Stowe Boyd

With all those disincentives, no wonder there are so many jobless / homeless - Michael Hylkema

Well yeah, it would be too extreme to actually make it illegal to create U.S. jobs, but things like the payroll tax encourage people to find creative ways to send jobs overseas. - Bruce Lewis

Import/export duties are disincentives to trade; property taxes are disincentives to own a home. Great little idea. Sales tax sounds so much more reasonable. - Emmett Shear

the only other way to consider it is aberrant social policy - Stowe Boyd via twhirl

Don't forget cigarettes, etc, where the tax is very clearly intended to discourage people from consuming the product. - Louis Gray

The irony is that most people probably still have no idea how much of the price they pay for gasoline is tax, since it is hidden in the price. for instance in California the total tax on a gallon of gasoline is 63.9 cents and diesel is 72 cents. - Jeff P. Henderson

I much prefer a use tax such as that on gasoline than a flat tax on income. Also, if you look at the tax rates, the disincentive for employment income is the worst. Investment income is taxed at a much lower rate. This should tell us something, working for someone else for a living is not going to make you rich, unless you are drawing a CEO's salary, or are one of the few lucky people who have significant stock equity in their company and it goes public. - Jeff P. Henderson

Gasoline tax is a driving disincentive, but the roads that are funded are a driving incentive. - Hutch Carpenter

Gasoline really evens out. But income tax is annoying. Wasn't the income tax one the reasons the US broke from Britain in the first place? "I'm better at what I do than others and I can do something that others can not, therefore I am paid more. What's that? Because I'm better I get more money taken away from me? Well fine, I'll just go into business for myself doing next to nothing and make so much money it won't matter. What's that? You'll tax me less if I do that? Really? Hrm." - xero

This is why it makes sense to support the "death" tax. It gives people an incentive to stay alive. - Jim Norris

if all things were equally disincentivized, you would have a fair tax system. Put another way, relative disincentives may be more important in this world you've postulated, Paul. - Rob Schonberger

How about a military tax? - Amit Patel

A tax on staples is a disincentive for survival. - ⓞnor

The most efficient solution I think would be taxing everything at a rate inversely proportional to its elasticity of demand, so that overall patterns of consumption and spending wouldn't change. - Jim Norris

taxation without representation ... except what is equitable to tax? how do we measure it? intellectual property presents exciting controversy ... - Wiley Coyote

& equity means you work for yourself ... debt means you work for someone else ... tax that! - Wiley Coyote

Wiley Coyote? Yes, even if you are able to escape the Laws of Physics it appears your observations concerning taxes are quite REAL ... great material on your feed! - Scott Moskowitz

In theory, isn't this photo the equivalent of the "playing guitar" photo during Katrina, assuming the Russian/Georgian crisis escalates? - Louis Gray

Are you saying he might as well have slapped it? - Robert Seidman

yeah how much more surreal of a presidency can he have? - Nailed Jello

I would have slapped it. Misty is hilarious! - Josh Haley

Just imagine the headlines. Looks more like McEnroe in the picture?! - Charlie Anzman

geeez , he even screws up a plain old butt smack ,, Dubya give it up - johnpiercy

Bush is a pussy. - Stowe Boyd via twhirl

You know, my underwear covers more than those volleyball "uniforms". - JMakesAwesomeSauce

I would agree that some of the same problems exist in top blogs and top newspapers, there is a check and balance in blogging that works quicker than the newspaper system, but in general, you are spot on. - Andrew Hyde

Agree ... it takes a little more than a couple years to build the empires that have already been build ... probably isn't even possible - Nick O'Neill

Didn't it turn out to be Craigslist that has really hurt mainstream media? At least the newspapers. Also Google's growing dominance in advertising. It's not the journalism that's the issue, it's the revenue. - Todd McKinney

Jeremiah, you're ignoring the fact that many MSM outlets now embrace blogging as well. No one would argue that the two have merged at the top, but it wasn't all in one direction. - Duncan Riley

Thanks Jeremiah, I've been biting my tongue on this for a week or so now (i'm in the old trad media) now it seems like new media is the trad media which is being pushed aside by the new new media. - Jon Dillon

