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actually when they break news, they break news. sleazy, but news breakers. - jeneane 'the wink' sessum

They were right about Edwards. Remember it was Drudge who had Lewinsky as well, before Newsweek, so the mainstream media doesn't get everything. - Louis Gray

He-said, she-said won't matter much, I don't think. She'll deny it, story over. - Russell Beattie

ChiliMac: but why are they on the forefront of this story? - LPH™

They seem to be right about a third of the time. They were right on Edwards. - Eric @ CS Techcast

slang that mud! - Pete Delucchi

the story has a ring of truth b/c they say the announcement came after famiy notified the story was going to be published - Ruth Ferguson

I love it. Obama consorting with an unrepentant bomber, funneling money and trading favors? No coverage. But if it's about Palin suddenly the left will take the Enquirer as a source? Let me guess, she saw bigfoot and elvis on a UFO? - Soulhuntre via twhirl

however it is a sad day in when the Natl Inquiry influences a presidential race. Thank you John McCain for this leadership. - Ruth Ferguson

How is it McCain's fault? Just because he decided to run? Should Obama run unopposed? - Gregory Pittman

@LPH: At the forefront of what story? That a daughter told her parents she was pregnant and they fought about it. The National Enquire at best will make a story that is half truth and half lies just to juice it up a little. - ChiliMac

@Gregory Pittman - to be fair he does prefer it that way, it's how he won his first election (by hiring lawyers to get his democratic opponent thrown off the ballot) :) - Soulhuntre

gregory that to prove his Maverick status he clearly chose someone with little more consideration than the flip of a coin. I don't care for Romney, Liberman, or the other governor considered. But at least they appeared qualified and unlikely to damage the ticket. - Ruth Ferguson

ChiliMac: It's the spins they seem to be unraveling - LPH™

It's amazing how much power is ascribed to Bush and now McCain. Somehow McCain has single handedly destroyed the political process and the entire media debate system in a week or so. Damn, that man is GOOD. - Soulhuntre

@Soulhuntre, LOL. Ruth, I haven't seen anything about Palin that says she will damage the ticket. There might be stuff out there. I don't know. But I've always preferred facts, not partisan assumptions. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

Ruth, Palin's not damaging the ticket. She's making the Democrats nervous. - Larry Huffman

Wondering what the Enquirer has. Hope she wasn't doing John Edwards. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

There's a war in her family. Daughter, sister, ex-brother-in-law, mother-in-law. lots of inbred competition going on there. - Dave "Maverick" Winer

When did the National Enquirer become a credible (news) source? About the same time as Fox News? - Ian May

strange, link not working for me, and front page says it's under construction/ maintenance - Duncan Riley

Wow...she is getting Barbecued...the sleaziness of the press (mainstream included) never ceases to amaze me...Obama was really classy when he said, "Family is off limits..." Why can't the press be as classy as him? - Sean McGee

Its been a long time since the media had a really juicy political scandal. She has scandal and DRAMA smell all over her. - Christopher Welle

@Sean McGee - of course that's a pretty standard Obama thing. Someone in his staff or on his team does something trying to make an attack stick and when it fails Obama tries to pretend it wasn't from his team. It's a nice tool but makes him look pretty weak as a leader the more he uses it. - Soulhuntre

OK, for everyone NOT in North America, the National Enquirer is GEORETARDED. Used Proxify.org or another proxy to view - Duncan Riley

@Larry Huffman - very nervous indeed. They've tried the idea that a mother shouldn't be considered for high office, they've tried attacking her daughter, they've tried that insane "fake pregnancy" rumor and now they are left saying "hey! she can't be VP - she only has a little more experience than Obama!" - the harder they attack her, the more they endear her to a lot of voters as they look more and more insane. - Soulhuntre

@Soulhuntre ... you may be right...when you think about it, it seems like he's got a team of "Soundbyte" writers workin for him. - Sean McGee

@Soul, do you mind giving an example of a time when his campaign did something and then he acted like it was not them. - Ruth Ferguson

