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Actually, Chris, you didn't give any advice. You just said what you would do. So I take back what I said except that part that he's obviously doing something right to get such great gigs. But even if you don't watch or like the guy, you can't fault him for being true to himself. And I say this as an introvert. I would never mimic his style. - Graham English

I love Gary Vaynerchuk. He's one of the most interesting people I've met in my journey. - Robert Scoble

It's not hard to be on TV, so that shouldn't be an indication of anything, really. All it takes is a publicist or your own tenacity/desire to do it. REALLY simple, especially these days. It's an indication of nothing more than good relationships or a good PR firm. - Patricia

He seems nice and well-meaning, but I'm not sure I could handle an in-person conversation with him. Too much energy. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Chris, totally understand. I didn't watch that one. Like all of us, he's just giving his usually wrong opinions. :) - Graham English

I think Gary's a decent example of retail branching out to drive traffic another way. I think sometimes web 2.0 crowd forgets/overlooks he had an established client base that undoubtedly fed his video success, but his work is respectable regardless. The Howard Stern and more recent stuff smells like PR firm spin. But he's represented. CAA wants it's money. ;) Personally his business mantra/advice is a little rudimentary, experts in my eyes need to do more than be popular/noisy...but smart play on retail. - Patricia

He's real. Real annoying. What's he selling? - scott anderson

stop talking w/ caps lock on - James Campbell

He is a big bundle of energy. But, that what makes me like him. I like hearing what he has to say. He's all about being real and being passionate. I doubt he couldn't stand talking to me because I'm as slow as he is fast. ^_^ - Yolanda

But isn't the point that some people yell and some people whisper? If you want to be respected as a whisperer you should probably respect the yellers. It's the golden rule. - Graham English

Met Gary V. in DC along with Scobleizer June '08, a positive guy. Here's Gary with RocMan http://tinyurl.com/64ef4w - JimmyJet

Well that's the point he's making in the video. I guess you don't like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' either. Lots of yelling. - Graham English

To me, he doesn't seem like he's trying too hard or straining. He seems pretty real and true to himself. And he's very entertaining to lots of people, including me. If he bothers you so much, what can you learn about yourself? Not trying to be an arrogant dick here either. We all project our shit on others. - Graham English

Own the irritation instead of blaming someone else. - Graham English

Come on guys. It's comparing apples and oranges. Some people are inspired by Oprah, some Paris Hilton. Agree to disagree. :) - Patricia

You're right Patricia. I get nit picky on the language. Just because a person's style doesn't agree with you doesn't make them inherently wrong. Accept the diversity and move on. - Graham English

Graham, be the change you want to see in the world - ghandi. :) - Patricia

Chris, I was agreeing on the beauty of diversity. - Graham English

Chris, I see you changed your comment. Call if psycho-babble if you want. But when will you be satisfied? When GV modifies his personality to suit your needs? Get over yourself. - Graham English

Chris, I'm saying some people attach to different things. Some people see Paris Hilton, and despite that her revenue is reliant on her visibility (media) which is constant work, expense, etc, find her successful. Some people see Angelina, who's work nets her millions off real talent and work, doesn't really need to show her face otherwise, and think she's successful. "Success" in the eye of the beholder. - Patricia

Chris dude, and psyco-babble wasn't an attack? Whatever. I won't bend to your will either. - Graham English

classy - Patricia

T-Shirt of the Meatitarian fan club. - David Cook

I have this shirt. I've gotten an equal amount of laughs and angry glares, sometimes from the same people. - Rob Haas

Question: Would you still eat meat if you had to slaughter the meat you eat yourself? - Rod Bauer from twhirl

Rod, probably. - Kevin L

I've slaughtered rabbits for dinner before and tonight will be eating venison courtesy of my husband, so yes. Honestly, I think it's something everyone ought to experience, because if you're a meat eater it makes you appreciate what has been given to you for you to have your meal. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

what a great shirt! - Nicholas Cifuentes

Rod: Absolutely. Poultry and fish would be easiest... I've plucked the former and chopped the head off the latter before. Wild game like deer would be relatively easy, too. Where I would have trouble would be with cows and pigs, both of which tend to be more friendly than I like my dinner to be. - Roger Benningfield

