Some of PR's terrible press is some deserved. BUT, PR can be so beneficial if done right. Still think AR should be internal, though - Lorita (Ba) Vannah
great thread. i am wrestling this decision right now - Lee Kent
"A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters." - newsjunk.com
As a reader and a writer and a watcher of all-things-crime-related, I could've given an answer like that, too. Never use quicklime to dispose of a body. It actually helps preserve it. - Nine
@Nine (9) But the question is, would you have? - Steve Spalding
ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun away from Nine (9) too! - Phill Price
i like his response to his initial scary comment - "heh. top of the head." :-p - mike "glemak" dunn
Steve, no, but only because I don't read metafilter. - Nine
Some of scarabic's tips seemed to be common sense. It's the genius details like "remove the toilet to use the bigger drain pipe" that worry me! - Paul Reynolds
@Nine Good point, I think I agree with Paul it isn't the "common sense" stuff it's the little details and the way he presents the narrative that's creepy. - Steve Spalding
but I don't wanna be a Scoble! (in my best Seinfeld voice) :) - Tim Hoeck
Not really can we see what you are seeing - from what I can tell the feed is your feed without all your hides applied. Besides playing Scoble for a day even only on FF would be too tiring. - Brian Sullivan
Here are some informed questions.Ask him about his preference of audio monitors. This is a religious question. - stretta
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coudl u ask him why he doest want to stay in canada ? This is a torontian askin ..after all he has never given up his canadian citizenship , but stays in the states like for 30plus yrs - Peter Dawson
Ask about his mobile recording rig. - stretta
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yeah while at my fav song of his "The Needle and the Damage Done," - Peter Dawson
Ask about his favorite mic and mic pre choice for recording Neil's voice. - stretta
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Finally, point at a piece of gear and ask if it has 'LRF support' (little rubber feet) - stretta
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Robert, please keep all the cameras rolling! You'll want every moment! - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ
Holy Moly That Is Cool! @Josh: A Southern man don't need him around anyhow! - Mattb4rd
See if he'll dish on who will be at this year's bridge concert. Inquiring ticket buyers want to know! - Bill Sanders
Matthew: we hung out in his old mobile recording rig. What a hoot. Bill: Neil wasn't there, he's on tour in Europe. We'll have a separate interview with Neil someday, this was mostly to see the technical aspects of making music. Hearing his stuff straight off of his two-inch-tape was freaking awesome. - Robert Scoble
You have an amazing life Robert with the people you get to interact with! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Dale: my producer, Rocky helped build his studio when he was 12-years-old. His dad built it, which is one reason we got in, but the real reason was to talk to his audio engineer about how much quality of his music is lost at CD-quality (Neil wants people to be able to listen to music recorded at 192 khz per second -- CD's are recorded at 44.1 khz). We listened to his music recorded at 192 and then on CD and it's not even close. The quality difference is so extreme. - Robert Scoble
I learned that Neil was one of the first artists to try digital, but that he went back to analog tape recording (the tapes cost about $1,000 per hour, by the way) because he didn't like the emotion that he could capture on analog. - Robert Scoble
Kingsley: we'll talk about his electric car project when we do a real interview later in the year. - Robert Scoble
Robert, vinyl purists have been saying that for years: digital can't capture the heart between 0 and 1. - Akiva Moskovitz
Digital captures exactly what the heart is, cold and calculated! - Geoff Schultz
guilty! (I left a comment on a previous post of his admitting it) - Jeremiah Owyang
happens to the best of us - thanks for the tip, I have enjoyed reading his stuff today - Mark Bean
So your official duty today is to blow people out of the water...just noticed how many new followers peterkim has received today. He def has some good material. Of all the people on the top youre great about sharing the love. I dig your style. - Greg Bond
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Mark, thanks for keeping me honest. I've a lot of character flaws, I'm working on em. - Jeremiah Owyang
I subscribed too. He has many original thoughts. A delight. - Meryn Stol
