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Quote of the Day http://politicalwire.com/archive... - Google Reader
That's a hell of a reason to vote for it, just cause you're a Democrat. And they lecture to conservatives about partisanship. Who are they kidding?
- John Fox
Breathe, John. The guy's right - if you're a Dem Congressperson who doesn't vote for the health care bill, it WILL be tougher for you in the '10 election cycle. What, you don't think that's true?
- Shawn Plew
from email
Kevin Tunis liked this
This is rather stylish, but I can't get over the interesting way it opens. It seems a bit awkward.
- John Fox
Holy! Propane tank fire on the west side. 1100 block of Sheffield. Right behind my house.
Awesome did you get photos?
- Davis Freeberg
Glad Oprah hasn't shown up on FriendFeed yet.
- John Fox
Comcast Petaluma is suffering a "serious outage." 15,000 in Petaluma affected. Including The Tech Guy.
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Roberto Bonini, earl wallace and John Grinde liked this
That sucks. Stay strong Leo.
- Eric Geller
Keep the faith, Leo. Indy loves you!
- John Fox
I hate it when that happens.
- George Brickner
Ugh, that sucks. :( Keep your chin up, Leo. :) Watching the stream on BitGravity at the moment. Wish your show was aired here in Buffalo.
- Molly, Time Traveller
Sonoma's okay right now
- Rob
Comcast is out several other places in CA, too. Comcastic!
- redct
No TWiT today?
- David Schmidt
Be strong Leo...
- JD Woodard
You'll pull through it. What do you use the Comcast for? I know you have multiple different internet connections at the TWiT Cottage.
- David van Sunder
Screw You Comcast!
- Dave VanderWall
David, Leo has backup DSL and Ethernet over the Last Mile besides his comcast... and a T1 --- twit will not be affected... although it has put a cramp on him for his radio show
- Chris Heath
Charter was down for me yesterday. Tag, you're it!
- Amber Hewitt
Comcast Petaluma should call The Tech Guy .... uhhh, wait ...
- HansVanRock
Wicked funny Hans, wicked funny....
- Chris Heath
I'm starting a trip to Indianapolis today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
Melanie Reed, noemigio, Fiat and 3 other people liked this
I'll be there from August 27th until August 30th. See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Robert Scoble
Your personal velocity is the same as a chicken :)
- Tim Akinbo
Hope to meet you sometime this weekend, Robert! Have a save trip.
- John Fox
You should stop by the journalism conference ( http://spj.org ) in town at the same time. Crash it and keynote. Looks like Rafat Ali will be there Saturday morning.
- Ryan Sholin
Robert, I'd love to do a 3 minute video interview with you if at all possible. Name the place and time, and I'll be there.
- Brandon
Brandon, yeah, it's our first trip to Indy.
- Robert Scoble
Hi Robert- What will it take for you to come over to Toronto and cover what's going on here? There are a few Tech events in Sept/Oct you could wrap a trip around perhaps. Hint: come before the snow. I'll be your host here and we'll take good care of you and get you in front of the right people. Thanks for considering it . Tweet me @wmougayar
- William Mougayar
Looking forward to hearing about the Tweetup! :)
- Melanie Reed
Why I'm going to Indianapolis this weekend with @rocmanusa :
Kyle, Dave Winer, noemigio and 12 other people liked this
http://www.youtube.com/watch... we're hanging out with the Fiat/Yamaha racing team. Motorcyles! Best in the business.
- Robert Scoble
http://www.facebook.com/fiataut... Facebook page
- Robert Scoble
Valentino Rossi rules :)
- Luigi Filograna
http://twitter.com/fiatont... Twitter account.
- Robert Scoble
http://www.flickr.com/photos... Flickr account.
- Robert Scoble
http://friendfeed.com/fiat FriendFeed account!!!
- Robert Scoble
I'm going to rent a big lens again and take lots of pictures.
