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Aww, very adorable! Merry Christmas Robert! :) - Daynah

I've got TWO! one of each : ) - zac_in_ak

Gang's gone. SLEEP starts now. Merry Christmas Robert - Charlie Anzman

Right? I wish him 100 years of good health Robert. It's been some years, but my first Christmas as a dad was spent holding my months old premie, who wasn't supposed to live. He spent that 1st Christmas on my chest; I wouldn't hand him over to anyone, just in case. Now he's 16, 6'1" 201, starting O-tackle and D-ILB on varsity, honor student. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Ed: what a great story! It is the best, isn't it? - Robert Scoble

I love hearing your excitement Robert. With all the chaos in business, careers, controversies etc, there is a universal understanding of the renewing, consuming joy of an innocent beautiful baby or child. Watching from the outside, you remind me of me :) Very happy for you! - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

They just get better from here on out. - Scott Pierce

Beautiful. Have a very happy christmas, y'all! - Frank Koehntopp

What a sweetie! Merry Christmas to you, Maryam, Patrick and Milan. He looks so peaceful. :) - Karoli

My kids got up at 6 am, I need a nap right now, yet they are still excited. - al pascual

beautiful baby - lisa church

i remember those days......they're so cute when they sleep. And then they wake-up.... - Gregg

Great picture, Robert. Great story, Ed. Keep Milan away from the nativity scenes! - Louis Gray

there is nothing more prescious than watching your child sleep , best wish to milan and maryam and you - johnpiercy from twhirl

Awww, so sweet! - Summer

I don't get it where's the present? - sofarsoShawn

the fdic is *us* ... the taxpayers ... failure is only a measure of how much political will there is ... our lenders and debt holders will not likely enjoy where our politicians want to spread the pain (inflate our way out versus strengthen the dollar for geo-political reasons) - a quarter's worth - Scott Moskowitz from twhirl

If we have any influence at all, do you think social networking will be a part of that influence? A will of our own? - Mot Faerin

Wow ... Planning a bank run? Don't like the sound of that - Nick O'Neill

bank run? no ... but the reality is that there may need to be a way to enable bankruptcy judges to work around the "recent" legislation to adjudicate quickly & effectively (including modifying loan terms & getting rid of obstinate 2nd mortgage holders) ... not a simple situation & yet the thought of a bank run? where will you run to? at 4 bucks a gallon? (even the banking lobbyists are fighting the ads of the airlines) the business of america truly is business - Scott Moskowitz from twhirl

this kind of article always terrifies me. finance is the industry i work in and while it certainly COULD happen (see bear, stearns) it would be most likely to happen only if people start to panic and react in panic (see bear, stearns). - lisa church

Well, we might have to stop printing money willy-nilly, and tone down the fractional reserve banking. The banks that loan out large percentages of their entrusted money will have to rightly be punished by the market when the people want their money back and they can't pay up. FDIC only encourages and enables irresponsible bankers. - Gregor Morrill

47 minutes long, rather sobering, it attempts to explain the fundamental question "what is money?" video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279 - ǝuǝƃnǝ

money is a "medium of exchange" (exceopt at att& t were they want 2 bucks to settle a bill in cash) beteen "abstractions of value" (analog or digital that in excess of expense or cost of production) ... very encouraging ... welcome to bandwidth as currency ... - Scott Moskowitz from twhirl

They can aways print more money - paul mooney

@paul Who "they"? Who exactly can always print more money? I encourage you to watch "Money as Debt" movie. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

nice way to own up to our collective debt - "full faith & credit of the U.S. government" - we are in truly unique times & circumstances of our collective choosing - the dollar may see a further 20-30% drop on an inflate away belief alone ... EQUITY means you work for yourself DEBT means you work for others ... whether high borrowing rates & weak currency & limited credit availability we will *all* pay the price of less than transparent political institutions - Scott Moskowitz from twhirl

so true... - Pokai

Agree. - Orli Yakuel

you know I keep unsubscribing to you because you r a fucking Alister, but keep coming back because I like ur thoughts. - Noah David Simon

