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@lauramclaura u will get a job, just ask @libertyluver and @huma_rashid about how much fame associating themselves with me has given them
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Please, please, please tell me that was humor ...
- practicehacker
no way. 100% serious all the time. #HARDCORE
- Rex Gradeless
Cloud Computing - It's the destination, not the journey http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node...
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Clever. A little too clever if you ask me ... but I'm still cool with it. :-)
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Please consider joining my Friendfeed group at friendfeed.com/practicehackers. Would really welcome your input.
Oh thanks! I joined :)
- Working Viral
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Thanks for joining!
- practicehacker
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I should be on there now...
- Karma Martell
Thanx :-)
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.@baznet I believe Web 3.0 is when I can control my blender from my laptop, using AJAX
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Sounds like you're kidding ... but you're not. That pretty much IS Web 3.0. The Internet of Things.
- practicehacker
Talking about Twitter to law firm marketers #LFMSC09
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Cool beans Tom. Like the Wharton thing too. Wharton ... nice.
- practicehacker
Microsoft Past, Present and Future - http://keithbarrett.com/blog...
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This is a great piece for many reasons: not the least of which is, I agree with your position. I too am old enough to remember computing before Microsoft. I also wept as MS destroyed or diluted every good idea that stood in the way of its mediocre products; and now that they are considered "normal" any suggestion of a better alternative is either inconcievable or too late because you...
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- practicehacker
It's a shame I can't yet consolidate comments from other platforms (like Facebook) to here because there were others that also agree. Just yesterday systems admins performed a "sanity reboot" of a unix server because it had been up for over 180 days without incident. There are just so many things wrong with that point of view I don't know where to begin.
- Keith Barrett
Keith - do you use BackType? That's what I use to consolidate my comments.
- practicehacker
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I was using Disqus. There is a newer one out (can't remember the name) that grabs all the comments from across all social platforms.
- Keith Barrett
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Found a kick apps theme yesterday but for "jail broken" phones. And that means .... ?
- practicehacker
Why I Continue to Use Google Reader - http://siliconangle.net/ver2...
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But do you Wave?
- practicehacker
I've waved. you? I'm not sure what I would use it for at this point.. but it's kinda neat.
- Jenna Bilotta
Let's try that again - I just subscribed to @blogussion - a site run by a 15 year old and a 16 year old. Am I out of my mind?
I'm 16 too, and you subscribed to workingviral.com :P
- Nicola Greco
Nicola – are you behind workingviral.com? No offense. I’m very impressed. I certainly didn’t have my act together like that when I was 16! And now I’m … well, much older than 16, that’s for sure.
- practicehacker
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Trying to avoid work
But not successfully ... so it's back to work now.
- practicehacker
My first iPhone theme! It's called whitoken and you can download it here - http://6mik-design.deviantart.com/art...
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What does it do? I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Is this a recoded Home screen? Is this what you see when you swipe unlock the phone? Or do you need to run a different app?
- Cristo
Cristo, this is what I see when I first swipe/unlock the phone. There are four pages in all and it's possible to do the lock screen as well. All the apps which aren't visible have been grouped together on separate pages. I can then gain access to them from the media, apps and games tabs.
- Michael Fidler
Does this work on unlocked phones? That's pretty cool you can override the default Home screen. Did you write this code? Do you know where the hooks are?
- Cristo
It doesn't need to be unlocked, but you do have to jailbreak it first.Here's where I started after I found the theme; http://bit.ly/2FNi6p
- Michael Fidler
Yeah, sorry. I meant jailbreak. Thanks for the link.
- Cristo
I understand; it was new territory for me too. I wasn’t going to do it until I read Mike Fructer’s post; Jailbreaking My iPhone: It’s All About The Customization… http://bit.ly/2PSqER. It was easier than I though it would be!
- Michael Fidler
I'm not worried about jailbreaking it. I want to know how to write the code because I have some home automation stuff I want to do with iPod Touch.
- Cristo
Home automation might be one of the killer uses for the tablet coming out. Most likely, it will run the iPhone apps, as well as new ones designed specifically for it. There are a ton of resources out there on coding for the iPhone, but the site I listed above might be a good place to start!
- Michael Fidler
Michael, thanks. I know how to code for the iPhone, I just want the hooks to override the Home screen app.
- Cristo
You mean the Winterboard ? The theme app
- Wao || 大号真皮人偶
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Hey Christo. There's not really much code required. Its basically image files and placing the icons where you want them. You need winterboard installed once you've jailbroken though.
- Keith Bennett
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nice!
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Keith, so it's not replacing the app then? I want it to turn on and display home automation information and app functionality right away. I also want to disable the swipe lock.
- Cristo
Cristo, I only have a second, but I came across an app that might be helpful. It's called Intelliscreen. It allows you to glimpse at your critical data on your iPhone Slide to unlock screen! In this app it shows SMS/text messages, news, weather, missed calls and emails, etc. It sounds like you want to display other types of info, but the concept is still the same. I hope it's helpful! Here's the developers web page Intelliborn - http://bit.ly/2c2Itp
- Michael Fidler
This is from the developers site,' Customizing your IntelliScreen is easy! Choose which content you want to view and where". I think I'm going to download it!.
