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Robert Scoble posted a message
“My son heard me discussing politics at a party yesterday and said "one of my parents is totally sure that Obama is going to win and my other parent is totally sure that McCain is going to win." I turn to him and say "one of us is wrong." It'll be interesting to find out which one, huh?”
August 3 at 2:02 pm - Link
By the way, last time I was wrong, I picked Gore. But was I really wrong? :-) - Robert Scoble
The last time I was right I picked Nixon. I was really wrong. - Jack Carlson
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+1 Jack. Saw a bumper sticker the other day: "At least Nixon had the decency to resign." ;-) - Mohit
Oooooh very interesting... shall be fun to watch the Scoble house deal with the vote results! - Susan Beebe
yeah but if Bush resigned, we'd be with Cheney...is that much better? - Justin Korn
*Shudder* Alright fine you've got a point there. I'll take stupid over evil any day :) - Mohit
it would be interesting to see Obama fail and Orange Revolution in USA... wait, who will sponsor that? lol - silpol
LOL. I'm totally sure that I'm not sure who will win! - Pokai
I was certain that both major parties would select their candidates by Super Tuesday. I was only half right. Re Gore, Robert was wrong by a vote of 5-4. :) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
My prediction for the 2008 general - like 1960, it will be decided on images rather than substance. The "old geezer" will end up losing to the "inxperienced kid." - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Ontario: the last administration had plenty of experience and look what they ended up doing to all of us. - Robert Scoble
Your son needs a blog :P - John
John: he has one. Is on Twitter too. But he usually is too busy playing WoW to write anything. - Robert Scoble
awesome! thanks. - John
Robert, does your son have a candidate preference? - "Czar" DJ Peterman
Robert, what faction and server ;) - Michael J Cohen
The contest will be pretty tight, like the last two. It's all about electoral voites and gerrymandered districts. - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
@Michael J Cohen Horde-Kalecgos-Torosmen-druid-resto/balance and Alliance-Killrogg-Glorindael-Mage-Arcane/Fire (but I respec a lot on him) - Patrick Scoble
@Czar DJ Peterman Obama however I am exposed to both sides so I would consider myself in-between on a lot of issues. - Patrick Scoble
HA! Did Patrick just join FriendFeed to participate in this conversation??!?! Welcome to the friendfeed world! - Justin Korn
signed up, paid my fee, every day Mobileme tells me syncing failed and mu trial is over, no response from Apple, really poor form - Patphelan
Well, no when ever my Dad joins a new service I generally do too. However I never really got into Friend Feed. I'll see if I can get set up here. Thanks for welcoming me! - Patrick Scoble
@Robert, ironic thing about that is your photo of me appears next to "The Politics Guy" archetype on HolyTaco's "people who will ruin your party"...and without crediting you either. - Andrew Feinberg
Actually, Scoble was wrong by 537 votes in Florida. Which the SC basically validated by a 5-4 vote. It's interesting the some think the SC is wrong, like in this instance, but yet they are infallible when it comes to Rove v Wade. - Dave Madison
@Francine, it's not the last two elections that have been decided by electoral votes. EVERY Presidential election has been determined by electoral votes, not popular vote. God forbid if we ever change and think it better to decide by popular vote. - Dave Madison
@DavidMadison what I don't get about all you pro-life types is that you, presumably, trust the woman to raise the child; but don't trust her with the decision to have said child. - Prolific Programmer
Woah - how'd this turn into an abortion discussion? - Tad Donaghe
I'm daring to hope that our great nation is about the elect the right guy for the same stupid, superficial reasons that we (kinda) elected the wrong guy 8 years ago, and re-elected the sumbitch 4 years ago. - Tegan Dowling
i'm for the pill, aka pre-bortion - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl
The pill and abortion seen from another perspective are "russian roulette" with family aspirations. You don't always get a "second chance" at having children. Simple biology (to its logical conclusion) says sperm and ovum meet and create life. It is inextricably part of the sexual act. When we eat food we do it primarily to nourish our bodies BUT it also tastes good. When we reverse that thinking, we eat out of balance. The sexual act needs to be seen with the same kind of sacredness and balance.... - Melanie Reed
...but we have reversed that. As a result, many of us have lost the joy and regard (or will lose it) for what this gift is about. From a purely pragmatic aspect, 40, million potential scientists, inventors, programmers, artists, etc. have been forever lost. What have we sacrificed because we thought more of a moment than a lifetime of consequence? Here's why sacredness protects us individually and communally. - Melanie Reed
