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this is one of those prime examples where LIKE is a stupid UI choice. Feel free to 'like', we know what you mean :) - Eric Rice
ugh, ridiculous. - Chieze Okoye
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“anybody else think FriendFeed needs tags?”
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Or at least some sort of flagging system instead of just "Like". Give me numbered flags or colored flags and I'll be happy. - Yuval Atzmon
thought it would be a good idea! - slsrx
only if you (or they) can think of a way to implement tagging that 1) doesn't create much of a burden for the tagger and 2) provides a lot of value to the readers/subscribers. An enforced taxonomy = pain in the rear. An unenforced taxonomy, in my experience, results in chaos, annoyance, and not much of interest. Flickr is a mild exception, but isn't all that great wrt tags, IMHO. - Adam Lasnik
http://friendfeed.com/search?q... for a trying; tag: design. ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
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"6. Stealth Kiwi - If you’re not big on self control, let Stealth Kiwi do it for you. It blocks all “recreational” websites, but allows you to take a 10 minute break every hour. (GreaseMonkey)" --Hey, Alan? Is that what you were using to block FF? LOL - Mona N.
I keep telling myself that I need to organize my bookmarks better on delicious. I still never get around to it. - Rob Diana
@Rob organize your bookmarks? In what way? I just tag them as I make them and if my tagging scheme fails on lookup (usually does the job 90% of the time) then the search on Del.icio.us works fine... - Lindsay Donaghe
My diigo bookmarks are a hot mess LOL Sorry to the people who've added me =| - Mona N.
look at FF once a day for only 10 minutes... - Pokai
but I don't WANT to be productive when I'm online. I'm online because I'm trying NOT to be productive. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
But Nine, what if your work IS online... :| - Mona N.
Why organize when you have search? ;) - Phil Glockner
It is online, actually... but I still prefer wasting time. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
As far as organizing the most used icons on Windows, forget the desktop, I really like Rocketdock. Gives you that Mac dockbar feel. And it's free too. - TDavid
If I still used a Windows Machine TDavid, I will totally use Rocketdock :) Thank you for your input. - Mona N.
I don't see the point of icons now that I use a Desktop Launcher. My desktop is blank. - Rahsheen™
rocketdock just changed my whole game up...thanks TDavid! - joshuabacker
See? THIS is why I LOVE FriendFeed :) - Mona N.
Lindsay, I try to be organized, which means I use tags similarly to folders. The problem is that I also tend to be lazy and use existing tags that I already have. So my tags become useless. Sometimes I like to browse through my bookmarks to see if there is something I want to re-read as well. - Rob Diana
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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record | Politics and Law - CNET News.com
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"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP." - Dave "Actual" Winer via Bookmarklet
Damned if we do. More damned if we don't. Once again, the lesser of two evils. - Tad - the Fresh Maker
It's almost as if people have forgotten that we once elected Tipper Gore's husband into office. - Derek Coward
Well, thankfully, I'm hoping this decision isn't left up to him. - Brandon Titus
Ouch. - Sean McBride
PGP & more widespread adoption of encryption even if the result of perceived attacks on what is right has the solid result of pushing more security & strong encryption to the people - who are the government & to whom we all must be accountable ... sometimes unintended consequences are the only impetus for change - good & bad (PGP is good & RSA's first major notable client was the Clinton White House concerned about the security of their own communications) - difficult perhaps, data security belongs to us - Scott Moskowitz
forgot what famous powerful president did the late, former MPAA leader Jack Valenti work for? the American message does matter to politicians for many, multifaceted reasons ... Soft power, perhaps ... Narrative? Noise? Objectivity? - Scott Moskowitz
I know, lets just put them all in a big bag, shake it up really hard, and see if we can get one acceptable politician out of it. American politics has become a game of choosing the one who will cause the least amount of damage to the status quo. - Bob Blunk
I agree with Scott Moskowitz: adopt GPG now. There's no reason anyone should be able to read your e-mail except you and the recipient. - Tom Morris
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“Do you have a blog that is NOT about Tech/Social Media? What's the URL?”
