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You mean Tweets imported into FF are near completely stopped? I've noticed they're 30/hr to 1hr lethargic though at that speed re: Real Time, that is dead. - sofarsoShawn

not sure of anything but that RSS is dead - Steve Gillmor

OH hey, yeah you're right, no Twitter updates since yesterday. - Scott Beale

lets not open that can of worms... :] About twitter, i see one 4 mins ago, but that's less than normal - Zee.

not a can of worms, an important recognition of fact - Steve Gillmor

it is important, re: especially my FF desktop notifier is severely behind on comments/likes to my tweets, so much so I had to turn it off, it was no longer relevant ~ FWD'ED to the Feedback room - sofarsoShawn

Hey, you're right. No tweets since the Twitter outage last night. Bummer. - Jolie O'Dell

I've been using Twitter intermittently while waiting for the resolution of this legal thing - Steve Gillmor

cannot add twitter accounts, no tweets, no posting to twitter accounts. - Patrick

did i read something saying Twitter was opening their firehose? - Karoli from IM

Patrick: what do you mean can't add - Steve Gillmor

Cool... I am a Project Manager and would *love* to get your feedback on this app. - Susan Beebe

I haven't project managed a software project in years. Any suggestions for current favorite apps? Or weblinks to pros/cons of different systems? - Mitchell Tsai

Mark I listed the features in my original post, but it's not just about features, there are many other factors that influenced our decision to use it, too many to list here. That's what demos are for and Unfuddle as a free one, so check it out. - Scott Beale

See you made your decision but we use (and like) TeamworkPM.net. For nonprofits, Huddle offers a nice premium program for free. - Peter A. Mello

I use http://Atlassian.com 's JIRA and Confluence (integrated apps for issues, bugs, SVN repo, Wiki, etc.). Also used eProject (now owned by http://Daptiv.com). I was looking at using Trac too - Susan Beebe

did you concider assembla? It seems even more feature rich. - Lloyd Budd

neato will add to my list http://slashpd.blogspot.com/2008... - Peter Dawson

Lloyd, haven't heard of Assembla before, it looks really good as well, but appears to be more geared for software development. - Scott Beale

photos only allowed in the basement of the Alamo ;) - Petunia GreenBeans

Ha Thomas, I was just about to say, good thing I didn't go all "Thomas Hawk" on their ass. - Scott Beale

haha, you should have. That's a stupid policy. Policies like that need to be overturned. - Thomas Hawk

There isn't a basement either - RAPatton from iPhone

Its for respect. - Michael Weems

some images are better captured in the mind's eye - Jim Posner

Well said, Jim and Michael. Former Texas Transplant myself. There are just some events that pictures must be taken with the mind and developed in the heart. - Melanie Reed

GODWIN MARKED AT THE SPOT OF THE FOUL, -15 YARDS, REPEAT FIRST DOWN - Akiva

I think it's stupid. Why would it be disrespectful to want to capture the memory? Sensory memory is brief for people, and some of us compound that with poor overall retention. - MiniMage

San Antonio and Austin... "we'll be there", said a Racker knowing that others would agree and follow en masse :) - Robert J Taylor

Cone, sounds good, we will also be looking for a recommendations for a bar in Dallas for our Drinkup. - Scott Beale

Robert, Rob La Gesse has been helping me plan our San Antonio Drinkup, looks like it will be on 10/8. I'll be there from 10/6-10/8 visiting all of the Rackspace offices. - Scott Beale

Oh and Austin will be on 10/9 at the new Gingerman of course - Scott Beale

I'm with Chris on this one. :) - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Johnny I might need to take you up on that! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert: You could send Johnny out to SXSW for you with a camera and radio the same way Letterman used to send Rupert Jee out around NY - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: will Johnny get a hangover so I don't have to? That is a great idea! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

so a series of breakfast panels are out of the question? - michael sean wright

michael I did one this year. On Sunday no less. That was very difficult! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

can't imagine... we always start around noon but go until late... it's the sxsway - michael sean wright

I don't mind the hang over... and lord knows I'm up for a bit of camp self-embarrassment :) - Johnny

