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USAir plane lands in the Hudson River
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But I only learned about this from Thomas Hawk first because of reverse chronological posting. ;-) Had I been reading in the order posted, Kevin Fox would have been my "news source."
- michael silverton
bump.
- Mona Nomura
You know someone somewhere caught it on video. I expect it by this evening, as soon as they find an agent.
- Kevin Fox
currently 21F in NYC. brr.
- ⓞnor
Amazing rescue. Wow.
- Jim Mitchem
Someone took a picture from the ferry http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
Is there anyway i can mark this as "i don't like this" i feel guilty marking this news as "i like this.
- Adam Jackson
How about just change "Like" to "Bump"?
- Roshan Vyas
Definitely feel bad about "Liking" this. Bump suggestion is good
- mashable
Launched this around my office, and people are suprised about me knowing this already.
- Stephen Lecheler
I think "Like" should be "highlight" instead.
- Richard Lawler
Behold the power of live journalisim. Just got a huge burst of data from Scoble about the plane crash in New York.
- Stephen Lecheler
That Twitpic picture made it on MSNBC and CNN wild.
- Mona Nomura
suyun üzerine düşmesi büyük şans kimse ölmemiş. hatta tv den gördüm az önce bir vatandaş sevinçle çıkıyordu uçaktan.
- Volkan Yılmaz
I found out about this and the Steve Jobs news via Twitter. Change is happening...
- Louis Gray
Crossposted: This is "augmented social cognition" in everyday action -- moniter, moniter, signal spike, relay, relay, process, relay, react, involve, resolve, reset. Rudimentary, yes, but worthy of closer research! http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- michael silverton
Hudson river plane crash nyc - sources, all collection up to date, now krunch'd at http://krunchd.com/hudsonplane
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Waiting at PHL for the first US Air flight I've taken in a long time. I'm glad everyone is ok. I was relieved to hear the evacuation was orderly and hope ppl take this as a reminder that once and a while you should actually read the instructions for the emergency exit.
- Sarah Miller
Michael, good point on "source" How news gets propagated from now on is going to get very interesting analytically.
- Melanie Reed
The path that got me the news on this oddly was having TwitterGadget open in Gmail: CNN BreakingNews pushes it to my Desktop slightly faster than NTARC twitters it in my TwitterGadget window. I immediately tweet to my followers and then go to check FF
- Melanie Reed
macro- blogsearch has in general 270 macro blogs on this story ; compared with maybe 100.000 twitters on this, extremely slow as expected ; btw, coincidence that google took down 4 of their services today??? maybe they needed new server space for * this* [did google/nasa crash the hudson plane ?? [cp 2.o theory]...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
^^^ PAGING SPAM KILLER TEAM. Thx.
- Micah
from YouFeed
Micah, put it in the Spam Group.
- Rochelle
Dealt with. (My first thought was 'oh crap, another jet landed in the Hudson??')
- Kevin Fox
Yeah, I was kind of psyched out too, Kevin. Rochelle, I'm now subscribed - thank you both.
- Micah
I am from Turkey. :)
- Cihan Özbek
Kevin, are you talking about the ewing2001akaNicomedy2010 account? I'm still seeing it.
- Rochelle
It's not actually spam. Read the comment: it's on topic. The rest of the account isn't spammy either.
- Akiva
No, we weren't talking about ewing2001. There was a spammer (username suatuigamala) leaving commentspam in the post. It's an unfortunate artifact that Micah's calling-out now points to an innocent commenter after the spam was removed. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Want some inspiration? Watch this, and learn how I discovered it because of today's plane crash:
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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
Just saw this post randomly. Hope things are well.
- Janis Krums
Just watched the final episode of #BSG. Loved the ending... wrapped it all up nicely... cc: @londonfilmgeek
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I've officially won the internets! I'm on top of the world, ma! http://ffholic.com/Users...
Chris Johnson, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Lix and 44 other people liked this
*pats Alex on the head*
- Rodfather
/me purrs and starts kicking leg
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
For you, Mark? Any room should work.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
uh, congrats on that...that thing.
- Josh Haley
What'd ya win?
- Derrick
Alex you addict. Wow I remember looking at this a month or so ago and Tyson had 24k points while others had 15k or thereabouts. The points look really low now.
- Kol Tregaskes
I think they changed the time period for how they are added, Kol. Looks like a rolling 1 week to 1.5 week period now.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Brian, thanks for the heads up. I usually hide those lolcats.
- Derrick
Alex, ah.
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh just seen myself at the bottom there in 15th! I'm sure I was 35th or something last time. Gosh!
- Kol Tregaskes
Brian, I'm 238th. BACK OFF! :)
- Jandy
Congratulations, sir.
- James Ferguson
Woohoo! I think the highest I ever got was 4th.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Wooo Hoooooo! that is awesome! I've been in top 5, glad to be 95 now
- Susan Beebe
MVB is up there too! He hold the record for making coffee come out of my nose the most
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Yeah, Mark will do that to you.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Mazel tov!
- Akiva
I made it into the high 300s, but I've now fallen back into the 400s. *sigh* I need to stop trying to get real work done, and concentrate on my FF postings. :-)
- Joey Gibson
Yay!
- Tyson Key
Mother Scoble must be proud of her boys. :)
- Rochelle
Norwood, Jandy I'm watching you. I'm up higher on the caterpillar pillar looking down from the 221st. Now I must go re-read http://www.hopefortheflowers.com/ (srsly folks, everyone should read Hope for the Flowers. It's an experience, not just a book).
- Micah
Joey, you can do it! I was a distant 450 when I first looked at ffholic. :) Micah, I haven't read Hope for the Flowers since I was a kid. I'd probably get way more out of it now - I just liked the pictures then.
- Jandy
Jandy, awesome. It's a kid's book that's really and grown-up tale that's really an everybody story.
- Micah
Nice!
- David Cook
I thought that site broke a few months ago... and am I really the only one who never checks ffholic?
- Mona Nomura
Greg posted 6 hrs ago. So: -5:45:00...-5:45:01...
- Micah
What was the countdown for?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, 15 minutes of fame. Of course we may be fast and loose with the time continuum per the producers of LOST.
- Micah
I thought the countdown was until Alex blew up, ala Cody Jarrett. (Per Alex's quote.)
- Jandy
Aha, that's good. Now you're famous. Many more people going to follow you as a result.
- Richard A.
A Scoble is at top of both most popular and most active lists. Yes, our quest for world domination is done! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert and Alex, not quite, you need to be the most linked and liked as well... that may be more of a challenge.
- Richard A.
Scoble family takes over the world... and there is reinforcement coming! Watch out!
- Jorg Jansen
Yeah, this is not me being famous.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I went from 65th to 513th :)
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Hey, I'm 882, take that 883.
- Robert Hafer
The bare minimum amount of exercise you need to stay healthy (it's less than you think!) - http://shine.yahoo.com/channel...
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Seven minutes?
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
So all the commercials telling me to go outside for an hour is making me exercise 53 more minutes than I should have?
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Well that explains why I'm not dead yet...
