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His site is getting hammered at the moment. Kevin effect? - Vincent X

DO IT!!! - Adam Maldonado

embrace your inner kojak - Seth Long

Considering my hair is at least 6" past my shoulders, I would cry if I did this. Literally. Good idea though as @Paulo mentioned. - Matthew Horton

I fully support this meme - Mike Doeff

i did it in college once also for charity. - MG Siegler

I shave my head every two weeks. In fact I shaved it today. What's the big deal? - Jason Toney

Bah, you have short hair anyways! SHAVE IT! :-P - Matthew Horton

gotta do it! hair grows back, and an awesome idea can't stop at the first person - Donny Warbritton

Dude...you've been double-dog-dared. Do it, then call out DVORAK! - Jim

Talking about calling someone out! - Flip it, donate double his call out and pay some to shave their head, so the game can continue! - Brad Parler

come on! it's just hair, it will grow back!!! - Chris Jones from twhirl

you're asking us? where are your walnuts? - sean808080 from twhirl

Yes! You do have great hair and that's all a better reason to shave it off. I'll donate to your charity if you do it. This is some quality entertainment! - Rachel Rubin

Lol talk about pressure. Ouch! Just give the money to charity yourself bro - keep the hair... - Calvin Robinson from twhirl

DONT DO THE HAIR, just give the money. lol Maybe give double so you DONT have to shave it. lol - Leslie Poston

You need to do it since others will do it simply because you have done it. Think of the charities that'll benefit and remember it'll grow back :) Oh ps. your lady friend will dig you doing it for a noble cause - Greg Rosen from twhirl

dude, you gotta do it! - Ryan

shave, baby, and get some nice razor lines put in too. Temp tat style. - Boo

Dude I've been watching you since Screen Savers, you have had short hair before, and it is a damn good cause and idea from an awesome dude. - Brandon

Do it! - Andrew Fielding from twhirl

Do it Kevin! Don't let things come to a screaming halt this early! Then call out Laporte!!! Leo your time is coming!!! LOL! - Robert Couture from twhirl

Or better yet ... SCOBLE!!!!!! Hah! - Robert Couture

You're screwed. You better do it...at least it grows back...well it does at your age ha! - Francis P Bonnemere

Do it Kevin!! It will grow back - Then yeah, call out Laporte or better yet - Dvorak!!! - Les Zaldor

Do it. I need more blog fodder. LOL. P.S. Don't call me. - Todd Jordan

I doubt that this thing will catch on... I'd be much more impressed if, I don't know, maybe if it was a contest with a prize from Gary, and that to be part of it you need to chip in in order to gather a big amount of money for a charity, skipping all that hair stuff. Or maybe to spread awareness about sites like Kiva.org, and get people involved. Kevin and Gary both have a lot of power in their hands, but I think there are more efficient ways than this hair thing. Best of luck though guys! Hope this works. - Vincent X

It's like a reality game show: video double dog dare, pressure from the audience, and if you don't do it you should get voted off. Besides, it's for charity, so there's no harm. - Pete Delucchi

do it and have Alex or Leo be next. Patrick would be too easy his hair is too close - Todd Proffitt

Here's an idea - instead of shaving your head, amend it to say that if you don't shave your head, you double the amount donated - Clay Levering

I love the 'trick' on how to remove the foil... Thanks Gary! - Steve Garfield from twhirl

ha! gary, cracks me up. good show - sean percival

Lighting a bit dark but, heh, whatever: it's Gary with Kevin!! :) - Barbara K. Baker

Love these guys! They make me laugh no matter what words come out of their mouth. Good points about the wine fridge, but I still want one. - Rachel Rubin

damn he's passionate - Zee.

