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Any chances that you can add Friendfeed to Tweetdeck?
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I would like that too, but it appears that nobody is monitoring this room.
- Pete Gilbert
Having to go back to Twhirl because of the lack of FF support...
- zeroinfluencer
I support this also!
- Nathan Snyder
Imagine a world where there is no money. Would it be better than this one? I actually think it probably would be... People could choose to do whatever they want and everybody would have their basic services provided for. It would be an all volunteer work-force who would work towards providing the basic services
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For an example, see Star Trek: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...
- Mark Trapp
@Mark, ah yes Star Trek had no money... But I am not so sure about the command-control system. Seemed too much like the military
- Bindu Reddy
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guinn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is a little too utopian, but is a good exploration of a completely non-money, anarchic world.
- Arvind Sundararajan
Have you been watching Star Trek again? I'm kidding, but I see that Mark has pointed this out also. I would like to think we would be better off, but it's just wishful thinking. It's a good question though!
- Michael Fidler
I thought of Star Trek when I read this, too :)
- WorldofHiglet
Star Trek is a good example but as I mentioned above I don't want a "captain" either :)
- Bindu Reddy
It's an interesting and useful train of thought. One way of approaching it is to realize that since you are proposing that work is voluntary, there is nothing really stopping you from starting now. What kind of services would you be willing to provide for free? Can you think of any services you want whose providers would be interested in accepting your services? And how do we approach...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
It could be done ... one could use a "social points" scheme where you get plus for contribution, minus for bad social or environmental impact. Playing violent video games all day will eventually drain your points, boredom would set in, you'd have to figure out something else to do. Which may include learning to make video games -- i.e. re-direct a "harmful" habit. I'm not saying violent video games are harmful, just an example.
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Actually, that's like money except non-transferable.
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
One analogy is Open Source software. Is it always better than commercial?
- Vishy
Money is simply an innocent tool for exchange. IMO it makes things easier. It represents (in most cases) the value one brings in through ones contributions/hard work.... It makes it easy for one to exchange the returns of contributions in one domain with the goods in another domain.... the price of which could be determined through free market demand & supply stuff.
- Vipul Rawat
Star Trek shows the military/science arm of the United Federation of Planets, Starfleet, but civilians in the Star Trek universe have all basic meets provided for, and are free to do whatever they feel is their life's work: the UFP is a republic, not a militocracy. The invention of technologies like the replicator are crucial to the lack of money. In many ways, Star Trek is the...
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- Mark Trapp
Vipul - I don't see why we need to constantly "calibrate"/"measure" our value. What if we are OK with people how bring little value? there will always be people who will bring a lot of value and won't mind doing it for free
- Bindu Reddy
@bindu IMO the world is a better place when people do things that make them happy 'cos they contribute well in the process (which makes everyone gain from it) plus happy people typically make people around them happy as well. Given this logic, if helping out others makes one happy, one should do it ... not for the sake of others but for their own happiness and satisfaction. There's...
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- Vipul Rawat
Read NEWS FROM NOWHERE by William Morris (1890). One of my favorite stories. Morris was an amazing artist, craftsman, author, and socialist. But unlike many socialists, he believed that work should be creative and pleasurable. It's available online for free at http://www.marxists.org/archive...
- Ranger Craig
Bindu, sounds like Communism to me. I've talked to enough people who grew up in the USSR to know that that a 'moneyless' system where the state provides your basic needs is not a viable system. Humans are greedy, materialistic, power hungry and entrepreneurial. In an a extreme socialistic society like the USSR, 'money' or a barter system is created and a huge black market is formed to fill the void.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm pretty sure that a volunteer work force to provide the basic needs of all would not work if there is no benefit for those who actually work vs those who are lazy and don't. The easy way out would be to not participate and reap the benefits of the suckers who did work. Some entrepreneurial folks, would sponge off the system and spend their time creating wealth for themselves in the black market. Neither activity would benefit society.
- Jeff P. Henderson
This post made me wonder how many plumbers there are and how many people there are who would volunteer to be plumbers. Why plumbers? I don't know; that's just the first thing that came to mind, maybe because I was reading about Mario & Luigi earlier.