- FFing Enigma
the problem people is not the excercise, it's the crap some people out there eat. if you ate more healthy foods and less mcdonalds, excercise isn't as big an issue in peoples daily lives...
- Terry O'Fee
Terry, that also helps explain why I'm not dead yet. I try to not eat crap... Often.
- FFing Enigma
Way back when I was in college our aerobic teacher told us that 10 min. of activity a day was good enough to maintain.
- Anika
i eat crap but not on a daily basis. and i don't eat a lot. yes, im a little podgy but can be hidden with a tshirt and found a good meal plan im going to start in the next few weeks...
- Terry O'Fee
Yeah I don't think so. I have a healthy, tailored diet, and if I don't do 30mins-1hr of exercise a day I gain weight rapidly. I'm calling this an epic crock of bull refuse.
- Mo Kargas
Metabolisms vary, Mo. Yours may just be slower than average...
- FFing Enigma
@Mo: Ditto. Even with a healthy diet, I'm pretty sure that even 7 minutes a *day* is not enough.
- Charles Bihis
@Tina Or these 7 minute people are actually hummingbirds
- Mo Kargas
Why the heck am I doing 90 minutes of bikram yoga 2-3 days a week then? *Falls out*
- Amani
it depends on some people, that's right. there is no "one surefire way" to lose weight (apart from stop eating completely, but i dont recommend that to anyone). people are too different and need to find their own tips and tricks. my mother only recently just turned 50 and she's only just now having to start excercising, her metabolism has been great over the years (looks like i got my dads genes hahah)
- Terry O'Fee
Windows 7 Versions - Is it Three of Six? *headline edited @ 11pm est. - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
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PC World published at 4:58pm it will be Six versions. ZDnet says three versions at 12:53pm. What is this, Apple news? Sheesh.
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
Wow, what are their marketing people on?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Read the article - it breaks down the versions.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Missed that, thanks Bwana!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
It's really strange how PC World published this at 4:48pm, when ZDnet published the slimming down at 1:53pm... Hmmmm.
- Mona Nomura
The Beta is 'a happening'. Lovin' it
- Charlie Anzman
Mona, at this point, I don't know who to believe. Engadget also posted six versions http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Bwana ☠
LOL Windows 7 Starter - "Limited to 3 simultaneous applications"
- Bwana ☠
ZDnet said MSFT released the details... but I don't see it anywhere on the site. I am confused.
- Mona Nomura
I trust ZDnet and I trust PC World - in this case, who should we believe? And should I edit the headline? :( MAN I only thought Apple news brings headaches like these...
- Mona Nomura
Update the headline with "Is it Six or Three?" LOL LOL I'm with ya Mona, this is very confusing
- Bwana ☠
This sucks LOL!
- Mona Nomura
Mona - In the 'real world' ... Does it really matter? Microsoft will probably change it all long before the actual release :)
- Charlie Anzman
Well of course it matters - I don't care who brings me the news first, I just want accurate news. If all my trusted sources are saying different things, what am I supposed to do? Divide the sum by two?
- Mona Nomura
And what's even MORE baffling is ZDnet published: "Microsoft has finally released details of how it’s going to distribute and sell Windows 7." but there's no source... :|
- Mona Nomura
Update via MSFT's press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspa... JEEZ
- Mona Nomura
LOL so now it's two? Wow. This is fun to watch.
- Bwana ☠
If you scroll to the bottom, he babbles on about how MSFT understands the need for different versions for different markets. I counted four more (enterprise, starter, home, and home basic), along with the two main ones: Home Premium and Pro. CONFUSING.
- Mona Nomura
Honestly the various versions of Vista was the least of my complaints. Though I was lucky enough to pick it up while I was still attending school and thus only paid 15 bucks for it.
- John
Things get crazy when I drink that second sprite. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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My friends gave me a send off tonight. I am heading to California in the next two weeks.
- Russellreno
from Bookmarklet
Will you be shooting photos or just relaxing? Have a great vacation.
- Anika
I am moving to Turlock Ca, my birth place and home of my parents, sister and other assorted relatives. I haven't had any alcohol in over one year and my nose is red. What's up with that?
- Russellreno
I try.
- Russellreno
Holy moly! And you have to eat it all before the end of the night....?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Uh oh! I thought I killed all the photos from Sunday night!
- Steven Perez
Not going to be fun waking up next to her.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Oh moving! Well, then have a smooth move.
- Anika
hee
- edythe
awesome drink! where's the straw ?!! :)~
- Susan Beebe
I ate the straw.
- Russellreno
Apple teams up with Adobe for iPhone Flash at long last - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Phil Glockner, Panagiotis Astithas, Todd Brunner and 23 other people liked this
we'll see
- andy brudtkuhl
Will. Not. Happen.
- Tyson Key
Maybe in a few months.
- JCunwired
Adobe can get something decent running on an ARM if they really want to. It's more than capable.
- Bryan Bartow
from twhirl
Will Safari stop crashing for long enough for me to even get to a Flash interface?
- Brian Chang
I will believe it when I see it.
- Francine Hardaway
Man i can only say what i think, i love tech but from well pokey old N.Ireland, i love my iPone & flash but I fear we will never see Flash on the iphone, this threatens Apples whole profit model. Before App Store and even now the abundance of webapps specially designed for the iphone. Now imagine the Possibilities with Flash & Action script, the small file sizes and complete lack of...
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- Paul Kennedy
+1 for Francine's comment.
- Randy Holloway
Even if they can overcome efficiency issues, existing flash programs are not built for multi-touch, or any form of finger-touch. I suspect a large number of them would be unusable in anything resembling a browser, and would need serious work to make them any good. Adding flash would simply add frustration as people poked around trying to get things to work. I just don't see Apple wanting to expose users to this kind of experience.
- Robin Barooah
Not a fan of this. Flash is a processor hog and most things aren't built for multi touch. My iphone battery already doesn't last too long especially if I use the phone. Flash is going to kill it. I do use twhirl but I stuggle to see how flash is going to add to the iphone / ipod touch experience.
- Chris
from twhirl
On the other hand, I could imagine them entertaining the idea of a flash video player of some sort. Such a thing could be made available by apple in the platform as a cocoa component, or as a binary by Adobe. Video sites such as hulu could then write regular app-store apps to provide a native iPhone GUI to play video from their existing networks. Apple wouldn't lose any of the control they currently have over app distribution, and the iPhone would gain video players for the flash sites.
- Robin Barooah
How big of a deal is multi-touch, Flash and the iPhone? The iPhone webkit stack provides (almost) everything needed for the interface. Flash is badly needed for two thing 1) Video 2) hidden Flash objects for marshalling data between the presentation layer and the server. I'm sure some people will try and use Flash on the iPhone to build "flashy" sites but DHTML/Ajax can do all of that already
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
yes, please! but wait... that will snail up my iPhone! augh!
- Susan Beebe
My First FlipCamHD video - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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I'd love to see what iMovie '09's anti-shake algorithm would do with that.
- Kevin Fox
Went out there to check out the quality of the video and it seems you have the server hammered. What are you overall thoughts on the device. Looking to get one for family usage.