Cool! I'd love to know what social media tools those folks in DC were using today! - Susan Beebe

@Robert Great post. I loved how Congressman Culberson owned the guy from TMZ. That was a classic. It will be really intriguing to see how committed these politicians are to building relationships using the social media tools that they have at their disposal. - Chris Rodgers

Amazing post Robert. What an incredible day you must have had. Curious to hear what Patrick though of it all too. So envious. I've been looking forward to this post all day as I could not follow you live. We are clearly helping shape the future with our efforts on there here socnets. Wait till GW hears that we are talking to people in Iran on Friendfeed. *chills down spine* - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks for the DC update - Mitchell Tsai

Wow, this is great story with amazing amount of detailed use of social media tools. who would have known?! shock and awe - Susan Beebe

Great article! I love the bit about the Congressman twittering from the Oval Office. - Michael Zitek

I believe in the tech I was arguing in it's favor 8 years ago on the Hill but until it decides in a House or Senate election, I call bullshit. Robert I believe in the earnest and true honestly of belief of your effort. I am not talking ideology or what the people belief you think but until it decides an election they(DC Hill folks) really won't believe. - Thomas Vincent

Thomas: do newspapers or radio decide House or Senate elections? I don't think so. They sure help, though. - Robert Scoble

True Robert, but more so than internet does yet? But we are getting there soon :-) - Thomas Vincent

Thomas: I think for people passionate about politics the Internet is already having way more impact than any other media. For those who aren't passionate, yes, TV is still the #1 way they get their info, but that's changing pretty quickly too. - Robert Scoble

It is changing things, but you also have to ask it changing things across the whole spectrum of those who are involved in politics, i.e. the rich and the poor, the educated and the not? A system in which everyone has access to this that and the other thing is nice, but you also has to ask who all is included in 'everyone', especially in a country in which many people don't have computers or net access. - Andrew Leyden

Think your theme loses out to Lawrence Lessig's idea on changing Washington.http://change-congress.org/pledge... Don't think it matters if a guy is corrupt and pork barreling and Tweet's or doesn't. The system is bad, not the toys they use to navigate it. - Mark Forman

Perfect no Andrew, but those who have an interest can find their way - Thomas Vincent

Mark: Lessig's idea is awesome, but Culberson disagrees with you. He is of the belief that if you shine light on things that the roaches scatter. - Robert Scoble

Robert-on that point certainly holds validity. That's why discussion is better than a monologue because it allows consideration on more than one point.I think that many different idea and discussions are needed to make DC a little bit better,not even good or passable,just a little better. Ironic that that place was a swamp. - Mark Forman

I worked on a "low-budget" Maryland senate campaign for Allan Lichtman in 2006, fresh out of college, and we were dubbed in an article by Business Week as the first campaign to fully embrace myspace/facebook. We had a staff member who's full time job was adding friends, and other profile management type services. Now, campaigns have full-time departments to do just that! amazing. Here's that article: http://www.businessweek.com/technol... - Brian Ries

There is also a huge divide between the politics of the Hill and the politics of a campaign. The two are very very different things and those who work on the Hill usually don't know the first thing about campaign politics and vise versa. Both worlds will find completely different uses for new technologies - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

I wish @BarackObama would post more from the campaign trail. No, I don't expect to be him personally, but yes, I'd expect him to have a guy or gal to post one thing to Twitter each day. - Kirk Kittell

Kirk. I told Obama's tech guy just that at breakfast. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Did you find out if he ever does it himself? I mean, not all the time, but once in a while is it him who updates it? I guess probably not. - Eric Florenzano

Thanks Robert - However, I might have appreciated it more if you had volunteered me ;-) - Kirk Kittell

I believe the word we are searching for here is "transparent"!! I think everyone wishes that government officials were more transparent with their decision making processes as well as things happening on Capital Hill. Kudos to Scoble for shedding some light on a new wave of thinking from inside the hallowed halls of our government!! Even if the wave is too small to ride yet!! - Nathan Finley

Eric: it isn't him most of the time but he says that Obama is the fastest keyboarder on a Blackberry. I told him (and one of McCain's advisers too) to use these tools interactively. We will see! - Robert Scoble

