Sam Whitmore - Comments

From CNN: 15 Stressful Jobs that Pay Badly http://money.cnn.com/galleri...... among them, news reporter, events coordinator

October 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

One page per job? That's really cheezy of cnn.com . 15 page views per person that sticks it out. I owe them 14. - Dave Slusher

Hi Dave! That's the law of the page view. Everybody's doin' it... - Sam Whitmore from email

Howard Solomon

Trying to deal with the post Tour de France blues. Any suggestions?

July 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

The pennant race, Howard... the pennant race. - Sam Whitmore

Jason Pontin

Any one know who makes the decisions for programming/speakers at the Churchill Club these days?

December 3, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Karen Tucker is the one you want, Jason... she's the CEO. ktucker at churchillclub dot org - Sam Whitmore

Jason Pontin

At work in Cambridge, thinking about our foreign language editions.

October 17, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Congrats on your rising ad pages through Q3, Jason... you are one of the few! - Sam Whitmore

Chris Shipley

Just read 8th story today "analyzing" DEMO v TC. How many of these supposed journalist/bloggers did any real reporting (i.e. called)? Zero.

September 5, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I didn't call. What is your point of view? Blog that and we will link to you. Chris runs the Demo conference. - Robert Scoble

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I'm still waiting for someone to ask me what I think of the whole thing. - Daniel J. Pritchett

So, Robert, if not posted in a blog, a point of view doesn't exist/matter? What happened to original reporting or fact checking? - Chris Shipley

What I wrote is mostly my opinion and market feedback I am hearing. I didn't talk with either you or Mike because I don't think it would have added to what I was writing about. But I am interested in what calling you would have added to my article? - Robert Scoble

Robert, Chris might say something that informs your point of view, even slightly. That would make it worth the call, no? - Sam Whitmore

Sam: it probably would but this is a two-way conversation. Why does every blog post need to be a NYT article? Sometimes I just want to tell my readers what I think and I want to start a conversation. Not report on what everyone else's point of view is. - Robert Scoble

I don't think a blog is necessarily the same as a newspaper or magazine. While I think it's important to have a consistent standard of ethics - of fact-checking on stories, etc. - a blog is typically your personal point of view. It's more an op/ed and less a newspaper report. You don't have to proactively go after every possible point of view, or be objective or neutral, so long as people know this.. I think bloggers _are_ trusted more when they are honest, open, check their facts. - Justin Long

I think we have seen that social media, like FF, like Twitter, like Memeorandum and others are spectacular vehicles to create and support echo chamber thinking and echo chamber creation. Many bloggers do good work, but many do shoddy miserable work - and so far I don't see the bad ones punished by the readership. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Soulhuntre: you are probably right but tonight I waited on the phone an hour to participate in a radio talk show. Here you can correct and be part of the story. - Robert Scoble

Daniel, what did you think of the whole thing? - Todd Hoff

Chris: I just searched Google for your phone number. It can't be found. So, how are we supposed to call you? For the record, my phone number has always been on my blog. You can search Google for it and call me. It's +1-425-205-1921. That's one thing you can do to make it easier for journalists and bloggers to call you and get your point of view. - Robert Scoble

Chris, how many calls did you receive from so-called "true" journalists? When I read newspapers and other work from the "traditional" media, it often seems that the reporter simply regurgitates the press release. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

Stephen Baker

Big crowd looking up on Times Sq. Man seems to be stuck hi on skycraper. Ambulance is here. 7th + 47th, westside.

August 26, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

so what happened with the man on the ledge, stephen?? - Sam Whitmore

Dave Donohue

@samwhitmore Tom is @TomForemski http://is.gd/1LDy

August 20, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

thanks Dave.. searching for "Tom Foremski" turns up nothing... just like Rachel... - Sam Whitmore

Ryan Block

Why do I even bother trying to tell all these hapless PR flacks not to bother emailing and calling for their lame non-news? They're infinte.

August 15, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Ryan... you should come be a guest on our weekly editorial teleconference series... or maybe ask Joshua to come on... that's the best way to refine the PR contact you get - Sam Whitmore

Frank X. Shaw

Stuck on 520 with the bridge up.

August 3, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again... - Sam Whitmore

Morgan McLintic

@samwhitmore Yes - Japan is a wonderful country, amazing blend of ancient & ultramodern in Tokyo and incredible scenery beyond. Loved it.