Everybody who eats meat should watch how it's made at least once without telling yourself your helping isn't affected. That chicken you can't live without is soaked in a bleach/water solution to make it nice and plump :) You cant imagine what they do with beef! Yummy! - Patricia

Patricia, that's why it's important to know where your food comes from if you can't or won't source it yourself. They do equally unfortunate things to many commercially grown plants (such as introducing fruit fly genes to tomatoes to help prevent spoilage). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@tina, i know. i buy organic. - Patricia

thank you tina. I wish I didn't have to have anything die for my food. I don't view plants as insignificant lifeforms. - Tad

You can be sure that if someone tells you money isn't important, he's got more of it than you do. - Pat Rice

This is such a critical philosophy at this time. Remember what you have... - Rebecca

Browning is always festive this time of year.... - Mistletoe Glen

That Glen: he wants a German Karabiner 98 Kurz BCD4. Hmmm. - Robert Scoble

Unfortunately, he's sooo correct, but that stinks doesn't it?! (You can't handle the Truth!) ... awesome scene - Susan Beebe

Susan: nothing worse than 14-year-old who speaks the truth. - Robert Scoble

Would you consider Patrick's asking for Christmas and Birthday money early a run on the bank? - Michael Markman

A rifle? I predict a scene like in A Christmas Story. - Rochelle

My kid runs runs rings around me. Every time I see her, I realize it more. Yours sounds brilliant! - Charlie Anzman

I once asked a Sunday school teacher why she does it. Her answer "They're the only honest people left in the world" .... - Charlie Anzman

Wow...smart kid - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Appealing to the lowest in humans is more a disease than a talent. - Todd Hoff

No pressure on Patrick, of course ;) - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Knowledge of how people can me manipulated can also be used for good. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Rah, that is the way of the dark side. It will consume and use you as you think you are using it. - Todd Hoff

Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Therefore, having knowledge of anything gives you power, which can end up corrupting you. The secret ingredient, I think, is fear. As long as you can control that, you can balance along the edge of the darkside instead of getting swallowed by it. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Famous Jack Nicholson Line comes to mind " You Cant Handle The Truth " - johnpiercy

The force that controls fear is the light side. The force that feeds fear is the dark side. - Todd Hoff

My take would be: People don't like the truth when that parcel of truthiness might mean A) Accepting it entails pressure to change a comfortable habit, B) The Risk/Reward of embracing it is not clear cut or C) You'd rather be happy than right. I could go on, but then my hope for entertainment value would completely evaporate. Anyway, this may be interesting: http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastSho... - Micah Wittman

Micah, the On Bullshit guy is always interesting. - Todd Hoff

excellent - Jeremiah Owyang

one smart son you have, Robert! - Hayk H.

I don't think it makes it okay. People should be able to face life, be mature, responsible, etc..... but your son IS very smart. Make him be a politician instead. - Patricia

the truth is hate to those who hate the truth. - Jens Christian Freund

It takes a lot of effort to acknowledge and deal with the truth if the truth is not pleasant. Most people don't want to make that effort if it is at all uncomfortable for them. Entertainment is usually pleasurable and when it is an alternative to an uncomfortable truth people prefer it. Patrick has great observational skills. :) - Fa La La La Lindsay

Nice one, Patrick! Marketing is an excellent career, I just wish there were more marketers that faced the truth rather than trying to spin things. - Sally Church

I think Americans are experts at denial. From slavery to the cold war, Vietnam to Iraq, we've got a lot of truth we'd rather not think about. There's a shiny Jetsons future from the 50s that we'd rather believe, and anything you can say that suggests an alternate path is called for is insulting to it. "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". While everyone's giving "advice" to Patrick mine would be: stick with the truth, to heck with marketing. - Jason Wehmhoener

People can't really handle the truth a lot of times. If you tell them the truth usually they get very defensive, because they don't want to see what really is going on. I have had that experience a couple of times when someone told me that I was hanging out with the wrong people, and I got pissed that them, but later found out they were right. - Molly, New Ears :P

