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Coincidently - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Jim Reverend, Brian Felix, Steven Perez and 84 other people liked this
Real creative angle - nice shot.
- Blake Caldwell
yeah
- 2ndmoon©
great shot, unreal
- Geer
Amazing shot TH. Loverly!
- Chris Nixon
Not to be repetitive, but that's amazing!
- Michael Fidler
thanks all. it was such an amazing work of art to shoot and a sculpture which answers the question as to why God created the 14mm ultra wide lens.
- Thomas Hawk
This must be saved in DMU, it's fan-f*****g-tastic!
- Rene Wirtz
heh, DMU saved it. Barely though.
- Thomas Hawk
Good, but still too many deletes for my taste. This is the reason why I unjoined DMU and have not responded to your invite yet: I see to many deletes for completely illogical reasons by photographers who can't make a good shot if they tried. Meh ...
- Rene Wirtz
Haha, yeH dmu can be a bit critical most of the time. A good albiet harsh and crass group of photographers
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
I don't mind criticism, at all, but quite a lot of what I see is nothing but misplaced arrogance, or envy, or just being randomly contra, and not constructive at all.
- Rene Wirtz
that is an amazing shot
- Lorenz Sell
Awsome!
- Mark Williamson
from BuddyFeed
This is how rolling thunder cloud rolls - http://naurunappula.com/z...
Jacob, hiroshik, Lysender and 93 other people liked this
JEEZ.
- l0ckergn0me
And now I have Garth Brooks stuck in my head.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Wow ! Nice !
- DAL
that's awesome
- Chieze Okoye
Wow
- Tyson Key
amazing.
- Zee.
Whoa... and ditto, Amanda.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Love interesting looking clouds. Plain old gray just doesn't do it for me.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Wow, that must be awesome to see.
- TheHenry
WOW!!! I have seen a bit of it here..but nothing like that!
- Rob Sellen :o)
I want to go on a storm chasing vacation just to see skies like this one.
- cecily
Ooooh.
- Ayşe E.
Wow! Admittedly, I almost thought this was another fake: http://poolpooping.blogspot.com/2007...
- Chris Luckhardt
Mark Groves, Baffled, Kevin Johnson and 4 other people liked this
I love interesting pictures of natural, organic things like these. Thanks for sharing!
- NXT Nutritionals. inc.
So near, yet so far: How British girl is brought together with boyfriend 4,000 miles away in amazing Flickr photo art album | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
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googirl, Santa CW™, Iain Baker and 20 other people liked this
There are 4,000 miles between them. But when the yearning gets too much, Rosie Hardy can still feel a mere heartbeat away from her boyfriend. The British student and American photography expert have created a series of touching portraits in which they defy the distance to appear very much together. Rosie, 18, of Buxton, Derbyshire, and boyfriend Aaron Nace, 25, of North Carolina, met through photo sharing website Flickr. They dated online for three months before finally meeting in the flesh. To cement their relationship, they decided to fuse themselves together in a series of pictures, helped by a little computer wizardry.
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
wow.....that's beautiful and amazing .... :-D <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
...there was an earlier story about Rosie & Aaron a few weeks back; very inspiring and romantic. Not often found nowadays. Well, if you don't count the romance between your and L4S. ;)
- JA Castillo
lovely
- Brandon
Scratch that. THIS one is cooler than the last one. Architectural iPhone snap... http://twitpic.com/659fy
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Marc Silber Interviews Me - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Rob Sellen :o), Kevin Pedraja, junrxu and 67 other people liked this
Had a great time doing a video interview with Marc Silber for his new Photo Show out at Baker Beach shooting the Golden Gate Bridge. The shot above is one of the shots that I got shooting with Marc. You can watch the video here: http://www.silberstudios.tv/tomas-h...
- Thomas Hawk
How come you mark everything off on the camera and lenses Thomas? (canon name and the red rings on lenses)That so they dont look so pricey? Also, thats a big dent in your Mac you have :) Is a great interview, some inspiring words.
- Simon Wicks
Awesome Shot...The color and lights scream Bay Area.
- Jamie Ginsberg
Thomas Who? :)
- Kreg Steppe
Beautiful! One of the best I've seen from this angle
- Michael Fidler
Nice Interview. Makes me want to shoot (w/ camera) something now.
- Kreg Steppe
Hey Simon. A good question. I replied with a blog post because it's actually a longer conversation than a simple reply: http://thomashawk.com/2009...
- Thomas Hawk
Would love to watch the video, but....."The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. " :-(
- Nils Sandin
Hmmmm.. just checked Nils, seems to be back up.
- Thomas Hawk
Yepp, back up again :-)
- Nils Sandin
Incredible shot!
- Rick Bucich
Great interview.
- Mark Groves
Always informational and inspirational hearing you talk about your approach to photography. This video reminded me a little of one of those early photowalk videos you did with Scoble.
- Andy Roth
Excellent interview!
- Susan Dennis
we got slammed with views to had to bump up our bandwidth but should be ok now. I told Scoble this goes right back to your 1st PhotoWalk with him
- Marc Silber
from Moopz
In a Long Line - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Rob Kramer, Mrsth, Tracy McLaughlin and 8 other people liked this
Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera - http://tech.slashdot.org/article...