As mentioned earlier today, Twitter seems to have capped your ability to follow at 2,000 people, which just so happens to be exactly where I am. The goal, in theory, is to stop marketing-oriented spammers, but it could be another way to reduce stress on the system. So what should I do now, delete "less favored" people, or wait for Twitter to figure this out? - Louis Gray
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Maybe it's the legacy talking, but I'm really not bothered by this. :P - l0ckergn0me
I can see why they do it, but it does suck for the people who do it legitimately and are not using stupid mass follow scripts. - David Risley
I'm not super-concerned either, but it does answer why all of a sudden, I started getting these errors last week. It could be part of their "Making Progress On Spam" initiative via the blog, but it hasn't been spelled out all that clearly. - Louis Gray
let blame this one on Scobles... :)- - Peter Dawson
Louis, I think cap is more of the architecture the system. Making it into a more robust platform. Now watermarks have been set, it becomes easier to build consistency of experience and application behavior. <Edit > wait for Twitter to figure it out.. Marketing spammers are targeting the 'stupid' one that have the auto follow !! - Peter Dawson
gotta like it, if I'm the one you are trying to follow! - Ben Hedrington
I don't think there should be limits like this, but I guess everything can't be infinite - ♫ Rahsheen™
Not for everyone. I'm over 2000 and just followed someone else - Aaron Brazell
I honestly am indifferent about it; Twitter is going to hell and i tried my best to convert it; oh well, Hell has cookies - Gordon Swaby
I"m only following 49... with 106 followers.. - Ian May
so what do you think, Louis, is benhedrington worth going to the mat for? - Nathan Rein
I'm sure I can find someone to unfollow in exchange for Ben. - Louis Gray
Twitter needs to build in groups functionality a la tweetdeck for following 2K+ to even be practical. - Nicholas Molnar
Louis: You need to convince the new people to head over here :) - Justin Korn
I'm just curious what the rationale is for following that many people. - Paul Rodriguez
Well, maybe that's why Louis always seems to know what's going on before anybody else. - ♫ Rahsheen™
I've noticed that most of the time I get followed by somebody with a big number, it tends to be marketing play. It triggers the email to you and then you go look and click on their bio link which takes you to the pitch. Very irritating. I always block em. - Mark Schulz
@Paul Rodriguez, I was wondering that too. I wouldn't have even guessed there are 2000 interesting people in the world </cynicism>, but what fascinate me is that i'm following like 83 people and only about 14 of them tweet regularly. I can assume most of those 2000 do not tweet regularly. Add in the fact that I'm a WAHM to two toddlers, and do other stuff, there'd be a lot of stuff I'd miss. - Anika Malone
New profit center? Sorry, but now you'll have to join Twitter Pro .... - Charlie Anzman
Very interesting. System limits is going to be a topic that we all work through in this early phase of the Social Web. It seems to me that it's reasonable to cap the number one follows to 1,000 or 2,000. On the flipside, one would clearly like to enable a very high number of followers. With respect to bi-directional connections, the real number should max at 1,000 to 2,000... - John McCrea
This is awesome! Incidentally, Scoble (@Scobleizer) is still following over 30K. - Vincent van Wylick
So where is the point following 30k people? You might as well hit the main timeline. The only thing that is bad about this limit is that it was not there from the beginning. - Alexander Kohlhofer
so what's going to happen to those who follow over 2000? - Wayne Sutton
you follow two. thousand. people.??? never mind twitter; there may be a law against that. - jeneane sessum
I like the new limit. I cannot see how anyone would be able to legitimately follow (and pay attention to) more than 2,000 people. Frankly, even that limit seems higher than it needs to be. If it helps keep Twitter a little more stable, go for it. - Dennis Metzcher
Couple thoughts: the limit impacts the ability to use the service as a direct message router -- for some people. It also reinforces the need for dectralized microblogging -- so if you want exceed the limits you can do so on your own infrastructure. Lastly, nothing prevents you from following everyone or a subset of people through RSS/feeds. - Chris Messina
Are we sure that Twitter has set a 2,000 limit are or we cranking up the rumor mill? I've seen image before with respect to my own account - an account which just reached 1,000 followers today. According the Twitter rep who contacted me, I got - ahem - put in "Twitter Prison" for "Aggressive Following" My ratio of Followers to Following was kinda out of whack - at that time I had only ~800 people following me while I was following ~2,800 - They suspended my ability to follow more people. I removed 2K. - Vincent Wright