Agree. It seems even The Long Tail is losing some of its punch - http://valleywag.com/5020400/h... - Justin Gibbs

Agree. Just like TV killed cinema and radio, video/DVD killed TV, music downloads killed the music industry, and the internet changes everything. Each of these provides multiple different functions and experiences to different people in a variety of moods, roles and situations. The various markets will all settle to a new, if more transient, level. There will also be a home for pro versus amateur, more generalised versus niche versions. - Ronna Porter

Jeremiah, it's true that top blogs become media properties (albeit very niche ones), while (as Duncan said) MSM has been adopting blogs and other social media tools. So there's been movement both ways. I for one never brought into the 'blogs will kill MSM' hype, that's just nonsense. As everything, media has evolved very quickly with the Internet. So I disagree with you a bit there, because *a lot* has changed. - Richard

It's like how Dave Winer said there's no such thing as a pro-blogger. As far as I can tell the only difference between journalists and bloggers is that journalists are supposed to stick to a code of conduct. - Stuart Maxwell

They do resemble, but that does mean that are alike. For a start, "commenting" has transformed media into a two way conversation. Whereas "new media" vetures like businessspectator.com.au are like the mainstream media (a comment is treated like a letter to the editor, with my comments moderated because I disagreed with arguments) are a joke, other "new media" like Techcrunch and RWW are a whole new ball game with Seesmic and Friend Feed integration alltogether in addition to open commenting. I think blogs biggest impact is on the profession - the speed of blogs is killing the print news industry. If there is any confusion of being alike, it's only because blogs are changing he industry dynamics. - Elias Bizannes

I've said for the past year that it's becoming hard to differentiate "blogs" from other forms of online publishing. We're in big need of a vocabulary overhaul.FWIW, commenting in MSM is rarely two-way communication. It's a way for readers to vent and interact with each other, but MSM publishers and editors rarely get dirt under their fingernails. - Chris Baskind

Totally agree when you look at blogs like Mashable and TC - sometimes it is hard to sort the advertising from the posts. No offense guys - I know you have to make money - but there are more and more "sponsored posts" and "thanks to this weeks sponsors" etc.... - Dave Gray

a few things. first, sample error. mainstream media has maybe tens of thousands of writers creating columns for newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. the blogosphere has tens of millions. the degree of variation within the blogosphere is enormous. have you seen the recipe bloggers? mommy bloggers? and the children of the blog form, the facebooks and myspaces and tumblrs, are further diversifying the very nature of sharing, presented in reverse chronoligical order. now the blogs you may consider popular overall may have elements familiar from msm. but don't let that confuse you. it would be incorrect to consider the .0000001% of the "top blogs" as marking a trend in the blogosphere. you'd no more jump to that conclusion than saying that we can all run/swim/row at olympic speeds or move like jackie chan. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy

disagree, my buying practices have definitely changed, I was a two newspaper in the morning and one in the evening guy, I really can't remember the last time I purchased one, I think mainstream media is here to stay but newspapers are definitely on the way out - Patphelan

If what you're saying is true, then does that mean the Long Tail of blogging isn't very fat? That the Short Snout still reigns? You might be right, but I'd like to know how things look like all along the curve, not just a few crowding the small head. Any numbers? - phil baumann

next, blogging is a conversational medium. some journalists get that, some don't, and many msm organizations never will. Reading other blogs, linking to them, listening to comments, leaving comments elsewhere, responding to your commenters: these are signs of 'getting it'. to the extent that you see content that looks like a blog post but lacks any connection to the conversation is a sign of damage. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy

agree - sam sethi

Last, I'd like to challenge you to put something that you care about but that's off topic in your blog. a poem that touched you. your cat. an opinion about something outside your stated beat. blogging should be about the blogger, otherwise it is reporting in blogging clothes. blogging is a personal and interpersonal medium, so your blog should have a bit of you within it. it's not just writing in the first person, it's shortening the distance between your heart, your thoughts and the submit button. blog on, Jeremiah. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy

It is difficult to move to new modes of discourse. Making them technically feasible doesn't mean they will evolve. It's not just that blogs have replicated msm modes and mannerisms, but those that do not do so - the ones that offer some dislocation, some sense of estrangement, before yielding something special - get less visible as mirroring levels discursive difference. - tom matrullo