Either way we all win! - Todd Loren Sinclair
anyone who says they are confident that one or the other will win at this stage is crazy - this entire cycle has been psychotically unpredictable - the pundits are lucky that they are held about as accountable as weather forecasters - Marco
Remember, to be a pundit, you don't have to ever be right; you just have to never shut up. - Akiva Moskovitz
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August 1 at 1:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
hah! - Orli Yakuel
Oh my...frustrating indeed. I lol'd ;) - David Adam
hehe, ahhh those teenage years, its all flooding back now, two of my greatest tonnage puzzles in one pic - Patphelan
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Apple - MobileMe - Status
July 25 at 11:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the MobileMe group to ensure that we keep you really up to date. In the 14 days since we launched, it’s been a rocky road and we know the pain some people have been suffering. Be assured people here are working 24-7 to improve matters, and we’re going to favor getting you new info hot off the presses even if we have to post corrections or further updates later." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
very interesting... I haven't had problems this week, but they do need to fix issues quick before the fail whale wags her tail. - Bill Sodeman
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The article is written in first person, but isn't signed. Ugh. - Chris Baskind
Still haven't had contact information or events go from my phone to MobileMe to my Mac. Maybe next week? - Albert Willis
@ Chris, I looked around for almost a min. trying to find out who the author was! Weird. - Nice Fish Films
I didn't miss it, did I? - Chris Baskind
steve wrote it in the third person (again) - gregory lent
Woah - apple has a blog? Rule #1 - never start a blog post with "Steve Jobs asked me to..." - Jesse Stay
Maybe the question I wrote the other day about Twitter would be better phrased, "If MobileMe were an airline, would you fly it?" - ScottBourne
Who is the "Me" who wrote it? - Sean Alexander
hmm. for Jobs to request this says that he is supremely pissed at what is going on. heads most likely rolled. - Jamie
Someone at Apple may call it "a posting," but there's nothing about it that's a blog. Also, how is it promoted to MobileMe subscribers. - Rex Hammock via twhirl
Oh good, you reminded me to cancel the trial. It's pretty but quite unstable. - Aviv
Paid for a year, totally unusable, get "server not available" at least three times a day plus sync load kills outlook, waste of time and money, the phone is amazing though - Patphelan
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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message
“List what you hate --and love-- about getting older...Ill start”
July 24 at 6:39 am - Link
Group therapy here: I hate that I have to workout and watch intake to maintain or reduce weight, all my youth I was underweight. Genetics are a bitch, I'm looking --and sounding-- like my dad more and more. On the flip side, I see the bigger picture, and now that I'm married, don't have to worry about girls, dating, and other growing up issues. It's a fun ride, and I'm enjoying it. - Jeremiah Owyang
I like that now when I speak people listen, when I was younger that drove me insane. I hate that my body feels second hand already. (28) - Toby Graham
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Love using wisdom I didn't have earlier on when I was younger. I hate trying to get back into shape... it seems to take longer each time I attempt it. [But I'm NOT giving up. :)] - Kevin C. Tofel
I don't worry so much. I realized at some point "hey, I'm pretty good at what I do" and now I trust my gut. Work sometimes made me a nervous wreck when I was younger (mostly I just cared too much, often about the wrong things). - Jason Wehmhoener
Hate: Weight gain issues like Jeremiah mentioned; feel tired/run-down faster now; memory loss (which is secondary to having a hugely stressful job!!); not as much of a "looker" now...ignored more in favor of younger women (ouch); rejected more. Love: Respect, knowledge/wisdom factor is awesome!; street smarts, business saavy "capitol", better communication, people / political saavy; historical context is now present (better decisions/info); deeper tech domain knowledge / skill set ... big picture is big! - Susan Beebe
The first time someone called me "Sir" I stepped out of the way because I thought they were talking to someone behind me. Then I realized. *sigh*. On the upside, I don't worry about *anything* anymore. - Sprague D
LOVE: the confidence that really understanding yourself brings Don't-Love-so-much - the minor aches and ridiculously longer recovery times - Marco