- Sloan Bowman
Sloan: I like the small size of the FlipCam. A camera that gets taken with you takes more video and provides more value. The Kodak has slightly better video quality and takes AA batteries.
- Robert Scoble
got mine literally in transit now, my 3rd flip cam
- sean percival
How do you like the audio on those two cameras? The Kodak Zi6 audio sounded good when Chris Pirillo and Steve Garfield used it, but they were in environments with little background noise.
- Bruce Lewis
Which Kodak are we talking about?
- Christopher Harper
These pocket cams are too expensive for what you get. $200 is a lot for crappy webcam quality video that doesn't take pictures. Also, the CMOS sensor causes a very noticable 'wobbly' video from the rolling shutter and slow processor. On the other hand, the CCD sensor on digicams aren't good for video either since you'll get purple streaks in high contrast scenes and a lot of noise in indoor/low-light.
- Rodfather
Bruce: the audio works great. I have older FlipCam which I use here: http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer and the audio is great as long as you stay close to the subject. Missionary: Kodak Zi6.
- Robert Scoble
Rodfather: what would you recommend then?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: 2 questions. Is the mic on the Kodak Zi6 as good as the mic on the Flip Ultra? IS the low light performance as good on the Kodak Zi6 as on the Flip Ultra? I remember reading in a review that the low light shooting on the Kodak is not on par with the Flip.
- Gregg H.
I'd recommend a digicam from Samsung at the moment. They are cheap, take decent pics, and record in h.264. The NV24HD has a wide 24mm lens, but the main drawback is the sound cuts off when zooming. Still, it's cheap, small, has optical image stabilization, optical zoom, takes SD cards, and shoots in multiple video resolutions.
- Rodfather
Greggish: I don't know. I will try to do a review. Mike Arrington is testing a few out too and we're going to Davos together. Rodfather: I'll get a Samsung too. They looked very nice at CES.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - you never listen. :P The Flip HD is one of the *WORST* of these types of cameras, dude. You got taken. The Creative Vado kicks the shit out of the Flip Mino HD.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Robert makes a good point that having the camera with you all the time provides more value. These are small enough to put in your pocket wherever you go, and to use for things you might not have thought of without them. Great if the next gen has some sort of always-available connectivity.
- Tom Landini
Rodfather: It sounds good on paper to use the video mode of a digicam. But I've found that the movie mode on even the better digicams lack when it comes to adjusting to changing light conditions. When moving to bright light you get wash out. When moving to low light you get an almost black screen. Quickly adjusting to light changes and shooting in low light is something the Flip does exceptionally well, even if the image quality is not very high.
- Gregg H.
l0ckergnome: OK, I'll get a Creative Vado. I didn't pay for a FlipHD yet.
- Robert Scoble
@Greggish. Ya it really depends on your use. The processor for the Mino handles light well and with the CMOS sensor, is generally better in low light. Don't get me wrong, I like these, but it's coming to a price point where I'd look into other options with more features. These are geared for ease of use and portability.
- Rodfather
Flip didn't send me mine, either - I wasted good money on it. I've done quite a few comparison tests, and the Vado tops 'em all (certainly, against the Flip).
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Or, for an outdoors / color saturation comparison, you'll see the Kodak compares favorably to the Vado: http://chris.pirillo.com/2009...
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Chris I really hate that you use a weird spelling of l0ckergn0me here. Makes it hard to reference you on posts so usually I don't even try. Anyway, thanks, I put a link to your review in my blog and will get a Creative too.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still going strong with my Canon Powershot TX1 ;) HD ftw. Everybody get a Vado. Vamos a Vado.
- Bwana ☠
The Flip Mino HD has great video quality, but it the lens is surprisingly narrow. You never feel that you can fit everything in frame. I have some comparison videos between it and the cheap ($110) Memorex HD cam: http://simsbox.net/p18
- Daniel Sims
I've tried them all. FlipHD the best, but I've been somewhat frustrated with upload time.
- Pete Blackshaw
I have tried 3 brands of HD palmcorders including FlipMinoHD and prefer the Kodak Zi6. Zi6 has higher quality video at 60fps, has real HD out with component cables, larger screen, and still photo capability. Mino does have the advantage on size and charges from USB. Also, watch out if you expect to play the HD videos on a standard netbook. I blog about that here: http://budurl.com/HDcam
- Patrick Moorhead
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Who do you think is the coolest fictional character of all time?
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I'd vote for Simon Yam's character in John Woo's Bullet In The Head. In 80's Hong Kong cinema your coolness factor directly related to how close you stood to explosions. Also Chow Yun or Tony Leung (my fav all time actor) in Hard Bolied.
- Toby Graham
*ponder* Good examples there. I may have to go with Magnum, but will mull this over a bit.
- Michael W. May
John Preston (Christian Bale) in Equilibrium
- Jemm
Agent Carter from rush hour!
- Jay
Cool Hand Luke is pretty cool.
- Will Higgins™
Here are some off the top of my head....Connerys Bond. Macgyver, Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes, Ferris Bueller, Fletch, Popeye Doyle, Alex Baldwin in Glengarry/30 Rock, Michael Corleone, Leon, Gandalf, Max Fischer in Rushmore, Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, Tony Montana and Hannibal Lector,
- Toby Graham
James you can't be serious!
- Toby Graham
Hard Boiled is one of my top 3 action movies with that tea house scene as probably the greatest opening 10 minutes of any action movie ever.
- felix
The Man in Black/The Dread Pirate Roberts/Wesley should be in the running. As should: Bogart in nearly anything (focus on the noir types), Steve McQueen's Bullitt, James Dean's Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause, Cary Grant's C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story *ponder*
- Michael W. May
Sidney Poitier's Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night.
- Michael W. May
@Patricia, but of course you were, darling ;)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Micheal Caine...in the itailan job. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Oh this is really great stuff, how could I forget The Man in Black! Never seen The Philadelphia Story, which will be rectified shortly.
- Toby Graham
Bob the Builder
- Jemm
Ash from Housewares
- RAPatton
LOL to the last two, very good Sirs
- Toby Graham
I can't believe I forgot Ash... However, this may be the winner here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... even in limited trailer existence, Machete is the man.
- Michael W. May
How could I list Leon and forget Gary Oldman's character one of the best bad guys ever. Schoolboy error. Oh and good old Hans Gruber
- Toby Graham
I'd definitely would say Chow You Fat in The Killer, though I do love me some Hard Boiled.
- Rodney L.
Michael Westin from Burn Notice.
- AJ Kohn
@Will Higgins, my first thought when reading the post was Cool Hand Luke -- absolutely!
- Marko Bon
Magnum PI for tv series. James Bond for movies/films.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Johnny Bravo!
- David Knight
Some great additions here... also consider V
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Being more serious though I think that Richard Blaine is the epitome of cool, as are many of the roles inhabited by Humphrey Bogart.
- RAPatton
Charlie Mortdecai
- Iain Baker
Ohh - Keith Laumer's Retief or Number 6 from the Prisoner
- AJ Kohn
Sigmund the Sea Monster.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, now you're talk'n. Have I got a podcast interview for you: http://www.maximumfun.org/blog...
- Micah
I've no prob with The Fonze.
