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Spectacular!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Hehehe...except that Undiscovered Country also had a lot of humor in it.
- Alex Scoble
Awesometacular! :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
RT @vinnyj: @CaliLewis Phishing scam on twitter. http://chris.pirillo.com/2009... Thanks for the heads up!
Mike Mackley liked this
Full of foresight (hindsight?) and so, so relevant!! Norm Brodsky, Recession All-Star -- Starting Up in a Recession -- Recession Advice - http://www.inc.com/magazin...
LeighaB, Matthew Freeman, bcultral and 2 other people liked this
AND THIS WAS IN MAY! "I certainly didn't go out of my way to start my companies during a recession, but a recession does offer some distinct advantages for start-ups. First, you don't have a big staff or fancy offices that you have to cover every month. Established companies will have these fixed costs, and if their sales drop by 5 or 10 percent, they will be concerned about meeting their obligations. That's one less worry that you will have."
- Andrew Badera
from Bookmarklet
30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009 - http://www.lifehack.org/article...
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QUS - Turn your Desktop into a Noteboard [OS X] - http://www.qu-s.eu/flash...
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So many cool apps here...I'm starting to feel bad for being a Windows user. xD
- Neurario
Lol...i remember that feeling... :)
- Zee.
This is actually useful!
- Outsanity
Ink Desktop 2.0 is perfect for the Tablet PC.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Looks like something I could use.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
@jeffjarvis: It’s not just an era; it’s a new world order http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008... more on @fredwilson post on digital darwinism
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The Best iPhone Apps of 2008 - http://gizmodo.com/5116433...
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via Joshua Schnell http://friendfeed.com/macgasm
- Zee.
Create Your Own Ringtones The prime directive of ringtone creation? First, do no harm. That means no boy bands, no YouTube no-hit wonders, no German language covers of ’80s soft-rock hits for the sake of “irony.” If you’re going to roll with a custom ringtone, realize that the chance of irritating your coworkers is high if the Jonas Brothers’ “Hold On” starts emanating from your...
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- tomartomartini
Create Your Own Ringtones by Maximum PC Staff http://twurl.nl/33dyff
- tomartomartini
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Holiday Windfalls: 7 Tips on Using Them - http://www.lifehack.org/article...
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Luxand offers the owners of photo-sharing and dating websites a new type of search engine that relies on the latest facial recognition technology to find photos of people and organize them for quick retrieval. - http://tc-europa.com/blog...
misca mihaela, Кто здесь?, Darren Heydon and 3 other people liked this
she's hot :P
- Darren Heydon
the girl is Irina, from Florida
- rkorolenko
hello irina from florida
- Cee Bee
indeed, hello
- Brian Hendrickson
1) that'll make it easier to see if your mate is cheating on you 2) it should help you from going out with the same disaster twice.
- Admiral Anika
Finetune application for iPhone and iPod Touch now available for FREE - http://is.gd/7lYZ
Mike Mackley, Amani, Peter and 4 other people liked this
it's a bit like last.fm. I use it instead of last.fm because the client for iDevices is not out yet in Italy. Too bad I'm addicted to last.fm :(
- Zio Bonino
Finetune delivers the best in personalized radio, drawing on a huge catelogue of major label and independent music. Enter a favourite artist and we'll take it from there, Make your own playlist track-by-track at Finetune.com or simply sit back and enjoy our featured selections and pro stations.
- Simon Wicks
Zio - Yours is more to the point, i just wrote what iTunes says :)
- Simon Wicks
Pretty cool app, same as Zio: I can't get Last.fm in NORMAL way, but with jailbreak, mobileinstallion fix and Appulo.us, you can download Last.fm without country limits. I know, there's illegal apps too and im pirate.
- Kristian Salonen
I hate it when you have to pirate a thing you could get legally - it's free - because of "licensing". Get real or GTFO.
- Zio Bonino
Yes, how does it compare to Pandora?