Love: the freedom to do what i want to do, horizontal license, less stress. Hate: the fact that i realize i'm getting older. - Kyle A Koch
Love: Freedom, more responsibilities, mental growth, and simply growing up through the hardships of life. Hate: Not being able to play in the park anymore cause I'm too big :( - Bartek Gniado
I don't get carded anymore. - imabonehead
@Kyle, horizontal license = no one to tell you to get out of bed? - Toby Graham
I Love that every day i grow more knowledgeable than I grow old. I hate that things to worry about increase faster than anything else (except maybe credit). - Parth Awasthi
bartek - bu that's what Dave and Buster's, GameWorks, etc. are for - Jeff Woelker via twhirl
Love: Not just the freedom, but the freedom to have chocolate cake for breakfast! Hate: People start expecting you to act your age. (they can bite my 400 pound inner child's butt) And how your body just starts turning against you. - Aden
Hate: noisy knees, gray underarm hair (just one? Where's The Fish?!?) LOVE: being taken more seriously at work, having the confidence that comes from surviving all the weird things I've experienced in my life. - Harvey Simmons
Dislike: Can't eat garbage and not gain weight. Health issues are starting to creep in - it's like the body is falling apart. Love: comfortable with who you are. Don't care about what's "hip" or being cool. Having enough money to buy the toys you always wanted - but then resisting because impulsivity of youth is gone. - Jason Kaneshiro
I love that people respect me more and more as I get older. I hate that those younger than me respect me lesser and lesser. - Shey
Love: dancing at parties (at last!) and not care what others might be thinking. Hate: diabetes. - Bob Kingsley
I just hate money as it's evil! - Joe Dawson
Riffing on Sprague D, being addressed as "Sir" - The frequency increases with age. I expect to expire once it reaches 100% - Kevin Johnson via twhirl
I hate the growing awareness that there really isn't enough time. - shelisrael1
being called Mr or Sir, a growing awareness that its time to do only the right thing - Patphelan
Love: Knowledge. Hate: Responsibility. - Mo Jawhari
I love that I can give self-doubt the finger. (finally) Why couldn't I have this confidence and wisdom at 18? ;) I hate the fact that I'm 29 and have some lower-back issues. - Anna Haro
Hate: feeling compelled to respond to lists like this. Love: having kids. - Clay Newton
Love the comfort and bonding of a long marriage, watching our kids grow, and the fact that every day is one day closer to heaven. Hate the aches and pains. - Robert
Love: being able to dance on the sofa with my shoes on while holding a bowl of ice cream. Hate: being the one that has to clean up the ice cream when i drop it on the sofa. - carlotta fancypants
I hate that less younger women will flirt with me as I get older. - Bjorn Tipling
Echo what Robert said... - Mrsth
i love that younger people will listen to me now. I hate that younger people won't listen to me now. - chartreuse
love: experience, lessons; hate: physical and mental deterioration, people around me getting older. - ~C4Chaos
Love: learning to accept myself for who I am Hate: Taking 30 years to get there - Sally Robinson
Hate that I'm usually the oldest guy in the room, and forgetting that I am :) - Bryan Thatcher
I love that I had my kids very young (and they are grown!) and that I look young but have all these years of wisdom. I hate that I don't know about half the bands my son listens to so he thinks I know nothing of music. GAH! - Gina
I've been a kid and am an adult. Adult is better :) - Michael Gartenberg
Love that I can afford the latest techno gadgets and try out new hobbies. Hate the gray hair and the aching bones after a good workout. - Alfred C. Chen
Love: feeling more comfortable in my skin, broader perspective, increased earning power, knowing my stuff (most of the time, anyways); Hate: needing so much sleep, wrinkles - Erin Collopy
Love the wisdom that comes from experience. Hate having to think about how finite our time is. - Logical Extremes
Love that a growing level of experience and knowledge allows for the generation of a number of ideas. Frustrated by knowledge and skill deficits necessary for successful execution that is revealed by those very same ideas - Marco
I hate everytime Vera tells me I sound grumpy like my dad, and in the back of my head, I know I do. - Dave@yummyporky
I hate that I am no longer "kiddo" at the office. I love that I know all the songs on Guitar Hero and rock harder than my kids:-) - bdsanchez
Love that I've learned to breathe and what is really important - Hate that I need more time to recover from things. - Jane Quigley
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Candace Holly posted a message
“Is anyone else finding themselves subscribing to less and less in their own rss reader and using FriendFeed instead? I am.”
