The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites
I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through.
- Kol Tregaskes
Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly!
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team
- Ysabel Legaspi
Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going
- Toby Graham
Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com
- Quackofdawn
Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail
- Jesi
from iPod
neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot.
- Ross Button
Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced!
- jmiguel rodriguez
trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger...
- Trent Olson
lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks!
- Clément Simon
Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks!
- ilteris
Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from email
louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks
- Louis Bourque
from iPod
can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com
- Igor Krstev
If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai
- Andy Bold
Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com
- Alex Scrivener
I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com
- Carlton Prest
Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com
- Jonna Watson
damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!!
- Ross Button
how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread.
- Raphael, Raphael
I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :)
- Bonnie Foster
I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com
- andryou
re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : )
- Emad
wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare!
- Wim Mulder
giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration.
- Giulio Campobassi
Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com
- Jonathon
VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account.
- Vimala Vita
Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks
- Jean-Charles
System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver.
- oliv21
How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know.
- marziah
I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it
- Ross Button
@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :)
- François Dongier
I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt
- Ross Button
al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com
- Mohammad Sharifi
Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet.
- Rodrigo
from email
I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail
- Kim
Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you !
- matthieu beauval
If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au
- Daryl Hunt on FF
Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it.
- John
from iPhone
Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :)
- Walt Ruppar
It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available.
- Tyson Key
Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left?
- Jussi Linkola
Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com
- Brian
Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance
- Zehra
firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks.
- Fırat DEMİREL
Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks.
- Vinay | विनय
Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance.
- Yiğit
Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting.
- Kandarp Trivedi
I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive.
- Kandarp Trivedi
rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping!
- Rodger Ballard
really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com
- brandon
I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks
- jose manuel
If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com
- TechKid
allanbesselink<at>gmail<dot>com ... please!
- Allan Besselink
I'll wager that some of the folks on this list have received their invite by now, or no longer want one - I have 16 invitations at this instant. It's probably easier for me if you DM.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
fifiquimbo(at)gmail(dot)com. I would love one, thanks!
- Fifi Quimbo
I have 8 invites to Google Wave, if someone is interested, please DM with e-mail address. Ciao, Andrea
- Andrea Romoli
"The Modern Language Association no longer recognizes print as the default medium, and suggests that the medium of publication should be included in each works cited entry The MLA has ceased to recommend inclusion of URLs in citing Web-based works – unless the instructor requires it or a reader would likely be unable to locate the source otherwise. “Inclusion of URLs has proved to have limited value… for they often change, can be specific to a subscriber or a session of use, and can be so long and complex that typing them into a browser is cumbersome and prone to transcription errors. Readers are now more likely to find resources on the Web by searching for titles and authors’ names than by typing URLs,”
- Teel McClanahan III
Shoot, I forgot to emphasize that the nee iMac only has a single FW800 port and the "old" one I ordered has that *and* a FW400 port (which all my equipment is). Firewire is a key issue for me in my computer-selection process!
- Teel McClanahan III
I might actually use friendfeed if the conversation was connected to the source (though not just my blog, but moreso to all the feeds ff picks up from across the web.
- Teel McClanahan III
Looks like it doesn't want to grab info both ways, or there's some asynchronicity in the system. :(
- Teel McClanahan III
I wonder what the timing is on ff updating comments back to the blog.
- Teel McClanahan III
But I don't care enough to go *read* something and find out how it works and why. bleh.
- Teel McClanahan III
Alright, between the Tweetbacks plugin and the Friendfeed comments plugin, my blog's failure to inspire conversation now includes all three major places such conversations fail to take place.
- Teel McClanahan III
Thanks for sharing your experiences with Smashwods. The idea that the meatgrinder would rather have a .doc file than an HTML file is a bit worrisome. I haven't owned Word since whatever version was released the same time as Win95.
- Jason Penney
I think it's more related to Word being the industry standard - Mark even recommended that I use OpenOffice and just have it save as a .doc file, so he's at least aware that there are alternatives out there.
