steven Hodson
I'm on one 24" screen now (iMac) and loving it. It's big enough to fit two a4's standing up, with room left for some "chrome".
- Meryn Stol
Meryn .. I might upgrade to a set of 24" in a couple of years when the prices come down even further :) .. it's good that I was able to do this now as a close friend of mine is having problems with his older monitor so the 19" that the Samsung replaced will have a good home to go to.
- Steven Hodson
Yes, I need to get a new monitor, too. But even more energy used then... Haqve to look around for an extreme low power display.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
@Steven - I actually have them mounted to the wall. I bought the mounting brackets for about $25 each at Best Buy and have them mounted to a 1/2"x8"x36" MDF board that I have anchored to the studs in my wall. Very nice setup to free up precious desk space.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
congrats!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Steven: I just got my Ergotron monitor arms. They rock. I have five computer screens now, with another one or two on the way.
- Robert Scoble
I've been using my netbook as an extra screen when I needed it.
- Morton Fox
Morton: I have an Ergotron netbook holder too. Gives me desk space back and gets my laptop up to eye level, so my back feels better.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, pics?
- Chris Heath
I have two and may likely add a third (I run a lot of ambient apps in the background and need the space). My only recommendations are keep them close together (touching) as it is visually easier to 'follow the mouse' across the monitors, and to keep them an equal distance from your eyes as even a few inches back / forward can cause some refocus issues which get annoying.
- Andrew Leyden
Chris: I'll post them later. I'd rather wait until I get my second monitor, though.
- Robert Scoble
CEO says: "2 monitors, now you have to be twice as productive!"
- shayne catrett
It makes so much difference to have 2 monitors. I could never go back to a single screen now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
A few years ago, I was doing work in the Navy Reserves that could be summarized as compiling data from documents and entering them into a master document. I did this for months at my unit, which had only single monitor set-ups. I was sooo spoiled by an active duty stint doing the work at our parent command, which had dual-monitors everywhere and sooo happy when my unit upgraded to dual...
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- Charles Fenwick
@Robert - thanks I'll take a look at them as I'm pretty serious about going that route
- Steven Hodson
thanks for the tips @Andrew
- Steven Hodson
What OS are you running there?
- Jeff Bruning
@Jeff - Windows 7
- Steven Hodson
ENVY!
- Yuvi
Cool!
- Brent - Long Live Rock
I plan on doing this for far too long. Perhaps i should just go out and spend a couple bucks on a 24" FullHD screen...
- Ralph
Two monitors is not a must, it is the "basic tool" of the society of informations, the basic tool for social media, the basic tool for WORKING.
- Isabelle Ayel
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