Trying to decide if it's worth switching from Disqus if they release it for self-hosted installs - Jesse Stay
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Jesse - I was about to install Disqus, but as soon as I heard about the acquisition of intense debate, I've been holding tight. My guess is the integration will be available to self-hosted folks early next year (if not sooner). - Justin Korn
Justin yeah - I love Disqus, but if it's all built in and reduces load times, I may just be forced to use the Wordpress version. Not just that, but they can make their plugin architecture work around it, enabling things like Facebook Connect integration. - Jesse Stay
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That, and Joseph Scott lives just down the road from me. ;-) - Jesse Stay
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Today I'm going to take you through my entire process of getting from Photoshop to completed HTML. We're going to build out a set of 4 PSD mockups of a website that eventually will become a WordPress theme. It's a massive tutorial, so if you're going to follow through to the end, make sure you have a few hours to spare! - Graham English
"Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop." - Kamath ॐ
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Poor Biden. How dare the media ask the 0Bama campaign about their socialist views. When 0bama is elected, this will not be allowed! - Spencer
Spencer, are you serious? At what point is calling a candidate a "MARXIST" journalism not of the tabloid variety? This isn't "asking tough questions," it's blatant incendiary yellow journalism at its finest. A COM/J 101 student asking these types of questions in a class assignment would be failed. - Cyndy
Hahaha... This ridiculous woman wanted to make an interview reel to send to Fox News. Reading questions off Rush Limbaugh's talking points is not journalism. - Jason Carreira
She made an association between 0bama's "spread the wealth" nonsense and the teachings of Marx. If Biden can't take the heat, then get out. That seems to be the underlying theme of the 0bama campaign. All Biden had to do was explain, but they choose to run. - Spencer
*chant* 9 days... only 9 days... 9 days... only 9 days... - Michael W. May
He treated it like the joke it is. The Republican party has become the butt of a joke they don't get. - Jason Carreira
Well, good to know that I can now head back to a career in traditional journalism. Silly me. I was always told that my inability to remain objective was a massive fail. Glad I now have career options where I can just call it "asking tough questions" by coming up with whatever *I* think and calling it journalism. I hear the WSJ calling my name. I'm sure they will be fine with me calling Jerry Yang an incompetent yutz. - Cyndy
Biden has been great out on the trail this season. Unflappable. - Chris Baskind
Remember, McCain said essentially the same thing re: spread the wealth in 2000. And the current administration has done a very good job in spreading the wealth from taxpayers to no-bid contractors and corporations. - AJ Kohn
Oh goodness, you know it's going to be garbage when she starts out with ACORN. Any good journalist has already figured out that a) there's nothing to the ACORN story and b) McCain has been linked to them as well. - AJ Kohn
Brokaw showed that tape to McCain this morning... McCain totally avoided answering and went on a tangent. - Jason Carreira
rofl, its funny how these reporters try and break them, when long ago they were broken into goodness/realness, this video is like all other biden/obama video's they simply explain the facts, its a shame a small percentage of the american public dont like facts, or its hard for them to understand, and that a small percentage dont like change and dont like to change themselves, in this hard world change is inevitable and if people dont start realizing the truth of things and changing they will all parish - Kyle Weller
There is plenty to the ACORN story. You should actually read and see how the media has been covering up many links between them and "the 0". - Spencer
kyle weller .. a small percentage? you are too kind .. substitute most for small - Gregory Lent
oh and this ACORN crap, come on now, how in the hell will "registering fake voters" do a thing? Havnt you seen the poor people in cities walk around and register voters, they are paid a few cents a peice of paper and believe me if they get a simple job like that they will take advantage and write fake names for some money without doing the work, also the federal government requires them to submit them if they are fake or not, btw how will register voters that dont exist bring them to the polls - Kyle Weller
