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I can see it now - think it and it is automatically blogged ... mirco-blogging or life-streaming for the next generation. Sci-Fi fantasy or future reality? - AJ Kohn

@Louis: Also depends on the level of quality you demand of yourself. - AJ Kohn

ok @ajkohn where do I sign up for the think it and it auto blogs? I am down with that new technology. - Admiral70

I agree louis people start blogging like it's a sprint when really it's a marathon. - Morgan from fftogo

It isn't a whole lot harder to keep going. It is harder to keep going and continually make good posts. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

ha - good point - Sarah Perez

+1 Chris - Shey, Jamaican of FF

on Twitter I'm hearing Bloomberg, http://twitter.com/iheartq... - Marko Bon

"a consensus within the party" doesn't sound like news. Sounds like a group's guess. - Louis Gray

I love FF, everyone is talking about this less than 10 minutes after it was announced. - Royce Mathew

You've all just been punk'd. :-P - EricaJoy

From what I could tell, it seemed to hit Twitter, CNN, Fox and the Times at exactly the same time. Interesting .... again. (Edit) and now most of the major wires confirming. - Charlie Anzman

I give Biden 1 chance in 4. - j1m

I give Obama 1 chance in 4. - Rob Sterling

Excellent. I suggest you place some large bets, see here: http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes... BTW, the 1:4 is for Biden being selected, not elected. - j1m

intrade has biden trading at 98%. - ⓞnor

Royce we were talking about it three hours ago. :) Another win for FF! - Anthony Citrano

Well, there's now this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008... , so it's probably right....doh! I take it back. Still no text message many minutes after the nyt article. So Biden is a decoy. - j1m

Bret Taylor - Newsbreaker. Has a great ring to it ... - Charlie Anzman

Add "end foreign aid and corporate welfare" and I'll vote for you J! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from twhirl

Corporate welfare tends to actually be compensation from gov't interference. Say there's a law stating "You cannot grow soybeans within 10 miles of an Interstate." Yes, a stupid law, but that wouldn't be the first. Now, every soybean farmer within 10 miles of an interstate has had their income nuked. "Just compensation" to make them whole (or reasonably so) is cash. I don't like it, but take money from me without compensation, and I'll be plenty upset. - Jay Wiegmann

@Jay Wiegmann If a farmer put a soybean field where it was illegal, then the farmer is stupid. Why reward and perpetuate stupidity? If the field was in place before the law, the "grandfather" clause would play well. Corporate welfare for failed financial institutions and for protectionism is in the billions this year alone. Stop it all. A few will suffer, as you pointed out. Perhaps Jason's "personal freedom" plank would prevent your soybean law in the first place and make this moot? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I'm just wondering how long until even the big artists don't make a dime on their recorded music. Why is it so hard for them to see the writing on the wall? - Cyndy

Looks very much like this Duncan, sad developments we are witnessing these days. - Svetlana Gladkova

Why can they not figure out that by charging outrageous fees and forcing good services to shutdown, they are actually encouraging piracy? - Rob Diana

but everything is pretty simple. guys are making tons of money on the music and they wouldn't like to loose it. How about music tax? Americans don't dive into this doomed grave :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com) from twhirl

One the one hand, they control supply, so forcing distributors' hands is, for them, good, even logical in an evil way. On the other hand, 99% of music is pirated so they better get their act together. - Vincent van Wylick

If a high percentage is pirated, then they don't control supply - Jason Carreira

(bring back vinyl) - Vicky

the future for profit in the music biz will be concerts....cant remember the last time i bought a cd, or any other music content. - royce kitts

@Jason: that means that they don't control distribution. But they do have some control over artists, the supply. - Vincent van Wylick

Man, Cyndy is everywhere these days! - Louis Gray

In electronic music scene these days the record is nothing but a fancy business card. Releasing a CD/vinyl is just as raising a flag saying "hey, here i am, come to see me live" - Tibor Holoda

well said Tibor :) - Ben Borges

If people don't pay for music, the music industry is dead. If the music industry gets draconian, the music industry is dead. In short, the music industry is dead. - stretta from twhirl

Matthew, I would disagree with your statement. What NIN and Radiohead did with their online free/premium releases shows that many people are willing to pay for music when given interesting choices. However, if the industry ignores this, then you are completely right. - Rob Diana

Radiohead and NIN grandfathered into the system based on success carved out whilst using the old system. So, great for them that they're able to offer fans options, but their success doesn't necessarily translate. Furthermore, these examples are a success because fans ultimately paid for the product. So, I stand by my statement, if no one pays, then the music industry is dead. - stretta from twhirl

Rob - The Radiohead experiment was pretty much a failure. It was estimated that 62% of people didn't pay for the album. Those who did pay (I was one of them), paid an average of $6 worldwide. When you average it all out they ended up getting $2.26. - Jim McCusker

industry might be dead soon, at least as we know it, but music for sure won't - Tibor Holoda

The music industry isn't dead, it just smells funny. - stretta from twhirl

I was just thinking, the recording industry is going down, one way or another. We should just help it along somehow. A caomplete halt on buying music aint gonna fly. Just wish I could think of something. Apple going completely DRM-free is a possibility. - Roberto Bonini

I thought noncompete agreements were already unenforceable in California. What did this decision change? - Tudor Bosman

Hope that stands and expands. I've seen some particularly onerous noncompetes in the radio business: employees making at or near an area's median income -- not even managerial people -- prohibited from working anywhere within 100 miles of their current homes for 6 months to a year. Outrageous. - Chris Baskind

That's right: even if you signed a noncompete at friendfeed, it's unenforceable and shouldn't prevent you from coming back to your friends at Google. Just remember lawyer Eric Kastner's condition in that article, "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information", that is, secrets still have to stay secret. For example, as a former Microsoft Employee I'm not allowed to disclose the location of the secret army of evil monkeys. http://www.bbspot.com/News... - Jorg Brown