- Roberto Bonini
cool Micah, I bookmarked and will check it out later when I've got some time. Would love to hear an interview with the Crofts.
- Thomas Hawk
My votes are for Ash, because he's the guy with the gun and Ah Jong (Chow Yun Fat's character in The Killer) because he's uber badass.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yeah, James T Kirk is so awesome that he died in the lamest manner possible. I'd agree that Kirk is awesome, except for the fact that Star Trek Generations was made, he was in it, he came to a weaksauce demise and it sucked. Oh, and he didn't have a chainsaw for a hand.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Xena was awesome!
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
But she didn't have a chainsaw for a hand.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Xena... great addition
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Jason Bourne
- Andrew Smith
hmm 70s TV... how about Telly's Kojak and Jim Rockford?
- Michael W. May
+1 Andrew -- right after Bond and Shaft
- Shey
Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday from TOMBSTONE.
- Steven Perez
Indiana Jones
- Rodfather
Ponch from CHiPs. Haha
- Rodfather
Well, Ponch beats the Fall Guy and T.J. Hooker, I'll give him that ;)
- Michael W. May
Billy Dee playing Billy Dee in the Colt 45 commercials.
- Rodfather
Kamenrider V3
- Morgan
Rodfather: +45! 'works every time!'
- Morgan
And yet only one has a chainsaw for a hand...Score Ash 100, everyone else 0.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm with Alex on this. Ash is the man "Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that? "
- jho
On the short list, you'd have to include Wedge Antilles from the "Star Wars" movies. He's kind of a minor character. He doesn't use the Force; he doesn't get a medal, he doesn't get the girl. He doesn't get much credit, but he doesn't have a huge ego, so it doesn't matter. He's just there, in the background, quietly kicking ass and saving the day.
- Karim
Han Solo - hands down.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
MacGyver
- orionstarr
Jen, "cool" is not piloting a galactic dump truck. Cool is not constantly asking "What's in it for me?" or telling your friends good luck with their little suicide mission. Cool is not screaming "It's not my fault!" every time your hyperdrive motivator has been damaged. Cool is not having an ego so huge that your kneejerk reaction to being told "I love you" is "I know." You might think Han Solo is HOT, but he is not COOL.
- Karim
Cool is having a chainsaw for a hand.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
No, "cool" is Wedge Antilles. Doesn't want a medal. Isn't competing with you. Flies rings around the other pilots. Takes down an AT-AT with a tow cable. Gets up, eats breakfast, blows up a Death Star, makes it back home in time for dinner. THAT is cool. :-D
- Karim
No chainsaw for hand? No coolness for you.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Despite the relatively crappy acting and strained storylines, I had an affinity for Steven Seagal's character, Casey Ryback.
- Anthony Citrano
The doctor from back to the future
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Mr. Wolf in Pulp Fiction
- Michael Hart
Beat Takeshi in Brothers.
- Anika
Spike Spiegel.
- tehKenny
Ferris Bueller 1986 / Jack Bauer 2009
- Nick Martin
+1 tehKenny. I was gonna add Spike to the list. He's got skills, but doesn't flaunt them. He's got physical prowess (the roundhouse kick that can take out three bad guys at once) but pretends he doesn't -- maybe lifting your wallet as he "accidentally" bumps into you, or breaks your jaw while pretending to yawn and stretch. He can be petulant and whiny when annoyed, but he's likely to face Certain Death with a wan smile, or a cigarette dangling casually from his lips. Spike is cool.
- Karim
Spike is very cool, true.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
What do all but one of these people have in common? None of them (except for one) has a chainsaw for a hand. Ash is now up to 150 cool points and the rest 0.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Groovy.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
no love for Jules? "The one that says bad mutha fucka on it"
- chrisofspades
Clint Eastwood is pretty cool in Gran Torino but can't go past The Fonz.
- Barak B
SEC Probes Apple Over Jobs Health Disclosures (AAPL) - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
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"The Securities and Exchange Commission's review doesn't mean investigators have seen evidence of wrongdoing, the person said, declining to be identified because the inquiry isn't public."
- Ontario Emperor
This is hilarious considering the conversation that took place on friendfeed just a few days ago. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, thanks for linking to Kevin Fox's conversation. Regarding this SEC complaint, when I read between the lines I suspect that it's just a complaint that someone filed, and that the SEC is obliged to follow up. I could file a complaint with the SEC today and claim that Larry Ellison's yacht obsession is detrimental to the future performance of Oracle, and the SEC would be obliged to follow up. They might spend a grand total of 15 minutes in "review" before blowing me off, but they'd still "review."
- Ontario Emperor
In essence, this will boil down to the opinion of some GS-whatever somewhere in the bowels of the SEC. If the GS-whatever wants to push the issue, he or she will. If the GS-whatever feels it's a waste of time, the review will be closed.
- Ontario Emperor
From the Bloomberg article: "U.S. regulators are examining Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’s health problems to ensure investors weren’t misled, a person familiar with the matter said." This seems to say they're probing whether Apple deliberately made untrue statements about Jobs's health in order to bolster stock price and decieve investors. Nothing...
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- Kevin Fox
True. On the off-chance that someone would have dared to ask "Is Steve healthy?" during a quarterly conference call, Apple could have responded that this was a personal matter and said no more. I still believe, however, that a CEO's ability or inability to perform day-to-day duties is a material issue. (And, since Jobs is not a day-to-day employee at present, it's not material.)
- Ontario Emperor
I think the best answer to the question "Is Steve healthy?" would be "We respect the privacy of all our employees. If you have questions about an employee's health you should direct those questions to the employees personally, though we encourage you to respect their right to privacy as well."
- Kevin Fox
Your proposed wording makes this an employee matter rather than a corporate matter, which has some interesting ramifications. If something is a corporate matter, then the corporation usually reserves for itself the right to speak on the matter. For example, if someone asks me a question about my employer, I have been instructed to reply "This question should be directed to the corporate director of communications." (contd)
- Ontario Emperor
(contd) With this alternate wording, the corporation has not only drawn a clear line between what is a corporate matter and what is a personal matter, but has also opened up the possibility of many questions being routed to the employees. In the theoretical extreme, reporters could ask every worker entering an auto plant if they have a hangover. In the practical sense, what would happen?
- Ontario Emperor
I ended up blogging about this employer vs key employee disclosure issue http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2009...
- Ontario Emperor
I'm honored that you confused me with Kevin Rose in that post. :-)
- Kevin Fox
I'm embarrassed. Will correct.
- Ontario Emperor
Pascal's Wager and Climate Change - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Tim Disney, Chris Johnson, Aaron Hood and 11 other people liked this
Thank you Tim for being a consistent, calm, and rational advocate on this issue.
- Stu Rich
Pascal's wager doesn't make sense for God, but it does for climate.
- Todd Hoff
This is so true...do the things that make sense not just for climate change, but for other reasons as well.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
exactly tim... exactly
- Chris Heath
In both cases I think my soul is on the balance. God however I think would know the motivation behind your adoration and the climate is indifferent (sorry Gaia)
- Todd Hoff
Well said.
