Stephen Mack - Discussion

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I love the one on the bridge of the enterprise!! - Rachel L Fisher

"Jo then made an entrance to the sound of Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade and the touching ceremony went off without a hitch." Without a hitch? So, wait, they DIDN'T get married? - Stephen Mack

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“Palin::Roslin as McCain::Adama?”

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Frack no! - Stephen Mack

Frack yes! - Ben Parr

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Scenes from the veep announcement - Martin Kady II - Politico.com

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“We were all like ‘please don’t let it be Lieberman,’” Post said. “But then [when Palin was introduced] you could really feel it. People gasped. I thought ‘wow, she’s really attractive, she’s young.’ People will like that.” - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

I heard the news on the way to work this morning, and thought that this was the first time that the McCain campaign surprised me by doing something unexpected and progressive. It may well backfire due to her inexperience, but there's no denying she's a dynamic presence and it adds a lot of interest to an already engrossing campaign. - Stephen Mack

TiVo: Stephen Mack posted a link

Dave Zatz: TiVo Quarterly Call (No Tru2Way This Year)

Thursday at 11:29 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

From MegaZone: http://www.gizmolovers.com/200... - Stephen Mack

Official press release: http://investor.tivo.com/relea... - Stephen Mack

Josh had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“1 experiment =~ 1000 analyses”

Thursday at 10:08 am - Link

What's the analysis-to-word exchange rate, so I can determine how many pictures I can take to replace experimenting? - Stephen Mack

Kevin Fox shared an item on Google Reader

The Web 2.0 dilemma: Public vs. personal personas

Thursday at 9:54 am - Link

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Liking before I even read because THIS is the issue I've been having as of late. GAH! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Thanks for sharing, Kev! - Stephen Mack

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Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Thursday at 12:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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“Recipe for "guiltless pizza": Take 1 plain rice cake. Enjoy!”

Wednesday at 1:51 pm - Link

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How to boil an egg

Wednesday at 1:00 pm - Link

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I'm going to try this tonight! - Kevin Fox

you need to buy eggs on your way home then. - Rachel L Fisher

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HA! this exchange is great. - jenna

So this guy This (hah) wants you to cook the eggs for an hour instead of 10 minutes? That's not going to go over easy. I'd say the yolk's on him. Let me know if you agree, I'm walking on eggshells here. It's a fertile area for discussion, though, and he may be eggsactly right. - Stephen Mack

Stephen, I'm sure you meant say that wouldn't go 'ova easy' right? - Kevin Fox

The puns - they're everywhere! - Tanath

From the source: " Next, This turns up the oven thermostat to 67°C, or 153°F, and after waiting a while for the eggs inside to reach that temperature—again, he's casual about the timing—he retrieves a second one: "The 67-degree egg!" At this temperature the yolk has just started thickening up—some of its proteins have coagulated, but the majority have not. "Look, you can mold it," he says, scooping out the yolk and manipulating the pliable orangey-yellow ball like fresh Play-Doh. He tries to mold a heart, then settles for a cube. "Try one," he says, taking a third egg from the oven for me to play with before turning up the heat to 158°F (70°C). The 70-degree egg, when it is finally done, has a moistly set yolk and a very tender white. "So you see, you can adjust the temperature depending on what you want," says This. If you prefer a firmer egg, cook it at 167°F or 176°F. Bear in mind, though, that the most copious of the egg-white proteins sets at 184°F—hence the rubbery results of the 212-degree bath." - Erica Baker

Given the information above, I want to see pictures of what each egg looks like at each temp. Kevin, can you post photos of your results? - Erica Baker

@Erica Baker I saw another place where egg cooking tests with specific temperatures included photos: http://eriks-food-ucation.blog... - Ragani Harris

FriendFeed News: an entry from FriendFeed Blog

Embed FriendFeed in your blog

Wednesday at 1:19 pm - Link

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Very nice! One quick nit: Wordpress should be "WordPress" (on http://friendfeed.com/embed/li...) - Stephen Mack

TY. that is *exactly* what i was looking for, in last hour or such. you read mind! :) - Giuseppe Cunsolo

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thank you! - Francesco Passantino

Very nice. Thank you. - Justin Wah Kan via twhirl

I like the new version of the widget. Most problems with the old version are solved, except one thing: with a set a flickr pictures, all pictures link to the same flickr page, instead of each to its own page. - Peter

Thanks for the new options! - xero

Can we get this for TypePad? - Zviki Cohen

I like the new look to it! Very cool. - Brian Bufalo

Hutch Carpenter shared an item on Google Reader

Tag Clouds for Our Lifestreams

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Good article. I happened to post some thoughts along similar lines last night: http://www.zeigen.com/blog/200... but I like the idea of explicitly integrating visual clouds. - Stephen Mack

