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it's really hard to find new, good podcasts. Just went through 2 pages of search results here at FriendFeed and didn't find anything I wanted to listen to more than Stack Overflow and twit. Those i already knew about. :( What's your iTunes podcast window look like? hint hint, suggestions?

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I don't see the ReadBurner podcast on there. FAIL. :-) - Louis Gray

humorous: http://youlooknicetoday.com/ - Paul Arterburn

Have you tried Mur Lafferty or Scott Sigler? - Ha3rvey

try out one of the shows at http://randomchatter.com - they have movie, tech, and other topic-centric podcasts - nice guys - Nathan Chase

Buzz Out Loud isn't too bad. - Jared B. Luther

I enjoy BOL too. Been a fan since the beginning. However, if you're looking for something different, try On Digital Media http://odmcast.com (shameless plug ;-) - Steven Hatch

john cleese, stephen fry, kevin smith, Andrew Denton. Get to it!! - thomasrdotorg from twhirl

awesome, thanks for all the suggestions! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

NOVA Science Now, Scientific American, The Naked Scientists, the Pragmatic Podcasts, Hanselminutes, SE-Radio (though I skip most of them), Core Intuition, Late Night Cocoa, Mac Developer Network, Grammar Girl - DGentry

NPR's All Songs Considered, NPR's Science Friday, Magnum in Motion - samgrover

No Agenda. - MVB

I like the BBC news podcasts.... - Mitch

I love BOL (Buzz Out Loud)...also Loaded, Twit, The Social Geeks (of course), Diggnation, Grammar Girl, The Answer Bitch, LostCasts (when LOST returns that is), ReadBurner, CNET TV, CNET Mailbag (Molly Wood is damn funny) and the occasional Tekzilla and Security Now. - Sarah Perez

BOL is great, CNET has some damn good podcasts. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

FFundercats??? Ho??? - Lindsay is :)

Good call Lindsay, FFundercats, HO! Go grab it. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

My one must-have podcast is Danny Sullivan's SearchCast: http://dailysearchcast.com/ - Matt Cutts

I listen to the Gillmor Gang (I'll be on tomorrow at 1 p.m. from China, by the way) and TWiT. Otherwise I "snack" on other audio shows here and there. - Robert Scoble

NY Times Front Page, Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing (both are good first thing in the morning), NewsGang Live / Gillmor Gang. Leo Laporte has a few good ones like TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now. - Rolf Schewe

I feel bad for not listening to TWiT very much while everyone else does. It is in my podcatcher but I almost always listen to it part way and then move on. The podcast is a lot of fun, but it just feels like BOL got the same things already and talked about them days earlier. I have a lot of podcasts (I do love NPR and I've found a number of great book world and fiction podcasts) and I'd rather listen to something new. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

Aram: I understand that. I don't get to all of them either. usually I just listen to the ones that get talked about on Twitter or FriendFeed. Speaking of which, http://www.fastcompany.tv is my video podcast. - Robert Scoble

These are all great suggestions -- I just scarfed up a mess of them and added them to iTunes. Thanks! - Mitch Wagner

If you're not already listening to This American Life you're missing the best radio show ever. Fresh Air is good, too. And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. - Leo Laporte

gdgt - rob

NPR is all sorts of awesome. I second "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" - Amy H.

TED Talks (video) always has great stuff - Virtual Bird's Eye from twhirl

If you like listening to non-work related podcasts (i.e. NOT tech), check out The Moth. Also This American Life. - Aaron Uhrmacher

"WFMU's Best Show On WFMU" is HILARIOUS! I also like Studio 360 and many of the ones mentioned above. - Brad Williamson

In the same vein as WFMU are the podcasts from RESONANCE FM, "the art of listening" - Brad Kligerman

Oh my - where's NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", and NPR's Car Talk, and Leo's "Security Now!" podcast? And if you're not only twisted, but actually sprained, check out Merlin Mann's podcast "You Look Nice Today". - mamapadawan

If you are into Social media, PR and communication, then check out For Immediate Release (FIR). Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson host this bi-weekly podcast and it is without a doubt the best communications podcast out there. - morten saxnaes

NPR's Wait Wait and This American Life make it to my podcast list. I'm learning Danish too, and there is a great podcast called "CopenhagenCast" that is a great learning tool for the language. - Guy Martin

Check out The Bugle and Sex Talk with Jimmy Stewart! - Wes Hoogenboom from iPhone

Give No Agenda a try. One of my fav of the week. Another good listen is This week in startups with Calacanis. - Shaun Trennery from iPhone

Skeptics Guide to the Universe is excellent, one of the best podcasts out there. Also, Seminars about Long Term Thinking is often great. - Gersham Meharg

Savage Love (sex and relationships, about 35 minutes, weekly), Memory Palace (quirky history stories, about 5 minutes, published irregularly), 60 Second Psych (short stories about psychology, published irregularly), and I love, love, love Tank Riot (kind of indescribable--runtime 1 hour+, published every two weeks or month or so by three guys in Wisconsin), and also one called Copper Robot by some guy named "Mitch Wagner." - Mitch Wagner

Totally Rad Show is pretty funny. - Siddharth Mitra

Nice idea...................... - Kevin Hatton

The Moth, The Memory Palace, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Dinner Party Download, The Sound of Young America, Obsessives (video by CHOW), Studio 360, TED (audio or video), Third Coast International Audio Festival, Current Vanguard (video), Frontline WORLD (video), World Cafe. - Rekha Murthy

The autoblog pod cast, and the truth about cars (although they are daily now, that could disappear) - rosenbaaron

If you want some nuanced humor, check out and listen to the backlog of You Look Nice Today. - Charles Englert

PodCastle, Escape Pod and PseudoPod for fantasy, sf and horror respectively. - Deborah Fitchett

http://www.maximumfun.org/shows... , http://www.wnyc.org/shows... - Micah Wittman

Paul Buchheit

Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo (جاسون)

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

My #laterzheenu tags can be of some use nao. Like right nao. - /Users/genieyclo

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - @GarinKilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - Franc ☺

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Leo Laporte

Leo is at the airport. We leave in 90 minutes.

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What flight again, so we know if a Northwest plane crashes, it isn't you.... - Mike Wills

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Bon voyage, Leo (not very original, but heartfelt nonetheless :-). - Bob Cronin

God's Speed - Jim Adams

Have a good trip, try and get some sleep on the plane. - PangoTek

Good luck on your trip Leo! - Mike

Walk around as much as you can right now. You will be sitting. And sitting. And sitting. - Bill Heald

Safe trip Leo - Guy Johnson

NW 27 to Narita then NW 7 to Beijing - Leo Laporte

Enjoy your Vacation Leo, we'll miss you while your gone. - Cesar H Castro Jr

Have a great time, and take lots of pictures! (I think that's what you're always supposed to tell people who leave on vacations) - Cory Roush

Enjoy! - xero

Have a great time in China! Hope you'll be back soon. - Patrick Harms

Will you be uploading pics? If the Chnese Internet allows. - Robert Hafer from iPhone

Have a safe trip Leo! - Joel Lovato from fftogo

Cheers! - Scott Walters

have a safe trip - Chris Strange

Have fun! Be safe! Don't get thrown in a Chinese prison! - Jennifer from iPhone

Leo, what is the deal with tripit? You mentioned that last week end to follow your trip. Is there some kind of link? - Stan Cook

Have a great trip, Leo et. al. - Jason Miller

Have a safe & fun trip Leo! - Thunderwing from twhirl

Swine Flu , ftw ! - John Hillestad

Paul Buchheit

'Stay classy, Fox News guests: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." WHAT?! Come again?' - http://origin.reddit.com/r...