July 22 at 3:18 pm - Link
Recently? Nah. I deleted your feed from my reader weeks ago. *ducks* - Bradley McSpinn
Good thing you've never been on mine then, eh? Oh snap! - Candace Holly
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Well then. I see how our relationship has dwindled. - Bradley McSpinn
Nope. I am finding new feeds to subscribe to from FriendFeed. - Louis Gray
I still use Bloglines, of course I work there. :o - Bjorn Tipling
Definitely reducing my feeds, still finding it difficult to find my feet in friendfeed - Patphelan
+1 - Iain Baker
I'm also still using Bloglines. And I'm also regularly adding extra feeds to it. But nowadays it's taking less time to scan all those feeds. - Ton Zijp
Sure. - Joseph Chen
not really, Now if FF had the J/K function that could change ;) - Earl E Morningwood
I also find new feeds to subscribe to, I might subscribe to someone's FF whereas I wouldn't have interest in their blog but usually I'm finding new blogs to subscribe to. - tsudohnimh
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Robert Scoble posted an entry on FastCompany.TV - Scobleizer TV, Fast Company Live
See How Much Tme You Are Wasting With RescueTime
July 18 at 7:48 am - Link
Much improved over past videos. And a compelling product. Good job... - Tom Quinn
Been using RescueTime off and on for almost a year now, always fall out of the habit of checking in on the statistics and then doing something to prevent wasting time. - John
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I was testing this out in the earlier part of the week, but I suspect that it's the cause of my frequent FF3 crashes. The crashing stopped after I terminated the program. However the stats collected are truly useful. - Winston Teo
Life FAIL http://flickr.com/photos/25719... - Hao Chen
For testing reasons I have separate Firefox installs. Eg: FirefoxComm.app, FirefoxDev.app etc. Unfortunately RescueTime doesn't recognize these as browsers and so doesn't give web-page stats usage for them. General number of hours per browser app just isn't useful... but I couldn't find a way to tell RescueTime that these are browsers. - Dylan Parker
@Tom, I agree - Shey
i haven't seen the video, but i've used rescuetime...it's quite a neat program. :) - Shawn Reed
I am afraid to learn how much time I am wasting. - Jeff B
uhhhhh. ok?I love rescue time - Chris Jones via twhirl
Maybe too much, but at the same time, I'm learning a lot too. - Daynah
This doesn't look like something for me. My understanding is it wouldn't be able to tell if I was using my department's SharePoint site, or our Project Web server, ordering parts on the Dell site, searching Google for the latest Microsoft Updates error message, or goofing around on TwitaikumblepowncenticaFFurk. - MiniMage via NoiseRiver
Avoiding downloading it like the plague at present :-) - Patphelan
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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message
“Despite all the hubbub about Blogs 'killing' mainstream media in 2005-2006, most of today's top blogs resemble mainstream media or star columnists. I say that little has changed. Agree or Disagree?”
