"Tech stocks are plunging and venture capitalists are telling their startups to hunker down for an extended downturn, but a group of Silicon Valley techies still found time for a nice little retreat to Cyprus. They also produced this amusing video set to Journey’s classic song “Don’t Stop Believing.”" - MG Siegler
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I'm pretty sure this video shouldn't have been made even if the dow was at 20,000. :) - Chris White
I can feel it tingling. That means it is working. - qthrul
With editing skills like this, this guy could work for Micheal Moore - Robert Hafer
that was crappy incendiary journalism - I'd be embarrassed to publish this let alone like it. The interviewer should ask about the issues to get real discourse. - David
definitely scary times. racism and insinuation of terrorism are not the way to conduct a meaningful campaign. that would be expecting to much in this country. :( - Eddie Codel
I have my doubts as to whether individuals like this could engage in real discourse. You have them on both sides, of course, but the Muslim bit is really over the top. - Cyndy
The first time they heard of Obama or Palin is beside the point. Now that they have heard from both Obama & Palin and they're still voting for Palin, thats what scares me...err wait a second... shoulnd't we be discussing Obama and McCain, or is that just a losing battle for Repubs? - Greg
Seriously, can't we all just get along? I mean, c'mon! - Mike Reynolds
Isn't she the proprietor of Wasilla MethLab & Bible Book Store? - ThePicMan
I saw this video this afternoon and then the lady comments on a Plurk post of mine of all things! She's mamawise on Plurk, so the shame goes on. She had not seen the video evidently until I reminded her and I can only imagine the look on her face then:) - Roney Smith
Roney, you are assuming that she is actually intelligent enough to be ashamed. I doubt it. - Leather Donut
These people are worthless but the journalism is pretty awful as well. It's not like you need to act like Moore to get this type of scum to come out with something shockingly ignorant.. - Alexander Carlill
Is Nicholas Cage doing slow-motion glamor walks with guitar riffs playing the background? If so, you may be. - Mark Trapp
Those are the blue angels - they usually wreak havoc on SF when practicing for Fleet week. I have no idea why they're out there right now. THere presence always makes it hard for us to work :) - Jason Kaneshiro
That's right kids. Prell shampoo is the preferred carrier medium for naughty neurotransmitter blockers and/or off the charts fissile materials depending on your preferred method of mayhem. - qthrul
yeah very annoying when i'm on the phone cannot hear a thing! - MG Siegler
I'm no North Beach and hating that my quiet sanctum has turned into an airline carrier - anna awesomesauce
All you Blue Angels haters should contact Chris Daly. Trying to kibosh the Blue Angels shows during Fleet Week has been one of his pet projects. - Chester
"Speaking of bullshit, sometimes I think all this "social media" stuff like pimping your work on Twitter (which I do) and FriendFeed (which I do) and Digg (which I try not to do) and Facebook (which I don't really do) is all kind of bullshit. Sometimes I hate the circle jerks that seem to take place on FriendFeed and elsewhere. It's all a game -- most things are -- but, at least for now it's a somewhat necessary game to play because everyone else plays it." - Chris White
“Does this Louis Gray guy do anything other than cut and paste stats all the time. I have never seen anything like it. Meaningless stat after stat after stat after stat. All equaling nothing”
Louis Gray is one of the many reasons I took my own blog content offline. I mean, he is prolific. Even if it none of it is month over month coherent -- there is a lot of it. Considering he's only been at it for two years and managed to crank out more and gain more notoriety than I ever did in almost 8 years... game over. I'll stick to contributions outside the Web 2.0 bubble sphere of navel introspection rehashing. Or, I'll just focus on lambasting mediocre posts for amusement and/or boredom. - qthrul
As near as I can tell, and I'm not an expert, it means that charts are _really_ impressive with when viewing a web page. It's like being in a meeting at work -- only you are on the WEB. Not to brag but... I have one of those engineering degree things (5 year plan *wink*). I recall something about charts and arrows being very important. In between them you can string words together to form phrases and sentences. I mean, I've heard it being done before but when you SEE it. Man. I quit. GAME CHANGER. - qthrul
@feldman, you need to tell sheldon make a 25 second political ad for saysme. - Morgan Warstler
“have the twitter updates to friendfeed kind of sucked recently? just had to manually refresh to get an update from an hour ago. XMPP not doing so hot?”