- Robert Scoble
enjoy!
- Luigi Filograna
We look forward to the Indianapolis w/e!
- Fiat
Luigi: I'm looking forward to it. Dave Winer has been raving about watching Valentino ever since he went when the race was in Monterey.
- Robert Scoble
he is amazing...I'm a Valentino's fan
- Luigi Filograna
In Laguna Seca we had a great time with @davewiner, it will be great @ Indy as well!
- Fiat
Hope you have a good time Robert. It's a shame they couldn't get things sorted out so that F1 could return to Indy. I always wonder how IMS makes any money. It only seems to host 2 or 3 races a year, most big European race circuits host races throughout the year, as well as having 2 or 3 major international events.
- Graeme Shaw
An Indianapolis teaser for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Fiat
I was there with Fiat at Sachsenring MotoGP; Fiat/Yamaha guys are really fantastic, you'll definitely gonna have a good time (and eat good italian food as well).
- ialla
Go Doctor Rossi! Go!
- Stefano Pietroiusti
from twhirl
Valentino Rossi rocks, I love it every time I catch motoGP on eurosport. Hope Rossi wins so you guys can check out one of the greatest guys when it comes to celebrating.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
from iPhone
Get well soon Casey Stoner!
- Matt G
We're looking forward to it Robert, I'll be online (from Italy) with you during qualification and race, just in case. I'm looking forward to follow you.
- Marco Massarotto
ah ah, scoble in love with fiat :)
- Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini
Glad to see you're coming to my neck of the woods, Robert!
- John Fox
Can't wait, we might do a tweetup too, but gotta figure out the schedule first with the Fiat folks.
- Robert Scoble
When will you know your schedule? I'm about 4 hours out in Toledo, probably can't make it, but maybe.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: probably not until Thursday night/Friday morning. So it probably will need to be a spur of the moment thing.
- Robert Scoble
Damn. Go find business to conduct in Detroit or Cleveland
- Matthew DeVries
good choice! Rossi rocks!
- George Achillias
Taking my Gene Simmons T with me- ROCK ON Fiat/Yamaha!
- Rocky Barbanica
We probably won't know our full schedule until Friday morning, unfortunately. We are captives of the Fiat/Yamaha racing team.
- Robert Scoble
oh wow...I'm jealous. Looking forward to your pics when you return!
- Tamara
Way to go Rocky! Rock on!!! :-)
- Marco Massarotto
Captives,
- Rocky Barbanica
Captives. Scoble? Maybe - but WAY WILLING CAPTIVES ! Rockin Indy, BABY!!!
- Rocky Barbanica
Dig it Marco!!!
- Rocky Barbanica
wow guys...I'm definitely looking forward to following you during the w/e!! wish you a grrrrreat time ;) (@rocky: your T ROCKS!!!)
- noemigio
RT @Gartenberg: @jowyang leaving Forrester? http://blogs.forrester.com/marketi... WOW! huge loss to FORR. Good luck on your next move!
Dave Martin, Roberto Bonini and Mark liked this
I'm not at all surprised, he's a real talent and I'm sure many companies would like to have him on their team. If he goes independent, he'll also do well. I wish him all the best!
- courtney benson
is twitter down? cant load his profile
- Mark
Twitter giving Error 503? Are they getting DDOS'ed again? Status.twitter.com shows all normal, so I don't think this is a planned outage.
- John Fox
I got the same - not good
- Kevin Krewell
Whoever creates a solid defense against DDOS attacks will be a billionaire!
- John Fox
This looks like a more serious problem for Twitter
- Kevin Krewell
Back to the original topic - Jeremiah was a very visible social media analyst at Forrester - this is the second high profile analyst they lost this week.
