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Google Wave is Coming: 100,000 Invites Go Out on September 30th - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"Less than two months ago, Google dropped a spectacular surprise upon the world: Google Wave. The communication tool aspires to redefine not only email, but the entire web. And from our very first test of Google Wave to our complete Google Wave Guide, we have to say that it’s a game changer. Well, in the last two months, Google and third-party developers have been hard at work testing out the system, fixing the kinks, and building some amazing extensions (which we discussed in-depth previously). Still, only a handful of people, almost all developers, have access. That’s about to change soon though: on September 30th, Google will start sending out about 100,000 invites for the next version of Google Wave."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I certainly would love to be one of the 100k. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hopefully invitations will be worldwide and not US-centric as Google Voice for which I have a superb unusable invite!
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Kol, I'm standing in line right next to you :)
- Holger Eilhard
Jean-Charles VERDIE, I assume that has more to do with the telephone exchanges etc that Google need access to before they can provide Voice to other parts of the world. However I cannot see why Wave would have any Geo-retardation linked to it... but who knows. Me, I signed up for the updates to see if that counts towards the likely recipients of the Golden Tickets.
- Travis Koger
Travis, I agree with you and don't see neither what could bring such problem. I just blame google for sending an unusable invite on GV
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Jean, that is very odd. Someone at Google didn't think about that properly. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Holger, and about a million others as well I'd imagine.
- Kol Tregaskes
new group dev focused: http://friendfeed.com/google-...
- Mark Essel
as a physicist i'm quite amused by "Google Wave Guide"
- Imabug
@Imabug, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one geeky enough to catch the wave guide reference (and mention it before I had a chance to)
- Seth Greenblatt
In the meantime, you can set your own server up, if you're a glutton for punishment, but don't expect it to be interoperable with the Wave Sandbox, or even functional. Still, it'd have been fun if they implemented a GMail-style "chain mail" invitation system, for the time being.
- Tyson Key
Tyson, Good invite system suggestion. That would promote development social groups at least until more invites go out
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
I hope additional invites will follow shortly after. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Schoolgirl angler nets record catch (twice her size) that's 9ft long and weighs 14stone - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Anna Haro, Stu Rich, Steve C and 2 other people liked this
I like the part where they put it back the best :)
- Bryan Zirkel
Is The Exclusive Deal Between Apple and AT&T Anticompetitive? - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought" http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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I had thought blogging has been growing steadily, globally. Admittedly I don't have a good chart/stats for it.
- Mark Essel
I really like this statement - but will people return to blogging as we've known it?
- Tony
Are you perhaps over estimating the allure of thinking?
- Todd Hoff
Micro-blogging is good for idealets and infotainment, but it really is turning the web into a mindless medium like TV. Of course, there will always be the equivalent of PBS trying valiantly to raise the bar somewhat. Blogs will always have the possibility of transmitting real knowledge.
- Paul W. Homer
The interesting thing for me is I think we have lost the definition of what a blog is. Everybody jumped up and down about what Steve Rubel did, but really I see his change as a shift of platform. If he posted that same content on wordpress, nobody would have said a word. Just because he did it on posterous and called it a lifestream, people took issue with it. So, what is our definition then?
- Robert
I think Steve still has a weblog, he's just submitting posts to it in a "different" way. Like Dave's link says a weblog is "... a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Pretty much sums it up, I think. Steve's post is going to generate attention, and debate, but in the end it's a weblog.
- Rob Fahrni
Robert, I know you're asking Dave a question, but I don't think the Posterious way goes against the definition. If I'm not mistaken Radio could post via e-mail, and I know Blogger supports this feature. Maybe I need to dig into Posterious a bit more but isn't that what it does?
- Rob Fahrni
Rob - That is my point. This in my mind is one of the major problems with looking for a "new name" for these social products. We see it as something different because it is called something different. Posterous, from what I can see so far, allows for the writer to interact with their "weblog" in a different way, just as you said...
- Robert
from email
Huh?
- Dave Winer
Dave - I think your "huh?" was towards me... We call Posterous a "life stream", I say it is a blog, that we have given a different name to. That is what I am saying.Rob - I agree with you 100%, and that is my point exactly. I keep reading these post about blogging being dead, or blogging being alive... but those that say they are not "blogging" are still "blogging" Maybe I am not making sense, but I hope I am...
- Robert
from email
Robert - Precisely! I think Posterious is trying to find a why to differentiate their product, so they've coined a new phrase. It's still a weblog, how the data arrives may be different, but it's just a weblog all the same. When I read Steve's story last night, from his new site, I thought I was going to find a link on it to something "new and innovative", then I realized I was AT the actualy site, his "life stream."
