Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
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I hate it when I agree with Andrew Keen. But, yes, I am. Our ability to check out facts and consider the source in this instance is shameful. - Robert Scoble
It's kind of sad that it took a mistake with Steve Jobs to bring this reality home to so many. I think this election cycle has made it clear (no matter who you support) that one of the real effects of social and twitch media has been to move the insane rumor mills out of email and chain letters and into the mainstream. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Wikipedia on the other hand, is a we bit more trustworthy than that. So there are exceptions to the rule. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
@Roberto - but only a little. When you start lookign into the politics, back stabbing, personality conflicts and flat out manipulation there Wikipedia starts looking shabby (IMHO) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
also hate agreeing with Keen ... but a broken clock, twice a day and all that ... - Andrew Badera
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"Drenched" - Michael Fidler via Bookmarklet
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"John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill. Like those once vibrant institutions, McCain's collapse was stunning and quick. One minute you are a well-respected brand. The next you are yelling at the messengers of your demise as all around you the numbers start blinking red and stop adding up. " - newsjunk.com
Give the man a microphone. :-) - dan
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These images are from a recent volunteer shoot I did for The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). If you are interested, the entire set can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/gp/24875... - Justin Korn
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On Thursday one of FriendFeed's co-founders, Paul Bucheit, will be on a FastCompanyTV webinar with me along with Matt Mullenweg and Nat Brown, the CTO of iLike to talk about how to make a system that stays up and responds quickly, even with millions of users. I can't wait, but I'm also terrified and need your help. - Robert Scoble
A link from work (Not sponsored, not an ad) for anyone interested. It's related to Robert's topic: http://www.bluearc.com/dataflo... (And don't shoot me for blending the work life with FriendFeed) - Louis Gray
Thanks Louis, checking it out now. - Robert Scoble
I would like to hear their opinions on Rails and if the scalability issue is a myth. - Mona N.
This website may help with your research: http://highscalability.com - imabonehead
Mona, here's a Google video on "Ruby & Scalable Architectures" (note this also includes Rails) - http://is.gd/3A7C - imabonehead
"Breakthrough Failures That Help Sites Scale" - http://is.gd/3A85 - imabonehead
There is usually a session at mix with the myspace crew. It's Microsofy centric bit might help. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
Robert, I left you a comment on your blog post - but maybe it'd easier to catch you here. Come on up into the city anytime this week before your interview, and it'd be my honor to help answer your questions, and take you through what we did at Technorati (and now at Offbeat Guides) with regards to building scalable systems - including all the mistakes we made, some of them not so obvious! Give me a ring at 415 846-0232 or DM me or whatever, we'll set it up... - David Sifry via twhirl
I'd ask a simple one about the fact that traffic spikes can happen at any point, day or night, how do they deal it? Do they have round-the-clock staff or any type of early warning system? - Cains
I've built several sites for Yahoo! and give conference presentations on website scalability. Would you like to chat before then? - Glen Campbell
http://blog.broadpool.com/2008... some thoughts on scalability. - Glen Campbell
I have a bunch of conference presentations on scalability; let me know if you're interested (might be too technical for your audience) - Glen Campbell
Glen, I guess many of us are interested so if you can share them we would be very grateful! - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
These guys have all answered these questions before and know how to talk about the topic. So I don't think you are on the hook for deep insightful questions. More of just getting the conversation started. Maybe take it from an uber user point of view and ask for stories about how they've scaled, made performant, and made reliable some of your favorite features with special attention to challenges and how they were solved. The proud parents will do the rest. - todd
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Some nerds are better looking..just saying. - Metta (Kamath)
Don't forget the older but more charming and matured one: http://1990toys.com/wp-content... - Pascal
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“Obama wrote a book titled "Dreams from My Father". McCain later wrote one titled "Faith of My Fathers". Seems like an amusing coincidence.”
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How many fathers did McCain have? It sounds like he's promoting the Gay Agenda(tm). - Gabe
I'm liking this mostly because of Gabe's comment. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
Ditto what Alex said. - David Price
Indeed, +1 Gabe - John Worthington
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“I want the new MacBook (my dad told me to say that).”
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Rebel! Tell him you want a PC and you hate FriendFeed! Do it! - Andrew Feinberg
Is there a new MacBook coming? - Glen Campbell
Get a real laptop. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
You're a PC - Chris Johnson
And you can put Ubuntu on it! heh. - Robert Young
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Hayk Hakobyan posted a message
“chill”
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yeah... fake CNN poll says he does http://youtube.com/?v=uDgwL_JN... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Boy Noah, you are in for a bumpy next 8 years... - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
here is the so called impartial poll http://youtube.com/?v=uDgwL_JN... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
uh Alex... the summary on the poll you gave said it all. polls don't need to be explained. just show the stats and see what happened at CNN video. count the hands here... (Soledad O’ Brien who ran a focus group after the Palin/Biden debate). In the video she asks who thought Biden won and who thought Palin won, with a show of hands. She says in the transcript that there is 32 people in the audience and if you pause the video you can count 28 of them. http://youtube.com/?v=uDgwL_JN... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
i love this pic, posted it before on ff and fb, still makes me rotflmao - genieyclo
He got a nice suit. And that's all. - Rob Sterling
yeah... I like the suit. where does he get his made? - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
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“Tina Fay isn't peforming a comedy skit, she is constructing a dramatization.”
