"The Volkswagen Microbus is a classic - even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside - but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Super cool VW Bus making a comeback...
- Walt Ruppar
First of all, I'll cop to wanting one of these. That being said, Jason is right. This is for rich hippies (who probably aren't hippies at all). The VW microbus became the darling of the Flower Power crowd because it was cheap, easy to repair, and big. You could camp in it. Is there a car today that fits this bill?
- Chris Baskind
wow, you can buy an awful lot of pot with $129,000.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't know a self-respecting hippie that would prefer this over a really nice indoor greenhouse. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
@Chris, Most cars today aren't as simple, but with the wealth of knowledge online, it just takes more time. The minivan/SUV can become a camper van with a few mods. They'll never take the place of the VW, but they're an updated version of the 70s panelvan conversions (hopefully without shag carpeting & a disco-ball).
- Steven Cains
Nope: there will never be anything that simple again. That's not all bad: I can't imagine a 1960s VW Minibus would satisfy *any* federal safety standard these days. You're right. A used minivan might be the closest thing.
- Chris Baskind
Very Cool. You can't drive your house but, you can sleep in your Van !!!
- Eric Logan
Very intriguing. How much steel is in that thing? Chris, that would be my next question after fuel consumption: how safe is this thing? And I agree, when we can go back to making transportation that costs less than a small home, we may have achieved something amazing. ;)
- Melanie Reed
However, I have heard (and I'm not remembering where at the moment) that there has been a movement growing of people seeking alternative housing and substituting things like this as the new "mobile" home.
- Melanie Reed
Everyone is loving this! We should have an FF one and use it to travel to all the FFers around the World (like Pea seems to be doing ;-)). Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
cool idea, kol. the ff-stream of this tour would be alltheawe. just imagine the photos.
- esther ♥ ♫
I've owned 5 VWs, two of which were split window vans. I'd love to have another, this is awesome!
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl
I have had more VWs than other cars...starting with a 71 Superbeetle, and a Split Window Microbus. I would LOVE to have something like this.
- Kreg Steppe
Good for grandparents to visit grandchildren and children through the European continent (or another one as well)...nomadism-revival!
- Isabelle Ayel
wow i posted this a while back and now can't seem to find it for some reason. friendfeed's search function really sucks!
- Cee Bee
So after reading this article yesterday, I found myself this evening in front of a local place that specializes in reconditioning old VWs. It was closed, but there's an awesome red and white microbus out front with a For Sale sign on it. Ugly, underpowered -- and probably dangerous, by modern standards. Want. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Cee, really? I find FF search is pretty good.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love this Mobile...owned a few Vdubs, lived in a VW camper, but this is off the hook..I would become a true nomad with this...
- bcultral
I'd like to have something like this, something small. What do you really need? A bed, perhaps a TV and room for your computer. Then you can live anywhere you like, in theory.
- Kol Tregaskes
Who is this Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier? Seems like he is on Facebook, Linked In but I can't seem to find anything else about him.
- Brian Sullivan
We had a wesvalia built Micro when I was a kid. I loved that thing. It was a little flimsily built; but boy it was perfect for my family of campers and road-tripping warriors. Too bad this one is so pricey
- Bill Rawlinson
I think most of my active followers have dropped off of FriendFeed. My home feed is quiet now - barely any likes or comments. Am I just not interesting any more?
Jesse, sshhh. I like to keep my good stuff stashed away. :)
- imabonehead
I honestly don't know whether you're subbed to me or not. I usually follow back. Sorry!
- Spidra Webster
Larch, I'm moving more and more over to Facebook as well - I wish FriendFeed gave us an easy way to port over our subscriptions from here to Facebook
- Jesse Stay
I just looked and subscribed - i was sure I was already subbed and shocked to find otherwise, I'll tell you! But I must implore you to stay active over here. I'm still much happier here, and I got waaay more real support here this past week when my mother was dying than on Facebook - mostly because the FB folks are real-life folks, so I couldn't really say what I was thinking. (And the...
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- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Mary, no worries - it's funny how we see each other comment on friends' feeds so often that we think we're already subscribed. I've done that on more than one occasion. I'm not going anywhere. I would love to transition this more over to Facebook as it makes sense, but FriendFeed still solves things for me, activity or not, that no other network does.
- Jesse Stay
No Facebook for me! Back to end of the line. :)
- imabonehead
It's quiet here, no doubt about it. My feed is like a ghost town for the most part. Things have really changed over the last three or four months. Yet, many of the core people I like to interact with are still around, so I can't complain.
