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nice post. I call it one's digital footprint; the collection of all your inputs into the web. in other words, the digital YOU. - http://tinyurl.com/6pp347 - linkman77

Mark, agreed. A blog (site) is definitely something that a blogger can create, but it doesn't fit the "home" metaphor. It needs much more substance than just the blog itself. - Alexander van Elsas

Jason, last I looked Ning was using an advertisement based business model so that is out of the question to become a "home", just like Facebook could never be a "home" either. It needs to be a place belonging to the user. - Alexander van Elsas

Linkman77, sorry, I'm talking about something different from your digital footprint. I could imagine the digital footprint being part of my on-line "home", but again, it is much more than that. I do like the digital footprint metaphor btw. - Alexander van Elsas

For a place on the web I can call home, SNS just doesn't cut it. The closest thing to an online home is Second Life for me. I'm not there much anymore, but when I was, I owned my own land, built my own house, lounged on my couch, watched the tube, invited friends over, chatted with neighbors, etc. A home inside a virtual world is as close as it gets to a IRL home ATM. Until 3D becomes easier to use, more mainstream, and more integrated with the internet/our OS, many of us will feel like online nomads. - Hao Chen

@Hao, yes a home could be some 3D word, but imo it doesn't necessarily need to be that. The question " who owns it" is really important. If you can use something for free, the service provider is bound to make revenues using some advertisement model, and that wouldn't fit. I don't see myself hanging a banner with advertisement in my (physical) house, so why should I do that on the web. - Alexander van Elsas

127.0.0.1 There's no place like home. :P - Hao Chen

Jason, open source software might work. I guess the point is I do hope that 3rd parties will come with easy to use building blocks that take care of things like building and maintenance. I don;t always have to build a home, but I do want to decorate it and customize it to my convenience. I'd be willing to pay for that, as long as it's truly mine ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

The question is whether a facebook-like service (that is withouth the infantile apps but with the basic features) could exist with a business model focused entirely on user value. If ownership of data and profile would be transferred to the user (buy or rent) then we might have a simple start of a place we eventually could call "home". The ownership is important. I get to decide what it looks like, who gets in and who doesn't, and the service provider can't hog data (wrong business model). Could that work? - Alexander van Elsas

I'd love to get it, but UVerse still isn't available here. My DSL connection goes down whenever we have a thunderstorm. - Mike Hussein Cohen

Glad it's working for ya! Hawaiian Tel keeps talking about fiber to the home, but they're losing landline subscribers fast and furious. It can't be that hard on an island. http://billso.com/hawaiia... - Bill Sodeman

First thing I did was load my 10 faves or more set on Flickr which has over 2,000 photos in it to see how fast it would load 2,000+ thumbnails at once. Answer, very fast, maybe 10 seconds. The other thing is Flickr used to hang on certain thumbnails on large thumbnail pages for me, but not anymore, everything loads perfectly now even on very intensive pages full of images. I love it. Have to go play with the TV part of it next. - Thomas Hawk

Sounds wonderful Thomas. Can't wait to visit at your house. - Todd Jordan

I'm wanting to install fiber as soon as its available in my area, I had it in utah and it was amazing... A true godsend...so fast...*drools..* - Patrick

Have you done a speed test? - cjmart

whoa, whoa, whoa, you signed up for the FiOS TV service, too? That seems like a Thomas Hawk from an alternate reality. Though I hear they have a decent four tuner HD DVR. Jealous -- it may be years before its available where I am in SF. - Robert Seidman

How does the speed compare to cable? I've heard of dropout issues with others in my neighborhood that switched to Uverse - keep us updated. - James Hull

My Uverse isn't as fast as my Time Warner was on the internet side, but with 2-3x as many HD channels that just WORK every time and don't pixelate, I'm in love. - Blake

My inlaws just got it. Supposed to be available at my house in November! :) - cjmart

Congrats Thomas! Fast is more fun. We upgraded our TimeWarner and it is pretty consistently 15download/1upload now. Don't know if we can get Fiber yet where I live in KC. - Johnny Sewell

Congrats and welcome to 'real' broadband. I've been loving life since the beginning of this year with my Comcast Business class connection. Right now during prime evening time, I'm getting about 14Mb down and 1.5Mb up. Average is 16-18Mb down. I've seen it go as high as 24Mb down in the early AM!! - Jeff P. Henderson

we're suppose to be getting FiOS in our building soon, but they said that it would be ready last month.... - nick carrasco

Jealous! - asiriusgeek

@Thomas: Just wondering if you are still liking your Uverse connection. I'm supposed to have it installed on Friday but I thought I'd get your opinion one last time - if you've got the time, thanks! - James Hull

ah, you deleted the youtube vid? Hah.. weird, thats why I clicked like and nothing happened.. and the comment just hung trying to submit. it's interesting watching how other people use FF... you need the Friends and Groups greasemonkey script, Mona! - Tim Hoeck

Really? Hold on... the high quality one isn't showing up. Man, this is terrible. Please bear with me while I try to figure it out =( Thank you. As for the greasemonkey script, I know LOL. I need to do that ...soon - Mona Nomura