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http://www.justin.tv/wolfram... <-- live now!
- Lasse Johnsen
Turning your Kindle into the best newsstand ever for free by Christopher S. Penn’s Awaken Your Superhero - http://www.christopherspenn.com/2009...
Mark Groves liked this
Since USA is socialist now, according to conservative talk radio, I'm wondering when we'll get a good transit system like all other socialist countries in Europe? Not to mention health care for everyone?
Squid, Jorge Barba, Matt Campbell and 104 other people liked this
good transit system.. still waiting for ours in quasi-socialist britain! It's quite sad, most forms of modern transit originated/pioneered in Britain yet we have the worst in the developed world :(
- alphaxion
Don't forget Japan!
- Mona Nomura
Japan has the best in the world from what I've seen.. Only system I've ever seen that apologises heavily for even a minutes delay! Tho, always remember that the Japanese system is a private company, not state run!
- alphaxion
What countries in Europe would be on this list of "all other socialist countries"?
- Brian Sullivan
alphaxion: I guarantee you that Britain's is worse than USAs.
- Robert Scoble
Guess the lack of a good transit system and universal health care proves that the USA is not socialist ... yet.
- Rene Wirtz
@Scobleizer Thanks to a socialist government once upon a time in Saskatchewan, Canada has a health-care system today.
- Jaffer
@robert I know Britains is worse than the USA.. expensive and piss poor. We created the railway system, yet we've fucked it up through a constant swapping of private, state, private, state then private once again. Along with the total lack of investment that goes with it while state and the money grubbing greed of private use. It's obscene, £70 to £120 just to travel from Leeds to London. Disgusting!
- alphaxion
"old socialist countries", i'm not so sure or very old!!! I can take the example of France !! we are not socialists since more of 10 years !
- Alice Cordonnier
They just did a study of extending DC's metro system down into Fredericksburg which is 50miles south of it. While it came out to be several billion dollars, the idea of it was cool to see just because it had been considered. Would be wonderful but will never happen.
- Dean Clark
Mass transit here is pretty bad, 75' to the bus and when I get downtown I have to walk a whole block. And I only have 4 times to choose from.
- Clarence Westberg
@alphaxion: You are correct, the privatization made British Railways from one of the best to one of the worst. Strange thing is, even after seeing things go downhill in the UK, the Dutch government decided to semi-privatize its railways, making it a lot worse. Luckily, Holland is a small country so effects are going to be minimal.
- Rene Wirtz
Isn't "according to conservative talk radio" fairly unreliable? :)
- Louis Gray
+100 Louis.
- Alex Scoble
@Brian: from the top of my head: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Greece. And now of course, the former Eastern Bloc countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
- Rene Wirtz
Phoenix just opened up a light rail system and ridership is 30% higher than they predicted.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Rene -- all those countries are socialist in your mind? What countries in Europe or elsewhere would be classed as non-socialist?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian: not only in my mind, though, these countries are all based in socialist principles, even though some countries don't have a socialist government per se anymore. Countries that are not socialist are: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria.
- Rene Wirtz
Francine: light rail in Seattle has been a compleate boondoggle. It's not about predicted ridership, it needs to be about how many are served for how much per person.
- Christian Burns
I would love to have a decent light rail system here. Our only option to get anywhere is to drive. We live in a gorgeous patch of farmland, and the traffic is starting to smog everything up.
- Karoli
The lack of good rail system of any kind in the US is a travesty. I've never understood why that was the case. One would think you could be proud of a good rail system. It has nothing to do with being socialist of otherwise. Every time I go to Boston (to pick a US city), I enjoy hopping onto a train and just getting to places
- Deepak Singh
regardless of the underlying intentions (socialism, liberalism, etc.) hasn't the time for universal healthcare and mainstream mass transportation finally come. I mean dammit people, stop the excuses and get some work done. What we need is the ability as a populous to prevent our government officials from getting paid if they fail to do their jobs...sessions over, and there are still bills on the table; sorry but I guess you don't get paid.
- Bob Blunk
Christian: Over what period of time do you amortize the cost? A light rail system is a long, long term investment. Taking into account projected growth in the area alongside the longevity of the system, I'd imagine it's quite the bargain.
- Karoli
Robert: I am starting to agree. We have a broken system that relies on insurance tied to employers. That must change.
- Christian Burns
I think the biggest problem in the US is the sheer size of cities. New York and Chicago are the first and only ones to have adopted a subway system early enough on to actually offer viable public transport. In a city like Atlanta, there's 2 subway/lightrail lines, and there's over 5mio people and there's a lot of commuting.
- Rene Wirtz
Great article about self-employment, freelancing, and health insurance http://www.city-journal.org/2009...
- Karoli
Karoli: I live in rural area, transit just doesn't fit into our lives. Central planning to fix a decentralized problem.