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What can you comment to something like that? - Dan Woods

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The reddit comments are kind of amusing: "I'm really really hesitant to blame another person's political views on psychological problems, but that's the only conclusion I can reach with these guys. When you've come to the point where you are actually saying "I want people to die, so that I can be proved right that if we don't do something, people will die" this is now a mental illness.... more... - Paul Buchheit

Anytime someone uses the phrase, "Stay classy", I automatically have to like it. It's like in my biology. - Derrick

Somewhat more seriously, I think there are some people who believe in the necessity of perpetual war, and for those people an attack on the US (such as a city getting nuked) would obviously be a good thing. I remember at the end of the cold war these same people were fretting about the need for a new enemy. Luckily for them, they found/created one. - Paul Buchheit

Holy crap. That guy's talking out of his ass! - Joey Gibson

A vulnerable country > the country they want. (That's even if I accepted that the country would be less vulnerable under them, which I don't) - Matthew DeVries

Wow....I thought the democrats were the ones who want the turrists to win. - EricaJoy

'9/11 ended up making this country safer then ever. The only way to make it more safe would be to undergo another attack.' That's basically what he's saying, right? - Kevin Fox

"...an attack on the US (such as a city getting nuked) would obviously be a good thing." Can we pick the city? - Chris Sparno

Yeah, how are we ever going to get rid of all these pesky freedoms if we don't have a big war? It's like these guys thought 1984 was an instruction manual. - Paul Buchheit

@Paul, We have always been at war with East Asia. || We have always been at war with Eurasia. (Orwell, 1984) - Joey Gibson

Ah Fox...they really should drop the "news" from their title. Propaganda might fit better? [And THIS time they really went too far.] - Abby Martin

wha ... - Khaled A

I have no words to describe what I think about that, scratching my head WHAT? - Karen Swim

Good lord. Add Glen Beck to Rush Limbaugh on the list of treasonous talk show hosts. Disgusting. - Leo Laporte

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Dead Silence

Being liberal is unpatriotic? Compared to that I'm a freaking nationalist! - Heather

the scary thing, really, is not that someone would say this in public, or that Glenn Beck found someone to say crazy things on his show, but that the person saying it is *Michael Scheuer,* who was chief of the bin Laden desk at the CIA. he is a best-selling author, and currently a news analyst for CBS News. he's somebody who has the ear of government officials and the media. he is not just some loon Beck picked off the street, and that is cause for concern. - Karim

My favorite reddit comment: "I was just stunned. I asked, "You hope Americans die by the thousands so that you can prove to me that we need FISA-less searches of everyone???" He answered with a straight face, "Yes". I tried to explain to him how he and Osama bin Laden had reached a point of consensus in wishing the United States harm, but he would have none of it. "It's all for the greater good of America!", was all he said." - Gabe

one hopes Scheuer will claim he "misspoke" and does not really wish harm. or, it could be that he is Cap'n Ahab and bin Laden is his Great White Whale, and the failed pursuit is driving him crazy. and you thought "war is peace" was satire... - Karim

I am going to have to add, that while Glenn Beck is a loony, treasonous sellout, Michael Scheuer is most definitely not some off-the-deep-end right wing, Fox shill. That guy is 100% legit and knows what he is talking about. I thhink that clip might be taken slightly out of context, but if Scheuer is concerned, so am I. But I already know too much about the shortcomings of our Federal Government... - JonathanJoseph

@Kevin. ..9/11, per irrefutable scientific evidence, was an inside job, a controlled demolition. ..is there somebody here who still doesn't see this? ..... its the biggest story of our time .. itl bring very grave consequences for the country ..and yes, another war , attack would keep the bad empire of war within America in power, unchallenged, undiscovered, unremoved, untoppled and uncollapsed - its the old thing, when in trouble, bring on war .............. http://ae911truth.org - Petr Buben

Its Fox soooo ... no surprises here. - Brandon Mendelson

The only chance we have as a country is for blowhards to stop starting wars with other countries so that we can pretend that we don't have problems of our own. - Jennifer Dittrich

Yeah, Kevin, irrefutable scientific evidence! - Gabe

no ..JUST LOOK how they fell ....are we all idiots? ... 10 floors per second pulverized ....they exploded and pulverized into pyroclastic cloud. http://911Blogger.com - http://911truth.org .... - Petr Buben

@Jennifer .. As a country, we have thousands of chances, and choices .. all have truth, peace, justice spelled in them ... insohenceforth, the possibilities and the future of America will are to be unlimited .. just like of any other democratic, peaceful country ... now lets face the facts ... and yes, bad empires do fall ..we have seen it before // other question might be, if official media wont touch 911, should techno geek websites do it ??.. who will break it to the open sunshine day light, officially ? - Petr Buben

9/11 was an inside job? Yea, right, and we all know steel doesn't melt, right ROSIE?? What ba bunch of clowns, ha, ha, ha! - Don Smith

Stay classy? Right. It's REALLY showing a lot of class when you can't make a point without dropping the "F" word ... really classy, Buchheit! - Don Smith

That was a quote from Reddit Don. - Paul Buchheit

Don: Also, see sarcasm. - Kevin Fox

I didn't know that Fox was now the "F" word. - Gabe

Sorry Paul, I should have credited your quote to Reddit! I apologize for that. - Don Smith

Leo, just curious ... why do you think Rush and Glen are "treasonous"? I like Rush, but Glen IS sorta "out there" sometimes. I stopped listening to and watching him quite a while ago. I don't, however, see how either could be considered treasonous. Just sayin' ... - Don Smith

WTF???? - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Don, I don't know if you're trolling... but, if my friends wants me to die so that our enemy cannot kill me, I think my friend clearly betrays me. - Jérôme Flipo

"They are not saying they want it to happen"? I quote Michael: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to detonate (...)". I'm not a native English speaker, but come on! Also, can you guys keep the discussion respectful? - Jérôme Flipo

Seems like Munchausen Syndrome. Sad. - Rick Cogley

I'm giving this thread the *facepalm* award for attribution errors, conspiracy theories, and trollish commentary. Not to mention the Fox "news" segment that festers beneath :) http://friendfeed.com/ffacepa... - Richard Walker *exculted*

I love how you all hate Fox New but never watch it. You are told to hate it so you do, but you will watch the piece of crap network MSNBC and CNN. - Ryan Ellerbe

Ryan: I love you you purport to know what I watch because you disagree with my views. - Kevin Fox

Fox News is an oxymoron. That is my story and I am sticking to it! - Martha

Related: How much of something do you have to watch before you can decide you hate it without being accused of letting other people make up your mind for you? - Kevin Fox

I thought we all agreed we were going to write it Fox News (R) - Matthew DeVries

so basically what this guy is wishing for is for 100's even thousands of american to be hurt and wounded just so he can say told you so, wow what an egotistical jerk - Kim Landwehr

Once again He was saying Osama would be stupid to do it right now. Our elected class is doing a good job destroying the USA and if he attacked us now we would be united as one. We would then stand up to the elected class and tell no more. Again I ask you to all crawl out of your holes and wake up. Its common sense people. - Ryan Ellerbe

Ryan: Why is Osama our only chance? Why can't the CIA do it like they did on 9/11? - Gabe

LOL the last time they attacked we galvanized around the idiots and gave them cart blanche, thus if they attacked again, it would solidify us around our leaders again. LOL I love people who observe data and conclude that if the same thing happened again, the exact opposite would happen. LOL LOL LOL LOL Do you forget the Patriot Act? Wireless Wiretapping? It's because we gave a bunch of dipshits a blank check cause we were skeered. - Matthew DeVries

HAHAHA under your logic, we would have impeached Bush and Cheney right after 9/11 - Matthew DeVries

WHHHAAAAAAAA???!!! That is sooo stoooopid I can't believe we have idiots like this in US ...augh!! - Susan Beebe

Jérôme: I never said I agreed or disagreed with Scheuer. The only things I've disagreed with are that Beck and Rush are "treasonous" talk show hosts and that 9/11 was an "inside job." The only other point I've even hinted at is that anyone who has to resort to profanity to make a point is just showing their own ignorance and immorality -- and the pattern here is that they all seem to be liberals. If we can't disagree without cursing and calling each other names, we're definitely in a world of hurt, folks! - Don Smith

So in order to defeat terrorists, one must welcome terrorism?? - Mo Kargas

More like, in order for everyone to like Republicans, one must welcome terrorism. - Robert Haas

Need to keep the fear machine well oiled. - Will Higgins™

Yeah we have a lot of idiots. Idiots who voted for Hope and Change from Obama. All we have so far is more and more debt and no change. Well we have change for the worse. - Ryan Ellerbe

I just do not understand how people can defend Fox News. I mean do you really like to be lied to? Do you really think that statement that the Fox News guests is appropriate? How do you defend that one? - PC Easy from twhirl

Ryan: What would Change look like to you? - Gabe

Mainstream media is ALL the same. A bunch of idiots trolling and egging on their competitors. As long as there is government, there will always be a created enemy to allow excessive force. Open your eyes people, there is only one political party in this country......Corporations/Banks. - Mike VanLare (slayerboy)

+Mike. They're all trolls. - Will Higgins™

And who knew, all this time the ANTS were taking over the world! Welcome to our new ANT overlords! - Richard Walker *exculted*

What I really liked was what came after that line. We're safe from OBL's attacks because he already thinks we're melting down just fine as we are, thank you very much. - Andrew Skretvedt

""I was just stunned. I asked, "You hope Americans die by the thousands so that you can prove to me that we need FISA-less searches of everyone???" He answered with a straight face, "Yes"" So why are some people still stone deaf to those who point out the clear evidence that Sept. 11th 2001 was a false flag attack? - Marg Uerite

Then you ask why the rest of the world thinks Americans are stupid. You keep the smart ones quiet and give airtime to idiots. That "person" should be sued for inciting to violence and betrayal to the country.That's what would happen if the guy was a Democrat... - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