I don't understand the motivation for following 2K people if you're not a spammer... someone explain? - Jason Carreira
Jason: For a entrepreneur/VC/angel networker, it would be very easy to hit 2,000 contacts (assuming you used Twitter like a rolodex). From one networking meeting, I might pick up 0-100+ business cards (more at conferences), and during a heavy season I could be doing 7-10 meetings/week. As a angel, I might want to follow 5,000-10,000+ projects/people. Anyone might have a really good project 2-10+ years down the pipe... I've got cartons/boxes of 3-ring binders of business cards in plastic sheets. - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell @Charlie - Rumors aside, do you think the cap is a gesture towards monetization? Going after the power networkers? Seems you would have good cause to pay for a Twitter Pro, or would it just not be worth it? - joneilortiz
I use Twitter as both a professional development tool (following people who say useful and interesting things abt health / edtech / social media / libraries ...), a personal tool (friends and folk who are amusing), and a reference tool (following a lot of news streams and information resources). You can hit 2000 fast. A friend says that people are imagining new ways in which Twitter could be used, but Twitter seems bound and determined to force them back into some small box of how it "ought" to be. - Patricia F. Anderson
I think that somewhere along the way an idea turns into a plan. With that, I think ideas are worth a lot more than we give them credit. - Larry Kless
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I consider myself a recovering idea guy. Most of the free-range ideas I generate now I put out for public consumption, they aren't worth anything on my shelf. @Larry Once an idea becomes a plan, it's much more than an idea. - Steve Spalding
I'm supposed to sketch out my ideas? I usually have tons of amazing, world-changing ideas then readily forget them the instant I fall asleep. - ·[▪_▪]·
At least they help you get to sleep at night, there is some value in that mate. :) - Steve Spalding
interesting. the other folks i heard this from, i would consider strong tactical executors. not bigger picture people. would you agree both are critical? - Christian Anderson
They have a symbiotic relationship. I know plenty of people who execute perfectly but can't plan -- they don't have vision. I know plenty of people with vision but no ability to put the peddle to the floor. I know very few people with both. Idea people need Executors and visa versa. - Steve Spalding
idea in itself is nothing. but then again, there are those whose creative side is better developed and who have a constant outflow of ideas but are loosy on details and execution. this is where the implementation guys come in handy. the two types complement each other. most of big corporate names usually have both idea and implementation parts - otherwise it is rather rare to find a person with two streaks equally "developed." - Hayk
Hell, if NO EXECUTION = $1 I should be worth millions!! - ·[▪_▪]·
doing is nothing without a clue, let alone without an idea, a vision. so many doers, so much crap. - Gregory Lent
You can plan for 6 months in the Internet space and your idea is probably obsolete - Charlie Anzman
ideas without *eventual* execution are worthless. however documenting your ideas is _priceless_. - MikeAmundsen
Engineering is great, but becomes Rube Goldberg-ian without the Math/Physics behind it :) - AaronTheLibrarian
@Mike documenting ideas is priceless, I agree. This is more aimed at the belief that documentation, in and of itself, is a substitute for actual creation. @Aaron I thought it was impossible to decouple Engineering (as a discipline) from math/physics. - Steve Spalding
Ideas/plans without execution may not have much worth but the process involved in generating the ideas may be priceless. - Brian Sullivan
The -ability- to generate ideas is priceless. The skill to corral inspiration is one of the key components to doing anything in the world, but for any -particular- idea I still don''t think the generation process is enough. - Steve Spalding
@Steve: yep, 'documenting' ideas will not result in a tangible win. but you need lots of 'at-bats' to get a 'hit' and getting your ideas out and available is a great way to increase your percentage. - MikeAmundsen
Agreed, that''s the beauty of scientific journals and the entire driving force behind academic publishing. It's all very important. - Steve Spalding
Almost. An idea without *communication* is worth nothing. Even if you create/execute on whatever it is for *yourself* and share it with no one else, it's still worth nothing in almost all cases. It's the communication of the idea, the prototype, or the product that's the key to converting something into value. Read, write, listen, talk. Saying that "execution" is the key is like saying "success" is the key. It's too broad. There are so many other fundamentals. - Loren Heiny