- Laura Norvig
It's been quite the past few days... but then again so has Facebook and Twitter
- Johnny Worthington
I have noticed also that there feeds that are rich in social media talk and tech have been getting a lot less play. Could be that people have other things on their mind
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, it seems many of them have moved to other places like Twitter.
- imabonehead
To be expected... The early adopter wave has broken over the shore and now it's people having a swim, riding the back of the wave down...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I still can't believe those people think Twitter is a better tool for conversations. Nothing changed functionally with FF yet. Just who owns it.
- Spidra Webster
There are more people on Twitter - I can have simultaneous conversations. Since they changed the @ reply, where you only see @s of people you are following makes the experience a trillion times better. I LOVE Twitter and have made TONS of great friends on there! The network is so tight over there, it's neat how once you meet/connect in person, the bond is stronger :)
- Mona Nomura
I hate having my stream polluted with @s. I want threaded conversations not reliant on 140 characters - Twitter is for initiating the conversation right now. It's too hard to carry a real conversation over there. (and yes, I use Twitter, too)
- Jesse Stay
I have those all the time, you @reply? And / or cc
- Mona Nomura
Bah, I can't have a convo on twitter. Replies fall all over each other, there's no threading and no direction. As I've said, it's like a collection of clunky SMS messages. Real time does it right, that is FF and chat programs, hell, even Google Wave. Twitter? Nope.
- Mo Kargas
To each their own but I love Twitter - mainly because of the people :)
- Mona Nomura
I love Twitter, too, just for different reasons.
- Jesse Stay
I like twitter due to the amount of active users, but not because of its dismal conversation abilities.
- Mo Kargas
Mona, cc is an interesting idea... Pity it takes away from the content. 140 characters - 3 people's @reply doesn't leave a lot.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I've been absolutely loving what you have been sharing lately Jesse, recently moved you to a position on "my board by feed" in a private Friendfeed Group.
- Deano @ Byron New Media
I used to worry about my timeline polluted with @s but once I got over that insecurity, I am addicted. Plus it's SO ultra convenient. I also love how there are so many different communities that are intersected but not.
- Mona Nomura
Thanks Deano! I'll try to keep it up.
- Jesse Stay
<140 is what makes it so great. Cuts the crap out.
- Mona Nomura
I like Twitter, it just doesn't work for me. I'm here for the people then the tools. Size of community means little when quality trumps quantity.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Mona, how does that measure in conversion though? @s vs. no @s, 140 characters vs. non?
- Jesse Stay
@Mona Nah, enables more crap. I reckon less characters leads to a dumbing down of everything. It would be a dismal life if all conversations were in 140 character chunks
- Mo Kargas
I use Twitter as well, as anyone who's subbed to me here can see. But I mostly reserve it for communicating with people who aren't already on FF.
- Spidra Webster
Again, to each their own. <140 is enough for me. Gets to the point quicker.
- Mona Nomura
@Spidra I use it as a megaphone, which is what it is. A collection of broadcasts at each other and little else
- Mo Kargas
Mo, yup, it's a "microblog" - that's what it was built to be. There is no comment structure built in (yet).
- Jesse Stay
Just like your blog, it's where you start the conversation. Unfortunately you have to take it elsewhere to make that conversation engaging and have maximum conversion.
- Jesse Stay
How is that unfortunate? If anything, it should be a motivating factor TO blog. I've seen MANY blog pieces written from convos generated on Twitter.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, it's unfortunate because I can't organize that conversation the way I do my blog. Each comment is its own individual blog post - it's distracting and breaks up the flow.
- Jesse Stay
@Mo Yeah, that's mostly it. Although I have short bursts of conversation with fans of The Guild and other folks.
- Spidra Webster
Mona, I have seem many blog posts generated by discussions here, Facebook and even around the watercooler as well. The content means more than the delivery system. Twitter works for you, I wish I could master it... But I have a hard time believing that Twitter is the killer service the mainstream hype builds it to be. Yahoo bought Geocities for 3.6 billion back in the day.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
47 comments ain't bad for a post late at night. I'm just saying.
- Spidra Webster
Again, to each their own. I also like how there are many communities on Twitter and I can choose which convos to participate in. Here, it's more like a...family? All the same people all the time.
- Mona Nomura
In the main feed, maybe. The rooms are where you find new people, saved searches too. It's all who you sub to... No matter where you are
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
*shrug* I'm getting more likes and comments these days and I have a private feed.