Power makes people insane. Losing it does the same. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

Newsmax, a leading neoconservative propaganda outlet, has been seeding and cultivating the notion for several years now that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are going to detonate a nuclear weapon on American soil. Think about it. Newsmax has also been in the forefront in exploiting 9/11 to push forward the neoconservative agenda. Two words: watch out. - Sean McBride

This kind of thing gets me very worried. VERY. What is wrong with people? - Eric @ CS Techcast

where should we start eric lol - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Scary. - Mike Reynolds

This is like the dumbest thing I've ever heard. - Shawn Whitmire

Fox News - We Distort - We Decide! - ScottBourne

"We Distort. And Deride." "We Lie. You Comply." - Marg Uerite

We demolish skyscrapers. ..what the heck were we thinking? - Petr Buben from IM

Petr: you're saying Fox did 9/11? - Gabe

no, Im not ...we don't know who did it - The Biggest Story of The Century - .... we don't know who did it yet, but we know for fact that it was an explosives aided controlled demolition - Petr Buben

Petr, why explosives? I know that some explosives were detonated at/near the base. But I believe the speed of disintegration and the absence of a realistic remnant pile obviously imply something other than just explosives. - Marg Uerite

Anyone who thinks it was kerosene fuel (jet fuel) from a "commercial plane entered the building" on a top floor, really has to "look closer." As far a Michael Scheur, It's called "revelation of the method" You're being told straight to your face and if you don't get it, you're nothing but complicit. He was "chief of the [']bin Laden['] desk at the CIA he is a best-selling author, and... more... - Marg Uerite

"9/11" = Murderous Hoax, "War of the Worlds" = Hoax, "Project Northwoods" = Leaked Plans for Similar intelligence operation. Why people have no imagination for this? = "Big Lie" cf "Mein Kampf" - Marg Uerite

@ Marg ..it was a high tech high explosive nanothermite. per conclusive evidence. you can paint this stuff on the walls. it will bring down a building in a nice controlled demolition ... but maybe also something else, some other explosive ... but not nuclear weapon or fusion explosion .. there is no evidence of that ... http://ae911truth.org - http://911blogger.com ...... /funny, recently, vice pres Joe Biden was handed papers in Los Angeles with this evidence, and asked about controlled demolition - Petr Buben

Robert Scoble

TwitSnaps jumps into competitive Twitter photo sharing space - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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What the hell is wrong with the word Tweet? I'm running out of pre-printed legal letters. - Leo Laporte

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Twitpic should definitely implement this zoom feature! - Kris

Haha, so true! @leo - Sam Houston

Leo, ask Biz - http://blog.twitter.com/2009... - Mike White

♥ - meg colombo

Leo is the Twit master, don't you know. How about smile at the BirdySnap instead - Eran Even-Kesef

Or maybe use something original and more generic, like "social", or "stream", or "micro" - Jesse Stay

I can't wait for Trademark wars to ensue and when Leo and Iain from TweetDeck all go after Twitter for infringement of *their* trademarks :-) Then what will happen to all these "Twit" and "Tweet" apps when Twitter has to change their name? - Jesse Stay

Leo: I think a lot of these guys are going to run into trademark issues. If not with you, then Twitter itself. I'll say more in a post later today. - Robert Scoble

we can still say "twat". right? - Mike White

Robert, I think TweetDeck has a trademark claim as well - they were using "Tweet" before even Twitter - Jesse Stay

@Leo, you just can't catch a break... :-( - Joey Gibson

I'm surprised "twit" is defendable as a trademark in the context. IANAL. - David Aronchick

Oh, now I get it: Twitter's new business model is suing developers who are using twit or tweet in their apps. Great! - Kris

I don't want my stuff EVERYWHERE! I'm sticking with Flickr and Youtube. It seems to be working fine for me with my new iPhone. - Hummie

Domains are getting so hard to find... We use these words to help describe our new-fangled services, we need them! ;) Using tweet/twitter/etc lets a user know instantly that it's associated with Twitter, something that I think they need to know. - Colin

Colin, I think it's a mistake to just limit your app to Twitter - leave room to expand in the future. Just my $.02... - Jesse Stay

I think there are advantages and disadvantages to focusing on a service, and focusing on connectivity between many services. - Colin

i think flickr is a killer for them, but http://twitvid.com is great for videos - Gaith

Gaith: Twitvid ripped off twitio, which is why I didn't include them in the list. - Robert Scoble

How so Scoble? - Colin

Colin: the founders of Twitvid.io explained to me personally how Twitvid.com ripped off their design, their idea, and is run by a venture backed group of five people. I hate it when that happens. - Robert Scoble

Lots more on the rip off here: http://www.google.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Hmph, sucks I guess - Colin

Colin, advantage or not, you've still got Trademark to deal with (Twitter, TweetDeck, TWiT.tv, etc. all have a responsibility to defend their trademarks, and WILL fight it in court if they're to maintain those trademarks). Not only that, but you risk Twitter themselves changing their name if they get bought by another company, or completely going under. To me naming your company after Twitter (which is what you're doing) is a HUGE risk. - Jesse Stay

Life can be risky sometimes I guess, I accept it. I enjoy developing on Apple's iPhone, and on Twitter. - Colin

Afternoon all, so who are we suing? - Iain Dodsworth

Colin: it's a stupid strategy to use someone else's trademark knowingly. If you get sued the legal bills to SUCCESSFULLY defend it could put you in bankruptcy. And if you are unsuccessful it gets far worse. Pick an original name. It's not THAT hard. - Robert Scoble

Iain: I wanna meet up next week in London. Wanna get together? (Iain is founder of TweetDeck). Love the iPhone app! - Robert Scoble

Robert: bugger...that's some amazing timing - I was hoping to catch up with you, I'll be in SF all week. Glad you like the iPhone app, lots of room for improvement but it's only v1.0 and gives an indication what we're up to :) - Iain Dodsworth

I don't understand how this is an issue. TWiT, Twitter, tweet, etc... Perhaps I'm missing something. - Jason Hansen

I want my users to know that my applications are for Twitter, that's almost the first thing I want them to know when they read the title. - Colin

Robert: also sorry to have missed you in NY the other week, things were crazy with 2 product launches - Iain Dodsworth

Iain: grrr. When do you get here? - Robert Scoble

try videotweet.com - Bala Menon from IM

Iain how long are you in New York for? - Jesse Stay

Robert: plane lands in SF Tuesday 9pm - Iain Dodsworth

Iain: can we meet Sunday? in London? - Robert Scoble

Hey Jesse, I was in NY for the 140conf now back in London - Iain Dodsworth

Robert: Sunday in London would be somewhat difficult (it's my birthday and have some things going on at home) - BUT I'll be spending the summer in the valley so we can definitely get together then (a few weeks time) - Iain Dodsworth

Iain if you end up in the New England area (New York, Boston, etc) I'll be there for a whole month starting in a week. Would love to catch up some time. - Jesse Stay

Iain: OK, let's get together when you're in the valley. - Robert Scoble

Robert: good - I'll let you know when I'm there...apologies if this is cheeky - but is there a particularly good place to base myself whilst there...Menlo Park, Redwood City, Palo Alto ??? - Iain Dodsworth

Jesse: sounds good - if I get over to the east coast I'll definitely let you know, would be good to meet up - Iain Dodsworth

Iain: Twitter is in San Francisco. Facebook is in Palo Alto. FriendFeed is in Mountain View. So, depends where you want to spend most of your time and what you can afford to rent. If funds are unlimited, I'd say San Francisco. More to do at night there. - Robert Scoble

BTW, Facebook explicitly states in their developer terms no app is to include the name "Face" in its name. You'll be banned from their platform if you're caught. I expect Twitter eventually to do the same (although they are very slow at such moves!) - Jesse Stay

Give them HELL Leo. - Gunny The Fuzzball ™

I like MobyPicture :) - simone brunozzi

Shouldn't Leo's world be more like T.W.I.T.? Like T.W.I.B. for This Week In Baseball. I'm just saying... - Tony Vota from iPod

Scobleizer, welcome back to FriendFeed, and you're wrong about there being too many photo sharing services: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... :-) - Bruce Lewis

@LeoLaporte Didn't you start Twitter anyway? I thought TWIT and Twitter were one in the same lol - Justin DeMerchant

Leo Laporte

@birdfeedapp I wish Birdfeed would remember me. It's a pain to have to login each time I use it. Guess it's back to Tweetie.