Blogs have given the sources a way to communicate directly without going through the media. There are far more sources of news now than there were ten years ago. "Killing" is almost always the wrong metaphor for competition, But our reliance on MSM today is much less than it was in the past. I don't see the "top blogs" as being blogs at all, they are MSM outlets that use the same CMS software as blogs do. That isn't saying much about them, imho.BTW Phil is right too. :-) - Dave Hussein Winer

media "killing" media rarely happens. We still have movies (some shot digitally), radio (sometimes streamed), television (sometimes on iPhone) , books (sometimes on Kindle). The universe gets more intricate with old and new media supporting, promoting, commenting, and competing. Movies became fodder for Lux Radio Theatre (which is currently still available by podcast). Ad budgets shift. Revenue streams divert. Physical formats become obsolete, but not the content, the audience or the conversation. - Michael Hussein Markman

I think the question misses the point. You're probably right that the "top blogs", whatever they are, resemble mainstream media, but _my_ top blogs give me much more what _I_ want to read than the mainstream media. - Michael C. Harris

They're not blogs anymore ... I counsel a lot of agencies and I'm telling many of them to view the big boys and girls as MS OnlineMedia: http://www.eyeballeconomy.com/... - David Weiner

Been some press lately about newspapers declining readership and predictions of the death of broadcast television. Let's look at some statistics, but IIRC the trend is DOWN. And where are people spending the time they save? blogs and youtube. You do the math. - Indio Apache via twhirl

Um. did the hubbub of blogs killing media end in 2006? As far as I can tell, blogs have never stopped proclaiming the death of traditional media by bloggers. They love to say that all the way up until some paper or magazine buys them. - felix

Is this not just mainstream media switching mediums. What is more interesting is the fringe stuff that would never have been published before. I think that a lot of people are now reading a bit wider range of content. Mainstream media always goes with the lowest common denominator to get maximum audience. - John Cooper

Mainstream media killed by blogs? No. Mainstream media fundamentally changed by blogs? Absolutely. *Every* major media outlet has a significant online presence featuring a large chunk of their content. Nearly all of them have integrated commenting/discussion, and many of them now have "Digg this"/"Share on Facebook"/etc. While it's not entirely a 2-way street w/outlets like CNN or the NYT, they are clearly being dragged toward interacting with their users, rather than simply broadcasting. - Pete Brown

Mainstream is intensifying -- cutting newsroom staff, consolidating newspaper chains, etc. -- in the scramble to keep profit margins up as mass media falls into a gazillion pieces. They are not making enough in the online world to keep the mainstream machinery running, and haven't really figured out the formula for online, social media yet. Blogs are one of the many economic challenges they face, as more and more people defect from mass media, and head for the edge, where we are doing it for ourselves. - Stowe Boyd

Thank you all, I have now collected my thoughts (much based on your comments here) and written this post and pointed back here http://www.web-strategist.com/... - Jeremiah Owyang

if you take the top bloggers/sites, and divide (actual) readership by staff count, it's pretty different from a newspaper... - Bill Seitz

Agree. - Robert Scoble

Agree - Francine Hardaway

Agreed and its entirely changing the business model for news outlets - Robert

Agree - Brian Sullivan

That post is messed up. This person he's not bothering to keep in touch with is his "best friend?" Strange definition of friend. You all are interesting to track, and I hope to meet many of you one day, but there are these things called priorities. When I consider my tried and true friends on one hand and my socnet acquaintances on the other there is just. no. contest. - Jim Stanger

i find myself completely dis-connected with real life people. at times i feel closer to my online friends on twitter and other social media friends then say classmates... i feel like twitter constantly throws little balls of information that are constantly spinning in my head. floating about. sometimes i crave physical connections with people maybe lunch or star bucks.. thats the only down side to our world. - Caroline

Rings true to me. There's a depth of experience in the 'meatworld' that the socnets can't touch. I think that an hour a month can easily be much more meaningful than the constant 'light touch' of the tweet. But, the constancy and breadth of the socnets is hard to replicate IRL. What I read in the post was just a frustration that the 'best friend' was rebuffing the posters' advocacy of the online tools available to deepen their preexisting relationship. I think that's a fair and insightful point. - Madsimian