- Amani
How many twitter followers does it take make an impact? - http://news.buzzgain.com/?p=76
MVB (Curmudgeon of FF), iSteeve, Kevin Johnson and 25 other people liked this
Depends on how many are bots and mal-lowers.
- LogEx
1. If I follow you and retweet you you'll have an impact.
- Robert Scoble
1, if that person can effect change.
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
Amen, brother. Scoble's retweets are the juice.
- John McCrea
Scoble - laughing at your comment. @chrisbrogan has had a similar effect w/ me in the past. One mention and voila, many new followers. @Louis, I'd say that you start to hit critical mass at 100 but they obviously have to be the right 100. At 500-1,000, you can start to get some very effective research/survey results from your followers.
- Aaron Strout
John, you don't even need one follower, thinking about it. The world is moving to http://search.twitter.com so you can get found with very few followers there.
- Robert Scoble
+10 Scoble
- imran
Thanks Mr. Scoble. I just found someone to chat with about my executive dashboard project.
- Mattb4rd
Robert: so true. I am addicted to Twitter search. It is vital to my work (and fun).
- John McCrea
@Aaron, this is not a post I wrote, but one from Mukund at BuzzGain. And yes, I agree that Twitter Search is more important than Twitter's Web interface at this point.
- Louis Gray
I'll have to agree with Scobleizer - I visit Twitter Search more than Twitter itself these days. I learn way more from that interface.
- Chris Luckhardt
Haven't we been here before. 1st we all create content. Then, Search organizes the content. I suppose "Twitter Words" is next?
- Alan Edgett
Funny how often I've been asked the EXACT same questions. We've been having a nice discussion about this as well (1.6k views and 70 comments now) around a great article that was written by a member. http://tinyurl.com/3h8mdz
- Leif@Biznik
None - they all spend so much time reading twitter (and FF :) ) that nothing gets done!
- Chris Rogers
On who?
- Warner Crocker
depends on targeted/anticipated impact and target audience.
- Hayk H.
@Scoble - technically one, but realistically I have to go with @aaron
- Mukund
The real question is, how many twitter followers does it take to change a lightbulb?
- Jan Dawson
your message is more important, how to write compelling copy in 140 characters
- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
impact? the summize purchase was great but tweetscan deserves a plug - & no one has monetized even the text aspect of twitter yet - ($800/MB is valuable bitspace controlled by telecom - SMS is hugely profitable) so ... impact? twitter matched to transactions are a way off - using bandwidth for scale & ROI on time to tweet are a bit too abstracted to make much sense of impact suggested in the article
- Wes Schadenfreud
Senate to vote on new $700 Billion bail out bill tonight. Adding in an increase in FDIC limit to $250,000 and a two year extension of tax breaks to sweeten the deal for some House Republicans. Market likes the news, Dow down now 67 points after dropping after being down about 200 earlier this am.
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vote estimated to take place around 9:30pm EST
- Thomas Hawk
FDIC gets more control is good idea, minus bail out. But lot more restrictions needed for any possible bail out deal. This wont be enough.
- imran
Paulson and Bernanke are briefing the President over lunch right now.
- Thomas Hawk
More like corporations/wall street are pulling strings of clueless executive branch.
- imran
Emailing and calling Senators today. Democracy in action is exciting.
- AJ Kohn
Bill shall fail easily
- imran
imran: I agree.
- Mattb4rd
House rules won't allow them to vote on the Bill on Thurs. House can't vote on new Bill until Friday at the earliest assuming it passes the Senate tonight.
- Thomas Hawk
Dow just went positive, up 1 pt.
- Thomas Hawk
To bad this bill if full of pork.There is stuff in here to sweeten it for Democrats and Republicans.
- Caleb Easterwood
I want a bill that includes putting these CEOs and managers of these companies in prison. Forever. Naked. On Fire.
- abacab
SEC likely to extend the prohibition against short selling today or early tomorrow.