June 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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You really don't clear your cookies that often? - coldbrew

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What do you mean Birdfeed doesn't remember you? You're Leo Laporte dammit! - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

It makes you login on the iPhone each time? Annoying. - Drew Lucas from iPhone

Yes, Drew, it makes him login to the iPhone each time. I know it can be annoying. - tabbr

$4.99 and it won't autologin? I much prefer Tweetie now. - Ryan

Apparently it's a known bug for people with mixed case names - leolaporte works, but not LeoLaporte. I have to change the capitalization on Twitter. - Leo Laporte

I assume this will be fixed soon?? - Mike Beato

Alex Scoble

If I ever say "discuss here" or "here's why" in a friendfeed title after this one and it's not in jest, please shoot me.

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Your weapon of choice? - Todd Hoff

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Can we add "Talk among yourselves"? - Brian Sullivan

Compensated accurized match .45 combat shooting pistol. - Alex Scoble

"Talk amongst yourselves" is kind of funny though, Brian because of Mike Myers' Linda Richman SNL skits. - Alex Scoble

I'm fascinated by all the customs of this site sometimes - such as these. - Bill Kinney

Yes -- it would help if I got the quote right. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

They aren't customs, Bill...they are cliches...bad ones. - Alex Scoble

*shoot - Shevonne

Alex -- is this a Robert put down?-- sure has that feeling. - Brian Sullivan

And this is why I love you ever so much more than I love your brother. :-) - Ladybug Heather

I prefer: "Stop, Hammer Time." - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Hehe, you can see it as that, but it's becoming more pervasive as people copy that style of posting. Asking people to "discuss here" is redundant on friendfeed. And I'm not a fan of posts where someone says here's why and then starts numbering reasons. It's all just badly overdone at this point. - Alex Scoble

Sorry Alex, I'm not sure what you mean by overdone. Could you make a list of reasons as to why you think it's overdone? Please number them so I know what order they're supposed to be in. ;-) - Jordan Hofker

they seem to work though, which is why people use them. - Bill Kinney

I've done it, and it was appropriate when I did. I even paid hommage saying I was breaking it down "Scoble style". I guess I'll have to specify which of the Brothers Scoble next time I do it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Heh, Tina, you kill me. - Alex Scoble

Luckily for you, I choose knives over guns so I can't shoot you as you requested ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Wasn't that the point? :-) - Sir Slippy of Slippington

I do it because the post here cross posts elsewhere with a following link. For those people on Twitter, say, the discuss here... followed by a link explains that the discussion is elsewhere. I suspect that's why Robert does that, as well. - Leo Laporte

Leo make sense there. Thing is, since Paul et al stripped out the service icons, that situation isn't obvious now to the beholder "Oh, it's a Twitter post crossing to FF". Maybe they should put service icons showing what service sent the feed, wouldn't that be a great feature? - Matthew DeVries

Wow...I got a comment from Leo Laporte! This is not sarcasm. - Alex Scoble from IM

Matthew, you know you can get the service icons back using Greasemonkey, right? - Rochelle

I've Leo has been spending a lot of time in people threads in the last week or so since he went to China. Seems he really is taking a vacation, able to spend some time just smelling the eRoses. - Matthew DeVries

LOL!:) - Thomas Bøhm

I know Rochelle, and I do, but I have this dream of moving over to Chrome. I like that brower a lot, but to do it I have deal with unreadable version of friendfeed, no AJ layout, no service icons. It's like I'm staring a wall of hieroglyphics. - Matthew DeVries

Yeah, I'd die without AJ and Micah. - Rochelle

Star Trek has Matter/Anti-Matter. Friendfeed has Scoble/Anti-Scoble. - Josh Haley

hahahhahaah!! - Susan Beebe

BEST.POST.EVAR - Lindsey is Fierce!

I'd prefer you use: "Marinate on this..." - .LAG liked that

Ooh...I am so using that...I could make it my shtick! - Alex Scoble from IM

...yeah!!! playa, playa! .LOLz - .LAG liked that

please let me know if there are any other reasons for me to shoot you. kthxbye. - Jim:Rockin the Helvetica

BRILLIANT. absolutely brilliant. - Zee. from iPhone

bunneh? - Joel Robert Perez

Leo's not on vacation. Yet. Soon tho - Chris Heath from iPhone

"Please discuss:" would be better than anything. Rah came up with a good comment on this a while back but I can't remember what is was. - Kol Tregaskes

No! you must live in shame, death is the easy way out. - John D Reasor

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Adobe shuts down for a week - San Jose Mercury News - https://secure.passport.mngint...

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Adobe Systems has shut its North American operations for the week as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year. The San Jose software company, which makes editing, graphic design and Web development tools, said the shutdowns are part of a larger effort to control costs in the face of a global recession. Adobe's sales have declined for the last two quarters, although it still reported $126.1 million in profit on $704.7 million in revenue for the quarter that ended May 29. - Leo Laporte

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If they charged less for the product they would sell more and their overall profit numbers would increase. I don't believe their margins on Photoshop are so slim that they couldn't do that. It's just a shiny disc in a fancy box after all. If they made it download only their distribution costs plummet. Development costs are acknowledged but amortized over a versions typical 2 year lifespan, given increased sales can that be a problem? Just a thought. - Gilbert Harding

Here's a view from someone inside Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack... - Russ

As it was pointed out on the Adobe blog, it has been the company practice for the last 9 years at least. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack... - Roland Hesz

Hah, @Russ beat me by a few seconds :D - Roland Hesz

Shouldn't be doing software development in the west anyway. Can do the same engineering in China and India for far less coin. - Richard Ford

Gilbert-that 'shiny disc in a fancy box' is plain wrong. Have you ever developed any kind of software? The amount of effort that goes into software can be tremendous. Do you really believe that a product like CS3 or CS4 is just a 'shiny disc in a fancy box'? Having said that, I do agree with your basic premise: they do over charge for most of their products. However, most of the product is aimed at business and not individuals. - George Gray

So according to Gilbert, photographers are overcharging for their photos. After all, they can be downloaded digitally from the web and after all, it is just a piece of shiny paper in the end. For what Adobe products do in helping a professional photographer do his/her job, the cost is fair relative to the VALUE provided. I have experimented with the "lower the price and more will buy" idea. It doesn't work. Charge what your product is worth. - Mike Price

If there making business like a lot of company in Silicon Valley, the salary is very high because it cost a lot of money staying there. Janitor makes at least 100 000$, joking. Development probably cost a lot of money. To make a complicated software that goes out with a few bugs, do cost a lot. - Robert Martin

Many Silicon Valley companies selected this week to take off much earlier in the year, if not last year. NetApp, AutoDesk and Adobe are just three of the most visible. I wrote about it yesterday morning. - Louis Gray

George and Mike. You can only charge what the market can stand, and I fully appreciate the amount of work involved in developing the applications. I never suggested Photographers overcharge for their work. You get what the client is prepared to pay. Where software is concerned Adobe could shift a lot more boxes if they reduced the price. - Gilbert Harding

Matthew DeVries

Is 33 too late?

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Maybe it's like Piano or Latin - once you're through your teens, you have no chance of being good. - Matthew DeVries

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Well you have a brilliant strategy, just make sure only your opponent drinks, and after a game or two you'll be golden. - James Fuller

And if you happen to still be losing why not pick up the bottle yourself. - James Fuller

You can win a lot of games by being more thorough, and more patient than the other guy. I once had a guy get up and go buy a big-gulp during a tournament. And when he returned, I still hadn't made my move. It drove him crazy! Patience can be the biggest advantage for an older player. - Ken Morley

Left hand or right hand? - Matthew DeVries

Not too late at all. Though be warned - if you get into, you're gonna get into it BIG. As a beginner let me recommend the Winning Chess book series, Logical Chess Move by Move, and 1001 brilliant ways to checkmate (in that order). - Zach Landes

I know it's a cliche, but i'm a firm believer in it never being too late for anything. - Violet Mae Lim

Never too late. Chess is an amazing game and well worth learning. You'll never master it but you can have lots of pleasure improving your game and playing. Highly recommended: Lev Alburt's Chess Training, http://www.amazon.com/Chess-T..., - Leo Laporte

wait its really too late for me to get good at the piano? don't tell me that. - Frankie Warren

screw chess. 33? 15 is too late. learn backgammon, it's 90% skill, but you can blame the dice. unfortunately, civil war backgammon sets are as hard to find as the franklin mint star trek backgammon sets. - Mark Hartwell

if you mean learn chess by doing it first & *then* reading the book, it might be too late -unless the book has useful info that you didn't pick up while learning it. on the other hand, if you read the dummies book first, then it might not be too late to pick it up. if there's a set deadline for you to know it, then it may be relative to that factor. if you meant get drunk on whiskey... more... - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

@Leo - I Love the cover of that Lev Alburt book! "Become a Chess Grandmaster and Get The LADIES!" - Zach Landes

My husband hopes not, since I am 32 and he's yet to convince me to learn... - Mellissa Doyle

You'll never beat Blue/Gene but you can still have fun, and maybe teach your kids one day. - Will Higgins™