Registering fake voters and people that actually wont vote isnt fraud comeon now, its common sense, they will need to submit a copy of their id to even register, and all those fake voters and voters that didnt register didnt submit their id's so what harm will come with this? Its just a talking point that doesnt make sense when you look into the facts of these things. - Kyle Weller
@ Gregory : lol yea, I try to have more faith in the american public lol - Kyle Weller
@Spencer if you still believe the ACORN stuff is anything but a red herring, maybe you should do your research. It's all a ploy to call the election into question. - Jason Carreira
Where can I find the official, approved list of questions to ask? I want to make sure I don't ask the wrong ones. - Glen Campbell
Make your questions come from an unbiased and objective point of view and you'll be fine. These questions were even fine... Biden looked great... the only loser here was her, 'cause she looks like a partisan hack and completely unprofessional. - Jason Carreira
Glen, if you can't figure out that referring to the pinko commie nation of SWEDEN as a threat is a problem, then I fear for you. ;) - Cyndy
@Kyle & @Jason: +1 each. That's the thing. It's OKAY to have links to ACORN because there is no real ACORN scandal. ACORN is the one who IDs fraudulent registrations, ACORN fires and helps prosecute those who submit bogus registrations, ACORN is the one who is paying for shoddy work, and it rarely ends up in voter fraud. The suppression of legitimate registrations is the 'real' voter fraud. - AJ Kohn
@AJ Kohn +10, If it wasnt for the internet allot of these stories would still be circulating with the facts hidden, this years election didnt change the world, the world changed the election and saw through these things, I think the future has great potential to be greater, plus Obama is setting an example for future presidents. I know he will do his best to understand, solve, elliminate the issues, I have great faith in our future and together we can all make the world a better place.. cont. - Kyle Weller
by taking care of our own lives and doing the best we each can possibly do. - Kyle Weller
It's funny because Biden couldn't even take the questions seriously. I don't blame him. I would have have busted up laughing in his position. - Ari Milner
I'm sorry, these aren't real questions. Comparing Obama to Marx? This is slanted biased questioning at its worst. This is worse than Fox! - Duncan Riley
Jason is exactly right. This does not hurt Biden one bit and, indeed, helps him because he looks thoughtful and rational even in the face of complete idiocy. Yet another nail in the McCain campaign. Landslide. It's coming. Can't you feel it? - Robert Scoble
@scoble I would love to start a rumour that Arizona has become a swing state. :P - Phillip Jeffrey
It doesn't say much for Biden when he claims they aren't "spreading the wealth", then spends time to detail how they are. Socialism, it's coming. - Spencer
Yes. If Obama wins, all of us will throw off our disguise and reveal that we are secretly trying to implement the evils of socialism in America. First, we'll take your money. Then we'll take your guns. And finally, we'll take your computers. Viva la revolution! - Cyndy
Spencer: all politicians spread wealth. It's what they do. The Republicans spread wealth to corporations and military. The Democrats love helping the poor. None of them want to really stop spending, as we found out over the last six years. So, give up the "socialism" thing. Bush nationalized the banks. The Republicans are the biggest socialists around. - Robert Scoble
Cyndy you forgot about raping and pillaging - Brian Sullivan
Cyndy: sssshhhhhhh, you don't want the Republicans to realize what we're up to, now, do you? :-) - Robert Scoble
Yeah, the Republicans took any punch from the "socialism" label with that goddamn bailout. - David Risley
Well, personally, Brian, I won't be raping. As a pinko commie bitch, I simply assume that in our new socialist society, everyone will spread the love as well as the wealth. - Cyndy
I don't think you understand the difference between tax breaks and giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. I don't care about Bush, I care about the taxes and distribution of wealth that is possibly coming. - Spencer
people, we should not be having this debate. Obama is not a socialist. Period. - ♣genieyclo♣
But genie, Spencer has assured us that he is. And he will completely overthrow the existing government in favor of something akin to the terrorists of Sweden! - Cyndy
Spencer: do you make more than $250,000 a year? Really? What do you do? I wonder about all those who are complaining. The rich people I know are mostly going for Obama. I think you should have to post your tax returns if you're going to complain about the rich having to pay more taxes. Oh, and if you're making more than $250,000 a year how did you get that way? Didn't you benefit from a system and a society that enabled you to make that much? - Robert Scoble