- Rodfather
What, is my fanboi showing? Just telling how 'each to their own' works for me :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
*tire screech* Sorry, folks. I was coding, so I'm an hour late to the thread. Actually a bit more because my ISP dropped me just before I hit the comment button. So, hey, Jesse, sorry I haven't been noisy enough in your threads ;)
- Micah Wittman
That's probably why they weren't bought and went out of business
- Jesse Stay
i wonder if there is a correlation "tshirts = acquisition"
- Allen Stern
goodnight everyone - be well, update often and remember in life, there are those that tweet and those who wish they were tweeting.
- Allen Stern
Allen, there is - FriendFeed was acquired weeks after I got one of their shirts. Social Median was acquired weeks after I got one of their shirts. I'm a good-luck charm. :-)
- Jesse Stay
This conversation has happened over and over - it's at a pianissimo intensity right now, which isn't too rattling. Mona, you're an all-terrain social networker - you work the FB, the FF and the TWTR with equal comfort. I'm happy for you and I will let you finish :) Johnny puts it how pretty much how I feel personally about the landscape. Jesse, the feeds are down volumetrically (in N....
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- Micah Wittman
well then i better get you a cloudcontacts shirt!!
- Allen Stern
Whoa kozmo the delivery service? I loved them. I used to have sandwiches and smokes delivered all the time.
- Rodfather
I just looked at some blog stats for a couple of "big fish" on Compete.com today, and it looked like most of the internet is experiencing some sort of engagement drop-off (even TechCrunch's and Mashable's numbers are down a bit...). I can only speculate that this is some sort of general burn-out toward the end of an intense, helter-skelter year that passed by faster than the mind could comprehend...Social Media exhaustion? "All your brain cycles are belong to us..." :)
- Alex Schleber
Also, last year we were in the middle of the US elections. I wonder if a November Dip happens on the off election years...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, in news that's generally true. Novembers are usually full of either elections or hurricane news. Without either you usually have a slow season. That's what I remember from working at Media General, at least.
- Jesse Stay
Well I know I am busy at work and getting things ready for te end of the year. I have noticed a lull across a lot of places I exist in. We also have to consider that 'mainstream' attention comes in waves. Could the shine of Ashton and Oprah on Twitter be fading and it's not a 'Oooow shiny thing' anymore?
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, I think Twitter's just beginning so I doubt that.
- Jesse Stay
I have a $US1 here that says Twitter will be what Myspace is now in 2 years.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, I think the way it is set up now that's very likely - it will all depend on how they adapt. Based on past experience it doesn't look good, but they are hiring well so we'll see.
- Jesse Stay
Twitter's where most of the people I interact with are. Not here, unfortunately. I tried to get some people over here for the better part of a few months, but then they got bought by facebook, and forget about getting anybody new over here now...
- Bill Kinney
Looking back over your posts for the last 24 hours was kind of heavy on Facebook and Twitter stuff which probably isn't going to garner much in the way of likes or comments on FF. Some stuff on shuttle launches, but those are kind of routine. Outside of JPL and the great observatories, NASA has managed to make the space program boring.
- Ed Millard
I find that it is a bit harder to generate the conversation over here than it used to be, but it is still there. And there are still lots of great people on here so it remains a worthwhile place in my mind.
- Martha
Twitter? I'm like... I'd do Twitter... yeah, an account for FriendFeed for sure, but...
- David Feng
I guess it's not you. I get the same....i wish Scoble was active on FF like before even if he was so wrong about FF. Or i wish he still believed that he was right.
- Junal Rahman
Don't try to figure women out. Its not posisble.
- Uncle CW™
It's OK to fail a lot. It's OK to fail in front of lots of people. The only people keeping score are the people who don't matter.
- josh neff, geek at large
The only one who thinks everything will stop working if you dont show up is you. Take a vacation.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
The people who really love you, love you no matter what.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Do what you love. The $ may or may not follow but the same thing is true about taking jobs you DON'T love. So you might as well enjoy what you're doing.
- Spidra Webster
If a butterfly can change the weather on the other side of the world with a beat of it's wings; why can't you change your neighborhood? The fact is you can.
- Jimminy Fuller
That guy in Nigeria isn't really trying to send me money. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
Sometimes it too good of a deal... think it through.
- Uncle CW™
Sometimes people like Jimmi like to be little girls.
- Cristo
Love thy enemy. Accept him, but do not remove your aim from his weaknesses.
- Jimminy Fuller
It takes more effort to hate than it does to forgive and/or ignore.
- Curtiss Grymala
You have to live with the ramifications of your actions, weigh the consequences always, but don't take too long doing so or you will miss many opportunities.