- Kevin Krewell
We don't know whats going on behind the scenes, there might be some big problems going on
- Mark
BTW, Twitter's back
- Kevin Krewell
Real-time contest. Who is doing the geekiest thing right now? Answer on FriendFeed here:
Carlo Maglinao, K.D., Bora Zivkovic and 58 other people liked this
Following FF live feed :-)
- Bo Stern
I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Converting some values on my HP-16C.
- LogEx
Setting up signatures in Thunderbird.
- John Fox
Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt
- Pon
Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix.
- Michael Groner
Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard.
- BeauGiles
watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other
- Rob Clark
running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing
- Erik Boles
Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :)
- emon hassan
I am not geeky enough.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though)
- Jason Phillips
I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77...
- Travis B. Hartwell
Erik wins so far!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Alex Linebrink
Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/
- Derrich
Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY.
- emon hassan
Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can!
- Joshua Odneal
Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes.
- David R
Derrich wins hands down
- Jodi Church
ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!)
- Mr K
Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv
- Carlton Prest
David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!!
- Erik Boles
Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar?
- Stephen Pickering
Indexing mysql databases
- Mike
I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it.
- Michael Groner
watching buffy & angel, lmao
- Brendon Wadey
Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'!
- BeauGiles
Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well.
- Daniel Zarick
Helping someone set up an IRC client.
- Danny Minick
I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it.
- Scott Voss
Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :(
- Travis B. Hartwell
Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek.
- Fred
And with the iphone still geeking out!
- Stephen Pickering
Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly
- David R
I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN.
- Rob Sterling
@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :)
- Michael Groner
TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy
- Erik Boles
:)
- Travis B. Hartwell
getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget...
- esaarem
Defending Blue Bell ice cream and telling church jokes.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-)
- Johni Fisher
Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte
- Jeremy Lane
Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest?
- David R
David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football.
- Akiva Moskovitz
watching systm on how to build a combat robot
- Sean Montgomery
@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet,
- Derrich
I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek.
- Justin Lowery
ill take that magnet
- David R
watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob.
- geoff hines
Playing World of Warcraft and watching FriendFeed's stream at the same time.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
rebooting PC after BSD
- Phani Raj Kuchibhotla
Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo
- imperator3733
Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT
- Rohit Harshvardhan
@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness.
- Erik Boles
Playing Wow!
- Bill Skoros
installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers
- Carlos
changing my friendfeed theme to custom
- thegeniusfiles
@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower!
- BeauGiles
EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building
- Sean Montgomery
researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up
- Justin Ruckman
first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids.
- Erik Boles
@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also…
- Justin Lowery
You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings.
- Yule Heibel
watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game!
- ann glenn
Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster.
- Kenny Rayl
@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it.
- Justin Lowery
This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby....
- Sean Montgomery
and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game.
- geoff hines
David: prize? My undying respect!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF
- Derrich
• The Geekiest Thing? Well — I'm reading micro-blog posts from Robert Scoble! How can you possibly do anything geekier than that? ☺
- Richard Merritt
Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC.
- Edward Coffey
Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Installing apps for the new 3Gs
- Denverken
Keeping up with this thread
- Reyna Carlos
Babbling in writing is just pathetic.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that...
- Dean Browell
Go Denverken!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Reyna Carlos wins
- Jeremy Lane
@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :)
- BeauGiles
Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :)
- Laura Zickus
digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net
- Fred Davis
Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard!
- Adam Jackson
Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project.
- Jimmy
On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance!
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-)
- Fred Davis
Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion
- Micah Wittman
Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...]
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-)
- Fred Davis
Watching Season 4.5 of BSG
- lisa padilla
My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt!
- Stephen Pickering
hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far
- Denverken
Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot?
- Jerry Garcia
yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha!
- Fred Davis
Watching Android get ported onto an MID
- Netbooknews
watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island"
- monkeystick
Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper.
- Sheila Scarborough
I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas.
- Jerry Garcia
I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter.
- Fred Jones
Going thru 104 comments on this thread.