Its not redistribution of wealth, its redistribution of income. Its you going to work for an 8 hour day, and maybe 1-2 hours of that time go to Obama to send to somebody else who may not even pay any taxes in the first place. - David Risley
@David: But we're talking about 3% right? 36% versus 39%. This doesn't really have anything to do with Obama but a dislike for progressive taxes, correct? - AJ Kohn
Registering fake voters isn't fraud; now that's spin - Robert Hafer
As happy as I was to see a reporter asking hard questions for once, the questions were crap. Why do so many Americans keep making socialism into a boogey-man? - Thomas Stromberg
@Robert: You do understand that ACORN is required to submit invalid registrations. That ACORN is the one who IDs the vast majority of these on submission. Finally, when someone steals from a department store, who gets hurt? The department store. Bogus registrations are a form of theft from ACORN. - AJ Kohn
AJ: If you think Obama is going to pay for his ideas with only a Bush tax cut rollback, you're hallucinating. - David Risley
AN Kohn - if the fraud was limited to a few isolated cases, I would agree with you. That, and all the other political action done by ACORN affiliates. - Robert Hafer
@David: No, the estate tax will go up, cap gains will go up. Loopholes will need to be closed, government efficiency must be implemented. And there's still a gap. Tough decisions will need to be made. It's not all going to happen. But McCain's trickle-down theory coupled with taxing medical benefits isn't the answer. - AJ Kohn
@Robert: It's a scaling issue. Which organization has registered the most voters? ACORN. The % is actually pretty low, it just seems big because of the scale. What political action are you referring to? - AJ Kohn
I'm talking about things like sueing banks to force to make bad morgage loans. If I was at by desktop instead of phone, I would look up other afiliates that fall under ACORN umbrella. - Robert Hafer
Obviously slanted and extreme in her opinion. Given she compared Obama to Marx, to be fair and balanced she would need to compare Palin to Hitler. - Mike Reynolds
Ha! That's rich--I'm sooo tired of finger-pointing like the kind Spencer is doing here. Sorry, I know this post is a few days old, but I felt it was worth jumping in on. Pointing fingers at politicians and accusing them of being politicians serves no purpose. Biden isn't going to answer some questions--big deal--Palin *in a debate* said she wouldn't be answering some questions. They're both lame, they're politicians!! Let's move on to something substantive, shall we? - thepete
Lisa and all, glad you like it. A colleague of mine gave us the Thing 1 & 2 outfits, and it was a natural. Kristine dressed up as the girl from the story,complete with goldfish bowl hat. - Louis Gray
"Benefits of guest bloggers (or additional authors, period) are many:
1) Highlights a new person and their site
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5) They do their best work for you and try extra-hard so the quality is great
6) They tend to engage with the comments judiciously
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Shey, where have you been, my man? BackType is a great new tool that aggregates comments you make around the Web, no matter the platform. http://www.backtype.com/louisg... - Louis Gray
There are also benefits to guest *blogging* - 1) if the host is fair they link back to your own blog bringing your own blog and brand more exposure. 2) Also brings heavy links to your blog increasing technorati ranking. 3) Makes you more credible as a blogger, too. - Jesse Stay
Because wimpy headlines don't get read. Here, try this: "Clint Ecker wrote a perfectly reasonable FriendFeed item." Compare to "Clint Ecker wrote a killer FriendFeed item." We live in an attention-deficient world, so this kind of stupid stuff happens. - Robert Scoble
That's easy. Crappy writers, print and online, can get more attention by saying "XXXXX is a Google-killer" than "XXXXX is a perfectly good search tool." - Andrew Feinberg
It's the online equivalent of: "Jalapeño peppers: great in salsa, or silent killer? That's coming up at 11." And hey look, a comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/... - Mark Trapp
Killer Apps and the Women Who Love Them; tonight, on a special Dateline. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I find that often what is being called the "killer" usually isn't. Ex - calling the Zune the ipod killer - Kim
To me only appropriate use of "killer" is slang like the bomb, bitchin', rad,bad,etc. Example-Whooah Bill and Ted did some killer slacker stuff... - Mark Forman