I think a lot of this is because online friends are so easy to shut off and out. No messy offline issues. Apples and oranges. Both are good in different ways. - Mark Forman

What gets my goat about this post is that Stowe is laying this issue of *his* at the feet of his so-called friends. If you feel disconnected from the people around you, fine. I mean it sucks, but ok. But don't blame those people for your breakdown. Stowe wrote it right off the bat, after weeks his friend had to contact him. The friend contacted him using the most ubiquitous long distance communication device on the planet...a phone. Nothing wrong with that. - Jim Stanger

I write all this even though most of the people I consider friends, along with family, co-workers, and most everyone else around me, don't "get" Twitter and the like. Hell, they barely know it exists. But they're people I know, love and respect in ways not possible to communicate in 140 words or 140,000 words. It's worth it to me to keep in contact with them no matter what tools they're comfortable using. And if I don't I certainly won't chalk it up to their inability to anxiously hover over Twitter. - Jim Stanger

Funny thing is most of my communication with my meat-space friends takes place online too, except that it's typically through email and Livejournal, not Twitter. - Morton Fox

I left a comment on the blog as well, except...it's moderated. From the post and the moderation it appears he's more about keeping people at arms length than mingling. So much for the "social revolution." - Jim Stanger

I wrote the article (not Stowe). It's not that I don't keep in touch with Steffen, just that I don't have a daily flow from him 'cause he's not online. That's starting to make a difference. Of course when we *do* see each other, it's deeper and more intense than Twitter contact. That's obvious. - Matt Balara

Re: Stanger's remark - We have to moderate /Message or we drown in spam. It's nothing about 'keeping people at arm's length'. - Stowe Boyd

I can so relate to this article!! Good to see others share my preference for non-face-to-face socialization. I even hate talking on the phone. Have a friend who always calls me right after I text her a simple 'yes' or 'no' question... hate that! If you have something to discuss, fine... but don't call me to ask 'what am I doing' 12 times. - Shelly Weiss

I have two different groups of "friends" the online ones and the real life ones. The two don't intersect much. - Jason Kaneshiro

Stowe gets props for writing honestly about this, but I gotta' say I'd have to reconsider friend status with someone who referred to me as "meat"... ;-) - Sprague D

Sprague D - I've never been a fan of the phrase "meatspace". Can someone think up a better term for this? - Mike Doeff

Meativerse? Meatosphere? Series of Meat Tubes? EDIT: I just looked up the etymology on "carnival." It apparently means "leaving the meat behind" (carne + vale, as in, giving up meat for Lent), so perhaps we should start calling the interwebs a "carnival." Step right up, step right up, I've got JPEGs of Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy... - Karim

Matt and Stowe: Fair 'nough, guys. I gotta admit, that piece really rankled me yesterday. I often show people these online social tools, and their first reaction is a recoil. The impression they get is it's a bunch of introverted shut-ins with nothing better to do than chat with each other. "Don't these people have lives?" It's a fallacy that gets harder to dispute when I actually read someone saying they have better online relationships than in-person, or that they retreat into this "world." *facepalm* - Jim Stanger

@Mike, well Morpheus called it "The Desert of the Real" -- but I think I prefer "the reality-based community". - Sprague D

I think it's incumbent upon ME to remember how my friends prefer to be contacted. Some like email, some like Twitter, some like the phone, some prefer that you show up at their house. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Sprague, Morpheus was only a simulacrum of Baudrillard. Though I suppose this means Baudrillard was right when he said it's the territory that falls apart under the map. - Karim

@Jim read it again. That's not at all what I said. I don't have "better" online relationships than in person. Online contact expands my offline relationships. Just tonight I was out with 3 friends, and quite a lot of what we talked about was stuff we'd seen from each other in Twitter. Twitter made us aware, and meatspace (beerspace?) was where we deepened and intensified the conversation. I'm anything but a shut-in. - Matt Balara

Ugh, gillmor is on there...now I want to tune out - Bwana McCall

At least there is something to watch on stickam other than scenester kids - Justin Leon