- Winston Teo
Shape Collaging FF followees http://friendfeed.com/glongma...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video
- Outsanity
I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was
- Kevin Marks
reading scoble FF
- Ruchit Garg
hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor.
- Brett Kelly
zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled.
- David Newman
Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D
- Yahya
playing with django framework
- vinod
playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it)
- Keith - @tsudo
Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts.
- lily taylor
Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF.
- Sandra Large
reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =)
- Charl Pearce
Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek?
- John Nissim
Doing open source development in C++.
- Dean Michael Berris
checking out laptops on pc mag. #
- Francisco
trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed')
- Bill Powell
Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
LOl @Stephen P.
- Francisco
to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol
- Francisco
@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Playing with Google Wave
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7
- RobinDotNet
Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what?
- Brent Cameron
My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it.
- Alex Knight
running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV
- Robert Higgins
Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone
- Johnny Worthington
Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :)
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :)
- Fahim
I dont know if this comes under the "tech" category! I am currently thinking ;-) Thinking if the human mind is really an illusion!
- rampantheart
Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog.
- Tim Maly
Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim.
- Jim Connolly
Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans.
- Steve Farnworth
running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome.
- Rohit
Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete.
- Usman Bashir
Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Making a few more custom buttons for firefox.
- April Russo (app103)
Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed.
- Ben Pashkoff
from twhirl
I am listening to Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte interview Michael Foord about Iron Python.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Drinking my morning coffee.....
- Roberto Bonini
it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^
- Paul Papadimitriou
from iPhone
And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :)
- Roberto Bonini
I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :)
- Charlie Anzman
When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky?
- DGentry
Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :)
- Usman Bashir
changing the links under my flickr photos from my personal website to my twitter and facebook fan page. You've got to go where the traffic is! </geekiness>
- Edward Barnieh
Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
reading all the comments above;p
- zʍıɔ
Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post!
- Martin Bryant
We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum?
- Jeff Sayre
Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification...
- Tyson Key
I'm organizing CloneFeed/OpenFF, the open source alternative to FF. Early stages though.
- Jason, Queazy
from iPhone
Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm.
- jcunwired
....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in.
- Matthew Ogston
everyon'es working around me and im on friendfeed. lol
- nivcalderon
Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up.
- Courtney Engle
ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there.
- Courtney Engle
A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee!
- Jeff Sayre
Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES.
- ashish
I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!"
- Trent Hamm
from iPod
Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals!
- Frank Da Silva
Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud.
- Micah Wittman
Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter.
- Michael Pardee
I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?"
- Jimmy Walker
Configuring a Sonicwall router.
- Norm McKenzie
Writing code in Scala.
- Joey Gibson
I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com
- Benjy Felsham
reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader.
- Fuad Arshad
OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky!
- Robyn Hawk
I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next!
- Jan Horna
Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL
- Jim Goldstein
Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . .
- MikeEllsworth
Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress.
- Michael Carnell
Ripping Hogan's Hereos DVDs to make H.264 files for later playing on Apple TV. It's good to carry on in comments here as it shows FF that there is a continuing need and use of the FF ways of doing things. If this was on Facebook, I could not send a comment to Robert unless he friended me. Things are just so much tighter and efficient here.
- Keith Rowland
About the only other thing we could ask for in comments, is comments on comments.
- Keith Rowland
playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature
- Heather
Using my phone to Skype, Friendfeeding on a netbook, playing sudoku on my ipod while watching Pulp Fiction.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated.
- Jim Peake
I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:)
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
following Scobleizer is pretty geeky
- Shari Weiss
working on new version of picollator.com
- Irina Yakhneeva
Installing IE8.
- Rob Schieber
Reading on FF instead of working...
- DAL
compiling Erlang
- Brian Hendrickson
Define "real-time."
- l0ckergn0me
_as if_ you can beat me :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting.
- Jim Connolly
OSgrid
- paniaguai
Twitter is not loading right now, anyone having the same problem?