almost everyone has ideas but very few people can execute on those ideas or at least find the right team of people to execute your idea - Rajiv Doshi
Very astute clarification Loren, I have a broad definition of execution. What I meant was finding a plan to take to idea from the drawing board to reality. It doesn't necessarily involve you doing it personally. - Steve Spalding
An eye opener for me, a self confessed idea guy, was when I read a book on patents and inventions that basically said if you have to be secretive about an idea because it could easily be stolen by someone just hearing the idea, then someone has likely already implemented it or it's not really a good idea (yet). - Paul Reynolds
worth means money? ideas that change your understanding of life are more valuable - Gregory Lent
@gregorylent in my mind "worth" means anything that changes something for the better: you, me, anyone. good point to take the thought outside the $$$ frame of reference. - Taylor Davidson
Typical "VC babble". In some areas like Nobel Prizes and mathematics, ideas are valued because of their impact on the thinking/actions of others. This causes some people to over-value ideas in entrepreneurial areas, where teamwork, execution, and marketing may be more important than an idea; e.g. "good ideas are a dime a dozen". Well, Nobel Prize ideas are not a "dime a dozen". I think some VCs are overcompensating for feeling less smart than nerds by competing in other areas like status-connections. - Mitchell Tsai
I guess I just value "ideas" - which to me means "original thinking" - more than many. Frankly I think execution is a "dime a dozen" and truly original thinking is stunningly rare. Granted, original ideas cannot be *monetized* without excellent execution, but that doesn't mean they're not worth anything. To a VC, of course, value can only be measured in money. But my hope is most people are capable of measuring things a bit more broadly. - Anthony Citrano
Apropos quote [Howard Aiken]: "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." - Anthony Citrano
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." - Anatole France - Hayk
@Mitchell @Anthony Nobel Prize "ideas" are often, I dare say always, executed. They usually are the sum of years and years of research and experimentation. Even in the softer sciences these "ideas" have been vetted. I am not saying every idea needs to be commercialized, I am saying that for an idea to have value -- to change anything -- it has to leave your head and go somewhere, even if it is into the hands of someone better equipped to do something with it. - Steve Spalding
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." - John Steinbeck - Hayk
I hear ya, Steve - but lots of Nobel prizes are awarded for ideas that are not ever tangibly/commercially/measurably "productive". - Anthony Citrano
Steve: I hear the "executed" idea you're promoting. Ideas in math though if they are "really good" may be a 1-page PhD and get you a professorship offer, even without any active marketing. The "vetting" may be informal and volunteer. This is different from most commercial ideas, where there is a small subset of people who successfully deliver a lot of product with almost no marketing and on their own. The academic world requires less of this type of promotion. - Mitchell Tsai
Many savvy academics also use very active lobbying, marketing, and research to promote their ideas, obtain grants, etc... They actively look at the research backgrounds of NSF, DoD and other area heads and use the info in their planning. It however, is still possible to release a "great idea" in academics without using political savvy, personal connections, and active "marketing". It's also not a "failure" in academics to release a "great idea" which doesn't get picked up for 50-100 years (esp. in math). - Mitchell Tsai
Completely agree Mitchell. I come from an Engineering background, so it does sometimes slip that the pure sciences can have very, very long execution cycles, - Steve Spalding
something macho about all this "doing" .. pure idea that transforms consciousness is left out. one enlightened man sitting quietly in the himalayas does more good for the world than 100,000 men of good works is a concept in other parts of the world. - Gregory Lent
and it is an artificial construct to view action and idea as separate... idea is the subtle form of action ... action is the gross form of idea ... thoughts have form and are physical action as well, just more subtly than most people can see. think about the word "vibe" we use to describe a place or a person, that is the surface of thought as form - Gregory Lent
and even further, the mystic view of non-doing (because there is no doer) as reality .. "it is god which worketh in you both to will and to do" - Gregory Lent