- Teel McClanahan III
From the end of the article, in response to whether such filtering *should* be done: "This is an ethical concern..." - Is it the *same* ethical concern as selecting a mate for those properties you want to filter for, or a new one? It seems identical to the questions of animal husbandry & the mate-selection process in humans. People already choose, consciously or not, what sort of genes they want their offspring to have. Ethically, I would say, this is no different.
- Teel McClanahan III
I posted a comment on Plurk that I didn't like it, didn't get it. They got all mad that I didn't reply to their "conversation." Is every statement a conversation? Um, no.
Good point Chris. Plurk is a valuable microblog (microforum) yet does have a certain drama factor that's impossible to dismiss.
- Czar
I just don't like the headless avatars. FREAK ME OUT.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
those headless critters do me in! and don't get me started on that stupid karma concept...lameO. I do like the visual timeline, but it's too cluttered if you follow more than 100 people... FAIL
- Susan Beebe
Leo Laporte has been having the same problem on his forums. Seems like you are not allowed to have personal views these days. It also seems like now, when I start yelling at the brick wall, the brick wall starts yelling back...crazy man, just crazy.
- Bob Blunk
Every statement is not an invitation to converse, but when the statement is about not liking where you are, it's not surprising that you got a response. Sticking to meal reports would be safer!
- Linda Mills
I think Plurk responses are similar to FF comments; people are having a conversation about what you posted, and there is a certain expectation that you're aware that people can and do reply.. Except on Plurk, you have the option to turn off replies on a per-message basis. So if you want to make a statement that isn't a conversation, you have a few choices: Twitter, Plurk with replies turned off, a blog with comments turned off, et cetera.
- Teel McClanahan III
@Linda, exactly. Chris, with all due respect, you can't come onto plurk - say "you're sorry, you don't like it" (or something to that effect) as your plurk - and then not expect to get a reaction/comments.
- Zee.
Man, it so so good to see some people sticking up for the coolness of aspects of plurk. It feels like to a certain degree - Plurk has been cool to dislike because a lot of the 'web celebs' have slated it.
- Zee.
But here's one for the crowd. What if I don't like it? I'm supposed to be all kool-aid about it? You know, it's very likely that we will find things in the social media universe we don't like. Want another? Second Life. Great if you like it. Just nothing going on there for me. I don't mind that people want to explain why it's great. I just don't chose to go for it.
- Chris Brogan
i'm pretty sure you'd get that reaction from the Twitter loyalists too. Or any service with a loyal following for that matter. So you don't get it. Isn't that what most people said about twitter at first? I know i did, and the same with Plurk. You may not have used the service enough to really know it's value. Or maybe you did, and just don't like it. fair enough. But you can't come on there, say you don't like it, an expect everyone to be hunky dory with that. They're not hating on you, just questioning.
- Chris Cavs
i have found plurk to be too clunky for my taste. I'm still giving it an honest effort. It's just not a format that resonates with me yet.
- Richie Escovedo
I opened a Plurk account, tried it out, but could never really get the hang of it. I earned enough karma to re-design my page, which is cool, but I still do not have the time nor patience to familiarize myself with it. Bah! That being said, I'll still mess around with it from time to time. Overall, not my social hub of choice.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
i think plurk is a great interface...looking to solve a different problem than microblogging. for example, plurk as a team project management tool could be interesting. everything doesn't have to become the next twitter.
- .LAG liked that
See, and I like Plurk, but I think that its usefulness depends a lot on who you're friends with there. For me, Plurk solves a lot of the problems I have with Twitter (easy following of conversations, being able to walk away and easily see what you missed). Twitter feels very needy to me, if I'm not looking at it constantly I'm missing the conversation. A lot of the people I liked talking to on Twitter didn't join/get Plurk, so it feels like a tug of war.
- Teel McClanahan III
Hmm... let me put that another way: For me, What's good about Twitter is the people that use it, forcing information through the limited tool it provides, and what's good about Plurk is the tool itself, the way it allows me to connect and communicate with people easily. @Chris, I didn't see your Plurk or the conversation that followed directly, but this statement and your blog post give the impression you *don't want* conversation/comments/responses.