- Meryn Stol
This article, like Pascal's wager, suffers from the false premise. Pascal assumed either no God or God as described in the Bible. When you add the possiblity that there is a God unlike the Biblical one, his agrueme t falls apart. If you reconize the potential waste of money / loss of freedom of some green programs; doing nothing is a viable option.
- Robert Hafer
Well, I guess you have no problems buying gas made from oil produced by the likes of Russia and Iran for the rest of your life then eh, Robert?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Robert: doesn't that depend on the values to attribute to those? i would argue anyone who thought "potential waste of money" was more valuable than the earth surviving was a total fruitcake (aka crazy).
- Chris Johnson
So The Only Way to Update iPhone’s Auto-Correct Database is via Safari!? - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Mercedes fully built in White Gold body (Abu Dhabi registration)
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Unbelievable
- Shey
fucking hell.Pardon my language but that is shocking...
- Zee.
NICE!
- David Cook
Holy Wow! </monaa>
- Rah-PM 2012
woah....
- Just Katie
Think they threw in the floor mats?
- Oldengrey (Jay)
i had a hot wheels that looked like that once
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
How much does it cost? Why didn't they just go for 100% gold? It'd be a real soft metal car. :)
- Morton Fox
@Jay What were the floor mats made from? Platinum?
- Shey
Unreal
- Nicholas Kreidberg
"Look at me! Look at me!"
- Derrick
lol@Derrick
- Shey
@Morton No idea
- Shey
god that would be hard to clean
- Duncan Riley
who else cant wait till oil runs out :D
- sean percival
I can only imagine that would be a show piece and not actually driven on the streets.
- Christian (Simply X)
I clicked "like", but I meant it in an ironic way.
- mashable
+10000 Sean!!! right on ... I am so sick of the excess... sigh
- Susan Beebe
maybe that guy would bail out some of the banks
- Warner Carter
Oh my sweet word. I want this car.
- Will Higgins™
from twhirl
@Will What would you do with it? :/
- Shey
you don't want to be behind this car at night with your bright headlights on
- AJ Batac :)
+1 AJ
- Shey
Looks like it should be in a Terminator movie.
- Warren Butler
HOLY CRAP! THAT'S AWESOME!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
@heather apparently it is *shrug*
- Shey
+1 Warren, it does appear to be made of mimetic polyalloy. either that or it was made on the planet Naboo. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
- Karim
OMG. So. Shiny. Must resist to touch.
- Zach Flauaus
I think I make out a bumper sticker, left side: "My other car is another one of these"
- Micah
Chrome not white-gold, but the car underneath is still a $500,000 merc.
- no name
ugliest. car. evar.
- Morgan
It definitely got to his head
- Amit Morson
That must be Thomas Covenant's car.
- Todd Hoff
Isn't there a Great Recession on? Quick blowtorch to the back of it to melt some off.
- jjprojects
yeah, it's chrome plating. still impressive. i'll see if i can dig up photos of a gold plated rolls royce phantom spotted in london just last week
- Cee Bee
مامااااااااااااااااااااااااان
- Alooché
wow
- تاج الملوک
من اینو گذاشته بودم پنج ماه پیش هیشکی لایک نزد
- Spidermard
من 5 ماه پیش نبودم :D
- تاج الملوک
Cheapskate, come on, everyone knows Platinum is the way to go.
- AJ Kohn
Who is so naive to believe in this ?? lol
- Kole21
he must have Really, Really, Really small penis
- Len
NASA to confirm life on Mars | The Sun - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...
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"ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, NASA scientists believe.... NASA are expected to confirm [this] during a briefing at their Washington HQ [later today]..."
- Anthony Citrano
interesting, but what is the point? confirm or not? can they put forth any credible theory or conjuncture of existence of more sophisticated forms of life on Mars based on their current finds?
- Hayk
Bacteria on Mars would be pretty f-ing mind-blowing.
- Victor Ganata
Exactly, Victor. The implications of this find, especially to the field of astrobiology, are hard to overstate.
- Anthony Citrano
I'll "like" it when it's NASA announcing it, not the Sun :p
- cjmart
Surely if this if for real someone other than the Sun is reporting it. I'm surprised they found space to talk about it when they could be writting more about big brother.
- Mark Ritchie
from twhirl
If it is true, it's going to be the news of the century. Amazing.
- andrei_c
I find it so improbable that only Earth has life-forms, that I'm not really surprised. Of course, it's a big thing to have actual proof. :)
- Jemm
Oh, yeah, it's The Sun. Aren't their more reliable sources for this story?
- Paul Grav
@grav Here's the Telegraph version of the story, a little more discreet: http://tinyurl.com/9bokzm
- andrei_c
@andrei. Thanks, that means I can avoid The Sun's website.
- Paul Grav
Basically Mars has farting microbes. Glad that there is intelligent life somewhere in this solar system...
- Paul Denlinger
Methane was detected around Mars back in 2003. There are non-biological ways it can be produced and maintained. See http://www.astrobio.net/news...
- Joe Knapp
How do we know this life on Mars isn't trying to attack us? I mean these guys - heck they aren't even humans - are from Mars after all. I propose a preemptive strike!
- Meryn Stol
On top of that, I think I've seen something vaguely resembling a nuclear weapons facility somewhere on the surface. I must admit they're very good at camouflage. And we know shit about what's going on underground!
- Meryn Stol
And we all know that the bad guys live in the desert.
- Meryn Stol
It would kinda seem to me that the Sun should be the ultimate authority on this subject. [crowd roars with awkward laughter...]
- Anthony Citrano
U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
paniaguai, Christian Burns , Jaica Kinsman and 73 other people liked this
Twitter, again, providing fastest updates. Army of citizen journalists.
- Hutch Carpenter
This picture is incredible. Big props for those pilots!
- Tracy Benham
Wow. Great picture too!
- Craig Eddy
Hutch, that's wrong IMHO. Journalism is not what about this. I mean, that's just reporting witnessed facts nothing more... even the folks in the buildings (in the background) saw that plane. Sorry, I don't believe that This may be called "journalism"
- directeur
As reported on Silicon Alley Insider: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
directeur: you're wrong. That is EXACTLY what journalism is.
- Robert Scoble
Robert definitely NOT! Why do people go to universities and schools? I could have been on that plane an twitted this, am I a journalist for having that "bad" chance? I don't think so
- directeur
directeur: journalists do NOT need to go to universities and schools. There is NO prerequisite of such to being a journalist. (I did go to journalism school at San Jose State University). Schools teach you law and how to do it better, but that's not a pre-requisite.
- Robert Scoble
directeur: to be schooled in traditional journalism. the old way.
- Chris Johnson
Chris: I've met plenty of professional journalists who never went to journalism school.
- Robert Scoble
This is true citizen journalism.
- Robert Miller
Robert, and Chris, still not convinced sorry. Journalism is about ethics, art, and a science. That's not simply reporting things. Even reporters learn what to report and how to do it
- directeur
directeur: Consider the various purposes of journalism. One includes "witnessing facts" and reporting them. It need not be a complete story with word on where the flight data recorder is, and histories of US Airways flight safety. Simple pics like this provide a lot of info: intact, alive, where the passengers are currently, who is doing the rescuing, etc.
