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Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins shared an item on Google Reader

Olds take back Valleywag [The Olds]

4 hours ago - Link

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From the article: "As for you Youngs, someone needs to tell you: Your code sucks, and we only keep John C. Dvorak around because he drives you insane." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com

5 hours ago - Link

Got 20 bucks says my personal blog never shows up there. :-p Dave Winer has made a point to block every feed I generate. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Elite Tech News: an entry from l33t: what's new online

The iPhone is going to bomb (in Canada)

21 hours ago - Link

Without looking, guess who posted this to the Elite Reddit filter. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“If Viacom wanted the names, addresses, and rental history of all of Blockbuster's customers, would that be a big deal?”

22 hours ago - Link

Cait, ivanandersson, Brian Sullivan, Sean McBride and 17 other people liked this

Maybe, but then sould know what they are renting. But a youtube link can be anything. Remember people are still getting rick rolled. - Grant Bierman

If this were a police state it would. Or if it were Iraq and you were renting Christian videos. There was a segment on 60 Minutes this week about how the 1 million Christians in Iraq were either killed or exiled. Almost all are gone. So yes, if we value our freedom, that kind of information must be protected. Try asking a librarian for that info, they'll say the same thing. - Dave Winer

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Yes if they plan on mailing me anything. My name and rental history. I don't care. I just don't want any spam from them - Corvida via twhirl

yes - Steven Hodson

I'm all for wanton outrage, but isn't the scope of the order to determine a very specific question: that Youtube is, in fact, benefitting in large part due to copyright infringing content? Viacom wants to prove to the court that most of what's watched on Youtube is copyright infringing content; to do that you need to see all the records of everything that's watched. I would imagine that in order for them to sue individual people, it would require a separate court order. - Mark Trapp

Mark, if that's all they wanted, they could make do with anonymized data. - Paul Buchheit

if viacom wanted name, addresses, rental history, credit card numbers and birthdays as well; would that be worrisome? what line of data being crossed is teh distinguisher for cause to worry? - Nathan Eckenrode

Actually, the judge would deny the request the same as it was denied for a similar request in the current ruling. - Dennis E. Hamilton

So what gives Viacom the right to this information? Does this mean if someone uploaded something I copyrighted to YouTube, I could also sue for all the information Google has? - Chris White

@DaveWiner interestingly enough, the best place in the middle east to be a Christian is Syria - Prolific Programmer

@Mark Trapp: It is not enought to say that Youtube is benefitting, whatever that means. There is a statutory protection against an intermediary being responsible, so Viacom wants to show that YouTube's algorithms promote the pirated content out of proportion to other content, so that they can show inducement. The judge ruled against them when they wanted some over-broad discoveries. - Dennis E. Hamilton

Dennis, right: so while I'm sure, yeah, Viacom would love to use the data they're going to receive to do other nefarious things, they can't. Or am I missing something? - Mark Trapp

Yet another way our civil liberties are being eroded in the name of capitalism and protecting big business. - Nick Dynice

I'm much more disappointed in a legal system that would grant Viacom access to the info. Why isn't the outrage pointed at the system, instead of something that takes advantage of the system? - Robert Seidman

Considering that Viacom owned Blockbuster up to a few years ago, it would probably not be a big deal. I doubt Blockbuster would have a problem parting with the information now. - Gabe Schaffer

Paging Judge Bork... - Andrew Feinberg

I didn't know about the prior ownership, which makes it an odd example I guess. There are actually special privacy laws that apply to video rentals though: "The Act forbids a video rental or sales outlet from disclosing information concerning what tapes a person borrows and buys, or releasing other personally identifiable information without the informed, written consent of the customer." - http://www.privacilla.org/busi... - Paul Buchheit

@Mark Trapp - some data they are not allowed to have, whatever they say they want it for. In the case at hand (http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/...) , the Judge ruled on 8 motions and three were granted: (1) to see the schema for the video content database, (2) to see the information from the logging database for each time a YouTube video has been viewed from YouTube (via embedding or directly), and (3) to receive all videos that have been removed by YouTube. There's another which could be granted partially, concerning some non-content data about videos in private areas under YouTube. Information about the actual private content is protected by law, but Viacom will use what it might be able to get about non-content information to demonstrate that a particular area is not private in the sense that is protected. - Dennis E. Hamilton

