@Soulhuntre I'd like to think not. In fact I believe that Disqus & FriendFeed are working on something that will combine disqus comments into FriendFeed & vice-versa. I recon that would render my plugin redundant - Glenn Slaven
Glenn, I think there would still be a demand for your plugin for those who choose not to use Disqus on their wordpress blog - Bwana McCall
Very interesting. "After people attempt suicide and fail, their incomes increase by an average of 20.6 percent compared to peers who seriously contemplate suicide but never make an attempt. In fact, the more serious the attempt, the larger the boost—”hard-suicide” attempts, in which luck is the only reason the attempts fail, are associated with a 36.3 percent increase in income." - Jess Lee
Hmm. Try skydiving. Not tandem though. Probably having near death experiences is what leads to higher income and/or future success because of the new outlook on life. - Chris White
Chris: Is the same true of driving sportscars at drastically unsafe speeds? Or is the causal relationship reversed in that case? Seriously though, the study would be more thorough if it also included data on subsequent suicide attempts. It might shed light on the 'new outlook on life' rationale for the salary increase. - Kevin Fox
Wow Kevin, touché. I'm not sure if you realize how close to home that hits. :) Given my experiences, I think it depends where you are in life which life changes these events foreshadow. - Chris White
I didn't mean to hit close to home on this issue. I was just thinking scientifically. :-/ Sorry. - Kevin Fox
I believe the "after a suicide attempt, you actually get treatment" theory more. - ⓞnor
Well, I'm definitely projecting, given that I haven't attempted suicide, unless you count startup companies. - Chris White
I can attest to the skydiving thing. Once I got my skydiving license (completed 23 solo jumps), risk and normal situations in life no longer frightened me. I had literally walked to the edge of life and laughed. and did it again. and again. In terms of life-success, my income increased *substantially*. Before that, i had been a project manager at my highest level of corporate-dom. After that (before I jumped headlong into indy journalism), the lowest position I held was CTO. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I wonder how the attitude towards high risk "I'm not afraid anymore" events change once you have children. I really want to try a skydive one of these days, but I would not consider it for a second if I had kids. - Jennie Lin
There are various levels of skydiving, including basejumping, which many people find to be close to statistical suicide. But the basic kind is pretty safe, and actually more deaths occur from the airplane accidents rather than the actual jumps. I'm deathly afraid of skydiving, and having only done it 5 times. It does make me less fearful when flying commercial though. Also, if you have kids, don't drive on 101, because that's really too dangerous. :) - Chris White
Also Jennie, just try a tandem jump. It's really low risk, and it's a great experience. About 20 googlers went on an offsite about 2 years ago to bay area skydiving: http://www.bayareaskydiving.co... - Chris White
Эта штука обязательна к прочтению всем, кому понравились рассуждения Блинкина про пробки в Москве, и кто вообще неравнодушен к городскому устройству (будь то социальные, навигационные или информационные темы). - 59mm
На тему городского устройства очень рекомендую почитать City: Rediscovering the Center by William Whyte и Life Between buildings by Jan Gehl. Обе книжки совсем не про технологии и гаджеты, а про то, как пространство города и его элементы влияют на социальные процессы на его улицах. - Lilia Efimova
One thing I like is this one - public/private comments (those that don't go into your main feed, but are visible for more people than just the recipient. But in general it feels like Jaiku -mobile stuff +stress on aggregation - Lilia Efimova
Well, now I'm thinking if I should say it in twitter, because most of the network is not here :) - Lilia Efimova
If you want a river of news and have a trusted way of managing the flow already, then FriendFeed is extraneous. But if you want an easy-to-manage stream of information that lets you passively absorb more faster than most aggregators serve the info, I think FriendFeed is helpful. For those who have tried more than three major aggregators, FriendFeed probably feels like yet another similar service. That said, it fits my education needs very nicely because I can follow and share online workflows from students. using FriendFeed. - Bernie Goldbach
Lilia - But there aren't 'comments' in Twitter, really - Stowe Boyd
Stowe - well, what do you do if you feel like commenting/replying on someone's twittering? Either @ or d. With @ I always wondering if it's too much for the rest of my network (especially those not shared with everyone contacts), with d no one else can learn from it. - Lilia Efimova
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