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I have been using Ubiquity in Firefox extensively since it was released. I think it's a great tool. I use it for emails, Twitter posts, translating and more. It's fantastic. - Matt

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Your Guide To The Language Of Financial Disaster

September 18 at 7:25 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“How many feeds do you subscribe to? I am up to 558 in Google Reader.”

September 18 at 4:23 am - Link

I had almost 3000 feeds in my reader before the last time I dumped it, I still ahve a backup of my opml though. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

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With that many feeds, do you really have time to digest, and actually use any of the content? - Lorraine Ball

I have a hard enough time keeping 170 organized - amzam

I have about 180, and I find that even with that few I get a lot of duplicate content. - Matt

lorraine, scan titles, star what I want to read, read starred items during lunch break - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

the @scobleizer method - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

610 - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

905 feeds, and I still find Google Reader to be much more valuable than Friendfeed for quickly locating highly strategic news. (In fact, I use GR to manage Friendfeed feeds.) There is an art to using GR effectively, without being overwhelmed by too much information -- skim the cream, ignore the rest. - Sean McBride

doh make that 228 - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

I am subscribed to 238 feeds! Need to get more involved with Toluu to find some new goodness! - Joe Dawson

I was up to about 250 but that got too much for me. Spending too much time in scan/delete mode rather than reading. I have been ruthlessly pruning the last couple weeks - David Miller

Around 200 after a serious cut. - Amit Morson

I had about a thousand yesterday. Today I have about three hundred. In addition to a hundred or so friends suggestion feeds. - Vijayendra Mohanty via fftogo

0. It gets too much. - Calvin Robinson via twhirl

It never gets too much -- just skim the cream. Prioritize. - Sean McBride

Bryan Villarin shared an item on Google Reader

Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive $189.99 shipped at Newegg

September 16 at 10:31 am - Link

$0.127/GB. That's the cheapest I've ever seen, I believe. - Matt

Matt posted a message

“New Look for the WSJ front page.”

September 16 at 4:34 am - Link

I like it! - Matt

Matt posted a message

“Going to be a crazy day on the street today!”

September 15 at 4:40 am - Link

From WSJ.com this morning - Matt

Guess the Movie: Matt posted a message

“Another easy one, but thought it was funny”

September 11 at 12:13 pm - Link

Rain Man - Grant Fitzgerald

Yeah. - Matt

Thomas Hawk posted an entry on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

Anyone a Lightroom Keywording Expert?

September 11 at 6:37 am - Link

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Thomas, If you use DNG files, all metadata (including keywords) and LR edits would be saved within the file itself so they can live separately from the LR database or any XMPs. You can use the Adobe DNG convertor to convert. One other side-benefit is that DNG files use less space than the RAW files. Given that LR2 uses a brand new version of the DNG spec, not sure how readable that would be by other apps, but my understanding is that it downgrades cleanly so all info would be available except for the new "functions" like LR2's localized adjustments. Here's a video to confirm: http://www.workshopsondemand.c... - Jigar Champaneria

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On your blog the first comment answers how to fix this going forward in the "catalog settings" to write the metadata immediately. In general, before moving RAW files I select all files in grid mode and save (cmd/ctrl-s) which updates all metadata. To find your files, if you still have the import folder in LR, then you can right click the folder and choose "Update Folder Location" - Jeremy Hall

I have also started right clicking the folder and exporting that folder as its own LR catalog to store with the raw files. I don't plan on ever using LR for searching files as having the meta data makes it searchable via OS based or other programs, but this keeps my edits available to reopen down the road in a small, portable file. - Jeremy Hall

DNG seems like an unnecessary added step. I'd prefer to work with my RAW files and then export to JPG from there. I'll check out the "catalog settings" feature, thanks Jeremy. - Thomas Hawk

@Jeremy: That first comment certainly is correct, but requires managing separate files. If Thomas was looking for the metadata to be embedded in the photo file itself, the only way to do that currently is by converting to DNG since the DNG format allows to embedding of that sort of stuff. Thomas, is that indeed what you were looking to do? Single file to capture everything about that photo? - Jigar Champaneria