@noahdavidsimon at least Loic engages you in discussion not shits diarrhea on you like @Scobleizer - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I can't agree more! Just have been showed a "private" yet to release film about John Coltrane, and this IS what it's all about! - directeur from NoiseRiver

true - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Richard Sennett's 'The Craftsman' is essential reading on this subject http://bit.ly/2YNwyd - Bill Thompson from twhirl

does www.fftogo.com not work on your blackberry? It should. - Phil G

there is - i think it is fftogo or sumthin - Crystal Clear from Alert Thingy

Unfortunately www.fftogo.com does not work on my Verizon LG VX9900 (enV) phone which runs the Openwave Mobile browser v6.2.3.2 :( - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

ooer, fftogo runs on my n95. awesome :) - David Petar Novakovic from twhirl

fftogo works great on my bb pearl - lisa church

try http://friendfeed.com/embed... ? - Alan Cheslow

Alan - think you need to edit the link and replace / with ? for the google gadget: http://friendfeed.com/embed... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

no, try the link I posted.. -You'll see what I mean - Alan Cheslow

I can barely do a cell phone video that is this good. - Robert Scoble

Watching this event live via Qik from Congressman John Culberson was truly amazing. http://qik.com/video/86776 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

cool! that looks like No Mans' Land! for real - Susan Beebe

Awesome Brian - What's even more awesome is I can stay right here and pretty much get updated on everything I'm tuned in to?! - Charlie Anzman

A perfect mission. Everyone at JPL now wearing what looks like 3D glasses while viewing images. Anyone know what their function is? - Robert Stevens

Stuff like this makes me happy I'm a human. :) Hurray space exploration! - Tad

They're adding more on the Net (NASA TV is muted??) http://www.nasa.gov/mission... - Charlie Anzman

Man, imagine if they somehow come across water with actual bacteria... - Jacob Nahin

Thanks for the link Charlie. I think we're going to see a lot of cool stuff from Phoenix over the next few months. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Maybe a giant tornado self-defense system... - Jacob Nahin

@Robert: MarsPhoenix on Twitter has an answer about the 3D glasses: http://twitter.com/MarsPho... - Voyagerfan5761

I go for celebrating. You bring the champagne! - Ro (Lilyhill)

:) champagne - Loic Le Meur

champagne is always good. and content. - lisa church

where is champagne? I guess it's a place to share, you could collect, be aware of what's your "friends" want to make you discover. The risk would be 7000 members I guess! ;-) - ledretch

no alpha-tester needed for this one? ;-) - ledretch from twhirl

I hope this didn't break Twitter today :) :) http://blog.twitter.com/2008... - Bwana ☠

Wow, XMPP client for Twhirl sounds great!! yippee!! go for it Loic! - Susan Beebe

LOL@Bwana! - Brad McCrorey

@Bwana LOL - Loic Le Meur

Always willing to beta test... - Tris Hussey

yes beta-test!! we're volunteers =P - ledretch from twhirl

XMPP will be sweet - can't wait to see it! - Morgan from twhirl

Yes we are your beta-test army :D - Robert from twhirl

hey Loic let us beta test the XMPP twhirl client! :) I'd love to - John Blanton from Alert Thingy

@JohnBfromMemphis only if you switch to Twhirl for Friendfeed too :) - Loic Le Meur

ooh, let me test, let me test! - lisa church

I would luv to be a tester & twirl for FF sounds even cooler! You could call it ffwhirl! - Juliet Easton

I take it Twitter's disabling Jabber and lowering the API limit is going to require rethinking Twhirl a bit... Or did they turn XMPP back on? - Voyagerfan5761

I want in!!! - Kamath (नमः)

I do the opposite. Twitter being down makes me depressed, so gotta have the good stuff! - Robert Scoble

Drink the Dom anyway. It will make the lack of Twitter more enjoyable. - Sue Murphy

omg twitter .... I read that they are re-writing components 1 at a time - Emmanuel Pozo

If you look at the new Twitter's Down screen you'll notice that the birds are all flying in different directions. Kind of like how it is at Twitter right about now... - Tim Moore from twhirl