Mathew™ one of a kind, Tamar Weinberg, Stewart Rogers and 3 other people liked this
Yes me too
- Matteo Carli
yep
- George Dearing
Yep. Just cursing at my screen now. :( Can't access Twitter in any way, shape or form
- Grey Drane
Same here... :(
- John Fox
yup. It's getting more natural to just flip over to friendfeed now.
- motownmutt
I just tried to post on twitter but...
- Madhav Tripathi
I heard it was abandoned as not being popular enough and they're shuttering the doors today and laying off the whole staff.
- Matthew DeVries
you are just kidding.
- Madhav Tripathi
Yep. Yay FF.
- phil baumann
Totally down
- courtney benson
twitter is down and people are sending tips to get more followers on twitter.
- Madhav Tripathi
Same here.
- Warner Crocker
Yes, its not opening here also!
- Sampad Swain
Yes!
- Shaun Bruce
Like @Matthee DeVries ;-)))
- Roberto Ballerini
i think so.
- Madhav Tripathi
it came back just 4 few seconds...
- Roberto Ballerini
A lot of Facebook apps are shitting the bed right now too, I wonder if there is an attack or server outage or router with a squirrel in it.
- Matthew DeVries
you mean after few seconds again down.
- Madhav Tripathi
yes
- Roberto Ballerini
facebook apps also not in working condition?
- Madhav Tripathi
Same here
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
yeppers
- Ronald
Yup
- Hutch Carpenter
yes indeedy
- Kate
Ronald I am sure you suffered a lot.
- Madhav Tripathi
Yes - I just asked myself. Confirmed.
- Alex Williams
planet of the pulse is down now.
- Madhav Tripathi
FB is buggy for me, too.
- Grey Drane
from IM
^^ haha :) :) no, no not really ;) - but already gettin' a bit 'nervous', yes...
- Ronald
Me too..
- Mads Kristiansen
I will never pray for them.
- Madhav Tripathi
perhaps they didn't limit themselves to iPhone: http://www.pcworld.com/article...
- Roberto Ballerini
yes, first thought that was my crappy connection but that is something completely different.
- Max Friedrich Hartmann
I also thought if my internet connection is OK.
- Madhav Tripathi
they're under DoS attack right now. I wonder who they pissed off.
- Jason Wyttenbach
BREAKING: Google Acquires Video Compression Company for $106.5 million - http://mashable.com/2009...
Eric @ CSTechcast.com, Tanath, Ahmet Soyata and 7 other people liked this
Could be looking to add the tech to GTalk and its video conference function.
- Travis Koger
Screen sharing tech. On2 is well known for that
- Bwana ☠
Does anyone thing it would be beneficial if Skype became a Google product? Just thought I'd throw that out there for discussion.
- John Fox
@John, GTalk could be just as good as Skype if it was integrated with GVoice. Not to mention who knows how long Skype will be going for. ;)
- Travis Koger
@techyuppie Possibly, depends on what kind :-)
I'm just rolling around the idea right now. I hope you enjoying hanging out Sunday.
- John Fox
@techyuppie when the hell did she do that?
She told me she needed the stuff for the guys working on the roof. I told her that was unacceptable.
- John Fox
@techyuppie I take it then that Merri did come get the drill and stuff?
Yeah... came into the house as we slept to get it. I told her that wasn't cool.
- John Fox
@techyuppie ...who asked a bunch of questions before deciding.
I'm sorry. :-(
- John Fox
RT @kencamp: If 90% of your tweets are pimping yourself, you're a social media noisemaker rather than a thought leading practitioner IMHO.
I concur. Have you ever seen the video, "New Media Douchebags in Plain English"?
- John Fox
no i haven[t
- Scott Wilder
My Twitter follower growth has been slowing down http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei... . I'm seeing geek engagement on Twitter going down. How about you?