- Rob Fahrni
Robert - Right on!
- Rob Fahrni
Blogology is a still too young science, and definitio usually comes when plays are over. What I feel sad for is the lack of opportunity future literature and social behaviour experts will suffer not using post's content ( and graphics ) as sources for studying today's world zeitgeist. Borges prophecy is at work, few understands - too many doesn't even know what they're writing about: a...
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- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
Robert, the photo sharing site you've used recently is structurally a blog too. It differs from normal blog software mainly in that the chronology is by date of occurrence, not date of posting.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
It's funny that this sentence and a few lines from Anthony Trollope's autobiography should have crossed paths in my consciousness on the same day, since it's almost the same idea, thrown back two temporal orders of magnitude. Trollope tells of a correspondent, a vicar, who had enjoyed his clerical novels but was upset by Lady Glencors'a contemplation of adultery in the Pallisers series....
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- Amyloo
This is silly. Blogging isn't defined by the tool, it's defined by who's doing it. Read the piece I pointed to. I don't mean click on the link and hit the Back buttton, click the link and READ.
- Dave Winer
Agreed, Dave. Heck, we blogged back in the day via FTP uploads; that's what moved you towards developing "Edit This Page", in fact (IIRC).
- Ken Kennedy
This subject keeps coming back - blogging will never die.
- Jesse Stay
Before Web 1.0 we listened, conversed, collaborated and then we wrote. Writing was the synthesis of all the thinking that occurred in the first steps. In the new medium, the thinking process is the streams, both personal and community. Blogging is the synthesis of this new kind of community thought process.
- Joolio
Dave - haha! - that is awesome :D
- Susan Beebe
Pity there's no "Really, Really Like" button.
- Chris Baskind
Of course bloggin won't die, but you better have compelling content, because people have little tolerance for long articles.
- Todd Dewell
I think a large percentage of bloggers were really microbloggers, they just didn't have the correct apps to do that. The people that actually have something to say will keep blogging and those that just like to say something small or share something interesting will continue microblogging, or lifestreaming, or whatever variant you want to name it. Blogging is akin to publishing articles...
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- xero
This was known since the times of IRC: you can only have idle chatter or quick focused questions at that speed.
- Michele Costabile
Michele, if that premise is true, then kids only absorb important life-long lessons from their parent(s) when they're sat down for a full length lecture. No? :)
- Micah Wittman
The best food for thought always come in easily digestible chunks, however, sometimes you need to digest some larger/harder stuff to give you the ability to digest that chunk.
- xero
Agreed, well said, Xero.
- Micah Wittman
I thought completing a thought was the beauty of FriendFeed.
- Alan Eggleston
Microblogging is very much a product of the times, very ADD, very video-game-ish; so I agree strongly with the idea of longer.
- Rick Cogley
Just FYI, when I started Scripting News in 1997, it was entirely "microblogging" -- look in the archive. http://www.scripting.com/1997...
- Dave Winer
Dave - I very much appreciate you keeping up this fight. When I heard this past weekend the term "Lifestreaming", and seeing it picking up momentum. No, this has to stop. Twittering is an aside to your thoughts, or a highlight to pull people to your thoughts, if it's you only thoughts, you need put your head below the surface of your lifestream while carrying a big pile of rocks and...
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- Matthew DeVries
LOL, unfortunately, I don't think this problem exists just for blogging :)
- Armando & Cindee Edrosa
from iPhone
This isn't a fight. I love all this stuff. I was just saying what I think.
- Dave Winer
Even calling it a "Lifestream"? That's the creepiest sounding thing in tech, since Steve Balmer was threatening to "Squirt" his music onto my Zune.
- Matthew DeVries
Who really quit blogging? Even the most active lifestream addicts never really quit. For me, the blog is and has always been home. Everything else is somewhat ancillary, even when it's the first place I go. Critical thinking sometimes requires the depth of a written post.
- Ken Camp
Question: Of those of you out there who use posterous, do you use it as a replacement of your blog, a mirror of your blog or something different?
- Curt Mercadante
Ken - Rubel quit blogging.
- Matthew DeVries
One of the things I like about blogging is the ability to not finish a thought, not to try so hard to say all I have to say or say come to any definite conclusion in a single post. The unfinished thought is what encourages conversation. Let someone else add to your thought. Let others challenge your incomplete premise. I don't know everything, why pretend I do? My thoughts are never finished.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Wow, you're right Dave, scripting news was indeed VERY much a microblog. Interesting & thanks for pointing that out!