August 3, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Christy's son just got back today from 10 days there and loved it. I was there in '89 for 10 days...never did get to the countryside... time for a "business trip," Morgan! :-) - Sam Whitmore

Harry McCracken

Going to a reception for the Cartoon Art Museum's show of Harvey Comics art--Richie Rich, Casper, Little Dot, and company.

August 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I was a big Sad Sack fan... I loved Hi-Fi Tweeter... - Sam Whitmore

Marshall Kirkpatrick

Changes: I'm joining RWW full time as VP of Content Development...and I'm getting married!!! http://marshallk.com/changes... woo hoo!

July 31, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Congrats and congrats!! - Dave Winer

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mazel tov, congrats, freakin' A, marshall... - Sam Whitmore

Congratulations! - Ernie Oporto

Wow big props Marshall!! - Phil G

Congrats, Marshall! - Chris Baskind

Congrats!!!! - Peter Efland from twhirl

This made me all warm and fuzzy. So nice. Congrats. - Erin @queenofspain

thanks everybody! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Congratulations squared! - Andrés David Aparicio

Congratulations! - Chris Rossini

Congrats Marshall! - Allan Benamer from twhirl

Congrats! - Cyndy

very cool on both counts - mike "glemak" dunn

Cheers to your life changes! - Todd Jordan

Oh wait, did the wife come with the new job?! ;) - Todd Jordan

Congrats Marshall, I am taking the plunge next fall too. - Alex C. Williams

Congratulations. Much deserved and very happy for you - Deepak Singh

double congrats! - Sarah Perez

thanks everybody! the warm wishes are much appreciated by both of us! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

just promise the two events are serendipitous - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Double congratulations! :-) - Sam Grover

mazeltov! - Sarah is so over it

Wow. Congrats, Marshall. :) - David Rothman (☤)

Awesome! Congrats! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats on all counts! - Mark Scrimshire

Congratulations, sir! - idnan

Ride that fabulous wave. Congratulations! - Donna Mugavero

MARSHALL CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But OMGZ do NOT do a double wedding with Feldman. - jeneane sessum

congrats on both! as i noted on your blog, you better not even consider twittering or ff'ing your wedding! - Allen Stern

You going to Tweet your vows of Love and have reception on FF? lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Allen, I will not be Twittering my wedding any more than I twittered my proposing :) - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Congrats Marshall! - Sid Yadav

How wonderful, Marshall. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

Congrats double time marshall ! - Eric Berlin

Double congrats! :) - Igor Poltavskiy

Yeow! That's serious hugeness on two fronts!!! Congrats! - Clay Newton

All good Marshall. Congrats all around. - Hutch Carpenter

Congratulations Marshall. Am feeling so happy for you. - Amit Agarwal

Whoa! That's awesomesauce Marshall! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats on both fronts. - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

Congratulations! that's really great news. RWW has been a great blog for ages now. back then you came on board it really became stellar. best techblog out there. hands down. - Marcel Weiß

Congrats x2, Marshall! - Mark Carey from Moopz

Fantastic! - Mitchell Tsai

Congrats on both bits, Marshall! - Kevin C. Tofel

Congrats! - Jordan Hofker

Congratulations on both fronts! - Peter from twhirl

Congrats!!!! - Steve Rubel

Double Grats! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Congrats on both! - Thomas Hawk

Now it all makes sense :) Congratz!!!! - Tal Keinan

congrats - Jamie

Nice! Congratulations. We just went 26 weeks married. She has deemed it "Halfiversary!" - Greer Trice

Congratulations - LPH™ and his dog P™

congrats! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Congrats! - Vic Podcaster

Congratulations :-) - Hisham Sadek هشام

double congrats!!! honeymoon in NZ? - susan mernit

Ditto Congrats ...fantastic squared! - Susan Beebe

Keith Shaw

Catching up on work, but also watching Hogan's Heroes on my DVR. TVLand is running lots of marathons, so I have about 20-plus episodes...

