DISQUS

access or assess .. .. .. deepak, tony, jason .. .. .. hmm .. .. .. guess that means a book is up next

regular electricity? no. reliable internet at speed? no. ipr ethic? no.

what was the question again?

mountain out of a molehill, with the me-too friendfeed ingoup ganging up like junior highschool kids. hawk is a spoon, maturity is never an option for a stirrer. put the camera away and move on into the exhibit. you are not going to change the photo policies of britain or new york no matter how much your ego screams.

agree. merit, "producing quality content", they have nothing to do with "success"

i don't use rss feeds, it is too much, a shotgun instead of a rapier, and inconsistent quality. in friend feed, with its search, i can follow interests instead of sites, as well as people, and if i understand the person, it is a kind of filter on the information. i will go to, say, www.friendfeed.com/scobleizer, and follow the conversations around one of his themes. if someone says something interesting, i click and go into their world. that is how i got here.

people in america are so weird about death, and this "outpouring" has been an intense illustration of that.

death is the best thing in an entire life, it is what all of embodiment is about, leads to, is for.

the grief of most people is pure narcissism and should not be rewarded.

he is free. we are not. there is nothing sad about either side of this.

not as stupid as russert, but nearly

why do people write about losers if they are losers?

tune in next week when we will announce the results of the 200,000 porno videos we track, and their distribution over redtube, xxxtube, pornotube, wtftube, omfgtube, and the rest

i much much much much prefer local banks over national ones ... i have a local bank debit card, and a bank of america debit card .... bank of america gets me for 3% of every overseas purchase and 1% of every overseas atm withdrawal ... my local bank, no percent on purchases, a simple $1.50 on overseas atm use

now guess which one i hate and keep the minimum balance in, and which one i love, can call anytime, and keep the maximum deposit in ... it is, as they say, a no-brainer

there are truths so hidden as to be talked about only in mystical circles, one is that we aren't nearly as in control of our lives as our egos like to think. articles like this are simply pointers to the underlying reality. cause and effect are often not what they seem. successful people like to think they are successful because of some reason, but often it is simply luck or fate or karma or the flow of the times ...

i expect a lot more growth in this kind of understanding, and a lot of it is going to come from the advertising world, simply because effectiveness is proving to be a very difficult measurement problem. there really is little to measure! there are other forces at work.

and since you like umair, he is talking towards some of this. that energy follows intention, the good vs. evil meme, are not quantifiable, they are qualitative. the realm of quality is the realm of the subject(ive).... and this is not the ego we think is so important.

look for subtlety to increase, and a huge necessity for creating more refined measuring tools. we almost are going to need to be inside 6 billion minds, seeing through 6 billion sets of eyes and concepts.

saw a comment from you on newmediabuzz, in the direction of (my term) the conversation is the blog, and perhaps creating the tech to go under that form would be cool ... basically i want the equivalent of four or five friendfeeds or interlaced twitters right on the first page ...

could be an obscure image, lot of other people's ideas mean more to them than me, but do you have any response to this?

gregory lent

if you are the marshall kirkpatrick of the red and white blog readwriteweb, read the replies from iranians to your post on this subject ... and if you are not, thanks for the good wishes anyway

i think it is not as bad as western news makes it out to be, though that would be a first wouldnt it? :) i think farsi, or persian is the number three language on the internet, at least as far a blogs go, after english and mandarin ...

it is an incredibly beautiful country, i have lots of friends here in india from iran, one called her daughter in iran, the daughter was skiing ... it ain't so bad as we think ... and there are many countries where social unity is a hugely important thing, not like america ...

comments are becoming the new blog ...

no more pontification and then replies, merely discussion, like walking into a coffee shop

first one that can lay that out on a page has a business

high school 2.0 tech writers are a bit much

you can say that again

the cry of the wise since the 70's to no effect ...

yes, suburbs will be the new artist's studios

i am going to add one more thing ... the sufi phrase, it is written .. lots of wisdom in that, as is in the idea that everything is guru's , god's grace .... don't worry, be happy, it really does not matter

one of the huge life-long lessons to learn for many people is the thing they call self confidence .. it has some elements to it, faith and trust that we will be taken care of is one of them ... glad you can share this stuff ... live fast die young is not a bad philosophy for many, you seem more bound to stable achievement, trust that is will happen

pick any america city, from seattle to baltimore ... how long do you think such things would last in that american city?

which semites are you referring to?

as a blogless hobo in the web'o'sphere i love the threaded part, it has allowed me to "meet" smart people and comment on comments .... blogs without it seem dull, merely soapboxes, rather than coffee houses or cafes with conversation....

i am reading with a very fast connection ... skim halfway down the page ...

and the right hand column finally loads, and jumps me up to the top again

wonder why

treading the fine line between cool and way cool