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How is Google's face changing? At lunch only 20% of the faces at our table were white. Why isn't this reflected at conferences?
Woodrow Jarvis Hill, Amani, Scott Loftesness and 7 other people liked this
what do you mean?!!
- abdellah
Are you saying multicultural representation at conferences in general, or Google's multicultural presence at conferences? :-S
- CannonGod
Cannon: in general.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
How was the gender balance?
- Catherine Ventura
Wow, Robert, that is something good to hear for once, thank-you for sharing! It is curious why this isn't reflected at more conferences, though!
- Carlton Hackett
Catherine more women than the last time I was there and more than you see at most conferences.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
So that's good news too...
- Catherine Ventura
Good question.
- Amani
On 8/26 it will be the 4th Anniversary of Katrina. I hope this Admin. marks the occasion and as Anderson Cooper stated, "Never let people forget the lessons of Katrina". For me it's personal as I was a tourist trapped in the Superdome during the hurricane. (the train, bus station and airport shut down 2 days prior to the storm). My memoir:
Woodrow Jarvis Hill liked this
I was just reminded by a survivor that it's 8/29, not 8/26, that it made landfall.
- Woodrow Jarvis Hill
Usain Bolt's 9.58 at world championships shatters 100-meter record (ESPN) — un.be.lieve.able! - http://sports.espn.go.com/oly...
Kimber Scott, Mohamed J, rowlikeagirl and 81 other people liked this
all kinds of wow. video - http://www.youtube.com/watch.... finally showed what he can if runs through the tape. wow.
- chrisofspades
Is he real? Wow!
- Michelle
I think Tyson Gay ran a really really good race - 9.71 is really really fast, I think it might even be the fastest non-Usain time. I really liked Usain's press conference before the races though, where he said 'I just wanna run, ya know? I can't wait 'til Saturday'. He's a freak. You don't just take .11 off the 100. Nobody since it's gone under 10s has taken off more then 0.05s on the previous record.
- Will Higgins™
unbelievable.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Will ...to put this race in perspective: Tyson Gay's 9.71 is the second-fastest 100m time EVER... and he wasn't even close. http://bit.ly/1QXzkm
- .LAG liked that
9.71 is actually the 3rd fastest...Bolt ran a 9.69 before.
- chrisofspades
Chris... right, right. I meant that -- if Bolt wasn't in the race today, a race where he ran the fastest time and broke his own record -- Gay's 9.71 would be the second fastest time ever ...semantics, I know. ;-P
- .LAG liked that
He has to be on Steroids. When Ben Johnson ran 9.79 everyone said he was what about Usain Bolt. I am not saying what he did was not amazing but the relity is he took something somewhere.
- Rob Cairns
@RobCairns ...drug-testing is pretty rigid in track-and-field these days... but then, in these times, nothing will surprise us.
- .LAG liked that
right LAG. Tyson probably didn't wake up this morning thinking, "if I run a 9.71, I'll get smoked."
- chrisofspades
Chris... and yet, amazingly, he DID!
- .LAG liked that
this man is super and unbelivable run run run
- SERKAN GÜNEL
Eh, rob these days you can't trust anybody, that said, -- I don't trust those other guys and he's STILL smoking the field like it's nothing. What we're seeing is incredible
- Richard Lawler
Bolt is awesome...amazing speed and he's a riot.
- Jeunelle Foster
Amazing. He just obliterated the old record. Not even close. And he's got some showman in him too. Great for the sport.
- Hutch Carpenter
amazing.
- mjc
You have to feel a little sorry for Tyson Gay. I do think it's a good thing though that American track has been served a big fat slice of humble pie recently, as sometimes the attitudes of the athletes can be excessive. @Jeunelle - Seeing Usain win just makes you happy, doesn't it! And it's obvious that he really enjoyed winning yesterday, his 'Superman' pose was especially emphatic.
- Will Higgins™
And LAN: The wikipedia page has been vandalized. Aditya Dabas apparently ran a 9.48 yesterday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, India. It's true. Fixed now.
- Will Higgins™
Gay's Personal Best prior was a 9.77, so he shaved 0.06 seconds off his PB. THAT is a great performance.
- Will Higgins™
@Willl....I usually root for the underdog and hell yes it makes me happy when I see someone from the poorest regions of the earth suck it to America. Roflmao Why should America have all the fame and glory? Don't we ALL strive to be great too? :)
- Jeunelle Foster
He's either on steroids - which seems unlikely to me - or Bolt is a mutant. :)
- Bill Sodeman
Bill if he was on drugs at that speed he would have a heart attack and collapse already. Now he may have smoked some weed and inhaled as any Jamaican would but I strongly doubt he's on drugs :)
- Jeunelle Foster
How long can records in these races keep on falling? It's just amazing.
- Kathy Fitch
Tyson wouldn't have probably run 9.71 if Bolt wasn't there ahead of him. Sprinters normally do better when there's someone ahead of them. You see a lot of personal bests for sprinters/swimmers who end up at no 2.
- Nikhil Dandekar
@Nikhil ...that's a good point. and maybe with Bolt competing, we'll start to see average times of the world's top sprinters start to drop as they train with him in their sights. i think he can probably go faster. he's already broken the WR three times in the last few years.
- .LAG liked that
@Kathy: They said on TV yesterday that an University (can't remember the name) released a study saying that the limit for a human being is to run 100 meters in 9.29 seconds. We'll see if he gets there. ;)
- Alejandro
UNREAL - THE TOURNAMENT
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Usain "Lightning" Bolt: man or machine?
- Dennis Jernberg
Usain: the quickest man of the world... impressive!! http://www.foldier.com/items...?
- Luca
Wow, that's fast!
- Mike Reynolds
LAG, most definitely he can go faster. he's only 22, and an athlete's prime is 25-28 or so, which is about the age other sprinters were breaking records.
- chrisofspades
The Flash!
- AJ Batac
25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009...
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Laurent65, Woodrow Jarvis Hill, Drew Lucas and 21 other people liked this
I looove good design like this. But it makes bad design so, SO bad!
- Rick Cogley
I think design reflects company's attitude (with some exceptions like Zappos and Craigslist).
- Nir Ben Yona
(BRILLIANT PROGRAMMING READ) Fear Eats You Up Inside - A Tale of a Team in Chaos - Jay Pipes - http://jpipes.com/index...
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"This blog entry is a bit of a written confession from the Sun Drizzle team. It tells the story of the last few weeks, and how we didn't "Do the Right Thing". It's a tale which ends, hopefully, in our redemption through acknowledgement of what happened, a written commitment that it won't happen again, and a bit of a manual on how to have our actions match our team values."
- mjc
from Bookmarklet
It's a pity we don't see the same open-ness from the enterprise dev teams around the globe.
- Dennis Howlett
it's a pity we don't see the same openness from non-enterprise dev teams around the globe! most OSS is guilty of this too.
- mjc
RT: @ev: "Tomorrow just became a very big day." (for Twitter, @oprah is doing her first Tweet).
Jay Neff, Daniel Rowley, Woodrow Jarvis Hill and 26 other people liked this
Isn't that a little jump the sharkish?