- Rick Cogley
Just last night, my sister sent out a vague tweet that made no sense to me out of context: http://twitter.com/awarnoc... So I suggested she blog about the topic so that readers like me would understand the context. http://twitter.com/awarnoc... http://zelzega.blogspot.com/2009...
- Peter Warnock
Just because you can finish a thought, doesn't mean people will read it.
- Will Higgins™
Tell me about it. That happened earlier in this very thread. But at least you ca read it yourself.
- Dave Winer
Just as your diary became your journal and then your log, your log has become your stream. The web has become your life..... AND SO IT WAS, that in the year naught-nine, the web-log was renamed to life-stream, dissected, and it's pieces scattered about the hundreds of "cloud" services, from which it could fall as raindrops of thought, pinging here and there in an attempt to spread ideas to where they were needed the most.
- Joel Bennett
No time to read it. Can you give us the gist of it in 140 characters or less? Thanks.
- Diego Barros
Here's a picture, even easier than 140 chars. http://tr.im/qrBb
- Dave Winer
Haha, love it!
- Rick Cogley
Love the idea!
- Sampad Swain
Come on, Dave. Where's your sense of humor?
- Diego Barros
Where's yours?
- Dave Winer
If you were joking, that's cool. I can take it. :) (I was joking, honest)
- Diego Barros
Me too. :-)
- Dave Winer
Blogging is still the platform of choice for sharing a clear/uninterrupted flow of thoughts from a single perspective. Then comments rapidly add value to the original post's material (most of the time). We're witnessing the link power of blogging decline because that functionality (which is monetizable) is moving to social media. We are left with the question, how best should bloggers monetize if they're losing link passing strength? I'm working that issue now by frankensteining several parts together
- Mark Essel
Personalized/Customized ads based on public user status. Semantic tools (via API), memory (local user profile database), and the passing of information to an ad aggregator will help produce custom (dynamic web matched) advertisements. It should serve all parties involved (social media, bloggers/front ends, semantic processing houses, and advertising aggregators).
- Mark Essel
What do you mean, I have always been able to finish a ... ooh a nice shiny object...
- Marcel de Jong
Isn't it ironic that this post contained a clear and concise thesis, in under 140 characters?
- Mike Chelen
Good point Mike...
- Mark Harai
There's NOTHING wrong with brevity. There is a time and a place for discussion and lengthy discourse.
- Will Higgins™
Mike Chelen - "a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning ... the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning." - Nope, not ironic
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew DeVries: that covers definitions 1 and 2, yet the 3rd is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result," where in this case the expected result was to explain how new platforms prevent thoughts from being finished, and the actual result was to the contrary :D
- Mike Chelen
If you say so. I never saw that definition, but I have no reason to doubt you, or motivation to find the source myself, so, I'll allow it.
- Matthew DeVries
aren't we all copying from the same online dictionary? http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction...
- Mike Chelen
No, I rattled mine out of something I memorized years ago.
- Matthew DeVries
wow, you got it perfectly word-for-word, remind me to pick you for my crossword puzzle team :)
- Mike Chelen
You can talk here and get no notice or you can talk on your blog (which is harder) and get no notice. At least here you can talk to other people that also get no notice. Your blog is an island.
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ain't that the truth. Sorry, I should keep my mouth shut, lest I contradict your point :)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Naw, you'll never hear me complain about the amount of interactions I get here. Tons more than I ever got on my blog.
- Alex Scoble
It's a bit like talking to yourself, except sometimes someone answers you here
- Janice
Alex, do you plan on doing the FF comments <-> blog comments bridge like Louis Gray (and others)??
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Not unless Typepad builds a widget to do that...and even then probably not.
- Alex Scoble
My Blog is a penninsula :P
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
Mine is submerged.
- Steve Lowe
But it's an island I control and am responsible for, and can move as necessary...
- Andrew C
Not atoll, Cecily! Is that a disagreement or exclamation of sympathy? spelling or punct wins?
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
You can talk here and get no notice, there's an app for that.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
My blog sank like the Titanic since last year.
- imabonehead
I'd rather be alone here than alone on my blogisland. Which is why I haven't posted there in many months now.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
My blog is my island. And you are all invited.
- Louis Gray
Thank you Louis, at least your blog isn't a deserted island.
- Jimminy Fuller
Well said alex, well said. I love desert islands :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Is your island tethered to a solid point in 4 dimensional space? Cuz I have heard some stories about some weird shit going down on islands.