- Michael Fidler
I'll have a search for it in Cydia ,, looks tasty
- johnpiercy
John, are there any review sites that cover these apps?
- Michael Fidler
Cristo, Intelliscreen is really nice!
- Michael Fidler
Cristo, Inteliscreen is ok, but I think you need something like lockscreeninfo, same functionality but more extensible. Check out this thread for more info http://macthemes2.net/forum...
- Keith Bennett
I think i want to DO what these apps are doing, but not use them. If I had source code it would not be a problem.
- Cristo
I'm sure you can get what you want if you talk to the guys who did lockscreeninfo. I think they've made it so you can extend it any to do what you need. Check out this thread for more info on how to add plugins http://macthemes2.net/forum...
- Keith Bennett
That is awesome! You sir are talented.
- practicehacker
I'll pass your compliment on to the designer, 6mik-design. I'm sure he will appreciate it!
- Michael Fidler
Keith, I agree with you about Lock Screen; it's a better choice. I came across these examples yesterday and they look great; http://bit.ly/Xvkcz
- Michael Fidler
Winterboard, Categories and Lockscreen, 3 big reasons to jailbreak your iphone. PS, Michael, sorry for the hijack of your thread. Your theme is very cool, not my thing (I use Glaskart), but it does look good.
- Keith Bennett
Keith, don't be ridiculous. I'm glad you participated and feel free to so anytime!
- Michael Fidler
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what is this "windows 7" everyone is talking about?
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Windows 7 doesn't look like a big deal. See coverage in LifeHacker. They lost me with Vista. Pew.
- practicehacker
Crystal Pepsi 2.0 beta :)
- Thomas Bøhm
I've had it on a virtual machine at work for a few weeks now and I must say it really is lightning fast most of the time. Really that's the only change that makes me happy. Otherwise, I just get a pretty version of XP.
- Fleagle
Vista with lipstick - sorry Kevin - low blow?
- Rich Staples
Just installed Win7 on my wife's laptop and her laptop is performing better. *But*, I don't think it's performing better because Windows 7 is inherently better, instead it's because she no longer has all of the junk that her laptop manufacturer installed into Vista.
- Paul Grav
i always heard anybody talking about that but i haven.t yet, i thinks its better..please visit my site http://moviemusicprev.blogspot.com/ and http://sexy-womens-party-dress...
- idham ubaguru
i've had it for some time now (RC) and it seems like it gets faster over time instead of slower like previous versions of windows.
- Gus
Is Google the Wal-Mart of the Web? - http://applicant.com/is-goog...
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What if it is? I assume you're not peddling snobbery here right? You're saying that Walmart is a quasi-monopoly and so is Google. Well, as monopolies go you could do worse than Walmart OR Google. Both have proven that their social utility outweighs the harm done by dominating in their respective markets. Come to think of it, doesn't that mean they out-competed other companies to take...
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Baby was up until 11 last night and then every hour until 7am. Oh please, strong coffee kick in fast so I can work on writing coherently.
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Kids are great, aren't they?
- practicehacker
Google wavers-anyone I'm not yet connected to--dm or @ me your name so we can wave
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Nichole I'm at mmhedayat1@googlewave.com
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I'm on blippr! - http://blippr.com/profile...
I'm using blippr to find great apps, books, games, movies, and music. Come follow me!
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Got a wave invite! Woohoo
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Congrats! But how? I've been asking for a while ...?
- practicehacker
I had two seperate people nominate me. Google gives each person the ability to nominate people (it's like an invite but Google has to approve it). Once I figure out how I do that I can send you one.
- Chris Johnston
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Bless you. I feel like I got picked last for playground baseball - know what I mean?
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Please forward a copy to my wife and repeat every 30 days. Thank you.
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Everyone gets paid on commission (via feedly) - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
What sole-practitioners have known forever; everyone gets paid on commission because all payment is dependent on other payments as well as the pleasure of the payor. How very strange that entire branches of society that never had to face this fact are now being put out of work because of it.
- practicehacker
What sole-practitioners have known forever; everyone gets paid on commission because all payment is dependent on other payments as well as the pleasure of the payor. How very strange that entire branches of society that never had to face this fact are now being put out of work because of it.
- practicehacker
nikiblack: Now it's Pandora's Public Enemy "Fight the Power" radio. Should be good... - http://twitter.com/nikibla...
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Elvis was a hero to most ...!
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Our Interview with the Legal Rebels Tour - http://www.legaline.com/2009...
Bob Ambrogi interviews 2 members of the ABA's Legal Rebels project.
- practicehacker
My (at the time 14-year-old) son argued porn and censorship with a FCC Commissioner and people are up in arms that the President is talking with their kids? This country is just so idiotic sometimes. I guess they forgot what the last President was doing on 9/11. That is right, talking with school kids. Sigh.
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Amen, Mr. Scoble, Amen.
- Michael
It amazes at all of the lows people do to bring the President down. It's rather pathetic.
- Minu Nianda
Heaven forbid anyone just step back and thinks people could be up to a couple good things, good grief.