Not sure they need one, but strategic communications counsel, on the otherhand, may have help dodge a few bullets. - Christian Anderson
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It seems like it would be a really good idea given the dissatisfaction from many users over down-time. One of the biggest complaints is that Twitter isn't very honest or up-front about outages, and a community manager could definitely assuage that. - Kevin Bondelli
Here we are tonight all bitching that we lost x percentage of followers, and I'm thinking it'd be cool if someone were there to tweet, "I hear you." Have you READ the typical @ev or @biz stream? It's like they work for another company altogether. - Chris Brogan
Well, okay. I'm wrong. Ev's talking about it. - Chris Brogan
It seems to make sense. I, for one would like to see one. I am unable to log into my twitter acct and can't get to find a solution. - kamla bhatt
you think they could use a little transparency and occasional..oops sorry we Fd up :-)......its your actions that count, as we noted yesterday :-) - Richard Binhammer
Jeez, they have a status blog. What more do you expect? - Ken Sheppardson
No doubt, visited whiners.twitter.com lately? Er, I mean status.twitter.com - Gregor Morrill
I actually have about 1,200 followers. well, now around 1,030, and only 300 when I made this statement and Twitter was going through it's thingy. - Andrew Dobrow
I lost about 70! Most that I got within the last 3 weeks! Also lost some that did not exchanged Tweets recently also lost the Spam bots, which I never followed! They restored the database which is 3 weeks old! - Igor The Troll
So cute I've banned my wife from even looking at these from a distance,,, Hard to believe any of my 3 were ever that small. dang.. it's even got me going mushy and broody..great photo's - Chris Wright
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CUTE BABY PICTURES!!!!! yeah!! Sarah looks sooo cute! love the pink!! :-) - Susan Beebe
I have 2 daughters myself and there are many points in the day I wish they were that tiny again ... treasure these moments Louis they won't last long at all .. congrats on the new addition to the family - JohnBfromMemphis
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hello, my little namesake! i love the color pink too - we're so alike! :) - Sarah Perez
Congrats Louis! Very cute! Best wishes to the mom and the little ones. - Mark Douglass
I'm frustrated that his response to the uproar has been 'it's okay that we disagree'. I'm looking for the rationale behind his change of course. We can't forgive what we can't understand. Has Obama given a believable rationale? - Kevin Fox
Kevin, his rationale is that he wasn't against the idea of FISA (as most of Congress isn't against the idea, too, for what it's worth), but that the law Bush wanted to sign previously went too far. He believed, as did most of Congress, that the current law was a compromise that was good enough. One thing that I had been hearing every time this comes up is that Congress really wanted to pass FISA all along, but felt compelled by their constituencies who kept complaining to postpone action. They were merely waiting for a time when people would be complaining the least (like the summer). I don't think this is much a failure of Obama, but a failure of our Congress as a whole. - Mark Trapp
The vision of Obama was that he wouldn't let us down like the rest of Congress is in the habit of doing. And didn't HRC vote against the thing? - ⓞnor
Sure ⓞnor, after she knew it was going to pass. Not to mention it's not an election year for her anymore. - Mark Trapp
Well, he coulda voted against it after he knew it was going to pass, too. Anyway, the point isn't FISA, it's immunity. There were a lot of ways he could have expressed much more opposition to immunity. - ⓞnor
Sorry Mark, I don't buy it. You don't go from "I will fillibuster rather than let telco immunity pass" to "I voted for the provision including telco immunity because they gave other concessions" simply because it's summer and 'people would be complaining the least". Maybe that's the rationale of a senior senator, but not for a presidential candidate. There's nothing low-key about anything Obama does for the next four months and he's fully aware of that. Also, the wording in your comment is odd. "He wasn't against the idea of FISA" makes it sound like FISA means something other than the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. I doubt any democratic senator is against the idea of FISA. - Kevin Fox
OK so i did not want to like this but it is funny. unfortuantley true - Ruth Ferguson