Maybe the fault lies, in part, with YouTube for not anonymizing log files after a certain point? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Is Viacom covertly networking with any intelligence agencies? What are the politics of the people at the top of Viacom? What are their social networks? - Sean McBride

Who says they don't already have this info? Certainly if they wanted it bad enough they could pay the going rate and get it anyway. - Brian Sullivan

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Pregnant Man Gives Birth

yesterday at 5:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Natitude, Cecily Walker, Dan Liebke, nathan and edythe liked this

"Pregnant Man Gives Birth Thu, 03 July 2008 at 2:17 pm Thomas Beatie, aka The Pregnant Man, gave birth today to a healthy baby girl! No other details were give about the transgendered man or his new baby joy. Here’s some backstory: Beatie was born a woman, had his breasts removed, received male hormones, and legally changed his gender from female to male. He kept his female sex organs and married a woman, Nancy. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child,” Beatie has said." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

hey, hey! good for him! - edythe

wasn't there something about this in the Life of Brian? - nathan

No, you don't have the right to have a child, not if you want to be part of the Man Club. Every time my wife sees this story, she quasi-jokingly tells me "if you really loved me, *you'd* carry our next kid to term." Do. Not. Want. It's grounds for banishment from the man club, in my opinion! - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I'm very happy to hear his daughter is healthy. It takes all kinds in this world, and hopefully this family will be left to live their lives in peace. - Natitude

Dan Hsiao posted a link

Sign Design Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

yesterday at 7:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Todd Nemet, Jess Lee, Aaron Brazell, Hutch Carpenter and 6 other people liked this

Looks like New Jersey LOL - Mona N

NJ FAIL FTW! - Mark Forman

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Oi. - Hao Chen

which way do he go, George, which way did he go? - RAPatton

took a wrong turn in Albuquerque? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I've seen a lot worse. This doesn't (actually in NC) actually seem so bad; you scan the sign for the road you're looking to get on and the direction it's going, and follow the corresponding arrow. But it would be an interesting design exercise to come up with a new, unified sign that would present the same information. (Interstate highway signs generally do a really awesome job of that.) - ⓞnor

This, for example, is clearly somebody's attempt to make a single coherent display for a very similar situation, but I think it is actually much worse: http://www.driveandstayalive.c... Unlike the "fail" sign, it doesn't immediately tell you what to do, instead you have to decode the map and translate it into actual driving on the fly. - ⓞnor

Another better fail candidate: http://img.thedailywtf.com/ima... - ⓞnor

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@hummingbird604 FriendFeed is the worst addictive Web service I've ever encountered. Avoid it or lose your life.”

yesterday at 5:56 pm - Link

Chris Chua, Mrsth, Sarah Perez, RAPatton and 52 other people liked this

Friggin' agreed. I just thought Twitter was bad. Now that I'm finally sucked in here, it's over. There is so much to check out that flows through this thing. - Lee Adkins

FF is absolutely addictive. There's so much - but it's not random tweets about going to Subway for lunch, or Vampire requests but instead really interesting stuff and great conversations - hence ... the addiction. - AJ Kohn

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Twitter is more addictive for me still... but FF has greater time-suck potential as I'm more inclined to get sucked into comment threads. - Lucretia Pruitt

Yes I can get why FriendFeed, and the FriendFeed/Twitter hybrid that twhirl provides is extremely addictive. Now that the UI doesn't freak me out any longer, I can get comfortable here. I think the big thing is the reduction of friction in moving around among our social presences and those we follow. It could be better, but it is already tantalizing. - Dennis E. Hamilton

FF is more additive b/c it is twitter plus everything else so it seems clear as to why it would be. It is also seriously cutting into my RSS reading - Lou Paglia

try Plurk. no joke. - Zee from WeDoCreative

You know, once upon a time I'd go out and be constantly checking Twitter on my phone, now it's FF, but I check FF more than I ever did Twitter - Duncan Riley

It's definitely addictive, I am with you Duncan I check it on the go regularly as well! - Joe Dawson

it is addicting - Bjorn Tipling via twhirl

I go thru phases with FriendFeed. It gest real interesting for me when there's a wave of new users. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

friendfeed.com scroll scroll comment comment friends like read-blog like comment edit-comment like read-article unlike refresh comment like like favorite Everyone super-fast-scroll like scroll scroll scroll me scroll refresh friends scroll like - Mitchell Tsai