July 14, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Bob Crane... heard he made some great home movies! :-) - Sam Whitmore

Jeremiah Owyang

Eric the reporter has made a public apology, I updated the post http://www.web-strategist.com/blog... Thanks @hawaii for tip

July 14, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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"People respond poorly to TV newspeople being impolite on the air." If you cross out some of the words you get, "People respond poorly to people being impolite." I like that he apologized, but he doesn't seem to understand that being a prick is still being a prick even if you're not on live TV. - Kevin Fox

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Jeremiah, this apology was more genuine than the other jacka** at CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories... - Arthur Germain

I'm not sure he realized he was being a prick. He seemed to have complete contempt for the folks waiting in line, as if they were a different species or something. - Tad

That guy is a dipshit and KTLA should be ashamed of itself. - Sam Whitmore

I think it was funny- both his dumb question, and the guy calling him out for asking a dumb question. Funny on both fronts. I love the newscaster clapping when the guy in line called him out. - I mean, come on techies (I have an iphone) we need to have a little self-effacing humor here. - anna sauce

Anna, we wouldn't be laughing if the same reporter had asked a bunch of Asians why they couldn't drive or if they could teach him to eat with chopsticks... - Tad

I think its important that we make a big stink about this for a couple of reasons: 1) Its fun 2) Standing in line for an awesome product is not unique to the tech crowd. Would Eric have insulted movie goers, roller coaster enthusiasts or Starbucks fans waiting in line? 3) We're obviously not the pimple faced dorks some people make us out to be. The man he harassed was smart, quick-witter and well spoken. - Bukola

I don't get the big deal. I waited 5 hours - so what? People wait outside for days for concerts, movies, video games, etc. Why can't I wait for a phone with out being harassed? At least Triumph the comic insult dog was funny with the star wars fans - and even then it felt awkward. The reporter was a) rude b) condescending c) not funny d) was a wimp which all equal a total FAIL. Let us wait in peace - and tell him to go find some real news, if he knows what that means. - Morgan

If this was just an isolated incident it wouldn't matter. But TV news tries to exert a huge social force for conformity. If you're different, they ridicule you and slap you down. - Mitch Wagner

It's not just TV news Mitch - it's society in general. Look at Best Buy's Geek Squad - that's a disgusting stereotype. It's still funny to make fun of the nerd wearing the lab coat or reading a book, etc etc - Tad

Hmm... I actually like the Geek Squad, I think they have the opposite effect -- wearing nerdiness as a badge of honor. YMMV though. - Mitch Wagner

Their advertising has things like "They can't get dates, but they CAN fix your computer." That's disgusting. - Tad

+1 for the guy he interviewed. Is he on friendfeed? :) - Yolanda

It was a real jackass question to ask. TV News particularly in LA is so desperate for ratings they'll do just about anything as this clips hows. It's amazing the difference in quality of reporting elsewhere to LA. I find it sad that TV news has gone sensationalist. Sadly unbiased unsensationalist news a la Walter Cronkite is forever gone I dread. - Jim Goldstein

KTLA's morning news doesn't pretend to be Cronkite, and in fact is more of the happy/entertainment news. But this wasn't happy or entertaining, as I noted in my comment at the original post. - Ontario Emperor

@Ontario Emperor like all morning shows... I know what you mean, but none the less no morning show I used to watch in LA or NY would pull this type of stunt. It was excessively desperate. Funny for a puppet dog, but not for a person to do. - Jim Goldstein

If that's the best an LA station could do, with stupid, goofy, on-street antics from a guy who's not even a weatherman, they pretty much deserve a round-house Kick in the Ding to the producer and advertisers. Seriously, that's just sad. If nothing else, they could have borrowed a Colbert-style guide and had him asking people in line sober, thoughtful, deeply funny questions. Seriously, all that potential and they engage in jackassery. - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

Jason Pontin

I swear to God I don't really understand the fuss about The New Yorker cover. Do we really no longer know satire when we see it?

July 14, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jason, the New Yorker/Obama cover will be flashed around by others and manipulated for sordid purposes. Waving the bloody shirt, as it were... - Sam Whitmore

Satire depends on a known, consistent perspective on something. We don't have that in the US right now. But what a bummer! - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

Jonathan Yarmis

@samwhitmore a sam whitmore sighting!! :)

July 14, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

lol... I'm a scarcity fan, Jon... :-) - Sam Whitmore

Loic Le Meur

Anybody else going to Fortune BrainstormTech http://www.timeinc.net/fortune... ?