- Teel McClanahan III
FUBAR! Do not like it? Not happy? Take a walk! No one is here to please and entertain you!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
But if you consider your followers as part of your entourage you maybe forced to feed them! I guess depends on your style!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I also read Lissa Warren's entire post, but didn't want to share it because I felt that implied I agreed with it - I don't, and this article comes very close to why. I think that the people who share Lissa's opinion are looking for something that might better be called "Literary Criticism" than "book reviews," a much more humble term - and I think the more humble term (and review) is what most people are looking for. It's only the elite and elitist who look for that (I say boring) level of refined criticism in a book review.
- Teel McClanahan III
This one, I think, will be one of the ones that sticks, that haunts. Its words effect me, which I like, even though I'm not sure I like the effect they evoke; I like being effected.
- Teel McClanahan III
Do passport cards work the same way as traditional passports? No. Cheaper passport cards can only be used for land and sea travel between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. For any air travel outside of the U.S., you need a traditional passport.
- Teel McClanahan III
Is it easier to get a passport card than a traditional passport? Alas, no. The application process for the cards is the same as it is for traditional passports. With both, if you're eligible to mail in the application, you'll save the potential hassle of waiting in line at the post office or courthouse. Royster says that the cards will eventually have the same turnaround time as...
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- Teel McClanahan III
Yeah, I'm not a fan either. I'm not letting karma control what and when I should post. No more one dimensional conversations and superficial posts.
- Hao Chen
I feel like that's the POINT of the karma system: if you're generally on Plurk most days, your karma moves/stays generally high, and if you don't make much use of Plurk, if you regularly go day after day without use, karma goes down. I can tell at a glance whether you use Plurk well or not by looking at your Karma.
- Teel McClanahan III
Also: I took a two-week vacation, only plurked on two of those days (we had internet those days), and my karma barely budged. There's a hit for not using, but it takes a LONG time - it's looking for patterns, not punishing for not following imagined rules.
- Teel McClanahan III
I did have an afterthought. If you want to provide limited edition goodies for Karma points, fine. Let's move beyond 'karma is stupid anyway' and play along. Karma for goodies, yes; Karma for basic acct maintenance, absolutely not. You are missing a revenue opportunity and setting up a community to be fake, esp since it's a metric to game. That opens it up for spammers, too.
- Eric Rice
I agree I think thesixtyone deals with the idea of karma in a much more coherant fashion, letting you earn things for use not penalizing you for lack of use.
- Steve Spalding
Depends on how they calculate Karma - it's supposed to work against spammers. I've found that -if you use Plurk- you have plenty of Karma. And if you don't use plurk, or you spam plurk, you don't. Seems like a good system, to me.
- Teel McClanahan III
Right, and I don't have a problem with it for a reward system or whatnot, but for customizing a profile? Come on. That's a premium feature. I seem to recall paying Wordpress for the ability to add custom CSS to wordpress.com... it's a social game-- that's what it will breed. There's not an algorithm to get around human nature.
- Eric Rice
I mean, does everyone need a revenue model shoved heartily up their ass, or are we going to cling to the Whuffie ideology all the way to the unemployment line?
- Eric Rice
Still can't figure out why to Plurk. Hurts my brain. If you send ten Plurks and add some folks, Karma seems to go up.
- Clay Newton
Yeah but you can't do it *too much* ... there's a set of parameters to master. I sound retarded explaining this, all I want to do is update my profile and do a little CSS. Here's their page: nevermind I can't link. Karma can be gained by inviting people (no), updating profile (did it ages ago), uploading pictures, 'having fun on plurk will give you more Karma'
- Eric Rice
Clay, it's a twitter clone, like everything else, but it's the principle of it.
- Eric Rice
I don't know, but using plurk actively makes it easy to have meaningful communication with people there and build relationships - which I've been more successful at turning into sales than on other social networks so far. Don't care about karma if the basic use of the tool actually works for me.
- Teel McClanahan III
Right, Teel, what happens tho is that the presence of it will foster an environment around you that might affect you whether or not you pay attention to it or not. I actually don't care about Karma either (I mean I think it's dumb in general), but it doesn't affect me negatively until now. When it gets in my way. Other than that, I'm ok chillin in an enviro that has the potential to have accelerated superficiality is all.
- Eric Rice
I like the 100% rule better. 100% of the time treat people like people, not like an audience.