It's time for a 12-step program...who's with me????? - Anna Haro

Anna: waiting for an intervention. i.am.not.addicted. - Mona N

@Mona--LOL :) - Anna Haro

amen... I'm only following 5 or 6 people and It's still addicting.... - c010depunkk via twhirl

if I'm not on the desktop reading FF - I'm on the iPhone doing the same. Falling way behind on direct feed reading but do use Feedly quite a bit with its FF integration - David W

Promotion!? - Igor Poltavskiy

FF is evil! Aaargh! It took me in its net, please please I want to get out! - marcantonio severgnini

:D - marcantonio severgnini

But it's actually worthwhile if you need to be kept in the loop - john conroy

tell me about it, I'm discovering lots of interesting people, sites and ideas! I just Love FriendFeed! - Giancarlo Angulo

I haven't really engaged much with FF yet, maybe I should stay away or fall victim to its negative time consuming powers - Unleash Video via twhirl

I can quit anytime I want! I just don't want to right now... maybe... next week... - Akiva Moskovitz

its quite cool isnt it - Danny Archer

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins posted a message on Twitter

“Completely re-tooling my podcast feed structure. This is a fun way to spend an evening.”

23 hours ago - Link

Zee from WeDoCreative, Steven Hodson and Alexander Williams liked this

BTW - got a screencast on this I should be releasing soon. I'm developing a backlog of video waiting to go out. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I don't do screencasts. Users might be terrified by the sheer anmount of mad clutter I need to work. :) - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

Chris Baskind posted a message

“Why is it that Social Media is just some sort of giant magnet which sucks in the asshats and perpetual frat boys of the world? I don't mind including myself in one of these categories ...”

23 hours ago - Link

Steven Hodson, Helen, Bjorn Tipling, Tony and Mark Forman liked this

[Redacted] - Ken Sheppardson

Block 'em if they get to be too much - Hutch Carpenter

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This is forever burned in my brain about this issue: http://www.penny-arcade.com/co... - Mark Trapp

aka digg-ers - Cee Bee

Hutch: This is a general rant, not directed at any particular service. Somehow, I've just ODed today. - Chris Baskind

Anonymous cowards - the nature of faceless interactivity - Bwana McCall

Mark - exactly. Which is a reason I love that "most" use their real name here. Accountability makes for a much more intelligent community. I'm would probably not subscribe to someone who has a name like PartyBoy2000 here. - Vince DeGeorge

Cee Bee: Or Redditers (Reddit is not even slightly better than Digg these days). Or anonymous trolls anywhere. - Chris Baskind

Vince - HA! You're right. I'd avoid PartyBoy2000. - Hutch Carpenter

:-( - PartyBoy2000

LOL!!!!!!!!!! - Bwana McCall

HA! And the name PartyBoy2000...why am I thinking about Jackass all of the sudden? - Hutch Carpenter

Someone beat me to it, I thought about doing that - nicely done. Bravo. - Vince DeGeorge

I subscribed. - Hutch Carpenter

Me too. I heard PartyBoy2000 was one awesome and crazy guy. - Mark Trapp

:-p Asshat ----> - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

If so, you're a very polite asshat, Mark. ;-) - Chris Baskind

hmmmm.... Not so sure Rizzn should get a pass on this :) - Aaron Brazell

Heh. Aaron's probably right. Chris, you either agree with my politics, or have been fortunate enough to miss my political screeds. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

in all fairness some of the frat boys have lightened up a bit...of course the others just BLOCK me like asshats. lol - Erin Kotecki Vest

For me, screed and asshattery go in separate boxes. ;-) - Chris Baskind

You're a frat boy, Chris? Say it ain't so! - Dave Bonta

I'm more the asshat kind. - Chris Baskind

I'm going to wake up early and head to the at&t store to get one, since the longer lines will probably be at the Apple store - Bjorn Tipling

It's like this: you're either with me or you're basically Hitler. - Aaron Brazell via fftogo

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins shared an item on Google Reader

Spotted Photographer Darrell Clakley Captures Great Action Shot

June 23 at 5:04 pm - Link

you know you live in a sleepy corner of the country when the action photog for your newspaper makes a headline for catching an action shot. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Actually, I am not the action photographer for the Tyler paper...I am simply a freelancer who posts pictures of various events around town. Most of the pictures I shoot deal with my son and his friends and their high school or with our local recreational summer baseball league. The "headline" was only an item on the website and never was in the actual paper. Our paper allows amateur to have an avenue to which we can post pictures that we have shot. And, sometimes, our small town of 100.000 is not sleepy enough. - Darrell

Ah. Who knew people heard of FriendFeed here in Tyler! I should get out more. I guess it was just a bit of headline writing fail. I'm guilty of that now and again. No offense to you - was just a bit of ribbing at the hometown. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins posted an entry on Mashable!