One word. Wow. - jho

How do you FriendFeed?? - Mona Nomura

@Mona - hah! I'm a "huge mouse person" too. - Lindsay

Mona, I think I might do a video on this.. I'll be forcing Mike F. to do one as well ;) - Tim Hoeck

Lindsay: I'm not down with fancy things.. It's easier for me to scroll -> refresh -> scroll -> refresh ;) Tim: You both TOTALLY should!! - Mona Nomura

LOL - just finished watching it. You cracked me up with your "LIKE" on Duncan's feed. :) - Lindsay

Well.. I mean.. I don't really.. well.. Sorry Duncan... oops - Mona Nomura

One more thought before bed - You have a great voice! :) - Lindsay

Aw, thank you Lindsay :) G'nite!! - Mona Nomura

You need a sound effect to go with your scrolling action, Mona. I suggest the revving motor of an engine as it races past....nnnnnyyyyyyaaaaaaaooooooo, - Pete D

That was fun :) I use FF in pretty much the same way - Bob Kingsley

I love the video! Thanks for the mention, you rock Mona :) - Mike Fruchter

I LOVE your voice. - Mike Fruchter

Very cool Mona. Very cool! - AJ Batac :)

@Mike I fully expect a MonaChannel when Streamulo is out of super secret beta. Sign Me UP! - Carlos Ayala

Predictions come true. First step to Rock Stardom. Moooona ! Hyper-scrolling! - Charlie Anzman

"My feed is ample" eloquent while frantic. Nice. - Josh Haley

Believe it or not, there IS method to my madness ;) Thank you Josh, Mike, Carlos, AJ, Charlie! @Bob: Thank goodness, I thought I scared everyone :) - Mona Nomura

Thank you Mona, trying Jing...and love the hyperscrolling bit. Why did you take down the video? - nieuwbouw20

nieuwbouw20, ty :) after recording the clip. don't forget to compress the file w/ an online converter (there are free ones!) the clip is still here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Mona Nomura

OMG your voice is uncannily like an ex-girlfriend. Everything about it, your use of language, the tone, your inflections, ... Watching this video was giving me flashbacks LOL Good flashbacks, pleasant memories. You have a nice voice. Also, I friendfeed almost exactly the same. - ·[▪_▪]·

omg, Ok. I'm super ultra embarrassed now... :| - Mona Nomura

Sorry o_O - ·[▪_▪]·

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قابل توجه خانم نسترن و قُلشون - Vahid۹Online

اونی که کنترل سی هست زودتر به دنیا اومده - Vahid۹Online

تا حالا مثل هم نپوشیدیم ولی اگر بپوشیم احتمالا ما هم کپی پیست میشیم:ی:ی - nastaran

واسه همین میگم قابل توجه شما، اینها هم که مثل هم نپوشیدن :) - Vahid۹Online

Wonderful! - Mitchell Tsai

حالا فقط یه کپی و پیستشون با هم فرق می کنه مدل موشونو عینک شون تقریبا یکیه دیگه:ی - nastaran

رو نوشت به تهمتن - atalmatal

"when god dose copy paste" - Vahid۹Online

Rick is right. The lifestream angle is great if your focus is your life and the chronological order, but thoughts are different -- they're topical and just because they're 'old' don't necessarily make them out of date (although in some cases they do :) The point of the conversations is 'thinking' not 'doing' (which, BTW, is the antithesis of most online design -- hmmm, haven't thought about that before). - Rotkäpchen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Is it the future or is the future of blogging a return to blogging roots, with noise moving to lifestreams? - Tristan Louis

@Tristan - I get what you mean. Many blogs have become pseudo magazine publishing sites (Engadget, Techcrunch) - the personal, communicative element has been totally eroded there. I think sites like LiveJournal are truer to the roots of blogging. ie blog = weblog = web log - linkman77

It's a good article, but it seems like this is more of a fork in the road of the future, rather than the future of all blogging, an alternative or compliment rather than the next evolution. Thought leaders may still want to blog, or have some kind of interactive platform for their voices. If RWW was a lifestream, what would this post have been like? - Tinu Abayomi-Paul

I like the idea of a blog based round the Friendfeed stream. I could see things heading more in that direction. The blog showcased in the article highlights one of the crippling drawbacks of Friendfeed, though, which is the lack of a "recent conversation" summary. Also: I don't think lifestreaming is necessarily navel-gazing. Most shares on Friendfeed aren't personal streaming, for example, but links to the articles, photos or videos that a user is interested in. - David Young

Would love to stream my Seesmic comments to RWW! I am a Cannibal and my dinner is Virgins and Middle Class! http://seesmic.com/video... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have done almost exactly the same thing with my site Svartling Network: http://www.svartling.net/ - Svartling

I don't think this is blogging (as some commented), this is more a form of entertainment. It's like American Idol vs. pro singers - Jorge Escobar