- Christian Burns
Rene, American cities aren't really that large, and definitely carry small populations. Tokyo does just fine with a wonderful rail system. The challenge is that to add transit now would take a lot of effort to fit into existing infrastructure, but IMO it has to be done
- Deepak Singh
Loving trains in Japan and loved the trains when I lived in Portland. I would kill for high-speed between Los Angeles and San Francisco, so let's hope it comes soon. Decent but long article with some good points about US and high-speed trains here: http://is.gd/mrYY
- Ken Brady
@Deepak: I disagree that American cities are not that large; traveling from one end of Atlanta Metro to the other is almost a 2 hour drive. There are countries in Europe where a 2 hour drive means crossing borders into another country. I do agree that a mass transit system must be added to a lot of cities. And now is the time. But, I do know that there is going to be a lot of...
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- Rene Wirtz
Rene -- do you have some sort cite that backs your assertion about which countries in Europe are socialist/non socialist (or based on socialist principles -- whatever that means). What about Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Russia?
- Brian Sullivan
actually, the malaise in the british rail system dates to when the state took over them during the 40's. A lot of stations and routes were loss making but paid for by the more profitable. When the government took control they began a systematic shutdown and withdrawl of funding from the system until its eventual re-privatisation. The only problem is that the system is in such bad need of funds that private companies now running it don't want to invest and are simply milking it for all the money they can get
- alphaxion
@Brian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - socialism and the industrial revolution almost went hand in hand in Europe.
- Rene Wirtz
I'm holding out for those awesome European family friendly parks and museums
- Erin @queenofspain
I'm just pissed I have to listen to this brainless sheep-driven socialism drivel for the next eight years. Baaahhh. Baaahhh.
- AJ Kohn
@alphaxion: So, at least the government kept whatever lines were more or less profitable up and running, doing maintenance and planning. After privatization, the maintenance and planning part got dropped, since it is by far the most expensive, without having a clear ROI. Private companies are always gonna be looking at the bottom line and with a vast operation like a country-wide infrastructure to maintain it's not gonna look good.
- Rene Wirtz
Rene -- I don't see any mention of most the countries in your list in that article. Is that the best information you have?
- Brian Sullivan
Operating a profitable mass transit system within the US is difficult because of your wildly variable population density. Improving your archaic zoning system would be a good first step.
- Steven Cains
Um..how come there's no mention of Amtrak? The challenge isn't just getting govt. to set up a mass transit system but also getting folks to use it. There's a lot of competition from alternative forms of transportation like planes and automobiles. Let's not forget that every time the gas prices go down, public interest in using public transportation goes down as well.
- MiaD
@Brian: I'm sure I can find all of them, but I'm too tired and lazy to google at the moment. You can believe me or not, either way, the US is not even near to what they think is socialism.
- Rene Wirtz
Child care for new moms. Doctors who pay house calls. Three months vacations. Sign me up.
- Martha
We're building light rail in the Dallas area. The problem is getting to the rail stations and finding a place to park. They closed the route that went right past our house - on a main road! The parking lot is clogged with cars from cities to the north that don't pay transit taxes. We can't use our own trains!
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
we have been trying to get light rail in Kansas City forever.
- Rodney Taylor
that's just it tho, "British Rail" as it was when it was nationalised barely put any money into the system at all and only grudgingly did any maintentance. No upgrades were made, no investment in new rolling stock. It was a total shambles. Stations fell into disrepair and entire routes were left to rot or were ripped up.
- alphaxion
(There is a story making the rounds of a pool reporter on Air Force One who asked President Obama, "Are you a socialist?" ... we offer some context for that reporter, and any others that might be lurking here on a beautiful Sunday evening.) http://www.dailykos.com/storyon... - i thought this was really cool, and thought that it might settle this subject once and for all -
- Chris Heath
chris - way to avoid any position at all. +1 for a completely empty statement. You implied that a 0% cap gains rate created a China that is a net creditor nation. Or would you like to tap dance out of that position ad well?
- Brian Roy
Hey, you decided to go ad hominem... I just pointed out the error I your thinking... Not sure I was in attack mode. Care to answer the question? Is China being a creditior nation a direct result of a 0% cap gains rate?
- Brian Roy
Were some comments deleted? Can't figure out what Brian Roy was responding to.
- Morton Fox
nah I posted on the wrong thread. My bad.
- Brian Roy
Hong Kong's transit system is something too! :D
- Michael Forian
I'm from Europe and now am living in NYC. I find that NYC public transit (subways, buses, taxis) is actually fairly decent by my European standards. Sure, it's sometimes dirty and crowded, but it gets you to places and runs with good frequency. If you live in the city close to the transit, you don't need to have a car at all.
- Jaanus Kase
Ha ha.. wonderful perspective - even the Democrats are so far right of centre in European terms to be ever be called Socialists.
- Ian D. Nock
@Ian: *highfive* I keep saying that, too, but no-one believes me! A lot of Americans equate the Democratic Party with socialism, while I was taught in school that in the US you can choose between right and extreme right.
- Rene Wirtz
Believe me, Robert, you don't want these. I'm from Hungary and I know what I'm talking about. Social healthcare sucks... Even if you live a totally healthy life, you pay the same insurance as those who smoke and drink all day long. (And get the same service)
- Berci Mesko, MD
people who have not experienced socialized services do not get it. They Idealize them!