Wow! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Now, now... it's not the size of the HOLY SHIT... nevermind. - l0ckergn0me

It's not fair Chris, it's not fair!!!! :) - Bwana McCall

t-hair will sue you - kosmar

That's what I call pink! - Stowe Boyd via twhirl

thats totally "pinko" :)- - Peter Dawson

oooh. It's good. - Bill Anderson via twhirl

Very nice... - Mitchell Tsai

great! the whole set :D - assbach

Rockin'! Like it. - Tris Hussey via twhirl

that looks great! very nice - HokieGeek via twhirl

pink is the new blonde. :>) - B.L. Ochman

Very anime. - Karim

hey, this is great! good for you! - Noah Carter

love the color, really cool. - israel

Nice colour throughout. - Bernie Goldbach

I like it too. - Mike

I love it - Marcello Del Bono

It's made it less relevant for me. By the time I get to a story in Greader, it's already been shared several times over in Friendfeed. I mainly use Greader to bookmark stories for later now. - Mark Trapp

I'm neutral on this one, Steve. My Google Reader habits haven't changed since I started using FriendFeed. - Bryan Person

I haven't found enough people yet for it to replace Google Reader. Lots of tech stuff here, but not the spectrum that I subscribe to in Google Reader - Bwana McCall

They are both MicroMeme trackers http://www.web-strategist.com/... - Jeremiah Owyang

Full text feeds, archiving, flagging and tagging keep me in my reader. But now I see stuff here first. - Steve Rubel

More for me because it gives a wider audience for micro-blogging via Shared items. - Lee Stranahan via Alert Thingy

I think it adds more meaning to the shared items. - Mike Wills

Less for some, more for others. - Mike Reynolds

It has the same relevance, because it is finely tuned to my likes and dislikes. A social network... even of peers... can never replicate that. So while FF works nicely for breaking news, it won't replace the depth of knowledge I acquire from Reader - Jamie

less. except your statement presumes that Google Reader was relevant. not. - dave mcclure

Less for some items discussed by subscirbers and more for topics I am passionate about. - Gerry Garcia

I might say just a bit, when twitter came along, that's where the news were breaking, the same is with friendfeed maybe even more, but good old reading of feeds is different and still part of the game - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Jaime - well said...thank you. - JA Castillo

The same. Google Reader is an essential element of FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

@Lee I agree re. shared items.@Dave Google Reader is second to Bloglines. - Steve Rubel

I think it really adds to GReader. I share stuff all the time now with notes and its great to see it get out there and spark some conversation. It's not quite there yet to replace GReader from a usability perspective but if it did get there I would probably switch to it. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

FF makes GReader more relevant for me. I see stories here first. I use my reader as a way to catch up on news that I may have missed. - Alex Williams

I tried to go all FriendFeed, but found I was missing too many stories...so I'm back to using both. - Chris Rossini

They serve different purposes for me. - Jeff Turner via Alert Thingy

FF has allowed me to trim my GR feed list. For example, I dropped my various Scobleizer feeds from GR because FF does a better job of filtering them for me. - Delete Me

The uses are different. My primary use of Google Reader is to gather together the content I need to read. That doesn't necessarily equate to a need to solicit the reactions of others to that content. FriendFeed is handy if I do feel a need to gather reactions. But I cannot see myself giving up one for the other. - Jill O'Neill

More relevant and useful. Reader serves as a content delivery system will FF serves as an excellent aggregator and recommendation system. - tsudohnimh via twhirl

FF will reduce reader usage a but it's not a real feed reader e.g. can't play podcasts - Adrian via twhirl

Less, but not obsolete - Shey

Depends. For me, neither has a significant impact on the other. At least not yet. - Mike Keliher

I think they are complementary in the sense that some things just don't do well in FriendFeed. I want to be able to read all of my tech news, but the friendfeed river is time-based which makes it more difficult to keep track of. - Rob Diana

I don't think it makes it less, necessarily. After all, *someone's* got to find a story initially, right? - Sean Goller

FriendFeed and Twitter have nearly replaced GReader for me. The trusted human filter beats scanning through 100s of posts daily to get to a gem. Hopefully not all will stop using them or the great posts will eventually dry up. Based on other comments here I might cull my subscriptions and then share more. P2P-like over me just taking and taking. - Jay Gilmore

