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I learned about this because of Janis Krum's blog. He was the guy who took the photo of today's plane crash and posted it to Twitter. His blog is here: http://www.janiskrums.com/ -- want some inspiration? Think things are hopeless? Watch that video and see if don't find some inspiration. Thanks TIm Ferriss and Janis! - Robert Scoble

The paths we find things through are pretty weird. I know Tim personally but haven't had time to get to my RSS feeds lately. But, they come to me anyway. One of the lessons I've learned in my "media snacking" journey. - Robert Scoble

That confirms it. I SUCK! - Ron's Home And Hardware

I got to Janis' blog from his Twitter account. His photo today made me wonder who he was. - Robert Scoble

Really cool video. Even cooler back story as to how you found it! I'm starting to get this FF thing! - Troy Malone

✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ This is precisely what I'm talking about, Robert. Thank you. - michael silverton

there's this kids 15 minutes of fame... - Terry O'Fee

Terry: because of Twitter our fame allotment has been extended to 19 minutes. Didn't you get the memo? - Robert Scoble

This was meant for me today. right now . next week. next year...next lifetime...thanks - bcultral

I don't know if traditional market models can ever catch up to these phenomena. http://friendfeed.com/e... - michael silverton

Robert - this is the first time you have made me cry - great find, thanks for sharing it. - Ben Shoemate

Great find Robert, Nick speaks at our church all the time and all over the world, he hangs out after he speaks and he greets every single person who waits in line and gives everyone a hug. Here is Nick's site http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ - Kelly Johns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... There's a video floating around of his whole presentation and it's pretty awesome. - Paul Reynolds

Wow. Thanks Robert. - Nicola Quinn

Amazing! - Amit Morson

I'm just grateful all survived so CNN breaking states! PTL! - Melanie Reed

Still crying after watching this video and so angry at my self-absorbed life complaints. Today, right this very moment, this video has changed the way I view life. - Janet-The Bottley Crue

Very inspirational. The guy has done amazing things, and I definitely get the message - right up until he starts in with the evangelism. Is it just possible he could have achieved the same things on his own - or with a support system that didn't carry the Jesus branding? - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Hi Mary, a heavy duty topic worthy of it's own thread, IMO http://is.gd/g3Ik - michael silverton

Mary, I don't think it is a matter of Jesus "branding", it is his testimony, it is a genuine explanation of how he's been able to overcome his circumstances. I don't think Nick would be the man he is today if he would have "done it on his own" - Kelly Johns

Moving, thanks! - Alexandros Georgiadis

Tears in my coffee cup. Good way to start a day of opportunities for those with more. To whom much is given, much is expected. Thanks for sharing...awesome. - Carl

Kelly, I suspect you're right. Especially since he's a preacher's kid. And I really do get that it can take a huge spiritual foundation to overcome big obstacles. But just once I'd like to see an inspirational story that doesn't turn out to be a lead-in to a Christianity message. Are we - as a culture - as Americans under the First Amendment - saying that nobody can overcome great obstacles who is not a Christian? - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Let's see some examples of great inspiration from the secular world - or the other religious and spiritual traditions. For instance - Stephen Hawking has lived decades longer than anyone with ALS normally would. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Mary, Please rewatch this video, no where was this pushing a Christian message. I heard God, witnessing God. I believe this was more a faith in God, which is not exclusive to Christians. :) - Janet-The Bottley Crue

True. I made the mistake of watching a second video. And - the language in the first video is the lexicon of the Christian brand: witnessing, faith, God's plan. Witnessing and the idea of God's plan for a person or a community don't exist in, for example, Judaism, and the concept of faith in Judaism is rather nebulous, at least in the Reform tradition. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

this photo is kinda out of context. oh well. - anna sauce

"Twitter’s more like the hot high school football player that occasionally notices you at dances, but is slowly blowing out his knees and doesn’t study, and FriendFeed is the funny, charming computer geek that carries your books for you and opens doors. A little harder to get to know, but a lot more value." - anna sauce

I think you found another great metaphor there. Oh and it's hard to judge my "call to action" thread as a good metric of activity here as I only have 1000 subscribers, but I should mention that thread got the most likes and comments out of any thread I've ever done. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

commented on blog too ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

wow, thanks Rob! - anna sauce

Alex, I know, it was the only way I could get active users- and Arrington's "unique views" seemed a little off to me. As ever the struggle for metrics in social media. - anna sauce