I blame McCain/Palin/Obama/Biden for this sluggishness. They should stop being meme worthy already. The #mylittlepony tag is getting completely buried by them. - qthrul
You brought down the house at 9-5 ;-) ----- user warning: Lost connection to MySQL server during query query: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN ('node/1457','node/%','node') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1 in /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/24114/domains/9to5mac.com/html/includes/menu.inc on line 315. - qthrul
Even with an anything-goes CC license, I would still ask permission--or give credit--because it's the civilized thing to do. - vicster
I agree, but others will say, if you put your photos online at all, then they are fair game, which of course I don't agree with, but I take my chances so other well intentioned people can view my photos. - Scott Beale
No. Although I put my photos into public domain, so it's perfectly OK to do whatever you want with MY photos. You should respect the wishes of the copyright owner, though. Most people don't want to lose control of their intellectual property. - Robert Scoble
I try to never post online about 1024px without using watermarks (via SmugMug). If someone wants to print out a 4x6 print, it might look ok if you squint. The problem comes when the original image is there. - Glen C
I agree with @scobleizer on this one. Respect the wishes of whomever has taken the photo. Some folks don't care. Others do, and the latter should be mindful to protect (Creative Commons at the least) their work... If their work isn't indicated to be protected and is placed in public domain, harder to judge. - Cathy Brooks
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What if you, say, take a photographer's landscape photo...and then paint an oil on canvas of the photo? would that be wrong? - Sean McGee
Sean, that's one that the courts would have to judge. If the original artist could convince the court that yours was a derivative work and not original, then he/she could win. It depends on how original it was. What if you take a photo of a photo? If the photo is hanging on the wall of a room, it's probably ok. If it's just the photo, then it's probably copying. - Glen C
(Whoops, my answer was to the orig. question, not Sean's follow-up.) - Ayşe E.
I've had a pretty respectful bunch of CC users so far. For me, CC has worked well. The attribution is more of wonder and amazement for me since I assume people are generally ignorant vs. malicious in matters online if not real life. Thought counts. http://www.flickr.com/photos/j... - qthrul
The solution to issues like this, ask first. It's that simple. In fact recently someone asked me if they could do a painting based on one of my photos and I had no problem giving them permission. - Scott Beale
as a collage artist, everything in the world is fair game, is food, is usable .. - Gregory Lent
Yes, I know and photography is no different than tire manufacturing in your world. - Scott Beale
scott beale, do you support the RIAA, and drm? ... i think they represent an old thinking, life has passed them by .... we are entering a post-copyright, post intellectual property world ... it will require new thinking about ownership, collective consciousness, and will be particularly difficult for the west ... and the argument that innovation needs protecting is empty, look at open source, etc. ... - Gregory Lent
as a photographer, I have to side with you. To me, there's a big difference between appropriating someone's image and making something completely new from it, and just stealing images to put badly photoshopped zombies into the frame. From what I see, she's not really manipulating the original photograph, correct? If this is the case, I think she needs permission, especially if your work is under a creative commons license. I'm interested to know more about all this. - z.press
Collage and appropriation has a long history in the art world. There can be a lot of gray area in there but there is a stark difference between her simple paste zombie on new background Photoshop jobs and a more elaborate collage work that uses multiple minor elements to create something wholely original with little bearing on the works. As a fan of dada and the punk poster style of art I can hardly condemn all collage art demanding that they always make sure the work is public domain. A good collage using the images more as a medium than a subject. However, here Jillian McDonald made no real attempt to recreate. The main focal subject is identical with only the background altered. For those of you who compare this to music, there is an obvious difference between say GirlTalk and someone who takes an entire song unedited and just adds a generic dance beat behind it. - CatCubed