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http://bibliotech.livejournal.... mostly about ranting/fandom and sci-fi type stuff. - eve shot first
ummmm - Mark Dykeman
http://tvbythenumbers.com mostly about television metrics with some ranting/fandom type stuff - Robert Seidman
http://www.ProProductivity.com - Productivity & Lifehacks. Online & Off. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I've got <strike>two</strike> three personal blogs. Do they count? - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
http://www.blownmortgage.com/ - mortgage and finance - Morgan
my jewelry (and randomness) blog: yolanda.vox.com - Yolanda
Personal Blogs definitely count...unless you don't want anyone to read it...in which case...nevermind :) ...Just trying to get a glimpse outside of the box I'm in right now :) - Rahsheen™
hee. - edythe
mrontemp covers social media, music, religion, business, soccer, and whatever else strikes my fancy. http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/ - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Why, how kind of you to ask =) http://www.isthisstupid.com which is, obviously, about things I find stupid. This does occasionally include tech and/or social media, but that's not the focus. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I need to make a blog about my travels in Narnia. - Ben Parr
Ben, I lol'd...srsly - Rahsheen™
http://biesnecker.com/stream -- it has some techie stuff, but it's mostly (going to be) about language/language learning. - John Biesnecker
If you like photography here's my daily photo blog http://capturedimagery.blogspo... - Jeff P. Henderson
Ahhh...ok. You asked for it, LOL!! Home blog: http://bigstarlet.wordpress.co... , poetry blog: http://treaclepoetress.wordpre... , and music blog: http://treaclemusicality.wordp.... Enjoy! :) - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
http://minimage.spaces.live.co... It's PG and neglected. - MiniMage via fftogo
In case anyone is refraining from sharing because they don't want to be in a blog post about blogs not about tech/social media...this is not that kind of party :) - Rahsheen™
I am not smart enough for it to be about tech/social media. just opinionated so it focuses on the 2008 election, with a few other tings thrown in www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com. - Ruth Ferguson
I'll be revitalizing an old blog but it will very very little to do with tech/social media - Steven Hodson
Sean does *some* social media stuff, but does a lot of pop culture and general comic geekery at seanpaune.com. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Rahsheen, I'm refraining from posting a few because I'm embarrassed at their state :D - Mo Kargas
Rahsheen! Finally enough of Social Media! LOL http://www.igorthetroll.com/bl... - Igor The Troll
@Mo Kargas: That's just not fair! I posted mine and it's in utter shambles, thrown together between work and 2 side projects. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Wow some nice sites here, even a few I already visit (Snarfd by Mr Baskind for instance) @Stupid Blogger *sweeping em under the carpet and hoping they go away* :D - Mo Kargas
http://pete-suite.blogspot.com... is a bunch of business links and some personal stuff - Pete Delucchi
This is one of my favorite non-tech blogs: http://poobah.tumblr.com/ He always finds interesting/hilarious stuff. - Lindsay Donaghe
http://krynsky.com/ is my personal site which covers many topics including my poetry although some tech does sneak in. - Mark Krynsky
Well, since you asked: http://billbarol.tumblr.com - Bill Barol
http://emergingpastor.com its a resource for new pastors and stuff natch ;) - Steven
not that i'm actually blogging as much as I'd like but http://jasontoney.com is rarely about tech. - Jason Toney
My friend has one, http://davincisbloglog.com ....... oh yea & forgot about my tumblog http://layoutsbychacha.info. - ChaCha Fance
Oh, another good non-tech blog: http://almostfearless.com - about a woman who recently quit her job to fulfill her dream of moving to Spain indefinitely. - Lindsay Donaghe
(switching FF identities) The two Empoprises blogs: http://empoprise-ie.blogspot.c... for the Inland Empire of California, and http://empoprise-ntn.blogspot.... for NTN/Buzztime games. More focused than the mrontemp blog mentioned earlier. - John Bredehoft via fftogo
http://www.peat.me.uk primarily a personal blog, is a bit of tech, but also sci-fi stuff, plus some posts for family/village/church events and such. Main topic in recent days has been posts in support of Dave Walker, a British cartoonist and blogger who has been the subject of some legal bullying from a Texan lawyer over seventy-five posts reporting on the collapse of the SPCK bookshop chain that the Texan bought. (see http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da...) - Richard Peat
http://randomaccesslife.blogsp... I know, it's not in english, but this is not only an english world - marcantonio severgnini
yup! http://balutpress.com/zhey - it's a personal Chrisian blog, a lot of apologetics and Christian resources, downloadable sermons (mp3 and pdf/word files), stories of struggles, pains, joys and basically, Gospel. I hope you guys hop by and if you do, please, feel free to leave your marks :) - Zhey Chua
Personal blog http://davidrosam.co.uk. Food blog http://mealsonblogs.com. Photo blog http://thefirstcut.co.uk. Even my business blog is only peripherally about social media/tech http://dangerous-thinking.com - David Rosam via twhirl
