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See a website that appears to be misusing your personal information it? Bookmark it—and have the site information fed directly to the Federal Trade Commission. The bookmarklet privacy tool is one part of a new campaign from the Center for Democracy and Technology, called "Take Back Your Privacy," ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Today is a day long coming... A day of sadness... A day I want to just lock myself away and hide... but a day I know I can't, that's not what he would have wanted and not what he taught me how to operate... I'm so scared...
If he had a friend like you, I'm thinking that he was a quality man that is now in a much better place. Thoughts and prayers for all that knew and loved him.
- Morgan Haley
So sorry to hear this Johnny, my condolences. :(
- Charlotte M
Aww, fcuk, man, that's rough. When/if you're ready to talk about it, you know we'll be here, mate. If not, well...., you know we'll be here, mate. :-(
- Andrew Terry
Sorry to hear about it. You obviously held him in high regard. That's not always the case with bosses. Sincere condolences from half-a-world away.
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- Johnny Worthington
I'm so sorry, Johnny. It's great that you cared so much for your boss - or that you worked for someone you cared so much about, looked at another way. But that does make it harder now. {{hugs}}
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
No doubt he'd have been pleased to hear you held him in such high regard. Good thoughts during a hard time.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Oh my gosh, Johnny. I just saw this. I am so sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with you, your coworkers, and your boss's friends and family.
- Call me Bronco
Sorry to hear this, Johnny. Sounds like he was also a friend / mentor.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
My boss killed himself back in February. Didn't feel the same as you, TBH. Dude was a real PITA to deal with. Condolences anyway, sorry for your loss.
- LANjackal
Hugs to you and your family, Johnny. So sorry for your loss... :-(
- Lisa L. Seifert
Oh, Johnny, I just saw this now. I'm so sorry for this loss. The pain of it helps tell you that it's real; the friendship and the beauty of knowing and caring for someone deeply. My heart goes out to you.
- Micah Wittman
Sounds like a special guy, sorry to hear about the loss, buddy. :(
- Pete Delucchi
Over the past year or so I’ve become more involved with the ‘social’ aspects of the internet. Everything from blogging, microblogging and social media. A year ago I started this lil’ blog here as well as joined the ranks of Twitter, and this past spring I dived into Facebook. All of the above ment ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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I had my head down while hiking ahead of some friends on a backpacking trip in the Tetons. I looked up and realized I had wandered into the middle of a 40+ herd of elk in the middle of the woods. They didn't seem to notice me until I noticed them. All of a sudden I was in a midst of flying fur and hooves as they all scattered to get away from me. The ground shook. It was beautiful and awesome.
- SAM
Windy day at the beach. Perfect blue sky. Standing on a rock outcrop far away from everyone else. A circle of pelicans flew once, twice, thrice around my head.
- Todd Hoff
Stepped out my city rowhouse front door; the sky went dark, looked up. A blue heron was gliding silently over my head, just above my roof.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
#2 Rounding the corner of a lookout at Point Reyes. Steep rock walls leading down to a field of yellow wild flowers, with a footpath leading down to a perfect sand beach. Beautiful blue sky and rolling waves. #postcardstuff
- SAM
One winter I drove a snow covered road known as the Hurley... somewhere between Pemberton and Lillooet, I had to pull over as the sky was a kaleidoscope of color -- the last rays of light were the color of bruised flesh deepening as the sun dipped down... and all this colorful beauty was being reflected back again in the white dusting of snow that stuck to the mountain crags. Crimson orange into burnt plum. Gorgeous.
- Fossil Huntress
Sitting with my daughter in Needles District of Canyonlands (Moab, UT) at night; she was 7. We were counting satellites and watching shooting stars when a very bright one streaked overhead and exploded. Daughter leaned over, hugged me and said "Thanks Dad, that was awesome!"
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Experienced a Brocken spectre when breaking through the clouds at Mount Rishiri.
- Daniel Mietchen
The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs
- Shevonne
@SAM Wow!, did you take pictures of the elk? .. For me it was a solar eclipse, in 1994, and #2 seeing the Matterhorn.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
"Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again." Didn't know people had so much to say about Charlie Weis
- David Damore
It's been down for at least five minutes already. This is the longest I've seen the fail whale in months.
