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Standing by... - Paul T Maurer

Paul: cool. It's about 45 minutes from now. - Robert Scoble

meaning in minutes from now? - Adri Munier

Hello from Richmond, VA! - Mike Lewis

Adri: yeah, as I post this comment it's 3:41. I'm on stage at 4:20 (or possibly later, if it's like most conferences and running behind at the end of the day a few minutes). - Robert Scoble

Hope it's easy questions. ;-p - ronin

i'll be waiting, thx! - Adri Munier

Yes, boss. - Louis Gray

So, that's just 9 minutes to go. Back from work in time. - Ton Zijp

Rodger that... - Ross Miller

OK ITS 4,18edt .. SO WHATS THE QUESTION ? - Peter Dawson

Peter: I'm just about to start, coming shortly. - Robert Scoble

COOL! this is a brilliant idea scoble.. most people dont really understand how useful social media can be.. u rock for helping ppl see! - Jason Pollock

hehehe..we should all comment on every other item of scobles. rather then the questions that he ask at this speech.. why ?? the one last commented on ..will bubble up to the top.. and the question will buried at the bottom !! - dirty me..me bad !! LOL - Peter Dawson

What's my pay for this? - SteVe C

Robert, I'm from Rome, Italy, I'd be glad if I could give a helping hand - SimoTed

I don't eat red meat but this sounds amazing! - Tiffy Diamond

I don't think I'd like it. I don't have a sweet tooth.... - Ian May

I'd go with a thicker cut, myself, but it's kinda like putting a sweet glaze on a ham, no? - Derrick

I have a major sweet tooth, but thou shalt not mix sweet and salty in my mouth, with the exception of glazed ham. - MiniMage

Also called, "Pig Candy" in some circles. I sprinkle Turbinado Sugar on mine set out on a disposable wire grill on a Big Green Egg. It tastes like a cross between Honeybaked Ham and Bacon heaven. - Sean Alexander

I don't know, you guys . . . but that does look kinda tempting in a perverse sort of way . . . <licks lips> - Chris Loft

OpenDNS! That's what it was! I completely forgot. Thanks a bunch. - Jonathan Hardesty

I can't get the update today (been a while since I booted up). Is this system-wide? - Sean Alexander

I haven't been able to update today either. It could be system wide, especially if more families got ahold of Wiis for the Holidays and tried to get the updates all at once. - Jonathan Hardesty

Of course there is. Download iTLU (iTunes Library Updater). There is a gui as well as a command line interface, you can write a batch and then set when you want it to run with Task Scheduler. - Joel Tanner

To the best of my knowledge, Thomas, there isn't a 'watch' folder type feature built in. You might check out http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ for some possible work arounds, though. If there's a script for it, that site will have it. - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Also, as a side note, you can sync itunes and wmp/mce with music bridge, which can also be run w/a gui and from the command line. I manage all of my music with iTunes, and then have a batch that copies/updates it across the network to my VMC, which then updates it in iTunes, and then syncs the meta with wmp/mce... nightly. - Joel Tanner

Joel, great tip! Thanks. - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Using iTunes to rip CDs is what I do.... works great if you have it auto-rip on insert, and then auto-eject when complete. But... there are many times when I'll be on another computer and rip something, and then it needs importing. Also, for those who download music... iTLU can help automate the process, as I mentioned. - Joel Tanner

Have you tried Media Monkey? - Alastair Montgomery

Media Monkey only monitors folders if you go for the Gold $39.95 version though. - Joel Tanner

thanks guys, it sounds like this is indeed a limitation of iTunes. WMP can monitor folders which I really liked but lately has stopped being useable so I've had to switch to iTunes. Will check out iTunes Library Updater (thanks Joel). Still haven't tried Media Monkey yet Alastair, need to do that at some point. - Thomas Hawk

iTunes isn't really a music manager, it's just a front end to a store. It's design princilpes aren't focussed on helping you, they are focussed on selling you stuff. - Rich

Adrian the problem with ripping the CDs in iTunes is that I want to later move the music and put it in a hierarchical music file folder structure I've made alphabetically on an external drobo. I'm going to start trying to rip with iTunes (since WMP won't pull up meta data from the web when I try to rip a disc with it) but I'll need to move the music after I rip it. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, what sort of directory structure are you using? And how many tracks are you currently managing? - Joel Tanner

Another one on my list to try is SongBird, don't know if it monitors folders though. - Alastair Montgomery

My library is over 50,000 tracks, and nearing 300 Gb.... and as Oliver suggested, I let iTunes manage he directory structure and file naming -- although it took me awhile to trust iTunes to do this. - Joel Tanner