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That's false. And it's "Fey". - Josh Haley
political satire != drama construct - Pete Delucchi
Well, except the Katie Couric interview skit where Tiny Fey responded to one of the questions word for word what Palin gave. For that one small line, it was both. - Rodfather
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Had a Great Time Photo Walking in Sacramento on Friday Night
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Thanks to everyone who came out for our Friday night photowalk in Sacramento. We had about 40 or so people and near perfect weather -- just enough rain to wet the streets for those awesome neon reflections, but not enough rain to keep us from enjoying ourselves. Especially thanks to Trevor Carpenter and Tom Spaulding for helping organize and the tour of the best spots to shoot neon downtown. Many more photos coming in the weeks and months ahead. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
Had a great time as well! Can't wait to process mine, as well as see yours and others pictures. Hope we get a chance to walk this week... - Justin Korn
ah, my old home-town. I don't really miss it, but sometimes I think I do. - Bren
Like #3. 10/05/2008. Wish I were there. - Robert Scoble
دنیای زیبایست این آی مکس... - ‎‎Emad
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Ebb without Flow: Water May Be the New Oil in a Thirsty Global Economy - Knowledge@Wharton
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"Is water the new oil? The answer is yes, according to a number of economists, business leaders, scientists and geopolitical strategists, who argue that it's time to stop taking for granted the substance that covers 70% of the planet and makes up a similar proportion of the human body." - Hayk Hakobyan via Bookmarklet
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“I've received more than 70 resumes so far in about a day after advertising a job opening. It's amazing how bad many of them are. Definitely a post in there somewhere after I think through what they did wrong.”
Saturday at 10:45 pm - Link
Is there a common theme of problem areas that you are seeing? Curious... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Robert where are you posting this that your getting such low quality resumes? - Christopher Welle
What's the offer about? - directeur via NoiseRiver
Robert, granted I'm coming in late here, have you thought of maybe hiring an intern from a journalism class? - Christopher Welle
Christopher: Craig's List. It's because it's an administration job. That attracts a group that isn't quite computer savvy or that thinks about how to get attention. Plus, there are a lot of them that are sending attachments and such. - Robert Scoble
I've told friends who own IT Companies that when they advertise for techs on Craigslist they get what they paid for. Any local friends that have a word of mouth person to suggest? - Christopher Welle
Huh? Are attachments now entirely evil? Should CVs be sent in email bodies? I'm not sure I would think that a good idea. I feel the "reading through stacks of piss-poor CVs pain tho). - mattpovey
Christopher: yeah, I'm considering some interns from journalism classes and will be looking for others. - Robert Scoble
I think most people prefer PDF attachments for sending out resumes. I certainly send mine out that way so I can control what it looks like. The cover-letter is actually the more important part sometimes. - Andrew Feinberg
Robert, I think thats a great idea. Hope it works out. - Christopher Welle
Lots of companies are asking for Word Docs. They enter them in their local HR application that index's the information so its search able at that time. - Christopher Welle
I am fully qualified to delete emails en masse (including the ones from b.obama@gmail.com agreeing to your request for an interview). If telecommuting is on the table I'll start Monday, thanks. - Geoff "Maverick" Schultz
Christopher: why can't companies parse emails? Heck, they should look into what http://www.tripit.com can do with emails (you forward your flight emails to Tripit and it does amazing things with them). - Robert Scoble
The companies I know are really hesitant to change and either one have already spent their money on some expensive custom HR app or are stuck in the package they already bought and don't want to change. Change is bad. - Christopher Welle
I also want to say I don't think the IT depts at these companies are keeping up to date with the latest information or technology. Many of my fellow techs don't have jobs where the companies pay for training or give paid time off for classes. IT is seen as a overhead and to be cut as much as possible. It was refreshing to interview at a company that had a minimum of 2k for training with paid week off to do that training. No Certs necessary that come out of it. - Christopher Welle
You should accept LinkedIn profiles only so you have a standard format to go by - Jesse Stay
You know, that's a great idea for a startup, Robert. Something like tripit where you could send off a resume in email, it could parse it and identify sematic trends (PHP, Javascript, filing, Chinese cooking, etc.) and then allow a much more precise search by employers. You could sell the service to other job-hunting websites, or just set up a competitor. - Glen Campbell
GREAT post Robert. I'm horrified by the resumes I receive. I usually post with specific directions on how to apply. That usually screens out 80% of them since they ... don't follow directions. The research and customization is what help them stand out to me. Show me you didn't just cookie-cutter this application. - AJ Kohn
My first post-collegiate boss also had an interesting technique. He only looked at the first page of any resume. Any subsequent pages went into the trash. It was an ad agency and he simply believed that if you couldn't sell yourself in one page ... he didn't need to see any more. - AJ Kohn
AJ: true. In journalism school we were taught to only keep our resumes to one page. If one page is good enough for a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, it's good enough for everyone else. - Robert Scoble