IANAL, but IIRC copyright laws says she has the right to that. that's why people can take barbie's and do subversive stuff with it. - Faboo Mama
@Sean: technically it may be ok to create a painting from someone's photo, but again, if you're planning on *selling* the painting, it's just good practice to contact the original photographer. I've had artists do paintings of some of my photos and they always asked me first. I've never turned one down and when they did put the work up for sale, they gave me credit as the photographer, even though I never asked them to. Again, to me, it's about being civilized...and wanting my art to have good karma! :-) - vicster
Yes, but credit it and make it a derivative work. - Morgan Warstler
... i took a calvin klein underwear ad, bruce weber, maybe, nearly naked people, and put black lines over their eyes. it was cool, like a 50's crime mag ... no credit in any direction, just a comment on life ... according to scott beale, with a long history in the art world i think, i would be a bad guy to do that ... i disagree - Gregory Lent
"From a strictly IMDB.com point of view, I'm starting to think that Dr. Evil's video footage from Independence Day and the most recent installment of the Die Hard series have emboldened the darker elements of day trading." - qthrul
"It appeared to be limited to the SSL handoff (https) used for authentication on events such as InMail, profile edits, etc... the standard web properties (http) were intermittent.
I still think their Answers service is not being actively policed. Some of the "questions" are just painfully bad or just plain incoherent.
I've also noticed an increase in new users attempting to subvert the paid job listings by advertising listings within Answers. Notably, those are dealt with much faster than the bogus questions.
Have any of you guys at VB covered any successes with the group discussion functionality delivered a few weeks ago?" - qthrul
"Even before this week’s massive financial turmoil, the environment for taking companies public or selling them was bleak. And this week’s massive plunge in the Dow will only serve to rattle nerves even more — and so don’t expect much improvement for the rest of the year.
There were no IPOs in the second quarter, and just one IPO in the third. So far, this year is the weakest for IPOs since 1977." - MG Siegler
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Isn't this mostly because of the SOX law? - Adam Turetzky
It's SSLLLOOWWW here. Why do we need another event guide? We have too many to choose from already. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user... is a much better list of tech events and everyone is already on that anyway. - Robert Scoble
People have been saying this kind of thing forever. I've been running The Squid List long before Upcoming was around and Craig Newmark has been running Craigslist longer than The Squid List. Based on your logic, we should all be still using Craigslist for events. Of course you're leaving out things like Facebook and the dozens of other services with event listings. My suggestion, use the services that work best for you. - Scott Beale
Scott: you know we're following you wherever you go, right? :-) It just pisses us off when you go from a perfectly good service to one that's slow and where we have to now do twice the work. - Robert Scoble
Ha, I'm honored to have Robert Scoble as my #1 stalker. Hey I love Upcoming too and I have no intention to stop using it. Here's the thing, in NYC, they hardly use Upcoming at all, they use Meetup, something we stopped using in the Bay Area back in 2005. So in NYC, Garysguide is a really useful resource. - Scott Beale
Scott: heheh. NYC'ers always seemed a little weird to me. :-) But, what is it that keeps them from using Upcoming.org? And, with Facebook and Eventful, and lots of other sites like Meetup, why do we need yet another one. Oh, I get it. A guy is going around their community getting everyone to join a new service and now we need to play along. I'm just getting tired of all these "me too" services, that's all. I'll get over it and get back onto the "shiny new thing train" pretty soon. - Robert Scoble
The functionality across the services are only similar if you view it in the most rudimentary classifications. The inertial capability of any social calendar is a function of how highly clique oriented the group might be and their propensity to augment event data. While paid calendar feeds might make the calendar more useful for major event single click addition, in general, they are incorrect, incomplete, or suck. Updating a calendar isn't a natural behavior. Hence, a market for human preened lists. - qthrul