- Robert Scoble
so are you starting to get the shakes? How long can you go without tweeting?
- Ben Reierson
Responding to high error rate 21 seconds ago Starting about 10 minutes ago, we began experiencing a very high rate of errors and we are working on the underlying problem.
- David Damore
would be more productivity if there was no FF ( twitter backup )
- Mihai Secasiu
So what was trending when it went down?
- phil baumann
Dave - sure. Interesting use case. Definitely spam would be something Google would have to work on.
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not sure what was trending but there was quite a lot of activity on #Spill - in Oz our opposition party is having a meltdown and are spilling the leadership in 30 mins time
- Hilary Talbot
Phil: That was really interesting. Surprised that that shooting never gained traction on Twitter. Did it ever trend? Seems like it was all about Mr. Woods the past few days.... and shopping
- David Damore
Hi everyone. Hope you are all surviving without twitter lol. Great to see you all here.
- snysctt
Glad FF is the backup! </sarcasm> ...seriously though, I'd prefer people do one or the other. I don't reply to most of your comments because you're on Twitter and I refuse to get a Twitter account. Lame service.
- Scott Carmichael
"Thanks for putting this together, Amber. It’s so easy to get off-track online. I’ve actually have found that paying more attention to annotating results in a lot of productivity gains – and it helps in research: entire blog posts have come out of the annotations I’ve made using Delicious (Diigo is another tool, although it’s not as well known). Thanks! Phil"
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Walmart's Christmas commercial talks about how they'll be opening more checkout lanes to make shopping easier. This is of course just a ploy: by 'more lanes' they mean they'll have 5 open instead of just 3. Why bother having 30 checkout stands if you never ever EVER use them all at once?
Good question - now that you mention it, most stores have tons of lanes, but typically staff only a few of them. Maybe that's by design?
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It's to make you think that shopping in the busy season will be more 'hassle free'. It's a crock, though: they never open all those lanes. The cost of building them is a lot cheaper than the cost of paying someone to actually stand there and run them...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Why Twitter can never be FriendFeed? Gosh, where do you want to start. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh, just love stating the obvious! :)
- Citronella
:-) Seriously though, can you post a picture on it? Not natively, can you have a proper threaded conservation, not really...
- Kol Tregaskes
...not to mention, nobody on Friendfeed ever Liked (retweeted) the following : #FollowFriday @somedude @somechick @somestupidbot @Twitter @me @someotherdude @whogivesacrap
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Phil, yeah they seem a little pointless. Also hashtags on Twitter don't seem to do anything... at all.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - most of the time their just pumping - but I will say that if used for chats they can be useful: as long as the chats are about Twitter and social media, which many usually are.
- phil baumann
...of course those chats would be a lot better over here on FF, but it's always been a struggle to get Twitter peeps over on FF.
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There's also no community on twitter, to also state the obvious. I've forged relationships with people on here whereas I couldn't give a crap about many of the brands on twitter. Did I say brands? Heh. I meant people. Yeah...people. :P
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
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For me it's something like: Twitter is the IRC and FriendFeed the Forums of the '00s - a media-rich forum, of course :)
- Citronella
Disagree re: community. there is indeed community, if you follow the right people.
- Karoli
Phil, if the in-reply-to breaks then you lose the thread... and this happens a lot. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Though I do like chatting in Twitter sometimes, it's much more difficult to follow than here. FF is simply more powerful.