July 8 at 9:31 pm - Link
I agree...the more we change the more we stay the same. I just think some bloggers are good at not having a political or money agenda which can taint the "realness" of the content. I like how Perez Hilton doesn't hold his tongue at all. - streetforce1
I would agree that some of the same problems exist in top blogs and top newspapers, there is a check and balance in blogging that works quicker than the newspaper system, but in general, you are spot on. - Andrew Hyde
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Agree ... it takes a little more than a couple years to build the empires that have already been build ... probably isn't even possible - Nick O'Neill
Didn't it turn out to be Craigslist that has really hurt mainstream media? At least the newspapers. Also Google's growing dominance in advertising. It's not the journalism that's the issue, it's the revenue. - Todd McKinney
Jeremiah, you're ignoring the fact that many MSM outlets now embrace blogging as well. No one would argue that the two have merged at the top, but it wasn't all in one direction. - Duncan Riley
Thanks Jeremiah, I've been biting my tongue on this for a week or so now (i'm in the old trad media) now it seems like new media is the trad media which is being pushed aside by the new new media. - Jon Dillon
Agree. It seems even The Long Tail is losing some of its punch - http://valleywag.com/5020400/h... - Justin Gibbs
Agree. Just like TV killed cinema and radio, video/DVD killed TV, music downloads killed the music industry, and the internet changes everything. Each of these provides multiple different functions and experiences to different people in a variety of moods, roles and situations. The various markets will all settle to a new, if more transient, level. There will also be a home for pro versus amateur, more generalised versus niche versions. - Ronna Porter
Jeremiah, it's true that top blogs become media properties (albeit very niche ones), while (as Duncan said) MSM has been adopting blogs and other social media tools. So there's been movement both ways. I for one never brought into the 'blogs will kill MSM' hype, that's just nonsense. As everything, media has evolved very quickly with the Internet. So I disagree with you a bit there, because *a lot* has changed. - Richard
It's like how Dave Winer said there's no such thing as a pro-blogger. As far as I can tell the only difference between journalists and bloggers is that journalists are supposed to stick to a code of conduct. - Stuart Maxwell
They do resemble, but that does mean that are alike. For a start, "commenting" has transformed media into a two way conversation. Whereas "new media" vetures like businessspectator.com.au are like the mainstream media (a comment is treated like a letter to the editor, with my comments moderated because I disagreed with arguments) are a joke, other "new media" like Techcrunch and RWW are a whole new ball game with Seesmic and Friend Feed integration alltogether in addition to open commenting. I think blogs biggest impact is on the profession - the speed of blogs is killing the print news industry. If there is any confusion of being alike, it's only because blogs are changing he industry dynamics. - Elias Bizannes
I've said for the past year that it's becoming hard to differentiate "blogs" from other forms of online publishing. We're in big need of a vocabulary overhaul.FWIW, commenting in MSM is rarely two-way communication. It's a way for readers to vent and interact with each other, but MSM publishers and editors rarely get dirt under their fingernails. - Chris Baskind
Totally agree when you look at blogs like Mashable and TC - sometimes it is hard to sort the advertising from the posts. No offense guys - I know you have to make money - but there are more and more "sponsored posts" and "thanks to this weeks sponsors" etc.... - Dave Gray
a few things. first, sample error. mainstream media has maybe tens of thousands of writers creating columns for newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. the blogosphere has tens of millions. the degree of variation within the blogosphere is enormous. have you seen the recipe bloggers? mommy bloggers? and the children of the blog form, the facebooks and myspaces and tumblrs, are further diversifying the very nature of sharing, presented in reverse chronoligical order. now the blogs you may consider popular overall may have elements familiar from msm. but don't let that confuse you. it would be incorrect to consider the .0000001% of the "top blogs" as marking a trend in the blogosphere. you'd no more jump to that conclusion than saying that we can all run/swim/row at olympic speeds or move like jackie chan. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy
disagree, my buying practices have definitely changed, I was a two newspaper in the morning and one in the evening guy, I really can't remember the last time I purchased one, I think mainstream media is here to stay but newspapers are definitely on the way out - Patphelan
If what you're saying is true, then does that mean the Long Tail of blogging isn't very fat? That the Short Snout still reigns? You might be right, but I'd like to know how things look like all along the curve, not just a few crowding the small head. Any numbers? - phil baumann
next, blogging is a conversational medium. some journalists get that, some don't, and many msm organizations never will. Reading other blogs, linking to them, listening to comments, leaving comments elsewhere, responding to your commenters: these are signs of 'getting it'. to the extent that you see content that looks like a blog post but lacks any connection to the conversation is a sign of damage. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy
agree - sam sethi
Last, I'd like to challenge you to put something that you care about but that's off topic in your blog. a poem that touched you. your cat. an opinion about something outside your stated beat. blogging should be about the blogger, otherwise it is reporting in blogging clothes. blogging is a personal and interpersonal medium, so your blog should have a bit of you within it. it's not just writing in the first person, it's shortening the distance between your heart, your thoughts and the submit button. blog on, Jeremiah. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy
It is difficult to move to new modes of discourse. Making them technically feasible doesn't mean they will evolve. It's not just that blogs have replicated msm modes and mannerisms, but those that do not do so - the ones that offer some dislocation, some sense of estrangement, before yielding something special - get less visible as mirroring levels discursive difference. - tom matrullo
Blogs have given the sources a way to communicate directly without going through the media. There are far more sources of news now than there were ten years ago. "Killing" is almost always the wrong metaphor for competition, But our reliance on MSM today is much less than it was in the past. I don't see the "top blogs" as being blogs at all, they are MSM outlets that use the same CMS software as blogs do. That isn't saying much about them, imho.BTW Phil is right too. :-) - Dave Winer
media "killing" media rarely happens. We still have movies (some shot digitally), radio (sometimes streamed), television (sometimes on iPhone) , books (sometimes on Kindle). The universe gets more intricate with old and new media supporting, promoting, commenting, and competing. Movies became fodder for Lux Radio Theatre (which is currently still available by podcast). Ad budgets shift. Revenue streams divert. Physical formats become obsolete, but not the content, the audience or the conversation. - Michael Markman
I think the question misses the point. You're probably right that the "top blogs", whatever they are, resemble mainstream media, but _my_ top blogs give me much more what _I_ want to read than the mainstream media. - Michael C. Harris
They're not blogs anymore ... I counsel a lot of agencies and I'm telling many of them to view the big boys and girls as MS OnlineMedia: http://www.eyeballeconomy.com/... - David Weiner
Been some press lately about newspapers declining readership and predictions of the death of broadcast television. Let's look at some statistics, but IIRC the trend is DOWN. And where are people spending the time they save? blogs and youtube. You do the math. - Steve Follmer via twhirl
Um. did the hubbub of blogs killing media end in 2006? As far as I can tell, blogs have never stopped proclaiming the death of traditional media by bloggers. They love to say that all the way up until some paper or magazine buys them. - felix
Is this not just mainstream media switching mediums. What is more interesting is the fringe stuff that would never have been published before. I think that a lot of people are now reading a bit wider range of content. Mainstream media always goes with the lowest common denominator to get maximum audience. - John Cooper
Mainstream media killed by blogs? No. Mainstream media fundamentally changed by blogs? Absolutely. *Every* major media outlet has a significant online presence featuring a large chunk of their content. Nearly all of them have integrated commenting/discussion, and many of them now have "Digg this"/"Share on Facebook"/etc. While it's not entirely a 2-way street w/outlets like CNN or the NYT, they are clearly being dragged toward interacting with their users, rather than simply broadcasting. - Pete Brown
Mainstream is intensifying -- cutting newsroom staff, consolidating newspaper chains, etc. -- in the scramble to keep profit margins up as mass media falls into a gazillion pieces. They are not making enough in the online world to keep the mainstream machinery running, and haven't really figured out the formula for online, social media yet. Blogs are one of the many economic challenges they face, as more and more people defect from mass media, and head for the edge, where we are doing it for ourselves. - Stowe Boyd
Thank you all, I have now collected my thoughts (much based on your comments here) and written this post and pointed back here http://www.web-strategist.com/... - Jeremiah Owyang
if you take the top bloggers/sites, and divide (actual) readership by staff count, it's pretty different from a newspaper... - Bill Seitz
Agree. - Robert Scoble
Agree - Francine Hardaway
Agreed and its entirely changing the business model for news outlets - Robert
Agree - Brian Sullivan
Don't underestimate the effects of regression. Over time, the MSM will exert their advantages and become more dominant in the new medium (e.g., 5 of the top 20 Techmeme Leaderboard places are held by MSM entities), and the few independent voices with broad authority will evolve to be more like the MSM (e.g., TechCrunch adapting to the Washington Post). - Sprague D
I'm not quite sure if I agree or not, but I know I wouldn't really care if mainstream media died out or not. Also, there will always be some type of media that has more viewers/listeners/etc than the others, and thats the one we'll call mainstream. - The Kid
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Hao Chen posted a link
OMG! Friendfeed added User Profiles!