The Zune player does it -- WMP should be able to do it - Shey

That puts my 22Gb library to shame :S - Alastair Montgomery

I have an addiction to music, and building my library.... - Joel Tanner

after A LOT of trial and error, and testing, I've come to the conclusion that iTunes does a farrrrr better job of managing files based on meta than WMP does. This is also why I use Music Bridge to sync meta from iTunes to WMP/MCE so it's much cleaner and more organized when I pull up music in Media Center - Joel Tanner

The problem is as a Windows app, itunes sucks. Try the Zune software, it isnt tied to a zune player, manages music really well, monitors folders and does a good job ripping CD's. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Soulhuntre, why do you think iTunes sucks on Windows? it's nearly identical on OS X. - Joel Tanner

helpful thread. I use a Mac.. but still interesting. why isn't winamp a standard anymore? - NoahDavidSimon

re: winamp .... ever since AOL took it over it went downhill and lost marketshare (does it even have any now?), and then of course iTunes removed most people's need for it. - Joel Tanner

I still have version 3 on my laptop at home, just for its small footprint. - Alastair Montgomery

Check out what definitive Paul Thurott has to say on this music/server subject. He rips his entire collection to both MS & Apple. Also look at WHS (Windows Home Server). Still in infancy, and typical MS project "You buy it, you fix it.", but the HP version has excellent iTune server synch. WHS slowly becomes a "must" for photographers, along with superb Mozy. - Douglas Hopkins

Adrian, I've never noticed playback quality issues on iTunes on my end. What sort of comparison have you done between the two, and any reason you think there is a difference? - Joel Tanner

Joel, I'm managing about 120,000 mp3s at present. It's a very large library and although WMP in Vista is much better in terms of not making me wait 6 minutes to hear a song, lately the WMP library is constantly corrupting. It won't recognize discs anymore, won't write ratings of songs to files, only includes 2,000 of my 11,000 5 star songs in an auto 5 star playlist, etc. - Thomas Hawk

the only solution when I have these WMP problems is too nuke the "corrupted" library and reimport it which can take days. Even then very quickly the same problems crop up. iTunes took a long, long time (like 5 days) to import my library but now seems to handle it much better than WMP did. - Thomas Hawk

Winamp was only crap when AOL first took it over. It's as good now or better than it ever was. If youv'e not tried it since it sucked (briefly), you should try it again. - abacab

Thomas, holy crap. I knew you had more than I (from a discussion a long time ago), but my gawd that's insane. I have noticed that Vistas WMP is much better on memory/processor, but it's still put to to shame by iTunes with my collection. I'd be VERY curious to know how your collection fares with iTunes. Also, what are the specs of the machine you're managing your music on? - Joel Tanner

Adrian, did you have custom equalizer settings in Winamp? - Joel Tanner

Many people I know agree that Winamp is the better player, but it lacks in managing your music library. - Amit Morson

Why the switch? - Sean Alexander

Thanks for suggesting iTLU. - Remo

No problem. iTLU has been a life saver for me. The apps got a lot of great features for not only adding new tracks, but also cleaning up your itunes DB. - Joel Tanner from IM

thanks Sean, I'll definitely check that out. It looks like it might do the trick. I finally got all 120,000+ of my music tracks into iTunes and now I'm hoping to be able to create a 5 star list that I can use so that I can only sync my 5 star songs on my iPhone, since I obviously can't get all 120,000 songs on a 16 gig phone. - Thomas Hawk

hmmm.. Music Bridge totally seems to be working. Scratch what I said about Microsoft caring less. :) Really appreciate the pointer Sean. - Thomas Hawk

Think I'll try that myself - Roberto Bonini

Thomas, I'm guessing these are DRM-free since you're moving them from WMP to iTunes. Check Simplify Media to stream any and all to your iPhone. Takes the 16GB factor out of play. - Kevin C. Tofel

TH: Glad I could help :) - Sean Alexander

Absolutely - bug reports should belong to you as well - consideration takes many forms - Wes Schadenfreud

Really Robert, I know you expected this with that kind of bait. This can't be a surprise. I'm not an American? Come on man. - Bwana ☠

Must. Avoid. Urge. To visit. Michelle. Malkin. Musn't. Create. Conditions. For. Screaming. Out. Loud. - tehKenny

Thanks for the Malkin link Robert but Ms Malkin was one of the main reasons I quit political blogging for good a few weeks ago and I refuse to even visit as I might hurl - Bob Schwartz

the left? THE LEFT? Reality check. http://tinyurl.com/6jqkqk But really, I don't have the room for all the tinyurls to cite the racism, xenophobia, mccarthyism, etc. stirred into life by Sarah Palin and the non-thinking members of the GOP. - Rick Powell