EventVue: For Your Own Personal Face Book [video]

yesterday at 7:08 pm - Link

Rob liked this

it was good talking with you guys. I look forward to working with the SummerMash events and getting some feedback from the Mashable readers on how we can be better. - Rob

Indeed. Anytime you have something new going on over there drop us a line, was fun having you on the show.. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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Preaching: This might hurt a little...

23 hours ago - Link

"Another thought- whenever I talk about preaching about sexual sin, one thing I want to make really, really clear- Paul is adamant in 1 Cor 5: we don't judge those who aren't followers of Jesus." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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Who vs. how many

23 hours ago - Link

Why can't it be about both? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Well, ten-thousand people who never click on ads or buy your stuff, less useful than a hundred who do both religiously. Or even one who does. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

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The current state of America.

23 hours ago - Link

Replace Cheney with a a representative from Old Media, like Viacom, the MPAA or the RIAA, and you've got a more accurate cartoon. FISA is important, but entertainment consumption affects a whole lot more folks. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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LA Times Downsizes

23 hours ago - Link

Yeup. This is happening in big towns and small - the local paper here in Tyler just went to a smaller paper size. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins shared an item on Google Reader

Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form

yesterday at 4:42 pm - Link

Alexander Williams liked this

I said the almost the same thing yesterday - I suggested CD-Roms. Sean Aune told me earlier today that maybe we should use old AOL floppies. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

It has to be electronic format on 1Tb drives, but it's not stipulated what format the data be in within that context. I suggest EBCDIC-encoded ARC encodes. Split over multiple disks from a RAID5 config, without labelling which disk is which in the set. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

+1 for Alexander. :) - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Dennis Howlett posted a message

“Most of my friends ignore Twitter etc. They also squeeze money from moribund IT budget holders. They get things done that add value.”

yesterday at 7:00 pm - via twhirl - Link

Kishore Balakrishnan liked this

I find you highly judgmental and arrogant. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. Enjoy your holiday. - Aaron Brazell

That's fine-Horses for courses. - Mark Forman

Wow. That's a bit excessive, Dennis. "Twitter etc" does add value, even if you don't know what it is. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Aaron Brazell posted a message

“In an effort to incite Robert Scoble's wrath, I'd like to invite, slash, BEG for more FriendFeed followers. I'll give you candy. :)”

yesterday at 6:10 pm - Link

Michael W. May, Jess, Andrew Feinberg, Kelby and 4 other people liked this

Blocked. Sorry. You earn a 24 hour penalty. Anyone who begs for Followers gets put into the penalty box. Calacanis is still there. Gotta bring him out and see if he's still begging. - Robert Scoble

rofl - Aaron Brazell

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He really blocked me. Bastard. :) - Aaron Brazell

so now if i reply to this, will scoble see it? - Allen Stern

done! :) but Scoble and I are friendfeed buddies already. :P - Rom Feria

Why is there so much Scoble talk on my FriendFeed today... - Ben Parr

I'll never beg for followers. I figure I'll either earn them or I won't. - Akiva Moskovitz

Allen - that's a good question. I assume he can't see this post because he blocked Aaron. - Hutch Carpenter

You are now entering a no-Scoble zone! - Vezquex

No Robert he setup a private email list guess who is on it? :) - Fred Grott

Alrighty, now you owe me an almond joy! <grin> - Cheryl Allin

every time scoble types a butterly flaps its wings somewhere in indonesia - Cee Bee

LOL @ 24 hour penalty. Why not call it time out? haha - Mona N

I'm with Robert. Are you giving away a macbook air or something too? How about you create great content and wait for the fame instead ;P Calacanis is out of my penalty box...Brazell is IN! - Erin Kotecki Vest

Just look at how many comments and added followers Aaron has gained by begging for FF followers and getting blocked by Scoble. I'd say that's a gain by any stretch of the imagination. - Ben Parr

Scoble does have a point - but only because you actually posted 'beg' in all caps. But hey - if you wanna close the deal - you gotta at least remember to ask and have a call to axn. - Sonciary Honnoll