Thomas, looks like some good solutions were presented. On a side note, I convert all my RAWs to DNG upon import into LR just as a matter of normal practice, so that it's not any extra step. Doesn't seem to add much time and, at least for me, I feel a little more secure knowing that I don't have to worry about changes in the myriad proprietary RAW formats. - Bob M. Montgomery via twhirl

thanks everyone - getting my copy of Lightroom delivered today, so this is timely information! BTW, can anyone recommend a good lightroom/workflow FF room? - Bill Sanders

The answer is in catalog settings. Also, whenever I move photos from one machine to another I use the "export/import as catalog" option - this way you preserve not just keywords, but develop settings history and collections as well. Though if you export to TIFF or JPG it should automatically write the metadata to the new files too. - Eric

And personally I *hate* DNG - it makes differential backups damn near impossible. I like storing the settings in the tiny little .xmp sidecars - that way that's the only thing I send to my offsite backup every night, and I only have to back up the bulky 10+ mb raw files once. - Eric

@Eric, Hmm great point...I don't do DNG, but I was almost ready to start converting. That would be a real pain and my nightly backups would take forever! - Jigar Champaneria

I started using DNG when I moved to LR. It's simple as pie to convert when importing, and it frees me from worrying about keeping track of or accidentally deleting extra files (sidecars). I like having all my data embedded in one single file. Much cleaner and simpler. - Matt

I'm with Bob on DNG right now - love it. I may have to try the diff backup thing though - good point there. Although, I usually don't edit files over and over, so a file gets backed up only once or twice. Perhaps DNG will gain the option for external .xmp sidecars? - Kevin Williams

As cheap as drives are now, I don't worry about the backup size issue. I do incremental every night, and it hasn't ever been an issue in years. - Bob M. Montgomery via twhirl

@Jigar I actually use the DNG as well, but I wanted to keep the advice separate from that as not everyone likes the DNG approach. I convert to DNG at the time of import in fact and use that going forward. As for backups I don't find I am making that many incremental changes that it is a transfer issue as Eric stated. - Jeremy Hall

I should clarify - I use an offsite backup that I connect to over a VPN (in addition to a local backup). It's not a size issue, it's a speed issue - I simply don't have a fast upstream connection (FU, Comcast) - so given the choice of adding a tag to 100 files and then uploading 100 DNG files or 100 xmp sidecars to my backup site, I'll choose the latter. - Eric

Actually, back to the keyword issue, the suggestion on your site, Thomas, about Write Keywords as Lightroom Hierarchy is a good one. I just noticed, exporting images from LR2 for Photrade that with that option unchecked, it doesn't include all the keywords on export; however, checking that option resulted in full keywords in the JPG file. Just a quick tip. - Bob M. Montgomery

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Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50

September 11 at 11:42 am - Link

The problem with Yammer is getting your non-techie coworkers to first understand what it is and then get them to use it. Once over those hurdles, it would be really nice in the workplace. - Matt

Guess the Movie: Matt posted a message

“Try this one...shouldn't be too hard”

September 11 at 9:03 am - Link

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Reservoir Dogs! - Haggis (Sean)

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That's a nice wordle. The font combined with the words filling in the spaces makes it look like OCD graffiti in a way. - J·Phil·Glockner

Reservoir Dogs? - Faboo Mama

Reservoir Dogs it is! Nice work Haggis and faboo mama - Matt

You know that part where he talking to the ear? Just slays me. - Yolanda

I hear you. I can never listen to "Stuck in the Middle with You" without laughing. - Matt

Guess the Movie: Haggis (Sean) posted a message

“Here's another (hopefully) a little more difficult”

September 11 at 8:46 am - Link

Don't know that one! - Matt

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No idea :-( - Grant Fitzgerald

Heavy Metal. - Akiva Moskovitz

-100 Geek points the both of you! (Shakes head disappointingly) :D - Haggis (Sean)

Akiva got it :D - Haggis (Sean)

Dobromir Hadzhiev dugg a story on Digg

Which is it, Pop or Soda? The Results are In.