- Geoff Schultz
I love dessert islands...I can get cheesecake, maple old fashioned doughnuts and blueberry pie all day.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
My blog is a orbital battle fortress thankyou very much
- Mo Kargas
The Care Bears do not like your orbital battle fortress very much, Mo.
- Alex Scoble
Thing is, I'm ultraverbose, and I really hate "more" link. Hence, the blog.
- Victor Ganata
I need Gummi Bears on my dessert island. Care Bears> Gummi Bears, but would taste bad.
- Jimminy Fuller
Gummi bears good...Care Bears annoying...particularly if you are Mo and live on an orbital battle fortress.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I think Mo needs to capture Sunshine Bear and use him to power the solar cells on his orbital battle fortress, then.
- Jimminy Fuller
my blog is my world and I am the Supreme Ruler.
- Kim Landwehr
*sagenod*
- Mo Kargas
Truly, I am with Victor. I have many too many words to say for a FriendFeed post a lot of the time. And way too much for Twitter or Facebook. So I walk down the penninsula, post them, and then the headlines come in here from everywhere.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Good question.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I've been paying that $5 a month so long that I just forget about it. Haven't seen a need to move. And wouldn't know where to move anyhow.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
When I was starting a new blog in 2004, my brother suggested it...so there I am.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I didn't notice...
- Far
Alex did you read this?
- Randy Allen Bishop
Did I read what? If you are asking about the title, no, I wrote that.
- Alex Scoble
You are reading the comments
- Randy Allen Bishop
Yes...most definitely
- Alex Scoble
from IM
My Blog is like a girlfriend that won't talk to me :)
- Owen Greaves
That is why I have no blog.
- Joel Robert Perez
how are you using im?
- Randy Allen Bishop
Heck - I do both. That way I can get no people to talk to me in as many places as possible!
- Curt Mercadante
Why do some people email their comment or question rather than comment on a blog? Every other post I get 8-12 people doing this and it drives me nuts... It's like having all these convos behind closed walls all the time. Getting scientists and biotech out in the open is worse than herding cats!
- Sally Church
Sally, I get that at work too. It is herding cats, the old skool kind.
- imabonehead
On "why typepad" - all the kids are moving to Squarespace now.. it lets you import and export too.. it's more than 5 but not a lot more dep. on your level... and a hell of a lot more capable IMO. They will give you an outrageously detailed view of exactly how isolated your blog really is :) - Not affiliated , not an ad !
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
For me, blog writing is more about longer thoughts or deeper dives, almost like an essay.
- anna sauce
Zips up a Pina Colada and hangs out at both FF and my blog ...waits for message in a bottle :)
- Susan Beebe
You can bring people back to talk to you here or in your blog. It takes some time but it really isn't that hard to do. I can teach anyone or you could read some of the posts I've written about how to do it starting with this one: http://www.growmap.com/comment...
- Internet Strategist
I wonder if they could make these long conversations threaded? That would be much better. We're working on a project migrating a blog from Typepad to WP for good reason. WordPress . One thing to remember is if you invest your time and talent in someone else's site instead of your own they can always pull the rug out from under you.
- Internet Strategist
My blog is an archipelago which is itself a part of a larger archipelago, which is in turn connected by a bridge to the mainland ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
Yeah, but I'm not doing this for the money
- Alex Scoble
from IM
What does doing it for money have to do with getting people to talk to you here or in your blog? Monetized or hobbiest - concepts are still the same.
- Internet Strategist
I personally don't want to be noticed. I like being on the DL.
- CW™
Hmm, sure that they weren't supposed to name it NullFeed? ;)
- Tyson Key
Or you can comment on someone's feed that gets noticed. That way you get your 15 minutes of (Warhol) fame :D
- Nick B.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who gets more interaction here. I wonder if it is the perception that is the issue... Blogs tend to resemble more "newsie" or op-ed sites so perhaps there is a perception that consumption without reciprocity is expected... or perhaps GReader has gotten us all lazy and efficient ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Im new but this seems very cool!
- Cheryl Cardwell
My blog is an island, my island and that why i love it. Its for me. blogs were started as journals and in some cases private journals and thats the way i still use mine as a journal, not completely private but very much for me. i put a few worthless ads on it to use as motivation to continue to write when i need it but its my diary.
- Cody Heitschmidt
Welcome to FriendFeed, Cheryl!
- Tyson Key
So.. do both! Don't let your blog to be a closed island: talk on FriendFeed!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
SUPER like. Missed this one.
- Kamilah Gill
Financial Responsibility in the United States (easy to read chart) - http://www.billshrink.com/blog...