- Leonard Boord
@Berci Mesko and those who drive and those who eat too much or badly, exercise too little, have sport injuries, unprotected sex, have dangerous and stressful jobs etc if we start thinking in those terms not many people would be entitled to healthcare at all. Personally I prefer not to judge and have universal healthcare combined with decent education and prevention plans
- M F
I am from the government I am here to cure you....
- Leonard Boord
Just a question: Is it really true that the current system in the US means that people who take care of themselves and use little healthcare don't subsidize those who are less healthy? Given the high costs of basic insurance I find that almost impossible to believe but it would be interesting to know some facts especially when these 'socialized' vs 'whatever we call it' comparisons are being made.
- Robin Barooah
@Robin: as far as I know everyone has Medicare tax withheld form their paycheck even if they are not insured throug Medicare. (I may be wrong though.)
- Rene Wirtz
@M F: I understand, but having universal healthcare means you get an average service no matter how hard you work in life. Nurses, doctors have an incredibly low income compared to those working in the US. The whole system is far overloaded and nobody has time for you. I know there are serious problems in the US healthcare system as well, but I don't think you really want socialized medicine. Though, you should give it a try yourself. :)
- Berci Mesko, MD
From what I have experienced (I grew up in the UK, and now live in the US) neither 'ideological extreme' is particularly great. There are some aspects of healthcare that make it difficult to run from a purely capitalistic perspective - i.e. accidents happen to even the most careful people, demand can potentially be infinite, etc, and at the point of use there is no market and consumers are vulnerable...
- Robin Barooah
...and there are aspects that make it difficult to run from a purely 'socialized' perspective - i.e. a lowest common denominator service may limit quality of life unfairly, those who take care of themselves end up responsible for those who don't, demand is potentially infinite, metrics are hard and medical decisions become politicized etc.
- Robin Barooah
To me this means that our tools are too blunt to solve the problem as one thing. Either we need more sophisticated tools (which I don't see), or the complex problem needs to be broken down into simpler ones that we can solve with out blunt tools (which I think is eminently possible). I believe that Obama is sophisticated enough to recognize this. Whether or not he can implement it given the vested interests he has to work with is the real test.
- Robin Barooah
In the 19th century, the US built an incredible rail system that tied the nation together, all with private money. The entrepreneurs are now called "Robber Barons". It's little wonder that private enterprises doesn't want to step up again.
- Robert Hafer
@Berci Mesko I live in Britain, I'm familiar with a national health service free to the point of service, with all its faults.Having said that I don't want to put my health and trust in the hands of a company that thinks about its profit first, I don't want them to do unnecessary procedures when I have plenty of money (as has had happened in some private clinics in Europe) and deny me care when I need it the most. And I don't want anyone else to be in that position.
- M F
what is interesting -- how many people have opinions on socialism/socialists, while context they mention reveals they have either little or no clue about true socialism and how those historical examples of *socialism* were far from schoolbook definitions... and then-love-now-hate from ex-little-cousins in Central Europe looks like they hasn't learned lessons of history, rather go the opposite way (hint - negation is not productive and helps only in very short term).
- A.T.
@M-F and Berci: some countries in Western Europe have adopted a two tiered system: 1) base care, including prevention, pharmaceuticals and dental, for everyone (everyone pays for it, everyone can benefit from it) and 2) for an extra premium you can add more specialized items to the base insurance, like private hospital rooms or extended dental plan or prolonged manual therapy. This way, everyone has the same base insurance coverage and for those who can afford it, they can get a better or broader coverage.
- Rene Wirtz
@alphaxion Europe is a lot more compact than the US. so don't hold your breath about getting a transit system for everyone. Health care is so expensive because of insurance. Our economic system is a house of cards - one that is on the verge of tumbling down. More government is never a solution; it always adds to the problems. Real solution is growing food & shopping locally, supporting communities, decentralizing. That is in OUR best interest but not the best interests of the global economy's plutocracy.
- Internet Strategist
Transit is partially affected by population density, exclusive of politics. The western U.S. differs greatly from Europe, though I will grant that European nations discourage auto use more, thus incentivizing mass transit.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I should clarify that I was talking about intercity travel, not intracity travel (though the same issues apply to southern California - who's gonna build a rail line connecting Ontario to Orange County?).
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Time for high speed rail from San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, too San Diego.
- ka3drr
36 Hours in Reno - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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"Weekend before last I packed up the Buick with mrsth and the kids and headed out to shoot the “Biggest Little City in the World,” Reno Nevada. I’ve been meaning to shoot Reno for a while now, but somehow just never quite made it out there. I’ve been to Vegas dozens of times, but Reno’s always remained that elusive stepsister of Nevada just out of my reach. I’ve known that I’ve needed to shoot Reno for years of course. I’m collecting images of neon signs and the neon in Reno really is best in class. Maybe it was the worsening recession that finally convinced me. Every day more and more neon signs are coming down. But whatever the case, I made it to Reno just in the nick of time. I spent most of my time in downtown Reno and the best way that I can describe it is that it felt a hell of lot like post Katrina New Orleans. When I visited New Orleans after Katrina I was struck by how devastated the place had become, how broken in many ways the city and the people who lived there were, but at the same time how un
- Thomas Hawk
Reno is known as the father of Las Vegas :)
- Pelin Ayan
FWIW, Las Vegas seemed just as busy as it's ever been. It didn't SEEM to be hurting at all.