- Chris
Sadly, I think that (general) America has forgotten that every society before us has crumbled, be it from war, poverty, starvation, political dispute every society has fallen. It's just a ticker now as to when we follow suit.
- Adam
Please. I have no problem with our President talking to our kids. As long as I'm in the room as well in order to call his BS. No matter who the President is at the time.
- Chris Kalaboukis
completely different - bush was reading to students - not pitching his agenda. read the paper the dept of education sent to the schools. and you liberals forget the last time a president spoke to school kids was in 91 when Bush Sr talked about staying off of drugs - and you liberals screamed and yelled that it was inappropriate. now its ok. i love the liberal hypocrisy.
- Tony Kanzia
Chris: you sir are an idiot. You can do that at home.
- Robert Scoble
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Typical liberal - if you don't agree with them, then you're an idiot. What a shocking response.
- Tony Kanzia
I took my son to see a Whitehouse and President I despised.
- Robert Scoble
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Chris, you think teachers are any less fallible? Do you accompany your children to school and sit with them throughout the day to call BS on things a teacher might say as well?
- Andru Edwards
This is all so ridiculous. If you don't agree with what he's saying, teach them to be proud of that opportunity, teach them to listen to their President, and then talk to them about the things you don't agree with when they get home. Don't conservatives believe in family values any more?
- Jesse Stay
Tony: I live this stuff. Have you taken your son to see a President you didn't like? I have.
- Robert Scoble
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Chris & Tony, thanks for being on hand to demonstrate the exact kind of intolerance that Robert is talking about.
- Jeff Harbert
what i think got everyone up in arms was the curriuculm that went along w/ the president's speech. while this has since been taken down, people feel they are being told from the government what to teach their kids
- Jonathan Jesse
E Pluribus Unum - "Out of one, many". Once the President is chosen, we all have to unite. We don't have to agree, but he is still the representative of this nation and we should respect, and be proud of that.
- Jesse Stay
Tony how is Obama pitching his agenda to kids when he's simply telling them to stay in school? Give me a break.
- Minu Nianda
or that bush sr. talked with school children as did reagan. i suppose it's only ok if repubs do it (shocker).
- Kayce Maisel
I find it even more fantastic that parents don't think their kids can think for themselves.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Teaching our kids not to respect the President takes away that unity. If we don't agree, we should instead be sharing what we don't agree with, not removing the opportunity altogether. This is ridiculous! (note that I was saying the same thing to things the liberals were doing to Bush as well)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse Stay- You hit the "nail on the head" so beautifully!
- earl wallace
Complete idiots are people who think that their kids hearing a few words from ANYBODY are going to hold sway over the impact of their parents, their environment and ability to think freely.
- suecosby
@tony i agree with you on most of the comment. the problem with the speech i had was the accompaning lessons, since removed from the d ept of educations website
- Jonathan Jesse
You know, I just read the speech, and I don't see ANY political agenda in it, much less a liberal one. "And that's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself." Sounds pretty conservative to me. Read it here: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009...
- John Craft
For those on this thread who are freakin' paranoid about Obama pushing a political agenda on little children, here are his prepared remarks. http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaRe... You can now STFU about it. You're welcome. :)
- Helen Sventitsky
Jesse Stay - Amen!
- Minu Nianda
Jonathan: the "offending" lesson was what could you do to help the President.
- Robert Scoble
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@jesse i don't think anyone has said anything about teaching their children to disrespect the president, just that they don't agree w/ what he says
- Jonathan Jesse
Let's all join hands and recite the pledge of allegiance. Come on. I know you want to.
- Sean Montgomery
from iPhone
Jonathan: I disagreed greatly with what Bush did but I still took my son to see him and meet with his Deputy Press Secretary.
- Robert Scoble
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Jonathan I see people flat out telling their kids they can't listen to the President. That sounds like disrespect to me.
- Jesse Stay
Maybe school SHOULD be about learning where other people are coming from.
- Robert Scoble
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It is up to parents after school to teach them their own values.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
In Arizona, kids have to get permission slips to listen to the President. That's disrespectful to me.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: it is worse than disrespectful. Where were theywhen Bush spoke to kids?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Jesse: yeah. Gotta have a permission slip to learn.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Let's see, how does it go? I pledge allegience to Robert Scoble...wait that's not it.
- Sean Montgomery
Robert, you're absolutely right... but I can't help but wonder where the promises were from this administration on working across the aisle and having full transparency. I think this administration has provided the fanatical opposition with all the ammunition it needed to take situations like this and blow them up. Once again, I agree that all children should be able to hear the President speak without opposition. I just think this administration is blowing the PR front.
- Douglas Karr
Robert I am giving you a fist bump for this man. Well said!!!!!!!!
- Joe
@robert i think the heart of the problem is what you stated "Parents should teach values" and i don't think that is happening whether political, religious or moral and too many people are relying on the school system to do so.
- Jonathan Jesse
Helen Sventitsky- I just read Obama's speech and I don't think I could have put it any better' I do not detect any undercurrents or subliminal manipulation. I heard the same advice when I graduated from high school.
- earl wallace
"too many people are relying on the school system to do so." - and this is President Obama's fault how? Are you saying that, since the parents aren't doing their job of teaching values, no one should be allowed to talk to their kid about values?