Stephen - that's a great post. I like the way you frame the problem. People are more than a single subject, but social sites generally require you to maintain consistent programming. I've referred to people as TV channels on FriendFeed. The FF beta is a great start at maintaining content categories, but it still runs into the pesky habit of people getting outside of their primary content programming. - Hutch Carpenter

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

Wednesday at 12:08 am - Link

That commercial is certainly out there. Worth a watch. Has this ever really actually aired though? I think it's just designed to attract controversy and generate word-of-mouth (e.g., what we're doing right now). - Stephen Mack

Stephen Mack posted an entry on Zeigen

The Web 2.0 dilemma: Public vs. personal personas

Wednesday at 1:16 am - Link

Ken Gidley liked this

"FriendFeed has it almost backwards: It’s not so much that I want to categorize my friends based on how I know them (although I do want that) — much more, I want to categorize what I publish. Let me label the things I share as “Personal” or “Public” (and use even more tags if I want to assign them). That way the people who subscribe to me can decide if they want the full feed (complete with my lunch plans and haircut comments) or to automatically excise those parts they won’t care about." - Stephen Mack

FriendFeed News: Bret Taylor posted a link

The Fake Follow Becomes A Reality With FriendFeed’s New Design - TechCrunch

Tuesday at 11:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Can people tell from clicking on my name and then selecting the "[person] + Friends" link if a friend is part of my home feed or not? - Stephen Mack

No, your [person] + Friends tab shows all subscriptions no matter what friend lists they are on. - Bret Taylor

Also: couldn't you "fake follow" before FF beta by subscribing then hiding all a user's items? - David Young

Why would you do that? Long live peer pressure? - dekay

The purpose of friend lists is grouping friends, and getting some groups of friends out of your home feed, not "fake following"; I think some people may use it for that, but it certainly wasn't an explicit design goal for us. - Bret Taylor

Don't get me wrong, I think "fake following" is retarded. I just don't think it's any more possible with the advent of beta than it was before. - David Young

Kevin Fox posted an entry on Fury.com

Cellphone manufacturers: Tell us a story, damnit.

Tuesday at 5:02 pm - Link

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Yes! Totally! - Ammy Hill

Excerpt: "I hope the Android folks aren't hoping that a slick UI and great user experience will sell itself, because phones ain't the web. The cognitive and financial switching costs for mobile phones are greater than for almost any other device you can buy. Helio and Sidekick are two great examples of how slick mobile products can fail to gain traction because they rely on carriers and customers to generate demand. Take a page from the Book of Jobs and tell the story to the people. Tell them why they want it. Show it to them. Educate them so well that they can proselytize another person to buy a product that neither of them has ever seen in the flesh." - Kevin Fox

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Kevin, how did you get that FeedFlare? Looks great. - Louis Gray

I second that Louis. - Simian DA (Amber)

Apple is great at marketing, but I think Helio failed because the devices suck, Danger was on a good ramp but fizzled because they failed to keep up or to open the platform, the Blackberry succeeded because people liked what the devices did, and the iPhone is a big success because it's an awesome product. Jobsian marketing is an accelerator -- it means they can sell millions of iPhones now, instead of in two years once everyone figures out how awesome they are -- but it's not the key enabler of uptake. - ⓞnor

Also, I have switched phones probably five times in the last decade, but I have switched search engines basically never in the last decade. So I disagree that cell phones are way stickier than web sites. - ⓞnor

They may not be stickier, but they're a lot easier to try out. I would argue that you've stayed with the same search engine because it's maintained a lead in quality/experience, rather than habit. - Kevin Fox

ⓞnor, would you agree that Apple's marketing generates a certain media narrative, and that narrative has lead to a (very large) amount of free ads? It seems like Kevin is arguing that that same thing happens by word of mouth. - j1m

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Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap - The Big Picture

Monday at 12:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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The Big Picture is my favorite photography site. - Alan Le

I hope these two photos are not a cometary on the public opinion of photographers ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

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Not commentary on photographers... I juxtapositioned the two specific photos for comedic effect :) - Alan Le

I was just being sarcastic... - Jeff P. Henderson

39 truly amazing pictures. Also, very amusing juxtaposition, Alan. - Stephen Mack

Love the shooters vs. photographers! Nice job Alan... - Mitchell Tsai

Nice! - imabonehead

Brian Johns shared an item on Google Reader

Beijing’s Ghost Town

Monday at 8:38 am - Link

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The Olympic venues hours after everyone leaves. - Brian Johns

Yvonne added a product to the Amazon Wish List Wishlist

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack

August 24 at 2:24 am - Link

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Not the deluxe edition? - Stephen Mack

Oooooh, there's a deluxe edition? I'll take a look! - Yvonne

Nothing official yet: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com... but they have in the past, so probably this time too. Plus there's this supposed photo: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008... - Stephen Mack

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Olympic quotes they wish they could take back | Woosk

August 21 at 9:29 pm - via Mento - Link

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1. Weightlifting commentator: ‘This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.’ 9. Tennis commentator: ‘One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said? - Lindsey Smith via Mento

rofl - Michael W. May (Joffi)

haha! - Anna Haro

My favorite was at the Seoul Olympics. Commentator about a Greco-Roman wrestler: "He speaks 11 languages -- and that's a lot for a person who's that short." - Stephen Mack

Yvonne posted a link

Palo Alto Festival of the Arts this weekend?