- Brian Sullivan
And the obsession with celebrity continues. Will there be Oprah approved Tweets (like Oprah's book club?)
- Kevin Pedraja
I can see the fail whales now.
- Dan Walters
Brian: it is the dream of every entrepreneur to be featured on the Oprah show. Congrats to @ev and team.
- Robert Scoble
You are joking -- I think people that dream that need a life adjustment or a whack on the side of the head.
- Brian Sullivan
Having celebrities promote the crap out of your company is a blessing, if I was ev I would be extremely grateful; I'm sure stockholders couldn't be happier, I know I would be. However, from a holistic social media perspective — I'm absolutely turned off by what has become of this. With 500k+ followers, I wish celebrities were leveraging their pre-established attention for social good, but it's mostly consisted of ego-centric tweets. Hopefully Opera sets an example, I suspect she will.
- Colin Anawaty
Indeed - if things like this go well, maybe Oprah will have her own "Tech Club" eventually.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Kutcher finall reaches a million followers LOL
- Rich White
If Oprah mentions twitter, but twitter.com doesn't load, does it matter?
- Daniel Sims
I guess we will be seeing alot of failwhales then?
- Per
Per: no failwhales here on friendfeed! You can even see this conversation happen live at http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
In short we can expect multiple fail whales... hmmm
- | Balu |
So, we can always talk about @oprah somewhere on the Internet. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Did @ev mention @oprah? Or is that your insertion, Robert? His last Tweet omits that detail... unless he deleted or edited it!
- Ryan
Ryan: he didn't, but everyone knows that tomorrow is Oprah day on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Wow, I just saw that ashton kutcher (@aplusk) has almost a million followers. I bet that anyone @oprah follows will see similar numbers.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel: Oprah will see similar numbers within a week. She's way more powerful than CNN or Ashton. Plus, most of Ashton's followers came from Twitter's recommended follower list.
- Robert Scoble
i wonder what she'll say
- Darla Brown
I love the live friend feed beta thingy! This is my first time checking it out....Suh-weet! I can't help but believe that @oprah will have a broad and sweeping changes on twitter demographics :(
- Jonny Clean
Checked out twitter.com/Oprah just now - zero Tweets with more than 28K followers :-)
- Ashu Joshi
Interesting to see if she starts to tweet regularly. Congrats @ev!
- Rick Bucich
It is a big day. The complaint I most hear from people asking me about twitter is "what do I do with it?" The celebrity influence, news media coverage, etc shows that there is something to listen to on Twitter and not just what people are eating today
- Kevin Kuphal
I wonder if Oprah will really Tweet links and info herself - or leave it up to a "Ghost Tweeter" - either way, it will be great for her nonprofit orgs.' online exposure.
- Laurel Phelps LaFlamme
So, can Twitter really handle the onslaught of Oprahbots there will be once she mentions it? If the site becomes even more unstable than it is now over the coming weeks won't this turn people off? @Ev & @Biz may shoot themselves in the foot.
- Vaughn
It would be sooo interesting if we could accurately see how much stock is owned by precisely whom and when it was purchased. Who else notices when a particular site hits the big time? Remember when it happened to Google? All of the sudden newscasters were telling us to "google this" & "google that" & characters in movies & on television were doing the same. How many times did they ever mention Yahoo! this or Microsoft Live that? First is was MySpace, MySpace, MySpace and then Facebook. Hint: who owns media?
- Internet Strategist
Internet Strategist: sorry, but I was one of those people who always talked about Google. The others sucked and provably so. Same with MySpace vs. Facebook. Facebook is provably better than MySpace. Twitter is getting hype because brands can have a public entity far easier than on other social networks. Friendfeed will get a lot of hype over next year, just watch. Why? Because the influencers will figure out that search is where the money (and action) is.
- Robert Scoble
Have you forgotten the last scene/last shot in Forrest Gump?
- Karma Martell
sorry wrong person..
- Karma Martell
Karma: why are you trying to use a movie, a fake one at that, to make a point?
- Robert Scoble
never mind- guess it was to right comment- the scroll speed needs some getting used to . :-)
- Karma Martell
Robert, all other search engines from the beginning of the www were bad and only Google search is worth talking about in the major media?
- Internet Strategist
Whether Facebook is better or not doesn't change the fact that for a long time the major media only talked about MySpace ALL the time and no other Social Networking sites. They only started talking about Facebook later (and stopped talking about MySpace) and now they may be moving on to Twitter. Haven't seen anything on FriendFeed yet.
- Internet Strategist
My point is that that movie was a commercial for Yahoo- a big movie industry hit - to Internet Strategist's remark about entertainment media pushing the Google, etc.
- Karma Martell
How old is that movie? Perhaps they pushed Yahoo before they started pushing Google?
- Internet Strategist
yes 1994 acc'dg to imdb
- Karma Martell
When I think of the major media I mean regular television (non-cable - the free kind with more commercials than shows) and movies. I have never seen you (Robert) on television but that doesn't mean you haven't been on it since I don't watch that much. The news has very little that is newsworthy these days and a lot that would fit better on Entertainment Tonight or some other similar show.
- Internet Strategist
don't care
- John Flynn
this will ultimately be "Jump the Sharkey", but it will give Twitter a big oxygen boost (as if it needs one)
- Ron Mwangaguhunga
Do you think Oprah will then make it to the recommended list?
- Anne Bouey
Anne: no doubt
- Valley
Unless they're busy adding capacity it will also give us fail whales galore as Dan Walters predicted.
- Internet Strategist
Maybe one day people will be asking "What were you doing when Oprah sent her first tweet?"
- Johnny Makkar
Johnny: I highly doubt that haha :)
- Jay Neff
wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons
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Wow this is amazing
- Chris Saad
This took my breath away - amazing voice
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to.
- CAJ, somewhere else
When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut?
- Alex Scoble
I love these things. Worth watching.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times
- Mark Philpot
this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :)
- Tatty Gibson
OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp>
- Admiral Anika
Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice!
- Rafael
Alan, me too. Out of this world.
- Meryn Stol
Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta...
- Sprague D
That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising.
- Jonathan Coffman
i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift.
- Laura Zickus
Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year
- Jesse Stay
She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them.
- Mark H
That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins.
- Kevin Fox
While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It says "embedding disabled by request."
- Dawn
You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Awesome
- Rodfather
Wow.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do.
- Dawn
Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dawn
Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either
- Jesse Stay
Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent.
- Dawn
"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame.
- Kevin Fox
"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool!
- Louis Gray
I actually felt a lump form in my throat. Good for her.
- cecily
As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic..
- Ozan Kilic
I loved this-she is sublime!
- Susan Dennis
What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong.
- Patrick Ward
Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing.
- Henry Burger
awesome
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Wow!
- Phil Maxwell
WOW! brought a few tears to my eye.
- Jasmin Smith
incredi-wow.
- Micah Wittman
Beautiful.
- CW™
Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already.
- Nir Ben Yona
Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people.
- Steve Mactaggart
from twhirl
Incredible stuff.