Great post. Some nice advice. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
i'm not sure why people tell their stories with resumes any more...unless the audience you're sending them to is stuck in the pre-internet past...maybe a bank? - Michael
Question: Is linkedin a substitute for a resume? - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
Roberto, I think LinkedIn is even better than a resume - it gives you recommendations, more detail, and an ongoing history of the individual. - Jesse Stay
i haven't updated my resume since i joined linkedin. i refer all recruiters to my linkedin page. - cjmart
comment on your word 2007 bullet point, did you specify the versions of word the person needs to be familiar with? did you specify you should send your resume in .doc format? also are you saying your administrative assistant shouldn't know and understand word 2007? - Jonathan Jesse
Jonathan: no. But you should never send a document in the latest format. Someone might not be able to open it if you do. - Robert Scoble
Robert, any chance you are looking for an editor? :-) - Holger Eilhard
Very nice post! Bit of a wakeup call for all those complaining they cant get a job. - Gerard van Schip
Going to take these tips into deep consideration when revamping my resume. Need to start firing it out soon. :) - Shawn Farner
AJ & Robert: That is also the way that I was taught that I resume should be. One page in length. - Mathew A. Koeneker
I find craigslist to be very hit or miss on the job seeker side as well. Many times the jobs postings are filled with poor grammar and little information about the opportunity. Employers could use some of the same advice. - Sally Robinson
I'm wondering what the adoption of Word 2007 is out there then? Every client that I have worked with in the last 3 months has already deployed Office 2007. In fact I am receiving Office 2007 docs from some large customers (Fortune 500). Would a Word 2007 doc be better or worse then sending an ODF or somehow sending a link to a Google Doc? - Jonathan Jesse
@Jonathan, our office has deployed Word 2007 but in our department we all set our defaults to save our docs as .doc instead of .docx . Too many of the people we work with don't have Word 2007 and it's just an irritant to negotiate that. The whole thing is just yet another Microsoft headache IMO. - Laura Norvig
Yeah, it's really hard for people to install a quick little patch to let older versions handle the new files. (!) - Jordan Hofker
Jordan: I already have Word 2007 and it sets off red flags to me. Someone who is so careless might be that way with my email. - Robert Scoble
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Katy Southern posted a message
““This made me laugh: Today my mother called Sarah Palin a female Bill Clinton. This was in reference to Palin's winking and flirting with the camera. It should be noted that my mother is not overly fond of Bill Clinton.””
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Dave "Maverick" Winer posted a message
“Hello FriendFeed -- the API isn't working. Please fix asap. This is now a mission-critical service.”
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There's a feedback room FYI - anna
I know, but I wanted people who follow various services I provide through FF that the problem is with the API, not with the services. - Dave "Maverick" Winer
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Plus de 50 publicités créatives et dynamiques | Cerium's blog
Plus de 50 publicités créatives et dynamiques | Cerium's blog
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"Vous vous souvenez peut être de “101 publicités créatives ça vaut le coup d’œil” et bien aujourd’hui je vais vous présenter un volume 2 (le volume 3 est quasi prêt :p) avec des publicités un peu moins connues que la fois précédente, mais elles sont tout aussi excellentes ;) C’est parti ?" - Hayk Hakobyan via Bookmarklet
Pardon my French, but does this mean? - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
iPhone keyboard quirk: what does this mean? - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
English, Armenian, French and Latin.. any other hidden talents I should know of? :P - embee
Roberto :) the title means "more than 50 creative and dynamic ads." The comment part which is the opening text of the post says that this is the second of three parts of creative ads and that this second part includes some ads less known (but nonetheless creative). - Hayk Hakobyan
embee :) my latin is close to non-existant (i just know some proverbs and some phrases) and my armenian is in full-feldged degradation! - Hayk Hakobyan
Thanks. Some good ones there. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
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"Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five."" - Dave "Maverick" Winer via Bookmarklet
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Use Creativity to See Value Where Others Can’t | Genius Types
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"Wealth gurus talk a lot about how wealthy people see money differently. The theory goes that they treat money and assets in a different way than most people, a way that tends to attract more into their lives." - Hayk Hakobyan via Bookmarklet
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Lamborghini shows 4-door 4-seater super sedan
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... and still looks pretty hot (I do mean the car ;-)). - Kol Tregaskes via Bookmarklet
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Geoff "Maverick" Schultz posted a message
“Any acronym that is not notable enough to pop up on Wikipedia or Google is not an appropriate acronym to use in any setting. Just saying.”
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NSIUWYTA - Glen Campbell
WYSIWYG - Soup
All the above: FTW. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
IDTTMWYTIM - Glen Campbell
@John DTMWITIM? - Nathan Rein
NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT (The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR) (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic) - it pops up alot! We can use it! - Espressione Regolare
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