I think it's never too late, of course it might require more effort and discipline but if one wants to do something age should never be a limit (Although I doubt you will be able to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics or something like that, it' definitely too late for that I'm afraid).The important thing is to enjoy something more than being good at it. That might come later anyway. - M F

I am guessing chess follows the Gladwell 10000 hours requirement like many other skills. - Brian Sullivan

It's possible to have developed the thinking skills necessary for chess in other ways (delicate maneuvering such as in politics might help, for example). But if not, then yeah hopes of being a master are slim. Your chances for being able to win games against average folks, however, are excellent. So depends on your goal. - Lo

Takes up to much time to be great.I like be able to play an occasional "freelance"game against unsuspecting opposition,meaning just because I don't keep a chess set on display doesn't mean I didn't play thousands of game when I was a teen.I especially like to beat people with college degrees because they sometimes think the degree will help them beat me lol. - Steve

Ok, What University offers degrees in Chess? - Matthew DeVries

I used to be in the USCF and played in tournaments. I had learned how to play Chess as a teenager but didn't really get into it until maybe 15 years ago or so. But then I discovered Go and never looked back. As for Chess, I can't recommend any books by Silman and Seirawan enough. Especially 'An Amateur's Mind' (Silman) and 'Play Winning Chess' (Seirawan). - Akiva Moskovitz

Leo Laporte

AC is OK - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

June 27 from YouTube - Comment - Like - Share

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Aww, you won't show us the alarm code? ;-) On a more serious note, did you shoot that with your Flip? - Darren Landrum

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This should make recording a little more comfortable. - Rhys Amos

D'oh! I forgot about the 3GS. - Darren Landrum

Yeah it's my first 3GS movie - I was testing it and the YouTube upload for my trip to China. - Leo Laporte

China...Uploading videos....Good Luck?? - Giraffes Up in The Air

Leo can make any subject interesting. You would usually draw the line at inspect the Air Con! but no, not Leo. Might just do one my self. Watch out for a Posting soon! - Kevin Hatton

Neat. Looks like the AC install really couldn't have been timed any better given the heat wave this weekend. BTW, I wonder what % of video uploaded to YouTube these days is oriented vertically like this. I have to say it sorta makes me feel claustrophobic. - Ken Sheppardson

Yeah I really wasn't thinking when I was shooting. I'm not sure what happens to video if I shoot sideways but I'll try that today. - Leo Laporte

Looking good looking good! What temperature is it in there now with the AC on? Also great 3GS video! - Dakota

Leo, you may want to make sure you have vpn or ssh proxy as youtube was blocked for me in China(shandong province) a couple of weeks ago. - glen farrell

My response: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Kevin Hatton

I think y'all might have missed the first part of the story: for the past year (at least) the fact that the studio gets up to 80+ degrees has been an ongoing discussion topic on TWiT shows. The A/C was just installed in the last week or so, so... it gets a 2 minute video :-) - Ken Sheppardson

lets talk about Leo's carbon footprint...... - John Hillestad

ac is good...100 in so call today also....great studio - Spencer Pendergrass

Is it a flip or the new iphone 3gs - min

It is the iPhone 3G S, and I love your life Leo! - Zachary TG

Just in time for Global Warming too! :-) - Richard Bitting

Leo Laporte

Steve Jobs Apparently Returns To Work - CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...

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Jobs was seen at the Cupertino, Calif., headquarters by a Reuters reporter and by employees, who confirmed seeing Jobs to CNBC. Of course, there is no way to know whether Jobs started working again or merely stopped by the campus before his scheduled return next week. Over the weekend, speculation on Jobs' health escalated as a Wall Street Journal report surfaced of a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago. Apple continued its normal terse response on his health, telling the Journal that Jobs "continues to look forward to returning at the end of June, and there's nothing further to say." - Leo Laporte

This is a 5 day old story... So much for real time ;) - Mark

Note that it's a delicious bookmark - you'll often see me bookmarking stories from earlier in the week on delicious for use on TWiT or the radio show. - Leo Laporte

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Rumor: Windows 7 to be sold on USB drives - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/microso...

June 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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CNET quotes an undisclosed source in its speculative report: "Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines." Microsoft confirmed in February that all editions of Windows 7 would run on netbooks but never disclosed how those who already own the low-end computers could get the operating system on their system. The currently only known solution, downloading a copy and putting the installation on a USB drive, isn't a process many netbook users would be happy to do. If the USB drive option is skipped, most will likely have a friend or a tech support guy get the job done for them. - Leo Laporte

I wonder if Microsoft will provide a simple utility to copy the windows 7 install DVD to a thumb drive. I installed the RC on my netbook using DISKPART to format a thumb drive and copy the DVD to the thumb drive, etc, but as you say Leo, that's a bit geeky for the average user. Of course, if your only computer is a netbook, having a utility from Microsoft won't be of much help. - Michael

It surprised me, actually, how complicated it was to get a boot sector onto a flash drive compared to burning the windows 7 beta onto a disk. You would think someone would have written a simpler utility for that by now, but I guess you really don't need that many bootable flash drives. - Craig B.

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iPhone Bob leaves Apple to pursue venture capital investing - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/apple...

June 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Bob Borchers, who most recently served as senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone at Apple, has left to company to join the world of venture capital. Borchers has joined Opus Capital as a general partner, telling the Wall Street Journal he just couldn't pass on the opportunity. - Leo Laporte

What a boring job. Why would you leave such a creative company to go work at some suit-and-tie snore fest? - Mark

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Advertising - The Online Ad That Knows Where Your Friends Shop - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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“Instead of understanding all these things about people, you could understand who was connected to who,” said Eric Wheeler, the chief executive of 33Across. “The reality is, those people are very similar not only in socioeconomic terms, but in terms of what they click and buy, so it’s very valuable.” It may be valuable for advertisers, but for publishers, it is not great news — tactics like this mean that advertisers can assemble promising audiences while bypassing expensive sites like, say, CNN.com or ESPN.com. And privacy advocates are complaining about online tracking, a subject Congress is examining. - Leo Laporte

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Such advertising model has great implications, especially in areas like travel or entertainment. Seeing ads for products or services that my friends like and post about makes a lot of sense. - Nikolai Balba

Yes, to Leo's point --- "bypassing expensive [i read inefficient] sites" is a very good model for brands AND the consumers best served by better targeting. That's a pretty sweet combo. - Thom Kennon

I would buy Geico insurance if they promised me I would never have to see or hear another Geico commercial ever again. - Oliver Chesler

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My Way News - Microsoft says Vista buyers to get free Windows 7 - http://apnews.myway.com/article...

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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) (MSFT) said Thursday that prices for the Windows 7 computer operating system are largely in line with those for Vista, and that consumers who buy PCs before the new system goes on sale in October will get free upgrades. To drum up demand among people who aren't in the market for a new PC, Microsoft also said it is taking limited pre-orders for Windows 7, selling some for as little as $50. - Leo Laporte

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I can't ever remember Microsoft charging so little for a new version of windows. Granted it's an upgrade but still $50 (or $64 here in Canada till the 11th) is a deal I probably won't pass up. - The Tech Canuck

They should even consider giving stock options for Vista users. - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu

I already bought two Home Premium upgrades from Amazon. Free two-day Prime shipping FTW. - David Chartier

Yeah but the jump from XP to Vista was bigger than Vista to 7 so the price should be lower considerably. Bah. - Mark

One measure of a monopoly is pricing power: a monopolist can set prices far higher than the market would normally bear. Microsoft appears to no longer have that kind of pricing power. Netbooks and other low cost PCs were burdened with a windows license that was 30% of the entire cost of the PC, and Microsoft was forced to relent. Microsoft is no longer a software monopoly. - DGentry

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My Way News - Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back' - http://apnews.myway.com/article...

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Bartz didn't mince words when two shareholders wondered why Yahoo isn't doing more to protect human rights and free speech in China, where the company has previously faced harsh criticism for turning over e-mails that help convict government critics. "Yahoo was not incorporated to fix China," Bartz said. Most of the time, though, Bartz spiced her remarks with predictions of better times at Yahoo. Yahoo will "get our mojo back in the marketplace," Bartz pledged. "We are working really hard on that." - Leo Laporte

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Michael Jackson Tops the Charts on Twitter - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

June 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, tweeted that Mr. Jackson was a more popular topic on Twitter than the Iranian election or the recent flu outbreak ever were. “My twitter search script sees roughly 15% of all posts on Twitter mentioning Michael Jackson,” wrote Mr. Zuckerman. “Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5%.” - Leo Laporte

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Status Update On Facebook Movie - CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...

