Kelly Norton

The comments there are a treasure too! :) - Alex

It's as big as all the countries of Africa combined! - Gabe

hotbed of innovation and manufacture within 30 years - Gregory Lent

Alex: spot on. lol reading these comments. A dash of pedantry, a little bit of bigotry, some serious lack of geographical knowledge: so much fun! :) - Mathieu Ayel

beg to differ somewhat with Gregory. It might become hotbed of innovation but not any time soon. Conflicts, political instability, lack of decent governance and underlying infrastructures and institutions will not allow it to resonate in a way to become a hotbed of innovation. In small pockets though, it happens even now, especially in countries like Kenya and Ghana in everything from innovative approaches to private education to inventing incredible devices for water cleaning. - Hayk

Moreover, the size and comparison of African continent with other continents and countries is little more than a nice figure illustrative of geography. - Hayk

30 years, hyak, things will move fast, but i know what you are saying, seems nearly hopeless, impossible .. but the world "vibration" will make it happen faster than is logical (my opinion) - Gregory Lent

Gregory, i did not mean logic. Living on this continent since 1.5 years and seeing their mentality and their potential, I believe that nothing short of dramatic consciousness change, to borrow your term, will turn people on this continent into economic machines of production. I generalize, apparently. - Hayk

me too :-) ... i really have nothing to base this on .. except two things .. the creativity they have with basically nothing, even bricks are rare sometimes .. the way they are doing the cellphone thing is a hopeful sign .. and the other is from african art, every culture made masks with some sort of design feature where the third eye is .. there is an innate plugged-in-ness there, so that when it gets a bit stable, it will flow .. and the gates foundation should only do education, malaria will then take - Gregory Lent

care of itself - Gregory Lent

Also, Africa had this "misfortune" of being on top of all kinds of natural resources which became valued at one point or another. As it said in Blood Diamonds, "every time a precious resource is found on this continent,innocent people die, country is plundered." Pouring money only to sustain lives without any solid self-sustainable policies in education or infrastructure is sort of a band-aid. Tackling malaria is what appeals the most to inner sensitivities of Gates :) - Hayk

Africa is the cradle of our species.. says a lot about how out of touch we have become when we treat our birthplace with such distain. No wonder we're raping and pillaging everything we can. Makes you wonder if the attempts at keeping the African nations as undeveloped as possible is to turn the place into the next middle east when the rest of our resources have been spent. - alphaxion

+1 Gabe - Rebecca Sun

Any Greasemonkey scripts? - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Think it is specific to you Tanath... works fine for me... - Brian Roy

mjc: None for FriendFeed. Brian: What browser & OS? - Tanath

os x FF 3.0.4 - Brian Roy

Using Fx 3.0.4 on Ubuntu. - Tanath

It also does it in Fx 3.0.3 for Windows (in wine). - Tanath

Also, typing multiple lines worth simply scrolls within the text box. The text area does not expand. - Tanath

Still doing it. :-/ - Tanath

I looked into a number of methods and never found something that I liked. I asked the Dropbox guys to let me use my own S3 bucket instead of requiring that I use theirs but got shot down. - Benjamin Golub

How weird. I expected this to be one of the first things people would do. - DeWitt Clinton

S3Fox says they do it, but I don't use it for synchronization, so I can't vouch for its quality. I wrote my own, it's not really a very hard project. http://www.rjonna.com/ext/s3fo... - Dave Winer

Thanks, Dave. I saw S3Fox, but it didn't quite support wanted as far as I could tell. I just want to take an existing domain (static.unto.net) and port it over to S3 and CloudFront. A simple rsync-like script to mirror that directory over to S3 should be all I need. I may have to follow your lead and write my own. (So much for 10 minutes.) - DeWitt Clinton

I see, instead of having the files on a local hard drive, they're only accessible via HTTP. If so, S3Fox doesn't do it. - Dave Winer

http://s3sync.net/ ? http://s3.amazonaws.com/ServEd... - Aviv

@Dave - no, they are available locally, but it's a headless machine -- no UI, command-line only. - DeWitt Clinton

@Aviv - s3sync looks like a winner! Thanks much! - DeWitt Clinton

Dewitt, in that case s3fox would work. Doesn't matter if its headless machine as long as you can access it over your LAN. - Dave Winer

Hmm. I suppose I could use sshfs to mount the remote directory locally, but that seems a bit convoluted. What would be awesome would be a fuse filesystem interface to S3 itself -- then I could use mount the S3 store on my server and use standard rsync and rsnapshot tools against that. - DeWitt Clinton

Now that's a good idea DeWitt! Do it at the filesystem level and a whole new world of opportunities open up. - Benjamin Golub

There are several s3 fuse projects out there that work pretty well. See http://developer.amazonwebserv... for ideas - Aviv

@Aviv - so I see now! Have you used any of them? Any thoughts on which works best? [Ahh, I see you added a link. Perfect!] - DeWitt Clinton

I haven't tried any, but the most popular one seems to be http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ - Aviv

Taraf nasıl hala ayakta bilemiyorum. Reklam gelirleri yok ve kağıt paraları artmaya başladı ve daha da artacak. Gazete çıkarmak hiç kolay değil,gelirin yoksa imkansız zaten. - Dincer Keskinpala

Yatırımdan yiyorlardır, sonuçta Taraf Gazetesi bir startup. - Burak Arikan

Gem of a post! - Rahul Deodhar

"To be a company that society wants to exist." - Bill Strathearn

Awesome! What's the eta? - Scott Schang

yes please add SocialMedian integration to FriendFeed. Thank you - David Ward

puhhhleeeeze. and thank you. - Sarah Vela

That would be cool. :) - Laura

indeed. - idnan

Yes Please! - Ian May

Yeah I just signed up for social median, that would be awesome. - The Kid

Yes please ... it would be an awesome addition. Thx. - Robert Couture

Those options are mostly dealing with the same thing (Atom/RSS feeds). - Tanath

I emailed them too, y'day. - Dileepa Prabhakar