- Robert Seidman
I think concentrating efforts here and participating a little everywhere else has been very beneficial to me. So I guess 80/20 works great.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Since I don't consider myself to have an "audience" as such, I just use whatever tools work for me, and that means working tools. ie: Not much Twitter in June.
- Teel McClanahan III
That's one device that came out ahead of its time - can't wait to see more wireless networking features
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
fail to see the 'cool' part. Similar products around already, i would believe?
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
This is on my "I want" list, but I can't really see myself buying it.
- Sandra Fernandez
LiveScribe probably costs more than I would pay for a pen.
- Morton Fox
no.. this pen is really great.. as a meeting tracking device. very slick. peter showed it to me
- Andrew Deal
It's the perfect solution for its intended audience, i.e. me, a journalist, or a college student or anyone who needs to take meeting notes on a regular basis...and they've only just begun to explore the possibilities with it, it's Anoto's technology finally reaching fruition for me. http://urltea.com/39ne
- Chris Nuttall
Re: Peter & ditto Chris Nuttall, this IS an Anoto pen, plus audio and a tiny screen. I assume they were inspired by what was going on over at Leapfrog with the FLY Pentop Computer (targeted at teens, but with more useful, thoughtful functionality added to Anoto than anything until LiveScribe). 2nd Gen FLY was pretty promising, but LiveScribe is much more mature.
- Teel McClanahan III
T-Mobile was selling a product like this back in 2005, all based on dots on special paper. They where selling it as PoD product or sales people on the road, or people that have to give paper to the customer
- Rif Kiamil
I'm not sure if it's LiveScribe, but HP showed me one of these pens that uses paper with unique dot patterns on each sheet. It leaves an audit trail of who wrote what when.
- Tom Basham
I have tried Capturx http://is.gd/pWF - pretty good but the only issue is that they require special paper..
- Amit Agarwal
I have seen more interresting stuff... Maybe because I forgot how to write with a pen! xD
- Dieter Schwarz
from Alert Thingy
I like the idea, but it's as thick as one of those old kindergarten pencils we used to use. Too awkward for efficient writing. Make it the size of a good fountain pen and we'll talk.
- Steve Lowe
I've had this on my wishlist for a little while now. It's a great idea. I don't even know if I really have a need for it, it's just so cool.
- J. McConnell
Wow, that made me happier than you can ever know. I have to write everything before I post it online because I flow better that way. That is absolutely perfect for me. As much as I post online, I really hate to type because I'm not very good at it. I actually hired my 12 year old to type for me this summer at $10 an hour. I am SOOOO getting that pen. I've dreamed of that invention coming out and there it is. Thanks Scoble, you're a doll.
- Sheree Motiska
the livescribe pen is very cool, useful in meetings & its not really that big - seems easy enough to adjust to using it...
- mike "glemak" dunn
And, on top of that, web services in general. The presentation after me is about Yahoo Groups. Every time I give a workshop I learn so much, especially if the crowd is younger than me.
- Eric Rice
I don't "get" flickr the way other people seem to. Can you explain what I'm missing... Why it's "amazing," and what those people (ie: people like me) are missing?
- Teel McClanahan III
i always forget that the lives are early adopters are just that -- early adopters. but i think the use of flckr is much more widespread now. i'd love to see your presentation when finished. can you upload to slideshare?
- Lynne d Johnson
from Alert Thingy
I have a Flickr account but no longer a pro account. I will not give money to Yahoo.
- Gary Wiens
Teel: just a place to post and host your photos where others can publicly or privately see them. It's one of many services out there. This one was one of the first true 'social' successes with everyday people media. My mom learned about my dramatic haircut via flickr. :)
- Eric Rice
Lynne hehe what makes you think I'd dare do a slideshow? I'll show flickr, use it, and give others a chance to be hands on right then and there. :)
- Eric Rice
Sometimes the biggest functionality comes from violating the TOS of all these sites (facebook is a perfect example, but they are too microsoft-y). All the talk of standards, and really. Warm bodies in database tables are where the money's at, sheesh. Jason could prolly figure out how to do this, people will get pissy and bitch, he'll cash out, and our eyes will well up with tears when looking at our google AdSense sidebar, mygod i need a hug, /snort.