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"Your credit score is a very important part of personal financial health, insuring that credit is extended to you, and at the best rate possible. There are various factors considered when calculating your individual score, and it is important to be familiar with exactly how each of these positively or negatively affects your personal rating. The following map shows averages by state, so you can see how you stack up to the rest of the country."
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
check out the lower and upper states...i wonder if this is slightly skewed due to population.
- Carlos Ayala
North and South Dakota are both the highest...what a TRIP.
- Mona Nomura
@Mona..my point exactly....less than a million people live in each of those states. one of which is just over half a million. as opposed to Texas that has like a trillion people living in it.
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos - I don't even know how they calculated it and I think you're on to something.
- Mona Nomura
I wouldn't be surprised if lower population states had a culture that encouraged saving vs credit-spending.
- matthew john ernisse
What's even trippier is how I reached this blog. An email from the NBA pushing Tmobile. Tmobile pushing the billshrink site. LOL
- Mona Nomura
I've been to Texas. The new construction there seems to drive people to buying more house than they can afford. Just one contributor I"m sure.
- sean808080
I'm also surprised California isn't lower. I remember A LOT of people who still live in their parents' homes driving Suburbans, Land Rovers, Bimmers, et al., *rolls eyes*
- Mona Nomura
I am doing my part to lower PAs credit score. :P
- Rob Diana
Actually, Mona, if you're living with your parents but have financed a high end car, chances are you've got a better than average credit score since you're not as overextended as someone with a mortgage... Which is kind of sad.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+1 Tina, if I still lived at home I'd have an extra 1300 - 1500/month in cash... You can get a pretty nice car for that.
- matthew john ernisse
@mona: if you live with your parents you *can* afford the fancy car especially if it's used or they bought it for you. wrong priorities, yes? financially irresponsible in the sense of buying something you can't afford? no. ... @carlos: no. new england is pretty densely populated. and minnesota has about 5 million folks, which is about the same as SC and twice that of mississippi.
- tiffany
That's not true - if you're living with your parents and driving expensive cars, OH! I forgot to specify. These are kids right out of high school and or attending jcs. They work their part time jobs, buy their blings, and drive expensive cars they can't afford. I've seen one too many of them unable to meet their car payments, take out loans, etc. Then again, the Bay Area, especially where I grew up, is a hm...very 'special' place.
- Mona Nomura
To add, California is known to be a culture where people live and spend beyond their means.
- Mona Nomura
my aunt mentioned this when she moved to S.C. she said "folks down here think nothing of not paying their bills." i suspect that has a lot more to do with plantation economics and its legacy in parts of the south than with population. ("plantation economics" meaning: exploitative labor practices / a plethora of low-wage jobs, and a pro-business/anti-worker/anti-borrower legal system)
- tiffany
That brings up a really good question...where DO people learn about financial responsibility?
- Mona Nomura
Tiffany, that's part of it. The unemployment and education numbers here are also part of it. In a county with +20% unemployment there will be bills that get sidelined or unpaid altogether as people struggle to feed themselves and keep gas in the car to get to work.As for where people learn about financial responsibility: it's usually the parents, and usually indirectly. I wish personal finance were a high school requirement...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Mona, as far as I can tell, financial responsibility seems to be available only as on-the-job training. Sometimes you get some knowledge from parents too, but that seems to be about it.
- Rob Diana
yeah tina. i think regulation can help though. georgia -- and most southern states -- allows super-high interest rates and foreclosures in as little as 38 days. it's *REALLY* easy to have messed up credit under those circumstances. california and new york drag out foreclosures which can give a family a chance to rebound before getting put out on the street and having a foreclosure on their credit rating.
- tiffany
That's another problem (drag out foreclosures) since there are a lot of businesses that spawn from foreclosures. i.e. mortgage loan companies that have low interest rates that double, triple, even quadruple over time (when reading the fine print). Not sure about NY, but I've seen A LOT of Californians get screwed over. :(
- Mona Nomura
Another factor here, Tiffany: predatory lending. There are a ton of check advance and title loan places here (I mean a TON).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Mona - re: financial responsibility, I can only speak for myself but I learned the hard way:) A good lesson too because I'm now better off because of it but it took awhile.
- Rick Bucich
As for predatory lending, I wouldn't be surprised to see additional regulatory legislation on that front. And in general, there are few reasons for a sub-prime borrower to be buying in the first place.
- Rick Bucich
If schools offer sex-ed, they should offer 'real life $$ skills'... I too, know one too many who've learned the hard way :(
- Mona Nomura
It is funny that schools don't offer a "personal finance" course. It would probably help much more than they think. I wish some of the personal finance information was available when I was younger.