I think there are a lot of countries that have been historically engaged in rewriting history because they can't handle the truth. To think that this is just an American trait is just blind stupidity. It's human nature. Looks like your son has given up on the soap box and the ballot box. - Ernie Oporto

Robert - actually something worse: if your Son did NOT know the truth - that is worse! Seriously, I think I would WANT my 14 year old to speak the truth as Patrick does... that mean's he's intelligent, able to discern truth from error and is not intimidated to speak his mind... these are all fantastic attributes for a young adult to acquire!! CONGRATULATIONS Robert, you did a great job of raising him well! :) Now the tricky part is being able to deal with it when he opens his mouth and speaks the truth! - Susan Beebe

Susan (and everyone): thanks, yeah, Patrick is pretty smart about things. I love that he was arguing about porn and censorship with the FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. He'll do just fine in life. Politics? We'll see if he takes to that, I don't sense that he's interested in that yet. - Robert Scoble

ouch - Susan Beebe

Any sort of change is good. Nickels, Quarters, even pennies. - R. Alexander Spoerer

Oops, we are like John McCain, only ideas we exchange - Taban Khajehnassiri

Michael Gartenberg told me a fun quote a while ago: the cemeteries are full of people who thought they couldn't be replaced. - Robert Scoble

Wish someone had told me there were symptoms of an *approaching* breakdown before I had my first one. Or the second. Or the third. Still, I know now, eh? :-) - Slappy Line

This is a very big signal in the noise. Watch the video. - Sean McBride

wow - Jesse McPherson

simply amazing - Turker Keskinpala

What's with the DRM issue? - Ron

It runs great on my 8 month old, middle of the road iMac. - Andrew

Runs great on my 18 month old MacBook Pro. And Spore is awesome. - Mark Trapp

My old Macbook Pro is running it quite jerkily. - Brandon Titus

agreed - Duncan Riley

Working fine on a year old iMac. - Steve Isaacs

Yep great game even with the faults - Mo Kargas

I'm enjoying it, though I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of complexity in game play strategy. I guess it would be impossible to actually live up to the super-hype... - Shannon Jiménez

I'm in love with Spore as well. Definately magical. - Keke

seems cozy enough... but ive only seen it from afar. ahem... - Melissa Maskevich

I'd happily give you a private demo anytime Melissa ;) - Steve Isaacs

great find Robert. Just shared it myself. cheers. - linkman77

Great article that holds a perspective that is quickly gaining followers... - Mitchell Hislop from twhirl

I like that term: media snacking. That's pretty accurate, lol. - Rahaf Harfoush from feedalizr

I'm glad you liked my post, Robert. Your video with Tim changed the way I used Google Reader back then, and for the better. @gregory, part of my point is I think similar to the one you're making. I think a lot of those people suffering overload are geeks suffering from a self-induced problem that 'normal' people don't have. - Shane Perris

Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize... Not all feeds are created equal. - Sean McBride

very good article, everything's true... it's a drug, that's why it is painful... - TiTi

http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - collecting lots of related articles and posts there - Deva Hazarika

Good List!! all taboooo topics for sure! - Susan Beebe

Add programing environments to the list. Several years ago, I witnessed a clear separation between Java and VB adherents. Luckily, no one was killed. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

We've had family food fights over these same touchy topics! - Susan Beebe

I think you should add sex and cornbread to the list, too. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

With my grandmother, you'd have to add 'colored people', as well. - Akiva Moskovitz

be sure to bring up psychedelic drugs and critique salvador dali art and huxley novels. - shaggyshaw

Except in our family. I guess that was my training for blogging. - Robert Scoble

How about text editors? :) - Morton Fox

vi vs emacs anyone? - Percival

funny thing reli and poli are about the *only* things my family talks about. thankfully, nobody but me gives a rip about op systems. - Mark Schulz

nano rules all! - Tony Speer

yeah, nano rules if you can't use emacs! - Alexandre Testu

Hey I can use emacs just too lazy too :p - Tony Speer

Rubbish. I fervently try to extract people from the living nightmare of religion, socialism and Windows. Especially family members. - John Samuelson

cosign @ John - Jamie

For sure! Couldn't agree more - orionstarr

@ Jamie you taught me some new slang! Cheers...! - John Samuelson

I submit that the family that can't talk about these, can't talk about much else either. - Jim Sewell