http://www.penguinsix.com/ I do talk about tech, but also a fair bit about national security matters around the world and politics (my pre-tech careers). Occasionally a posting about whatever sails past my window. - Andrew Leyden
My blog is rather generic and reflects my interests, which are not limited by tech/social media stuff. http://lotanbr.blogspot.com . - Hayk Hakobyan
Home Ec 101: What you wish your mama taught you. http://www.home-ec101.com - Heather
I keep trying to stick to random tech-related stuff. It focusses the mind. But I;vebeen putting some photos up there as well. http://rbonini.wordpress.com - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
Urban planning & geography (maybe a little tech in there too) http://www.lowflyingcars.com - Zach Underwood
If you ever wondered How Real Estate Investors make money with no risk, then read my blog. I'm laying out the daily activities that keep me in business: http://dealsonwheels.wordpress... - Jonathan (Bad Robot)
I write a blog dealing with narrative, it touches on social media and technology, but the focus is on how we tell and read stories. It's actually touched on social media more these days because that's what I get on Friendfeed. http://rwvblog.org - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
Mostly politics and world affairs: http://outsidethebeltway.com - James Joyner
http://www.expeditionamazonas.... these guys trekked and paddled the length of the Amazon River and blogged about it - David McDonald
Several. Here's a group blog I contribute to on virtual worlds and gaming: http://www.vtoreality.com/ - TDavid
http://silas216.com. A little bit of everything. - Steven Perez
I've just started blogging about economics and monetary police at http://www.johnbudnik.com/blog . I'm not sure that anyone will find it particularly interesting, but I have gotten a few people following me on FF based on earlier comments on monetary policy. - John Budnik
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From io9: "My paintings deal with scale. It's why I can paint a colossal space-scape and then, Godzilla or something like that. It's all about scale and size. Think about it. I like big things next to little things. The human race is a speck in the universe. But an ant colony is small next to us. Everything is relative to scale. I tend to like to try something different with each job I do." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet
"I veered into fantasy heavily and then came back and applied this romantic vision to the SF work. Who wants to see things as they are? We want to see them as we dream them to be." - beautiful - Patricia Hanrahan
amazing art - linkman77
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The Stata Center is home to MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), created in 2003 by the merger of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
egad post modernism is getting out of hand. try some new design cohesion... must everything make a self reference? I find it sad that a community dedicated to progression like MIT can't find a better use for new architectural possibilities. one hundred years from now it will just look like an old joke. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
The entire complex looks like some giant came along and stepped on it. - Peter Simard
This building is cool to look at, but according to some of the people in it, it leaks terribly. I hate to name drop (not really) but I was so fortunate to get to meet Noam Chomsky, who's office is in this building. The rest of the campus is lovely, as well. - Bren
Chomsky's office leaks eh? kind of like his theory that there were no WMDs in Iraq. Too bad he had to back peddle on that as well. How ironic that he works in a self referential post modernist house that parallels all his elitist bias. Perhaps if the architecture he worked in were better then he would see that history doesn't always reflect and cycle and that the signs of one mistake do not add up as mistake in other moments in history. Better Architecture=Better Brains! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Linguists need to understand Language. Perhaps the language of architecture? Innovate... don't hesitate! Chomsky=FAIL! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
finally an edifice that reflects the ugly ineptitude of revisionist theory. Looks like elephantitus of an institution. Cancer of the code has materialized... Post Modernism and all it's bastardizations like Feminism reflects and what is seen is a waste of technology, money and energy. We all suffer from the Blue State Fashion Tyranny. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Noah: Chomsky didn't design the building, he just has an office there, and in fact he hates the building, for any number of reasons. And your utterly fallacious argument regarding a correlation between the architecture of one's office and the 'architecture' of one's theoretical constructions reveals a simplistic world-view. Alas, I can see from your posts that you are here mainly to incite and inflame. - Bren