- John Craft
Robert - I'm a conservative but agree with your original point. POTUS should be able to speak to students. You have to acknowledge that if W. had tried to do the same thing (national satellite address) to students, liberals would've been just as outraged as many conservatives are now.
- Paul Goldsmith
Paul: You're flat wrong.
- Jeff Harbert
I think @Paul is correct, FWIW.
- Kurt Starnes
Let's face it - there's a significant portion of this country's population that, if Obama gave a speech about puppies being cute, would launch into an apoplectic rage randomly spewing the words 'liberal' and 'socialist.
- John Craft
Paul: you are wrong. Bush spoke to students and I don't remember anyone so angry.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yeah...who is he to define cute.
- Sean Montgomery
John Craft: lol
- Minu Nianda
Really? Bush gave a national address to school kids? I honestly did not know that.
- Paul Goldsmith
@robert, Bush 41 spoke to students in '91 and there was opposition from the Dems.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: I will take your word on that. That is stupid too.
- Robert Scoble
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This is an amazing opportunity. Until now it simply wasn't possible for a single President to speak to an *entire* nation of school kids. Until now it was only possible to do it in person on a school-by-school basis. When I was growing up it was an extreme privilege to have the President visit your school. We should be embracing that! I don't care if you agree with Politics or not.
- Jesse Stay
Kurt: so, where will we be in eight years?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Kurt: will we have a better country where kids are encouraged to learn and think critically or are they going to learn that politics is like sports?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Double fist bump Robert.
- Joe
There was opposition from Dems in '91, but there was no ranting and raving that Bush Sr was going to indoctrinate school kids.
- Rene Wirtz
@Robert Watched a great documentary on text books and our kids are NOT encouraged to learn and think critically. They are misguided. That's one of the key downfalls with our education system... which is controlled by people trying to indoctrinate their own beliefs and avoid criticism from any extremes.
- Douglas Karr
It's funny I've been so inured by the idiocy, venom & deception coming from the White House for the past 8 years I have a hard time even grokking there are people who don't view the new guy as a massive breath of transparent, humanistic fresh air. And also that a US president talking to our kids could be a bad thing. Altho the guys in this thread who disagree may not be idiots, generously I would at least characterize them as "Fox-addled".
- Thom Kennon
@Robert - I'm with you on those thoughts re kids learning to think critically. I may not agree with Obama on many things, but I would encourage my Daughter (almost 11 y.o.) to listen to any of his speeches. I do think there is some hypocrisy on this school speech issue, though. FWIW.
- Kurt Starnes
Just for the record, I think it's awesome that the President has the opportunity for a national address to students. Great opportunity for the President and children alike.
- Douglas Karr
1991: "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," the New York Times quoted House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.). "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'" Decent article on the history of these school speeches here: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs...
- Kurt Starnes
@Thom transparent? Like the close-door, one-sided bills that have been rammed through? Stop watching Fox OR MSNBC. Start reading http://factcheck.org/
- Douglas Karr
BTW, I wasn't following the Bush 41 school speech in '91, but would think the opposition to Obama is very likely much more heated than it was for Bush 41.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: OK. So where will we be in eight years? Will your guy speak to school kids?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Robert - I don't have a guy or a party that represents me (See Jesse's sentiments). :-\ In an ideal world, Presidents would speak to kids apolitically and all parents would support such speeches. And I would ride off into the rainbow on my white unicorn.
- Kurt Starnes
@Kurt @Robert Everyone should have the right to speak and be heard... what are we teaching our children through censorship of our very own President? Regardless of whether or not his speech is political, it should not be fought. He is OUR President and OUR childrens' President. PS: Robert... don't you mean in 3 1/2 years? ;)
- Douglas Karr
I just had to laugh at the person who said Obama was transparent. Wow. Don't read much do you? Obama just made sure 8 months of Presidential White House visits will remain secret. How about those meetings with drug companies, huh?
- Spencer
@Douglas - I generally agree with you. But, just as Obama has the right to give the speech, folks have the right not to listen, even though I think all should listen. Some conservatives seem to have missed the point that neither schools nor the WH require *mandatory* viewing! Folks still have a choice and this, to me, makes all of the protestations seem so silly.
- Kurt Starnes
Scoble++ I wish I could fave this post.
- Tanath
@Kurt we agree... and I also don't fall for the rainbows and unicorns.
- Douglas Karr
In fairness, I think the ONLY real objections were over the slip that the president wanted children to tell him how they were going to help him. Most people don't like the idea of indoctrinating children. They didn't want their child coming home to harass them about why healthcare reform wouldn't pass, etc. This might be a paranoid nutter fear, but for all the political manipulation many parents are used to via their children. My children are constantly bringing home political notes about taxes, funding.
- Jason Nunnelley
This whole debate is sorta silly. If you don't want your children indoctrinated, then listen what the man has to say then give them your opinion -- teach them the value of free speech which is to let all ideas out into the world and let the good ones stand. Taking your kid to the White House to se a President you hate? Makes perfect sense to me.