- Russ Jackson
Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent.
- david beckwith
This was a surprise--and lovely, thx
- susan mernit
and I love this song
- Erin @queenofspain
Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though.
- Alex Scoble
Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned.
- Iain Baker
He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though.
- Alex Scoble
Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras.
- Ian May
Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts...
- Jorg Jansen
Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail
- Zach Lytwyn
The best thing about this thread is that there is really only one cynical jaded comment out of all of them.
- cecily
Britains Got Talent FTW!
- Nicholas James
I cried...
- mjc
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
- josh neff, geek at large
I was completely amazed...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it.
- Great Scott!
ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft.
- MikeAmundsen
That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over.
- Jochen Lillich
Don't judge a book by its cover!
- TheHenry
That's absolutely awesome
- C.K. Johnson
'Embedding disabled by request'! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol you can still follow the link to Youtube ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Portable Ubuntu for Windows - http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/index...
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"Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a Ubuntu system running as a Windows application."
- Oscar Antonio Moralí
from Bookmarklet
Sorry,I don' t like it.Linux is not a app for windows in my mind.
- 微笑の迪妮莎
like for 微笑の迪妮莎's comment!
- Mohammad - kimyagar
either way, can be a great way for people to learn and get familiar! After all that is exactly what people using virtualization do, and in many cases it IS linux within windows. This just makes it a simple 1 step process for laymen?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I think 微笑の迪妮莎's comment and such thinking has kept Linux for just geeks and let Microsoft do its crap for so long. Allow Windows users to play with Linux and I am sure they would want it.
- Aman
Most people will think it like this:Now I can use linux in windows ,why i need install linux in my PC?may be this way can let people use linux,learn it,but,Just a windows 's app.
- 微笑の迪妮莎
Not to be fanatic; there are a huge range of people afraid of using Linux, afraid of being changed, this will help 'em to get in, I think.
- Sepehr Lajevardi
I would like to download it and have a try with Linux. It's so convenient.
- yezi
60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge - http://applicant.com/60-reso...
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I'm subscribing to a lot of new people tonight and I'm noticing a trend: women keep their accounts private at a much higher rate than men do. Discuss:
Susan Beebe, Adam, fansnap and 56 other people liked this
Cos men can be creeps?
- jjprojects
I have a theory about why this is: women get a lot more shit from random people on the Internet. Sexual jokes. Stalking behavior. Etc. That they learn they have to be more guarded than men have to be.
- Robert Scoble
@women keep their accounts private LOL, yep mostly so.
- Chirag Chamoli
Sadly, that's probably exactly it, Robert.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
jjprojects: yeah, that's my theory. I wonder if women agree?
- Robert Scoble
Robert it depends on the account. My facebook is private. My twitter is public.
- sofiagk
Maturity has shown me that men are more trusting initially (until someone shows they can't be trusted) .... whereas women have to be won over, Then they'll trust anthing! (Jim Beasley)
- Jim Beasley
I do think it's cause of the sad fact that way too many men confuse "conversation" with "must use pick up lines". Seriously, if men were hit on by every new person they met they'd be seeking a bit of refuge too!
- alphaxion
Men are much more keen on the concept of exhibitionism.
- Dave Roth
Main reason I keep most of my internet accounts private are crazy ex-boyfriends on the verge of stalking & new man jealousy.
- Chrissie M
From what I've seen women tend to get a much higher number of followers if they have a picture of themselves. These followers also tend to DM them quite a lot or send many @ replies too.
- Shaun Bohannon
Maybe more woman use FF for private affairs. I don't use it for that... For me the main value-add of FF is that it's public, and because of the "subscription" model it allows for getting acquainted with each other through your stream (just like blogs). I'm not gonna post my whole personal life here. I don't want to connect on THAT aspect of my life.
- Meryn Stol
Agree. I keep my fb more exclusive & only have let a few people from Twitter onto it. People who I don't think will be perving over pics and making inappropriate comments. Guys can defintiely be weird about things like that. And my friends definitely are ;)
- Lindsay Davies
PORNO: I just checked out some of your recents that you mentioned here's one: http://twitter.com/webwonky Is Twitter porn becoming an industry? Maybe you have to pay to play? Or be influential like Scoble you cad you!
- sofarsoShawn
I'm not a man, but I play one on the Internet. It's not that they are hit on. It's that men, especially insecure geeks who dominate early adaptors in this technology you use, do not like women to talk back. When women talk back, it infuriates them and they lash out nastily. Andrew Keen could not get away with saying "you're a handful, dear" --as he said to me -- to a man. Some women don't want to go through this cycle of backlash and disparagement, so they make their thoughts closed except for friends.
- Prokofy Neva
"It's that men, especially insecure geeks who dominate early adaptors in this technology you use, do not like women to talk back." -- what kind of weird part of "the internet" are you on???
- Meryn Stol
Well, women are much more socially attuned then men.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Meryn: the rules are different, but most people don't like it when men talk back either. I was getting grilled by an ABC News Reporter (a guy) at Pirillo's party the other night and after he was done tons of people came up to me and said "boy, was he an asshole." (I didn't mind him, he was just trying to find a sensational angle for a story).
- Robert Scoble
I am like Sofia and keep FB private, like Twitter to have fun publicly just to connect with people, and use Linked In for professional connections with people I really connect with in business. Figure if not open then not going to connect but do reserve the right to keep private what want to. intuitive about deciding whether want people in my feed if don't feel right.
- Jenn Shallvey
"most people don't like it when men talk back either." hehe :)
- Meryn Stol
Sadly, men can be such jerks sometimes. I'm much more careful who I let into my Facebook network than any other service for that reason.
- Sally Church
I think that many people are using FF as a Facebook replacement. I don't. I'm also not someone who "reciprocates" subscriptions by default... Sure, if your feed interests me, I'll subscribe too. But for me, FF is not about "being friends". Friendship can develop of course... Maybe I'll let you into my Facebook at some time. ;)
- Meryn Stol
I noticed that too, Robert.On FriendFeed & Twitter, women keep their accounts private.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Interesting to me that people are using facebook as their private place and leaving twitter wide open. I actually do the opposite - I friend pretty much anyone on facebook but my twitter is pretty exclusive. (I'm not a woman, btw.) I suppose I find my twitter communications more valuable than facebook. Anyone else have this view?
- Scott Breakall
I think pretty much all of my accounts (save LiveJournal) are public. LJ is friends-only for no real reason except I figure I'm not that interesting.
- Nine
I keep my FB private but have a public stream on FF/Twitter under an alias. It's a one way street. People who know me on FB, know my alias. If you only know me on FF/Twitter, you won't know my real name. I've had a restraining order taken out in the past on a stalker and would like to avoid having to do so in the future (or having said stalker find me). Men probably don't see the likelihood of someone figuring out where they live and stalking them as high. Why put yourself out there when it's not necessary?
- Hooeyspewer
Noticed this one to be true in some other services like Facebook or Myspace.
