are there any spoilers? I've not done season 4 yet - Toby Graham
There're quotes from 5 already, Toby... :\ Get off FriendFeed and jump on sidereel LOL - Mona N.
HAHAHAHA. As soon as I started reading them, I could hear his voice screaming them! I love Ari. - Trish R
Yup, I'm on this like flies on a turd. - Toby Graham
My favorite Ari Gold moment (not quote) was when Lloyd quit because his boyfriend left him and Ari lied for Lloyd, giving him an alibi for cheating and got his boyfriend back to make Lloyd come back to work. LOL! - Trish R
My favorite was when Ari was going to leave his old firm a la Jerry McGuire. He asked Llyod to come with him and Lloyd said (paraphrasing) "do you promise not to make any more gay jokes?"...Ari replied "No, but I'll try my best" have to blog this... - Ryan
Every moment with Ari is GOLD. I love the way he interacts with his wife. Love him and Lloyd. Love watching him, Turtle, and Johnny Drama. I just LOVE Ari. I think my ideal man is Ari Gold haha! - Mona N.
I like Johnny Drama quotes too "Nobody appreciates their girlfriend. Until they get herpes from the next broad. Know what I’m saying?" - John Cozen
I love all the characters. The show wouldn't be as great as it is if there wasn't all those great characters with all those great lines. Billy Walsh cracks me up, too. - Trish R
The Ari character totally makes this show. Oh, hai mona! BTW, the story line in Entourage echoes actual events surrounding Troy Duffy (Boondock Saints) See doc. "Overnight" ... Wahlberg, Weinstein, esp., got burned... this is sweet revenge... - Richard Walker
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Has seemed very clunky to me as well. - Andy DeSoto
I really digg Evernote...its a great way for me to clip out stray ideas for filtering later - Matt M.
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I like Evernote too. My problem is that I keep migrating systems - and that seems to defeat a major purpose --unifying all my notes in one place. The most comprehensive and well designed note-sysem (for mac) I've seen and still use is Journler (and its surprisingly still free). I also use 'sidenote' for quick instance access notes. Seems there should be a differentiation between note 'capture' (evernote, sidenote, etc) and note storage/organizing. - Leif Hansen
I tried Evernote on an iMac (OS X 10.5.4) and had lots of trouble getting screen captures or photo captures to work. Also found that I had to close and reopen the app to get it to display new notes made from screen caps, even when the screen cap actually worked. - Dimitrios Diamantaras
evernote is cool - i simply forget to use it everytime ;) as soon as i have bookmarked something interesting, i also forget about it thesame time... - Dieter Schwarz
the iPhone client needs to cache notes locally - at least some useful subset. there's nothing worse than relying on a notes app to store timely info and then not being able to call it up when you critically need it. - Jon Price
Gahh Robert! I had been going back and forth between OneNote and Evernote last month and finally decided on OneNote. Then I watched your video and now I'm reconsidering Evernote again. Why do you have to make my life more difficult? :-P - Mohit
really interesting video! Love the screen capture and ocr functionality. - Randy Ksar
love EVERNOTE been using it for a while now... - laleh
I was a beta tester and have been hooked ever since. The user interface interaction between desktop client and web service is great. - Mikael Pittam
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The recognition of the handwriting is amazing - sdfx
The one feature it's really missing is being able to stitch photos together - Specifically, panoramas of whiteboards. - Chris Weiss
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i signed up, mr scoble should get affiliate points or something - Gregory Lent
the desktop client is even worse than the web interface. I am looking into onenote again, especially for integration with outlook. - Nicole Simon
i am using an amazing mac app called notebook. much better and much cleaner than evernote. - Kfir Pravda
if I can't edit the note on my iPhone, it is of no use to me. - Robert Hafer
Onenote is a fantastic tool. Someplace between a notepad and a wiki. It has great sync tools, really good sharability and collaberation abilities and good integration. I like evernote mostly as a web clipping tool (it does that better than OneNote) but thats about it. - Soulhuntre
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Onenote is very nice, but it doesn't run on my Mac and iPhone. - Robert Scoble
I have loved this product ever since I heard about it (a few months ago). I can take notes from anywhere on any computer, and the iPhone integration is especially nice. I just used it today for a site survey (had to take pictures using my phone and comment on it). - Peter Ghosh CISSP
I just use plain text files for most purposes, and save my images in iPhoto. I'm still not getting the value from these note-taking applications you young people go on about. And that "hop hip" music you like to listen to. And get off my lawn! - Mitch Wagner
been playing with onenote, yoono and evernote. evernote wins. - Christian Anderson