- Hutch Carpenter
directeur: you are so wrong. So so so wrong. Did you go to journalism school? I did and you have no clue. Journalism is the act of capturing and reporting the news. THIS is journalism.
- Robert Scoble
Sensationalist reporting of events is different than in-depth analysis of events, the history that caused them, and the impact they may have on the future. Unfortunately, both get lumped under "news," and that is a shame, but in my mind the latter is journalism, and describing a plane crash certainly is not.
- Nadine Schaeffer
There are plenty of great artists who never went to art school, exceptional web developers with English degrees, and mathematicians & engineers who flunked high school.
- Tom Harrison
Nadine, Rod - if you see a write-up of the city council meeting in the paper, without in-depth analysis, what do you consider that?
- Hutch Carpenter
Robert, okay. You're right for I'm just a computer scientist and you surely know these things better than me. What I meant in fact is that "journalism" is more than reporting. that was my humble opinion
- directeur
Rod: bullshit. The only difference there is getting paid to capture the images.
- Robert Scoble
Hutch: News, not journalism, and a waste of paper at that :P
- Nadine Schaeffer
Robert: No i mean they go to university to learn the old outdated way of journalism. The old retired way! :)
- Chris Johnson
I would argue that *true* journalism is a simple, disinterested reporting of the facts. Too often, "journalists" give their own slant to stories (right and left) turning it into commentary, though still labeled as journalism. This guy truly is doing journalism.
- Joey Gibson
Rod - A credentialed journalist shoving a microphone in the face of a witness is however? I get the line you are trying to point out... but analysis is only a part of journalism... sometimes it is just showing what is happening.
- Brian Roy
RIGHT ON! SAVE THE PEOPLE!
- Pete Barry
+1 Nadine, exactly what I meant! :)
- directeur
directeur: That is ONE form of journalism, and we have been seeing that decline for years. I do like well written peices too ... but this is the way the world is going. There will be a place for both i think.
- Chris Johnson
Directeur, consider the distinction between 'journalism' and 'journalist'. Journalism is an activity that anyone can engage in, just as anyone can engage in accounting, or play a game of soccer. A journalist usually refers to someone who does that for a living, but note that there is no requirement that they have received formal training. Some livelihoods do require formal training and certification, but others do not.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Rod Bauer: You are joking right??? You really think modern journalists (if that is what you can call them) are independent of corporate/government influence and that they have that level of ethics. come on ... what planet do you live on.
- Chris Johnson
Rod: Where does the advertising-support, often sensationalist evening news fall?
- Tom Harrison
As Chris said, there is a decline of true journalism, and it saddens me. All the tweets in the world do not make a single well written editorial from the New York Times or financial analysis from The Economist.
- Nadine Schaeffer
Chris. Standards are goals, and of course not all achieve them. Do you want to throw out standards? There are many corrupt politicians but do you want to stop holding them to a standard of honesty?
- Rod Bauer
But the point is that you need not be employed as a 'journalist' in order to engage in the activity called 'journalism'. As for the ethics and standards comments here, I will note that for the most part journalism does not have the attributes of a profession (such as a required code of ethics and a certification board: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), so it really is actually a trade.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Tom. There is lots of "journalism" that falls short. Far too much these days, and that is why journalism has such a bad rap now. It's a fucking hard business to get right. But that's why it is so important. Twitter is great for breaking news, but it doesn't replace standards, investigation, and seeking out other sides of the story.
- Rod Bauer
Rod: I certianly do think they should uphold a certian standard. I just dont see your link between being called a journalist and how that somehow implies a level of standards.
- Chris Johnson
I don't know if referring to them as "journalists" is right or wrong. But here's a thought. People who took these pictures, or tweeted this are sources. The role of the "journalist" in the old media isn't relevant - or has been eliminated here. The middle man/ moderator is gone. Sources reach the audience directly unfiltered - the audience (on twitter, FF) as a whole now consume, authenticate and validate the story.
- The Fat Oracle
I would welcome a "citizen fireman" to help save my burning house, but I would prefer a professionally trained fireman with his/her knowledge and experience. I also would not first choose a "citizen doctor" a "citizen lawyer" or a "citizen airplane pilot."
- Rod Bauer
So although the folks who reported this *are* not journalists, what they did *is* actually journalism. Which leaves aside how well or poorly they did it.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael. I think the word "witness" suits this situation better than "journalist."
- Rod Bauer
Consider the following parallel: 'Publishing' vs. 'publisher'.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Rod, sticking with verbs, he didn't just 'witness' this, he also 'reported' it. Would you be more comfortable with calling what he did 'reporting' rather than 'journalism'? It's a fuzzy line.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael is right. This guy was NOT just a witness. Witnesses watch. Journalists journal and report. This guy did journalism as good as any other out there. The only difference between him and a "pro" today is that a pro would have had a higher resolution camera. Absolutely no other difference.
- Robert Scoble
Or perhaps you would be more comfortable calling this 'photo-journalism' rather than 'journalism'.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I always carry a couple of cameras with me, even to the bathroom in my own house. Just in case something big happens, I want to be ready. Ready to Document the Disaster. Support the Survivors (via a record of events). and Sell the Story. once the all clear is given....I'm still pretty much disaster free and don't have too many pictures of people trapped under parking structures....so maybe i'll leave a camera behind next time....
- Morgan
Michael. Your semantic distinction is valid and thought-worthy. My concern is primarily about standards and authority. Our problems in those areas have always been huge and the Web complicates them. Maybe the Web will make them better...I'm a Web guy, so I'm optimistic. I fear that in our rush to get news ultra-fast, we will throw out the best of what the guys in the newsrooms (the best of them) have been striving to refine in the name of "journalism."
- Rod Bauer
I applaud Morgan's diligence, but I hope he doesn't document any bathroom disasters.
- Kevin Fox
Rod, if you're a web-guy, then... what do you think of the distinction between 'programming' and 'programmer'? Do you support efforts to professionalize computer programming, up to and including professional certification, in order to promote standards and authority?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Morgan. LOL. The day you don't take the camera to the bathroom is the day the plane emergency lands on the roof and you end up with an airline hostess sitting in your lap.
- Rod Bauer
So historically... how much would the average professional news photographer make for taking this sort of shot, which now seems to be proliferating everywhere, mostly without attribution, let alone compensation?
- Ken Sheppardson
Absolutely amazing. What this illustrates most to me is that "people," regular "people" are realizing and understanding their growing influence in the media spectrum. This guy could have done nothing. He took the time to shoot it, and tell the story via Twitter---to share the story. He's obviously aware of the power of Twitter and other social media platforms. He has influence and has a voice---everyone does---but not everyone knows how to use it...but that's quickly changing.
- Jennifer Windrum
how will Janis Krums be compensated for news agencies using his image? does he give up rights when he publishes it to twitter?
- Neil Bernhart
Michael. They're not the same. Journalism has a social responsibility that doesn't exist in computer programming. In that sense journalism is closer to the practice of medicine. Journalism at any level can't escape social responsibility. In limited areas programming could benefit from certification (security, for example) but otherwise the term programming will also always apply to non-professional activity.