- Rob Diana
Convicted financier criminals should be mandated to teach 'personal finance' courses as part of their 'punishment' and rehabilitation.
- Mona Nomura
Nope. I wouldn't want my children learning personal finance from a convicted money fraud.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The schools should get course material from the Narional Restaurant Assoc. Learn from people fighting in the economic trenches.
- Robert Hafer
Cat & Hedgehog on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Cuttlefish attacks octopus - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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While working underwater, an octopus took my spanner (wrench). Then we both got a surprise!
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
*grin* Now that was cool
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
this thing was nasty. looked like some floating algae or something and then CHOMP!
- Cee Bee
Did it eat it?
- Admiral Anika
Looked like it had it firmly and completely inside by the end. I'd guess yes.
- Michael W. May
lol, the title made me think of a cartoon on http://abstrusegoose.com/, must go find hte link EDIT: cant find it
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Whoa that was awesome
- Rodfather
Great. That makes cuddling and cuttling both loaded words now. But that was an incredible moment to get on camera.
- Micah Wittman
karma can be a cold hearted bitch sometime.
- Tony C (Unrated)
i looked at the wrong comic, it was xkcd http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
don't all cuttlefish have that beak of death? it's like a deadly sphincter of sorts
- Cee Bee
Cee Bee all cephalopods in that class (cuttlefish, squid and octopus) have that "beak of death". IIRC it's an internalized shell.
- Admiral Anika
It's a mollusc eat mollusc world out there.
- ronin
The twitter vs. friendfeed rivalry: getting catty! You could even say "LOLcatty"
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ROTFLMAO!!!! THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!
- Steven Perez
Best LOLCats EVAH
- Martha
true true
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
LOL LOL
- Bwana ☠
does there need to be a rivalry? can't the be used together? I mean.. I use them to compliment each other.
- Sean
yes it has been prophesied: till the death...one cannot live while the other survives
- sofarsoShawn
Agreed, Shawn I believe it was the prophet Louis the Gray, in the book of Scoble, thirteenth chapter.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
sad part is, this was made back in 5/08. they may have won the battle, but we will win the war!
- Hao Chen
+1 shawn for the Harry Potter ref.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
LOL there you go...@Chris got it! 1up
- sofarsoShawn
what a hoot! LMAO
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
This is just too funny :D
- Nia
bitch slap!!!!
- Mystika
meow...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
no you!
- alphaxion
the battle continues...
- sofarsoShawn
My feeling is, don’t trash something until you’ve tried it. Perhaps if the Pope tried sex, he’d feel very differently about only having sex to conceive. - http://fredwilson.vc/post...
Graphic Picture of Seal Clubbing - http://img2.timeinc.net/people...
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:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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Haha
- Timothy Griffin
Lucky bastard :D
- Juan Pablo González
*golfclap*
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
See -- there's hope for ANYbody...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Shey +1
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
lol @ Shey
- Brandy Lea
hehe... +69 Shey
- AJ Batac
Ya gotta like Heidi Klum.
- Dawn
LOL, Shey.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hahaha.. I remember that Pop-Up Videos show on VH1 years ago made this joke.. They started showing a Seal video and said "Every year over # of seals are clubbed. Seal likes to go clubbing."
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Tree Willy! - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...
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Fail Whale has been spotted!
- Outsanity
but its a Win Whale
- Alfredo
Love it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Suppose the owner is on twitter?????
- Roberto Bonini
kinda looks like a goldfish cracker!
- Zach Landes
Pascal's Wager and Climate Change - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Tim Disney, Chris Johnson, Aaron Hood and 11 other people liked this
Thank you Tim for being a consistent, calm, and rational advocate on this issue.
- Stu Rich
Pascal's wager doesn't make sense for God, but it does for climate.
- Todd Hoff
This is so true...do the things that make sense not just for climate change, but for other reasons as well.
- Alex Scoble
exactly tim... exactly
- Chris Heath
In both cases I think my soul is on the balance. God however I think would know the motivation behind your adoration and the climate is indifferent (sorry Gaia)
- Todd Hoff
Well said.
- Meryn Stol
This article, like Pascal's wager, suffers from the false premise. Pascal assumed either no God or God as described in the Bible. When you add the possiblity that there is a God unlike the Biblical one, his agrueme t falls apart. If you reconize the potential waste of money / loss of freedom of some green programs; doing nothing is a viable option.
- Robert Hafer
Well, I guess you have no problems buying gas made from oil produced by the likes of Russia and Iran for the rest of your life then eh, Robert?