- Dean Rodgers
Wait a second don't we spend years indoctrinating our kids on everything from how to eat properly to what sports team to follow? I guess it's just other people's indoctrination we don't want them exposed to? ;)
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, duh. :)
- Jason Nunnelley
Eoghann, // I AM NOT COMPARING THE PRESIDENT TO THE KKK // But, how would you feel about your child attending a meeting where they taught that certain races were immoral, corrupt or otherwise less worthy. Sure, you could just explain that the bigot they listened to was wrong. But, children are impressionable. That's exactly why we work to brainwash... ahem, excuse me, train them young about things like pollution, recycling, civic responsibilities, etc. It's why schools have them to recite the pledge.
- Jason Nunnelley
For the record, I'm looking forward to my children listening to the president. It will make for good dinner conversation.
- Jason Nunnelley
My point is that sending someone to school and then complaining because they might be "indoctrinated" is a ludicrous position. Of course they will be indoctrinated. That's why we're sending them there! The objections to Obama's speech that I have seen are entirely party political and not motivated by any real concern for social or moral damage.
- Eoghann Irving
Jason, FWIW I did attend a meeting that told me exactly that when I was about 11 at a local baptist church. There was a book and tape burning afterward. My mother was mortified when she came to pick me and my sister (9) up. Neither my sister nor I was 'impressionable' enough to take what we were told at face value, and we had a very lengthy conversation with my mom about what we thought...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Jason: you hit on something crucial. There's a lot of white folk (especially here in the South) that do not want the president to talk to school kids, because it may just empower black kids.
- Rene Wirtz
Eoghann Irving, well sorry. I reserve the right to choose what indoctrination I subject my children to and I don't much care whether others think I'm backward or ignorant for reserving that right as a parent. I consider one's refusal to exercise that right cowardly. Even allowing my child to attend public school, and attend the Obama presentation is a decision that is mine to make. I won't whine or complain. I'll take physical action to stop people from doing anything to my child I don't like.
- Jason Nunnelley
Tina, I can't defend the position taken by a minority of paranoid parents that their children shouldn't be exposed to the president's presentation. But, I do defend their right to be notified and that decision belongs to the parent. I think withholding your child's attendance is a poor decision. But, I think the suggestion that parents don't have the right to direct their children's education and experiences in childhood is unacceptable in a "free" society. I determine who trains my child, nobody else.
- Jason Nunnelley
Jason Nunelley, I'm curious where you think I said that you didn't have the right to raise your children any way you see fit. Or that it was ignorant or backward to reserve that right. I don't think I made either statement. My point remains that this isn't about any real concern for the welfare of the children. It's a politically motivated stunt.
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, you said "sending someone to school and then complaining because they might be 'indoctrinated' is a ludicrous position." That statement indicated to me that you think taking action to limit said indoctrination is likewise ludicrous. The rest of my statement wasn't aimed at you personally or your comments but more the generic conversation. There are lots of people openly calling concerned parents racist and stupid for even suggesting that the curriculum shouldn't be political.
- Jason Nunnelley
What I'm trying (and perhaps failing) to argue is for people to give the real reason they are pulling their children from school. It's not because they're "being indoctrinated" which is a vague phrase that has negative connotations which makes it hard to argue against. It's because of something specific. And the reason they're not giving a clear reason is that it isn't really about the...
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- Eoghann Irving
Rene Wirtz, this is a major disconnect between reality and perception. People who don't like Obama's tactics aren't all racists. They're not fearful that black children will see his example and obtain an education, get a better job, etc. They're fearful that Obama's policies will usher in big Orwellian government. I'm hopeful that Obama will inspire black students. But, I don't want his legislation to pass. I'm also southern, but that doesn't mean I'm a bigot.
- Jason Nunnelley
jason totally onboard with your statement, though i know it will get me some less than lovely responses. i definitely do not want Obama's policies to to become embedded because I think they are the wrong ones, not because I want to see him personally fail. I think the best chance for the country to succeed is if his policies sputter
- Zachary Adam Cohen
Eoghann Irving, I agree with you. The Republican "protect the children" spin is disgusting. But, I disagree with you on this idea that none of the parents are sincere. A significant number of parents don't like having their children used as pawns. I tire of it in my redneck, backwoods southern town (so you can all assume it's because I'm a racist :). My local school pulls this crap...
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- Jason Nunnelley
Though I consider the reaction these parents have to be bad. I respect a parent's right to opt out of a political stunt. Do I consider the firestorm the Republicans are fanning a political stunt? Of course. But, I don't automatically assume the parents are insincere, or racists. My kids are enjoying logical discussions on why some of the president's desires are noble and some are less so.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Jason: I wasn't calling you a bigot, far from it. But I can see and hear from my relatives there is a deep seeded mistrust. And it is doubly so, because Obama is black and because he is a "socialist", two things that are not very popular amongst the mostly Republican voter base. I do want him to go a progressive course, but to call Obama's political course socialist is laughable at best.
- Rene Wirtz
Rene Wirtz, I knew you weren't calling me a bigot. It's the southern comment I'm chastising. Since we're both in the south, I think we should be careful not to further feed this idea that southern people are bigots. It's just not true, at least no more so that Californians or New Yorkers. If J.C. Watts had run and won the presidency, these same relatives would love him. It's not a fear...