September 10 at 12:54 pm - Link

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Neither. It's all Coke, you idiots! - Tad - pals w/Terrorists

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Soda. Either that or just call it by its name (Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew, Sprite, etc.) - ::Kristen::

Pop! Pop! Pop! We have chosen to live in two predominantly soda regions (Bay Area and Massachusetts) and it makes me NUTS! - Stephen Pierzchala

Soda...or Coke...or Diet Soda or Diet Coke...of course that only covers the "Coke-like" drinks...if you want orange soda or Dr. Pepper, etc. you have to specify. You can't use pop or soda when referring to a non-cola drink. IE you can't say "I'm drinking a pop" when you are drinking a Mr. Pibb. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Not true, Alex, as evidenced by Faygo Red Pop. Which, by they way, is YUM. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

soda - Morton Fox

Other half calls it 'Fizzy' - Matt Harwood

S O D A = C O K E - JA Castillo

sodapop - Michael W. May via twhirl

I agree with Tad. It's Coke. Everything is a coke. - Trish R

Sorry...but I'm from California which makes me the ultimate arbiter of how different soft drinks shall be referred as. If it isn't a cola drink, it isn't a soda, nor a pop, nor a Coke. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Coke is it (so to speak). - steplow is Steve

Alex, I shall let you take the pop argument to the Faygo corporation, as their Red Pop trademark will need to be retracted. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Soda. Pop confuses me. - heather ♥s fauns on mars.

Pop! Lousy easterners. - Matt

Bring em on! I'm from California! - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Native New Yorker here: it's soda. - ωαřмaiden

Morton Fox posted a link

Wawa pours its one billionth cup of coffee - Slashfood

September 10 at 11:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Wawa is the greatest! - Matt

Guess the Movie: Grant Fitzgerald posted a link

Maybe a bit easy...

September 9 at 3:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Yolanda liked this

Clearly a war movie. Not sure which one though. - Matt

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War movie, yes. I thought the Danny might make you think of Where Eagles Dare ("Broadsword calling Danny boy") but it's not that... - Grant Fitzgerald

Great Escape? - Chris Nixon

Yeah, it's The Great Escape :-) - Grant Fitzgerald

Never saw that one. That explains it! - Matt

Yaaaaaaaaaas! My first one! The word 'tunnel' gave it away. - Chris Nixon

Dan Kaplan posted a message on Twitter

“Been using Dropbox for months. By far best online backup/sharing tool there is and now anyone can get it. http://www.getdropbox.com”

September 9 at 5:00 pm - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Denton Gentry, John Sirman and 9 other people liked this

I think Live Mesh is better (5gb). How is Dropbox different? - Eric Schoonover

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isn't wuala offering something similar too ? - Rodrigo SEPULVEDA via twhirl

There are just too many great competitors MS, BackBlaze, etc... - adolfo foronda

Agree. I love Dropbox. Just want more space cheaply:) - Matt

I've been using Dropbox for ages too. Couldn't live without it - Chris Dahl

It's quick. Really quick, particularly compared to iDisk on MobileMe. You wouldn't know the files were in the cloud levels of quick - Duncan Riley

it keeps a local cache which i'm sure helps. not sure how i feel about that. it would really gobble disk space if you didn't watch it. i believe they have fixed it now. nonetheless, i'm a big fan - rob zand

Guess the Movie: Chris Nixon posted a message

“Next up!”

September 9 at 4:48 am - Link

Yolanda liked this

I think this should be pretty easy, but you never know. - Chris Nixon

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Armageddon - Matt

Armageddon? - Grant Fitzgerald

Correct. Well done Matt! - Chris Nixon

...and Grant obviously. - Chris Nixon

I really should learn to type more quickly! - Grant Fitzgerald

Guess the Movie: Grant Fitzgerald posted a link

This one looks like a fish

September 8 at 1:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

No idea. - James Williams (willia4)

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Nope. I'm not getting this one. - Chris Nixon

Snatch? - Haggis (Sean)

I should probably point out that it's got nothing to do with fish. I was just commenting on the shape of the cloud. Sorry for the, ahem... red herring :-D - Grant Fitzgerald

Not Snatch. - Grant Fitzgerald

Um.. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? Not sure why I think its a Guy Ritchie movie.. - Haggis (Sean)

Not Lock Stock either. If it was a Guy Ritchie flick I'd expect to see a certain "c" word showing up... - Grant Fitzgerald