I'm sure Chomsky has enough clout that he can decide where his office goes. Nothing but passing the buck of guilt in the Blue States like usual. Always looking to claim that you had no power... looking to bureaucracy for responsibility and afraid to delineate structures... because if you do it looks like this! THE BUCK STOPS HERE on this comment. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N... Gehry told the Times that he had received support from professors and others the building was designed for. They are “sending me e-mails dumbfounded that their institution is doing this,” Gehry said. by the way... where is the link for Chomsky's opinion on this building? - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
When one talks of visual language and uses it for metaphor to the language of history and politics, of course it is simplicity. Metaphor is dependent on a certain abstraction. It is your words that reveal a lack of understanding. Your bias does not allow you to listen to anything that criticizes the status quo academic tyranny. Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but Chomsky's edifice will fall before your names hurt me. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Pointlessly erudite flame wars are my favorite. - Derrick Burns
I don't have a problem with disagreement do you Derrick? I have problems with intellectual laziness. Calling people names and barbs. Please respond and argue in the context of the thread. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
@Noah: Frankly, I quite enjoy disagreement. And I will gladly concede that intellectual laziness is a problem. As for my two cents on the thread: As far as I can discern, your contention is that Chomsky's philosophical models either A) reflect, or B) are reflected by, the dissolute post-modernist architecture of the building in which he works. I will yield that environment can impact psychology, but I'll go no further than that.[ ...] - Derrick Burns
Beyond this, you are arguing metaphor and symbology, which are intractably subjective and externally referential. In other words, if the building seems to you a physical manifestation of a philosophic model, the responsibility for that association is yours, not Chomsky's. - Derrick Burns
All of this is, of course, overlooking the fact that this entire comment thread reads like a series of Markov chains sourced from a freshman philosophy textbook. - Derrick Burns
your Subjectivity betrays a sad denial of a truth. I am arguing against self reference and you argue for it by using the very argument that is in question. You are not capable of leaving your limited logic. Enjoy the cancer of the code... it is yours to cherish with the rest of the monoculture. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Why didn't I think of that? - Derrick Burns
because you have no understanding of metaphor. You only understand CODE... and you have met recursion. CANCER of the CODE... when you forget humanity and its liberation is determined by structures like Polity Republic States or Good Architecture. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
'good architecture'? Who gets to decide what is good and what is not? ...I'm also not entirely certain that human liberation is determined by structures of any sort. Derrick: your point about environment impacting psychology is apt, but I would note that most of Chomsky's core theoretical work was done before he was in this building and, therefore, could not have been impacted by *this* environment. - Bren
his scene is a reflection of that building. It is his manifestation and it is yours as well. It is what happens when you deny structure and then attempt to put one together with a last minute bandage. If you see no place for an elegant evolving structure then that is your flaw. NO MORE GREEN GHETTOS! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
the sad thing is there is structure in this building. ...though it is hidden and elitist like Robert Scoble's private feed. If the structure were a bit more tranparent in an non- absolutist way then there would be a beauty and intelligence. Instead what we are left with is the ugliness of Blue State deception that deny the self, by making reference to it's own history of mendacity, spuriousness, & inaccuracy! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
there must be a structure. and we shouldn't pretend it shouldn't be there. there is a morality, a truth; a set of patterns that are worth fighting for. Never forget that. Don't reject our culture and then build a heap of garbage over it. Don't let the LEFTISTS build "60's project buildings" over ghettos. Stop hiding the truth. Tell us what our roles are (gender for example). It is time for our leaders to be more honest about us. please don't let this important thread decompose into more recursion - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
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"Those five minutes before the room cools down are a real bitch, especially if the boogie man is hiding under that dark bed." - duh... - silpol via Bookmarklet
American toilets terrify me. - Patricia Hanrahan
@Patricia: I'll second that =) - Alex
Tell me what those mentioned hotels are who install european toilets and I will go for them in a heartbeat. Twice I had overflowing toilets and the american system simply makes me nearly puke. - Nicole Simon
@nicole: and the dangers of puking into an American system adds to the complications =) - Alex
@bleys bingo! - silpol
speaking of toilets... I wonder about what people (who's never been to Asian countries) would think of the squat toilet :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... - BeeLing
We have these squat toilets here, with no need to go deep into Asia =) - Alex