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- Jason Nunnelley
I think we need a "back to school" czar.
- Spencer
I straight up asked my daughter what she wanted to do and her response was "I'd rather do something else". But how about this - I respect the president's right as president to address children in the public school system, why can't MY right to not have my 7 year old daughter listen to it regardless of message be respected?
- Michael Koby
@Michael - Good point.
- Kurt Starnes
@Scott - You think they're nutty, they think you're nutty. Ain't America grand? :-)
- Kurt Starnes
Isn't it interesting how the "left-leaning" commenters cometely ignore the fact that it's the Dept. of Education lesson plan that people were upset about.
- Robert Hafer
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Robert: I didn't ignore that and I'm left-leaning.
- Robert Scoble
Scott, in fairness I think you know they changed it due to public feedback.
- Jason Nunnelley
It might be more worthwhile to have Al Franken teach them how to draw a map of the United States.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
does anybody think that, independent of what obama is going to talk about, it's not the president's job to address the nation's kids and this is not appropriate for thim to do in a free country? http://masstrovato.tumblr.com/post...
- masstrovato
How do you get from people being upset with a lesson that insructs children to write an essay on how they can help spread the President's message to them being racist?
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Scott, (answering q1) Bill Ayers, though people may argue Obama didn't actually associate with him. Jeremiah Wright, though people will argue Obama attended church for twenty years and didn't fully understand the lessons Mr. Wright preached. Obama's nominee for Green Czar, Van Jones, though I realize people will claim that nominating someone to a cabinet position doesn't mean they agree politically.
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott, I sincerely appreciated Mr. Wright's willingness to be honest about his message. While Obama tried to pretend he didn't understand that message, or that the preacher didn't mean what he said, Mr. Wright had the courage to say that Obama had no choice but to disassociate himself from that message but that he stood by his statements. I don't like Mr. Wright's message, but respect that he has the guts to say it and stand by it.
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott (answering Q2) Originally, the president intended to ask students to participate in an exercise to describe how they would help the president. I view this as relatively innocent, but some do not. That has been changed in reaction to public response. Now, though I find it innocent, I don't like it. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott, I don't have a problem with his present version. But, pretending people are reacting to the version out now and ignoring the history that brought this controversy to most people's attention ignores the true motivations. I'm just suggesting you should consider the reality that your link isn't the source of the controversy.
- Jason Nunnelley
I think kids in all 57 states should have the opportunity to hear him speak if their parents don't object.
- motownmutt
I had forgotten what Bush was doing that day. That is a great point. If I remember correctly, wasn't the book he was reading to the kids upside down? Or is that an urban myth?
- Mike Kirkeberg
Agreed. Robert. Kids today are more evironmentally concious, know whats right and wrong and better perspectives of life, bring on anypne who wants to talk to them, there is no guarantee that they will listen as they are independent :)
- Shashi Bellamkonda
The reaction to Obama's original plan is not in a vacuum. The movement to recruit children and young adults into new nationalist organizations concerns some people. It's not so much right-ring Republican types, but more the anti-government types. Pretending this is a flame alone in a desert isn't intellectually honest. http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch... << The rhetoric that spikes the concern.
- Jason Nunnelley
Your son sounds like a genius. You sound like a liberal elitist. Sometimes liberals are so annoying. Sigh.
- practicehacker
Thanks for the links, Jason. I knew some Norwegians who I believe served one year mandatory military service. I thought it served them well.
- motownmutt
This administration is serious about engaging young people in quasi-military service. Its cabinet members talked about it openly during the campaign. You can pretend that didn't have an emotional impact, but that's just hiding your eyes to reality. That rhetoric set the stage for the sensitivity you see today over something as innocent as the president encouraging students, even to...
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- Jason Nunnelley
hi Robert, wish you can have a look at this: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com
- kang
the President is not just talking 2 kids, he wanna the kids to be tech wizards I hear? I wouldn't mind Prez chatting with kids but talk 2 what they wanna @ least
- polou/indigo_bow
polou/indigo_bow, you might want to actually read the speech before assuming anything.
- Jeff P. Henderson
my thoughts exactly
- Wardell Latham
sometimes? I do believe 95 percent of the time
- Braden Douglass
Interesting in consideration (if it's not already been linked here) http://friendfeed.com/kregger...
- Jason Nunnelley
We should print up threads like this and share them with our kids. Let em see how people with opinions and passions discuss stuff. Good practice for filtering out Presidents --- and teachers, and parents, and professors and cops and newscasters and Jon Stewart and Rush and the deli guy and ...
- Thom Kennon
Jason Nunnelley, Seems that just further backs up my argument that this is a politically motivated and cultivated hysteria. Doesn't surprise me that it's been tried before.
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, I live in a bedroom community in rural Alabama. We're a 70% Republican community. I've not heard a single parent complain about the presentation - not one. The only thing I've heard is reports that the original message contained a curious question from the president to the students, and the president (being much better a man than his political activist supporters) removed it to avoid the conflict. There is no [widespread] fear about Obama's presentation to students.