Less; until Reader becomes as social. - Stowe Boyd

For my personal workflow, Google Reader feeds my blogs as well as FriendFeed. So I vote for "more." It seems easier to track shared items on Google Reader than liked items on FriendFeed. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

FriendFeed is very useful, but in a very different way than Google Reader. I need both. - ron k jeffries

because of FF, I have LESS TIME for my RSS reader :-) - Thomas Ho via fftogo

More, for depth (and because FF adds meaning to share). But FF has it for discovery of new stuff. - Eric Johnson

@Thomas Ho - haha...so true! - JA Castillo

I almost completly stopped using RSS reader. I use FriendFeed and one custom news page on NetVibes....via feedalizr - Shahar Nechmad

I don't feel it's made it less relevant, I come across blogs here that I wasn't aware of and add them to my subscriptions there! - Joe Dawson

I want to be able to mark FF treads and ditch the ones I have viewed. Until then, I have to use my reader. - morten saxnaes

using both but finding that I'm starting to use Google Reader differently. More like a discovery device by following search-based feeds and then using FriendFeed to follow specific humans. - Marnie Webb

Google reader is simply another source of data for Friendfeed to aggregate. The environments can exist independent of each other. The wonderful thing about Friendfeed is that you can continue to use all your applications/data sources and have them automatically collected and displayed. Applications such as Flickr, Google Reader, and Youtube have become popular because they are good at doing specific tasks. An aggregator does not make those applications irrelevant. - Mark Nassal

Less relevant. - Svartling

I still use GR occasionally, but most of my information comes from FF. Digg usage way down too......via feedalizr - David Sim

I use gReader to follow blogs I can't find in FF. Also as a discovery tool, because sometimes I share stuff from there here. Sometimes directly with gRader and sometimes using the bookmarklet. I'm using it less because of FF, though (I deleted a lot of Tech blogs subscriptions the other day). - Alejandro S.

I prefer GReader to FF. It's less cluttered than FF. With FF I check in to see the things I missed in my feeds. - Snay Trivedi

linked list - atalmatal

Ah, those wacky hashing algorithms. I used to study these. - Morton Fox

this is giving me a headache... need more Malbec wine! - Susan Beebe

@Paul From what you pasted it sounded like as if they'd be using some sort of linear probing, but the "alternative location" is apparently computed by re-hashing, utilizing another hash function. Interesting that despite occasional table rebuilds, performance proves to be good in some very standard cases. - Mustafa K. Isik

"The basic version of cuckoo hashing has load factor limited to 49%." -- that's pretty much overhead. I'd say if it's possible to design a good hash function (that is, you know what you are storing), the basic hash table with open addressing will behave as well, while having 2 times less memory overhead. - Igor Sereda

makes me feel so dumb and inadequate !! - viki saigal

Igor: There are hashing schemes with less memory overhead, but the nice thing about cuckoo hashing is the constant lookup time, which is not guaranteed with most other hash tables. - Bernhard Bauer

49% doesn't sound great, but "Generalizations of cuckoo hashing that use more than 2 alternative hash functions can be expected to utilize a larger part of the capacity of the hash table efficiently while sacrificing some lookup and insertion speed. Using just three hash functions increases the load to 91%." - Paul Buchheit

An example of better algorithms: takes more time at start-up (in this case, building the hash table) in order to get better performance at run-time. See http://www.stoweboyd.com/messa.... - Stowe Boyd

I recommend it...though there is nowhere near enough web storage for my liking at the moment. - Trent Olson via Alert Thingy

I know! I signed up couple of hours ago - waiting for an invite. - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath) via twhirl

It's good. I'm impressed with the text-in-image search although it barfs if the text is an underlined link. - laurence timms via twhirl

@Robert, @Kamath: Evernote is absolutely amazing. desktop/webtop sync and OCR capabilities make it the best app in its category. - Rubin Sfadj

This comes about a day or so too late, methinks. Macworld were offering a promo code for invites.I think it was them, at least.. - Brad McCrorey