@scobleizer How is tech changing Washington politics? Interesting FriendFeed discussion here. Thanx! - Barbara K. Baker

too bad there isn't a directory of Govt folks to show who's on online using social networking tools like twitter, FF, Qik, etc. - Susan Beebe

Still pains me to think about how tech-illiterate McCain is-- remember his interview on TechCrunch. The tech future's in much better hands with Obama, but that's an argument for a different time and place. - Harish V

couldn't make it work. is it supposed to work in the friendfeed window? - fbrunel

forget about what I just said, downloaded the wrong file - fbrunel

I just tried and the integration is great! it's faster to watch videos on Twhirl than on the Seesmic website. Do you plan to integrate video recording as well? - fbrunel

sweeet :) - Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe from twhirl

do the vids play in FF Twhirl? Can't see it - Dennis Howlett from twhirl

the download link is here http://snurl.com/2k6ov click on the Twhirl logo and add your Seesmic account - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

yes, video recording is within a few weeks - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

oh! I was hoping I would be able to play seesmic videos that are aggregated by FriendFeed too! Is that not yet possible or am I missing something? - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

You need an unreleased beta version of twhirl to use seesmic directly. Follow the link posted by Loic to get that version. - fbrunel

Seesmic just got 200% more usefull to me. Now I have a reason to actually start convincing my friends to use Seesmic. Hope you guys are working on some kind of text embed and not solely relying on Friendfeed to place text alongside video or something. Also, please PLEASE integrated all account windows into a single one, my entire second screen is now taken up with just Twhirl, its a bit... more... - Robert from twhirl

Thanks Robert, we are exactly doing all this! - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

+1 Robert. 1 window is better than 3. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

@fbrunel I upgraded to 0.8.2b via the Linc Loic had posted. I hope that is the correct version... - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

Something interesting I noticed: the default stream that Twhirl shows is your Seesmic friend stream. Its not the public feed, which is hidden underneath the world icon (i like that icon btw). This shows the focus has shifted to the twitter model, while for a long time it was centered around the public feed. This makes far more sense to me, so way to go. Time to start spreading the Seesmic love umungst the sysadmic crowd, let see how many people I can convince to use it :) - Robert from fftogo

worked perfectly... Seesmic + Twitter + Friendfeed in the same application... remind me to buy a biggest screen... :) - Steph

I think the Best Of feature of FriendFeed is a great way to get what you described. - Mike Doeff

Maybe I'm missing what you're after, but it sounds like you could cook up something close with feedhub - Andrew Codrington

Fred, I think you're looking for an A-Lister Techmeme... cool idea for sure. One spot we can go to in order to stay in touch with their stuff. smart! FriendFeed "Rooms" could accommodate this feature request. - Susan Beebe

isn't that just... techmeme? ;) sounds like you are saying "can i get a techmeme without techcrunch, cnet, or the news wires" - Jeremy Toeman

why don't you just set up a new FriendFeed account and only follow those people, then use the "show best of" to get the top stories - Duncan Riley

ohh yeah, let's not forget about Guy Kawasaki's Alltop. Not perfect, but might be what you're looking for - Nicholas Molnar from twhirl

@duncanriley - what i am looking for is a service that does the work for me. i didn't have to do that on techmeme - Fred Wilson

Amazing stuff - truly beautiful. - Alex

Wow, so that's what the 5D can do at ISO 1600? Great shots. - J. McConnell

thanks all, J. McConnell, the 5D is awesome at 1,600. I'm expecting even better things coming from the 5D Mark II when it's out as well given what we've recently seen from Nikon using iso expansion with the Nikon D3. - Thomas Hawk

The D3 (and D300) at high ISO is unreal. Makes me want to upgrade. - Benjamin Golub from fftogo

Wow, I hadn't looked at it before but the D3 is unbelievable. I'll have to keep my eye out for 5D Mark II news. Thanks for the info, Thomas. - J. McConnell

Will you sell one of your cameras? Looks like they are magic. Apart from your skill of course :) - funkyboy from Posty