As a side note, it's funny that you use the highschool nerds vs jocks metaphor. Robert was voted most likely to join a club in highschool. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

watch out Alex, don't divulge too much about your brother! With 4 siblings I can attest it's a slippery slope. The things I know about my siblings... (well, for a fee they can be yours.) I was trying to compare the feature-richness of FF to Twitter's one-note features. Not sure it worked, but hey. - anna sauce

I picked that post becuase it was hilarious - and showed the weird creativity of FF people (Morton...) - anna sauce

Worked for me! - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Excellent post Anna. Not sure what else to say, you've nailed it - Mo Kargas

as per the article: I can just picture Robert Scoble looking all fly in his Prius, aviators, windows down: the wind blowing through his hair...wearing Apple Bottoms Jeans, boots with the fur...:o) - The Real sofarsoShawn

thanks Helen! Thanks Shawn! Thanks mo! - anna sauce

@Anna: great post! - .LAG liked that

thanks .LAG! - anna sauce

thanks Abby! - anna sauce

I always figured Robert Scoble would have been an inside linebacker (yes, and a member of computer club) or something athletic. Shows how much I know. - Jay Cuthrell

I feel vaguely guilty knowing Robert Scoble's Hall of Fame info from his brother. Anyone else? - anna sauce

Jay: I ran four marathons in high school. Plus was on nearly every club. - Robert Scoble

Hmmm, I guess I kind of missed the mark...LOL. & Wow Scoble 4!!! You're my hero! I'm totally picking up Melancholy now - The Real sofarsoShawn

Thanks, Anna! I'm hoping a lot of people will see this and stop the Twitter vs. FF Death Match going on this week. After rediscovering FF upon the beta release, I had a brief fling in which the two of us ran away to a cheap motel together, but now I've come back home and embraced Twitter, the mother of my children (1K followers) and realized that my life will be a lot better if I'm just friends with benefits with Friendfeed. In other words, I now realize a distinct role for each and am happy using both. - Mark Traphagen

And my horrible metaphor above has NOTHING to do with my views on marriage and fidelity! Probably should've stuck with your high school dating scenario, Anna! - Mark Traphagen

It's FF vs Facebook not FF vs Twitter! - JP Maxwell

No kidding JP, did you read the article? - The Real sofarsoShawn

did I say Facebook! I meant Friendster! Shit. - JP Maxwell

Mark, I love your relationshiop-sexinthecity style metaphor, and in no way does it represent your views on IRL relationships or morals, of course. The high school stereotypes are useful in cinema, and comparing social networks! Scoble- south bay is a great running town. I did hurdles. It prepared me for a career in email marketing (ba-dum dum) - anna sauce

It takes a special kind of journalist to use the headline "Confirmed:" on an article that is based on anonymous "sources with knowledge of the product" and closes with "MySpace won’t confirm or deny this report." : ) - DeWitt Clinton

'Liked' for DeWitt's comment. - Michael R. Bernstein

I'm surprised Myspace didn't do this years ago. - Justin Wah Kan

Yet further proof that MySpace has lost it's way. - Tim Young

The assumption that all 125M users would suddenly start using this as their email seem a bit questionable. - Paul Buchheit

@Paul - of course. Though a scary huge number of people share their myspace URL the way other people would share a phone number or email address. "What's your myspace?" is such a common refrain that there's even a popular song titled that. I wouldn't be surprised at all if many people did use myspace email, but they wouldn't even necessarily be conscious of the the fact that they were doing so. - DeWitt Clinton

My guess is that it will be just as much of a black pit as my Facebook "inbox". I have a hard time imagining that the number of MySpace users without an active email address elsewhere is anything other than 100%. So unless they have some great trick up their sleeves, they're going to have a hard time getting people to switch. - Joel Webber

@Joel - I bet many myspace users already use the existing myspace messaging more than email to communicate among their friends. Their inbox is one you see in that screenshot. Hooking it up to RFCs 2821 and 2822 and the rest of the internet is more icing on the cake. - DeWitt Clinton

So ... does MySpace think that users don't have a current email address? I mean, has MySpace usage been crippled because users can't communicate via email?! Build and maintain an email system for an audience that is nearly blind to ads ... yeah .... makes *perfect* sense *shakes head* - AJ Kohn