- Alex Scoble
Robert: doesn't that depend on the values to attribute to those? i would argue anyone who thought "potential waste of money" was more valuable than the earth surviving was a total fruitcake (aka crazy).
- Chris Johnson
Bath Time / Nikon66
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- Kol Tregaskes
Have just started using Twitter.. Can't figure out what all the buzz is about. I prefer both Facebook and FriendFeed to it. Definitely don't like the fact that you can't see comments right below the post.
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I'm only using Twitter because some people who are following me don't use FF. My only tweets are shared automatically from FriendFeed posts and comments (http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...).
- Tudor Bosman
BIndu, I'm as big a FF user as any, but Twitter as useful for me. Catching up with people on the run, following trends. I like that it is so limited.
- Deepak Singh
FF is my social tool. I maintain Twitter for those who don't use FF. and I create entries in FF to 'see' those folks from here.
- MikeAmundsen
twitter lacks comment threading and that is a huge weakness in their design. FF excels in this as a core product offering...much better
- Susan Beebe
it's the most fucked up thing, but you get used to it
- sofarsoShawn
Commenting is an easy feature to add, so they made a conscious decision not to add it. I am guessing this has something to do with the product design philosophy of having constraints.. The big deal about Twitter is seeing in near real time people's reactions to events... Given that I would have thought search would be a bit more integrated into the site. I understand the "let us keep it clean" argument, but I would still vote for a more prominent place for search
- Bindu Reddy
One point that someone brought up to me was that on Twitter, if you see an update, you know that the person is probably sitting at their computer looking at Twitter. If you respond, you're likely to grab their attention. For me personally, Twitter has little utility so far.
- Steve Weis
Your Twitter needs time
- Igor Poltavskiy
Twitter is for broadcasting; FriendFeed is for conversation. Both are appropriate in the right circumstances. You can even broadcast on Twitter and then join the conversation back on FriendFeed.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
@Glen, I see your point but I use Facebook for broadcasting stuff... Either way, I will give Twiiter some more time and energy and see what happens.
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, Facebook is so closed though. Limited chances of serendipitous discovery. Like a friend I made cause I grumbled about not being at Supercomputing last year.
- Deepak Singh
Twitter is like friendfeed with training wheels - your already riding so don't bother with it bindu ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Twitter ends up being interesting for completely unexpected and unintended reasons. Augmented Cognition is one of them. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... and http://tinyurl.com/connie08
- michael silverton
I don't like Twitter. I am not even sure why I still have an account. I can't follow a conversation on Twitter. It's nothing like following one in a chatroom or on a forum. Unless I follow everyone on the planet, I will only get a part of a conversation and it rarely makes any sense. And if I try to respond there is a good chance the person I am trying to talk to will never see it because he isn't following me, or at least that's how I understand Twitter works.
- April Russo (app103)
I like both Twitter and FriendFeed. Twitter, though, is by far the most mobile-friendly of the two. Mobility is counting for more and more these days.
- Ed Moltzen
Even if you don't like Twitter, it's a necessary evil. Even though I'm more active in FriendFeed than Twitter, I get many more new followers in Twitter than FriendFeed.
- Ontario Emperor
You're right on Bindu. I'm still trying to figure out why I spent over an hour today checking out new Twitter followers. 2009 WILL be the year of Friendfeed. Facebook? Watch for an acquisition ..... Just sayin' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Can you imagine if email were as fragmented? You'd have to send an email on mail.yahoo and another one on gmail to reach everyone and then the replies wouldn''t go to everyone. Don't you think that's broken? Can't we build blogging over email? Just mailing lists done right, with easy subscription management and a recommendation system.
- Antonio Piccolboni
Re: Selling Apple and Google Today - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
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"good points Dan. I am not walking away from my investment thesis in Google, and plan to be back into the stock during this year. I just feel like I should take some gains, take a breather, and look for proof points that my thesis is correct before diving back in."
- Fred Wilson
Business travel lessons: http://www.portfolio.com/busines...
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Don't think the reason for the drop in first class travel is the truly rich trading down but rather fewer Wall Street and other business types flying less and no longer in first.
- Joe Buhler
What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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FriendFeed Isn’t Dying, Although It’s a Nice Line - http://www.inquisitr.com/14164...
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+1 for filtering & API ;)
- dK
My 15.6km run today - https://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts...
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20 degrees and windy, can't believe i made it almost 10 miles... will be feeling it in the morning for sure!
- Benton
Freezing Fountain In Palais Royale http://www.flickr.com/photos...
First day of trading in 2009 and Dow is over 9000. I approve.
Ross Miller, Josh Haley, Stu Rich and 9 other people liked this
What 9000?!