- Amit Patel
hmm, everyone who is a plumber could have been something else, so why are there any plumbers now?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Bindu, I asked this question a while back - yes I think it would be a better place. :-) Money is one of the main evils of this World.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, money is just a tool, greed and power are the main evils of the world. Removing the exchange mechanism won't change this.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I highly doubt removing money would make any difference. People would just move to other forms of currency and barter and trade.
- Itachi
++ Jeff P. Henderson
- Vipul Rawat
Money is actually a cleaner form of exchange. Other forms will be much more complicated. We need to note that we evolved from the other systems to what we have today. People who have issues with money will also typically have issues with other forms of exchange
- Vipul Rawat
Money is pretty innocuous. Banking (specifically lending) can have some pretty serious issues however. When banks can create money out of nothing through leverage with minimal restriction, they end up with a great deal of power over the value of money. When this happens the value of money becomes disconnected from the value of goods and services. The history of banking in the united...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
i visited a commune in the 60's - when volunteers were needed to dig a septic field, 80% of the communers said they had "other things to do" - a few did the work that benefited many - (we are who we are and we take us with us wherever us goes) -
- sally stokhamer
Anyone interested in the theory of communes should read http://bit.ly/7FHQLM , "Monetary Theory and the Great Capitol Hill Baby-Sitting Co-op Crisis," by Sweeney and Sweeney. It seems that people need incentives to cooperate.
- Daniel Dulitz
Jeff - Communism was all about the state dictating stuff and spending all their time and money and things that were not useful to society. While I agree money is a tool. It is also part of the reason you are greedy. IF resources are plentiful and there is nothing to be greedy over.. Maybe there will be a lot less greed in the society.
- Bindu Reddy
Agreed, if everyone has all of their material needs taken care of in the best possible way at no cost to themselves, and there are no shortages of any resources to contend with, then their is no need for money.
- Alex Scrivener
++ Alex Scrivener
- Vipul Rawat
Seems like it would be hard for your startup company to get funded. ;)
- Cristo
@Bindu - greed will always be there - not for the resources/money in your scenario, but for other stuff like one's social image/status, etc. Society will always value one thing or the other and people will get greedy about it. It's human nature to come out superior.... and it's part of evolutionary stuff. No system is perfect and we don't have unlimited resources. One has to go for the...
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- Vipul Rawat
Somalia?
- Hayes Haugen
your pontification makes no sense! money is simply a standard index to measure the value of things, so we can exchange dissimilar assets. i quite like hayes haugen's comment above :)
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Clearly Somalia does not have enough resources for everyone...
- Bindu Reddy
@Hayes: Somalia is an interesting situation. There is money, but there is no one "Somalia", because different states exist where the one once was. Somaliland has its own currency, as does Puntland, Maakhir, and others. But foreign currencies are used heavily as well. The Somali diaspora sends money back home to families and keep many of them solvent as well.
- Itachi
I think even without thing such as money, we would find something else to direct our greed. Greed is necessary for progress but too much greed is the problem.
- ashish
I know there are other forms of non-monetary systems, but I'm going back to Star Trek because it's most familiar: in it, money isn't replaced by another monetary unit. There are no credits, dollar primes, or other things by which all things' values are pegged. Instead, basic resources are so trivial to produce that even if there were a capitalist economy, they'd be worthless. So, a...
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- Mark Trapp
With resources that are scarce, they use a barter system, but a barter system is not a direct replacement for money. Bartering determines the value of items between two parties: there is no index by which they can say "I want more than what I really need for this." A dilithium crystal may be worth two warp converters to person A because he really needs two warp converters, or it may be...
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- Mark Trapp
Which comes to the problem people identify with money: it encourages hoarding. If you consume less than you need (or receive more than you need), you can save more, which means things become more scarce, which makes that which you saved worth more. The argument is that money (and subsequently capitalism), in many ways, is antithetical to the continued success of a society.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, Love your comments. It crystallizes my thoughts really well...