- Thomas Hawk
The increase in FDIC limit is certainly warranted, given the increase in the number of millionaires in the U.S. and the fact that it's been at it's current level for years (decades?).
- Craig Eddy
Craig: FDIC insurance limit hasn't changed in 20 years. It and IRAs haven't been caught up for inflation
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The FDIC limit has been $100k since it was created in 1980. If you index $100k for inflation you get $250k. It wasn't just pulled out of the air like the $700 billion number.
- Brian Newman
@abacab: won't happen of course, but I'd also jail the government folks who gave the 5 big investment banks an exemption from regulations requiring a 12/1 debt to net capital ratio (they were allowed to go 40/1). One of the SEC folks even said (paraphrasing) "If this goes wrong, it's going to be a big mess." when they granted the exemption. No. Kidding. Oh, those five banks? You might recognize the names: Goldman, Merrill, Lehman, Bear Stearns, and Morgan Stanley.
- invariant - farewell FF
invariant: I strongly agree with that suggestion, too.
- abacab
The bill will pass most likely. I guess the FDCI limit to 250k is a temporary one. What we shd be worried about is the global impact (the banks etc) of the current crisis.
- kamla bhatt
Tonight: Windows 7 presentation - http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs...
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Google touts iPhone, Chrome browser - http://news.yahoo.com/story...
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Now the just need to get it to work on the Iphone :-)
- Mike Mackley
I wonder which will come first, Chrome for the Mac, or for the iPhone.
- Gerard Lagana
God I hate jerks on the internet. Why do people expend so much energy being assholes?
Boca, misca mihaela, Percival and 39 other people liked this
indeed
- John Denver
For some it comes naturally and no effort is necessary. :)
- Mattb4rd
because they need to feel noticed and important at any expense ... and are generally horrible human beings.
- Morgan
http://xkcd.com/386/ Not precisely relevant. But still funny!
- David Young
David, I love that one :) XKCD always makes me laugh.
- Veronica
+1 david - that is a classic!
- Morgan
Because they don't have the balls to be assholes in person so they become typist a-holes online
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Half the time they don't even have the cojones to put their email address or contact info. I guess that's good, because it prevents me from replying ;)
- Veronica
Relativity.
- ·[▪_▪]·
As Mattb4rd said, it's natural and takes no special effort. That's what makes the problem so bad for the rest of us. Secondly, those jerks don't have anything better to do.
- Morton Fox
Sad little people, don't feed them and they go away.
- Mike Mackley
Just imagine if they took as much energy into doing something nice. *shakes head*
- AJ Kohn
Because they are too cowardly to say crap to your face.
- Josh Haley
I think it's Michael Wesch who talked about the fame of being abusive in his video on the anthropology of Youtube
- Badger Gravling
I think it's because there is a level of anonymity that allows people to believe that they can be someone else online, take on another persona, and act in this way.
- Shafiq Jetha
from twhirl
I personally think Mattb4rd got it right - it comes naturally to some people. Just ignore em - jerks are jerks.
- Royce Mathew
Speaking as a recovering asshole, I'll say that people do it for many different reasons. Sometimes its because a given personality with whom you interact has become a communicative pebble in the online shoe of your life, and you just want to blast 'em. Sometimes it's because you've discovered that you're actually very good at being an asshole, and receive lots of praise for it. And sometimes it's because you're the kind of person that just loves to inflict pain.
- Roger Benningfield
Ahh yess. The age old question, this about sums it up: http://tinyurl.com/6mocnn
- Percival
I prefer jerks on the internet, in real life they REALLY suck. Percival - priceless!
- jcunwired
it's just too easy. jerks.
- John LeMasney
Wouldn't you be a jerk too if you never, ever got laid?
- Chantal
the internet is full of trolls. come on veronica don't you know this by now?
- Joel Smith
If I click like does that mean I like jerks or agree with Veronica? :-)
- gfurry
@gfurry It means that you think Veronica is a cutie.