- Nir Ben Yona
more men stalkers than women stalkers I guess
- Bill
Many geek men would probably be only flattered, if someone bothered to stalk them ;)
- Jemm
Women are more fearful then men of unwanted attention. Most of my accounts have always been open. Social networking with a private account is like a car wash with soap only and no water...it just doesn't make any sense. I finally "limited" my Facebook and Myspace settings but have enough information for people to "find" me which is my goal.
- mrsha
As it is, there are ladies on FF who are 'public' who have gotten some attention they didn't ask for: GChat messages, FB pms, propositions, etc. It's a pain to deal with, especially if you're already in a relationship because you have to explain that this kind of attention isn't *why* you're online but that it's unavoidable sometimes as a woman. A lot of gents don't understand that and...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
some have to agree that the major social network show more protectionism then real life. if you dislike a member block it, block is an easy tech tip, ignore is a powerful one too, go out and try to block or ignore, many social protection are widely implemented in social network and arn't in real life.
- abdellah
but it is not about protection, it is about preference.
- abdellah
Actually, I don't think there's really that much more protectionism online than off, abdellah. In real life, if you harass me and hit on me all the time at, say, work, I take the issue to Human Resources. If it's in a social circle, I just avoid situations where I would run into you, essentially blocking you from my life but missing activities or places I enjoy in order to do so....
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
this is why tina I says it is all about preference. discussing the preference in regard of gender is risky :) may be sexist too.it is hard and subjective to explain preference, but to use argument that some may cause disagreement when we are offered all the tool to block or to ignore them is also a weak argument.
- abdellah
I'm not really sure why speaking about an objective fact (i.e. that the majority of stalkers are male) is subjective or sexist. It's just a fact, and knowing that fact means that those most likely to affected (i.e. women) can take actions to protect themselves if they see fit. The problem with doing so online is that if you're going to do so you pretty much have to do so preemptively by...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I've noticed that a lot too, not sure why. But I did grapple with the whole concept of personal branding and safety when I first started blogging. For women, there seems to be more of a process - get into a space, figure it out, then gradually evolve outward.
- Tiffany Monhollon
tina, I agree that some want to have some privacy, I will not try to give more argument on (discussing preference based on gender is sexist or not) , but here is what can make us agree both of us: understanding isn't justifying, we can understand event or any fact but some time even if we understand them we can explain them or justify them, this is what make preference a concept that is mainly interpreted not explained.
- abdellah
Systemic misogyny. They say for everything we recognize to offend a woman's sensibilities, she recognizes perhaps another ten ways.
- Jesse Crockett
because men brag about their conquests, whereas women don't - despite playing the game as well as men...
- Pedro Rocha
hahahaha *nods head*
- sofarsoShawn
Because men can be pigs. [/oink oink]
- Steven Perez
BOOM...BOOM..BOOM...BOOM..BOOM via Opium
- sofarsoShawn
Women have the instinct to know that they going to guys hitting on them
- Azzam
women do not feel safe on the Internet women are farmers, men are hunters
- Thomas Power
Hasn't been my experience, at all. Nearly all the private accounts I've come across to follow were male. But, I'm usually the exception that proves the rule as the nuns used to tell me! I'm an open networker, but I do block people nearly every day.
- Lydia Sugarman
Most of the men I am following are keeping their accounts private. Not sure why..
- Jonny
as a women, I understand the reason some women keep their account private, especially if they have been harassed before, there is nothing more annoying then having to deal with unwanted conversations from guys who think that acting like a 14 old is cool
- Kim Landwehr
Because, women love to use in their arsenal the tactic: "the thrill of the chase". Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free. You gotta earn the cow.
- sofarsoShawn
Not gonna read all those comments, but it's obvious women are more afraid to put themselves out there because they're more likely to be harrassed by men. I can post all types of half-naked pics, tell my life story, even post my phone number. It's doubtful any women will bother me. If a woman did that, it would be all over with. :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Exactly what Rahsheen said.
- Rochelle
Females are more careful (paranoid?) than men. I've never had issues and all my contact info is out in the open ie: cell phone number, AIM, GTalk, Skype, e-mail address, etc.
- Mona Nomura
Okay, you just got me to join friendfeed for this discussion... I originally kept my Facebook private and twitter public (twitter was an extension of my blog). Sadly, someone decided to "cyber-stalk" me via twitter, creating bogus accounts similar to mind and friending my friends. It appears to have been an ex-coworker, possibly. Due to the harassment, I locked down my twitter account - even though I really didn't want to. So yes, you are right on your theory.
- RC
That's not surprising at all. We women have to treat our online security as seriously as we do our offline security. Regardless, both men & women must carefully weigh the 8 Ps of Online Social Networking: 1) Persona 2) Privacy 3) Postings 4) Placement 5) Plan 6) Police Yourself 7) People 8) Price. It's an individual’s choice to decide how much of themselves they will give. Historically speaking men have been more comfortable sharing details about themselves since their risks are significantly less.
- Renée Barrett
By coincidence, I was just wondering today whether I should use my full name or not. My concern has been less about online harassment and more about steering clear of some people I already know from offline. When I was younger I might not have thought twice, but I've witnessed and/or experienced enough unpleasantness by now I'm more cautious about such things.
- Rebecca
because of That Guy
- Richard Akerman
Hanging out on IRC in the early-mid 90's, I learned that guys would start asking me if I wanted a boyfriend the MOMENT they found out I was female. That question might have or might not have been preceded by requests for pictures (and sometimes nude pictures). I learned to go gender neutral. This has something to do with why I rarely post pics online or use my real name. Someone I work with once said women didn't belong in IT, so when I posted reviews/articles, I wanted to be judged regardless of my gender.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I go neutral, rather than go private, and I think I STILL had someone fooled last week, despite the FF memes.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I keep mine private because of search results.
- Patricia
Women also tend to need to be more private. There are a lot of creeps and stalkers out there.
- Elpie
We keep ours public because of search results;)
- fansnap
Yes, Fritzl was a human who did terrible, inexcusable things. Calling him a monster ignores that humanity is capable of such horror.
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It's a real bummer that Bluehost is kicking off Iranian bloggers: http://1fathi.com/1387...
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thank you dear robert and prosecutor for help us and other bloggers
- 1Fathi
thank you for help
- مـهدی معتمد
Thanks Robert for twitting on this!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
I would never use bluehost. If I did use them I would switch. Who knows who they'll decide to kick off next.
- Mike Hussein Cohen
Civil disobedience is one thing, but it's not just a voluntary TOS clause: it's illegal in the United States to import or export goods to Iran. Bluehost could be held criminally liable if it willingly allowed Iranian accounts to continue.
- Mark Trapp
Bluehost is otherwise a decent hosting service - this is a great pity
- winckel
Thanks
- M∂s♥ud
Thanks Robert. :)
- Kamangir
Thanks Robert! ^_^
- Tyler Durden
RE "it's illegal in the United States to import or export goods to Iran", would that mean FriendFeed can't include content (literally "importing" it) created in Iran and, oh... say... Google can't index it? Or it it acceptable for intellectual property to flow across the border... it just can't be exchanged for something else?