Stick to the weather and field/give comments on the person who last got their hair cut and you'll be fine. - Derick Valadao

Hah. My mother can ask me to fix her operating system, if I've been to church lately, and if I voted in one sentence. Luvya, mom! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Or you could just learn to have a calm discussion/debate. - Tanath

In my family the good debates start over Facebook via MySpace. - Robert Scoble

In my famuly it is all about Politics...one thing we never tlak about comfortably is money...I've got none and my parent's have got some so it ends there - Andrew Fielding from twhirl

Until recently my father-in-law was still using Windows 3.1 (no internet) and would DARE you to challenge him by suggesting an upgrade. True Story - Mattb4rd

I would mos def add money to the taboo family convo list. (shivers) - John LeMasney

Seems like city & state could be optional in most cases, but 5 digit zip codes can refer to 2+ cities. It depends. - Wade Dorrell

Because they're too cheap to purchase a lookup db from the post office - Glenn Slaven

Wade, but the way the zip code system works, addresses aren't based on what town you reside in, but what post office services you. A zip code can only refer to one city and state combination, never two, because a post office can only reside in one city and state. Moreover, if you know my zip code, you know, for all reasonable intents and purposes, my city and state. Unless you're in a... more... - Mark Trapp

More valuable information, if they are so concerned with resolution, would be the street address or the ZIP+4 code. Or, if they really wanted the actual technically accurate information about my actual town, they should ask for that and not require a zip code. - Mark Trapp

same issue for ivr's - enter or say info and then immediately have to repeat it when reaching a "live" customer support person - lazy tech implementation is the culprit for both of these - mike "glemak" dunn

If I enter my 5-digit code in an weather app, it says "here's the weather for Garden City, ID." That's correct as far as post office is concerned, but it's not the city I live in. (Boise, ID.) If I was naive, I'd consider the app broken. On the other hand, if I enter Boise, ID, it correctly reports weather from the weather station by the BOI airport, 10 miles away, which varies by at... more... - Wade Dorrell

And of course, a fancier form could ask zip first, then AJAX in city/state fields if the zip is ambiguous in any way such as 83714 is. - Wade Dorrell

Wade, my issue is not that they are requiring a city and a state OR a zip code, is that they are requiring both. Requiring a 5 digit zip code provides only one possible city and state combination for that zip code: asking for the city and state is redundant. But if, for example, in your case, where geographical location is more important than address, they ought not require the zip code and merely require the city and state. Like Mike said, it's lazy implementation. - Mark Trapp

Wade, the 5 digit zip code is not ambiguous: it tells you one piece of information, the identity of the post office servicing that address. If that's not good enough, they shouldn't require the zip code. - Mark Trapp

hear, hear, Mark - Michael W. May

I Agree with Mark, City /STate/Street can easily be culled out from the zip code. the processing and distribution facility, for a designated geographical area is defined by one or more three-digit ZIP code - Peter Dawson

@Wade Dorrell: The point of a mailing address is for the post office to get mail to you. For mailing, you only need to know the city the zip code refers to. If the service does need the specific physical address for some reason, then the zip code is not really even relevant anyway. Therefore, you should never need both the city and state and the zip code. - Jake (aka Jawee)

Great point - Tim FitzGerald

Better yet, don't ask for either. Ask for exact GPS coordinates to their house and work them out from that! - Brooks Bishop

How about a single 10-digit number as an address? Cuts down a lot of ambiguity, but it wouldn't be human readable. Simple. - Dave Roth

Dave, that was the purpose of ZIP+4, but it never really caught on despite USPS's efforts. The real purpose of writing out your entire address is for sorting and for error checking: when mail takes 2 days to get to its destination, a miswritten zip code could be a huge problem. But online, you get instant feedback: there's no need to be verbose in defining your physical location. If you... more... - Mark Trapp