- Chrimmus Tad
Great post! Sounds like I'm going to need to get there sooner rather than later.
- Jeremy Brooks
Jeremy, you'd love it. There is so much neon there. But so much of it coming down soon I bet. A lot of the vintage neon is on closed businesses.
- Thomas Hawk
Love the photos!
- Robert Scoble
I'm not sure how much of a role the sorry economy has played on Reno, but even before the crash, it looked like New Orleans post Katrina.
- Davis Freeberg
Thomas, I got the same feeling when I was there this weekend. I brought my camera, but just didn't feel motivated to shoot anything with how run-down it all was. The local media and government are just starting to catch-on to Social Media though, so it will be very interesting to see if that improves what happens there or not. I was impressed with the excitement at this Interactive Media conference I keynoted at there on Saturday.
- Jesse Stay
Thomas, I am sorry we didn't cross paths while you were here! Excellent post by the way, I have shared it with a number of other locals.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I like that you added portraits of the people you met. I've met some many people through my photography. The Motor Lodge shots brought back childhood family vacation memories as we drove through Reno.
- Russellreno
kudos Mr H. so well done. this should go into boing boing and alike.
- jacek
Really interesting post, terrific pictures as ever but the stories make them even better
- Matt Jones
I love Reno. I was there during a Burning Man road trip. My take away image of the place? A little old lady wheeling her oxygen to and from the slot machines. I could swear she had a cigarette hanging off her mouth.
- sean808080
Nicholas, will have to try and catch up on another trip. I only had 36 hours for this one so there wasn't really time to do a photowalk. I'm sure I'll be back to Reno though quite a bit to shoot more and do a photowalk or two. There's still so much more I'd like to shoot there. I pretty much just scratched the surface with this trip.
- Thomas Hawk
Good Luck Scobleizer! - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Wow, great article
- Mistletoe Glen
I met Robert at last year's IFA in Berlin for a short walk around the show floor. He's great guy and I wish him and his new venture all the best. And I agree that he should get back together with Rocky. I don't think they are done with their work yet...
- Holger Eilhard
Robert has a long history of personal resiliency, so I am thinking that this is just a minor setback. I too want to wish him well.
- Brian Sullivan
M, forwarding ..
- Daniele Beta
Brian, I don't think of this as a setback for him at all. I think of this as a new and better opportunity for him. Like a lot of magazines Fast Company I'm sure was hit hard in this recent downturn. Robert needs certain things to thrive best. Rocky was a first rate editor. Robert's time is best spent doing what he does which is out and about interviewing people and having someone like Rocky to edit his stuff was important. Robert will do better someplace that is growing rather than cutting back.
- Thomas Hawk
Robert you might want to tuck that away for your eulogy. Quite a tribute.
- Todd Hoff
Todd: Thomas is one of the best people I know, it's a real honor to have him as a friend.
- Robert Scoble
We all know Scoble will be a-ok in the days, weeks and years to come. I'm sure we're going to hear news about this awesome new service that pays by the kilobyte of awesome video you post, meaning Scoble will become very, very wealthy...
- Mike Nayyar
Great post Thomas - I'm also looking forward to his next venture ...
- Patrick Jordan
A very good article that helps us remember how much he contributes to our community.
- Jonathon
Mike: actually that's a very interesting idea! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Very nice post on Scoble. I've never met either of you, but from your descriptions I can tell that you both are exactly how you come across online. And that is most definitely not a bad thing :-)
- Rene Wirtz
We have to wait until SXSW? You're killing me! Whatever he does you know it's going to be good.
- Bruce Lewis
Good luck Scoble. We met at a Social Media Club event in Phoenix a few years back and I have been following you ever since. Looking forward to your new adventures.
- John Seiferth
Amen! You've got lots of helpers if you ever need them!
- Scott Loftesness
What a wonderful article, and the pictures at Flickr were enjoyable as well. I wish the two of you would do a photowalk in San Diego so I could meet both of you in person!
- Laura Zickus
Best of luck to you! May your next chapter be profitable to you in every possible way!
- vicster is...
Great post Thomas!
- Kenton
That was a great summary of Scoble. I'm sure his next adventure will be something to watch.
- Jeremy Brooks
The sentiment here about Robert (and folks like TH too) are right on - the level of transparency, integrity and work ethic we see sets the bar high for leaders in a community (a network of micro communities, as it might be put better). Think about Paul Harvey. An endearing, tireless pioneer who reached his community with the media/technology of his day for 70+ years. Scobleizer's journey, I believe, has just begun.
- Micah Wittman
more time to spend with the Sean McBrides of the world. lucky "fast company" to be rid of a man and his destructive politics.