The reason I like Evernote? I can use it on my mobile phone. We go to the bookstore a lot and it's perfect for adding urls to cool things I find in magazines (but don't want to buy the magazine to remember) and for noting books I might want to buy later, or jotting down ideas for projects I find in books or mags, or doing research (I have been looking at purchasing a camera... used it go to through the latest camera mags and jot down models that got good reviews and what the interesting features were). - Lindsay Donaghe
@Scoble; It'd be great if you could interview the OneNote team about what they're doing to challenge products like Evernote, especially in terms of online and mobile access of notes. Just an idea. - Mohit
Hey Scoble - I've been debating getting a paid Evernote account. Your interview has pushed me over the fence and I'm going to go for it after hearing some of the features they have planned to enhance it with. Just thought you might like to know. :) - Lindsay Donaghe
Sometimes, I think about the future of our country and I feel scared. - Mohit
While this is forgivable in a person -- if I were as tired and stressed as he is, I'd probably do this kind of thing every single time I had to field two questions in a row -- this is just not tolerable in a candidate for president, who will, if elected (unless he's Reagan or Shrub), presumably have far more stressful moments on the job, and will need the mental stamina to stay with it. - Tegan Dowling
McCain is freakin' me out.... how can this guy be a Presidential candidate...wow! - Susan Beebe
This seems mean-spirited to me. I'm an Obama supporter and this just seems to be picking on the old guy. He's taking questions that aren't planted and he has to think about his answers. Give him a break. - Patrick
It's not a senior moment. That's the Straight Talk Express coming off the rails again. - Chris Baskind
i dont get the multiple camera angles. Was he taking a dump in his shorts while trying to answer the question? - Rodfather
Patrick: You're a gentleman, and your point is well-taken. But he's a pro, and should be able to handle that. - Chris Baskind
Patrick: I'm a republican - the fact that the guy can't answer the question about his campaign claiming Obama plays the race card is a joke. The fact that he can't speak articulately to his work to promote racially equality across his career with ease is either shameful or truly sad - take your pick. Every day I get closer to crossing party lines. I just want someone I can believe in - is that too much to ask? - Morgan
Yeah, everyone has a moment like that. I'm 38 and that happens to me all the time. I blank out. Imagine answering questions all the time, all day long. This is just dumb to pile on this one video, and I'm an Obama supporter. - Jim Kukral
poor guy. like others on this thread i don't take this against McCain. i'd be out of words myself if i'm in McCain's (or Obama's) shoes. i can't imagine the stress that these two candidates are subjected to 24/7. that said, there's a op-ed on NYTimes by Bob Herbert reminding people that John McCain as a maverick is just a myth. see http://bit.ly/3UGRPz - ~C4Chaos
And Saturday, and Sunday, and Monday...and everyday. - Jim Stanger
It'd be one thing if this was an isolated instance. How about the one where they ask about Carly's stand on birth control? Also, it's okay to have this happen but it's what you do that is crucial. Lose your place, don't ah, um, hem - that's not going to cut it as President. "I'm sorry, could you repeat that question?" would do nicely, cover any mental lapses and give time to process. - AJ Kohn
I like obama and i don't like this video. Those were non trivial questions asked in intelligent language spoken quickly in a row. I'm 36 and I could easily have gotten mixed up too. Posting this is no better than running brittney and paris in a video with obama as a "dog whistle". C'mon dave, you can do better. - Adrian Bye
Nobody is going to post a video of McCain here unless it shows him in a bad light. McCain is as articulate as most politicians but all you will see here are videos like the one shown. - Michael Tefft
Adrian, then you shouldn't be president either. - Dave Winer
I just posted 3 Obama gaff videos out of a number available on YouTube. Nobody, not even Obama, is perfect. - Michael Tefft
True nobody is perfect, it's just that McSame is worse than Bush at gaffing himself. - JMac of Earth
The President might as well be called the Public Speaker in Chief. This stuff IS important. At least 2/3 of the job is about eloquently passing along a message that someone else has created - Nicholas Molnar
I think it's a shame that so much attention is played to such moments - on both sides. No one is perfect for sure, but these two both stand for more of the same - big government, high spending, way too much interfering in our lives, a slide toward a European style nanny state. - Ian May
ugh. when isn't he having a senior moment? - edythe
McCain still looks like a freakin' super genius next to the shrub. - Tad, Fool
That's right, Obama is not perfect. But he's fit and 46, and McCain has had cancer and is 71. Big difference, health-wise. You may not like it, but it's true. - Dave Winer
Another thing to look into -- I don't think McCain was all that smart, even when he was younger and in better health. We need to find out more about that. - Dave Winer
Eh - I was a big fan of McCain back in 2000. If it was McCain in 2000 vs Obama today I'd have a lot of thinking to do. - Tad, Fool
