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I call this period of trying to get technology to work, "churning" - David Burke

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It's part of the reason a lot of folks steer clear of tech... - David Burke

http://live.twit.tv starting now. - Robert Scoble

jour - Jackson Pollock

I like seeing someone else struggle. LOL - Allan Bunt

My Skype connection went away. - Robert Scoble

Is Michael Arrington on this weeks show? - Daniel Rowley

Having problems -.- - Gavin

Oh technology - Molly, "sorry"

Loren, Marc, Mike, Robert, Steve, Leo for this week's Gillmor Gang http://live.twit.tv - Alberto Saavedra

Daniel: I believe he's on. - Robert Scoble

If they should happen to get the show on the road, what's the topic for today's conversation anyway? - David Burke

David: the usual bull. - Robert Scoble

i was just going to say that - Jackson Pollock

hollyweird squares - Jackson Pollock

As in horns? - Jason Hansen

Its going to be limiting since Robert can't talk about twitter or friendfeed for a week :) - jcunwired

kitty wants to get out of the studio but is trapped - Tina Chase Gillmor

jcunwired: yeah, it's going to be tough. - Robert Scoble

Robert kayaking? :) http://friendfeed.com/moviegu... - jcunwired

the Flip technology might be adaptable for HD webcams - think Cisco Telepresence from anywhere - jcunwired

I love QIK on my Blackberry - Jeff Gignac

yah, same - Kyle Dylan Conner

Another HD smartphone, Samsung Omnia HD i8910 on engadget today http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009... - jcunwired

I love Qik on my iPhone - Scott Breakall

NEW build of Seesmic Desktop is out and Facebook is now integrated.! + you can unfollow people direct from Seesmic Desktop and lots of other new things.. \o/ love it.! - Qbat

I can't figure out how to get rid of the left column in Seesmic Desktop - Jesse Stay

i can't stand the seesmic desktop for some reason - Kyle Dylan Conner

why do these apps use Adobe AIR?? - Jeff Gignac

Loic made NY Times on the Seesmic - Facebook/twitter integration http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - jcunwired

Adobe Air supports MAC and Windows, thats why - Qbat

mhm - Kyle Dylan Conner

Jeff: What's wrong with Adobe AIR? - Daniel Rowley

TechCrunch is making money because it has the best content - Jesse Stay

When pigs fly-Swine Flu - lawrence kenski

i did not say anything was wrong..i just wondered why apps use it..sorry - Jeff Gignac

Jeff: Now you know why ;) - Qbat

hahaha - lawrence kenski

This version of Seesmic Desktop is definitely better than the last two. They keep improving bit-by-bit. Still like Twhirl better though, for now. =) - Wilford Tibbetts

yes, yes i do and i am a much better person now. thank you Qbat - Jeff Gignac

I'd like them to trim Seesmic desktop down a bit, that's why I like Twhirl, it doesn't take my entire desktop. - Colin

well, arrington isn't a "real" journalist - Kyle Dylan Conner

Guys, do you really like Seesmic Desktop? It seem to try to be Friendfeed. The new FB integration doesn't even allow to like, comment or even read comments FB statuses! - Jérôme Flipo

Colin - Yeah, that's also another reason why I like Twhirl. It's compact. - Wilford Tibbetts

flipo - i think it's very unattractive - Kyle Dylan Conner

Jeff: Ok, no problem, just wondered, some people really don't like it. - Daniel Rowley

Twhirl has nicer sounds than tweet deck too. Quite soothing - lawrence kenski

It may be because of the FB API, but if people really wanted to have real time and services integration, why not just move to Friendfeed? And FF needs no download, no CPU, has a great mobile page, etc. So why? - Jérôme Flipo

Kenski - Oh yeah! That dang TD chirping is rather annoying. I use TD sometimes and I have to go back to Twhirl within 5-10 min. lol - Wilford Tibbetts

Arrington on grudges, funny hah - Colin

Journalists >< reporters >< pundits - Jérôme Flipo

modern AMERICAN media. Fox, MSNBC, bla bla bla. Over here I have no clue what beefs the biggest media outlets have. - Jackson Pollock

Well said Steve, we are all subjective, we are subjective beings! - Colin

why would you want your society to be laid out as a left right, right wrong, black white ballgame where for one to be right, the other has to be wrong. it's such an american concept and it creates more conflicts than it debates - Jackson Pollock

facts are a commodity ... we need opinion - Tina Chase Gillmor

Publish everything, filter later. We're good with the publishing, not so much with the filtering. - Cliff Gerrish

Pollock: Tell that to Burr and Hamilton. - Jason Nelson

I agree Leo, unfortunately objective reporting seems to have been pushed aside for a more opinionated, "entertaining" news source. It seems bizarre to have bias when it comes to reporting the facts. - Daniel Rowley

Real time won't help for facts gathering online. We'll need lots of time. - Jérôme Flipo

Pollock - Not everyone can be right all the time. Humanity is a creature of conflict(among other things) and I like it that way. Through conflict we advance and grow. 60% of all tech, and advancements have come from conflict. - Wilford Tibbetts

One thing I don't like about many tech news sites is the dominance of op/ed in articles that should be straight reporting of news. But the other extreme of sites that just regurgitate press releases is bothersome as well. - Jim Metzendorf

Look at CNN who uses 20% of their on-air time to talk about how they're gathering information: "wow, we're using webcams, mobiles, twitter, and we're "live"; we have 2 reporters there... wait, no connection... oh, it's back! Do you hear me? So you're there, where it's happening right now, and we're "live"...*sigh* - Jérôme Flipo

wilford: I just clinch in horror watching american news media. Everything is so bias to one side or another. It's not that I can't disagree with certain people or certain news media outlets, but as a kid grows up, at one point he is more or less forced to define himself as a Fox viewer or an MSNBC viewer. Now fight eachother. It's not there in other societies like it is in the US. - Jackson Pollock

Flipo: Great point... And MSM doesn't even pretend to be objective anymore. - Jason Nelson

you can teach journalism in the schools. You can tech people to gather the facts and present them. You can't always teach people to think and share their ideas and thoughts - Tina Chase Gillmor

There's a place for both, but it's important not to mistake opinion for fact. It seems all too common for people to believe anything they're told. How can it be right to be influenced in your opinions by which news channel you watch. - Daniel Rowley