- Mattb4rd
Using the Block feature is your friend
- Jeremiah Owyang
for the lulz?
- Nick Mutton
The internet tries to make the world idiot free, but the world makes a better idiot. Simple as that.. aka Pete's theory on internet "a#$hole /jerk" evolution :)-
- Peter Dawson
Veronica, just ignore the jerks. Problem with the Internet is that jerks can hide behind their web browsers whereas in peron they can't. Use the power of the "ignore", "block" or whatever means to ignore them.
- imabonehead
I'm glad to see everyone still hates Assholes, Veronica , you should post the message and the comments on your blog! .
- Percival
moo ha ha ha ha... go ahead. try to hit me
- Noah David Simon
12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known : iSmashPhone - http://www.ismashphone.com/2008...
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Extender for Windows Media Center Review, Part 3: The D-Link and Linksys Extenders - http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews...
Mike Mackley liked this
That is very disappointing about the D-Link. I had high hopes for that device. I am eager to see which one you recommend as I am currently in the market for one.
- John Denver
Preliminary verdict: Apple MobileMe - http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs...
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The Infamous Double Slit Experiment - Quantum Physics - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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It's from that movie, in case some of you are wondering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Vincent X
Oh no! I've gone crossed eyed!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Thanks for the pointer Vincent, just added it to my NetFlix Queue.
- Victor Ryden
Added to my Queue as well, looks like a fun flick if you don't take it seriously
- Robert Hafer
Petaluma, Jul 13, 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Mike Mackley liked this
LOL, the geotagging on Flickr shows that the Petaluma Art & Garden Show is located in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa. Nigeria was never so close!
- Randy Hall
AH HA, I knew Petaluma was just a cover for Leo's secret island base off the African cost!
- Robert Hafer
How Your Brain Can Control Time | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine - http://discovermagazine.com/2008...
Giusy Mauro, Alice Lam, Robert DeBord and 2 other people liked this
"Scientists are finding that telling time is also important to animals. At the University of Edinburgh, researchers built fake flowers with sugar inside to reveal how hummingbirds tell time. After hummingbirds drink nectar from real flowers, it takes time for the flowers to replenish their supply. The Scottish researchers refilled some of their fake flowers every 10 minutes and others every 20. Hummingbirds quickly learned just how long they had to wait before coming back to each kind. Scientists at the University of Georgia have discovered that rats do an excellent job of telling time too. They can be conditioned to wait two days after a meal to poke their noses into a trough and be rewarded with food."
- Leon Ho
from Bookmarklet
How do you know someone is smart? I've been thinking about that this morning and looking back at all the conversations I've had and one common theme is smart people talk to you about ideas, not about celebrities.
John Serra, Roy Montero, LPH™ and his dog P™ and 86 other people liked this
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would certainly agree!
- Tad
What about people who share stupid ideas? Like Free Enegery, most conspiracy theories, many political statements, etc etc...
- Tad
Robert, I like this and totally agree :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Tad: even those people are still smarter than people who tell you about what Britney Spears did last night.
- Robert Scoble
You could replace "celebrities" in that sentence with "names of people". In other words, it's ideas and concepts that are important, not egos. Even "nobodies" can have egos. Narcissism shuts out the world beyond the self, we can't learn if we are always holding up a mirror, never looking beyond it.
- Jason Wehmhoener
My dad once told me that even the dumbest person in the world can teach you something because he probably knows something you don't.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Smart people listen more than they talk.
- Randy Hall
To me the smart people are those that make a well-reasoned argument for and idea and then do two things. 1. Have the guts to put it out there to the world and 2. Have the guts to change their mind if they're wrong (or hold their ground when they know they're right)
- Morgan
I think it all depends on the topic you're discussing. I'd say someone is smart if she can engage with you on the discussion and make you think about it from a different angle.