- Bindu Reddy
Jason: some fraction of actions are gift or donation based, such as volunteering, or perhaps distributed computing projects, that use only idle system resources
- Mike Chelen
BTW, everyone should watch “Dirty Jobs” sometime.
- Amit Patel
Don't you grieve - Roy Harper song Andy Roberts Music Guitar - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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When should you use Comic Sans? [diagram] - http://thenextweb.com/shareab...
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Awh, I *like* Comic Sans. But only in the right place.
- Isha (Marysia)
You're right it's probably a little unfair—but funny :D
- Andrew Roche
It is funny. Comic Sans is 'supposed' to be good for dyslexics but I hate it and I'm mildly dyslexic!
- Linda
Really? I would have thought that it was a bit busy for comfortable reading.
- Andrew Roche
Too busy for me and not enough letter differentiation when I'm tired. My college insists I use it when preparing handouts as they want to be 'dyslexia friendly' - sheesh!
- Linda
Oof. Not liking the new "Flickr from Yahoo!" logo on Flickr. Ugly ugly ugly.
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barbican1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I was there last sunday but no one showed up.
- MayC
according to Tim, there might have two people there who thought nobody else turned up.
- Andy Roberts
Create your own live updating Twitter widget - http://twitter.com/goodies...
Karen Kramer, SusanVillasLewis, Linda and 2 other people liked this
nice work Twitter guys!
- Allison
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This is very awesome. Thanks Allison ♥
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Love it. So simple yet really useful for niche blogs
- Lisa
mega awesome!
- Barb Sabathil
A Rant About "Technology" (Ursula K. Le Guin) - http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-Te...
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"We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all."
- Andrew Roche
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I've recorded a series of five screencast tutorials about basic photo editing using a Mac. What's the best thing to do with them?
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I'm glad you like the question, but does anybody have any suggestions?
- Andy Roberts
Well, I been thinking about it at the back of my head today, & a couple of things: 1. find some decent keywords, put up a blog, & either sell them on the back of a free teaser or they (or 1 or 2 of them) could be the free teaser to get them into your blog. Depends how valuable you think they are: you could give away one or 2 & charge for the others (I've been making notes on one of Eben Pagan's homestudy seminars today http://tinyurl.com/qk4nfx
- Isha (Marysia)
Pagan's video is v good by the way, & if you've not seen it could give you some ideas that would answer your question. 2. Find someone whose blog/site gets good visitor numbers in a related (but not competing) area & ask to do a post or an offer on their blog, & you'd tell the readers that they can get the tutorials on your blog.
- Isha (Marysia)
What we don't know is how long they are, what you think they're worth, what your intention was behind making them etc. So not sure if either of those suggestions actually fit your reality?
- Isha (Marysia)
3. Hunt around the internet finding out who & where are crying out for just that sort of tutorial. I'm reminded of the mantra of the 30dc, something about not having the product before doing the market research. 4. If you think they're good (you might like to verify that by getting someone to go through them) then perhaps Clickbank?
- Isha (Marysia)
Some good suggestions there, along the lines of what I'm grasping towards. I'm not sure what these kind of tutorials might be worth so I'm going to have to test it somehow. Keyword research has been underway but the specific niche is untested. I think I need to write a step by step plan now. Meanwhile, thanks for the ideas and I'll send you the plan and videos if you like.
- Andy Roberts
Yes, this is going about it backwards but there was a reason - I was stuck offline so it was the best I could do with my time. At the worst, I have content for five blog posts but feel I should be able to make more of it.
- Andy Roberts
I don't have Mac but thanks for the offer. Agree, you could make more of it.
- Isha (Marysia)
I've posted the first video on my blog to see what happens, there's also a list of what's covered in the remaining 4 vidoes - Number 1 is not the best one http://distributedresearch.net/blog...
- Andy Roberts
BBC NEWS | Politics | MP to sell duck house for charity - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
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"An MP who claimed £1,645 on expenses for a floating duck island is to sell it to raise money for charity."
- Kol Tregaskes
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Haha. Funny.
- Roberto Bonini
should be charged for defrauding the state and criminal proceedings started.
