There's an annual 3-day Fire Arts festival in Oakland, CA. FIre you can hold in your hand... They teach people how to use fire & metal in their artwork.
- Mitchell Tsai
Was actually gonna post Justin's question as well.
- Manuel Mas
Sweet...Finally someone reboots/rethinks forums... phpBB is getting stale imho
- Bwana ☠
I think I may set this up a bit later, good to see they're hosted on rackspace cloud
- Bwana ☠
Agreed phpBB is getting stale but face it forums are web 1.0. The crazy thing is they work!! Anything that updates the web 1.0 forum is great in my book.
- cheapsuits
They are stale but they still have their place, I think... esp. for long term moderated conversations??
- Justin Long
My big complaint is form conversations are siloed. The revamping of the forum since their inception is happening slooooowly. Why?
- cheapsuits
Thanks for the tip. I have to check out this forum. I will suggest this to a client that is interested to start to participate in social media activities and an online conversation with their customers, business partners and others. But first we have to go through Forrester's "Social Technographics Profile" of their customers as described in the Groundswell book.
- Martin Lindeskog
answer to the 'how are they different' question: cleaner, plug in friendly and open source. Simply beautiful. Built around discussions. Easily themeable.
- Andrew Hyde
Twitter was a figment of our imagination ;)
- Valeria Maltoni
Yeah -- I haven't seen a fail whale in a while. And i just noticed that Penthouse Magazine commented on your post, Jeremiah.
- Daniel B. Honigman
Does Facebook or Friendfeed pick up the real time web slack when Twitter goes down? What is your first instinct on where to turn?
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
Oh, look at all the fresh updates here! (Including mine) Is this the social media equivalent of a booty call?
- Justin Whitaker
and the funniest part is when your first reaction is to tweet and find out what is going on. oops. Nothing on the blog, I checked.
- nan braun
Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed!
- Samuel Driessen
I'm having login issues with Facebook as well (and so are a number of my friends in different parts of the countries). FriendFeed FTW
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
@Sydney I rather like FriendFeed, there's just more people on Twitter for me, it drives WAY more traffic, and it's RARE good discussions evolve here from anyone other than POWER users.
- Ryan Stephens
love how we all pop over here when twitter is down ;)
- Kate
Johnny: I have more discussions b/c my friends engage more there...of course harder to follow and usually include only 2-4 people. I LOVE the threaded comments here, provided a group of intelligent people were chatting, but how often does that happen? Sometimes with people like Scoble, Owyang and Louis Gray? (that's been my experience anyway.)
- Ryan Stephens
I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me.
- RuthNH
Sam .. They are like alternate universes. Didn't expect anything in my Facebook feed, but knew it would be hopping here. Love this! This is going to be a Trending Topic I suspect ....
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
@johnny I'd love to see that list, I'm going to sit down with friendfeed this weekend and figure it out
- Sydney Owen
Well, you mean in general or just the current outage? ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
.. Scoble must have run his script again, I guess.. ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
Johnny: That's completely fair. I've lurked a lot & have read a lot of Louis Gray's, Scoble's and Valeria Maltoni's insights with respect to FriendFeed. You're right, maybe I'm not following the right people. And I didn't necessarily mean to imply there was a lack of intelligent conversation. It's just rare that I've seen these discussions develop from anyone's comments aside from a few power users. I'd be grateful for a list of users.
- Ryan Stephens
I'm blaming Jeff Elder for breaking the Twitterz in the Charlotte area, because he wrote a column about how it was good for listening for businesses. http://bit.ly/ospIC
- Andria Krewson
from iPhone
Johnny: But how often does it start from someone's message that's not a 'power user' ? How often does someone following 100, have a 100 followers end up with conversations like this off of one of there comments?
- Ryan Stephens
"The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections. Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies. Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean. After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy “switch-on” ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Retraining magnets is costly and time consuming, experts say, and it might not be worth the wait to get all the way to the original target energy. “It looks like we can get to 6.5 relatively easily,” Dr. Myers said, but seven trillion electron volts would require “a lot of training.” Many physicists say they would be perfectly happy if the collider never got above five trillion...
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"A cookbook can change your life. Two years ago I reviewed one called "Southern Cakes," which did just that. Like most people, I'd always thought making a cake from scratch was only for the heroic. In fact, Nancie McDermott's book showed me that all you have to do is beat butter and sugar to a cream, beat in some eggs and add flour and milk in alternating batches, and there's your batter. Wow, really have to lie down and recover after all that. I'm a different person now. People see me and say, "Hey, Cake Guy!" Because I'm usually carrying a cake around with a goofy grin on my face. Once I'd grasped the basics (and tried just about every recipe in "Southern Cakes"), I moved on to Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Cake Bible," and "The Art of the Cake" by her mentors Bruce Healy and Paul Bugat. Both books are crammed with sophisticated techniques, and I now follow Beranbaum's foolproof method of making butter cream frosting. Her discussion of the chemistry and physics behind her recipes is...
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- RAPatton
"Here are the steps on my way to becoming the Cake Guy. Pay attention. This could happen to you. First, I bought some good 9-inch pans, and I started keeping fresh baking powder on hand. Freshness makes a big difference in everything connected with cake. Then I started hanging out at restaurant supply places. I invested $4.50 in a package of 100 (9-inch) parchment paper circles; totally...
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RAPatton, What about ComicCon? is Great on this year?
- Scorpio
I loved it Scorpio; we had a blast! If you haven't done it, you should really give it a go. I just can't imagine not having a good time, because everyone is friendly and there is just so much to do and see. Here are our pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- RAPatton
That's great, You know i love Comic Video game Character! i think Comic character never die!
- Scorpio
It's so so true about becomming "The Cake Guy" or in my case "The Cake Lady"; "The Cake Bible" is my favorite recipe book but thanks to you sharing this article I may need to lay my hands on "Southern Cakes" Thanks!
- Shannon - GlassMistress