Pollock - Oh, our news media is defintely more into airing the extremes instead of the more common Center, politically. I wish they wouldn't do that, but it brings in ratings, so they try to invite guests they KNOW will be annoying. lol... - Wilford Tibbetts

leo has a great story about richard stallman for this conversation. he hung himself bigtime on the screensavers - Jackson Pollock

I'll do it for you Michael. - Daniel Rowley

Tibbetts: News media develops personas to market to and works to not offend imaginary sensibilities. - Jason Nelson

Wilford. Yes. A lack of regulation lets one person or one company take over a certain percentage of the media to spread their word to the people. - Jackson Pollock

Kyle: Agrees. I don't care for the Seesmic Desktop either. - Jason Hansen

Pollock - I'm wary of "regulating" News Media. It smacks of govt interfering in our First Amendment Rights to me. I'm very against that idea. To say the least. lol... - Wilford Tibbetts

Nelson - True. Personally, I think people need to be told the truth cold, hard, and bluntly. People need to be offended. Which, also means I sorta like the annoying far-Left far-Right bickering on the news. LOL! - Wilford Tibbetts

Hansen - I've switched back to Twhirl for now. Seesmic Desktop has gotten better, but it's still to 'cluttered', I guess. - Wilford Tibbetts

Just tried Seesmic again for about 5 minutes...went back to Tweetdeck - Darren Rowley

Tried Tweetdeck, went back to Friendfeed ;) - Jérôme Flipo

Wilford. Well that's what differs Americans from others.They love quoting their constitution made 250 years ago, and not look at how the rest of the world does it, and has been doing it for 500 years. Government regulation is not your enemy. In certain countries (most western developed countries), government owns certain parts of the infrastructure and makes sure it's on the right path. Here, government owns a telephony company, the biggest TV-network, the oil (and therefor oil production). It's fantastic - Jackson Pollock

I'd love to see people integrate Microsofts FeedSync for 2-way feeds. - Jamie

Hi Darren :). - Daniel Rowley

Tibbetts: Agreed, enjoy your perspective. Would like to see an Authoritarian vs. Anarchist. - Jason Nelson

Hey Dan, you'll have to explain this FF thing to me....I am just not getting it ! - Darren Rowley

"cobbling together portability" - yup, I think that's where we're going. - Laura Norvig

Pfft. I would argue the "government" owns the same in the US in a corporatist fashion. The Constitution need not apply. - Jason Nelson

Robert is back - Tina Chase Gillmor

I don't know. I just find that if government controls some part of the infrastructure that that is communist and evil and taking away my rights. Am I better off with a cost cutting, profit making privately held company owning my hospital? I just don't think so - Jackson Pollock

I just DON'T find* :) - Jackson Pollock

friendfeed does kinda' suck. i'm only here because it's the easiest chat right now for twit - Kyle Dylan Conner

People don't make the difference? People are really stupid :( - Jérôme Flipo

http://ThreadedTweets.com, I made it for you Mike Arrington. - Colin

Pollock - I disagree. I do use my brain and just don't quote my Constitution without using it. I want my govt as far away from regulating my Rights as possible. I don't mind them improving roads, and the like, but I believe a Capitalist society will improve things just find without having govt owning bits of businesses. - Wilford Tibbetts

They'll migrate? They took years to move from Hotmail to Gmail :( - Jérôme Flipo

Nelson - Yeah, the Authoritarian vs Anarchist would be fun to watch. LOL! - Wilford Tibbetts

these guys all sound like birds flying through the air - Tina Chase Gillmor

Can Mike explain why Friendfeed can't win? - Jérôme Flipo

Pollock: We need to "retailify" healthcare in US not institutionalize more bureaucracy. - Jason Nelson

I hear him repeating that, he probably knows a lot about services' successes, but I need some solid arguments. - Jérôme Flipo

Conner - I hear ya. Only reason I'm here is for the chat and then I'm off. lol - Wilford Tibbetts

Wilford. But I live in a capitalist country! That government controls hospitals, schools (all levels), transport, energy production, communication and oil/gas production doesn't mean that I have any less rights or any less freedom or anything else. They're one player in a market of many. They provide in many cases the line where competition happens, and make sure that two privately held companies don't jack up prices - Jackson Pollock

Jerome, probably because of what you just said about hotmail to gmail. Friendfeed's user base is so small compared to Facebook or even Twitter. - Laura Norvig

Jérôme: I think it's to do with user saturation, the number of people able and willing to use Facebook for example, will far outweigh those for FriendFeed. - Daniel Rowley

Pollock - Meh, I prefer govt stay out most things. The Federal Govt, anyway. - Wilford Tibbetts

Pollock: Has a monopoly in energy production and distribution retarded innovation? - Jason Nelson

Email isn't a model -- 90% of the system is spam. The model should be spamless. - Cliff Gerrish

I wonder what the puppets think about this? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Say if I were to break my arm right now. I can go to the government held, national hospital and have it checked, x-rayed and cast before the night was through. Or, I could go a little further down the road and have the exact same procedure done at a cost, with perhaps slightly better service. The point is that nationally held institutes don't have to mean bureaucracy and bad service, it can be just as good a competitor as a private company - Jackson Pollock

it does not do???? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Laura, did you convince some Twitter friends to move? I'm in France, where no non-geek people has ever heard about Twitter, so I don't know why Twitter folks don't move, but I fear that once France will get the Twitter thing, people will just say: "I just arrived on Twitter, I won't change my microblogging channel so fast!". So, please convince the US now before Twitter invade my country, with no hope for progress :) - Jérôme Flipo

Pollock - Maybe. But I'm not that hot on the idea of socialism in the first place, so maybe that's coloring my viewpoint. LOL! - Wilford Tibbetts

Same thing for the news media. I could turn on channel 1, and see the channel that is owned by the government. Get neutral, commercial-free news reporting. Or I can pay a fee and get channel 2, which is privately held, and still neutral, with commercials. 99% of the population has both, and 99% watches both - Jackson Pollock

Wilford; yes, I realize that's a popular viewpoint over there :) - Jackson Pollock

Leo, only for US based searches - Jérôme Flipo

Pollock: Competition between government and private? Instead of TARP wish US would have thought about that. - Jason Nelson