Goodfellas? - Matt

Goodfellas it is! - Grant Fitzgerald

Woohoo! What do I win? haha. The "Jimmy" gave it away for me. - Matt

You win... a round of applause from me and the chance to post the next one! Surely that's enough? :-P - Grant Fitzgerald

Best one yet! - Chris Nixon

Thomas Hawk posted a link

The Big Lebowski Wordle

September 8 at 9:06 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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I dumped the script for "The Big Lebowski" into wordle and this is what came back. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

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This is awesome! - Trish R

DUDE! - Abby Martin

MARK IT ZERO. - Akiva Moskovitz

The big DUDE is somehow totally appropriate ;-) - Brian Sullivan

I love this. We should create a group for "Guess the Movie" based on a wordle. - Chris Nixon

That's a GREAT idea, Chris! - Trish R

+1 Chris!!! - Iain Baker

Original! I love this - Leandro Ardissone

Join up! http://beta.friendfeed.com/roo... - Chris Nixon

Absolutely love this. Great flick, great idea, Thomas. "This is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules here." - Matt

Ok Dude. - Russellreno

I just love white russians. I like gin and tonics too, but something about kahlua - Yum. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Wordle rocks! - Glenn Batuyong

Andrew Baron posted a link

Seinfeld / Bill Gates Microsoft Commercial

September 4 at 5:57 pm - via Reshare - Link

Pete Delucchi, Perviz Hacıyev, Daniel Schildt and 23 other people liked this

I became the first subscriber on YouTube for the WindowsVideos account. Just watched the first commercial and it's out of sync. I didnt like the aethetic right from the start and I tried very hard to understand it, but couldnt. I watched it again and tried to get it, but I still am not getting it. Perhaps Im missing something. - Andrew Baron

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I don't get it. :/ - Mattb4rd

I rated it with one star for aesthetic and because I still dont get it. - Andrew Baron

Why is it soo long? Someone tell me the point to this nonsense please! - Sarah Austin

i liked it - i thought it was funny. - Morgan

@sarah a lot of these high-end commercials use :90 format for the web and limited runs and then cut it down in to :60 and :30 spots - Morgan

Here is a screenshot of the account the commercial was uploaded. It looks like I stubbled upon it just moments after it went live: http://flickr.com/photos/andre... - Andrew Baron

What the.... This is it? Cripes. This is more damaging to their image than anything Apple have put out. - Andrew

hilarious. it's good to see seinfeld. and gates is awesome to let himself be parodied like that. - Ranjit Mathoda

Yes, my man Bill is funny. No, your man Steve is not. That is all. :) - Randy Holloway

I'm a huge Seinfeld fan, but that was pretty weak. - Matt

Buy Apple stock! Jerry, buy me a MacBook...iConJohn - john coffey

I don't get it either. these commercials will be a miss. Seinfeld is so "I love the 90s". - Alan Le

Andrew, you're not missing anything. There's nothing to get. A bunch of silly nonsensicle halabaloo. Microsoft continues to be completely out of touch with, everything. Ad campaign FAIL! - John Reynolds via twhirl

I like Seinfeld. I'm still disgruntled with Microsoft. - Chris Menning

I thought it was funny, too. Effective as far as selling or promoting anything, probably not, but I liked it as a standalone bit. - abacab

Well, that felt uninspired. Amusing, though, but not the right way. - W. Thomas Leroux

Other than The Office, Seinfeld is still funnier than most TV today. This commercial could have been good if it had a point. BTW, I saw it during the Giants game, and it still seemed very long. - Chris White

I love that's his jail mugshot on the clown card - joly

I dunno. it was fun to watch. I'm not one who can be convinced by anything MS does to switch back so I guess I can just watch and enjoy Seinfeld do his thing. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Um. No. Gates IS NOT to Microsoft as Jobs is to Apple. Seinfeld draws painful attention to that fact. - rzklkng

The company with the best comedians wins? - Jemm

I guess the point is that Microsoft wants to remind general public of themselves and that they can be sort of funny, too ;) Or maybe the idea comes clear after few ads. - Jemm