June 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

David Fincher is in "advanced talks" to direct the Columbia Pictures movie about the origins of Facebook, according to Variety. The movie, based on Ben Mezrich's upcoming "The Accidental Billionaires," was written by "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin. It's being produced, Variety reported Tuesday, by Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca along with Dana Brunetti and actor Kevin Spacey. Variety said the movie is called "The Social Network." We hear this is a very preliminary working title. (It, obviously, could also be called "Accidental Billionaires.") - Leo Laporte

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My Way News - ICANN hires former cybersecurity chief as new CEO - http://apnews.myway.com/article...

June 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved his hiring in a voice vote Friday as ICANN capped weeklong meetings in Sydney, Australia. Beckstrom becomes CEO next Wednesday. - Leo Laporte

Simon Wicks

Not really sure what to make of Mc Donalds new OAP discount ads..

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Hahahaha, Amazing. Milk was a bad choice.... - Giraffes Up in The Air

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OAP = Old Age Pensioners - Leo Laporte

Do I understand that right, the billboard is for sagging breasts? - Matthew DeVries

I know what it means Leo, just think its a bit weird for them to use a pair of saggy boobs to get that across :) - Simon Wicks

Yeah, surely something isnt right there eh? - Giraffes Up in The Air

It could be your interpretation of the ad, that might not be correct. *EDIT* Either way, it is a marketing failure - Wizetux

Boobies! - BEX

Can we call this a signage fail? - Benjamin Smith

Here's where i found it - http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2009... Clearly a Photoshop jobby anyway :) Something to do with the Chip Shop awards, never heard of them before: http://www.chipshopawards.com/ - Simon Wicks

on the one hand, boobies...on the other hand, creepy Burger King style FAIL. - Dead Silence

Sad old tits - Lisa Hopkins

Milk is healthy contrary to popular belief against drinking the stuff - guess where it comes from? - Geer

Fake. http://www.chipshopawards.com/nominat... "The Chip Shop Awards is there to recognise that the best ideas don't always fall within the rules. This is a worldwide advertising and design competition that has no rules.... The CSA is all about ideas. Your work does not have to have been broadcast, printed or mailed. You do not even have to have the client. You just have to have a great idea. " - Joel Bennett

I believed it for a moment. After all, MacDonalds and bad taste just go together. - Ben Aldhouse

I beleived it for a moment too, posted it, then realised it was fake.. Shame on me. - Simon Wicks

Don't get me wrong, it's still funny. In fact, a lot of those on the Nominations page are... - Joel Bennett

McDonalds cold be assuming old people have a sense of humour about themselves. I doubt it though. - David Buglass

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I'm going purple to protest the injustice. http://digg.com/celebri...

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i've gone red avatar on twitter. it contrasts the green & makes it more like the holidays. heh - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

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I'm thinking maybe a red ribbon in the corner of my pic :) - Thomas

Murphy-Goode went bad. @agoodjob ? No. - Robert Scoble

Seriously? - Jason Nunnelley

Jason: seriously: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Wow, you're all so sensitive to world events. Are you all oblivious to the events in Iran or do you just not care? - Kevin Arth

We all like Martin at the TWiT Army to be honest. We are not happy at all about this. - Mark

Kevin: screw off. - Robert Scoble

Oh Kevin fuck off - Mark

Kevin: I've been covering the events in Iran from the beginning. You are a real jerk for trying to bring that up in this conversation. - Robert Scoble

by that logic one would never discuss anything but the bad news in the world - Mark

Kevin: that got you very close to a block. You want to go further? - Robert Scoble

We are able to multi-task Kevin - Bill Heslin

I love how Kevins theory is that we must at all times endlessly discuss shit things going on in this messed up world. The moment we go off-topic: BOOM! - Mark

Hmmm... Martin's cool and all, and Murphy-Goode screwed up bad, but doesn't going the color avatar route for something like this kind of cheapen the token for something more weighty - like people being killed on Iran or Peru or whereever? - Michael Turro

You're comparing the snubbing of Martin Sargent to the treatment of protesters in Iran?!? You're JUST like a Republican! - Wendell Wittler

Wendell: give me a break. We are now using colors to protest anything, not just Iran. - Robert Scoble

http://kevinarth.posterous.com/ Kevin's Website xx - Mark

And if Mark Teixeira is not the starting 1b for the AL in the All-Star game I'm going to go with Yankee blue... - Michael Turro

Michael, since when does having a colored avatar have to represent people being killed? It doesn't make the green avatars any less effective or meaningful - Alan Hoskins

Actually it can have exactly that effect - Michael Turro

Perfect opportunity for @garyvee... - Brian Hill

Brian: yeah, isn't it? - Robert Scoble

Seriously, the Martin Sargent kerfuffle is more like how Farrah Fawcett got ignored after Michael Jackson died. - Wendell Wittler

Hey Robert - Brian Hill

Oh god PLEASE NOT HIM! I have a headache as it is ;) - Mark

@dahowlett just unfollowed. - Mark

Mark: I'd engage with him, but it's not worth the time either. - Robert Scoble

The reason the green works is because it is identifiable, singular, easy to see. If we all start using colors for anything we find offensive we're going to need a play book to know what color corresponds to which injustice. After a while the gesture empties of any significance. - Michael Turro

Scoble, what color to protest Adam Savage's phone bill? - Wendell Wittler

Wendell: I don't even know who that is. So Orange. :-) - Robert Scoble

The winery motto is: "We take our wines seriously. Ourselves.... not so much." Doesn't that sound like Martin? - Chris Pugh

Adam Savage is the Mythbuster's guy with the $11,000 AT&T bill - Alan Hoskins

Adam Savage is the guy on MythBusters. And Wendell, AT&T fixed that issue about two hours ago. - Wizetux

Okay, then, what color for Michelle Bachmann's crazy Census protest? Or to protest crazy Michelle Bachmann? - Wendell Wittler

Wendell: start a wiki. - Robert Scoble

You chaps talk a spiffing amount of nonsense sometimes xx - Mark

Sometimes? - Robert Scoble

Nonsense is the whole reason I follow these conversations in the first place! - Benjamin Smith

Why do I feel like "start a wiki" is a euphemism for something unpleasant? Or should be? - Wendell Wittler

What color can I use to protest the fact that AT&T hasn't shipped my 3GS yet? - Michael Turro

It could be a dysphemism for something wonderful. - Mark

Wendell: start a wiki. You keep asking questions that need to be answered on a wiki. Sort of like a hashtag list. That's a wiki too. - Robert Scoble

I can confirm Twitter is buying Friendfeed for £299.10 - Mark

Subscribing to Mark because he knows what "dysphemism" means. :) - Christopher Carr

haha - Mark

Mark has a private feed...Isn't that a No No? lol... - Bill Heslin

I am afraid I am the worst Friendfeeder in the world so don't subscribe to me. - Mark

Didn't somebody already do a wiki for all the different colored ribbons? Should append onto that. - Wendell Wittler

Not subscribing to Mark because, as regards Friendfeed, he's not doing it right. ;) - Christopher Carr

Christopher: yeah, but it isn't cacophemism like dahowlett practices. - Robert Scoble

cacophemism, thats a new one for me - Mark

Makes me wanna sub even more Mark :) And Christopher...LMFAO - Bill Heslin

Mark: it's on the wikipedia entry for dysphemism. :-) - Robert Scoble

A word or expression that is generally perceived as harsh, impolite, or offensive. Similar to dysphemism. Contrast with euphemism. Adjective: cacophemistic. - Mark

I had to look those words up. They are above my pay grade. - Robert Scoble

*fist bump* for the vocabulary Mark - Bill Heslin

Robert: - you just looked at the wikipedia entry for dysphemism, didn' you? - Michael Turro

The way I was tought about the two was like this: a eup is "The knife entered him and his life force dripped away. dys: "The knife entered him and he slowly bled to death in angonising pain" - Mark

one implicit one explicit i guess - Mark

Michael: I did! Took me back to my childhood when my mom made me look up words I didn't know in the dictionary. Me? I stick them into Google and the wikipedia entry came up. - Robert Scoble

I just don't want to use up all the good colors right away; then if North Korea nukes South Korea, in order to protest that we'll have to use some awful color like Fuchsia that nobody can even spell (I had to look it up). - Wendell Wittler

I ask Bill Hill if I need help with tricky words http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/ - Mark

Mark: Bill Hill is too smart for me. Again, above my pay grade. - Robert Scoble

We are all homosapien version 1.0 after all. - Mark

I know... because I did the exact same thing and read the exact same words at probably (almost) the same exact time - real time, dig it - Michael Turro

I's got a wittle scared when I saw Bill H come up...Whew...not me......it was Bill Hill...lol - Bill Heslin

Mark: actually I'm 1.03. :-) - Robert Scoble

words are cool - Michael Turro

I'm just glad I stuck around for all the -phemisms. - Wendell Wittler

Yes Bill Heslin, the cleverer, sexier Bill ;) Bill Hill. Microsoft man of many years - Mark