Sheree Motiska, Nicholas James, Kevin Tunis and 18 other people liked this
Plus they've been trying to remove bots and spammers, which has something to do with it, too.
- Robert Scoble
I think my followers are disappointed that I'm more of a Friendfeed person. ;)
- Amir
But I've definitely been getting more engagement here on FriendFeed lately. But that's largely by design in my case.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah. Probably Digg "effect". Geeks moving out.
- karthick
Robert: Quite a few of my follower's are bots and spammers, too.
- Amir
Well you keep sending us here, to lovely friendfeed land
- Mark
I added 40 quality followers yesterday on twitter with 1 good blog..maybe you are just up against your max addressable market Robert, law of big numbers..
- James Watters
Twitter seems to be over-run by spambots and phony profiles
- Wayne Schulz
That's because you don't use Twitter Scoble lol...
- Colin
Colin: that's not true. I'm on Twitter all the time!
- Robert Scoble
My Twitter follower growth is the same as ever: zero.
- DGentry
I think it's simple. The whole Idea of following back to be polite is losing popularity. Therefore the churn is slowing for many.
- Dj Skunk Diesel
Lol, nah, I have to come to FriendFeed to get your attention, so I don't reply to you on Twitter, and others probably do the same.
- Colin
I'd rather ad 1 VP of biz dev, than 1k randoms
- James Watters
I don't even know what my Twitter following is, I've never looked. It's not something I'm remotely interested in.
- Gilbert Harding
I agree quality not quantity
- Dj Skunk Diesel
added 10 execs yesterday...so much more interesting...eddie izzard has 600k followers and mostly does running picture updates
- James Watters
Scoble uses Twitter. Just more in a Friendfeed capacity ;-)
- Amir
noticing the same thing. techies are definitely losing interest due to spam and celebrity overload.
- casey wright
from BuddyFeed
Josh, yes it saves them from having to have any real content!
- James Watters
Is Scoble showing his tech celebrity cards by talking raw #s :)
- James Watters
James: that's why I say it's who you are following that is so much more important than who is following you.
- Robert Scoble
I'm deleting fewer spam followers, so maybe Twitter is getting better at killing them sooner.
- Howard Rheingold
Robert **** +1k! I love twitter for what I read! When I get more followers it just makes me nervous to talk :)
- James Watters
James: nah. But my account growth has -- up to now -- closely tracked Twitter's growth itself.
- Robert Scoble
See yourself for last months. Twitter got rid of thousands of spam bots a few days ago: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Boris
James, so the interesting thing is: is Twitter's growth slowing down? (I don't think so). So, the geek world on Twitter is mattering less and less as mainstream shows up.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I'd agree, and I think your point is interesting. Its like blogs, when the polticos took over the momentum from the geeks :(
- James Watters
Although, look at Compete.com and you'll see Twitter's growth itself has slowed down: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter...
- Robert Scoble
Yes, been going on for awhile. The spammers are a real pain, so I'm thankful they are working on that.
- courtney benson
Josh: I watch early adopter user behavior and I'm seeing less engagement on Twitter. The geeks are getting bored.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: yes, Compete.com is inaccurate, but generally it matches trends well.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: in my case about 44%. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Twitter and FF are amazing if you want to listen...
- James Watters
Maybe they are going back to blogging. Or are on vacation.
- Robert Scoble
look at the trending topics today on twitter - unfort. mainstream entertainment. what a change from a year ago. yes the conversation is now wide - but seems just a shift of medium for fluff. not watching as closely as you are but happy with my monitored subjects of interest - still discovering BIG voices everyday. ff rocks the conversation though!
- michael sean wright
I lost 8% of my followers and about the same number I was following in one day (day before today) on Twitter.. I can't believe all these were bots and I am now "cured" of bots..
- Anindya Chatterjee
Hi Josh, yes really. I get emails every day announcing new followers but I just delete them. I only follow people who are personally recommended to me and who I find interesting. I never look at my profile to see my stats. If people find my inane comments and occasional newsy bits and bobs entertaining, fine. But how many of them are there? No idea.