Its just amusing to me that they didn't think about scaling at all.. I mean using rails as a framework ... lame ... - Emmanuel Pozo

At the moment: 2005 Orobio Tempranillo Rioja - MoCheeks

Manu: maybe they were drinking beer instead of good wine? - Robert Scoble

Estancia Cabernet - calms my nerves! - Susan Beebe

It seems like Twitter spends more time making cute graphics than keeping the system online...or is that just me. - Sue Murphy

Robert: They were def not drinking , probably smoking something ... but 5.4m funding common now ... that has to buy you some intelligence .. no ? - Emmanuel Pozo

LOL sue ... they are actually rewriting each 1 of their components from scratch .. - Emmanuel Pozo

an inexpensive but good rose - corbières rosé “gris de gris” - lisa church

Obviously ;) Toasts with a nice D'arenberg Dead Arm... - Jono Haysom

Yeah but twitter didnt really have downtime issues either until everyone started joining en mass over the last 4-5 months or so. It will be interesting to see if Friendfeed can handle the load... - Andrew Cafourek

You bet! FriendFeed just got interesting again thanks to you! :-) - Sue Murphy

Yup! I'm here too now! - Dalibor Dimovski

yup - joesardone

No. - Vincent X

Just joined up - Bradley Preuss

I am :-) - Darren Rowse

looking forward to seeing/hearing you in san francisco! - lisa church

Down here too. WOW!! - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

Yup - switch to FriendFeed. - Hutch Carpenter

I'm reduced to playing with Brightkite. The humanity... - David Bisset from twhirl

FriendFeed has never gone down. Or even gotten slow. It's like the guys who started it worked at Google or something. Oh, wait, that's right, they did. - Robert Scoble

@Scolbe: Watch it Robert, or you're going to jinx it. - David Bisset

Did they just yank out Rails? - Puneet Thapliyal

Twitter out here, also. Good thing, because I have to get some work done. Hoohoo. - Cesar Cardoso

I didn't know about this until I saw this message. I tried going to m.twitter.com on my phone and got a 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't even get a birdie. - Ontario Emperor

You CAN turn Twitter off you know. - Chris Wallace from Alert Thingy

Scoble what did you do to break Twitter? - Bryan

Had to LOL about that. I mean, we just switched service, the noise's still here with Twhirl! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski from twhirl

@chris it's unpossible to turn off twitter - acedanger from twhirl

Michael Arrington killed Twitter... yeah, that's it. - Rudy Amid

all about the multi tasking. I manage to maintain productivity with it open - BCK from twhirl

You've been coming up with some pretty good quotables lately - Charlie Anzman

Yet FriendFeed comes to take its place... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

@Scoble do you want Jaiku invitation? it is more reliable than twitter and some time ago moved to Google's infra... - A.T.

silpol I've been on Jaiku since the first days. I like FriendFeed a lot better. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'd love to see a demo of how you use FriendFeed - I keep trying to move over but just can't figure out a productive way to use it. - Jesse Stay

@Scoble i wish FF gets sms mechanism for push one day, as twitter or jaiku - A.T.

Jesse, I'm writing a blog post right now about one aspect: liking and commenting. - Robert Scoble

I'm excited to see it - I'd also love to see how you browse your feeds. When do you use Twitter vs. Friendfeed, Reader, etc.? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I don't have a set routine. I watch FriendFeed the most, though. I also use Google Reader quite often, watch Twitter on either Twhirl or Google Talk or Tweetscan (not to mention FriendFeed), and still look at TechMeme too. I just posted the thing about listening on FriendFeed on my blog at http://scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble

I've started watching both friendfeed and socialthing - playing with both trying to work out which best suits my needs. It is quite possible that both will, but it also means seeing duplication. - Mick Adams

probably because tourist things wouldn't have appealed to you, you lived there what's unique about it? - Justin Yost

I went to fisherman's wharf with the kids last week: don't miss the submarine visit before going to Alcatraz: really cool! - Patrick Chanezon