Did Kevin just "shh" Mr. Gillmor! Oh, goodness. - Daniel Rowley

Verified w/ credit card? Isn't that a bit 1st-world-centric? - Nick in Manila

Nelson - Agreed. So long as it's competitive and not a demand by govt to do it this way or not at all, I'm fine with it. TARP was definitely a mistake, imo. - Wilford Tibbetts

Nick: What would you suggest? - Daniel Rowley

Dave Winer just tweeted that he's listening to GG and it's the same old thing. Really? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Tina - What does he mean by "same old thing"? - Wilford Tibbetts

Tibbetts: Agreed. And I don't think it's a long-term solution. More of a quasi-micro-financing short-term stimulus. - Jason Nelson

Nelson - That's what I'm thinking as well. I would prefer they do a long-term solution, but too many Americans want a 'quick-fix' instead of something more stable and long lasting. - Wilford Tibbetts

Dave Winer says all of you on the Gillmor Gang are missing everything :-) - Jamie

Well, we're in a very special point in time right now. The reason my country was not very hurt by the downfall was because we don't live on credit-cards and mortgages. But essentially, yes. Why would the US be AGAINST socializing medicine, when every other country runs great that way. You can pay for the top-of-the-line in medicine over here too, but you don't have to. Very few people do, because there isn't that big a difference between that and the norm - Jackson Pollock

LOL! Missing everything how? - Wilford Tibbetts

Wilford... dunno. ask him ;-) He links to his own blog from 2002. Still don't get it. - Tina Chase Gillmor

http://friendfeed.com/davew... - Jamie

Tina - Meh, I'll just listen to the Gillmore Gang instead. =D - Wilford Tibbetts

PeoplePond has an identity verification service. From their homepage "PeoplePond's identity verification service will give your audience confidence knowing your profile and online assets are yours and not someone posing as you spoofing them." - Neil Simon

i don't want to see it at the top of the page, google should create a separte profile search only page like it has images - Wayne Sutton

Dave should join our conversation - Tina Chase Gillmor

I love Mikes bluntness - Jamie

im sure we can get Winer on the call - Jamie

yeah, blunt works - Tina Chase Gillmor

I like Dave's bluntness - jcunwired

Tina, puppets? - Karoli

oh bullshit, Arrington. Facebook hasn't won anything. - Karoli

Kevin Marks needs to breath. Why is he shouting! - Daniel Rowley

Jamie, I mean our FF conversation - Tina Chase Gillmor

oh - Jamie

Nelson - Thanks for the Follow bro. Following you back. =D - Wilford Tibbetts

I maintain - Google doesn't get social. - Jamie

Tibbetts: Right back atcha. :) - Jason Nelson

Jamie; ever heard of youtube - Jackson Pollock

they bought it. - Jamie

and they run it - Jackson Pollock

outed as a fish-hater again. Bastard! - Tina Chase Gillmor

they don't do much with their social acquisitions though. Adding a share button isn't all things social - jcunwired

exactly - Jamie

I set myname.com to point to my Twitter last week. - Colin

Tina, I don't like sushi. i like fish, though - Karoli

and the social features on youtube are weak - Jamie

Google doesn't get social. not yet. but they're working on it - Karoli

it just so happens that the content is always going to be "social" in that people want to share the stuff they find. - Jamie

Pigged out on sushi and sake last night, uggh - jcunwired

Yelp can be gamed just like anything else - Karoli

Talking about profiles, can you help me for one second, guys? I've a Linkedin profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in...) with links pointing to it, 50+ connections, almost complete. A profile with no links pointing to it and only 1 connection, get the top Google result (http://www.linkedin.com/pub...). I'm pretty sure Google thinks those two profiles are only one, and hide mine to avoid dupes. Am I right? What should I do? - Jérôme Flipo

compare social features and digg is the winner. it only means so much, comparing accounts and hits are way bigger/better benchmarks for social communities. it's all about the ads and the influence - Jackson Pollock

Karoli - true, but the yelp community does a good job of keeping out the gamers - jcunwired

i used yelp last weekend. did better with google maps - Karoli

I never got digg - jcunwired

Mike and Robert nailed it today - Alberto Saavedra

great in cities, pretty crappy in the rural areas - Karoli

you're here in london Jerome? - Jamie

Karoli... I get your fish point. I should try harder on the sushi front - Tina Chase Gillmor

Jamie, I was in London last semester. Now in France. - Jérôme Flipo

Kevin, I'm glad you went with the decaf today. - Doug Kaye

Mike is 100% correct. - Jamie

Twitter isn't winning either - Karoli

I like Yelp. Just started using it - Tina Chase Gillmor

Facebook is not winning! - Jason Nelson

Tina, it worked great in the city. but in the middle of california (think buttonwillow) it sucked - Karoli

Oops, Jamie, my second link was wrong. - Jérôme Flipo

Facebook had status updates before Twitter was born. I don't see the copying there. - Jamie

Here's the good one: http://www.linkedin.com/pub... - Jérôme Flipo

if anything they are taking ideas from FF. but then FF's entire premise is based on the Newsfeed. In short, FB do not get enough credit. - Jamie

I freaking LOVE Craigslist - Tina Chase Gillmor

Twitter was born out of the facebook status updates. they wanted to do it on mobile. and to non-facebook friends - Karoli

are any of them offering a professional model and succeeding? no? none of them are really winning, just waiting for the next funding from whoever.. - Terry O'Fee

teens don't like Twitter. they love FB - Tina Chase Gillmor

twitter was conceived as a service for friends, real-life groups - Jamie

That and Rocketboom - Jackson Pollock

Karoli: Agreed. - Jason Nelson

the follow anyone who interests culture came by accident. - Jamie

Tina, not my teens down here. they don't like FB that much, more use twitter - Karoli

lol facebook is aol 2.0 - Wayne Sutton

Wayne totally agree with that. I avoid it most of the time. - Karoli

Loren; stop looking in Silicon Valley. stop looking in the US. There are 6 billion people on the planet and 300 million in the US. - Jackson Pollock

Karoli - interesting. Our teens find FB everything. they love chatting through it - Tina Chase Gillmor