- Bruno Pedro
Jason: it's one thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart had dinner at the Ritz last night." It's a whole nother thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart told me that xxxx idea is interesting and he's working on making that better."
- Robert Scoble
I absolutely agree, Randy.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Duncan for example is a smart guy, but still talks about celebrities, so it's possible to do both and still be smart
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Which reminds me I need to talk to you about an 'idea' at blogher. ok. not really...more about which cam to get for the conventions. lol
- Erin @queenofspain
I agree... This is especially obvious here in LA... although sometimes the celeb mention is the nature of the business -- or at least mention of -- as Calacanis would say -- "webebrities."
- Andy Sternberg
Jason: that's true. I have yet to meet someone who is able to communicate (I have a friend with a mentally retarded son who isn't able to communicate, so we'll leave him out of this) who I couldn't learn something from. Randy: exactly. When I fail as an interviewer it isn't because I'm listening, it's probably cause I'm talking.
- Robert Scoble
Andy: when you talk to the smartest people in Hollywood they talk to you about ideas. Trends. People's work. They don't talk about "I saw Tom Cruise at dinner last night" or "did you see what they said about Oprah in the tabloids?"
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I agree. The point I was trying to make is that we can learn something from almost everybody, even those who we may think know less then us.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I think one can be smart and still talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic, because he's smart.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Dobromir: Duncan's best work is when he talks about ideas. That's why I love Duncan, cause he tells me who has the most interesting ideas, and he's very willing to debate ideas (I've debated a few with him).
- Robert Scoble
I think people can be both highly intelligent and pretty stupid at the same time. Robert Anton Wilson said it better than I can, "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases." And that doesn't apply to just religious dogma - any kind including political, scientific, cultural, etc.
- Tad
Robert Anton Wilson++
- Jason Wehmhoener
this is a cool thread! we need a lightbulb "intelligence meter" on FF - users vote on how smart you are based on your posts... bulb gets brighter with more votes!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: fantastic idea! Now that's smart.
- Bruno Pedro
I have a theory that being smart is simply a matter of the attention that you give somthing. Granted, Nobel Prize winning physicists dont grow on trees.
- Roberto Bonini
smart to me is someone who knows what they know but more importantly knows what they don't know - too many intelligent people who never make it to smart because they are too busy broadcasting what they know
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
That would give credence to the old saying “if smarts was electricity that boy couldn’t light up a 10 watt bulb. “
- Tony C
Social media is about inclusion, don't alienate too much with your labels and boxes
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I've found smart people treat being smart like fight club: rule number one is you don't talk about being smart. Rule number two is you don't talk about being smart. To Jason Wehmhoener's point, smart people don't spend their time making a point of how they're wrapped up in smart things or "look what a good person I am for talking to x or doing y."
- Mark Trapp
Smart people usually start talking by conditioning everything - and the first condition is for them to say they are not an expert ...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Smart folks understand questions are important, they are not afraid to admit ignorance and appreciate that learning is a process not an event.
- Dave Martin
LPH: hmmm, the ultra smart like Douglas Engelbart (who really is the true visionary I've spent time with) just paint pictures in your mind of how the world will be someday. He never said he was expert at something, just talked about how this new world would work. I could listen to that guy for hours. At 82 he's easily the smartest person I've met.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: that's an interesting question. The biggest way I've found? The only skill not smart people have is in ripping down other people's ideas, or, worse, trying to rip down other people altogether.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, put it another way: smart people talk about the world that could be, not that the world that is?
- Mark Dykeman
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster
- Roberto Bonini
Smart people simply can get the job done faster and pay attention to the hidden details that others would miss. I still don't know how to best test for it, though.
- Ben Parr
smart people are visionaries, humble and most likely pious too. Take a look at the peoples who are deemed as being smart. These are some of the comman attributes of these type of people.!