But was it really funny? I think *most* people think it wasnt funny. And it has only two stars on YouTube. I complied a list of headlines here: http://dembot.com/post/4888143... - Andrew Baron

it has a "we're one of you, really.. ignore our fortunes, we're *just* *like* *you*" angle to it. I half expected them to have resurrected Al Bundy for the store. I found the windows 1.0 ad with steve ballmer to be funnier! - alphaxion

Oh dear. 3/10. Must try harder Microsoft. And the out-of-sync audio doesn't reflect that well on your brand. - Mike Coulter

No... not this way. Could be just waste of money but after moment of thinking... it's actually working nicely. While it gets negative attention, that is still good for overall ad campaign since it gets people speaking of it. And more time people spend of talking, more closely they remember it. - Daniel Schildt

@Daniel, since when was it out of fashion or too expensive to get people talking about something good? Putting out crap and expecting people to talk about it because its crap is not a very clever option. I cant imagine that they planned to it that way. - Andrew Baron

I don't think the ad is awful and if it came without the microsoft vs apple cultural baggage or the weight of expectations following microsoft's declaration that they were about to unleash the mother of all campaigns on the world I think reaction might have been more positive. I think Loren Feldman has it right - Microsoft don't need to look cool, their stuff just has to work well for the masses. - jeremy ettinghausen

Bwana McCall posted a message

“The NFL's live broadcast of the game online is pretty cool”

September 4 at 4:38 pm - Link

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I didn't have to install Silverlight at all. It's putting a hurting on my CPU % but it's still cool to pick whatever camera angle you like. - Bwana McCall

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http://www.nfl.com/snf - Bwana McCall

"This product is only available to US customers." Sounds cool though :( - Andrew Smith

It doesn't use Silverlight. Odd because that's what NBC used for the Olympics. - Kevin C. Tofel

My dad would like that - Outsanity

choppy as hell for me - Josh Haley

I think this is what ESPN imagined "360" would look like...a few error messages keep popping up ...course, this is at the office, pretty locked down here... - .LAG

I agree. Real choppy. Not worth it. - Matt

Super cool, but I think I will stick with the 46" HD version in my family room. - mace

I'll stick with my 20 something inch SDTV. :) - Mathew Ballard

That is *amazing*. Not choppy for me. - Benjamin Golub

Holy cow. That's incredible. Smooth as silk on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.5.4 with 4 GB RAM. Firefox 3.01. 1.5-ish mb/s DSL connection. - DeWitt Clinton

Quality is good... - Jeffrey Blais via twhirl

Matt posted a message

“Jerry Reed Dies”

September 4 at 5:44 am - Link

RIP, Snowman. - Matt

Matt shared an item on Google Reader

9 Cool Google Search Shortcuts You Should Know About

September 3 at 5:32 am - Link

A lot of people don't know that Google can do this stuff. Really saves a lot of time. - Matt

Matt shared an item on Google Reader

Flight of the Conchords to end after second season

September 2 at 5:40 am - Link

This sucks, but I'd rather have them end it early than string it out and put out lousy episodes. - Matt

Bryan Villarin published a photo on Flickr

I has Drobo

August 30 at 3:40 pm - Link

Eric liked this

Very nice. - Eric

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You'll have to let us know how it performs. I've had my eye on that for a while. - brian alexander gray via twhirl

I really like my 1G, even though I am a little disappointed I bought 3 weeks prior to the 2G being announced :) They are great machines from my experience. - Jeremy Hall

Jealous. - Matt

@brian alexander gray - Real-world experience, right? Absolutely. However, I'm sure it's already reviewed exhaustively said since it's been out for awhile. :) - Bryan Villarin

@Jeremy Hall - I don't have a Firewire 800 port yet, so I'm sort of upset. But, it seems fine anyway. I hope I didn't have the same issues you had. - Bryan Villarin

Caroline posted a message on Twitter

“on FF :oh oh my god oh....oh... oh......no..no...this is too good !!!! David Duchovny in rehab for sex addiction http://twurl.nl/us57fk”

August 28 at 7:09 pm - Link

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I'd love to be in enough situations to have "sex addiction" problems. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

What's the difference between sex addition and being a male? - Matt

+1 Matt. - Mladen Srdić

What's the difference between sex addition and being vixy? - Caroline