I see the same thing in Europe Tina. FB is huge here. - Jamie

Jamie; exactly. it's not all about the US. - Jackson Pollock

tina, for our kids it's all around mobile. they like txt twitter better than txt fb - Karoli

in fact I dont know *any* kids on Twitter - Jamie

im only in my early 20s - Jamie

Skype is MSN/Yahoo 2.0, it means nothing - Jackson Pollock

Twitter is a much more mature audience - Jamie

Jamie you're too old. LOL. we're talking 15, 16 yr olds. twitter has traction with old folks, but kids use the txt features - Karoli

kids don't care about talking to the world yet. They only care about communicating with each other - Tina Chase Gillmor

I just dont agree - Jamie

Targeted advertising. - Daniel Rowley

Jamie - I actually know several under 18 teenagers on Twitter. They use it regularly along with FB. - Wilford Tibbetts

And Facebook doesn't? - Jackson Pollock

FB has 100x the number of under 18s - Jamie

FB will go public. 18 months later the stock will tank and someone will buy 'em up for much less than the IPO price. - Doug Kaye

Jamie - Didn't say otherwise, bro. Did I? ;) - Wilford Tibbetts

they made $50 million a year when they were bought the first time - Jackson Pollock

im just saying - twitter hasnt taken off with the kids just yet. - Jamie

Doug Kaye! How are you man?:) He was in this exact conversation about Skype on twit 22 - Jackson Pollock

why can't the tide move away from FB? - Adnan

Need to connect old media (movies, sports, journalism) with order management and directory services. I see TLC show on renovation and order the room through local contractor in blue and oak. - Jason Nelson

its an interesting phenomenon because the kids were on Facebook before the tech scene jumped aboard on the launch of Platform. - Jamie

the tech scene were the late adopters in this respect. just like they were late with myspace - Jamie

Jamie - No, but it's beginning to. Slowly, but it's gaining ground I think. - Wilford Tibbetts

Some things just never change. Not even the people, eh? - Doug Kaye

Robert's camera (laptop) is swiveling with him and giving me motion sickness - Tina Chase Gillmor

Someone should tell Leo that Doug is here - Jackson Pollock

just heard that these comments were duplicating on Twitter. test, test... - Karoli

bring on the puppets! - Tina Chase Gillmor

tina sorry - Robert Scoble

Robert; tell Leo that Doug Kaye is here - Jackson Pollock

wow, this is a new level in real time - Tina Chase Gillmor

i missed who Mike Arrington is talking about - Karoli

THE doug kaye? - Jamie

from ITConversations - Jackson Pollock

Naveen Jain. - Robert Scoble

the end? - Tina Chase Gillmor

that was quick - Karoli

this show goes way too fast :-( - Jamie

sure was - jcunwired

oh geez... the show is not over - Tina Chase Gillmor

here's the encore - Tina Chase Gillmor

It's kind of like the universe. It's not a place, it's a point in time. - Jackson Pollock

"Tweeter" was a better name anyway - jcunwired

suggested list is crap, no? - Tina Chase Gillmor

hey, I'm a weirdo and I follow Leo - jcunwired

yes its crap - jcunwired

Well Leo's name came from the user requested; This Week in Geek, which he changed, and the entire thing happened on the air on TWiT 4-5. - Jackson Pollock

Anyone know how to stop FF from posting 3 times whenever I make a comment? lol... - Wilford Tibbetts

wow. LOL at Leo - Karoli

LEO was the only one who swore today! - Tina Chase Gillmor

I cant help but feel those saying theyd asked to be removed from the list is fake pride. - Jamie

yeah, TWIG Army doesn't sound that great :) - jcunwired

Wilford, I stopped sending the comment over to Twitter altogether - Karoli

To my Twitter account, I mean. - Wilford Tibbetts

That sounds perfect for him - Jackson Pollock

Karoli - Whenever I Tweet, it also happens. Which is weird. lol... - Wilford Tibbetts

Well, let people tell him that, he doesn't have to tell them - Jackson Pollock

the problem with twitter's suggested followers list, they're not smart enough to pick up interests based on tweets and people I follow, so the suggested followers list is just popular people with no real connection - jcunwired

it's like stamping on a cockroach - Tina Chase Gillmor

Wilford it's in the way you have your settings regarding Twitter/FF integration - Karoli

twitter has the most narrow view of "social" of any popular platform out there - jcunwired

Mike, that's the difference between a nice guy and a guy trolling for info. just sayin' - Karoli

Oh, that's why Mike always walks away from me? - Tina Chase Gillmor

It's so fun to see what Scoble has become. I remember being 15 back in 2004 and watching him walk around with his camcorder on channel9 talking to people. He loves talking to people. When TWiT started, I followed them both, and to see Leo and him come together for the first time on TWiT 59. - Jackson Pollock

just kiddin' - Tina Chase Gillmor

Tina, i never get into the 20 foot circle around his divine presence. ;-) Robert Scoble, on the other hand, I have had great convos with. - Karoli

I love 'em all - Tina Chase Gillmor

Robert's a people person. I don't know Mike, but I don't quite get that - jcunwired

well WTF, its on record now :) - jcunwired

Robert is kind of like Woz. Very pure and good hearted, and looooves to talk to people and learn new stuff - Jackson Pollock

Karoli - Oh.. Okay, I'll change them, see if that works. - Wilford Tibbetts

Tina, you're just a sweetie overall. :) - Karoli

If Google buys them, it will go on the back shelf and go away in 3 years - jcunwired

a tiny but LOUD subset! - jcunwired

I just save me friend from the death of his MacBook keyboard death, set him up with a USB keyboard, and he is really happy with it. I told him to never clean his computer by directly spraying it with cleaner, he didn't listen, resulting in him killing his MacBook keyboard, he has learn a valuable lesson about how to properly clean a computer. Unplug from wall, remove battery, and only! use a damp soft cloth to clean it. - Beverley Solis

gesture economy :-) - Jamie

links are dead! - Jamie

Tina, i think it's time to do another newsgang live, don't you? - Karoli

office is dead! - Jamie

all hail the office is dead theme. track is king. - Karoli

karoli - stay tuned - Tina Chase Gillmor

I like Scoble but get turned off by his abusive taunting of those he labels "stupid" in the spirit of saving the community. - Jason Nelson

It was a small group of people who used gopher :) - jcunwired

Office is not only dead but forgotten - Tina Chase Gillmor

I attribute it to Merlin Mann - Jackson Pollock

the kids felt the same way about facebook 4 years ago. - Jamie

I think real-time FriendFeed is one of the most addictive services on the 'Net. - Doug Kaye