Mark: laid off by Microsoft recently. Sad. - Robert Scoble

Bill Hill: the man who introduced me to Scoble on Channel9 - Mark

Ummmm...maybe cleverer...but not sexier...:) - Bill Heslin

Yeah I know Rob :( - Mark

Mark: Bill HIll was my first interview on Channel 9. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, 1.03 had some bugs that were fixed in 1.03.1 - Wendell Wittler

Who ever watched Scoble and Bill on video crawling about all over MS campus talking about everything under the sun? - Mark

Stonkingly good video that - Mark

I must find a link for it right now - Mark

Wendell: Maryam and I are in development on 1.05. - Robert Scoble

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts... From 2005 - Mark

I think in the end I'll go with what can pretty much encompass everything I could possibly protest. All white. - Thomas

Kk...back to my main stream....I don't have multiple monitors like most of ya'll...but that makes it more fun... - Bill Heslin

R.S.: I've heard about your beta testing... - Wendell Wittler

This is a comment Robert made in 2005 when asked about video quantity while working at Channel9: "There's a ton of stuff still to come. I can only post six vids a day." - Mark

Six videos a day! Insanity! - Mark

Mark: those are the good old days! :-) - Robert Scoble

I remember when you got that video with the IE team and they were all super pleased they were bringing RSS To IE7. They Had "IE7 Loves RSS" tee shirts on. - Mark

Another favourite was when you interviewed Larry Osterman about pranks at MS. - Mark

Folks if you haven't been following Rob for more than a few years you should check out some of his stuff at channel 9. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts... - Mark

...catching up on Bill Hill... joined Microsoft running its Typography group in 1994... way too late to blame him for Arial... good for him... but why couldn't he kill Comic Sans? - Wendell Wittler

his team invented Cleartype Wendell, We all take that for granted these days - Mark

I miss Osterman. By the way, on Channel 9 they just announced they are making changes to come. http://channel9.msdn.com sounds like good stuff to come. - Robert Scoble

he is a very special guy, dont know what bone head manager decided to sack him - Mark

that video on channel9 announcing changes reminded me of the first video ever on channel9 when you all discussed why it was going to be a bit special - Mark

Mark: yeah, even if they didn't need his skills anymore they should have made him into a public spokesperson for Microsoft. Sad that they couldn't see some other way to use him. - Robert Scoble

Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human. - Mark

I, for one, do NOT take ClearType for granted. When I got my last recon'd laptop (I live on old ThinkPads), it didn't have it switched on. My eyes! My eyes! The goggles did nothing but the ClearType made it all better. - Wendell Wittler

ClearType <3 - Mark

I've been told health care already has purple. I think yellow is still available. - Leo Laporte

I'll stick with my catch-all color... - Thomas

Who remembers the color wars from last year? - Jesse Stay

JEEZUS!!!! signal-to-noise ratio here is zeeeeero (at least during the beginning of this thread, which is what counts, right, Leo?) - Jason Miller

Leo, at least give Martin a color he can do schtick with, like Burnt Umber... because he got Burnt, right? - Wendell Wittler

I've gone purple on my twitter now. I'll have to wait and see who asks about it. - Tom Silk

@leolaporte - injustice indeed!!!! I'd go purple, but my GIMP is limp. - Jason Miller

105 comments because Leo colored is avatar purple wow. - Kim Landwehr

That's show business Kim. - Mark

Wow, this thread went on a while. But, did anyone start a Wiki? - Jason Nunnelley

Seriously, needs a Wikipedia page. I know you guys were razzing, but it's not a bad idea. "protest avatar" sounds more descriptive than "colored avatar." And, colored and coloured, there's a English to English translation issue with one of those. - Jason Nunnelley

I made this during TWiF... http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Andrew Johnson

I'm familiar with the "caco-" morpheme. I added the "-" because, as far as I can tell, the morpheme is bound in modern English. - Christopher Carr

What was the first protest avatar? - Jason Nunnelley

found out murphy goode has 2 twitter accounts -one w/ an e & one w/o: @areallygoodjob & @areallygoodejob - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

I'm looking up avatar protests for the Wikipedia page. Got any links? - Jason Nunnelley

this is interesting, just found out about this whole deal.. watching the beginning of TWIF now - anthony kam

I see Leo's changed his avatar to something new - not purple. - Jason Nunnelley

Murphy who? - angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)

It was purple last night. I don't think he was being totally serious when he made the post anyways. - Chris Heath

Man I feel like going out buying some Wine for some reason. - John D Reasor

l0ckergn0me

Pictures of Boobies - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

June 26 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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The blue footed booby is my favorite. - Leo Laporte

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I love blue-footed boobies. - l0ckergn0me

totally agree! blue footed boobies are awesome. Hoping to go to the Galapagos in a few years to see them!! - Rachel Lea Fox

water must be cold there with blue feet like that! - Geer

These are really good ones - Seckoa

Chris, are you going to post some "Pictures of Tits" next? - Stephen Mack

LOL! - Chuck Drake

I wish I had Boobies like that ! - hollyseven

Leo Laporte

Amazon Calls NC Lawmakers Bluff, Cancels Affiliate Program Early - http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009...

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We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account has been closed as of June 26, 2009. This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor. As a result, we will no longer pay any referral fees for customers referred to Amazon.com or Endless.com after June 26. We were forced to take this unfortunate action in anticipation of actual enactment because of uncertainties surrounding the legislation’s effective date. - Leo Laporte

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Interesting development. - Micah Wittman

That'll show 'em. - Josh Haley

They should have done this in New York too, when NY was considering similar legislation. - Andy Bakun

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Loyal ‘Simpsons’ Fans Fetch Higher Ad Rates on Web (Update1) - Bloomberg.com - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...

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Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV. The premium rates in the just-ended 2008-2009 television season are mainly for shows that rank among the most-watched by Nielsen Co., said David Poltrack, chief research officer at New York-based CBS Corp., which is home to “CSI” and owns TV.com. Marketers, who are now considering commitments for the 2009-2010 TV season, are willing to pay more because TV.com and Hulu.com, owned by investors including News Corp., NBC and Walt Disney Co., provide committed viewers who actively seek out shows. There are fewer commercials, and consumers are twice as likely to recall Web ads, Poltrack said, citing Nielsen. - Leo Laporte

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good excuse to put your rates up Leo LOL (: - Geer

I wish Hulu and the likes would open up so that we overseas viewers could watch without using a VPN. The TV networks in Australia are squeezing the last few drops out of the old TV model. - Matt G

Matt: Not so in NZ, both TVNZ and TV3 have all their shows, news and content online for free - you can watch shows anytime anywhere - Geer

Geer: Half your luck mate. I should say that the ABC here has put all of their content online, its just the commercial networks that are stuck in the dark ages. - Matt G

@leolaporte Yeah Leo, wont you put a rocket up (towards) Hulu about not allowing access to their content if you are outside US of A, thanks from down under ): - Geer

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TidBITS iPod & iPhone: Why AT&T Has a Lock on the iPhone - http://db.tidbits.com/article...

June 26 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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The foremost bar is that AT&T uses the GSM cellular standard, over which the vast majority of mobile phones operate worldwide. T-Mobile USA uses GSM as well. Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel opted long ago for CDMA, which is used by hundreds of millions of people in the United States and elsewhere, but has no future as a standard, as I'll explain. - Leo Laporte

Mark Sanders

TED Notepad - Advanced text editor and notepad replacement - http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/

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This is FANTASTIC. Thanks for the link. Wish there were a Mac version. (Needs regular expression search and replace, too.) - Leo Laporte

downloading - Tyler J. Gillies PhD

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Green Website | CO2Stats - http://www.co2stats.com/benefit...

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What do you think of this? It seems like it could be a feel-good scam, but I notice that y-combinator's Hacker News is using it. The pitch: "Neutralize your site's carbon footprint with audited renewable energy. You know you're green, but how do you prove it to your customers? With CO2Stats, your visitors can see live reports on your site's CO2 emissions. We then purchase as part of your subscription, at no added cost, EPA-endorsed certificates showing that you are effectively powering the site with renewable energy from wind and solar farms." - Leo Laporte from Bookmarklet

Stephen Mack

What celebrity's death would hit you personally the hardest?