Cristo: I could host a session on that! Title: "Pink wigs, Paul Carr, and Vodka: a new and embarrassing way to get into TechCrunch." - Robert Scoble from iPhone

how many panels did you agree to be on? - Rachel Clarke

The Gingerman has moved, but something tells me we will be ending up there again quite a bit at SXSW 2010. - Scott Beale

feel free to vote for mine, Robert :D http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... I promise with this panel there's not going to be any boredom. .. or you could stay up late drinking. - Valeria Maltoni

sounds like a solid plan to me - sean percival

It's not a race. I've never positioned our blog as one that "break" news, that would really take the fun of blogging and make it more like a job, which it is not. I just post interesting stuff that I come across when I see it, which is not always right away as in this case. - Scott Beale

Perhaps Laughing News Squid is more appropriate? :) - imabonehead

Sorry to have put the emphasis more on backhanded than the compliment. In general, you're very on top of things. I guess I just felt this was an unusual story to see on Laughing Squid. - Spidra Webster

Andy: the latest version is mostly a security upgrade, yes. - Robert Scoble

You're comparing an open source program like WordPress to Microsoft? Not sure I understand that. They are on opposite ends of the spectrum. - Scott Beale

What you described is exactly what seems to be the problem. Ken didn't upgrade ours because I was in the middle of writing. He has done so now and we were lucky. :) Glad you got your site back. - Sheryl

My WP update instruction says "delete your files first?" What's up with that? - Houseofmax

I did the backup, the server upload, the whole thing. A mighty late night it was. - Rob Schieber

robert, now that i can do an automatic upgrade (in place) with just a few clicks (after chmoding 777 the wp_content directory temporarily) i've been upgrading as soon as possible - Chris Heath

Any good suggestions on a Wordpress host? I have been with Dreamhost but have had some issues. - TonyatMATC

you could always go with a big company like godaddy or rackspace, but i tend to stick with smaller companies for the customer service. i use tektonic.net and i'm very happy, but i'm sure there's lots of others like it - Chris Heath

DreamHost is considered one of, if not the leading WordPress host. If you let them manage your updates and such, they are usually right on top of security issues. (I am not a DH customer) WP needs to be updated constantly, especially if you use plug-ins. - RAD Moose

Chris Health: want to know more about "automatic update" Tried that but it fails. What might be the reason? - Houseofmax

after much tinkering and googling i've found that there's a couple issues with the auto-update - what i do is change my permissions on the wp_content folder to 777 (from 755) then do the auto update - after the update is done i go back and change the permissions back to 755 - this is because of some PHP safe mode setting that my host has set (that i can not change) since we're running... more... - Chris Heath

FYI, the 2.8.4 update still has a vulnerability. i upgraded yesterday, but this morning I received a 'password reset' email. - John Craft

Thanks Chris - Will try that. checked the error messages and only one file was blocking (wp-content/upgrade/sitemap/google-sitemap-generator/screenshot-1.gif) - Houseofmax

Oookay...Wondering what's gonna happen now. - Karen Mohler

nooooooooooooooooooooooo - John O'Day

I am not sure I really want to merge my accounts! - Rachel R.

Does anyone really know what the implications are? - MoTO #TeamMonique

I'm sure the tech blogs will be analyzing this for weeks. Not sure what the integration will look like. - Scott Beale

I have a facebook account because many of my friends and work associates do. It's the only way to keep up with some of them. But I'm rarely on it. I use FriendFeed a lot more (as in, on a daily basis). Not sure I want to mix my chocolate with my peanut butter - MoTO #TeamMonique

Scott: Friendface http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Fee501st

If friendfeed turns into facebook, I'm going to hate it... - Sung W. Lim

digg has been a lot more proactive lately, banning a lot of users for what seems to be unjust cause - sean percival

They didn't ban me as a user, they banned the domain laughingsquid.com. User banning I can understand, but why ban a source? - Scott Beale

I hope you get an answer about why they did it. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

I predict Kevin will come off a two week vacation shortly and provide a Twitter update to that effect. - Jay Cuthrell