- Citronella
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts. The new policy -- issued with ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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I don’t know. The mainstream media is doing a wonderful job sensationalizing this case, presenting it without skepticism. Some outlets are doing a good job of discussing the relevant issues – but they don’t have the information to have a meaningful discussion of this particular case. Details are tan ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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A graduate student with the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and seismologists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are developing a system for tracking earthquakes using Twitter. The Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) system provides the locations of people who felt the earthquake within a mi ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Hi, my name is Johnny. I’m here to tell you about a social networking site so good, Facebook bought the people who designed it. What is that service you ask? It’s called FriendFeed. That’s right, you may have heard of us before. We have been called a rival to Twitter or Facebook etc but that’s not ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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My guest, Josh Kosman, predicts that we're on the verge of the next great credit crisis, not because of credit cards or student loans. The credit crisis he's predicting is from the actions of private equity firms. These are firms that buy companies, with the help of huge loans, and typically try to ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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I just finished watching a live stream of a speech President Obama gave at the White House, pledging more support for science education in this country. Woohoo! [Edited to add: the speech transcript is now online, complete with Mythbusters shout-out.] Science, technology, engineering, and math — ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Do you think people who screw others to get to the top or stay on top will eventually fail or is that just wishful thinking that makes for a good movie
Depends on how you measure success. By my definition they've already failed at basic humanity. Not that my opinion would matter to someone like that. Whether or not they will "get their due" is not for me to decide. I sleep better not worrying about it.
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Occasionally. Probably not that often. But chances are people will eventually know HOW they got there, if that helps.
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Ha ha... I am with Cristo.. Maybe in the next life or heaven/hell ;) So technically speaking there is really no incentive to prevent these people from screwing others other than a sense of "morality".
- Bindu Reddy
They will surely fail. That is the law of karma.
- Paschal Uba
I think some of them can succeed for a long time (if we're defining success in financial/career/material terms). Especially if their victims never do anything about it. If they're truly (clinically) narcissistic or sociopathic, statistically they have an even better chance (no conscious to guilt them into changing their behavior). But I would say that eventually individuals like this -...
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I disagree with phil. They cannot succeed for long at the top. A leader surrounded by people eager to see him or her fail is doomed.
- Bruce Lewis
it depends on the values used to define success. someone's behavior might bring a high business position, at the expense of personal relationships. it may be reliable, but others would still not define that as success
- Mike Chelen
The Global Super Organism - An Evolutionary-cybernetic Model of the Emerging Network Society | University o... ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Social Media is dead. No: no Long Live Social Media! chant here. It's flat out dead. It was talked to death. You see, there's nothing left to talk about, is there? How many things can you say about community? Or engagement? Or listening? Or any other overused word or phrase that bespeaks to what is ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Don't think its dead (or ever alive), no more than a town square being alive. It's about relationship, that got lost in the novelty of a technology.
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@symtym - Agree - I wrote this mostly as a rant (was in that mood earlier). 'Just got burnt out on seeing so much written and wondered if there's any original ideas or if it's mostly an echo chamber. But I guess, for now, we're stuck with "social media". Curious to see what 2010 brings us. :)
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Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests.A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age. They found the telomeres of 31 people who had repo ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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So we’ve put together a step-by-step guide to doing this, for free, in around 15 minutes (depending on how long it takes to download the OS itself). No, this won’t get your computer booting Chrome OS natively (and frankly, you probably wouldn’t want to yet anyway). But it will get it up and runnin ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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The thinking in most of the tech industry is we don’t need government intervention - at least not in the enterprise side of the business. Big corporations don’t need protection. They can hold their own against the big vendors. I disagree. Even the giants GMs and GEs don’t make up even 1% of Oracl ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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So it sorta feels like the oxygen has been sucked out of social media or at least the originality. While I like the slight metaphor twist by Krista Neher and the apparent use of the 5 step approach she undoubtly had ingrained at P&G, where’s the new content? This isn’t Krista’s fault, the presenta ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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FDA NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Nov. 19, 2009 Media Inquiries: Karen Riley, 301-796-4674; karen.riley@fda.hhs.gov Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Issues 22 Warning Letters to Web site Operators Part of International Internet Week of Action The U.S. Food and Drug Administra ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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Dr. Shetty, who entered the limelight in the early 1990s as Mother Teresa's cardiac surgeon, offers cutting-edge medical care in India at a fraction of what it costs elsewhere in the world. His flagship heart hospital charges $2,000, on average, for open-heart surgery, compared with hospitals in the ... Posted via web from Phil Baumann's Posterous
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