"The orgy of Obamedia attention Powell will receive the next 24 hours is disproportionate to its importance." Yeah, Michelle, and that's why it's front and center on your site right now. You're not yawning; you're freaking out. - Rick Powell

Rick, have you ever read the obscene vitriol spewed by the left in the comments at Huffington Post and in the diaries and comments at the Daily Kos? Hate doesn't know left or right: it's an equal opportunist. It rises up wherever the perfect storm of ignorance and self-righteousness meet. - Akiva

What amazes me is how some people are surprised at this kind of behavior in the country of lynching, Jim Crow, Nativism, slavery, the Trail of Tears, etc. ad nauseum. - Steve Lowe

Well, no, actually, I don't read that blog. I have no doubt there's hate on every side, but I see no argument in my comment that states otherwise. I try to stay away from extremists of both parties. - Rick Powell

+10000 Akiva - Bwana ☠

I've never understood why some idiots think "America: Love it or Leave it" is even a little patriotic. One of the greatest freedoms we have is to air our grievances with our government without fear of censorship or persecution. America is strong enough to withstand criticism, especially when it's being presented in hope that conditions will improve. - Jack&Cleo

Like fake-following, plus-ing comments is lame and lazy. (Hmmm that must be one reason why it's not implemented on FF) Make a comment, don't just cheer. - Rick Powell

Keep us updated on how many death threats you get, Scoble. - Rob H.

and you are afraid with good reason. lets hope for the best or this could be the end of the us as we know it. - teymur madjderey

+666 Rick Powell [snickering] - Akiva

But Scott, leftists publish angry blog comments! Surely that is equivalent to threats of lynching at an official GOP rally! - Rob H.

Your post was designed to stir people up. Hang in there, light is at the end of the tunnel. - Sean Alexander

Rob, have you read some of those comments? They can be just as violent and just as threatening. And some of them were published at Obama's official website and, remember, the publication of those blogs had to be okayed by the administrators. They were only deleted after people began to notice what was being said. As I wrote, that kind of idiocy is everywhere; no one is immune. - Akiva

Robert, I lived in England for nearly twenty years, and got a whole different perspective on my country. Seems that the polarization of the nation continues, and the 'silent middle ground' has been lost to extremists on both sides. From the comments on your blog, it seems that hate is in abundance. Sort of strange that rather than engage in a dialogue about what our country needs to do, people would rather hark back to 'my country right or wrong.' It took courage on your part to take a stand. - Henry Burger

Akiva, I have read those comments. Everytime someone posts a Youtube video of GOP hatred, someone links to those comments. Everytime Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh, etc say something particularly hateful, someone brings up the same Kos comments. Everytime some calls for Obama's death at a rally, someone brings up the same Kos comments. You can call hate equal opportunist, but only one side actually strives on it. - Rob H.

Oh, well, Rob, you're right. That totally excuses hate on the left. My bad. - Akiva

Since we're still on the playground... OOOOOHHH!!! ROB!! BUUUURRRNNNNNNN!!! AKIVA SURE SHOWED YOU. Is that better than a +100? - Bwana ☠

Oh! Oh! Should I plus Rob's comment? I think not. Instead: Hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree is not the same as calling Michelle Malkin a cunt. Not even close. McCain says that "bad people" show up at Obama rallies and yell shit about him. (Said that on Letterman.) Is this true? Is it even close to being true? And if they do yell shit, is it morally equivalent to racist, xenophobic, McCarthyite, inciting comments yelled in public? At a Palin rally where she says much the same thing? Get a grip. - Rick Powell

Ah yes, election year. Where everyone is judge, jury, and executioner. Too bad the entire system is based on lies and has no foundation. This is why it's pointless to debate politics. - Bwana ☠

+100 Bwana - Akiva

Rick, so it's okay for one side to do horrible things because the other side is doing something worse? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that death spiral is going to bring us all some place really positive. Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that there's hate on both sides. You may want to think the hate on one side is excusable because the hate on the other side is 'worse' but, as far as I'm concerned, no hate is excusable. - Akiva

What is "tood Bad" is that not the whole world care...as an aussie i don't care! and am sick of hearing about it. - Mr.Tiggr

You're right, Akiva. Presidential elections are supposed to be about who can do the best for the country. Issues, not emotions. - Jack&Cleo

And this election is _all_ about emotions. That's the thing I've been yelling for weeks. People are excusing a LOT because of emotions. - Bwana ☠

Where oh where did I say hate was excusable? Please don't project your liberal-bogeyman ideas onto me, Akiva. I'm sorry I do not see the moral equivalency here, in this instance. Please make that argument, however, if that's the argument you want to make. Calling someone stupid or misinformed is not hate, no matter what Hopkins or any other sore-losing ideologue wants to think. Hanging someone in effigy certainly is. As is "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!" - Rick Powell