- Rod Bauer
The TwitPic terms say "All images uploaded are copyright © their respective owners", so there's no Creative Commons in effect.
- Ken Sheppardson
TwitPic should grant Janis Krums stock immediately, BTW.
- Ken Sheppardson
Whoah. Rod, you are *so* wrong. I will give you counter examples from both trades: First, I don't think you'll find much social responsibility in the entertainment section of your newspaper. Second, what about the programmer responsible for working on the software that operates a pacemaker, nuclear reactor, or radiation therapy machine?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Great pic. As for "journalism", if I tell you it's partly cloudy, does that make me a meteorologist?
- Andrew Smith
Andrew: No, in the same way that telling me a plane just crashed doesn't make you a psychic. But both tasks make you a journalist of varying degrees.
- Kevin Fox
What's messed up is that I'm actually more nervous when I forget to bring a camera somewhere. What a geek huh? What a dorky wimpy chicken geek.
- Morgan
Michael: a programmer needs *knowledge* and that knowledge is the "merit". Someone who reports doesn't need anything. Or maybe eyes and a mobile? (So, Poor blind folks without a mobile! vae victis)
- directeur
Kevin: I *knew* you were going to write that. <psychic/> :)
- Andrew Smith
Michale. There's a difference between a job having to meet standards because that job could affect society and a profession that has standards. Sure, a programming contract for a nuclear reactor has to meet standards, but programming in general doesn't. I disagree with you about the newspaper entertainment section. I've been a newspaper arts critic. Even though much of what I wrote was my opinion, I still felt (and was held to) standards of truth, accurate sources, etc. It is fuzzier tho', in those sections
- Rod Bauer
directeur: a journalist needs one thing: distribution. That used to be through newspaper, radio, TV. Today it's Twitter and friendfeed. That's one thing that separates "journalists" from "people with cameras." Lots of people probably took pictures today, but how many of their photos or videos have you seen? This guy understood how to get distribution. THAT is key today.
- Robert Scoble
Merriam-Webster clears things up: [http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction...] "1.c - an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium" ... "2.b - writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation"
- MikeAmundsen
'Programming in general' is well on it's way to affecting more people than journalism, though. Traffic lights? Voting Machines? The guy who was paid to put back doors into voting machines? The developers *at* Twitter that made this story possible? Virus and other malware writers? Google? "Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run"? Whoever writes those horrible content filters installed...
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- Michael R. Bernstein
Actually, distribution is still newspaper, radio, TV. Most of the country and world have never heard of Twitter or FF. CNN.com would be a more appropriate web analogy.
- Nadine Schaeffer
So by definition from Mike 2.b "...without an attempt at interpretation" it was journalism right up to the point in the tweet where he says "Crazy".
- Andrew Smith
anybody can be in the right place in the right time and twitter a couple of sentences, maybe post a pic. do they deserve awards? hell no. doesn't mean they can actually write an article.
- Terry O'Fee
Terry: many a Pulitzer Prize has been won by someone who captured a world-changing photo that weren't professionals. During the earthquake in 1989 I handed a camera to someone who had never used one before and taught him how to shoot -- he made two award-winning photos that day that we ran on the front of the newspaper.
- Robert Scoble
a photographer and a journalist, i'm talking about writing a proper well thought out article. don't get me wrong, this might be a good way for some people to get into whether writing, or photography. but in the end he's going back to work tomorrow with just a lot of followers who will probably unfollow him in a few weeks time when he tweets like normal. this is a great way of getting news out, i grant you that but I don't know if a tweet entry is really worthy of a walkley award just yet....
- Terry O'Fee
Terry: well, I'm sure we will see one photo shared via the real-time web that will win a Pulitzer at some point. The Pulitzer committee doesn't care if you are a 'pro' or not. They just look at the impact your photo has on the world. Pulitzers get handed out because you were "there" and captured the right moment. Last year's winner: http://www.pulitzer.org/works... -- this photo taken today will certainly be considered.
- Robert Scoble
Glen: exactly. No test and no standards. This whole argument is bulls**t. If you journal and report news you are a journalist. Period.
- Robert Scoble
journalists get paid though. how is this leading you into a paying job, is what im trying to say..
- Terry O'Fee
In my mind what the people did on site is report. They reported what they saw and what happened. A journalist will now go take the time to interview the people, get the names right, find out what happened, stick with the story, and try to put the situation in some sort of context. Twitter etc will always be better at reporting. Journalism takes time and resources most people don't have, yet both can be done by anyone. Punditry is what most people end up doing in practice.
- Todd Hoff
exactly! telling the world is one thing. putting some effort into your work?
- Terry O'Fee
This photo was better than the ones cnn.com and bbc news online had three hours ago when I first saw this pic mentioned on twitter.
- Ian Fogg
Ian - I don't mean photography. Photography in news is a whole other kettle o' fish. (i just hope future news isn't taken on a shitty 2MP hypephone :P)
- Terry O'Fee
Terry - hadn't read your previous comments. I was just commenting on the photo itself (Friendfeed desperately needs threaded commenting to avoid this kind of crossed wires). What I like is the sense of being there, the fact that it was clearly taken very early on before the plane sunk in the water and most passengers had been rescued. The pro shots on cnn.com and BBC earlier looked like they were taken from high up from a helicopter or a tall building -> the photo journalists should have found a fast boat.
- Ian Fogg
oh, i agree with you. these phones these days (i mean good ones) can make some amazing pictures. my n95 has the same power as my normal camera :P
- Terry O'Fee
WOW @jkrums posted the first photo of Hudson plane crash from an iPhone. Amazing photo! http://ad.vu/2hrc -- he was in first rescue group.
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i remember hearing something a while back saying the mainstream media considers twitter/blogging/citizen journalism worthless...
- Glenn Batuyong
Silicon Alley Insider should get the credit for posting this: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Depends... some very fine 'legit' writers (NYT's John Markoff comes to mind) follow serious bloggers, and hold some of them in high regard...
- Chris Gulker
Hudson river plane crash nyc - sources, all collection up to date, now krunch'd at http://krunchd.com/hudsonplane
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
macro- blogsearch has in general 270 macro blogs on this story ; compared with maybe 100.000 twitters on this, extremely slow as expected ; btw, coincidence that google took down 4 of their services today??? maybe they needed new server space for * this* [did google/nasa crash the hudson plane ?? [cp 2.o theory]...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
NSA-approved smartphones leaves Obama with some ugly choices - Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Function BEFORE form!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You know, it's kinda cool in an ultra-dorky way. But NSA chose Windows Mobile?!
- Jason Wehmhoener
Cool!! About damn time!! wooooo hoooo! Mobile smart phones are a must for today's execs. I can NOT imagine being a President of our huge country and not have a kick ass cell phone
- Susan Beebe
Ugly's better than nothing. The one on the right looks similar to my first WinMo phone, except mine had a slider keyboard, not chiclets.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
What did W use - one of those Hello Kitty phones???
- Patrick Jordan
That first one looks like a $9.99 electronic "organizer". All the rage, in the 80s.
