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"The healthcare debate has gotten so weird, I think it’s time someone (I guess me) says what’s actually going on. I do not presume to have the answers to all of these problems (well, actually I think I have most of it figured out) but all I mean to do is share what appears to be happening. It is bizarre. Let’s start simple." - Miguel Caetano

"the sanctity of the free market is in some ways more important than the health of the nation’s people." - Miguel Caetano

This is why intellectual property is way more important than people think. If you restrain the ability of patenting lifesaving medication those monopolies and oligopolies all go crumbling down. - Miguel Caetano

kelsy's plan continues to unfold - James Atkinson

"My generation would like to break up with you. Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences. You wanted big, fat, lazy "business." We want small, responsive, micro-scale commerce. You turned politics into a dirty word. We want authentic, deep democracy — everywhere." - Hayk H. from Bookmarklet

All this gaming of followers stuff is alien to me. I understand it's about marketing but at the end of the day, if you don't have real people really interested in something you are doing, what's the point? You might as well do things that you love doing, you'll get more satisfaction in the end. - TDavid

abso-friggin-lutely! compared to what? - Andy Sternberg

Social media are no different from drugs... used responsibly they can widen your perspective, enhance your experience, change your life. Used irresponsibly they can lead you down a path of self absorption, wanton self destruction, and ruin your life. - Michael Turro

22 carriers supporting at launch. - Anthony Ha

ohh yeah, AT&T is going to turn the tethering into a premium service thing for sure. - Manuel Arroyo

The virtuous circle of the Citizen Dashboard rules! - Shane

Is your pilot site open? - Mark Chandler

That was a pretty silly statement by Steve Gillmor. Maybe RSS readers are dead, but RSS is certainly long-term glue--as you are proving. - Bill Rice

I can feel the shift, I also just made mention of RSS feeling different now with TWITTER and other real time aggregators on my account @mattaphillips - Matthew

Not sure what the big deal is about sponsorship + disclosure, since it's a successful model in the sciences (cue drama about Big Pharma). Ultimately it's about trust, and if you don't trust the companies and persons involved, then no amount of disclosure is going to assuage that. If you're willing to go along with disclosed relationships, then it'll work for you. But please, let's drop the Rousseauean sentimentality about purity of motives (not saying you're doing all this, Chris). - Heather

this is an excellent blog entry. The key takeaway is "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism." which I absolutely agree with. I'm not sure what the future model will look like, but there needs to be _something_. - Brian Johns

"When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en masse. This shunting aside of the realists in favor of the fabulists has different effects on different industries at different times. One of the effects on the newspapers is that many of their most passionate defenders are unable, even now, to plan for a world in which the industry they knew is visibly going away." - Miguel Caetano

Obituary - CJ Alexander

very similar to my blog pst of Oct - Nov 2008. A VAST restructuring of the entire economic paradigm, on a global basis - http://russellwagner88.blogspot.com/2008... - Russell Wagner

I think the guy is onto something. - Meryn Stol

All I can say to that is, you better enjoy a lot of good German brews while you're there. It's non-sequitor, and that is what you should expect from me. - Pete Delucchi

lol - Arjun

"Even Twitter, the raging rocket of growth that it is, is not as open as we'd like it to be, not even close. But I can create any number of accounts on Twitter, and build my own little universe there and publish with all the tools available to Ev, Biz and Jack. If the Times wants to play in that game, and I'd like them to -- it needs to be possible for me to compete with my heroes Frank Rich and Paul Krugman, and make the ones I don't like so much (names withheld) look like the asshats they are." - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

That would be really incredible to see, but the Times and companies like them are so caught up in being on a stage they have no idea the audience is even out there - let alone capable of singing. - Michael Turro

It will happen eventually. Only question imho is will it happen in time to do any good. Will anyone be reading when it happens, will their taking down the wall mean anything. - Dave Winer

I wonder if the real issue is that most of the time designers simply don’t know if what they’re building is great, and they end up relying on process to get as far as they can. If they go through the right process, they think, then they’ll produce maybe not the best solution, but the best solution possible. This may be true…and it is comforting, in a way, because if you feel like you are doing it right then you can sleep soundly. - Mark Trapp

Good design is like good anything - a mystery. If we could replicate something great at will it would loose it's status as great and quickly devolve into the ordinary. - Michael Turro

Awesome perspective by Marc on how Facebook's status updates are actually a proactive move towards a more open social graph, which is something we haven't seen (yet) from Twitter. - Jesse Stay

Nick, the problem there is that Twitter still owns your SocialGraph. With OMB and sites like Identi.ca that socialgraph ports across any social network that supports OMB. Facebook is slowly moving in that direction with Facebook Connect and allowing you to link your site's contacts with Facebook contacts, but they're not quite there yet. Twitter doesn't even touch that. - Jesse Stay

I feel the same way about Alex Rodriguez and steroids. Why are we still so immature (and hypocritical - viagra?) when it comes to drug use? - Michael Turro

Techdirt: The NY Times Magazine is running a well worth reading (if long) article on the question of what sort of efforts are needed by the government to help "save" the economy. While almost anyone (myself included) will find points worth quibbling about in the article, there's a lot of good points made that are worth reflecting on in more detail. The ... Permalink - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Our Wordpress plugin will establish relationships with anyone who has written a compatible plugin. Anyone could run our plugin if they wish, and utilize the Marc’s Voice 4.0 instantiation of PeopleAggregator, but what I ASSUME/HOPE folks will do is write their OWN plugins. So Chris Messina would create his own plugin with a Ruby-on-Rails framework, while Joseph Smarr would simply extend Plaxo, while Angus Logan and Dare Obasanjo would whip up an Windows Live interface ricocheting off of Live Mesh and David Recordon would get his SixApart dude to write a perl module for Moveable Type. - ben barren

Cannot say enough about how this is needed. - Altan Khendup

Financial records show that the Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than 150,000 dollars on clothes for vice presidential pick Sarah Palin, Politico reported. The Republicans' main campaign and fundraising organ spent tens of thousands at high-end stores, such as Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York (49,425 dollars) and Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis (75,062 dollars), the Politico website said. The RNC also spent 4,716 dollars on hair and makeup through September. - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

You can't seriously believe that a progressive tax system is a socialist idea. Even Adam Smith thought that it's a good idea. Michael explains it exactly right. If you tax the lower and middle class as much as you tax the rich, then you encourage poverty and you make being on welfare more attractive. I can't believe that anyone would ever say, please don't give me more money, I don't want to be in a higher tax bracket! There are such things as deductions, you know. - Victor Ganata

hahaha! - Anna Haro

What a great idea! The irony of it all is a bonus. - Paul Reynolds

It is based upon what was re-released as Mattel Classic Football (and the green case was Football II) They even had a keychain version =) also baseball, basketball, and car racing. http://linkfeed.com/am... - RAD Moose