how can you not care? it's the most important thing to happen since ... ok yeah BFD. - Tac Anderson
I keep seeing whole posts written about it. Driving me bananas. It's just a redesign. I think people are more upset about the learning curve than anything, but could be wrong. - Leslie Poston
i didn't car at first. then i couldn't find my dog book. now i want to move and can't figure out how. HELP - Lee Kent
lol FAIL - like saying "I bought a bicycle, so I can't travel on the freeway. Please move closer" - iPhone is pretty, can do simple things well, and ignores vast areas of need. iPhone needs to do flash (can, but won't), not the other way around. - Kip
I don't have an iPhone, but I loathe flash-only websites. Surely, there's something about your business you cna tell me that doesn't require silly animations. - Richard Lawler
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it's more like saying: "have you ever heard of accessibility?" - Andre
Adobe said a while back that it would use the SDK to write an iPhone vesion of Flash. Any news on that? - Roberto Bonini
I'm going to take the other point of view and say the it must be a crappy website to be flash-only. - Long Nguyen
I have broadband and a couple of fast machines and I STILL hate flash sites. - Brian Norwood
Flash components can be embedded in web pages, which is good (unlike AIR apps), _but_, they are themselves opaque, and so not as nutritious (de-composable and re-composable) for the growth of the web as HTML... and the web is our composition, is it not? - Mark Szpakowski
I hope they write back and say, get a phone that can use Skyfire ;) - Tim Hoeck
people and companies build flash-only sites because they don't really have anything to say, but feel they must be on the Web or they'll look out-of-touch. for those people and cos, my recommendation would be: just get off of the Web, you're just polluting it; stay in meatspace, it's worked for centuries. there's absolutely nothing wrong with flash by itself; it can certainly contribute to a richer Web site experience...agree with @mark: the Web is our composition. - .LAG
.LAG, that is nonsense. Peopel build flash-only sites for different reasons. In my experience, people build them because they are sold on them by developers/designers who know no other way. - Robert W. Anderson
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Sometimes designers do things because they can with little regard to whether they should. - Aura Mae
@robert: fair enough, but if a client is sold on a flash-only site i'll bet you these are exactly the kind of people who feel they must be on the Web in order to look contemporary... not because they have something to contribute. i'm not convinced that every person or organization needs to have a Web site to succeed. a simple 'contact us' page with street address and phone number would be far more useful than a flash-only brochure site in MANY cases. - .LAG
iPhone or not, I hate all Flash sites too. They are UI nightmares. I can't search or easily navigate to anything. I don't even want to see your flash. As a matter of fact, my Firefox would have problems with it too because I have NoScript and AdBlock Plus running. I approve Flash on a case by case basis. - Kenya
I'm seeing exactly the same thing. A few days ago, it tried to tell me all my apps had updates too. I'm also having issues downloading tracks from iTunes. It just crashes before it gets chance to finish processing each track. Apple's email support have been unable to help me too (since reinstalling iTunes didn't work). - Tony Ruscoe
not to mention that every itunes upgrade takes over an hour and then freezes my up. apple and windows are just not there yet! - Lee Kent
I've been trying to upgrade wordpress via iTunes and the iPhone but to no avail. - Stewart Steel
i don't get why it fails a search for 'toeman'... needs fixing! - Jeremy Toeman
Bad home page design, my gut reaction was I landed on a parked domain - Bob Ngu
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@Bob Ngu I thought the same thing when I was the homepage too, but it is a very useful site - Richard Kannegieser
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Awesome! Twitterpacks, with actual navigatiion and architecture. (I sure hope it doesn't become another tool for spam followers.) - Ian Wilker
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yes and Ian, there is a nonprofit section in particular, though you probably know all those folks already. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Yes twellow is really cool. Also, Twitter makes for a far more interesting cut from the population than Linkedin. Great for recruiting self-actualizing people! - Meryn Stol
What we need next is a Plurk directory. - Meryn Stol
great concept - their design needs some serious help though! - Morgan