Twitter rules, why not write about it all the time - Tina Chase Gillmor

Karoli - I think I got it. *crosses fingers* LOL! - Wilford Tibbetts

Well, what do you read in the media about Twitter that isn't; 1: about celebrities or 2; about technologists - Jackson Pollock

Tina, the problem is that mainstream grows weary of hearing it. I love it - I'm always strategizing about how to use it for business - jcunwired

YES - Jackson Pollock

we are in a bubble and Twitter is in it with us - Tina Chase Gillmor

well put - jcunwired

Jason: that's stupid! - Robert Scoble

Indeed. - Wilford Tibbetts

Does Digg have to destroy everything though? Why not stay the way they are and keep making money? - Jackson Pollock

here, we don't care about mainstream! - Tina Chase Gillmor

The show is very good tonight - Jérôme Flipo

Scoble: LOL! Classic!!! :) - Jason Nelson

Oops, forgot to say jcunwired - Indeed. LOL - Wilford Tibbetts

What's track? - Dale Dietrich

I'm just glad to see the twitter race egotism leaving the tech community and moving on to the rest of the low-life world :) - jcunwired

You don't get rate limited, Twitter just crashes - Colin

Like today, a Saturday - Colin

Track gets better if you can superimpose location on top of it - Jamie

but what's the fundamental value of finding the origination? - jcunwired

"searches with > 10 likes from within 2km of the earthquake" - Jamie

I have all of the Chinese earthquake posts in searchable format, Robert - Karoli

GTalk transcripts - Karoli

Jamie - adds a lot of relevance, good idea - jcunwired

personally, I think the most valuable resource I've seen from FriendFeed is the live, transcribing of podcasting more or less. Searching audio is a pain, and if I'm trying to figure out what podcast and what episode had a certain topic, I can search the chat that went on. Crowdsourcing at its best - Jackson Pollock

One thing about "likes" and adding meta-data through clicks in any way, like Digg as well, not everyone actually hits "like" or "Digg", and that skews things - Colin

everything needs to be filterable - rob friedman

Is track more about archiving or about finding things liked by people in your social graph? - Laura Norvig

has chris saad been on the gillmor gang since that incident? - Jamie

everything needs to be findable first, then filter results - jcunwired

Jackson: solid argument for audio, indeed - Jérôme Flipo

track and search are two different things - Jamie

jamie... don't think so - Tina Chase Gillmor

Give us a concrete example please Gilmour? - Dale Dietrich

Isn't search a fundamental component of Track? - Bwana ☠

track is push, search is pull - Jamie

OK, now say what you said so my wife and other non-techs understand - what makes it compelling to them? - Don Bonaddio

But you're filtering/searching terms - Bwana ☠

Jamie, well put - Jackson Pollock

no, track is finding the origination of content you are searching for. Bwana is right - jcunwired

What good is the push without a filter? - Bwana ☠

FriendFeed needs to make the leap and become the place that everyone uses to post info (like many of us) rather than use it as a feed aggregator. - Lawrence Di Stefano

A saved search turned into an RSS feed turns pull into push. - Laura Norvig

Cisco groups are starting to hop onto twitter, I'm trying hard - jcunwired

Digg has had this for years though - Jackson Pollock

easy, they're my paycheck - Don Bonaddio

Don Bonaddio she doesn't have to remember to look for data about things she cares about. it's pushed to her. - Karoli

Stefano: Agreed. Don't you think the latest update does that? I think it takes the emphasis off (perhaps too much) aggregation. - Jason Nelson

Imagine a Friendfeed link between Web and Gmail in the Google top bar. Then, Google would automatically updates from Gmail, Google Docs, Google News (...) to your Friendfeed, as either public, private or semi-private entries (semi-private is e.g. "X has shared a doc with you and Y" appearing on your, X and Y's Friendfeed). All realtime. Friendfeed then could replace Google News, Google... more... - Jérôme Flipo

That is Leo-speical connections. I say that, I get a "too bad, a**hole" back - Jackson Pollock

Don, who signs your paycheck? - jcunwired

Karoli, gotcha, but how easy is it for her to set up? - Don Bonaddio

If I were E. Schmidt, I would adquire Friendfeed at any price under 5B. - Jérôme Flipo

jcunwired - Comcast :-) - Don Bonaddio

ahh - jcunwired

then you care :) - jcunwired

don, friendfeed or twitter? - Karoli

most definitely, it's comcastic - Don Bonaddio

you get better public sentiment because they are on Comcast - public feels warmer about corps who take it to an individual level - jcunwired

not in love with this format when the number of comments gets large. too hard to keep getting to the bottom of the thread. - Karoli

robert; let's get channel9 - Jackson Pollock

FF - Don Bonaddio

karoli are you viewing the permalink? - Jamie

Karoli: Have you popped it out? - Jason Nelson

it stays at the bottom then - Jamie

http://friendfeed.com/twit-co... - Jamie

yes, but has he linked to live FF comments? :) - jcunwired

i popped out the convo, yes - Don Bonaddio

lmao - Kyle Dylan Conner

but I only know this cause i follow the folks who know the details - Don Bonaddio

might as well keep this extra 30 minutes in the cut for the show - Jamie

Well Howard hated Imus - Jackson Pollock

they'll screw anything too :) - jcunwired

oh my, the show's gone to the goats - Don Bonaddio

dry balls, hmmm? - Tina Chase Gillmor

little dry balls, not bad with a little tahini dressing :)) - jcunwired

goats are social :) - jcunwired

goatcheese - Jackson Pollock

curry goat ftw - Jamie

Goat milk is good for you. - Tina Chase Gillmor

patrick in the house - Jackson Pollock

uggh bite your tongue Leo - jcunwired

My son worked on the latest CoD. - Doug Kaye

wow cool Doug - jcunwired

(proud father) - Doug Kaye

so you have a son in the armed forces! - jcunwired

He's working on the new Transformers game now. - Doug Kaye

what's Leo, chopped liver? - jcunwired

bye everyone.... my little daughter needs help with her school project - Tina Chase Gillmor

bye Tina - jcunwired

Tina; thanks for a great conversation - Jackson Pollock

see you Tina - Jamie

I love this show but it's weird when it degenerates into "in-crowd" chit-chat. - Laura Norvig

less is more guys :-P - Don Bonaddio

I like this show because it degenerates, makes it human - jcunwired

the thing to remember about the show Laura is that these people are friends off the show - Tina Chase Gillmor