OMG! Friendfeed added User Profiles!
July 4 at 3:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
No, sorry, they didn't add profiles yet. It's just my GM script to pull twitter bios onto FF user pages. :| - Hao Chen via Bookmarklet
@bitfaker, this user-script is perfect... Thanks - "Czar" DJ Peterman
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You're very welcome. :) - Hao Chen
Aww... The title got me excited. :( - possible248
Link bait. puhaha! ;x - Hao Chen
Aha! Thank you so much for the idea! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
These scripts are great, keep going :) - sergiooo (droffset)
Thanks! :D - Hao Chen
Damn! You make me write a bio on my Twitter. LOL - LouCypher
Haha! I wish there was a disable service here on FF, so you could still link to your twitter, but not publish it to your stream. I see some people removing twitter, but it's still a good way to contact someone here until FF has messaging. - Hao Chen
sweeet! now pls make a j/k script for friendfeed :-P - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Would have been cool - Gordon Swaby
installed. Hao, great work with these scripts as always, - Alan Le
awesome. though it fails on my account as my german twitter account is listed first (nicole_de / nicolesimon ) - any ideas how to fix that? If possible I would list 'additional profile available' or so, so that one sees 'there is more than one' - Nicole Simon
Thanks for the suggestion, Nicole. I'll LYK when I post a fix. - Hao Chen
i'd be happy to be test object, though as we know most people will not have this problem. the best solution i can come up with is marking the relevant one on twitter, like when twitter >1 you parse all twitter bios and check for a certain usually unused character. THE BEST solution of course is just let friendfeed finally come up with the bio part as we see it on twitter, but well. - Nicole Simon
Ahh, so mean, so mean. Good idea though. - xero
Updated! Added LinkedIn support, allows customization of which fields to display by editing the script and setting the variables at the top to TRUE or FALSE, and displays multiple of the same service type (ie. two twitter accounts). - Hao Chen
Hao, is there any way to modify this so that the extended profile doesn't show up when I'm on the Me page? I don't really need to see my own profile info and I've noticed that the Comments / Likes / See both links get pushed below the fold. - Mike Doeff
Mike, good call. Will post fix tonight. - Hao Chen
Hao, Very nice update. I particularly like the 'skills' block being here on friendfeed. - "Czar" DJ Peterman
I like it. Do you work for FF, bitfaker? - Franklin Naval
Thanks. No, Franklin. :) - Hao Chen
you should! =D or come work with me. ;-) - Franklin Naval
works perfect, added it Sunday, love GreaseMonkey - Patphelan
how do you like the translator API? - Franklin Naval
Translator API? If you're talking about http://userscripts.org/scripts... I love it! Translation is not always 100% accurate, but it still works REALLY well. I can usually get the gist of what they're talking about. - Hao Chen
[you really should look into that update notification mechanism, or at least number them so we notice when it was updated :)] I think it would be best to put it above "Subscriptions" and plz if so make it a switch so I can see it on my page or not. I like to check mine if complete. - Nicole Simon
Hao, maybe change the script to use LinkedIn if the user one has that and likewise for twitter. If the user has both, then use the Twitter bio. displaying both is redundant. - Alan Le
Nicole, thanks for reminding me. Alan, I'll make a UI for it to be configurable so people can pick and choose what they want to see. - Hao Chen
Updated with suggestions. See new thread http://friendfeed.com/e/adad98... - Hao Chen
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