- Peter Dawson
I think it can go both ways-Charlie Rose talks about both-ideas are great, but what is with the people behind those ideas - that's very interesting! I also think its a natural human instinct to talk about others - it depends on the context. "I saw Tom Cruise last night" is the lowest common denominator. Inquiring about the dynamic of Shell's latest barrage of public vitriol and the work ethic of others in the Valley are spurned from natural human curiosity that we all share, whether we ask it or not.
- j sven
+1 for Paul
- Steven Hodson
Robert: ”Smart” here as different from ”Intelligent” – I have one story that will help us out here to identify a smart person. I had a friend at high school that knew he was not that intelligent, but he was smart: - he used to research old exams to see what the previous year tests would possibly cover on the upcoming exams. He used to collect all class notes from the top “dedicated”...
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- Joao
@susanbeebe: I dunno, I'd feel pretty hurt when the system took away my lightbult entirely.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
@regila: all this for a "bob"? ;-)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
I remember my dad once telling me what Eleanor Roosevelt said... "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
- Brian Sloane
the first sign that someone is really smart... they will tell you they're not but they will show you they are.
- Scott Lockhart
I'm not saying I'm particularly smart, but I truly find celeb gossip one of the most uninteresting things I can think of.
- Ian May
I think that smart people are the people that get things done. Imagine two people that have never heard or met each other and both of them come up with the exact same brilliant idea. One person brings the brilliant idea to a reality, while the other person doesn't. Which person is smarter?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from NoiseRiver
Plug for the "highfalutin" room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... if you want to talk about things with depth
- Ňicķ
maybe true...but everyone is smart in their own right. you might be a social media whiz but not know anything about putting in kitchen cabinets. I'm a firm believer that everyone has their sweet spots in terms of knowledge. The really smart ones, just take the time to expand that sweet spot so it's more than just a spot and more like an area.
- Don Martelli
I think a smart person can talk about both. That way he/she can converse with all people and not make anyone feel less smart than them.
- Adrienne Van Houten
Adrienne: I agree with that. But smart people never start out that way.
- Robert Scoble
What an awful generalization. That's how I know when someone is smart. When he doesn't make an implied generalization like "stupid people talk about celebrities".
- Jay Cruz
smart people think through questions and give full answers. who talks to you about angelina jolie? i agree anybody asking scoble about that is "not as intelligent," but probably nice people...unless they have no idea who you are....maybe they ask you these questions: "is veronica belmont really cute in person? or is kevin rose really a ladies man?" however, smart people are not always smart in all aspects of their lives...
- Pokai
"Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people." -Jules Romains
- Joe Lencioni
@Jay: You spelled know wrong.
- Daniel Smith
For the record, that was a joke ;)
- Daniel Smith
Thank's @Daniel Smith
- Jay Cruz
You know when someone is smart when they know what they're talking about and they have a good understanding. "Smart" people grasp things better and/or have ideas.
- Kevin Porter
from twhirl
Smart is not about opinions ("Stupid ideas"). You can be smart and have different beliefs. I'm wondering if they are "smart" conversations or just engaging conversations. I'm much more interested in sharing ideas than sports scores, gossip, or transitory circumstances.
- Barb Gonzalez
Ugh. Most of these comments seem to prescribe behavior to those who are "smart" - one of the only commonalities I've ever seen of truly smart people is that they make their own rules. To say they only talk about X not Y or they listen more than they talk or any other behavioral observation misses the mark with me. Smart people don't subscribe to other peoples' ideas of what they should be.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Smart people realize how little they know but have no need to try and convince others that they know a lot.
- Dossy Shiobara
Scoble, no one is "smart" or an "expert." It doesn't really matter at all. The only thing that matters is how people preceive someone to be. My blog, http://onlyjames.com/ is constantly growing, so I believe people to think I am smart. Then again, I might be a complete nutcase. :D
- James Mowery
from twhirl
I think you can define smart a few different ways as well. I think the question you're really asking is "How to determine if someone is INTELLIGENT?"