Always get a laugh when repubs talk about facts. They shouldnt' even be allowed to use the word fact. And yes, I'm sure nervous now that they've brilliantly locked down those 3 electoral votes Alaska has... - Indio Apache via twhirl

or maybe there are ppl across the country who use the internet and see politicans speak for themselves or their surrogates and supporters use social media to come to their own conclusions. Soul & Sean M, I look forward to your examples. - Ruth Ferguson

get over it already, Sarah Palin will be the next VP - David Ward

@Soulhuntre: "of course that's a pretty standard Obama thing" No one on the McCain team has ever done that, right? No one in any other political campaign, left, right, conservative or liberal has done that, right? You want to be partisan, that's fine, but don't go taking high ground when it's all at sea level. - AJ Kohn

@Ruth...my examples? I just said he "may" be right...why do I have to cite examples for my opinion? Notice the words I used..."may be right"...."seems like"...what examples are you wanting me to cite? - Sean McGee

the National ENQUIRER is sleazy, but once in a while it breaks something factual - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... - so let's see... this is turning into a political soap opera. thanks to a stupid vetting. - ~C4Chaos

Breaking news! Campaigns have meetings to talk about strategy, positions and craft messaging, sometimes packaged for media outlets in bite size formats. Investigative reports have found that they also have speech writers and folks interested in public relations on their team as well. Yes, it's true! Wake me up when the talk on *issues* begins. - AJ Kohn

@Ruth Ferguson - you are correct, I phrased it badly. Obama acknowledges it was his team or associate, then throws them under a bus by claiming he didn't know what they were doing, what they believed or that they didn't represent his views. This link is a decent starting point with some examples - http://news.yahoo.com/s/politi... - Soulhuntre

looks like a good use of the web to market the paper version. - Andrew Warner

exactly! FTW! - ~C4Chaos

I don't either, but then I grew up in a cosmopolitan and multi-racial melting pot that was south London with a mixed race brother. It just seems weird to people here in the US. Kudos to your kids, Cyndy. - Sally Church

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of people who think it is a big deal and think he shouldn't be president because of it. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Alex, I totally know that... hell, I have a bunch in my family. But it's all about what comes after in my book. - Cyndy

Alex, and I don't live too far away from a lot of them either. :( - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

+1000 for raising your kids to respect other people regardless of their race or socio-economic status. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

I'm in my 30's and it's not a big deal to me what his race is. Racism will end when people stop paying attention to race. That includes making a big deal out of a person's accomplishments based upon his/her race. "Oh, I'm so happy for him/her to get this far even though s/he is (insert race). That's racist people. People's accomplishment should be celebrated, not for the color of their skin, but because of the accomplishment itself. There are people out there who are voting for him just because of his mixed heritage. Not because of who he is and what his position on the issues are, but out of some misguided sense of guilt for what their ancestors may or may have done. Wake up people it's 2008 and the longer you people keep making race an issue the longer racism will last. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Thankfully, my kids are growing up not paying attention to race. I grew up in a very white, christian suburb. I had an open mind and dated people, not the race/religion they were. I married a hispanic immigrant which caused a bit of a stir with some people. I just didn't care, and I didn't see her that way. My kids have no clue that they are considered "multi-racial". I like it that way. - Rob Diana

Agree totally - Everyone I speak to under 25 or so (including my own) are totally colorblind. That's pretty good progress. Took a full generation. MLK positively the strongest voice. Can't think of any that come close since. Still some work to do - Charlie Anzman

nor should it matter. - Duncan Riley

See, that is the progress that we have been talking about for many decades. Our children are now for the most part color blind and have no idea that it ever used to be any different. - Jeff P. Henderson

Ooh, I just looked at its features... sounds interesting! Will give it a try later! :D - BeeLing

Yeah, i gave it another try last week and definitely impressive - but a couple of important glitches & bugs to fix - Zee from WeDoCreative