Excellent post Sarah. Ref Christopher's comment, I have been using Soup.io lately to aggregate my 'lifestream' and thoughts re music, books etc. It's nothing special tbh (I don't have any time to devote to it!), but I have thought of it as re-discovering personal blogging. definitely a work in progress and by no means is the content compelling for anyone but me, but to illustrate what... more... - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Check http://chyrp.net its a cool script to made a lifestream with import capacities. - Víctor Hugo Hernández from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hmmm ... I don't think life streaming will replace blogging. Twitter for example is interesting and almost addictive but it has no depth. For myself one of the great things with twitter is when people I am following point me in the direction of a great blog or post they have found. I do however agree there is a need to bring everything together, my blog for example, and especially my about page is a central hub of my Social Network. It links to most things I do online. http://www.stephenbaugh.com/about - Stephen Baugh from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I try to logon atleast one a day or so. - Aaron Myers

Well I guess that might partly explain why my experience on the new 3G iPhone is so sucky in San Francisco. - Thomas Hawk

...and why its so good in central florida. - Carlos Ayala

HONK. - Morgan

um, MEONK! - FFing Enigma

MEEP MEEP MEEP! - Carrie

HONK HONK MEEP HONK! (That was my day, hurting teeth in the morning, getting better around 3-4, then realized my bank account had $1,000 less than I thought). - Brandon Titus

HONK! - Maryam Ardakani

MEEP! MEEP! - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

flippin' HONK! - Vicarbott from twhirl

My motorcycle's horn doesn't work. Parts are on order. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted from NoiseRiver

honk - mjc

Menk! - Yolanda

Meep! Sputter! Honk! Sputter! Meep! (many moods in one day) - Dana Coffey

Meep! Meep! Any day I'm published on Mashable is a great day! - paisano from twhirl

hooOOOoonk - Rai

MEEP - @baratunde from twhirl

Meehonk. - Jake (aka Jawee)

Meep! - Bren

*crashes* - Mo Kargas

Meep-Honk:) - Igor Poltavskiy

meep meep! - Melissa

monk - Jessica from twhirl

Now MEEP :D - Maryam Ardakani

MEEP - Robert from twhirl

meep - videopixil from twhirl

meep-honk - Marten

sooooooooooooooooooo MEEP :D - Maryam Ardakani

RBI Baseball was my favorite game on the Intellivision. Many an hour.... - Jason Wehmhoener

every play Bump n' Jump on Intellivison? - Adam Kazwell

No, missed that one, but my second fav was definitely BurgerTime. - Jason Wehmhoener

Yes, really good post. This contains many glimpses of the future. - Meryn Stol

A report with far reaching consequences and a clear eye into the future. Thanks!! - Aarthy

This is something that should be posted every two weeks. We tend to focus on things that make us more efficient in the current system, instead of questioning its foundation (publication pressure) and seeking long term solutions. - Pawel Szczesny

One person is not as smart or smarter than all of us. The western ideal of the lone genius (be that one person or one organization) is nothing more than a romantic notion one that works to support non-disclosure. Your suggestion has merit in that data disclosure would potentially encourage deeper peer review, more comprehensive analysis and richer understanding. Kudos on presenting a compelling and cogent argument. The future is not proprietary. - Dave Martin

Science is, as such, generally not proprietary, at least not the life sciences. However, we do have a tendency to be protectionist about our data and as many remind me, it's not always because of choice, but because people need to work within the confines of a publish or perish academic research system. There's enough people who want things to be different, many active in academic science (unlike me). It's easy for me to write down something. The change will have to come from within, and it will - Deepak Singh

I suppose we need a balance between the two. We need the humility to realize that what we are doing is a lot bigger than any individual, and the pride in our work to have a sense of ownership and desire to make it as good as it can be. Somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost some of those values - Deepak Singh

That's the same Bill Joy that proposed a moratorium on Molecular Biology and Nanotechnology studies because they would end up creating tiny replicating machine-virus? - pn

Yep, same fellow. I believe I once called him a luddite. That said, he has his moments. Also founded Sun along the way - Deepak Singh

I remember a lunatic, who was at the same time a professor at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, almost got into a fight with some biologists based on Joy's article. - pn

http://www.ime.usp.br/~kon/ - pn

re Neil Saunders - sure it's everyones, just after the publication gets accepted :) - Rajarshi Guha

This is really sweet. - Kenley Neufeld

Ok, downloaded 3 hours so far, my iTunes is happy. - michael sean wright

Woah... excellent share :) thank you, thank you - Michael W. May

My dilemma: wget the whole thing or go through the database picking and choosing... the blog needs an rss feed too - Michael W. May

I know RSS would be great, doesn't look like he's a big on design, just an incredible collector who wanted to share his music. Wonder if he would be open to us helping him? - michael sean wright

Poor Clifford, Wired just did a story on him and his site is now down : ( http://blog.wired.com/music... - michael sean wright

what lead you to believe it might be sponsored? - Todd Jordan

I've stopped myself from doing that more times than I can count for a variety of reasons ... ugh ... including you :) - Charlie Anzman

Really? With me? Definitely call it. I'm more likely to rant about something frequently than fawn over it. :D - Cyndy