#suckit Kotecki! - Aaron Brazell

I really should start a tread having people block you for fun. lol - Erin Kotecki Vest

or a thread. whichever - Erin Kotecki Vest

Ferd, go away. And I don't follow Scoble either. ;) I may do it for a MacBook Air. This MBP is pretty heavy to lug around all the time. I'd like to try an SSD for a change. - Cyndy

I added you, and won't even block you for asking. I need to hunt down more FriendFeed friends too, especially with Twitter being a PITA lately. - Kelby

here is an easy way folks, hover over posted by friend of..click subscribe..75% add you after you do that :) sh..do not Tell Robert - Fred Grott

Instead of begging for followers, I usually just follow people I find interesting. They usually follow back - Shey

I'm not really sure whether to laugh, cry, or #suckit - Andrew Feinberg

We're laughing Andrew. It's all good. - Erin Kotecki Vest

And apparently, Scoble is leering at me from the Everyone tab. Hi Robert. :) - Aaron Brazell

Hah. I saw Scoble's post first, and I was ready to raise up with righteous indignation or something. :-p Tricksters. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Erin #suckit is hilarious. Thank you. - Ryan Kuder

*applauds* Nice, Aaron. - Michael W. May via twhirl

The #suckit stickers will make their debut at BlogHer '08 - Erin Kotecki Vest

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins shared an item on Google Reader

HDTV gas worse than carbon dioxide

yesterday at 4:42 pm - Link

Alexander Williams liked this

I made a prediction at the beginning of the year regarding this stuff. Let's see if anyone remembers it. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

LOTS of gasses are way better greenhouse gasses than CO2. Environmentalists just have no sense of scale -- or even of science, by and large. Even if every HDTV on Earth suddenly farted it's N3 into the atmo, there'd be no net impact on atmo heat trapping. It, like everything else "green," is just one more excuse to control what things you're supposed to enjoy. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

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Tyler Paper Debuts Narrower Page Width Tuesday

Wednesday at 11:27 pm - Link

Alexander Williams liked this

Is the price of print really going up that much? Why? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Paper's been going up for a long, long time. Part of it was the building bubble, part of it was stupid protectionist policies regarding Canadian lumber, and now part of it is the fact at least a good chunk of Georgia pine is being speculated on for ethanol production. It bit the RPG industry hard a bit back. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

yikes. well, the tyler paper is a former client of mine that refused to do anything interesting with their online presence, despite having traffic numbers akin to your favorite a-list blog. They just got an RSS feed a few months ago. It's really made me wonder about how easy it would be to put together a local area blog/news portal and try to compete with local papers. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

To compete at a real level? Not hard at all. To get people to READ it? Local people? By extension, to gather local advertisers? DAMNED hard. Advertisers are by wise nature, risk-adverse and your local community would have to see the site as a part of their community. Might try talking it up around town, etc, to gauge interest. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

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Plasma torch garbage processing produces usable gas, electricity

Wednesday at 7:47 pm - Link

Chris Baskind, Alexander Williams and possible248 liked this

The single advantage to increasing oil prices is it makes marginal technologies more fundable. Some of those pan out to have net-gain energy curves ... eventually. More fail, of course. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

I produce usable gas, too - just not the kind you'd want. - l0ckergn0me

We had a little note on EcoTech Daily today about Pittsburgh, which is harvesting methane from 5 of its landfills. Necessity is the mother of invention. - Chris Baskind

I've always wondered why we don't do more with methane. I remember when I was a kid, a local Dallas man figured out a way to create methane using some enzymatic process that broke down organic garbage (I was 10 or 12 or so, that's how I remember it. I remember methane production, enzymes and garbage were involved). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark Wilson posted a message on Twitter

“Did I mention that I hate Larry King? I hate Larry King. He sucks. I hope his suspenders choke him.”