- Jason Nunnelley
Eoghann Irving, this idea that there's widespread panic over the president addressing students is akin to Sarah Palin claiming David Letterman joked about someone raping her daughter. It's a stunt. But, that's different from the hand full of people that have legitimate concerns about this administration's "statist" tendencies. And, I continue to encourage people to avoid dismissing...
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- Jason Nunnelley
citing Bush talking to school kids on 9/11 is not the best evidence that it's a good idea. Sigh
- Michael Markman
Wow, @scobleizer fail on this one! http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion... Democrats wigged out so bad, they even had an investigation of Bush's speech to a single classroom! I still think you're right - it's idiotic to get all up in arms. But looks like (as usual) both sides are just as guilty.
- Douglas Karr
It's Pathetic* The Repubes + Brainwashed Flock have shown Time + Time again that it's Their Way or the Highway - they don't even want People to THINK!! Scary + Frightening Poop*
- Billy Warhol
My childrens' school didn't run the speech today. I am so embarrassed. I completely missed this one. Since I don't listen to hate radio or watch the news, I thought I was up to speed based on the more cerebral conversations on this topic. I thought the whole controversy was already squashed when the president dropped the assignment "what can you do to help me," which I thought was...
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- Jason Nunnelley
I'm back to my original reaction to the vitriol on both sides of this conversation. Politics is for suckers.
- Jason Nunnelley
When I first heard that people were up in arms about the President speaking to school children... I thought maybe I had fallen into prolonged sleep and was not aware that Hitler was at the head of state again. Plz people. Can we get to what the REAL issue is at hand... and I don't like to play that card ... but sometime it's just too obvious when THE CARD is being played from the other side.
- Jim Turner
What is at stake here is not the fact that the President wanted to speak to the kids--that is good. The issue was that it was framed as how we can help the President (hint, hint--his agenda)--and that my liberal friends is what the commotion is about. Obama is about the most disingenuous President I have seen in all my years of closely watching politics. He had the audacity to say that...
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- Sean O'Reilly
No Job? No problem. The recovery is on its way! - http://dcbabk.wordpress.com/2009...
"AP reports jobless rate now 9.7% http://finance.yahoo.com/news..."
- practicehacker
"AP reports jobless rate now 9.7% http://finance.yahoo.com/news..."
- practicehacker
All I want is to be able to use FriendFeed as a Twitter client. I know I'm not alone. Why is it that Friendfeed doesn't allow you opt IN to including the ff.im link back to the conversation. How the heck do I turn this off - sometimes I want to link back to the conversation, but sometimes I don't. Users should have the choice.
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- oliv21
Well said.
- practicehacker
This one change would literally result in a mass-exodus out of Twitter.com as people switched over to FriendFeed. This is the one reason no one uses friendfeed to update twitter - because every freakin message gets cut off and has a link back to friendfeed. It's so unnecessary. I get that they want people coming back to Friendfeed, but all this really does is prevent people from using friendfeed for content creation. Just be a better Twitter client, Friendfeed. Give us what we want.
- Steffan Antonas
i've always seen it as necessary since ff is so much better for conversations than twitter is - imho of course ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I would use Friendfeed exclusively if it weren't for this one annoying feature. I could completely ignore my Twitter clients if they made this one change. people hate the ff links Twitter posts because it shows that youre...ahem...not using Twitter.
- Steffan Antonas
while I'm on this rant...Friendfeed also needs to give users the option to turn off "auto-expand" for links within each post. It's a major knock to usability - nobody wants to see the entire link to anything. no one cares and it makes cut and paste a pain in the butt.
- Steffan Antonas
The reason for the short URL in the tweet sent to Twitter is due to FriendFeed's duplication detection: if the link wasn't there, and you fed your Twitter account back into FriendFeed, you'd have an infinite loop (Post something to FriendFeed, which then gets posted to Twitter, which then gets posted to FriendFeed, which then gets posted back to Twitter again). The shortlink tells...
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- Mark Trapp
The link shouldn't have be used for loop detection, the source paramter is returned via the API so that should be enough surely.
- Paul Kinlan
Paul, I believe it's part of their duplication strategy, not necessary all of it. Benjamin Golub said this wrt the link on June 20: "You cannot post to Twitter from FriendFeed without the ff.im link at this point in time. The link is used to provide context and a way to get to the conversation (comments and likes) on FriendFeed. It is also very useful when we crawl your Twitter so we do not re-import entries that were created from FriendFeed causing duplicates."
- Mark Trapp
Agreed. FF is very close to a perfect Twitter client.
- Ted Roden
In addition to dupe detection, it pulls people back to FF for coversation. Have you ever tried to have a conversation between more than two people on Twitter?
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
Mark - I believe that Paul makes a good point RE: the duplication of content issue.
- Steffan Antonas
@Jason and @Ted - I agree with you on how bad Twitter is at conversations. Friendfeed is fantastic at this, but not every post is meant to be a conversation. While you might have solved the duplication issue with a ff.im link being posted to Twitter every time, it doesn't solve the human issues it can cause. #1 Many people follow a link expecting something other than exactly what they...
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- Steffan Antonas
Please don't misunderstand - I LOVE friendfeed. I just think that this tweak would really improve the human part of the experience and get more people using Friendfeed exclusively.