- Ken Sheppardson
I bet you get no response from them. I had a nice argument with them about this awhile ago. They don't care that people are complaining about them on Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
Ken, OFAC Regulation 31 CFR 560.204 outlines the full extent of US Sanctions on Iran (URL: http://www.treas.gov/offices...). It states:
- Mark Trapp
Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this part, including §560.511, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to May 7, 1995, the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of...
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- Mark Trapp
(a) Such goods, technology, or services are intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran; or (b) Such goods, technology, or services are intended specifically for use in the production of, for commingling with, or for incorporation into goods, technology, or services to be directly or indirectly supplied, transshipped, or reexported exclusively or predominantly to Iran or the Government of Iran.
- Mark Trapp
I don't know how that affects Google indexing or FriendFeed. I do know it affects transactions, of which purchasing hosting would most definitely take part. I think the "intended specifically" term would preclude FriendFeed or Google from being held liable. Iran isn't specifically intended to be the recipient of the service and/or technology.
- Mark Trapp
Interesting. Thanks, Mark. Personally, I have a hard wrapping my brain around how the whole body of legal language like this originally intended to cover physical goods and services that's now being warped to cover intellectual property, electronic documents, web content, etc. It would seem it's illegal for Apple to allow folks in Iran to buy track in iTunes, for example. How about presenting ads to Iranian viewers if you're being paid to deliver those impressions?
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't know why you're saying physical goods, or why you think it's being warped. It specifically says "any goods, technology, or services." Hosting is a service. Apple can't sell to Iran, and doesn't sell to Iran. There is no Iranian iTunes Store. Ads don't count unless they were specifically intended for Iran. For example, Google should probably be preventing Iranians from having...
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- Mark Trapp
I also work at a web host. We've gotten letters from the government. They are pretty strict on OFAC to the point that we have to screen all signups for country of origin as well as making sure the purchaser isn't a specially designated national (which can be kind of a pain, as there are some common names on that list).
- Ryan Toohil
May I say I absolutely adore JungleDisk. I believe I've found my online backup favorite. It's been a long search.
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How much stuff are you backing up? Doesn't it get expensive?
- Rafe Needleman
from twhirl
Rafe: You can calculate the price using the S3 online tool at http://bit.ly/wkUQw -- you pay directly for the S3 storage. The problem for me is more slow upload speeds than costs.
- Woodrow Jarvis Hill
Likewise! I absolutely LOVE Jungle Disk and I've been using it since sometime last year. I have a total of ~50GB backed up and only update/backup 1-3GBs a month (if even that) and the money I'm paying each month is negligible.
- Philip
Don't try backing up your photos, music and home videos though. If you really lead a digital lifestyle, you'll have thousands of photos, lots of music and lots of GB of home videos (hey, my Kodak Zi6 fills up 1-16GB every time I plug it to sync with the computer). Hard drive space is dirt cheap (1 TB for less than $100) but try backing up to Jungle Disk, you'll go broke. If it's worth having, it's worth backing up no? Until I can backup a TB or more online and afford it, this is of no use...
- Odi Kosmatos
For the record, in 2008, I had successfully backed up my most important 650GB to Keepvault.com (it took months to upload) and the price was $100 per year. But at the end of the year they said "Sorry, our unlimited data backup plan is being eliminated.". It was too good to be true...
- Odi Kosmatos
Yikes, using the calculator tool above, it seems storing 1 TB is $3000 a month. I could buy one 1 TB drive a day for that price and bring one off-site to my workplace every morning, indefinitely, for the same price.
- Odi Kosmatos
It's not about storing terabytes of data, it's about storing essentials away somewhere else. Think safety deposit box and not self-storage sheds.
- Erik Garcia
Me personally, I don't have that much digital media to store, but I do have mountains of source code I'd rather not lose which I back up with a couple free online storage solutions on a regular basis. If you're a digital photographer or a podcaster or movie maker, part of _your_ job/business involves being responsible for maintaining archives of whatever 'knowledge work' you generate.
- Erik Garcia
I have about 70GB up on Amazon too, but I'm about to reduce it down to my 4 + 5 star images only.
- Ryan
@ Odi: 30-35GB of the 50GB that are backed up on Jungle Disk are pictures & music. My music collection doesn't grow that quickly and neither does my photo gallery so what you're saying isn't the case for everyone. The most I've paid with a ton of uploading is maybe $8 but usually my monthly bill is $1-2/month.
- Philip
Allright, America, quit your bitching. « Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more - http://punditkitchen.com/2009...
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If only. :-(
- Jeanine W.
Haven't you heard? You can fix ANYTHING with enough duct tape. :D
- Steven Perez
I don't think we have enough duct tape for that. Maybe that's what's we're going to spend all the stimulus $$ on?
- Jeanine W.
You didn't hear? Everyone gets eight rolls to begin with. It's like the government cheese from the 80s.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Awesome! First thing I'm gonna do with mine is strap GWB on a plane and send him to Iraq!
- Jeanine W.
On the Fannish Phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes, or, My Fandom is Crazier Than Your Fandom - http://www.tor.com/index...
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It was the Warren Ellis line that had me laughing like a crazyman...
- Woodrow Jarvis Hill
On plane I am sitting next to John Bohn. Was an economist for Reagan. What he has to say is more depressing than CNBC.
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So tell us more. What did he have to say?
- Alexander Falk
Please interview him and post it. Video would be great!
- Alain Saffel
Wow, you can't escape.
- Shawn Farner
We're all screwed /conversation
- Dean Clark
He is California's Public Utilities Commissioner too. Thinks focusing on executive pay is misguided. Says the stimulus bill is just pork and won't create short term jobs. Thinks the financial system is broken and needs an overhaul. Says that capitalism might have been harmed permanently by bankers and wall street.
- Robert Scoble
Let me guess, massive government spending ISN'T what we need right now? How about further tax cuts WITH fiscal responsibility? As we learned with the Reagan administration (and as with JFK too) tax cuts are good for the economy.
- Kevin
Wait till our troops finally come home too! Hundreds of thousands of our youth will be affected by PTSD. We gotta face the music at some point - unfortunately.
- Jerry Gonzalez
I will interview him during flight. Leaving now see you in six hours or so.
- Robert Scoble
Ask him what he sees coming inflation wise.
- Dean Clark
Interesting that he'd say capitalism might have been harmed permanently by bankers and Wall Street. Now the pendulum is about to swing from one extreme to the other?
- Alain Saffel
Where's the "now I'm depressed" button on FF?
- Patrick Driscoll
from twhirl
Looks like a little regulation is a good thing, like having referees in sports to make sure the game is played fairly.
- Alain Saffel
Dean: more inflation coming.
- Robert Scoble
Yep. Facing the music alright. 8, make that twelve years of voodoo economics finally coming home to roost.
- Jim Hearts FF
The system indeed needs an overhaul. Our economy thrives on the creation of needs for products and services consumers did not know they wanted or needed - it was unsustainable as it was.
- Bill
Although I am interested in what he has to say, and I applaud Robert for getting this interview, and I'm looking forward to reading it, I think we need to take this with a grain of salt here. What's the headline? "Longtime Republican Thinks Obama's Economic Plan Is A Bad Idea."