Wednesday at 11:14 pm - Link

Parth Awasthi, Ontario Emperor, Brad McCrorey and edythe liked this

bizarre. Larry King is like Barbara Walters. Very neutral. - Mona N

He was actually tolerable on talk radio - Mark Forman

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hmmmm his looks bug you? - Mona N

i confess to some dislike of mr. king myself... - edythe

you too edythe?? he's very seasoned, unemotional, and rational. i enjoy his interviews very much. why do you guys dislike him? - Mona N

He's kind of obnoxious and loud. Kind of a know it all. In other words he'd be great here on FF and he'd so kick @scobles ass. :D - Mark Forman

LOL @ mark! he's calmed down a lot since he was hospitalized, no? - Mona N

he's not objective at all. he never asks tough questions. he is completely out of his mind and doesn't know what the hell is going on in the world because he's like 150 years old. - Mark Wilson

and for the record, I was talking about Larry King in my comment - not Scoble. although I guess I could say the same for him. zing! - Mark Wilson

Mark & Mark FTW! lol - Mark Forman

High five! - Mark Wilson

wow. hahahahhahahha - Mona N

Another thing while we're picking on LK and his suspenders-did you ever notice how close they are to his neck? My shoulders slope up to my neck, it seems his slope down. Just sayin... bet he has been to Michael Jackson's house and slept over...Ok swallowing my medicine now. - Mark Forman

LK is like a cross b/w a triceratops and a pterodactyl (did I even spell that right?) ... and the poor thing is ancient! Leave him alone lol!! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... - Mona N

well, his watch is gaudy. I don't like the dandyish outfits with the suspenders. he doesn't actually seem very intelligent. as a matter of fact, i find it hard to discern much of a personality at all. if i met him at a cocktail party and had to talk with him, i feel like i'd be polite but very bored. and when i really listen to the words coming out of his mouth--I mean, gahhh. he's just uninteresting to me. sorry. - edythe

arent him and barbara walters automatons so the general public cannot decipher their 'real' thoughts...? though b.w. shows more human like qualities on the view. - Mona N

Mark, I remember King's late night radio show, originating from Crystal City (near my junior high school). I liked him then. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

oops, I was responding to Mark *Forman*. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Mona-Baba reference makes me think of Gilda Radner and I'm smiling big. I miss that funny woman. She pwned Baba - Mark Forman

I could tolerate babawawa until she spawned that horrible daytime talkshow. Larry at one point had some good interview skills - his coverage of the last presidential election left my jaw hanging to the floor. Every time they'd call on him to comment, he'd jar from a blank stare like he just came from a coma, and utter something that my six year old would be able to say "now that's just dumb!" - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

M"R"H-So let me see if I got this right...you're baggin on your 6 year old or?? :P - Mark Forman

Can't imagine a 6 year old with a voice like that. Is the 6 year old "losing" lunch money? Does the 6 year old associate with a string of 3 year olds? And do I have to change my name to Mark to comment here? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Steven Hodson posted a message

“I'm curious (ya I know I do this a lot :) ) but would people listen to a podcast that really was just someone talking with people that they found interesting - talk about the web and all it's different things going on .. could last 15mins, 1/2 hr to an hour or longer .. something very casual”

Wednesday at 1:59 pm - Link

Dennis Laumen, Franklin Pettit, Susan Beebe, Mark Dykeman and Leslie liked this

Depends on who the people were- but likely yes. - Abby Martin

I'm a little confused with your question. Is are you asking how long a person would continue listening to a podcast? - possible248

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maybe? depends on more than length...I love BOL for instance, and it's of "indeterminate length" - Sarah Perez

Maybe... Like Sarah, it depends on the length. Keep it short and I have a better chance of listening. - Mike Wills

@possible248 more curious if it would be listened to at all :) - whether they would continue listening would depend on the result of the first part being yes or no and on how interesting the content was. - Steven Hodson

@Sarah BOL? - Steven Hodson

I tend to avoid "casual conversations" in favor of interviews with people discussing their work or sections of prepared talks (check out Phil Windley's IT Conversations). Twenty to 30 minutes seems to be my squirm-limit. - Sprague D

You might check out some of these http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.... - Ken Sheppardson

@Ken .. not a fan of the Gillmor Gang - Steven Hodson

Sure, but don't 'sell' it to the tech blogosphere. - Eric Rice

@ken I don't listen to the GG often but when I do I listen from the perspective that I'm a student and when class is in session I cannot be online nearly as much as those guys. For my situation it's beneficial and I read at the same time to pass the boring parts. - Julian Baldwin

Yes, bring it on, Steven - Mark Dykeman

Yeah, that sounds like fun... sorta like GillmorGang idea... do it! - Susan Beebe

I know it's lame to 'brag' about this but I've never, in my life, downloaded in a podcast. Not sure why. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Steven Hodson: Ah. I'd listen to it, but only if it was ten minutes or less. Possibly longer if the podcast was really, really funny. - possible248