- David Andrzejewski
I have noticed that they seem less likely to urinate in their pants than the general population
- Seth Shapiro
I wish I understood this.
- Michael Markman
Takes a long time of knowing someone and seeing how they react under differents sets of circumstances. People are smart in some ways, but not in others.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
When I hear the word "celebrity" I now think of Sarah Austin's Pop17 which come to think of it Robert, you have never acknowledged that I know of. Her site is about a new kind of celebrity. For her, and for me, the interesting celebrities are people who become famous because of their outstanding work. And she does not attempt to ask about shallow tips or favorite colors, but rather about their work. The people she tends to interview are micro-celebrities small in size, but important.
- Andrew Baron
Smart people don't brag about how they can recognize smart people.
- Rutger Blom
I enjoy people who talk about other change-makers in the world. People who point me towards amazing & influential musicians, dancers, physicists, politicians, chefs, etc... Sometimes the geek-world is a little heavy on ideas. I enjoy hearing about the life history & paths of unusual chemists, religious leaders, and environmentalists. Just as some of my friends have more "aesthetic sense" than others, some are unusually attuned to remarkable people, and some to innovative ideas.
- Mitchell Tsai
smart people just know
- Pokai
@ Scoble, once again you've hit a collective nerve with this thread. it goes back to what makes us human? "i'm not human without you"- Desmond Tutu re: Umuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... communities like friendfeed should be a place where we explore these types of questions, there is enough pablum out in this world already, thanks for pursuing this line of questioning.
- michael sean wright
I have an idea in that I'd love to get Britney Spears on Twitter - I think that would do wonders for her career. ;)
- Jesse Stay
Is smart a measurement of intelligence or emotional quotient? One's intelligence is measured and quantified, like it or not, whether intelligence is synonmous with smart, that maybe another question. One can have emotional quotient as well i.e. street smarts and it too is measurable. Intelligence is not dribble. Intelligence, for me, is the generation of ideas with vision followed by implementation. Intelligence has many forms as well albeit plasticity or crystallized. Good nature versus nurture question.
- ka3drr
I'll answer with this: the people's intelligence that I most desire and respect are the ones who are able to bring reality to the "out of the box" ideas they have. Plenty of people can speculate, but very few have the competence to bring a good idea to the rest of us.
- Tony
depressingly true...
- Stephen Roberts
I still have no clue who these A-listers are that people talk about but I'm interested in ideas both from other people and also sharing ones I come across. Celebrities? Phooey, give me an original thinker any day.
- Sally Church
Hmmm, how about... Methinks "smart people" think about having conversations with people (aka "intellectual celebrities") with whom they can talk about ideas and... Sigh... It still goes back to Howard Bloom: http://users.ucom.net/~vegan... —I'm a Zen Buddhist, but I still do think "God" is fair... As in, I can brainstorm pretty well, yes, but I'd die in the Aussie outback if you put me there. :P
- asepsotic
Thats a great observation. If only we could make those ideas a reality :) You are a fun guy to talk about ideas with.
- Christian Burns
Is this where we talk about Paris Hilton ?
- Eric Berlin
Eric: my niece says Sean Faris is hot. I don't even know who that is. Off to the Google for me! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think I have a trump card. go look at The Inquisitr..there's some pretty intelligent posts on there and, also talk about celebrities. You can tell someone you are talking to is smart by the way they treat the subject at hand and, how they deliver their portion of the conversation.
- Candace
Funny you should mention him, Robert. I'm working with a website, and he's one of our celebs on it. The odd part, for me, is that we have all of these B+ list celebs, and I don't know any of them.
- Bradley McSpinn
I put it to you that smart people talk about people rather than ideas
- Jim
Leo Laporte to stream for 24 straight hours! - http://www.twitlive.tv
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Vanity digg!
- Pierre Houston
Been watching off and on. Impressive effort.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Leo has been on my PC all afternoon. I'm drinking lots of Mountain Dew
- Carroll
GO LEO!