It's not McCain's senior moments that worry me, it's his lack of knowledge of foreign affairs, geography, etc. AND his temper. I also think he obsessed with military defeat due to his past trauma. - Rod Bauer
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I hate his hypocrisy. He makes a big deal about how he's always put his country first, and then he runs that fucked up ad that makes the presidency about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. He'll fuck the country just so he can win an election. That's the Republican Party. They should just disband they're such sad fucks. - Dave Winer
don't like mccain, but this just seems like human error. which everyone does in some way. not so good to attack for this. better to attack for substance. also think we do need younger president. things too intense right now. not sure about obama either. think we are in a huge mess. - terra210
Dave, I like your insightful commentary. I'll bet you were on the debate team in college. - Michael Tefft
Thats just sad. Look at Crist's face. He must be thinking what have I done? I bailed on blocking offshore drilling for this guy???? - Brad Nickel
For the apologists, there is no excuse for this. If you want to be President you have to always be on. The entire friggin world expects it and acts upon your every word and facial expression. This is worse than Reagen in his 2nd term. Once I would say he was thinking about something else, but this happens everytime he faces a tough question about his record! - Brad Nickel
Interesting that something as stupid and insignificant as this gets 30 comments, while a story of real substance and meaning such as the Antrax investigation gets not one bit of discussion. I think some conclusions can be made about that. - Christopher Dickens
@Christopher Dickens. Yes, I guess it means you are a genius and all us others are mere mortals. Is there an alter I can worship you at? - Michael Tefft
"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
Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share. Further, what if that vendor had the foresight that there would be other vendors and that compatibility between their services would make a huge market, and that incompatibility would keep the market fragmented and relatively small. What would that vendor have done? - Dave Winer
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Dave - I don't quite understand your argument for how Twitter could have been the NSOL of microblogging. Are you saying that Twitter should have been the site that binds every other micro-blogging service together? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I don't understand your question, sorry. All I get from it is your first phrase that you don't understand me. So neither of us understand each other. Oh well. Maybe someone else can bridge the void.. - Dave Winer
Love it Dave. We're having a meta conversation about microblogging. Maybe I'll go craft an old fashioned blog post of my own to try and elaborate/clarify :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Another example, I read somewhere on FF the other day that people took a feed from a music room here and added it to iTunes and it knew what to do with it! I feel really proud of that cause it was made possible by some early foundation work I did with RSS, a long time ago, paying off now for users. Exactly the kind of foresight I would like to see Twitter do now. - Dave Winer
Dave, yes you spot on (once again !). However, twitter doing it is basically like asking like asking water to turn to honey. Only a miracle can make it happen. The underlying architecture of Twitter, really can't support a framework of collaborative sharing of info with other 3rd party vendors. FB did a great job with creating the app that was actually a platform. FF seems to be like this, twitter is ouf of the window. - Peter Dawson
Do you think the problem lies in the fact that they are a Valley startup that needs to look like something Google or Yahoo would buy and put ads on. - Harold Gilchrist
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Harold, I don't think there's a "problem" -- they're overworked and head-down and faced with an enormous amount of opportunity. It must be hard to sort through it all, and to them, a missive like this from me probably sounds pretty shrill. "Oh there he goes again." I don't blame them for this, but I would be remiss if I didn't put my stake in the ground so we can play Monday Morning Quarterback in 2010 or so. (Murphy-willing, knock wood!) - Dave Winer
Network Solutions are the worst company ever, i don't know why you related Twitter to them. - Nicholas James
I suspect that the problems from this past weekend are only going to exacerbate the problem. http://tinyurl.com/5pkpjs Not only have they missed they opportunity, but poor communication and support are seriously eroding the customer base. That the victims of this weekend's situation included several strong Twitter evangelists has unfortunate potential. Even tho the folks involved seem to mostly still carry a fondness for Twitter, their followers witnessed the problems and were involved in the solution. - Patricia F. Anderson
"Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share." Wasn't that *mostly* true of AOL, though? Didn't AOL consolidate their position by buying up ICQ? Didn't they drag their feet for years and years on efforts to make their IM play well with others? By illustrating your point with IM, perhaps you have explained why Twitter *isn't* kicking themselves. Perhaps in this game, the tendency is for the dominant player to *not* cooperate. - Karim
Likewise, Network Solutions is an example of *abuse* of a dominant position: in 1995 they charged $100 to register a domain name for 2 years, which led to an antitrust lawsuit. They've also been guilty of domain name censorship, domain name slamming, subdomain hijacking, domain name frontrunning, selling WHOIS information, etc. ad nauseam. - Karim
I, for one, am glad their business model didn't become IP of a namespace - Ross Mayfield
I'm really surprised that this weekend's problems of account closings haven't caused more of a fuss. It seems to me that it would be such a big deal, it would be the final straw that would get most of the major twitter advocates to finally pay attention to the whole issue of federation of microblogging. Also: this is the umptyzillionth thing that's made the thought go thru my mind that they must be *trying* to fail! - Tegan Dowling
@Karim: While AIM is definitely the dominant IM standard here in the US, it doesn't even come close to being so abroad. People I know in India and Australia, for example, don't even know what "AIM" is. Yahoo and MSN Messengers are both the dominant IM networks there. I think that Dave's example very much reflects why Twitter would have done better in the long-term with an open model. - Mohit
It would be great to see FriendFeed run their own laconica service (identi.ca). - Dan Cameron
Isn't Identi.ca exactly what you're looking for? FriendFeed doesn't support multiple instances of FriendFeed, but I'm already party of multiple Laconica (the source of Identi.ca) networks via one seamless interface. There are some kinks, sure, but I'm bowled over by how much they've gotten done in a month. - Marina Martin
Marina, I am an identi.ca user. How do I follow a user on another laconi.ca server? How do they follow me? Please post a pointer to the docs. This is very important. - Dave Winer
Dave, when you are on the profile page of a user on another laconica server (such as mine: http://waka.me/wil) just click on the Subscribe button. It will then ask you for your profile URL (yours would presumably be http://identi.ca/dave) then submit the form. Your browser will do an OAuth redirect dance, after which you should be subscribed to me. - Wil
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Mohit, the market is badly fragmented *now.* QQ is huge in China. Yahoo! and MSN started beta testing interop only in 2006. Google whipped out their checkbook and paid AOL a billion dollars for interop, and even that is lame -- AIM users can't see GTalk users from AIM. My point was that AOL *used to be* the dominant IM, just as Network Solutions *used to be* the largest domain name registrar. History is replete with dominant players abusing their position, sometimes to their ruin. It is NOT replete with examples of companies that, experiencing massive growth, decide to share the load (and wealth) freely with others, even if that kind of behavior has the greatest benefit for society at large. Not saying it can't happen -- just that it *usually* doesn't work that way, as is made clear by the two examples Dave gave. IM and Network Solutions are two examples of groups collaborating only if they are dragged kicking, screaming, bribed and lawsuited to the table. I'm not sure why we should hope Twitter would - Karim
(continued) be different. Maybe "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." -- G.W.F. Hegel - Karim
Erno, I will integrate Seesmic everywhere. Ok not in porn sites or extreme political sites or anything like that but otherwise everywhere. - Loic Le Meur
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seesmic logo at a giants game? olympics ad? - Gregory Lent
I'd like to Seesmic intergrated into Wordpress.com. Can anyone ask about this for me? I have a client with a Wordpress.com blog. Thanks! - Steve Garfield
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Boo...No Sarah Perez or Corvida. But congrats to the ones I do follow: Veronica Belmont, Gina Trapani, Emily Chang, Leah Culver, & Justine Ezarik. - Mark Krynsky
There's always a few missing on these lists (especially niche bloggers including the above ... Ann Smarty, and Shana Albert) but this is an incredibly good list (with descriptions). Well worth exploring! - Charlie Anzman
Ditto Mark, plus congrats to our Tamar, and Amber MacArthur as well (fan of her stuff as well) - finally a list of females in tech and blogging that doesn't involve "sexiest" or "nakedest." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
No Natali Del Conte either. Seems more like a "Female Bloggers Influential To Other Females" list. Not so much a list of bloggers that have appeal to men and women, except for some like Gina, Veronica, Cali, etc. - Jim Bergman
Well Female bloggers usually gets 'popularity' faster...but nice list. - Saad Kamal
This reminds me that had I not given up on the first blog I started back in 98, maybe I'd be on this list. But I don't have the drive and passion these very worthy women have! Congrats to you, Veronica and all on the list! More importantly, keep doing what you do, because it is important and valuable. - Shawna Benson