- alphaxion
You would think that would happen, but no. They get special treatment. The police who bundle me into the car ready to go and charge me with fraud for anything like that wouldn't give a flying f... if I gave my duck house to charity.
- Charlotte M
++Charley, with extra ++ ++ for making me laugh so much I choked :-D
- Andy Bold
But oh no though - what about the poor ducks? He's ripped us off, and now he is making the ducks homeless? Helpless prey for the foxes? Does anybody have the number for the RSPCA? We'll get him this time! Like that gangster guy and tax evasion in the Colonies! ;-)
- Andy Bold
Does he have a Windsor Castle's replica for his dog? Doesn't he know that animals are not that pretentious?
- M F
Dashalytics: Google Analytics on Your Dashboard - free apple dashboard widget - http://www.designmarketingadve...
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great finds, Aline! :] ..you really a Mac Lady, correct ... how about Windows .. anything outthere?
- Petr Buben
@Petr: he he he...yes i'm totally a mac lady :o) - and for Windows...hmm...humph...If i was really into Windows, i'd be all over that! - Blessings!!
- Aline Ohannessian
well, i see :] .. are Windows really that bad ? .. i thought you'd spare a time slice and get on it ! ...
- Petr Buben
this is soo useful! Thanks Aline :)
- Linda
@steveberryman What I do, to pretend to myself that I am being productive, is share stuff on Google Reader and FriendFeed :D
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Liberal Conspiracy: A Few Facts about Teenage Pregnancy - http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009...
About time.
- Andrew Roche
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Blip.fm | What are you listening to? - http://blip.fm/
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"I've used Pandora, Last.fm, Mufin and some others but I keep coming back to Blip.fm"
- Russellreno
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- esther ♥ ♫
last.fm is still my favorite. but i use blip.fm and hypem.com as well and scrobble to last.fm. in fact i use anything that will scrobble to last.fm.
- Lynne d Johnson
ok, who actually uses this? And can you please explain how it actually works...Do you have to type in what you're actually listening to??
- Zee.
Zee - I use blip nearly every day. It's awesome. It integrates seeqpod (I think) and you "blip" (like tweet) songs with a little message too. The interface lets you listen to all tracks in a similar way to favtape.
- Matt Harwood
Last.fm is my favorite for keeping track of my friends' listening habits, music discovery and listening to internet radio, but I love blip.fm for giving me a way to tweet and ff out what i'm listening to and to instantly hear what my friends are listening to.
- Mattie Kenny
Last.fm tracks my listening habits. blip.fm allows me to pull up any song I'm thinking of and post it somewhere. You can also create a playlist. And it all (for the most part) can be made part of your last.fm stats via the aforementioned scrobbling functions.
- Helen Sventitsky
before blip.fm i used twittytunes (i still use it), it's a firefox addon. while i'm listening to itunes and scrobbling to last.fm, i can send a tweet of what i'm listening to with twittytunes. i think bc of this blip.fm hasn't wowed me yet, other than being able to listen to friends' playlists.
- Lynne d Johnson
hey - that's really interesting Lynne. thank you.
- Zee.
Lynne - I used to use twittytunes but then when I upgraded my FF, the plugin didn't work anymore and I never bothered to add it. You bring up a very good point.
- Mattie Kenny
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
I like Blip, but haven't been as active on it as I used to be. I would lose followers whenever I blipped more than 3 times in a day. They need to beef up their selection. You used to be able to add your own stuff easily, but there are restrictions now.
- Bryan R. Adams
Have to say that Twisten.fm works a bit better in some aspects.
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
Could you elaborate Jeppe? Blip is just a search engine. None of the music resides on their servers, it just streams MP3 it finds on the net. Some (many?) of those servers are not very reliable.
- Jared B. Luther
Just added Google Analytics to my Tumblr...here are instructions if you want to do it too. - http://www.tumblr.com/docs...
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thanks!
- Helen Sventitsky
Market Samurai Settings for Search Region
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In Market Samurai Settings for Google, there's a drop down menu for selecting a region or else "All countries and territories". I initially set this to UK. After testing with several keywords with which I'm familiar, the results - particularly in the new competition analysis module - don't match those from a google UK search at all. Then I found that changing the setting made no difference at all. Checking against a Google.com search is closer, but after one particular search I became convinced that Samurai is working not only on google.com results but also using &GL=US to specifically retrieve results geared towards the US.