- Noah David Simon
Really, really nice piece Thomas
- Charlie Anzman
Fabulous post Thomas!! WOW!!!!!!! Lovely, moving and very well documented. Robert is an amazingly passionate, intelligent, smart and uber-technical guy that really has an astounding work ethic that never fails to deliver value in everything he does!! - you captured that very well with this blog post. :) Personally, I -like you- think he should link up with Friendfeed. that would be a PERFECT fit and a complete win-win relationship; however, I'd be concerned that FF might be too small for him.
- Susan Beebe
I'll be on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles tomorrow morning at around 10:30 am or so talking about photographer harassment and photographers rights.
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Nice, you're gonna be on with Shawn (Discarted), too. Can't wait...
- Bryan Villarin
For non-LA listeners, you can listen online: http://www.kpfk.org/listen-....
- Keith McCammon
yep with Shawn as well. Looking forward to it.
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome!!! I'll definitely tune in to KPFK.
- Anna Haro
w00t!!
- Derrick
Cool. Let me know if you have a shortage of LA (or San Antonio) anecdotes. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Just Got Off the Phone with the FBI… - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Richard pancakhaus Walker, Daniel Rowley, netrider11 and 100 other people liked this
Whoa, that you 'harbored no ill will' towards the government? That is a little freaky.
- David Wilson
You ran off and jumped into a black SUV, but not before giving the guards enough information for the FBI to contact you? Hahahahah! Man, those security theater guards are unbelievably stupid.
- Jeremy Brooks
They're gonna send Jack Bauer after you next time.
- David Wilson
God Bless America?
- Thomas Hawk
Oh dear lord. Still, this may have put you on a blacklist of sorts. That would suck, because there is no reason whatsoever to be blacklisted.
- Rene Wirtz
Maybe it's a pun. You were in Long Beach *Harbor* so they have to ask you if you harbored something. :) Seriously, that's a loaded question. What qualifies as ill will? If I disagree with the way the Federal government is handling its finances, perhaps some consider that ill will.
- Morton Fox
I guess you will find out the next time you take an airplane.
- Brian Sullivan
Gracious. Thats bad. I mean REALLY bad.
- Roberto Bonini
I got called by the FBI at the office last fall because a direct mail program we did with 3D boxes had a return address which multiple recipients reported couldn't be found on Google Maps (therefore was clearly sneaky). That was an odd call.
- Louis Gray
Yeah, what Morton said. Harboring "ill will" - how in the fuck is that defined? Did you recite the pledge of allegiance for him over the phone, just so he could be 100% sure of your loyalty?
- Anthony Citrano
Haha, so Google Maps now stands in for the US Postal Service as the ultimate index of US addresses?
- David Wilson
And since the security guys lied about your behavior, perhaps the feds need to be tipped off about theirs.
- Anthony Citrano
merriam-webster.com says ill will is an "unfriendly feeling". I didn't know that feeling unfriendly towards the government would get you in trouble.
- Alan Cheslow
And I'm sure if one DID "harbor any ill will" towards the government, one would be sure to let the FBI know when they called, right?
- Ken Sheppardson
This is just a little Gestapo-ish and creepy. Did the alias thing figure into the issue?
- Brian Sullivan
the guy was pretty polite. Actually I have no problem with him calling and checking me out. Although I do hope I don't end up on a list and unable to fly or something. haha. it is kind of chump though that the Securitas guards lied about the incident.
- Thomas Hawk
Brian, not at all. I gave him my blog and he's probably reading these comments right now. Hopefully he'll even comment ;)
- Thomas Hawk
I like the Black SUV part. Isn't that what many government agencies use?
- William Beem
so actually I got his name wrong. It's Terry Carter, not Chris Carter. My wife just called and said that he left his business card at our house asking me to call him from earlier today while we were both out. So it looks like I got a visit and a call from the FBI.
- Thomas Hawk
surely, in a free society you should be allowed to "harbour ill will towards your government".. it's only if you go out and attempt to kill representatives of that government that a problem exists. If not then a form of thought crime exists on your books and you should throw away any notion that you live in a free country.
- alphaxion
With the Patriot Act firm in place the US is no longer a free country anymore.
- Rene Wirtz
You are my new hero. Don't let the bastards get you down. Keep shootin, but be safe!
- Morgan Haley
hmmmm... I'm wondering why these comments aren't showing up on my blog with the FF plug in. grrrrrr...
- Thomas Hawk
They are being diverted to a "wiring closet" in an AT&T switching station
- Alan Cheslow
You don't think 2.71 broke it, do you?
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
Can't wait to see your photos of GITMO Thomas.
- Andrew Smith
LOLOL
- James Hull
I don't think the FF plugin scrapes for comments every time the page loads. Try going into your WP admin panel and refreshing the settings for the plugin, see if it picks up anything new.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@thomas the FF plugin has a bit of delay, they'll show up eventually. also first they need to pass through the FBI packet sniffer to verifythey are not un-american!
- sean percival
WTF? This is ... unnerving in my opinion. And ... if he knew your name and where you lived then ... wouldn't he have found your blog and other work to know you're not some terrorist. This seems overly intrusive and a poor waste of resources.