- Mitch Wagner
Mitch: he doesn't come off as very partisian. He has lots of friends in high places.
- Robert Scoble
I don't think it's a matter of partisanship, it's more a matter of world view. If you view tax cuts as the only viable stimulus, then everything else looks wrong. Yet these are the same guys who have never seen it coming.
- Alex Scoble
Robert you should setup a blog that is simply, "interesting people that sit next to me on planes," it would be a great RSS feed
- anna sauce
+1000 anna!
- Susan Beebe
Robert, I find that quite believable. And expect he'll have some good points to make. And Obama's stimulus plan is not above reproach. But, still, he's coming at this with a certain ideological bias, and that bias is the opposite of Obama's. Asking him to comment on Obama's fiscal plan is like asking a Windows guy his opinion of the Mac.
- Mitch Wagner
Ask him what the impact of the berlin wall was to US finance/economics at that time
- anna sauce
I'd love to hear his take on how we get out of this mess, especially since GWB made the tough decisions to right our fiscal house after years of deficit spending, before his successors allowed the creation of huge imbalances by pumping up the money supply. More than the question of how good or bad is the Obama plan, I'd like to know what he'd actually prescribe and what evidence (historical or theoretical) he'd use to support his suggestions.
- Cecyl Hobbs
Ask - what CAN be done to salvage the US...strike that...Global... economy?
- Susan Beebe
I'd also be curious to see if he believes that increased banking regulations combined with the stimulus package (whether the GOP or Obama version) will result in the flight of "smart" capital out of the U.S.
- Cecyl Hobbs
Cecyl, I'm confused by your first sentence. GWB didn't right the fiscal house after deficit spending, he inherited a balanced budget and ran up a record deficit. And he's only had one successor, who's been in office less than a month. IOW, huh?
- Mitch Wagner
Love to hear the interview, Robert. And I agree with Anna's idea :) Thanks for sharing.
- Arif Widianto
Mitch, sorry - I forgot an initial. GHWB. Originally, I was going to type "Bush I."
- Cecyl Hobbs
Ask him to be a regular - love to hear more of what he says.
- Chris Rogers
At this time, unfortunately, everyone is trying to outdo everyone else in being negative.
- Lyndon
You have to fight back. Negativity breeds negativity. Manias and panics are both an equal part of humanity's globally bipolar nature.
- Jed White
We haven't seen anything yet... look at the numbers and study the complete history of how we got here; not just the last eight years and reality will set in... The truth is the last thing you'll hear in the media, even now, although the reality of our situation is becoming more evident everyday. People that can see clearly will see the opportunities presented and will contribute and participate in the new world economy and leadership structure. No pain - No gain...
- Mark Harai
If your still with John Bohn, I'm curious if he's the son of a John Bohn who lived in Guam years ago and was a prominent real estate mogul here.
- William Ymesei
from IM
Jed - I'm with you 100%. Foursquare against negativity! Mark - My motto is, "No pain, no pain."
- Mitch Wagner
Seriously, I do think this crisis gives us an opportunity to build a stronger, saner economy. Too much of the economy was built on consumer goods that are, basically luxuries. If your car is five years old and still runs well and comfortably, you just don't need a new one, and won't for many years -- and yet our economy was built on convincing you that you need a new car every 2 yrs. But I fear that getting to that saner point will be horrible.
- Mitch Wagner
you meet so many killer people throughout the day
- andy brudtkuhl
Looking forward to that interview.
- Tom Landini
I think it's short-sighted to say bankers and wall street permanently harmed capitalism. They had a part to play but the greater problem is that the ponzi-scheme of credit (we're only 30 years in to mass credit card usage) and climate of over-consumption. Remember, we recently had a *negative* savings rate. [cont]
- AJ Kohn
[cont] Couple this 'live beyond our means' philosophy with the manipulation of economic benchmarks and you're able to put rose tinted glasses on the situation for decades. Nearly every President changed the way we track GDP, Unemployment and Inflation to make it look better than it is. (Try ShadowStats to get the real picture, it will not make you happy.) [cont]
- AJ Kohn
[cont] Finally, and I'll take flak for this, the post-Reagan income tax system encourages greed. That is different from encouraging success. So, a system of free credit and splurge culture, meets statistical gerrymandering, meets carpetbagger Gordon Gecko greed and you wind up where we are now. Any stimulus is running into a gale force headwind IMO.
- AJ Kohn
I sort of agree w/ Huffington when she suggested we keep a panel of those who DID forsee this meltdown long before it happened as a sort of Minority Report.
- Phillip
Huh? You think CNBC is depressing? The talking heads are always happy and cheerful whatever the news is. For real depressing reporting check out http://financialsense.com/
- Aviv
They main concern for me right now is, not being in debt, keeping it that way, plus also protecting what savings I have against any hyperinflation that may be on the horizon.
- Dean Clark
@Scobleizer apparently Latitude can't handle Altitude. Still shows you at SFO. ;-) Not too surprising, we're using cell towers, not GPS, right? Oh, and ++AlexScoble, as is so often the case. ;-)
- michael silverton
Because Reaganomics were so...successful? Of COURSE he's depressing...his theory didn't work.
- Karoli
That reminds me of a time in the recession of 1981 when 364 economists jointly took out a full page ad criticising Mrs Thatcher's economic policies. A reporter asked her "can you name TWO economists who support you?" She said "Yes, xxx and yyy" [her two main economics advisors at the time]. She later said privately: "I'm glad they didn't ask for three!"
- Andrew Denny
The vast complexity of the issues we face make the future completely unpredictable. No one really knows what's going to happen - and even worse, what will fix it. Consumer confidence / spending is very difficult to predict, if not impossible when looking a timeframes of more than a few months. There's no such thing as the "perfect" solution, so Obama is doing the right thing by pushing SOMETHING. Action, no matter what the plan, is actually more important than the substance.
- Vince DeGeorge
Reagan! That's where the problem started. "Trickle down," until the whole thing collapses from being top-heavy!
- Phil Boiarski
The system may be broken right now, as soon as we allow citizens to start spending more of what they earn the system will start to repair itself, that's if government will stop regulating what we can sell and how we sell it. One of the biggest problems is their is no unity in government right now. I think George Washington said it best in his final speech before leaving office the Unity...
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- Russ Jackson
He also said, "Avoid foreign entanglements!"
- Phil Boiarski
People - see http://www.storyofstuff.com
- Victor Panlilio
Also see history of American education http://tinyurl.com/kc4n9
- Victor Panlilio
i'm telling you. we're all doomed! doomed i say!
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
YouTube lesson on inflation http://tinyurl.com/3zvcgp
- Victor Panlilio
JFK said "Together we will save the planet, or together we will perish in its flames." Some students recently spoke by homemade radio with a mission specialist on the ISS, who said she saw one earth, no divisions. Tell that to all of us down here who act so selfishly. The kids at http://www.gen-we.org know what's at stake (watch the video). They want to end the perception that the US is a greedy and arrogant nation. In this hyper-connected world, the only way to do that is to STOP being arrogant and greedy.