@Eric - just a bit of clarification if you could - what do you mean byt "don't 'sell' to the tech blogosphere" that has me a bit confused - Steven Hodson

Yeah, I'd probably listen to it, but it would have to be under 10 minutes. For me, the optimal is about 7 minutes. - Jonathan Sterling

"someone talking with people that they found interesting - talk about the web and all it's different things going on" Isn't that most tech podcasts? Twit, Cranky Geeks, GG. It works for them. I do enjoy an occasional guest interview. - Kevin Shannon

You know, if you're looking to put something together, I'd love to have something that was 10-20 minute digestible chunks on single topics. Rather than a 60-90 minute free ranging convo that covers 6 topics over the course of the show. - Ken Sheppardson

@Ken I'll keep that in mind - thanks - Steven Hodson

Steven - what do you think Mashable Conversations is? :-p Just my self-indulgence in meeting new people recorded to MP3s. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Not entirely unlike BSU, which is just me doing weird or outrageous news for 30min then interviewing a band for 45. And it's still strangely compelling. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

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“Well I guess I won't be on Steve Gillmor's Christmas list this year ROFLMAO ”

yesterday at 12:04 am - Link

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ok what did you do? *smirk* wait, maybe it's the whole PodCast idea you had? that might get his shorts all up in a bunch - Susan Beebe

@Susan I don't think he liked my latest post http://www.winextra.com/2008/0... - Steven Hodson

of all the possible adjectives to describe his writing style, "peyote induced" seems very kind. - Robert Seidman

@Robert - maybe he didn't like the being in the corner comment LOL - Steven Hodson

"Peyote induced" doesn't have to be pejorative, and given his liberalish attitudes, he might even take it as a compliment. :) (and I promise that *I* don't mean liberalish pejoratively - I know what you all are thinking!). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Erin Kotecki Vest posted a message on Twitter

“Why in the HELL am I reading ValleyWag? And what the F are they doing POLITICS FOR?”

Wednesday at 11:48 pm - Link

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I seriously need a better education on this counter-culture in Silicon Valley. Because there is a fine line between elitist tech scene and smarmy tech scene. - Erin Kotecki Vest

Mark liking this one confirmed bipartisan cooperation on voting down valleywag. lol - Erin Kotecki Vest

Hah. Right you are. :) Who says the left and the right can't come together? :-p I ask myself the same question every day (just like I'm sure the VW guys ask themselves why the hell they're reading Mashable). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

See. Obama really CAN bring people together. LOL. Or wait...is it Scoble? - Erin Kotecki Vest

Morton Fox posted a message on Twitter

“According to my Social Security statement, my estimated benefit at age 67 will be $2,300 a month. That amount won't buy squat by that time.”

Wednesday at 11:33 pm - Link

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it doesn't even buy too much squat now. - edythe

so, robert haas, how often do people confuse you with the poet? - edythe

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Squat is overrated. ;-) In all seriousness though, I suspect I will have to work until I die. Or move to a socialist nation. - Joanmarie

@Joanmarie in a socialist nation, you'll hafta work till you die. By the tax rates, many parts of the US are considered socialist - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

i'll never make it to 67; problem solved - RAPatton

oh, rap... i wish you wouldn't say that. you don't know that that is true. :( - edythe

Depends on how much you need to live. The average person in the world only owns $2,200. I try to spend $35/day ($1,000-1,100/month). With fixed expenses $1,500/month (I'm retired)...and still flew 1st class (had whole row to myself) NW DTW-SFO this morning. One US friend lives on $1,200/month and has a great life! Egypt is living on $25/month. Some friends have retired to south-east Asia and South America and are living very well on their Social Security. - Mitchell Tsai

edythe, I am pretty intiutive when it comes to the type of things, but I am saving just in case - RAPatton

RAPatton, to be honest I'm in the same boat: Suspecting the same but starting to save just in case I'm wrong. ;-) - Joanmarie

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Post your first authored site/blog Formatted as: domain, earliest archive date, wayback machine link

Wednesday at 7:39 pm - Link

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I'll start krynsky.com 01/08/97 http://web.archive.org/web/200... - Mark Krynsky

Check out Leo Laporte's leoville.com 12/21/96 http://web.archive.org/web/*/h... - Mark Krynsky