- Gilbert Harding
Hey did anyone hear that Yahoo is getting a new homepage? I can't wait....
- James Watters
@Josh, just the point )-:
- Anindya Chatterjee
My engagment is about the same on Twitter, seeing as that I still have friends that won't get/don't have/don't want a Friendfeed account.
- John Fox
I think it's picking up here though.
- Steve Rubel
James, the new page is up already.. right now in "trial" on Yahoo US page
- Anindya Chatterjee
OMG its so cool! yahoo is so relevant!
- James Watters
If I was better versed in the virtues of Friendfeed, I'd do an article about it. But I'm really not the person to "sell it".
- John Fox
Josh: yes that whole thing was an inside joke to an earlier FF RS has about Yahoo's new home page..I'm just being silly...see ya'll around..
- James Watters
I'm converted this time - 1st time round, I didn't get it, but some friends still only Twitter
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Josh, there seem to be a lot of obsessives on here and Twitter.
- Gilbert Harding
Anyone here amazing at App engine btw?
- James Watters
i did spring cleaning in my twitter account today as well. it's about quality not quantity, robert. the true geeks are staying with you
- jeanette okwu
I had over 3000+ followers on Twitter and have recently decided to leave because of all the spam - I hope for Twitter's sake that they sort it out
- outofmyarse
I think It's to Twitter's benefit if the stop the spammers. Not a bad service but with all the spam it makes it less enjoyable.
- Amir
Am I wrong? When Twitter took away the option of following @replies, it made it a lot more difficult to find new people who extend out from your network. If you look at the traffic charts (Alexa, Scoble's, etc.), the slowdown started right about at that time. While Twitter execs say that only a fraction of people opted for that function, it really looks like a lot more than coincidence to me that follower growth declines started then.
- Ed Moltzen
Robert: Maybe. But Twitter is a type of blog, It's a micro-blog.
- Amir
I find new people by using Twubble - it basically replicates the effect of finding people by following @ replies. See http://www.crazybob.org/twubble
- Trent Hamm
I have never re-followed people out of courtesy. I look at what they're saying if they follow me, but I don't follow if it doesn't look interesting. That's why I have about 7K Twitter followers and am following less than 500, I guess.
- Trent Hamm
Definitely the engagement is dropping, I've noticed. But I think spam is a big contributor to the problem.
- Amir
Come to think of it, I've never understood the philosophy of the courtesy re-follow. It seems dishonest to me - once you reach a certain point, you can't follow the thousands and thousands of conversations around you. Following someone else feels like a promise you can't keep. Why do this at all?
- Trent Hamm
Trent: you can't DM me unless I follow you. Since I require having DMs with a wide variety of people for my business, I have to follow everyone who follows me.
- Robert Scoble
I have noticed it too. It is sometimes hard to get around "brain fart" type of tweets that are on the surge...lowering the geek factor
- Ghada
Could be FriendFeed, lol.
- Hugh Isaacs II
Trent I think of it not as reciprocity but as a gesture. If someone is willing to put up with my mix of relevant and irrelevant information, I should be willing to do the same. Even with a few hundred folks to follow you already miss a large portion of their broadcasts. You can always search for relevant conversations in real time.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
The beauty of the concept is that we can all choose who and how we wish to follow. And we can customize our methods on different networks
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
well that explains why I'm seeing less content.
- clarke thomas
From my experience, TwitterCounter is a little slow when updating follower numbers. Just make sure it's accurate.
- Amir
yeah. TwitterCounter takes a day or two to update. Not that I check very often...
- Robert
True my twitter following slows down 2
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine also. And so many new followers are spambots, ugh!