- Steffan Antonas
@Mark - Let's also not forget that many people who use twitter, don't use FriendFeed. The argument that having a conversation in FriendFeed = better doesn't work that well when it requires people to set up an account first (even though I think they should ;-)).
- Steffan Antonas
I don't see why FriendFeed's only path towards being useful is to be a Twitter client: it's a social network on its own that happens to allow cross posting to Twitter, much like Flickr or Google Reader or even Facebook. It's to let your Twitter friends know that you're doing something on FriendFeed that they should check out. While there are many people who use Twitter that don't use...
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- Mark Trapp
totally with mark on this one - I want my twitter followers to come to ff and don't import my tweets to ff - there are plenty of twitter clients in their cottage industry - I like tweetdeck currently
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
Absolutely right on the money. If this was changed, I think we would see a lot more interactions. Right now when FF posts to Twitter it just looks like spam.
- Ben Hanten
@Mike - What I'm proposing wouldn't stop you from including the ff.im link if you wanted...all I want is to be able to have the choice to turn it off or include it every time I post. I'm not saying that Friendfeed should focus on being a Twitter client...I'm saying that since it allows you to update Twitter, you should be able to chose whether you include a link back to Friendfeed in your Twitter update preferences. That's all. I think there are a lot of people who would appreciate that small change.
- Steffan Antonas
@Mark - Thanks for being so involved in this conversation. I appreciate your candor and your opinion. I hope that you don't think that I'm suggesting that the only way that FriendFeed could be useful is to be a Twitter client. Please see my previous comment to mike above.
- Steffan Antonas
@Ben - I think a lot of non-friendfeed converts and Twitter purists have similar feelings...which is what I'm alluding to. It's not necessarily right, but a lot of people who use twitter exclusively have a negative reaction to the ff.im link - which ends up hurting who? The person posting! So what happens? people stick to twitter for twitter and friendfeed for friendfeed. One small change could pull more people into using Friendfeed for everything.
- Steffan Antonas
ah choice - ok got it (not that i think ff/fb would do it since their goal doesn't seem to be a twitter client)
- mike "glemak" dunn
@Mike - haha. yeah all I'm talking about is the choice. I'd think that ff/fb would love this option because it pulls people away from twitter and gets them to stay in friendfeed - isn't that what a Twitter killer would want to do...ie become the primary place for posting?
- Steffan Antonas
FriendFeed filters the ff.im link to stop repostings for example if I posted something in my feed it creates a ff.im when it gets sent to Twitter - it would bring that back which would get annoying ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas - see Paul Kinlan's comment: "The link shouldn't have be to used for loop detection, the source parameter is returned via the API so that should be enough surely"
- Steffan Antonas
Yup, I wish for that too.
- Meryn Stol
I've railed about that before as well... Especially when the tweet is less than 140, but then FF tacks on the URL and cuts off your message!
- Brandt Krueger
Yeah. That would be the other problem. I agree. It's irritating. FF should automatically subtract the # of characters the link will take up and factor it into the character count.
- Steffan Antonas
10 handy Userscripts for Google Chrome - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
I've been using Chrome since it came out; and knew from day 1 that it needed something if it was going to be more than an also-ran. Here are the scripts to do that. But why not just enhance the browser internally? WTF?
- practicehacker
Why Google won’t create the next twitter (a critique) - http://www.scottberkun.com/blog...
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"Scott: I retweeted this post because I thought it was so good. Thanks, and I think you’re right on here."
- Robert Scoble
Very god.
- Zachary TG
Robert - most of the time I find you high handed and irritating. But you're connected, you come from the right place at the right time, and based on this piece you're smart too. How can I tell. I totally agree with your analysis. I don't necessarily buy the conclusion but the analysis is dead on. Glad you finally see things my way. Or do I see things your way now?
- practicehacker
nikiblack: At parent orientation for my 2d grader. Thank god for the back row and my iPhone. - http://twitter.com/nikibla...
My wife wouldn't let me bring mine to 4th grade orientation :-(
- practicehacker
from iPhone
LegalRebels: Here's a good ?. What's your answer? RT @DisabilityTips: What is the best free technology and how do you use it? - http://twitter.com/LegalRe...
LegalRebels - my answers were published in this piece, because free is my favorite pricepoint http://blog.technolawyer.com/2009...
- practicehacker
If you are interested, I'm going to be interviewed about Twitterville on Fox Business News TV between 8:30 & 9 tomorrow.
Cool
- practicehacker
nikiblack: Small Biz Keeps It In-House, Not Crazy About the Cloud (giga om) http://bit.ly/2rpIqd - http://twitter.com/nikibla...
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Nicole - here's what I meant about how to interact indirectly with this group. The link you Twittered on small business and the cloud showed up in the group feed as well as on my Twitter. I indicated to members of the group that I like it with :-) above. I could have chosen the "share" button too. People scrolling thru the group feed will see that I "liked" your input and will also see this comment. Based on that activity they may choose to jump in with a comment of their own or link to another piece on this topic. So while FF looks static at first, it can end up being quite dynamic.
- practicehacker
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