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From the page "On the radio: a look at the year ahead, Office 97 is here and so are the bugs, why Command & Conquer has conquered my heart, and why you shouldn't download Netscape Communicator..." http://web.archive.org/web/199... - Mark Krynsky

frankohara.com; May 10, 2000; http://web.archive.org/web/200... - edythe

Check out edythe with the <blink> tag.....aww yea. And City Lights is awesome. Bukowski is my favorite poet. - Mark Krynsky

bhc3.wordpress.com, Feb 9, 2008, http://bhc3.wordpress.com/ (I'm still pretty n00b) - Hutch Carpenter

My old site at ocf.berkeley.edu/~kfox predated web.archive.org by three years, but I have a copy from 1995 here: http://fury.com/archive/fury1/ My earliest stuff on wayback is here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/h... - Kevin Fox

Not sure this was my first, but it's the only URL I could remember... michaelhocter.com 11/05/1999 http://web.archive.org/web/199... - Michael Hocter

Hutch, you might be a n00b but your blog is great. Keep it up. - Mark Krynsky

a site for my first band, The Savoys, circa 1999 -> http://web.archive.org/web/199... - Nathan Chase

Wow Kevin...that site really takes me back in time. Very cool, I especially like "This page is intended for use with Netscape 1.1 Use it for full effect". - Mark Krynsky

It just didn't look right in Netscape 1.0. I don't think it supported gif transparency or the 'align' image attribute or something. Don't even get me started on NCSA Mosaic. - Kevin Fox

Not in Web Archive. First web site was 2/2005. - Cyndy

My first client site: thomas-york.com / 1996-08-08 / http://tinyurl.com/5g6uoh (Want to know how much things have changed? Molly Holzschlag contacted me in late '96 or early '97 to say how much she liked that monstrosity.) - Roger Benningfield

The second iteration of my personal site. (The first is lost to history.) agincourtmedia.com / 1997-02-05 / http://tinyurl.com/59qruy - Roger Benningfield

My first domain was datacommerce.com, 12/12/98, http://tinyurl.com/68xzu4 and my first blog was cheslow.com, 9/13/02, http://tinyurl.com/5palqb - Alan Cheslow

These are great folks. I enjoy going back in the web time machine. Keep 'em coming. - Mark Krynsky

http://paperfrog.com August 20, 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/*/h... - Chris Baskind

personal home page, 1/16/99: http://web.archive.org/web/199... and today: http://www.talisman.org/~ratso... ... yep. Hasn't changed in.. wow, almost 10 years. - J. Phil

Most interesting item I've learned so far? Kevin Fox, J.Phil and I all write poetry. You can find mine here: http://krynsky.com/category/po... - Mark Krynsky

Haha...that Cnet page is so funny now. I especially like the IE3 ad banner. - Mark Krynsky

Oh boy.. my poetry is crap, sorry about that. - J. Phil

http://www.crl.com/~laporte I think. Circa 1994. No wayback exists, alas. - Leo Laporte

It was 3 years old when the first shot was taken, and please don't hold the content against me, I'm a reformed conservative :-) http://web.archive.org/web/199... (and it was christmas when the shot was taken, hence the logo) There was another site older than this but I cant remember the exact URL. - Duncan Riley

Mark, sorry, I decided pulling up random sites in wayback machine was better in a different thread... so I pulled my comment about cnet. - J. Phil

Wow Duncan, fan of the animated gif back then? Me too, actually.. - J. Phil

J. Phil, geocities address as well :-) Back in the days where a .com cost $200 and hosting was prohibitively expensive for most...well for me anyway at the time :-) - Duncan Riley

Duncan - I was lucky that one of my good friends got a portable class C domain back in 1990 before network solutions decided to start reserving them for bigger customers. That became (and still is) talisman.org, 255 fixed IPs of real estate. - J. Phil

My blog has been on soulhuntre.com from the start, the first entry is still online at http://www.soulhuntre.com/2000... . This FF led me to post about this, and the wayback links are included there. http://www.soulhuntre.com/2008... - Soulhuntre

I'd participate, but archive.org is borking for my domain right now. I know it was 1995 for my first blog like thing, 1997 for my first domain (rizzn.com). Thankfully, since I used Tripod, my first teen angsty blog posts are forever gone. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

The oldest Randomelements link on wayback is Feb 2004 but anyhting from there to June 06 just gives a SharePoint script error (obviously couldn't be archived properly). My first site on geocities (a long time ago) is lost in the ether - can't remember the url and there is no longer any record of it but that went back to about 96/97. - Colin Walker via