- Victor Panlilio
@victor one thing I have maintained for years is that anyone that fights over land or false perceptions of race/religion/etc need to be taken up into space and forced to look down upon our home. Then they'll realise just how small we really are and how these petty excuses to be shitty towards each other are entirely pointless. Whenever prompted to enter race I always answer "human".
- alphaxion
heavy.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
@alphaxion Watch/listen to Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" http://tinyurl.com/23ch37
- Victor Panlilio
@alphaxion Paraphrasing Alan Watts: "One of the most persistent delusions in the West is that we are all isolated egos walking around in bags of skin."
- Victor Panlilio
@alphaxion Watch "Stroke of Insight" http://tinyurl.com/3l9h9y
- Victor Panlilio
So did u post the interview, Robert???
- Roberto Bonini
Here's a little antidote. Solvesall! http://tinyurl.com/btgfol
- Phil Boiarski
Roberto: turned out we didn't do one last night. The plane was too loud and it just wasn't good for an interview. We'll get together back in his office and do one. He is very interested in friendfeed now, too, and read all your questions. Said the one about the Berlin Wall was very astute.
- Robert Scoble
Talking to this guy sounds like a waste of time. Might as well talk to Lindsay Graham.
- Kathleen Mazzocco
Thanks Robert. Look forward to that. I'll think of a question or two to post in the mean time
- Roberto Bonini
So .... what did he say ???
- Tom Parish
Yes - at least a blog post or something to summarize - dying to hear.
- James Hull
Anxious to hear more
- Chance Garrity
Come on Robert!
- Charlie Ramirez
218K Superconductor Created: World Record Rises 80 Degrees Since May 2006 - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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-55C for us normal folk.
- Odi Kosmatos
Wow, that's like 218,000 superconductors!
- Gabe
-67 F. for us, uh, 'mericans.
- Karim
That is a warmer than dry ice. Wow.
- Jeremy Dunck
wow. superconducting icecream carts.
- Смажена бджiлка
"We can not escape each other," Bill Clinton says, while explaining global interdependence. Get that man on Twitter!
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Sorry, as quotables go, "We can not escape each other" is somewhat less twitterworthy than a bacon link.
- Mattb4rd
Robert, is Gore there? I remember shaking his hand and thanking him at a convention in Montreal and it was mesmerizing! If Clinton is at Davos, Gore must be somewhere!
- Michael Forian
Bill should be on Twitter and be blogging
- paul mooney
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Livescribe paper-based computing platform includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share audio and visual information with pen and paper.
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
used one at macworld was very impressed.
- adolfo foronda
I have one. I use it all the time. I mostly use it for meetings at work.
- donato
@donato: would you be able to post a sample image of how your handwriting looks when digitized?I liked taking handwritten notes on my Tablet PC a long time ago and left them as handwriting, just so I had a digital copy to archive. Wasn't really interested in having the handwriting converted to text.
- Cheryl Jones
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (January 26, 2009) - Obama's Conservatism - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
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"The Obama presidency is not a revolution, but instead a restoration. The "values upon which our success depends", Obama reassures America, "these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout history". He asks for a "return to these truths". Nothing new is needed, neither fresh ideas about the human condition's betterment nor utopias; merely a return to and vindication of the past."
- R. Ferguson
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An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin - http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009...
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"In a time like this, when tempers are riding high and many Americans are close to panic about their jobs and finances, you have a special responsibility to consider the accuracy of what you say and the consequences of inflammatory and erroneous statements. In the last few days, manifestly distorting my words and pulling them out of context, you have accused me of wanting to exclude white males from jobs generated by the stimulus package. Anyone who takes a moment to examine what I actually said and wrote knows this to be an absurd misrepresentation of my position .. The hate mail I have received since your broadcast suggests that the mischievous consequences of your demagoguery are potentially dangerous, in addition to being destructive of rational and constructive political discourse. I urge you to take responsibility for your words. Words and ideas have real world consequences, and you have demonstrated a cavalier disregard for both."
- AJ Kohn
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This is immensely sad and really shows the problem with advertising-generated-political discourse. Real debate would be greatly appreciated but more moronic shouting and mudslinging is only hurting America.
- AJ Kohn
Robert Reich is one of the folks I most admire. Consistently thoughtful, intelligent, articulate. Sadly, his words are wasted on people like Limbaugh and the others; they don't care about truth or community or unity. They care only about pageviews, ratings, and money, society be damned. So sad.
- Adam Lasnik
Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition - washingtonpost.com - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
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"Still more daunting is the list of things Favreau can't think about as he writes the inaugural. He went for a run to the Lincoln Memorial last month and stopped in his tracks when he imagined the mall packed with 3 million people listening to some of his words. A few weeks later, Favreau winced when Obama spokesman Bill Burton reminded him: "Dude, what you're writing is going to be hung up in people's living rooms!" "If you start thinking about what's at stake, it can get paralyzing," Favreau said."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
27?!
- George Tziralis
"One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes -- "It would have been a great speech right then," Favreau said -- and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday."
- Kenny Stoltz
from twhirl
@ george tziralis Too young? If you write well, age is irrelevant.
- Phil Boiarski
Re the race speech: "Obama wrote most of the speech himself, according to his campaign." http://www.cnn.com/2008... Other news outlets simplified this to "He wrote the speech himself" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washing... Grumble...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, if he told the writer what to say and the writer just cleaned it up and edited it a bit, I don't think that detracts from his authorship.
- Paul Buchheit
Yah, book authors' editors contribute a lot to the final novel, but no one asks that their names be put on the cover.
- Bret Taylor
Speechwriters shouldn't grant interviews. Period. The words they write are not "theirs," as someone mentioned above, they are the words of the speaker. It's not appropriate for this guy to be welcoming any sort of media attention.
- Mary Trigiani
@Mary - agree - I'm totally jealous of the wunderkind, and am in awe of him. That said, he should stfu and focus and turn the attention back to his boss, lest he start thinking that his role is anything other than Obama's automatic typewriter. I've seen and heard way too much about him this year.
- Christopher Galtenberg
I have never heard of this guy before and liked reading the story. I don't see why they shouldn't write a story about him just because of his job.
- Gabe
I was a speechwriter, and the first thing you learn -- or should learn -- is that the words are not yours, they are those of the speaker. For me, it's a question of ethics. Had this problem when Peggy Noonan stepped forward, will always have this problem with these folks who use the limelight. Being a speechwriter, and people knowing it, was plenty enough for me. It distracts from the message and the speaker for the speechwriter to get attention. This is a professional code issue.
- Mary Trigiani
And by the way: the best speakers, like Obama, like Reagan, direct the content and the cadence of their speeches. They own them. They craft the speeches with the help of the speechwriter. It's not about the speechwriter, it's about the message of the speaker and the speaker himself/herself.
- Mary Trigiani
Thank you for the conversation on this. It's a real hot button with me. And I can tell you from having worked with good speakers that what you see up there on the podium is what they bring to it -- not their ability to read someone else's words. A good speechwriter writes in the voice of the speaker -- has that person's voice in his/her head while writing. Talking about it is a breach of confidentiality in my book.