- Andy Roberts
So maybe this is a complicated problem relating to IP ranges, caching and other factors or maybe the software has the interface built in for selecting local searches but this hasn't been programmed and activated yet. Maybe it will be fixed for local searches before the 30Day challenge and trial period expire, but the way it looks to me now I have three options.
- Andy Roberts
1) Go through the 30DC using a US orientated phrase, and then apply what I've learned from that process to a new, different UK orientated phrase beginning all over again after September. That's what I ended up doing last year.
- Andy Roberts
2) Do the keyword research manually using Google trends, keyword external tool, wordtracker free keywords, Microsoft commercial intent tool, etc
- Andy Roberts
3) Ty to find a phrase that's likely to work well in *both* markets and see how much traffic I can get from both US and UK sources. If both turn out to be viable they might each end up being monetised differently.
- Andy Roberts
Andy, Have you raised this with the Samurai guys? I have had good and quick feedback from them on a variety of issues. Which of the three options have you decided to pursue?
- Walter van Straaten
Andy, You are not the only person having this problem as the Samurai Support Forum shows.
- Walter van Straaten
Yep, there are UK market issues with both keyword generation and the google ranking aspect, which is to say it's not working for either and the MS guys know already. I think we might have to accept that the challenge is very US centric in it's approach and the other aspects will be too. If MS does include the website/domain creation aspects Ed hints at in the ustream video than these too will be US based I think.
- Linda
I am equally frustrated, though it forces me to practice the manual method for researching a specific UK niche.
- thefluffanutta
The thing is, even when i first started and was targeting UK on my sites, I found that 70%+ of my traffic was coming from the US.
- Frann Leach
Interesting Fran, maybe it's niche specific. Mine are currently 80 +% UK traffic.
- Linda
I've been using the Market Samurai this morning as a refined suggestion tool for coming up with potential phrases within a broad area, then cross checking some of those that survive the filters against the manual method. This has thrown up 4 ideas so far, none of which is really all that promising, so I feel I need to generate a few more yet before I start thowing them all away!
- Andy Roberts
The French Furniture Company’s Blog is quality over quantity and tackles such subjects as Care Tips for painted furniture , information on conduction techniques though to back ground of shabby chic and Recycling. Very informative and sometimes quite funny . They Call it "news and Views" http://frenchinteriors.blogspot.com/ - http://www.thefrenchfurniturecompany.co.uk/
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Hi Fiona, welcome to the room. I think you meant to link to the blog though not the showroom.
- Linda
Organic Boxes Beat the Credit Crunch! | Organic Boxes - http://organicboxes.org.uk/organic...
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"Organic Boxes - 5 ways they save you money Organic boxes are one way of continuing to eat well whilst still saving a few pounds."
- Andy Roberts
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I hope the fox cubs don't wake us up at 4.00am again tonight, strangling squirrels or whatever it is that makes such a din.
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Wizz Jones resumes gigs - http://andyroberts.posterous.com/wizz-jo...
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I'd love t see Wizz and Simeon but not sure how to get to Tooting and back from here for an evening
- Andy Roberts
Leave gig at 11.15 walk to Tooting Broadway >Northern Line from Tooting >Moorgate>walk or Circle/Ham & City >Liverpool st> Home around 20 past 12
- Linda
ok thursday 30th October then
- Andy Roberts
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Walkers Crisps does Social Media - http://robin1966.blogspot.com/2008...
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The crisp giant is asking us, the people, to come up with new flavours of crisps. The winner gets £50K and 1% share of the profits!!
- Zee.
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I want 50k!
- Toby Graham
it's not a bad little earner
- Zee.
sod the 50k, the 1% of profits sounds yummie... lemmie see, roast tiger and grated, seasoned giant squid. Quite a delicacy amongst republicans from alaska I hear ;)
- alphaxion
+1 Alphaxion
- Zee.
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