Edwin: there's no way to share the items I'm seeing, is there? That's a HUGE reason why I use Google Reader (so I can share items and get them into FriendFeed). - Robert Scoble

Zee: it would be great if you could let us know what problem you ran into so that we can try to address them: http://www.getsatisfaction.com... thanks. - Edwin Khodabakchian

@Robert If you just click on 'Recommend' that's what they're calling 'sharing'. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Oh, I have to click on each item to recommend it? That's lame. I should be able to recommend an item right from the home page without having to click twice, just like here in FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

it amazing! - Svartling

@Edwin sure, will do. Mainly just sometimes posts don't load and j/k to scroll down will occasionally miss a post or not go all the way to the bottom of the page. When I select "unread only", often it still shows posts I have read. The two most frustrating things: I can't tell easily which categories have unread posts in and finally - I was really excited by the river view because I heard you could view by categories from that page - which is unfortunately isn't the case... - Zee from WeDoCreative

If the sources could be arranged into categories like they would be in google reader, that would be a big plus. - Zee from WeDoCreative

@Robert - yeah, you need to click 'more' on the homepage view to get the option to recommend. They could easily fix this with a 'thumbs up' button permanently next to the post titles though - Zee from WeDoCreative

I really want to like the app, so I'm hoping they really keep working hard on it & hopefully make it more than just a firefox extension & also create some way to have the same kind of facility on the iphone. - Zee from WeDoCreative

just use the google reader shortcuts to use it. Alt+s to share. - Svartling

you Can also choose the river of news view an easily go through feeds with the keyboard - Svartling

the keys J and K to go up and down and Alt+s to share. Just like in google reader - Svartling

robert: recommend will add the item to your shared feed. as mentioned by svartling, you should be able to use the GR keyboard shortcuts (they works specially well in the river view - second icon on the top). The part that is missing is "share with notes". Which should be there next week when we merge the concept of feedly annotations and GR annotations. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin: wow that sounds cool! Merging annotations with GR notes i mean. - Svartling

Zee: thanks for the feedback. Created a ticket on get satisfaction to track down and fix those issues http://getsatisfaction.com/fee... - Edwin Khodabakchian

robert: when you sent us your OPML a few months ago for performance testing, you had just two categories (normal and favorites if I remember). Do you have more now? - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin: nope, I still have the same. - Robert Scoble

ok. so the magazine view is probably not adding too much value in your case. The new wall which will go out next week has some of the things you have been asking for a long time: compression of multiple recommendations, filtering based on min number of recommendations, etc..(http://www.flickr.com/photos/6...) That and the current friendfeed and google search integration might be places were we can create value for a user like you. Does Maryam read RSS feeds? (she is more of our target!) - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin, I have no doubt you've thought this through a thousand times - but since you need to a) use firefox and then b) install an extension to use feedly....Do you not think it's going to be super-difficult to try & reach the non-geeks out there who aren't passionate users of google reader? "Most" non-geeks I know hardly ever install firefox extensions, let alone install firefox...they just use whatevers open or put it front of them - Zee from WeDoCreative

Zee.You are right about firefox. But the extension installation process is getting simpler and people through iphone, facebook and firefox are getting used to the concept of "installing an application". Stumbleupon is a good example. The feedback we have collected so far is that our problem currently with more mainstream user is not the add-on but the first configuration experience and the need to further simplify the UI. We have a parallel project called "feedly mini" to try to cracks those two nuts. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin, awesome. Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like I was giving you pointers on a business I'm sure you're thinking about day & night....I just wanted to give my two pennies & also say that us geeks really love the product too, so don't forget about us! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

I've been using it exclusively for a week now. With the FF integration, I don't think I could go back to the gReader interface. - ςђгเร ภเא๏ภ

twhirl+ff is really opening my eyes to these services. Kudos. I'm off to take a look at Feedly. - Stu Andrews via twhirl