Don... just walk away ;-) - Tina Chase Gillmor

right, this isn't NPR - jcunwired

live folders in android 1.5 look very interesting. - Jamie

it's hard to look away Tina :) - Don Bonaddio

everyone twitter me with a suggested end point for the download - Tina Chase Gillmor

yes Pre!! - jcunwired

uh oh - Jamie

scoble cant stay away - Jamie

no, new rumor is May 31 - jcunwired

OK that's it.. we're going to an always on model - Tina Chase Gillmor

can't stop listening cuz I don't want to miss the nuggets of gold - they can come at any time! - Laura Norvig

I heard "Pre" and had to come back! - Robert Scoble

You're a sick, addicted man Robert Scoble ;) - Colin

because everybody and his brother can write applications for it - jcunwired

Not to mention Latitude. - Robert Scoble

Scoble can stop anytime he wants ... yeah, right. - Laura Norvig

Doug; my 15 year old brother is so in love with the Gnomedex episode of ITConversations, where Woz spoke. He's an aspiring electro engineer, and listens to it over and over and over again, just like his brother did 4 years ago:) - Jackson Pollock

AT&T and sprint is the rumor for the EOS - jcunwired

quite disappointed at the Pre's media solution - Jamie

Jackson: that's weird. :-) I was at that presentation. - Robert Scoble

syncing music etc - Jamie

my theory - Palm leaked EOS info to piss off Apple with the Apple-ATT-Verizon relationship - jcunwired

JP: Those two Woz episodes are still the most-downloaded shows. >500,000 each. - Doug Kaye

am i the only one in the world with the Blackberry and never had an Iphone? - Jeff Gignac

Robert; i know, there is a picture of two friendly faced young guys, Scoble and Pirillo - Jackson Pollock

BB is still best for business/email Jeff G. - Don Bonaddio

There should be some kinetic zipper energy storage that transforms to phones. Brings new thought to the whole Palm "touch"stone launch ;) - jcunwired

I dont really agree - Jamie

Windows Mobile has a better business/email story - Jamie

Palm will sell 1M Pre within 6 months - jcunwired

IN THE US. Never had a dropped call in my life here in Norway. - Jackson Pollock

The iPhone isn't a phone. That's the key. - Cliff Gerrish

the interesting thing about market share is that Apple made more profit with the iPhone than Nokia as a whole in the last quarter. - Jamie

Don, thats why i like and use my BB...not really been a MAC/Apple guy - Jeff Gignac

the iPhone is a gaming platform you can talk with - jcunwired

same here in the UK Jackson - Jamie

it must be an AT&T thing - Jamie

dear God I have to get up and walk away... someone help me - Tina Chase Gillmor

Yeah Jeff G., I have BB for work and iPhone for personal use - Don Bonaddio

lol Tina - jcunwired

Not really fair to blame that on the engineers that built the phone. Blame it on the businessmen that suited up with AT&T. - Jackson Pollock

ATT is fine over here in the East - Don Bonaddio

I hate flash. People should be able to build good web experiences without flash. - Laura Norvig

the absence of flash in portable devices is a huge detriment to consumers - jcunwired

standard is whatever the winner says it is - Don Bonaddio

h264 + html5 is all we need - Jamie

Mike: "The only reason I care about Flash is video." Agreed. Well, MP3, too, for us audio guys. - Doug Kaye

Trying to get the core iPhone base to switch to something else, is no different than getting an iPod user to switch. Don't forget brand, fashion object, experience, relevance. The iPhone is much more than something you can touch and review, it's got it's own whole mythology. - Jackson Pollock

flash is a resource hog but an effective delivery mechanism. its not going away anytime soon - jcunwired

Doug; key features of flash / as compared with mp3 for audio? I see for example Leo doing both on twit.tv - Jackson Pollock

I think Steve needs to come up with two endings for the show. The "false" end and the "real" end. Or maybe we should sign off ever. - Tina Chase Gillmor

Microsoft put Flash everywhere -- it wasn't Adobe. - Cliff Gerrish

Tina, the show started when he signed off. - Cliff Gerrish

I predict that WebOS is going to be a more popular OS for netbooks than android - jcunwired

Cliff - true - Tina Chase Gillmor

Flash client does a good job of MP3 streaming as opposed to playing a stored audio file sync'd through iTunes. - Doug Kaye

id rather have the synced mp3 - Jamie

Maryam is not going to like that - Tina Chase Gillmor

great show all - Jamie

yup - Jackson Pollock

thanks all... loved the chat too. fantastic - Tina Chase Gillmor

yeah, but no wine involved :) - jcunwired

great show Leo - Jeff Gignac

you're still here Tina? ;) - jcunwired

.am armenian registry - Jackson Pollock

awww - jcunwired

400+ comments - Jamie

nothing better than experienced geeks sipping wine and talking tech - jcunwired

maybe the drunk shows killed it? - Tina Chase Gillmor

the Leoville-Barton you and JCD were drinking a few weeks ago had me drooling - jcunwired

All of this is pretty US-only isn't it. Hard to sell to people across the globe. Audible works better - Jackson Pollock

I was basting lamb tenderloin in my mind while listening to that podcast - jcunwired

cool, new seesmic desktop with twitter AND Facbook - Don Bonaddio

Don has the new seesmic desktop shipped yet? I don't see it. - Robert Scoble

I just got an email with a link Robert and downloaded it - Don Bonaddio

cool, have to check email - jcunwired

loic made NY times http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - jcunwired

http://d.seesmic.com/seesmic... - Don Bonaddio

well. 02:18am. I have to get back to work - Jackson Pollock

cya Jackson - jcunwired

Peace Out! - Jackson Pollock

also, Windows 7 RC available to MSDN and Technet Plus today - Don Bonaddio

actually 4/30, d'oh, - Don Bonaddio

Tuesday to everyone in the Preview program - Don Bonaddio

already downloaded Don - jcunwired

i think MS has a winner here jcunwired - Don Bonaddio

I was kinda worried that RC had more bloat than first release, though havent installed it yet - jcunwired

it's what Vista should have been - Don Bonaddio

I'm a very small subset who had no problems with vista. yes it was bloated, but could be worked around - jcunwired

but I've been a user and tester of windows since the first release back in mid 80s - jcunwired

true, yet it was still kinda clunky - W 7 is clean and more robust IMO - Don Bonaddio

sorry to hear that :-P - Don Bonaddio

hehe - jcunwired

its been a fun ride - jcunwired

coming from CP/M operating system, Windows was like having a date with all playboy centerfolds at once :) - jcunwired