- Jack&Cleo
2003 called, they want their phones back...
- grant fox
I say let Obama use whatever phone he wants. He is the leader of the free freakin' world. He should be allowed to use an iPhone or Blackberry, if that's what he wants. Let the Secret Service be the ones to change how they do things, not the Prez.
- Joey Gibson
Obama: "I'm the decider, k? and I decide that i don't read emails, or newspapers." oh wait, wrong president.
- grant fox
@Joey fail, if there are any backdoors in existing software, serious potential for security issues. @Mark, bberry users are all about the email, not about having a phone....
- mjc
Shuffle your Desktop Backgrounds in Windows 7 - http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
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jQuery API Browser - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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very slick - nicely done!
- Sara Streeter
Rejuvenating Old Hardware with Windows 7 - http://on10.net/blogs...
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Hmm, nice to know, I just reinstalled XP on my 3 year old AMD Athlon computer last night. Maybe can try with Windows 7? Thought that older hardware was not supported. As for i486DX that the author mentions in the article, I highly doubt it :) I did manage to get Windows 98 running I think but that was it!
- Alvin
The Palm Pre - Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long(est) awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a silver center button down below and touch sensitivity all down the face -- the lower part is for "gestures." A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a portrait orientation, and you can flip the phone on its side for accelerometer-sensed widescreen browsing. The phone is running Palm's all-new webOS platform, with TI's new OMAP CPU under the hood -- which Palm claims provides laptop-style power, and which juices the phones smooth transitions, scrolling and "deck of cards" app-switching. Other internal specs include EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of built-in flash storage. There's a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, mass storage-friendly microUSB plug and a good ol' 3.5mm headphone jack, but most exciting is the wireless charger -- a first for a mainstream phone. More shots are after"
- Susan Beebe
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Busty British tourist barred from NZ casino because of her 'offensive' breasts - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"A British tourist has been barred from a casino in New Zealand for upsetting fellow punters with her 'offensive' breasts. Thirty-three year old Helen Simpson from Nottingham, was wearing a low-cut black evening dress when a woman staff member at the Christchurch Casino told her to cover up or leave. "She said I was wearing too low a top, which people found offensive," Miss Simpson said. "I was highly embarrassed - humiliated, absolutely humiliated. "There were girls at the casino wearing short skirts that I think are nothing more than belts. "I feel like I've been discriminated against for having big breasts." Miss Simpson, a business manager for McDonald's who is in her third year studying human resource management, said the matter had been handled unprofessionally. "The most humiliating thing was that everybody knew," she said. "All the staff were staring and the group of guys that complained - I'm sure it was them - were smiling." Miss Simpson has written to casino management saying she left feeli
- Cee Bee
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"humiliated, discriminated and highly embarrassed". She wrote: "Being well-endowed in the upper region is something I did not choose in life and something I'm certainly not proud of. "Have you ever been shopping for a formal cocktail dress that is accommodating to a size 14 woman with the top half demanding a size 20?" Miss Simpson said it was discrimination. "You don't see women with...
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- Cee Bee
I take no offense to her breasteses
- Neil Bernhart
I've been in that situation several times. It sucks hardcore. I feel for Simpson.
- Anika
I could see if it were church... but... it's a casino.. ?!
- Lix
Amusing that this girl gets defended, but if it was some hot chick int hat dress folks woudl be attackign her as a "ho" and making fun of her. All it takes is the air fo the victim to be defended.
- Soulhuntre
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In a casino? Soulhuntre, please.
- Anika
They're Kiwi's, they prefer Sheep to busty women.
- Will Higgins™
....and I thought the puritans ruled the roost in the states!
- Gregg
And yet...as far as I remember from my Navy days (...not that I would know from first-hand experience.....) they allow prostitution there. And LOL @Lindsey in Love and @Will Higgins.
- Brian Bufalo
Sad to say i am a kiwi and ashamed of this. @Will Higgins: You must be an original sheep shagger (Aussie). @Brian Bufalo: Prostitution was legalized yes ... it actually makes everything safer believe it or not.
- Chris Johnson
Oooh no, don't attack me with those breasts....
- Amit Morson
Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... re @marccanter4real 's DiSO dashboard proposal
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want it now!
- Sarah Perez
can I have it too? Very nice idea.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Thanks for the coverage on this and your story last week on activity streams. I will be writing a post on Lifestream Blog to cover my thoughts on these events soon.
- Mark Krynsky
Just back from my birthday lunch - so I can now help clarify the proposal and respond to comments: - though there are several kinds of SPECIFIC dashboards out there right now, the idea of the proposal was to insinuate that a 'dashboard'-like control panel/interface is something that ALL software will have. - that's not rocket science as witnessed by the comments here - and left on my...
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- Marc Canter
LOLKitteh iz unhappy wif Robert Scoble - http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view...
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*snicker snort HA*
- FFing Enigma
Ooh Robert your in trouble now.
- Amit Morson
Awesomesauce!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh no. What has he done, this time? ;)
- Tyson Key
That is one serious kitteh!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
LOLKitteh is disturbed by recent Scoble comments: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- AJ Kohn
BTW - you can follow the link and vote this LOLCat.
- AJ Kohn
*Voted* :)
- Jemm
hahaha
- Shevonne
Very funny!
- Robert Scoble
Those catz wer hylarius liek too yearz ago!
- Stephen Foskett
Ack! Caught drinking and reading FF again. When will I learn???
- Robert Miller
End dey stil R, SteevN!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
imperial landscaper
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third in a series...... http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Kinda large for a storm trooper?
- Sparky, lurking
That or the riding mower is on the small side....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
It's interesting that nearly anything can be made cool if done in a Stormtrooper costume.
- James Ferguson
Windows 7 Features IT pros will like - http://blogs.technet.com/mniehau...
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"There are lots of new features in Windows 7, but here are a few that are more “IT pro”-ish"
- Jemm
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If only it would install so I can have some fun with it
- Outsanity
Hmm. So on my Mac, the only 'feature' that I'm missing is Paint. I can live with that :)
- Paul Grav
there's nothing really there for IT pros.. we wouldn't use the "new deployment tool" because any half decent sysadmin would be using roaming profiles and WDS/RIS to help users move from machine to machine and create new client machines.
- alphaxion
My favorite new thing is the Resource Monitor like the ones in Linux.
- Will Higgins™
7 is faster than vista. i'wouldnt expect that really. good for ms.
- Yusuf Yıldız
a calculator?
- Bryce Roney
but it's the funnest calculator! ;)
- alphaxion
...now with geek-support! :)
- Jemm
the iso feature is a big one.....It should have been in Windows a long time ago
- Rob Cairns
@Rob: Unfortunately no iso-mounting yet, but the VHD-support is cool (create, mount, boot and full backup into virtual disk)
- Jemm
RT @longzheng: Tim Sneath posts 30 Windows 7 secrets http://blogs.msdn.com/tims...
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One of my pet peeves is when people use pictures of their kids as their avatars on any networking site. Seriously, folks. I'm not friending your kids. If you're in the picture WITH your kid, that's acceptable. And if it's just a picture of your dog, that's okay too.
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