July 9, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I am... hope to take the Segway ride Mon. PM... fun! - Sam Whitmore

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If I was invited and wasn't broke I'd go, looks like it will be a great event though - Andrew Fielding from twhirl

is there a segway ride on monday? - Loic Le Meur

Looks somewhat interesting but wasn't invited. A LobbyCon? - Dave Winer

I'll be there, since it's a short walk from my house to get there. Plus am speaking on a panel there. We should hold a FriendFeed meetup one evening there at the Firepit. How about Sunday night, the 20th? - Robert Scoble

I'm up for a LobbyCon. - Elliott Ng

A LobbyCon in the Ritz would be pretty difficult to do unless you had only five or 10 people. They usually rope off the area where there's a conference. But, a Firepit meetup? They can't stop those, although there's only a few dozen chairs. - Robert Scoble

Anyone based out of SF? I would love to go but have no car... carpool? I'll provide entertainment AND will pitch in gas $$ - Mona Nomura

Robert will you be around in HMB these days? or at Fortune? - Loic Le Meur

I'm speaking at the Fortune Conference which is at the Ritz in Half Moon Bay (I live a 10-minute-walk away from the Ritz). - Robert Scoble

sold out meh i know the catering company i'm in - adolfo foronda

see you there Robert then! - Loic Le Meur

Wow - that looks like an amazing line up! Can't wait to hear you guys talk about it in review. Oh now see, that means y'all will be up there while I'm in town. Maybe I'll go sit in the parking lot and surreptitiously play Web 2.0 paparazzo. - Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia: we're going to have a FriendFeed meetup on one of the nights at the FireRing outside the hotel before the conference. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I have just found out I am in the program as speaker too. I must have missed emails, I should entirely reboot my brain I think. - Loic Le Meur

Robert: I'll keep my eyes out for more info on the FF meetup! Loic: you are getting too busy if you are interested in attending conferences where you're speaking!! :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Steve Rubel

OK, morbid question. Why hasn't the world run out of grave space? Seriously!

July 9, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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because we need highways - rob zand

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Well about a billion Indians cremate...not sure what the Chinese do... - Snay Trivedi

um... bodies decompose? or maybe there's enough cremations to keep us from doing so. And the earth is pretty large. - Shawna Benson

2 for 1s - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I am telling you, high-rise cemeteries! - Steve Rubel

There are more people alive now than ever have been alive in the past combined. And we can all fit on the islands off the coast of England with relative ease: we're not running out of space anytime soon. - Mark Trapp

You must be on vacation or something, Steve! - Sam Whitmore

@Sam - worse, I am waiting for a delayed flight to Cleveland! - Steve Rubel

Old people shrink, dead people even more. - Ton Zijp

many reasons. but probably one of them is because of wars and mass graves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - ~C4Chaos

@Matt - space, baby, space. - Steve Rubel

Soylent green is people! - Oldengrey (Jay)

is this what you think about on the #6 train during rush hour? - Allen Stern

@Allen Ha! No. Which is worse? I think of your Amtrak video actually to stay sane. - Steve Rubel

if you have changed 14th street to plurk station and 42nd grand central to friendfeed station, i am sending you to a shrink :-P - Allen Stern

this is a question that goes no where. more blue state fashion hysteria. don't worry about it. The glass roof is bullshit. - Noah David Simon

It was quite common (and probably still is in some places) for bodies to be moved or for new bodies to be buried on top of the old. Corpse-stacking, if you will. Me, I'm going to be cryogenically preserved for the benefit of future mankind. And to really annoy everyone who might otherwise have figured in my will. - John Samuelson

Apparently there have been approx 70,000,000,000 people that have died up to this point in time. Assuming you need a plot about 2 sq meters to bury a person and all of those were actually buried it would take 140,000,000,000 sq meters of land to bury them(140,000 km2). The earth has approx 148,939,100 km2 of land so I think there is and was lots of room (unless I screwed up somewhere ;-) ) - Brian Sullivan

The world hasn't run out of grave space because people keep on dying. - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

Alot of cultures used to burn bodies, and there are a million reasons beside that. But if you look at the times when the largest amounts of people died, like when the plague came around, they had to burn the bodies so disease wouldn't spread. - The Kid

Two words: soylent green - George Smith

The vast majority of the people who ever lived on Earth never got any kind of a burial as we think of it. The bodies were either lost, burned, or dumped in a mass grave. And even today, a non-negligible number of people don't opt for a burial. That said, you're probably severely overestimating the size of the human population relative to the amount of land available for cemeteries. - Eric P

A friend from singapore told me this happened there. They dug up all the bodies and cremated them. The ashes are kept in the temples on little high rise stands. The most recent to pass are at the bottom - gregory

Steve, You should get out to West Texas and visit Hugh MacLeod in Alpine. He'll show you plenty of space to bury folks for centuries to come. - Jim Cahill from twhirl

Jim... there is plenty of a lot of things... except sanity - Noah David Simon

Re: grave space. Ever read Riverworld? - Dorian Benkoil

soylent green! - Dave Martin