August 22 at 8:48 am - Link

Hmm! Good idea... - Stephen Mack

Unlike the issues I had trying to get to the Ren Faire, I am fully committed to going to this this weekend... =) - Yvonne

mice published a photo on Flickr

What?

August 20 at 1:25 pm - Link

Anne Bouey, Rob Reed, Stephen Mack, Tanath and 4 other people liked this

*lol* - Rachel L Fisher

That is so awesome. Reminds me of the time Amazon emailed me to tell me that Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back went well with Astroglide. - Kevin Fox

@Kevin.. something tells me Kevin Smith would enjoy that profusely. - Haggis (Sean)

bahahahahaha. - Tsega Dinka

more like WTF! ;-) - Larry Kless via twhirl

Troubling trends we are seeing here. :) - mice

Rich Thomas posted a message on Twitter

“Is unemployed”

August 20 at 10:32 am - Link

Congrats! - Steve Lacy

Woah! - Stephen Mack

jtorrey posted an item on Tumblr

What will I watch when the Olympics are over?

August 19 at 8:36 pm - Link

Mad Men? - Stephen Mack

I might actually read a book... or scrapbook the 2000 photos I have of my 5 month old son! =) - Yvonne

Kevin Fox posted a link

I'm not sure 'MyBO' is the best branding idea to come out of the campaign

August 19 at 3:38 pm - Link

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Yes, I WTFed when I saw it first, too. - Tudor Bosman

Hmm. Their other "My" choices are MyBHO, MyB, MyO, MyObama, MyBarack, My'bama, but what I'd go with if it were me is.... M'Obama - Stephen Mack

Stephen I think they could have done well on the internet using "My O" and that YouTube Obama Girl. - Steve Craft

Wow, how did that pass the number of people it had to pass to become live? That's like MyHO for Home Office hah. - Andy Ciordia via twhirl

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Beijing Games: picture of the day

August 19 at 10:59 am - Link

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faces of different weightlifters, and a touching shot of the gold medal winner. - Brian Johns

BeeLing posted a message on Twitter

“Statistics are addictive, no?”

August 19 at 10:25 am - Link

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About 43% of the time, they are, yes. - Stephen Mack

But did you know that 86.3% of statistics are made up on the spot? - Stephen Mack

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And 11.3754588% of statistics are unnecessarily precise? - Stephen Mack

64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot 82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not I don't know what you believe but I do know there's no doubt I need another double shot of something 90 proof I got too much to think about -- Todd Snider - Thomas Hawk

In all seriousness I moved half way across the world just to study metrics (yes, I am sad). - Patricia Hanrahan

Cool stats, Stephen. Patricia, I have the idea that you're having fun in London. :-) - BeeLing

A whole lot of statistics -- like about 30 percent -- are actually too vague. - Chris Baskind

Totally! - Steve Isaacs

I never could eat just one. - Nine (9)

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CA Car Seat Laws...

August 18 at 4:10 pm - Link

Guess my son Logan still has a ways to go until he'll be facing foward! - Yvonne

Yeah, we definitely jumped the gun with Sophie a bit. I didn't realize the requirement was 20 pounds AND one year. Hmm. - Stephen Mack

http://pa.photoshelter.com/img... - Brian Johns

When we took Maya home from the hospital the nurse was confused when we put her in the car seat "I never heard of such a thing" she said. http://www.mayahaynes.com/2007... - Carl Haynes

With safety being such a high priority, I don't understand why Californians are still allowed to transport children in motor vehicles at all. The statistics don't lie! Children who engage in "traveling" activities die in motor vehicle accidents at a much higher rate than children who are shut indoors. - Brian Johns

@Carl - that's very interesting perspective. I remember sitting in the front seat of my dad's '63 Chevy Impala and nearly falling out of the car during acceleration due to it's 'flip up' door mechanism (picture: http://www.lategreatchevy.com/...). Times they have a-changed. - Ken Gidley

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RIAA "problem" shutters online-music startup Muxtape [Copyfight]

August 18 at 6:47 pm - Link

Anne Bouey liked this

Understatement of the year: "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." - Kevin Fox

Bad move, RIAA. The site exposed people to new music, and encouraged buying while discouraging downloading. Free marketing? And you say no thanks? - Stephen Mack

Steve Lacy shared an item on Google Reader

Follow what Obama, McCain and leading political commentators are reading

August 18 at 10:50 am - Link

This seems cool, as long as it pans out into interesting news... - Steve Lacy

So is the McCain feed empty? "RSS Feeds for John McCain: [crickets]" - Stephen Mack

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