I am definitely enjoying my current switch from GR to Feedly. I like the fact i came accross Scobles twitter in Friend Feed because i was reading an article through feedly and ended up here as a result and discovered this. I enjoy loading up Feedly at lunch time to browse aimlessly, and i struggle to do that with Google Reader as i feel i have to stick to one subscription at a time and i end up getting put off. I dont feel overwhelmed when i use feedly. - Rowan Evenstar

is there a feedly for the iPhone? - Colide81 (James)

Embarassed to say I downloaded and signed up a few months ago but have been too busy to use it. - Sally Church

Edwin, many people are still on Firefox 2 for obvious reasons. Isnt there a version for it as well? - Hayk Hakobyan

There is no feedly for iphone. But because feedly syncs in real-time with google reader, you can use/continue to use Google Reader on the iphone and it will just work! - Edwin Khodabakchian

Hayk: It was a hard decision but we really needed the extra security of windows.postMessage to mash services together more securely. Hopefully by the time feedly gets out of beta, more users have upgraded to firefox 3 (which is an *great* upgrade) and this will slowly become a non-issue. In the meantime , we are sorry to not be able to be more help. - Edwin Khodabakchian

I'd really like to try this out, but for whatever reason I live in IE mostly. Yes, I have Firefox installed, but I'm unlikely to start it just for Feedly... Switching completely to Firefox is not an option for me here. I'll give it a whirl, but until this can be done in IE as well, the market is limited to tech savy people... though that might be enough. - Matt Wollnik

Matt: we are a small team and decided to focus on firefox first to increase our chances of building something people like. Once we have a winning recipe we will look at porting it to other browsers. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Note to Robert: If you end up wanting to rollback some of the shared feeds feedly might have imported into your google reader account, simply go to http://www.feedly.com/feedly#g... There is an automated way to undo all the changes. - Edwin Khodabakchian

what do you think of the keyboard shortcuts? - Örjan Lundberg

Mixed reaction on Feedly here. I go to the river mode in Feedly and see all kinds of useful looking activity but when I click on the orange button in the FF toolbar I see a mostly blank screen with message: "This page is empty. Please connect your feedly to a set of sources and a set of social connections first. " -- this needs to go away. How to start at the wall or other mode instead of this empty placeholder page? - TDavid

Did not appreciate the hijacking of my reader. I do use it and finding I use it more than my reader at this time. - Jeff B

TDavid: Can you please open a bug with a screenshot and url of the page with the "page is empty" message and we will try to help address the problem. http://www.getsatisfaction.com... - Edwin Khodabakchian

@Edwin - no thanks, it doesn't seem like something I'd use anyway. I took time to describe the bug for you here, that's your bug report. Copy and paste, mon :) - TDavid

TDavid: the reason I asked for the screenshot is because it would have allowed us to understand if you have sources defined but all of them are read or if an error happened during the welcome process or if there is somehow a problem fetching the content. Re the wall. In the more (at the top right) > preferences there is an option to change the start page. If the experience does not end up working of you, here is the 5 step un-install procedure: http://edwink.devhd.com/2008/0... - Edwin Khodabakchian

We just need to get you on Disqus now ;) - Jesse Stay

@Edwin - thank you for the uninstall link. Done. - TDavid

This is a fantastic approach to rolling things together - Stuart M Davis

Nice addition. And, yeah, I'm testing, too. - David Risley

I like it. :) - Queco Jones

friendfeed & twitter together at last. now we can cross comment wherever we want. coolness. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

just checking to see if it works out of the box - adrian price

How is posting to twitter competing with twitter? :) - Christian Burns

Thanks for the tip for using friend feed to reply to twitter. - John Green

I don't see it as competition really. i think they help each other. - bijan sabet

thanks for the tip dave! - drew domkus

very kool...just trying out the friendfeed/twitter thing myself - (jeff)isageek

this is awesome! - Sarah Perez

Sounds good-thx for heads up - Mark Forman

Thanks for the news, this is cool - Joshua Oehler

oh that's a nifty feature, somehow, i believe its encouraged - Nathan Eckenrode