Depends on whether they've bought city-state-zip software. Good ones cost ~$2,000 late-time I checked. And also whether they use software developers who know how to code the interfaces. - Mitchell Tsai

Google Maps divines I live in "Garden City, 83714" regardless of whether I enter "83714", or "Boise, ID 83714", or even my full address. Garden City is not a popular place. When I send Google maps content to other people, I have to explain my choice of living location, every time. I made no mistake. The software is overconfident in its usability. Here in meatspace some users don't mind typing in the city name, expecting to save time in the long run... - Wade Dorrell

Easy, because not everyone lives in the United States as well. Your suggesting they should use your zip/post code to track your city/ state, but imagine that for the whole world...not going to happen. - Duncan Riley

Duncan, no, I'm not: a good web service should require either city and state OR zip code, not both. My problem is towards services that require both, and there isn't any reason to do so. I'm *am* principally talking about services that are providing US based information, however: the impetus for the tweet was the Jiffy Lube location finder. I'm not versed in other country's addressing... more... - Mark Trapp

Exactly!!!!! - R. Ferguson

This is also true for the difference in today's penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine (typically Black and White forms respectively) - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I don't discount any of what this reads. However, they almost completely dismiss the greed and power of the cotton industry, which saw an opportunity to gain a fibre monopoly and took it. - Michael W. May

Good read. - Mathew A. Koeneker

actually, I need one of those for my car so I don't get booked for holding the phone when using the GPS/ Maps function :-) - Duncan Riley

The stand is $47... appropriately priced for the iPhone crowd. :) - Brandon

I must have it - Jesse McPherson

I am not so sure about the commenting, but I would love to promote the links I like for a search to the top of the results (or demote them off). Sort of like search based bookmarking. Commenting is not terrible, but I don't think it is as cool as the voting. - Sean Brady

This sounds like a cool feature. Three possible questions/comments: 1. Can I 'Friend' a person who I like their style of ranking so I could have a 'Friends' section instead of just an 'Everyone'. 2. How exposed is my total search history/ranking and can I restrict who sees that histroy. 3. Can I turn it off cause I know at least 15 people that this will confuse the heck out of. - Johnny Worthington

No more JSON? - Jim McCusker

I agree; JSON is barely human readable. - Roger Jennings

But on huge sites, JSON may make sense from a price & performance perspective. - Jim McCusker

why use xml? and more generally what type of API? - Rob Diana

How 'bout you provide options so developers can use what's appropriate for their application? - Ken Sheppardson

If you are doing an API that will be accessed from a browser use JSON. XML is the wrong answer. But most people ought to just offer both. It is trivial to offer your API in several formats. - Sam Pullara

XML isn't supposed to read by humans, it's supposed to read y machines. But I like Same Pullara's point. Returning data in various types isn't that difficult. - Chris Jones

XML is more generic, but really its only presentation - make it as easy as possible for people to use by offering the output it in multiple formats (RSS, XML, ATOM,...). - martin english

JSON please. But really it's pretty trivial to do both - Benjamin Golub from fftogo

agreed. XML is universal and has things like XSL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery that you can use with it. JSON has no such ecosystem, just a quick and dirty way to parse a string. XML is more than a string. Plus, JSON has no way to validate it, as far as I remember. - Eric Marden

I like JSON better. It's faster and easier to parse IMO. - Winston Teo

If you intend your API to be consumed by a browser then please provide it in JSON. Its just so much easier and faster than having to parse XML. And JSON being barely human readable? Um, isn't that why we have computers now? And wow, do I remember the fuss that was made over XML back in the early 90's how that wasn't human readable. We got computers to read it for us as well. - Troy Forster from feedalizr

I disagree. Libraries like simplejson for Python are what made writing my django-friendly (friendfeed app) so easy. I didn't have to muck around with all the nastiness that comes with XML. I just want to get a data dump, throw it into a method like simplejson.loads() and get out a python data structure. It's always been exceedingly difficult with XML. - Clint Ecker

why is it so hard to support both? - Jesse McPherson