What an impressive list! Quite a few I follow already, but nice to have some more to check out. - Sally Church
ok which one s/we get Playboy to cover ? Remember TC's post of late ? - Peter Dawson
Why does there have to be a separate list for most influential male/female bloggers? Why not just a list for the 50 or 100 most influential bloggers? Why the gender distinction? - Michael Tefft
After posting about the bikinibloggers of Urlesque & the wish for naked bloggers of Playboy at http://www.aboutblank.nl it was worthwile to pay some attention to influential female bloggers. Really influential, I'm talking about. But why do all these American sites pay so much atttention female bloggers, I wonder. So sudden, I mean. - Ton Zijp
whole story is suspect due to claim that blogging pair coined term "fugly" - WTF! :-) - Deva Hazarika
What does it have to do with America, Ton Zijp? - Andy DeSoto
Andy, just that the attention is there so suddenly, in such a way that they all make a list (20 bloggers Urlesque wants to see in bikini, 9 Playboy wants to see naked, 50 really influential according to N x E). I follow news about weblogs worldwide, I publish about it daily, so for me it's really surprising that in just a few days all these sites are concentrating at female bloggers. I don't take conclusions on that, but it really surprises me. July = bikinimonth? Like Urlesque said? - Ton Zijp
I know a few, and have a few others in my rss reader. But this blog post is screaming for an OPML. - Laura Scott
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The term fugly is as old as beauty (or lack there of) it's self. - Brian Norwood
nice resource, re: formatteddad's comment- as long as there is no bias or exclussion. anything that brings more voices to the conversation- the better! sometimes we need to identify the voices that might not be getting the BIG exposure. - Nice Fish Films
perl helped me to dump a quick opml of the blogs. i won't host it myself. instead this link gives you a netvibes startpage where you can read the blogs and export them to opml: http://is.gd/QH7 - now i'm busy reading. - igor
Nerd police advisory: Hilarious, but in a real zombie outbreak, one of the first things to go would be the power grids. Twitter would look the same way its going to look in about a month: completely empty. - Juan Aguilar
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it is not reallistic. There is a whole page there without someone saying," I'm so bored." - jered reynolds
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Great! Project Wonderland is open source. Runs on Project Darkstar, another open source project. Have a couple of kids developing virtual classrooms using the technology and hopefully get them to finish a prototype in 3-6 months. :D - Rom Feria
left a longer comment on your blog (yeah how old school) but now it's awaiting moderation due to one link :) - Sebastian Küpers
Sebastian: I approved it, sorry about that. - Robert Scoble
I was sceptical regarding SecondLife from the very beginning despite all the hype and much so due to the very same reasons as you: I think their business model is not really focussed (if there is one at all): For non-business users it is not focussed on those willing to be there on a regular basis and to pay for using it (ie. gamers), for business users it is just not scalable and reliable enough (as well as not properly addressing real world legal aspects). Furthermore, I think that generally these 3D environments are poorly suitred to corporate users. I for one am travelling all week long and am only connected through 3G, my company provided laptop is over 3 years old (and it will take another year until a newer one is provided) and due to cost restrictions and lack of time, these 3D experiences are out of scope. And finally I'm convinced that 3D must provide additional value and not just provide the old content in more colors and more dimensions. Even in 2D most flash content doesn't add value... - Arnd Gronenberg
I just don't think that SecondLife offers any benefit to the person using it. WoW is a game, so the benefit there is implicit to gamers, but what's the point in just going onto Second Life? If, however, it was a bit more "social-networky", and intergrated with things like Facebook so that I could write on someone's wall by visiting a virtual house and leaving a message, or something, then maybe there's something in that. If you could go to a virtual cinema and see movies (or at least trailers)... - Neil Barnwell
...and maybe go to virtual music gigs to watch new bands play, meet my friends walking through a virtual mall that has an Amazon store, a Play.com store, an Apply shop. All of which I can go in, play with the merchandise, search the store for it without having the walk around and around in circles, then buy it without queuing up. This is starting to sound like fun. - Neil Barnwell
In fact, you could have "Virtual Microsoft Surface" in a 3D environment, any virtual bar, table, desk could be a surface that you could log into to see your email etc. You could send/recieve SMS, use Twitter... Hang on, we can do all this in real life. Erm. I don't know what my own opinion is any more. Lol. - Neil Barnwell
Currently, Vivaty only supports Internet Explorer 6 or 7 on Windows XP and Vista. - Benedikt Koehler