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I can't imagine anyone's death (anyone that I don't know, that is) affecting me more than how I felt after John Lennon died. But then again, I was only 13 when that happened. - Stephen Mack

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Probably Andy Bell of Erasure. I took Brad Delp's death very hard, Gilda Radner's also. - Gunny The Fuzzball ™

John Lennon. I was on the air the night it happened, and found it hard to read the teletype copy. I still have it. - Chris Baskind

I know a ton of people are really upset from Farrah's and Michael's passing today. It's certainly shocking, but I don't feel a sense of personal loss the same way as when, say, Kurt Vonnegut or George Carlin passed away. Perhaps because I had become so alienated from Michael because of all the weirdness. - Stephen Mack

this one is hitting me pretty hard. I was a fan of michael's before I could walk - chrisofspades

Steve Martin. When he dies, that will destroy me. Unless, that is, he's lived to 98 and lived well and valiantly to the end. Even so, I'll be sad. - Ladybug Heather

John Lennon - Josh Haley

Robin Williams - Kevin Fox

Billy Connolly I think. Comedy is a treasure.. - Mark Aitken

Aaliyah's death really touched me for some reason. - April Buchheit

Good question. One that seems may get answered this week for me as celebrities are dropping like flies. By this point, I can't really think of any celebrity where it would hit really hard. Michael Jackson was shocking to me, more because of his age. 50 is kinda young. - Dario Gomez

If their death was from falling out of a plane, and I was underneath them, then I'd probably have to say John Candy. - Kevin Fox

I remember when River Phoenix, Brandon Lee and Heath Ledger passed away -- each time thinking such a shame to lose such amazing potential so young. - Stephen Mack

I remembered that especially, too, April. I was out biking. 9/11 happened soon after that. I don't have a good answer to Stephen's question. I don't usually pay attention to celebrities much. I do feel some sadness about Jackson. - Kamilah Gill

Kevin, I hate myself for laughing at that. - Stephen Mack

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Bill Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Bruce Campbell, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood. - Alex Scoble

Ooh Alex, good list. And your Bill Clinton one got me -- if Barrack Obama counts as a celebrity in the same way, oh man... If he died while in office, it would be the most enormous story of the century ever, and I would be so depressed. - Stephen Mack

Twitter. - Chris Baskind

I keep fearing that I'm going to wake to news that Paul McCartney is dead, sort of like I woke in December of 1980 to hear the news about John. An eventuality, I guess, but not one I'm looking forward to. George Harrison's death shook me pretty good too. - Jim:Rockin the Helvetica

Twitter's already dead, doesn't count. - Stephen Mack

Carlin's death was shocking to me. Maybe Cronkite's will be as well. I grew listening to both of them. - Jack Carlson

Don't know about "hitting us hard", but I believe Stephen King is a living legend and will never be replaced. - Louis Gray

Patrick Stewart, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris. I'm surprised I'm having a hard time thinking of celebrities who are that important to me. Maybe this is a good thing. - Kevin Fox

Good question, Stephen. Carol Burnett and Lance Armstrong. - Rick Cogley

The Bigfoot death hit me hard until I found out it was fake, that's why I was skeptical about this at first... Michael Jackson was the last of the classic artists, in the modern era who else can stand to what he has achieved - Joe Dawson

Steve Jobs? - Louis Gray

Robert Scoble - Morton Fox

Megatron - Mo Kargas

magic johnson - chrisofspades from email

Bill Gates. Oh wait... celebrities ... how about Jack Nicholson, Robert Dinero, Al Pacino, Matt Damon. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Steve Jobs, cause John Peel and Tony Wilson are both in heaven already. - Tibor Holoda

Also, Steve Jobs, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny. - Rick Cogley

Aaliyah and Mitch Hedberg got to me. I honestly would not know until after the fact how I would be affected. - Amber Spence

Robert DeNiro - Shevonne

With Joe Biden at #2, I think losing Obama would hit me the hardest - Davis Freeberg

Actually there are just a few left. I remember well when K. Cobain died. That was quite sad. All my favourite are quite gone. David Foster Williams was quite shocking to me... I don't like people dying. I I think it's sad. :-| - diego morelli

I was gutted when David Feintuch died and I guess I'd really miss Eddie Izzard Philip Schofield. Seriously! - Timothy Griffin

To be honest, I think the death of Jim Henson had the biggest impact to me, personally -- I'm not sure I can think of anyone else that would hit me that hard. It still makes me sad, and is something I think about when I watch his work. - Jennifer Dittrich

JFK's assassination was truly horrible for those of us old enough to remember. I pray that never happens again. I think that would be the worst. - Leo Laporte

Can't really think of anyone... - Richly N. Chheuy

Maybe he's not a celebrity along the lines that you are thinking but Barack Obama for me... - BEX

Doesn't look like anyone mentioned my musician favorites: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John. - Tony Vota

I'd be really, really upset if anything happened to Maggie Smith, Judi Dench or Patrick Stewart, to name a few. Of course, it'd be hard to imagine a celebrity death that upset me more than Princess Diana's. (Phil Hartman's murder comes close, but it's different.) - Kate Schmidt

When Willie Nelson passes, I will be a mess. I grew up on his music in my grandfather's music room. So many happy memories of Sunday dinners at my grandparents' house when I was a kid are inextricably linked to Willie Nelson songs. And, if anything happened to Obama, that would be absolutely devastating. There are several authors, atheletes, other musicians, even other political figures I would miss and mourn, but those are the two I actually worry about. - Chris Munro

None. Celebrities are meaningless. - Andy Bakun

Perhaps Stevie Wonder, now that I think about it. - Kamilah Gill

People only "think' they feel sad when Reagan or some celebrity dies. It's a verisimilitude and a result of sense extension through media. Folks really believe they know these people! That's what I *really feel sad about - *every day. How pathetic is our society? - Marg Uerite

Shey

Hey, PCs: Will you upgrade to Windows 7? - http://www.sheysmith.com/2009...

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As a Mac user I'm upgrading. - Andrew Smith

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To Windows 7? Why not Snow Lepoard? - Shey

Dual boot? - Cristo

No, I'll wait until I have to buy a new computer anyway and Windows 7 probably come bundled with it. - Morton Fox

I'm going to make my company upgrade my laptop from the Vista abomination it currently has on it. As for personal stuff, I can't see myself buying Windows 7, since I'm a Mac home. - Joey Gibson

@Joey How did you even convince them to install Vista? (Not that I'm a Vista-hater, I just don't see the business case for it) - Shey

Waiting to get a new comp doesn't make nearly as much sense moving from Vista to Win7 as it did from XP to Vista, as Win7 is sooo much better than Vista, and runs great on machines that choke on Vista. - Christopher Carr

no. after Vista, MS has permanently lost me. i'll use XP Pro until it won't cut it anymore and then move to linux full-time. hopefully there will be more music production apps for it by then. - Dead Silence

Hell Yes! Netbooks will be happy! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Already there. I haven't booted into XP since I loaded the RC. Smooth sailing so far. - Adrian Culici

Dead: Win7 is light, clean and stable; it's worth giving a chance -- and I've used Linux almost exclusively for the last couple years. - Christopher Carr

Already upgraded, and quite fond of it. - Roger Benningfield

how is it on older hardware, tho? - Dead Silence

not to mention, i also run alot of "legacy" applications. - Dead Silence

I will. We never upgraded to Vista but we're running the Win 7 RC and it's fantastic. - joey

Runs great on my 5 year old P4 box with fx5500 graphics and 2 gigs of RAM. And it has an "XP Mode" for "legacy" apps. - Christopher Carr

Also runs like a champ on my Lenovo s10 netbook with 1 gig of RAM and a 1.7ghz Atom. - Christopher Carr

Nope - Tyson Key

Already have. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Shey, the laptop came with Vista on it. - Joey Gibson

Maybe. I'm not liking the price-point. - Jennifer Dittrich

I'm going milk RC1 until it expires - Rodfather

@Shey I'll be updating to Snow Leopard and Win7 to dual boot. I still occasionally do some Visual Studio / SQL stuff, have a Zune and some games. - Andrew Smith

Win7/Linux Mint 7/Snow Leo tri-boot would be sweet. - Christopher Carr

I haven't had significant problems with vista, but I'm probably going to put 7 on all my computers. - Richard Lawler

I avoided the VISTA mess and I may be milking XP until it expires then go to Win 7. I still have 2002 and 2005 projects in VS/SQL Server 2005 running sbs. - Melanie Reed

I'll most likely upgrade to Windows 7 for my PC and also on my Boot Camp partition. - Arlan Koizumi

I preordered my windows 7 today. - John Ford

Pre-ordered three copies on Amazon. That's all they'd let me get. - Leo Laporte

My Dad has preordered already, he has Vista. I will preorder when I upgrade. Still yet to try the beta though. - Mike Lewis

pre-ordered it on amazon today. I love RC1. - Bill Kinney

Sure why not, couldn't be any worse than what's come before it. ;-p - ronin

I skipped vista and went straight from XP to Win7 rc. Love it. - TobiasVerhoog.com

I think I'm gonna hold out for the Ultimate edition. Anyone know if the Pro edition will have Media Center? - Shey

For sure! - Dave "Freedom 35"

yep - Jay Martinez

Running RC1 already, so yes. - Geoff Schultz

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