Kevin, I apologize: I mean the admendments made in 2007 regarding the government's ability to acquire intelligence quickly without waiting for court approval. The Protect America Act was unnecessarily vague in terms of who they could target, unnecessarily lenient in checking intelligence gathering procedures, and provided no recourse for telecoms to challenge an acquisition order. In the new law, they must get FISA Court approval when targeting Americans, the frequency of procedural review by the FISA Court is increased, procedural review by Congress has been added, and allows any telecom to challenge an order in the FISA court before complying. - Mark Trapp
The law still sucks, but I can definitely see how most members of Congress saw this law as good enough to provide basic accountability provisions to limit the DNI and Attorney General's power. Because everyone focuses on the telecom immunity clause, it was smart to wait until the fewest amount of people were caring. Now as to why Obama decided to back down from "I will filibuster any law that contains telecom immunity" to voting for the law; I think you can pick and choose which rhetoric you want to believe is realistic. I viewed it as empty as "Read my lips: no new taxes." - Mark Trapp
I think it comes down to him and other members of Congress believing this is the best compromise they could get with Bush in power, the people Congress and Obama needing to appeal to in November don't really care about telecom immunity (but care about national security), and the people who do care about telecom immunity going to vote Democrat anyway. Though Kevin, I'd be interested to see what you thought his motivations are, if it's not the reality of a compromise setting in. - Mark Trapp
Why bother to try to negotiate a FISA compromise with a presidential administration that has shown nothing but contempt for the law to begin with? The Bush Administration, instead of going to Congress and requesting a change in the FISA, went ahead and blatantly violated that law. And the Administration said it would continue to violate the law, so what's the pressing need to fix the FISA, especially when negotiating with an Administration that only will meet you about 2% of the way? http://www.concurringopinions.... - Jason Wehmhoener
I don't think there's any mystery about his motivations, but it still sucks. - ⓞnor
I'm a big Obama fan. But that poster still makes me laugh. - Bill Bittner
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We've done a soft launch of our shiny new version of Lighter Footstep, the guide to step-by-step Green Living. We're not ready to invite the general public to the party yet, but I'd be delighted if some of the folks from the Environment room would kick the tires and help us shake things down as we finish the site. Thanks! - Chris Baskind
Wow, I really like this, Chris. Awesome work. You rock! - Jonathon D. Colman
Thanks much. Goodbye, Joomla. Hello, familiar and easy-to-use WordPress. ;-) - Chris Baskind
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Interesting indeed. Are you scanning the entire public feed or just specific users/rooms? - Yuval Atzmon
One bug I've found: When you type a comment in to the Moopz interface and hit enter, it goes to the next line instead of activating the 'post' button. Confusing. - Phil Glockner
@atzmon, Moopz tracks specific users and only certain services (the users are the ones that the "Moopz" FF user has subscribed to. The list started with a small list of top conversation starters, but Moopz will subscribe to everyone who logs in via Moopz. To be honest, I am not sure how this approach will work out, but I am intrigued to find out. ;) - Moopz
@J. Phil, thanks for the bug report. I will look into that. I should also try to setup the handy expandy-textarea feature of FF where the comment box gets bigger if your comment is longer than one line... - Moopz
Are you planning to add search features? And can you tell a little bit about the person or people behind moopz? - Yuval Atzmon
@atzmon, I just added a search feature. I am the person behind Moopz. I do Internet marketing, SEO, Movable Type plugin development and more... - Mark Carey
Moopz or Mark - I like Moopz. I have tried them all now. I would want a tab that had all the features of Moopz but only looked at my subscriptions. Great work! - Russellreno
BTW I tried search early this morning and it worked well as I recall. The tag cloud is a good addition, but I just proves once again that these sites are 1st tech sites. Instead of the My Friends tab you could do a Food, Music, Celebrity, Politics, Sports tab as an interim step. - Russellreno
Nice one...I always thought that friendfeed had its own inhouse fragmented conversations...can't wait till you make a personalised version, unless FF beat you to it...and conversations by topic make this the new technorati tags (well a machine tag version) - John Tropea
Much cleaner interface than techmeme. - Tabrez Iqbal