More Storage & Direct links to your clips..it would replace photobucket & Flickr for me. - Dedric "That One" Lam

Great tool for research. - Benedikt Koehler

Looks great! I gather web-based or desktop would act the same, just a matter of storage and privacy thoughts, yes? - Mike Sansone

Too bad you only get 100MB storage on Evernote Web... - Svartling

Been fond of this for awhile. I use it to capture and store whiteboard notes all the time. The only thing I don't like is the not being able to choose how I want to sort my notes (e.g. alphabetically or dragging them into whatever order I want, as done in Google Bookmarks) - Bill Bittner

nothing can replace backpackit for me! - Chris Jones via twhirl

A big fan of Yojimbo on the Mac for this. - Christopher Penn via Alert Thingy

Also trying it out. Like it so far and keeping it manly for ideas and supporting stuff. - Johan Bryggare

I am loving it, I use my NOkIA E90 to take photos of business cards, newspaper articles and hand written notes. it syncs to the Evernote servers and to my Mac. - Zamil A. Safwan

Great software...I've used it off and on for years...they've come a long way. - Chris Rossini

I've actually been really happy using evernote. Specifically in organizing online resources for specific issues and technologies. - Kevin Bondelli

This has really helped me cut back on things I was saving in my RSS feeds, emails, etc. Now it's all streamlined in one place. - Jessica

I've got plenty of invites if anyone needs one - mickmel@gmail.com - Mickey Mellen

Not enough storage, not enough organization options, ugly UI. I like it, but I'd like it to have a baby with Springnote. http://www.profy.com/2008/05/1... - Cyndy

how much can you store on evernote? is there a limit? - Benedikt Koehler

Dream features for Evernote: Content storable on my http://kindle.com and a way to markup/highlight content. - Dion Hinchcliffe via twhirl

it's easier on my workflow than a lot of the other information managers and the fact that I can email a note or picture to it from my iphone is a huge bonus. - Greg Newman

Has some great features, but feels over-designed, @ Cyndy - ditto on the UI; especially compared to Backpack. - Sam

I've been using Evernote for years and the new version is simply outstanding. Highly recommended to everyone. - Akiva Moskovitz

How does Evernote compare with Rememberthemilk? - Sally Church

I've had a Evernote 3 beta login for quite some time but I'm still using Google Notebook. - Morton Fox

Yeah I'm having a hard time remembering to use it. Need to develop a habit - Shey

Sally, I wouldn't use Evernote for that sort of thing. It's a good dump for just about any scrap of website, idea, one-liner, phone number, birth date, grocery list, or any other thing you'd otherwise quickly scribble into a notebook or on a napkin. It is not, however, a task manager by any means. - Akiva Moskovitz

Sally, Evernote is very different to RTM - it's more about document storage and notation, while RTM is primarily to-do management. I use both, for different tasks. - Ian Betteridge

I wrote a piece on using Evernote with business cards: http://unclutterer.com/2008/05... - Stowe Boyd

Thx guys; I like to avoid duplication of tools so Evernote sounds like a cool new thing to try, sort of like desktop stickies then. That would be great - I'm always losing scraps of paper with crucial bits of information :) - Sally Church

Still luuuurve Google Notebook, with my tags and Google Bookmarks all talking to each other & no issues on memory - viki saigal

Has anyone used Microsoft's OneNote and does it compare to Evernote? - Lindsay Donaghe

I made the switch over from gNotebook to EverNote because it has a much better mobile support that I saw. I can snap pictures and send them to EN, send text emails, and their mobile version of the website is also better formatted on my phone's screen (LG Voyager). With gNotebook I could only retrieve notes from their system, only add them when at the computer. - Aaron Kurtz via twhirl

I've switched over from Google notebook, too. But I was sad to do it. - Francine Hardaway

i love evernote... I don't think I can ever not have it - Nathan Manley via Alert Thingy

The service is pretty damn cool. I think it would be great for trying to go totally paperless. Which I pretty much have. - Andrew Dobrow

@Francine Hardaway Sad? Which feature did you miss the most from Google's offering? I'm just curious. - Aaron Kurtz

I've already used up all of my available storage on Evernote :-( - Nick Humphries