@Glenn the PHP guy I'll make whatever judgments I damn well please about whomever I damn well please. Fake-following is lame. It is bad faith, but it's what I've come to expect here. Plus-ing comments strikes me as juvenile. I really don't care who's insulted by that. - Rick Powell

Robert, you're one of the most American people I know. I'm proud to have people like you in this country. However, do you fish or hunt? ;-) - Jesse Stay

If its the Demcrats its truth, if its the Republicans its hate. - Tony Kanzia

Jesse: I have fished in my life and caught crabs, too, among other things. But lately I'm too lazy and prefer Safeway for my food. Tony: I took an anti-Obama stance in my post (about Nuclear power) but my point is that we can't talk about the issues anymore because we get too religious about certain ones that really don't matter in the overall scheme of things and we start calling the other side names. You'll note I didn't call anyone any names, well, except I called myself unamerican. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you are a true American then. :-) If you ever want to go fishing some time let me know. - Jesse Stay

Robert, seriously though, I have a soft spot in my heart for the Muslim faith. I grew up with some of my most memorable years in Indonesia when I was younger. I highly respect the Islamic faith. Good for you for being willing to convert to respect your wife's traditions and beliefs. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

FYI, the Secret Service found nothing to corroborate the "kill him" threat. http://tinyurl.com/6bh856 - Chris Mayer

The most ambitious project of income redistribution that the US has ever seen is now underway. And it's bipartisan AND has the approval of capitalists everywhere. Marx isn't spinning in his grave, his head has exploded. - Rick Powell

Hmmm...I'd have to say both. I think if someone did nothing but intelligently challenge me, I might go a little nuts. But I do like good discussions. - Hutch Carpenter

I don't know. Most of them subscribed to me first. :) - Morton Fox

The idea of "intelligently questioning" is hard. I like people who are interested in the same things I am, but encourage dialogue. Those that slam me and don't intelligently debate are harder to deal with, and aren't sought out. - Louis Gray

If I get around people who always agree with me I get bored. It's fun, like eating sugar, for a while, but it's empty calories. - Robert Scoble

It really depends on what the subject matter is. Sometimes I don't want people to be disagreeing with me cause it makes me angry. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I like to expose myself to new viewpoints... And challenge my existing ones. - Lindsay

Much prefer the debate although I think I've overdosed on politics for a while :) - Charlie Anzman

debate for sure. How can you be sure of what you believe in until you have to intelligently try to defend it. Plus, the comments of other will help you gain a more well rounded view. Surrounding yourself with too many like minded people will build an US versus THEM mentality. That's very bad if we hope to progress. - Chris

I would like to think that I seek people around me that will first intelligently question my actions and then support me regardless. I think those are your true friends. - WiseYoda (aka Patrick)

Both - people who can have an exchange of ideas even when they disagree seem to be a rarity though. - Sean Alexander

Respectful debate, discussion and challenge is fun and more interesting; most of my close friends disagree with me on things like politics and that's cool for me. - Sally Church

looking for intelligent, respectful debate. looking to expand my view not cement it. FF is the best place i've found for that. - MikeAmundsen

mixture of both - R. Ferguson

Both. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

both - Paul W. Swansen

Both - Roberto Bonini

I'd be happy with either. I hate being ignored. But given the choice, I'd prefer the questioner. - Bruce Lewis

No struggle, no progress! Incestuous thinking leads to absolute blindness:) - Roney Smith

I like the multi-faceted perspectives that challenge my own thinking and forces me to really evaluate my own premises...very cool. Also, love it with folks agree with me! ha! - Susan Beebe

I like the debate. - BrandonC

Questioners, every time. - susan mernit

Regardless, FriendFeed is a great place b/c there are intelligent discussions here, most of the time :) - Mike Reynolds

After a few days of thought, possibly the worst show ever filmed. - Sean Alexander

did you watch the 2 hour TV movie or the first episode of the new season? apparently a whole new team is in charge of the show - different from the folks who did the 2 hour movie - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

I just got back from Greece. Fly to Santorini, stay in Imerovigli, get a place overlooking the caldera, and decompress with an awesome view & almost complete silence. - Brian Glick

Santorini - town of Oia - PERIVOLAS hotel. check as mid OCT is end of season - but then maybe this is what you want. no ferries - its a 45 minute flt from ATH. another alternative is Rome ( Italy ) - a 60 minute flt from ATH. you can detox in Rome if you do the off-the-beaten-path....skip all the famous places...piazza cafes, fab food - best of class = Hotel de la Russie - SnakeDoc