I'll bet. I use OSX, and W7 pretty much daily. At work I use an 24" iMac with Fusion hosting a W7 Virtual machine so I can use Outlook for Exchange email/calendar - Don Bonaddio

looking forward to putting v7 on my media pc - jcunwired

haha - Don Bonaddio

yeah, it does some great stuff with media - Don Bonaddio

ok 8:30 PM east coast usa, dinner time - cya - jcunwired

got that right - later - Don Bonaddio

The audio quality is not good on your Bitgravity stream. It sounds like people over modulate at times. The Stickam stream seems better to me. - Techboy2000

Congrats to the team at FriendFeed... Well done :D - Johnny Worthington

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there was a 30 minute ish failwhale during beta. heh :) - mjc

I jumped the gun, but here's my fanboi anthem... https://friendfeed.com/logical... - LogEx

Great job FriendFeed, keep up the hard work! - Jay Neff

Congratulations FriendFeed, you guys rock! - Alfredo

Congratulations and Thanks for providing a great service. - Eric Logan

Even without icons, it is my place where I dwell. Kudos, FF team. Big ups to all of y'all. - Derrick

Derrick, are you using Firefox? If so, go grab the Greasmonkey script: FriendFeed Service Icons - Justin Korn

Justin, I am...but that sounds like work. I don't know how to go to there. :( NOT TECHY --> - Derrick

FriendFeed team, I down this can of Yuengling Lager in your honor. Great work! - Mark Traphagen

BRAVO! - BEX

well done - Ryan Dadey

Love it, fantastic work FF team! - Janice from fftogo

Nice thought Johnny, i'm thankful on a daily basis... IMO FF's the best of the web for 2008/9 - Majento

Thanks! - Paul Buchheit

FriendFeed Rocks. - Nicholas James

Congrats guys! i for one LOVE the new interface. Kudos! - Drew Lucas

+1 JW! CONGRATS FF TEAM! Awesome work! - .LAG liked that

I have no clue how ya do what ya do but thanks. - Steve C

thank you friend feed team, this is the place i've waited for so long to be :) - chaz2b

<3 - Josh Haley

Hoorah! - Ron Bailey

Well done. - Victor Panlilio

Well done. - Patrick Jordan from BuddyFeed

*golf clap* - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Kudos to the FF team! :) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Like a sweet ball in football (soccer) - we say "well played!!!" - Amani

Props to everyone on the FriendFeed team! - Aaron Draczynski

From the announcement thread, it was a good start. And on this, thanks again, appreciate the efforts. Keep the engine running like that and you'll be kings. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Thanks for all ff team - Murat Buyurgan

Yay, FF team! - Anne Bouey

respect! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

GO Team FF, GO! Keep it open, keep it rock solid, and forge ahead on everything else. - Micah Wittman

Seriously great work peeps - well done! - Andy Bold

Goes Without Saying. - ianf ⌘

Piling on with my congratulations! - Chris Aldrich

Congrats for a smooth, sexy transition. - Will Higgins™

Well done, FF team! The reason I'm back on the FF bandwagon is the beta and now, the new site. - Larry Hudson

Well done guys. Thanks a bunch. - Roberto Bonini

Overall great job! (the one <big> stumble with iPhone feed, and the disappointing decision to drop source icons not withstanding, the progress being made is quite remarkable....) - David HC Soul

+1 on the congrats. Friendfeed is nothing if not absolutely reliable. Good job :) - LANjackal

Respect! - Meryn Stol

A big congralutaions goes to the FriendFeed team, loving the new version of the service! Thank you. I have even less of a life now than I did before. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

You know, I never thought of it like that-they never go down. True indeed! - Benin Brown

Great job FF team. Great example of getting new features out with little fanfare. - Lyndon Washington

Just a big *thanks* for all the good time i spend here instead of doing useless things on the internet - Stanislas Jourdan

Thank you Friendfeed! - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

Yes it does and it is good for you to point that out, I know they worked hard on the upgrade, so thanks FF folks - if you are in Seattle I'll buy you a cup of coffee. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

"with not one hint of a Fail Whale" - I posted that on Twitter recently. - George Dearing

Posted one over here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

And What I was most impressed about is the Show of Force from the FriendFeed team when the actual rollout came online. Other services don't have staff that actually use their product. FreindFeed is great in that respect. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

FF scales very well. They are ex-Googlers so they've built FF on very solid foundations. Well, that's what I would like to think - Ade from Nambu

thats, true, good point. Congrats FF'ers! - Peter Efland

there were numerous congrat threads johnny - here's one example http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - mike "glemak" dunn

Congrats! - Jeremiah Owyang

I salute you Sirs. - Thomas Bøhm

CONGRATULATIONS, FF Team. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

I miss old UI but congrats anyway. You're awesome. - \(*_*)/

Almost on cue reading this, I have got two jpeg logos from other posts floating along the page into this one. - Patrick Boegel

Congratulations Friendfeed team. You really made a great job! - Diego Espinoza V.

Congrats! - Rick Cogley

Well done, friendfeed! Congrats! - Rosemary Sorg

I will 64th that... great job. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Love you guys! FF rocks! - David Cook

yay yay!!!! - Helen Sventitsky

Congrats are definitely in order. It's one of the fastest loading, smoothest running apps on the Web. - Mike Elliott

Congrats for an awesome product. - Brandon Mendelson

I am back! This is great! Thank you - Valerie

What a great social media platform. Well done FriendFeed team! - F. Jay Hall

This is a great idea. Congrats on the upgrade and hoping it doesn't stop here :) - Jason Williams

++++ so funny -i was just thinking today "i wonder what twitter would be like if the FriendFeed team was running it" no offense meant to the twitter team who are obviously smart and talented as well but as johnny pointed out the diff is hard to miss - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Congrats to the FriendFeed team. Great job! After the UI change I find myself using FriendFeed more and more each day. - Cristian

thanks for continuing to advance friendfeed in new and interesting directions - Mike Chelen