- AJ Kohn
My husband is a photographer too (of subways - see his website here www.railfanwindow.com/gallery2 - there are over 20k photos there), and he gets stopped pretty often by cops. I don't get it - why don't these cops know what's allowed and what isn't? What gives them the right to stop innocent photographers? Do they have no other ongoing drama in their lives that they have to make themselves busy by harassing photographers, who, as you say, Thomas, "document their world?" Something should be done.
- Tamar Weinberg
Seriously... wtf.
- Eric P
@Louis Gray- Iphone caller id just read the phone number not FBI. He came to the house where the car was registered as given to them by security. When he couldn't get past my security hounds, he simply called the cell # visibly posted on our property. All very amateur tactics in my experience.
- Mrsth
bummer, refreshed the settings on the FF Comments plug in and the FF comments still aren't showing. I haven't upgraded to WP 2.7.1 yet. Hopefully the plug in is not broken. It seems to be showing up on earlier posts on my blog still.
- Thomas Hawk
i am not surprised that agent carter was very cordial. he is probably like every one of us and is simply following orders while feeling like shitty for having to question a law abiding citizen as transparent as you. if i were in his shoes i'd do two more things to complete the case 1) continue to be cordial and 2) go question the rent-a-guards for exaggerating the events of the day and what their motivation was to do so.
- Carlos Ayala
Thomas, it's probably the three dots at the end. I have found encoding issues in the past with special characters & WP is probably rendering them as a special char rather than just 3 full stops. You should be able to manually select the item if you go into the edit post page for this post.
- Glenn Slaven
Welcome to phase one of the Obama Thought Police.
- Robert Hafer
Thanks Glenn, I wasn't even aware I could manually select a FF post at the bottom of my WP post. I manually added it and it's working now. :)
- Thomas Hawk
Cool, no worries
- Glenn Slaven
"Welcome to phase one of the Obama Thought Police"... LOL... Right. This is all new policy established in the last three week. Heh.
- Ken Sheppardson
Not that Hafer's comment is worthy of a response, but I can't resist. Robert, do you know who appointed the current FBI director? Anyway, +1 Ken. Yeah, we weren't living under any kind of thought policing over the past decade by any means. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
I am sorry to say that Securitas guards are most likely members of Infragard and they agree to notify the FBI through the Infragard network of strange or suspicious behavior. If you google Infragard you will see that critical infrastructure protection is a biggy for them. I am very sorry this happened to you. this is part of Bush World, born of Bush World. Aw, here's the link: http://www.infragard.net/ And Robert Hafer, Obama has nothing to do with Infragard. It was formed by the FBI several yrs ago
- ursi
I love the part about you running away and jumping into a Black SUV. Come on Thomas....how cliche. :P
- Kreg Steppe
It's quite likely that the FBI agent made up the black SUV story just to see how you react. And as creepy as it is to have an FBI show up at your door, it's a lot less scary than having an FBI show up at your door with a search warrant.
- Gabe
"running away and jumping into a black SUV". If that's the quality of the information the FBI is getting from their sources we're all hosed.
- Private Sanjeev
Yeah. I like the fact that they had to ask for the url of the blog. Apparently the FBI has not learned the power of the google. Though in this case, they could have just tried the most obvious url - your name - which is correct.
- Robert Felty
Rob: I'm pretty sure that Thomas Hawk is just a pen name.
- Gabe
Live Mesh Is Open To All in the U.S. - http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...
Mike Fruchter, Cindy, Spencer and 14 other people liked this
But doesn't get exciting until mobile devices are included - or are they already in the US?
- mattpovey
so far its only Vista and XP, but mobile devices will be added in the future. Starting with the Windows Mobile platform first. I bet if you hack away at it now you can get it to work. If i can hit my corporate servers from my current phone (8525), there is no reason why a simple implementation of this would not work now.
- Carlos Ayala
I was mildly disappointed it doesn't yet have a MAC version as I am having some problems with Foldershare there and was hoping this would be a good replacement.
- Robert Gable
The full story is on RWW: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Sarah Perez
Robert - it blows Foldershare out of the water, I wouldn't be surprised to see Foldershare discontinued, actually. Mac should be coming really soon now - I've already seen video of it running on a Mac
- Sarah Perez
While I really like Mesh, I hope Foldershare does not go away. The other day foldershare came in handy when I was at a client site and needed a doc from desktop that was in a folder that was not a part of the mesh. In addition I didn't want to remote in to get it either. Mesh is great and I am imprewssed by it but at least I can run Foldershare on my Macbook Pro and it allows me to take it on calls occaisionally instead of my Windows laptop.
- Stephen Kennedy
from twhirl
Point your mobile browser at http://m.mesh.com Tried it yesterday and although limited it works well. Even on my iPhone!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I get FriendFeed now, a single location to have a conversation around my media/web participation - friend me: http://friendfeed.com/kevinro...
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Marc Vermut, Alejandro and 82 other people liked this
Good to see you joining the rest of civilization now!
- Damien Franco
I added you... welcome aboard
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Welcome all, thanks for adding me.
- Kevin Rose
Are we going to see another FF addict soon?
- Winston Teo
Some of the a-listers keep saying FF is the death of twitter - but they seem to work well together. I'll keep playing with both.
- Mike
Welcome on board, Mr Digger!