- Michael Ryan
Darn, Michael beat me to it
- Bwana ☠
awesome!
- Susan Beebe
Bwana, I was afraid that I jinxed it by tweeting that a half hour before the close.
- Mike Doeff
How to sound like an idiot in 60 seconds or less: Complain about the noisy people on friendfeed. If one person is filling up your http://friendfeed.com/?num=100 maybe you should try subscribing to different people instead of whining about the noise. Use the tools or STFU.
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Few other mediums generate so many conversations about the medium on the medium as friendfeed does. It does get real tedious sometimes...it's enough to make one use the block feature a bit more liberally.
- Alex Scoble
you are still using the beta subdomain? :D
- AJ Batac
It's a bookmark on my toolbar :) Guess it's time to update eh?...and done. Thanks.
- Alex Scoble
Unfortunately, the people who most need to read this probably never will. One person who will go unnamed isn't subscribed to me for instance.
- Alex Scoble
Alex wins the sane comment of the day award. ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Well said, Alex.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Very sane comment. Can't be said enough.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Preach on brother
- Mo Kargas
@Alex: Voldemort?
- Jemm
But what if it's all noise?
- raphaeL
The problem is, it takes some development, patience, and experience to develop the skills necessary to learn how to censor or filter the noise. Especially on FF. Few people will every take the time necessary to develop these skills and so they will always complain about the noise on FF and never develop a way to cope with it.
- Bob Blunk
Love your critics. This is a FF usability issue, not (strictly) a personality problem.
- You.
Thank you Alex. I just take noisy people off my home feed and put them in their specific lists. No drama, and I can still read them when my home feed is slow.
- Helen Sventitsky
Likey. But it's neverending it seems. I'm afraid the arguing about noise will only get worse.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
The Image Fulgurator - http://www.notcot.org/post...
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RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Evernote is doing that for me. I get the bookmark which may or may not go "poof" one day and the relevant content (and only the relevant content) that won't ever disappear on me.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Multiple Home Pages in today's internet browsers (that open into multiple Tabs) and restoration of pages that were last opened in browser also somewhat eliminates needs for bookmarks.
- Atul Arora
I'm with Lindsay on this. I was bitterly disappointed with Evernote when the first release of their web product came out (and coincident ending of offering/development of their Windows desktop version), but over time (and especially since the release of the iPhone version I have come to depend on Evernote and my use of bookmarks (including the Delicious et al type) has rapidly declined- it is so great to have the relevant content along with the link to source (which I now use for reference citing purpose).
- David HC Soul
All my internet surfing these days occurs from Google Reader. It has practically eliminated my 'internet surfing' days.
- tsiakhyie
Well, I still bookmark but only the pages with tutorials and other reference text (something I would like to quote, for instance). But yes, the pages I am checking more often - they "land" in Google Reader (right now Feedly flavour).
- Hanna Wiszniewska
Sites with no RSS end up in delicious and then I forget them
- M F
The world is a collection of RSS feeds. If it isn't an RSS feed, it's not on the grid.
- Sean McBride
I too like to start out from my RSS feeds, but enjoy browsing where I haven't been before as well. I use Diigo for bookmarks, but mostly to share pages and highlights with a group.
- John Serra
Agreed. Bookmarks are for practical items that I return to frequently and that's all. I start with RSS most of the time and then add stuff to Delicious if I find it interesting or want to read it later. One thing I missed (headslap) and have now done is put a bunch of News Alerts into RSS. Day 1 and I'm already finding new things far quicker.
- AJ Kohn
I have a handful of bookmarks that take me to my personal pages (like WP-admin pages) - Other than that, it's rss or links people send me, that then go into rss
- Matt Faulkner
from twhirl
I like instapaper - stuff I want to read but don't have time. getting into Evernote also
- BEX
Bookmarks? What are those? I have a bunch of bookmarklets on my toolbar, but that's about it. I haven't used a bookmark from the menu in years.
- Mr. Gunn
I have some bookmarklets, a small set of bookmarks on iGoogle organized in folders, and a boatload of social computing sites where I dump my infostream (FF, Twitter, delicious).
- Mike Reynolds
True, RSS is very easy to let new posts come you. Also very useful is the address bar in Firefox. It searches URL history but also page titles and seems to learn from my queries. At the moment typing 'm' returns GMail as the first result, 'r' returns Readers address, etc.
- Rob Schlüter
Most Useful Web Applications for 2008 - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
"As we bid adieu to 2008, let’s looks at some useful web applications that really made an impact. All these apps are available online for free and require no installation."
- Kol Tregaskes
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