- Eric Rice
Anyone who is looking to centralize the "conversation" should start by centralizing their web publishing. And if they don't have the discipline to do that then they can pick a place where they will reply to comments and stick to it. If the people don't show up then that says something about the publisher's ability to start a good conversation.
- Rob Safuto
Yeah and Rob, that's the thing I think people are calling old fashioned.
- Eric Rice
They're wasting their time trying to make the world exactly the way they want it to be. Oh, but what they want changes all the time. It's pretty childish actually.
- Rob Safuto
Rob, I don't really care if the conversation is "centralized" as long as there's some way for it to be found. If I find a blog post and want to comment on it, but the really "hot"/active comments are on some other site not linked to at the blog entry, how am I to know I'm talking to myself? And if I do comment at the blog's location, there's no way for the people in other locations to know my comment is there. It needs to be multi-directional, ooh, hey and there is a limit on comment length here:
- Teel McClanahan III
multidirecitonal, so that the "conversation" on all the different people's ff links to the same blog post are linked/joined, and with the blog's local comments, and with other related parts of the conversation. Right now it's nye-impossible (even with good search) to have a good idea of what's being said, and where.
- Teel McClanahan III
When I comment on a post it's because I want to provide feedback to the author of the post. If I want my comment to generate more conversation or otherwise get noticed then I write a blog post and link back to the original post instead.
- Rob Safuto
Open thread re: blog comments' relevancy in the ADD^H^H social attention world. (I was doing a demo of a frenzy on Twitter, using the topic of a real issue that's bothering some people, me included.)
2 issues: it's easier to stir up convo all across the web but not on a blog and also, if we kiss blog comments byebye, maybe that means we can make our sites/blogs more like magazines. There's cred in that to a lot of people NOT of the blogging ilk. So what's the post-blogger era look like, at a place between Old Media and New Media? Enjoy!
- Eric Rice
In light of all the posting back and forth about whether people are "parroting" each other last week,: a lot of blog posts today ARE comments re: other people's blog posts. When everyone became a blogger, instead of just commenting in the blog's designated comment area, they commented by making a new post, with a link to the original one. We need a way (much better than trackback) to create/track multi-directional links between these, because this is the "future" (read: present) of blog comments.
- Teel McClanahan III
I see we've found a new meme for this week. Ironically, we'll all be discussing original thought, but there will be 400,000 blogs on it
- Bwana ☠
This originality meme strikes me as eerily similar to the "innovation" debates for software vendors. At EOD, who cares? Fast followers and people improving on the original happen all the time across all kinds of endeavors - usually it's a good thing. Originality is overrated.
- Todd McKinney
I'm pretty sure that somehow they were all inspired by or lifted something from an old southern blues/folk song circa the Great Depression. ;-)
- Andy Sternberg
It's ok to be second, tenth or even one thousand and fifty-third.
- Greg K.
10 of my last 10 posts were based on my thoughts, or breaking news. Tell me I'm wrong @ www.louisgray.com.
- Louis Gray
The idea of a thought suddenly appearing out of ether runs contrary to logic. But, I'd say the value isn't thinking something first–it's executing well.
- Drew
As I Photoblog I guess all of them aren't as they merely represent other things, hmmm All confused now!
- Phill Price
@Scobleizer's comment hits at the heart of the argument. Throughout history, inventions have sprung up simultaneously and originally in different parts of the world. The difference now and online is that it's easy to prove that someone else had a similar thought but it is not so easy to prove that the writers new of each other's throughts when writing their own. Even the great thinkers of the past synthesized knowledge that they had accumulated into their own writings.
- Seek Ground
Many original thoughts...for me.But what about my friends?:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
All my blog posts are original and personal - I haven't yet been able to wrap my my head around the concept for "the conversation" which is constituted by hundreds or thousands of people saying the same thing on hundreds of blogs and in hundreds of different comment streams. What's the point of that, again?
- Teel McClanahan III
Most of them. I don't write about what other people write about; I write about what interests and engages me. Sometimes tech, sometimes politics, always my own thought.
- Francine Hardaway
I think clicking this link is giving my napping wife strange dreams. Possibly dreams of Matthew Broderick, but that's strange enough, eh?
- Teel McClanahan III