- SurajLuke
Added you on FF days ago. Welcome aboard! :)
- Mike Abundo
Added you a while back, welcome to the conversation.
- maxim shevertalov
I can't figure out how to get my comments to post to Twitter... How'd you do it?
- Jeff Kopp
Dugg! Whoops - wrong web site. :)
- Mike Doeff
Glad to be following you :D
- Chris
I think you'll find though that FF is just to cluttered to be useful...
- Auburn Elite
i am STILL trying to "get it"
- djp
Welcome to the... torrent, for lack of a better word :)
- Robyn Miller
Hey Robyn!
- Kyle Lacy
I added you two weeks ago. Guys and Gals - use the hide button to reduce the info overload.
- Russellreno
yea I am trying to figure out how to make my friend feed posts go out to twitter
- Jason Stephens
Jason: why? post to twitter and bring them in.
- Kevin L
klecu: because then I have to leave friendfeed, I want to do everything in here...when I share I want it to go out to all my services too....
- Jason Stephens
exactly my point...I think it could be a twitter replacement though...i like posting to hear better then posting on twitter. I'd like the messages I share on here to go out to my twitter followers to help grow my subscriber list
- Jason Stephens
So is it Ping.fm that does that (posts to Twitter) then, not FriendFeed?
- Jeff Kopp
The method to comment and reply is much better on friendfeed, I think this definitly should either be bought by twitter or find a way to cross integrate them better. I see the option to "also send this comment as an @reply twitter from jpstephens" but thats not EXACTLY what I mean
- Jason Stephens
Jason: I totally agree, if you can post out to all your socials then someone tell me how. If not, then FF should have the option or I smell yet another social network for social networks. ;)
- Mark
You could try Mahalo share to post to a lot of your socials at once, but wouldn't this create a bit of a spam effect to FF if all of those socials are showing up here? Interested to hear comments from anyone with that experience, because of course you don't want to spam your FF friends, but not everyone is using FF... conundrum
- Dave Earley
Glad you got it Kevin. Friendfeed lends it self to more engaging conversation and sharing.
- Larry Kless
Problem is, you have to Friend back. :)
- l0ckergn0me
Did Scoble block you for begging for followers?
- Ryan Kuder
yeah there's real potential. but it's so damn hard to manage your friend list! same as with twitter - this is a huge barrier to the usability of the site. there should be a subscribe/unsubscribe button next to every post from anybody.
- Mickipedia
ditto l0ckergn0me
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Friendfeed is awesome Kev. Everything at your fingertips.
- Vipin Chamakkala
This is a common refrain - people admitting that it takes them months to get FriendFeed. And for those of us who aren't honest enough to publicly admit this, it takes us months to use FriendFeed effectively. Is there a way to reduce this learning curve, so people can productively use FriendFeed from day 1?
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
There are all sorts of things they could do to improve FriendFeed. I guess we have to remember it is version 1.0
- Jonathan Beckett
haha me too - today.
- gfox
There goes the freinderhood.
- sage brennan
@Kevin, so u lost love 4 twitter too :)
- Arjun
Twitter should be relegated to what it was originally intended and is good at. It's a status forum, not a communication forum.
- ·[▪_▪]·
I got it and got blamed for saying it.
- Franklin Naval
You don't get it Kevin unless you're willing to friend us back. I believe same goes for Twitter. Why add you to our community if you're not willing to listen to us?
- Jesse Stay
So the question now is: Will Kevin friend us back? All of us? Or selective friending?
- Winston Teo
Oh boy. Now he's hooked on the FF crack. Duck and cover FFrs
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
FFDugg it:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
congrats
- saee:Dsharif
First you have to unban me from Digg!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
welcome!
- Chris Abad
Yea, welcome on Board Dude ;) Good to see you here ...
- Martin Gommel
FriendFeed's concept does take a bit to grasp at first because we are sooo used to Twitter (uni-directional, broadcast communications tool) and FF is truly a multi-directional comm tool designed to illicit conversation around cool stuff you share via FF directly or thru nearly 50 Social Media "feeds" you can port over here. I love FF and have been super happy since I joined back in March! ;o). Glad you're here and having fun!!
- Susan Beebe
I still don't get it. There seems to just be too much noise. I get crap from people I don't know and I'm not following. Every item that hits my feed and has any comments takes up stupid amounts of space so it's hard to scan through. Twitter is just light weight and simple, and in that way it's more effective. If you could have a 1 or 2 line summary for each item then it'd be great, but as it is it's cluttered and overpowering, and I only have 6 follows, I can't imagine what it's like with 100s
- Mark Benson
from twhirl
About time you showed up. Now I can remove your twitter's entry in my Imaginary Friend. Real handy feature to track non-adopters.
- klaatu
I've explored every nook and cranny of Friendfeed now, grasped the interface and culture, and I am fairly certain that in its current incarnation it will catch on with only a very small percentage of Internet users. I have a fairly good track record in spotting major trends in Internet technology, and I don't think this is one. The main problem: way, way, way too much noise and...
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- Sean McBride
I like FF because you can have more conversations. I think the look/feel of FF needs some work though. Not enough easy ways to search and sort through.
- Geoff Peterson
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