- Jimminy Fuller
DO WHAT YOU LOVE. It is imperative that you find something to do for your career that you love. Eventually, someone will pay you to do it.
- Michael
Do what you love to do and get paid for it! Then you'll never have to go to "work" -- now if I could just get the turkeys to get out of my way and let me do what I love to do (create/adapt tools to make it easy to provide kick-ass services)
- awd
If the job you love morphs away from "what you love" into "work" 1. try to morph it back, and 2. it's okay to look for positions which will allow you to do what you love!
- awd
I'll also start to follow anyone who I'm not following too but I might need some of your to follow me back as I'm near my limit already and can only add a small batch of you at a time. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the include on the list - that was very cool to see this morning.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
No worries, Dan. I'm sure I've missed loads. Adding people all the time.
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, I've followed you all from this list. Keep letting me know who I've missed out?
- Kol Tregaskes
askeriyede böyle bir efsane vardı. Komutan teftişe gelcek diye haber salınınca sararmış çimler spreyle yeşile boyanmış diye anlattılardı.
- HasanCivelek
"I was given to understand that many managers and employees have violently opposed photos made on or of their premises. Does this group represent a new turn in corporate spirit, or is it launched in spite of the unpleasant, even threatening experiences some have had at Starbucks? (I'll cross post this to the Photography is Not a Crime group, out of interest to both groups!) /.."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Interesting. Starbucks is now officially on Flickr. I've been told a number of times that I'm not allowed to take photos inside of Starbucks, but now it looks like (at least in this thread) that they are clarifying that photos in the store are allowed. That's good to know. I'll have to bookmark this thread and show it to the manager the next time I'm told I can't shoot photos in there.
- Thomas Hawk
Really? I have taken many photos in many different Starbuckses and never did anyone tell me to not take pictures. Never on the West Coast, though, just on the Eastern seaboard.
- Rene Wirtz
I have a buttload of photos taken inside and of my old local Starbucks.
- Admiral Anika
They've told me not to take photos in there several times. It's good to know that's not official company policy. Good to see Starbucks joining the social media conversation this way.
- Thomas Hawk
Not sure how "official" this Whole Foods flickrstream is: http://www.flickr.com/people... but same could be asked about them, I guess. (It actually *is* Whole Foods corporate policy that photography is not allowed in the stores.)
- Anthony Citrano
that Whole Foods account doesn't feel as "official" as the Starbucks acct. I've been told not to take photos in Whole Foods before. A stupid policy on their part.
- Thomas Hawk
It's probably a lot to do with them struggling. Beggars can't be chooser, first free wifi and now this (not that ee have a problem with this in the many London ones by the way)
- Phill Price
from iPhone
bence 12 - 09 - 07 - 03 başta olmak uzere, hepsi çok çok hoş, tebrikler..
- kaya akkaya
@kaya, iki rakam daha yazsaydın gidip sayısal oynayacaktım :))
- antique™
Valla sayende koydum devianta, yoksa baya üşenmelerdeydim. Self-portrait ile hep gider mi bilmiyorum. Şu bi gerçek ki en kolay kendimle çalışıyorum ve çok kısa sürede iyi sonuç alabiliyorum. :) Ama bu beni pek ileriye götürmez sanırsamki. Gerçi böyle fotoğrafçılarda var. Hmm. Ama ama ama..
- Gunsel Senol
@kaya: Bu derece detaylı incelediğin için teşekkür ederim.
- Gunsel Senol
İki seri de çok hoş başka başka modellerle de çalışmalısın bence, kadraj kullanımını çok beğendim.
- Masis
@stuck in the sky: Evet başka eyler keşfetmek, kreativitieyi arttırmak bir avantaj, en iyisi iki tarafa da yöneleyim. Kendimle çalışmayı bırakmam yani. Bi yere kaçmıyorum ya. :) Teşekkür ederim yinede gerçekten.
- Gunsel Senol
@Masis: Demek diğer seriye de göz attın. Teşekkür ederim, kadraj konusunda bende kendime güveniyorum, ve evet haklısın başka modellerle de çalışmalıyım. Farklı insanlar istiyorum o kesin, güzel ve yakışıklı bana göre değil.
- Gunsel Senol
@venidro: Höh bu baya direk oldu. :/
- Gunsel Senol
diğer seriye de baktım şimdi, onu da cok begendim gercekten.. onda da 05 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 -11 favorim diyebilirim çok etkileyici..! @antique bu sayılara oynamak delilik olur ama al sana 6 sayı bu sefer :)))
- kaya akkaya