Quake is an online virtual reality used by hackers. It is a popular meeting place and training ground, where they discuss hacking and train in the use of various firearms. Many hackers develop anti-social tendencies due to the use of this virtual world, and it may cause erratic behaviour at home and at school. If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school. - Leo Laporte

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BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card... more... - invariant - farewell FF

At the risk of exposing my own ignorance, I must admit I can't tell how much of that site is made up and how much could be real people's actual concerns about technology. I guess it's hilarious either way, but a little less sad if people didn't actually fear computers this way. - midnightgolfer

It's a hilarious article, that I've seen before. Like many of us, I'm half-afraid that there are those that will take it seriously. (or that already take parts of it seriously...) - Don Faulkner

In extreme cases, over-exposure to computer radiation can cause schizophrenia, meningitis and other psychological diseases. Also, the reduction in exercise may cause him to lose muscle mass, and even to start gaining weight. For the sake of your child's mental and physical health, you must put a stop to his hacking, and limit his computer time drastically. ~ now that explains the heavy doses of prozac & seroquel I am now taking! hehehe - Matt Sengle

I remember being exposed to this sort of ridiculous nonsense as a kid using computers. My parents luckily weren't dumb enough to buy into what amounts to idiocy. - Dane Deasy

They make Quake sound like Second Life. Actually, that sounds kinda cool. - Matthew

video of Leo and Martin talking about this on the screensavers http://www.youtube.com/watch... - jccalhoun

I sure am glad this is an old article; hopefully the author has been informed of how the world works by now. However, it worries me that there are still parents in this world who do feel this way. - Eric Geller

"I must admit I can't tell how much of that site is made up" - well, I understand the sentiment, but isn't the site name a hint that it's probably a satirical hipster-y site? - Andrew C

A nice parody or a very inaccurate article - either way it's pretty funny - Rob Owen

FYI, it is parody. - dthree

I know it is satire but I have heard people talking like this. Proof that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Anyone notice it is from 2001? - Robert C

I saw an article the other day about some university freaking out because someone saw a student typing in a linux command line. MUST BE A HACKER!! OH NOES! - Chrimmus Tad

Yep, I read the about the same kid. - Mathew A. Koeneker

kinda hope he does ,my kid is one and he already loves ipod already so does our little girl. true geeks in the making! - andrew cool

This is classic. Gotta love it when people are afraid of something just because they don't want to understand it. - Jerry C Mancuso

I wish mine was, I have to do all the family tech support :-( - Henry Stevens

No hackers here even though I think one will at some point in time I welcome it :) - Dan Krivolavek from twhirl

don't you know it :) - Zee.

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interesting. I decided to give FF a 2nd try (I signed up for it when it first came out) not because of the celebrity flood to twitter but I wanted a place for *discussion* that wasn't limited to 140 characters. - Violet Mae Lim

I still rarely use FF compared to Twitter as I'm often using Twitter from a device. That said, I love how my digital life aggregates into a single place, along with everyone else. The key will be search. Tracking "popular" on search topics on FF should be very interesting. - Geoff Wilson

it's all about the meta data. Twitter will never be as valuable as FriendFeed for that very reason. - Steffan Antonas

Fab Image! - Elizabeth

The "cool kids" might be moving, but I doubt that the cool kids can make FriendFeed a success (that is, compared to Twitter. a network as diverse as Twitter). Twitter was the first in its kind. Many people consider it "good enough". - Meryn Stol

Because you aren't cool anymore and the REALLY cool kids (re celebrities) are on Twitter. - Laurent Courtines

Fascinating! - coldbrew

It is really going to be fun to watch the mass migration ... followed by the media exposure 2 years later - Keith Barrett

Beatles! - Charlie Anzman

Hei, I have been using FF for a long time as an aggregate, never thought it could be use this way! - MoRiza

Thanks for posting my link Steve. I've been a subscriber to your lifestream for a while and I'm happy to float in it :) - Jesse Newhart

Just don't pee in it Jesse! - Kevin Elliott

Kevin - LOL I'll try :p - Jesse Newhart

Friendfeed is Twitter on steroids - Thomas Power

sheesh, I guess this means I need to leave now... - Cheryl

I wanna be c0ol too!! - Billy Warhol

Agree. FriendFeed is significantly more useful for sharing real information. No comparison. - Hamilton Wallace

Twitter on Oprah was the best thing for FriendFeed. An eureka moment as she jumped into the Twitter stream... - zeroinfluencer

I've been on FriendFeed since March 2008 and I love it!!! :) - Susan Beebe

Twitter and FriendFeed are not the same. Although the cool kids are already here ;) - Nicholas James

The REALLY cool kids have identi.ca accounts and use it to talk about coding rather than congratulating each other over their new media gasbaggery. Just sayin'. - Tom Morris

friendfeed has way better noise reduction filters than twitter atm - Phil Smirnov

I dont know about cool kids, or I dont care if I am one, but I just did it! - Lakshman Prasad

Steve must be prescient - I think it was last summer when he kept saying FriendFeed was actually more useful than Twitter, which is why I have both! - Joan Vinall-Cox

Just found it again today..I like it! - Enriqueta

i'm a cool kid. whew. - michelle lamar

michelle, of course you are. you have a pug. :) - Karoli

It always comes down to Pugs, doesn't it. Good thing we know the truth. - michelle lamar

It's basically impossible to converse with any manner of context on Twitter. It's maybe a one- or two-blurt attention span. Perfect for those with ADD. I like FF much better. - Rick Cogley

And, I have a Golden Retriever, so I have no need for a pug. (they're cute, though!) - Rick Cogley

In no particular order, your friendly neighborhood Dept. of Pre-blogging hereby predictively reports on: Increased speculation, coupled with a spike in Twitter activity. Politicization of the event from the Right (blame Mexico and/or Big Government), the Left (if we spent money in the right places, this would not happen), and out in left field (this is actually the result of an experiment by the CIA/NSA/World Bank/Freemasons/etc). Rapid adoption of irrational coping mechanisms, perhaps including a run on N95 respirators and surface disinfectants. Reassuring releases from the Pork Council that in addition to being the Other White Meat(tm), yummy bacon cannot transmit influenza unless it has previously been used as a handkerchief. An upcoming Schneier blog item on swine flu hysteria being related to confirmation bias. - Hacker News

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