- Molly Gordon
@Scobleizer will have 155,650 followers in 1000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://bit.ly/19FHOw
- Mark
@Scobleizer will have 661,900 followers in 10000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Mark
@aplusk will have 8,095,169 followers in 365 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/aplusk...
- Mark
Mark: that's cause aplusk is on the suggested follower list. He won't earn those followers, he's being gifted them by Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert in my opinion Twitter had 2-3 weeks that followers went down and much porn as well , in the last week or so the positive count is back
- Johni Fisher
In Europe, we call these kinds of slowdowns "holidays".
- Bernie Goldbach
+1 Bernie
- Liviu Barbat
Yup
- Thomas Power
Robert maybe you can help me.....http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009...
- Bob DeMarco
Well, I'm personally happy to see geek engagement go down. That means more geek for me. Most of those nitwits don't even know what the hell is even going on and just RT guys like you to ride the wave of the Scoblenami. I always used to get scolded for @ing zaibatsu, 0boy, and the_gman when I was just a peasant w/ 300ish followers who hadn't tweeted a word in 6 months. The whole "get...
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- Sheree Motiska
Twitter just got rid of bot accounts your followers went down! Thats Twitter's epidemic problems!
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine is soaring like an Eagle with my xaviarmedia friend.http://my-hiddencash.blogspot.com
- ebenezer oyeodini
@techyuppie and I am going to go back to work.
Sounds like a plan to me. ;)
- John Fox
@techyuppie but only if we can do the dishes as soon as we get home so I can make dinner.
Deal. After we eat, I'm going to veg out on the couch with the DVR and write some stuff.
- John Fox
I should correct my earlier tweet: it was an open access point. The pwd was on the router for the settings.
yeah people need to change default passwords. #1 thing to do
- Scott Wilder
That's the sad part... it wasn't a default password. They changed the UID and the pwd from the default. What they needed to do was to make it harder to guess... mixed caps with numbers... All I did was a simple brute force and got it on the fourth try.
- John Fox
It gets worse... they had the firewall turned off and UPNP turned on.
- John Fox
@techyuppie your laptop just came. Do you want me to open it up?
Did he get the air or a standard macbook or macbook pro?
- Scott Wilder
None of the above, unfortunately.
- John Fox
You can open it up and check it out if you want, Cryssy.
- John Fox
netbook? Windows laptop?
- Scott Wilder
I sent out my laptop to be fixed by HP... the wi-fi chipset went bad and it was a mass recall program. I posted a short blog entry on TechYuppie.com if you're interested.
- John Fox
Note to wi-fi hotspot providers: don't make your access point passwords easy... "admin" is *not* a good password. More to follow...
why would a hotspot provider even have a password?
- Scott Wilder
I should correct to say, this was the password to their router. I managed to crack it in 4 attempts.
- John Fox
@gk4r Are you good at troubleshooting WP installs? I have a problem with a plug-in and it's stopped my production. HELP!
Yep; let me take a looksee...
- Alex Conner
I'll need to set up an admin account on the site... hang on.
- John Fox
OK, your user name is alexconner and your password was emailed to alex.conner@geekery4rent.com. :-) Thanks.
- John Fox
Ok, what am I looking for?
- Alex Conner
The podpress plug in is causing broken links in my iTunes syndication and you cannot play the episodes on the main page. Is there a way to fix the plug in? If not, what work arounds do you suggest?
- John Fox
Podpress has been out of development since 2007, so I would recommend switching plugins. The stats engine is what is broken, and if you turn that off it should start working. If you want to stick with stats, then move to http://www.blubrry.com/powerpr... < what PHPodcast.com uses
- Alex Conner
The funny thing is that the plug in worked on all of my other installs, so I thought it was something with the 2.8.2 release of WP.
- John Fox
I see where it will play now on the site... I'll need to test the iTunes Syndication later.
- John Fox
Wow, the PHPodcast feed is actually getting some traffic...
- Alex Conner
I didn't know you were doing any shows...
- John Fox
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