- Adam Shaw
Watching without the video, but this is how I like my TWiTs
- Manu Ullas
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New record for streaming! Good Show.
- Mike Mackley
That's awesome. let's see what happened to Warren.
- Manu Ullas
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Let's see if we can help out Warren.
- Manu Ullas
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Goooooooooooooood luck.
- l0ckergn0me
Just got onto the Front Page of Digg
- Manu Ullas
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Good show!
- Steve Isaacs
iReady!
- Manu Ullas
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It's hard to get out and get usual ohh!
- Jack
Enjoyed the coverage!
- Steve Isaacs
Rock On Leo! Enjoying the show.
- Larry Kless
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I make this and thought you like it - http://i37.tinypic.com/16m6cf4...
- Peter Malamas
Congratulations Leo for making it through all those hours
- Greg
You got some good old Philly methamphetamine I don't know about?
- john coffey
Congratulations Leo. The dream is alive!
- Mike Nally
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don't forget the cookies and candy for the sugar
- Marc Canter
It was a great show Leo-- to bad Apple's execution of the rollout of new products was so pathetic
- Mark Nassal
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I found myself at once stage watching you eating a pizza rather than watching the TV! Great stuff Leo.
- Euan
You made ME tired.
- l0ckergn0me
Great fun! Longest I ever stayed up.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Mutch fun this was! I took a nap for you Leo :-)
- Matt
I had the longest nap after this was over. Good times.
- Dennis Jackson
Great fun watching on Thursday night. Woz's section was superb and so was ton of it - kept me up way too late watching, when I should've been sleeping / prepping for horrendous lines / waiting yesterday :)
- Patrick Jordan
Great job, I heard I was on the stream from a guy with a macbook videocasting from Third Street Promenade, I high fived the isight Camera and yelled TWiTLive
- Andrew Fielding
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Again, One Clueless Person Destroys the Privacy Of Millions - http://mashable.com/2008...
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News item for the show, maybe?
- Tony Molloy
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WorkFast.TV: The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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I had dinner with our guest last night and he has some very interesting stories. Looking forward to the show (it'll start at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today at http://www.fastcompany.tv ). Lynne, when are we going to have you on our show?
- Robert Scoble
How to win Arguments - Dos, Don’ts and Sneaky Tactics - http://feeds.lifehack.org/~r...
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Jack Myers: Comcast, NBC, Universal McCann Embrace New Business Models, say Leaders - The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-my...
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"Victor, who joined Comcast six months ago from Boston Consulting Group, acknowledged Comcast is not moving quickly enough to adopt new business models and address changing marketplace realities. "More people are going online for entertainment and watching more video online," Victor said in a separate interview with JackMyers Media Business Report. "We need to make the online experience integral and additive to the experience on TV as opposed to a substitute. The multi-channel video industry needs to think through with programmers the best models for enhancing the consumer experience and sharing in the revenues." "One of the things the new landscape demands is you must have a customer relationship," insists Martin. "It is no longer enough to have a passive relationship with audiences. Digital media know who their customers and audiences are. But," she warned, "one of the most disruptive implications of the digital space is the pricing toward free model." Using Craig's List as an example, Martin explaine"
- Jay Deragon
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MobileMe launch date set: July 9th at 6 p.m. PT - http://www.tuaw.com/2008...
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On June 30th my mac.com was switched to me.com. So that part of the transition for me is done. I can't wait to see what MobileMe is going to look like.
- Gerard Lagana
Here's the boxed version on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/6rfkhd
- Jonathon
10 Steps to Becoming Fluent in a Language in 6 months or Less - http://matadorstudy.com/10-step...
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"Although English is my first language, I learned Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese as a child, picked up French in high school, and have recently became conversant in Spanish as I travel through South America. Over the years, I’ve picked up the following tips for expediting language acquisition."
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