I will never understand MySpace. It is a huge collection of people's first effort on the web and is a giant web ghetto. - Craig Mische

Isn't your MySpace login your e-mail address? - Victor Ganata

AJ, I think the point is that if you already think of yourself as myspace.com/hothobokitten82 it's only a small leap to become hothobokitten82@myspace.com. Their users will love this. - DeWitt Clinton

if facebook isn't already working on this they're a bunch of dumbasses - felix

Will their webmail client come with auto-playing music, hard to read text on brightly colored background, acute angles applied to all incoming pictures and increased stalking abilities? - Dean Clark

@dean lol - Adriana

60 Senators = blowout. We'll see. - Andrew Leyden

thats what it looks lilke. complete change :-) - Leximo

Terrible day for America indeed. I hope America gets the nanny state they want. - Spencer

But VA is going McCain, right? - iTad

Our drinking game, at http://www.officenomads.com tonight, "landslide" = "drink it all" - Leif Hansen

Virginia is so far, but I'm hopeful it will turn around. I haven't seen a lot of explanation yet. - JCunwired

incredible eh :) - Zee.

Obama is actually doing better than I thought in TX - Andrew Leyden

http://www.flickr.com/photos... I was hoping to see something more like Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in '64 haha - but I'll take what we're getting. - Enrique Gutierrez

I'm so happy - Daniel Morgan

I'm hardly breathing...dare I hope to open the White House champagne tonight? - Holly Jahangiri

how can you say this already, 70% of the country hasn't even started counting yet. Hell they called IL for Obama and the polls only closed 30 mins ago. They haven't even driven the ballots to the counting centers yet. - Adam Turetzky

Andrew, we tried to turn TX blue! - Holly Jahangiri

So did I and some friends - Justin Yost

Will it be over before the polls close in CA? - Ken Sheppardson

History in the making - Rod Bauer

am a big obama fan but its no where near a blow out, at least not yet, Obama hasnt taken one Red state, yet! - Steve Mann from twhirl

Obama pretty much just needs to win one more battleground state to clinch it. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Ken-not technically, but practically yes. Absent McCain wins in OH/VA/FL/NC & one other state there is no path to victory for him without PA. So while Obama might not have 270 by the time CA closes, there won't be anyway for McCain to make it up. - Andrew Leyden

Probably. - Derrick Burns

So what's on HBO tonight? - Andrew Leyden

Adam: it's very easy to call if you know how polls work. Nothing is breaking in McCain's favor, either. Which tells me the polls were correct. - Robert Scoble

I could be wrong :-) but the explanation for Virginia is that the state board of elections tallies the southern, McCain-leaning parts of the state first, and then when it looks like McCain has won, they add in the votes from Northern Virginia precincts. "Boom." Virginia = Obama. - Karim

I have been watching Virginia State Board of Elections all night. Their website is ahead of the MSM by several minutes. McCain started off with 57% and as they count more votes it has been dropping all night. McCain just dropped to 50.81% with 53% of precincts reporting. Watch. - Karim

Got a link Karim? - iTad

Robert: I heard that in 2000 and 2004. I'll believe it when it's a landslide at 1:00 a.m. and 80% have reported. - Adam Turetzky

If you look at the NYTimes maps of VA it basically confirms that as the NoVa counties have lower percentages reporting. I don't know if it is a specific 'way' they count or just a reflection of the fact that the numbers of voters are so much higher up there it takes longer to process. - Andrew Leyden

Uh, whut? - Cyndy

FNC is calling Penn for Obama - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Centrist Democrats don't deserve a blowout, so I wrote in Dennis Kucinich to make a statement. (Obama is a shoo-in for Massachusetts.) - Bruce Lewis

Virginia State Board of Elections: https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virg... click on "Full Results." But the site is d r a g g i n g. Currently McCain is up by a fraction of a percent (5,000 votes?) with 75% of votes counted. Stay tuned... - Karim

If McCain loses PA, he needs OH, NC, FL, and VA (yes VA) and then (I think) one small random win west of the Mississippi that he's not currently projected to win (CO, NM, IA) - Andrew Leyden

I guess the Live Free or Die state couldn't come through for the old man. - PC Easy from twhirl