- Mary Trigiani
Mary, are you saying that speech writers should not have stories written about them, or should they just pretend that they're not speech writers?
- Gabe
Stories about them are ok, just they're not to be part of the limelight. If they're too well known, it detracts from the story of a speech (who wrote this line, who wrote that line, ala Gerson of the current administration).
- Christopher Galtenberg
mary you offer a really interesting perspective, and i never thought of it that way! thanks.
- Neha Narula
I'm so glad I commented on this thread. The ensuing conversation has been the most interesting I've read all month!
- Kevin Fox
I definitely agree w/ Mary. I've also done some speechwriting, and you shouldn't reveal that you were the writer and/or talk about it. It's a contract you enter when you agree to be the behind-the-scenes writer.
- Ana
This is an interesting rule. Whom else does it apply to? Encyclopedia editors? Screen writers? People who voice over movies and TV shows in foreign languages?
- Gabe
Gabe: I'm saying that speechwriters should get enough of an ego rub from working with the speaker. A speechwriter should not do interviews. Spidra: Please read my comments above. An ethical speechwriter will tell you that the words come from the content created by the speaker -- the words could not have been written without the direction of the speaker to the speechwriter. At least, that's how I "wrote" speeches.
- Mary Trigiani
Gabe: Regarding your comment about encyclopedia editors, etc, apples and oranges. Speech writing is not ghostwriting; it is helping the speaker to organize and present personal thoughts. Encyclopedia writing is a form of reporting. Screen writing is under one's own name.
- Mary Trigiani
Gabe: I always told people what I did. Then I found, thanks to big-ego speechwriters and political speechwriting, that I had to explain I was not the brains of the content -- I was the brains of the presentation. The speaker created and shaped the content. When I was assigned to an exec that wanted it the other way, I quit.
- Mary Trigiani
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"In May in Des Moines, Newsweek caught Obama teasing wife Michelle about her belt buckle, saying it was studded with Star Trek-powering dilithium crystals and adding, "Beam me up, Scotty!" As he laughed at his own joke, Michelle Obama rolled her eyes, as geek wives often do." AND A GEEK SHALL LEAD THEM.
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- Aaron Hood
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Best Vista tweak ever....boot up XP
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I wounder if they will make a Speedy7.com.
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Anthony - better Tweak still, boot up linux... lol
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Seriously, I am running a Vista box here, and I've had less issues with it, than XP.
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"What has happened to the education system in the United States? When did it become acceptable for our kids to be less educated than those in other nations?"
- R. Ferguson
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It's always been this way here in the US, Ruth. Being the brainiac in the class always got someone punched out in high school. Sad and stupid, but I've always seen it as a form of control, more than anything else.
- Helen Sventitsky
Conformity and obedience are the main goals. Our public school system is still designed to churn out dutiful factory workers.
- Internet's Tad
What Tad said,
- Steven Perez
It just occurred to me, replace the word with intelligent with complicated, and that explains why most of the time we're not assimilated with a complicated topic/terminology/or particular discourse, and therefore it can only give us stress. I'm jumping around a lot, forgive me.
- David Lynch
The public school system was designed to dumb down farmers so they would easily work in the factories. Nothing has changed since those early decisions. We hire "C" students of "C" students - who probably can't get jobs elsewhere. The "good" teachers find jobs elsewhere, while others are in the classroom simply to move up into administration. Here is an historical perspective of schools http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/undergr...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I absolutely agree with tad and david (for germany as well). an intelligent and non-conformist kid is mostly more "complicated" for the teacher - another step into problematic school life.
- esther ♥ ♫
I remember getting in trouble several times along the way for having creative solutions to problems because they weren't in line with the "level playing field" that the school wanted to create. I'm sure it's even worse now with NCLB and the tendency to teach to tests rather than teaching to think. It's extremely unfortunate and I'm sure very frustrating for my friends in the teaching profession.
- Jared Smith
when people started believing in creationism.
- Duncan Riley
I had my interest in English Lit crushed when I was asked to dissect a feminist article for an exam. I tore the piece to bits because the writer didn't want equality, merely the tables to be turned and men to suffer (any such writing does nothing but discredits and harms the feminist movement). They marked it very poorly because it was "outside of the task we were asked to perform". Also, I was extremely good at science. I moved schools half way through secondary school and went from top set to middle.
- alphaxion
I protested cause I was getting bored in the middle class. I pointed out that I knew everything that class was trying to teach me, but they kept on saying "sorry, we're not going to move you". When it came to the mock GCSE exams I was a few points off of an A on the intermediate exam. Asked me to take the higher paper yet still wanted me in the middle class. Told them to get fucked, purely cause I stood a better chance of getting a good grade since I would have missed out on the details of the higher class.
- alphaxion
Oddly, when some immigrants come to America with very poor skill sets, they learn quickly and soon are tops in their class. A disproportionate number get scholarships to prestigious univerisities. To me this proves it is not the American eductional system alone. American kids and culture are anti-intellectual..
- Phil Boiarski
I have noticed that fewer kids (and many adults too) here in the UK bother to ask "why?" and "how?". They're just content to waste their time reading about which celeb is shagging whom and what colour underwear britney is wearing today. Total lack of interest in the world around them and how things operate. No wonder we're getting screwed by our respective governments if no-one will listen to the few voices that do get annoyed by it!
- alphaxion
really glad to see the dialogue on this issue. tagging on to Alphaxion's comment, it seriously concerns me that we are in such perilous times & the public's understanding is based in large part not on what they know about history and economics but what the popular, not necessarily accurate, pundits have to say.
- R. Ferguson
Not to be contrary, but why aren't you yelling at the parents of those kids? It's not just the school systems; it's the parents who won't crack down on the kids in some form or another. If they would do that and insist that school systems cap class sizes at something well below 25, maybe you WOULD see a difference in what gets churned out of the system. But the problem is at least as much created by the homes as by the schools.
- Jill O'Neill
Some of this ignorance is indeed intentional. Smart people overthrow oppressors and oligarchs. :) But in addition to, religions have no interest in adherents who question too much. And if you aren't willing to accept that bankers get free money, while automakers must give up unions for 1/20th of the same amount, well...you just might be a terrorist!
- Cole Jolley
I agree that there has been a bias against intelligence back to at least the '60s when I started school. Back then "smart" kids were "teacher's pets" and girls were told they were supposed to be "bad" at math and science. As many have already pointed out, the point of public schools is to turn out the desired work force. There was a study that showed three distinctly different "paths" based on class level. Today schools are far worse and parents would do well to STRONGLY consider home-schooling.
- Internet Strategist
All teach memorize, regurgitate, pass test. Thinking is discouraged as are questions. I wonder if the recent budget mess in Dallas ISD is their way of eliminating any "trouble-making" (read intelligent, open-minded, thinking, and especially non-conformist) teachers to increase control. If your kids are in public school ask them what they're taught about calling authorities if someone stays longer than average in a store or restaurant or they see anyone new in their neighborhood. You may be very surprised.
- Internet Strategist
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