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Funny, I'm working on explaining Twitter in about 80,000 words. It's called twitterville and will be out in Septmber.

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The nature of what I write rarely gets me close to the embargo issue. And most people know that I am far from Michael Arrington's greatest chamion, but in this case I think he has a great point. The PR agencies have made joke of the embargo they foist upon journalists. At least once every two weeks, I get spam email from someone I don't know working for an agency I never heard of representing a company I don't cover. And EMBARGO is emblazoned all over the announcement. The way it is supposed to work is first you ask an editor if the will respect an embargo THEN you give her or him the news. In this case,

While I very often agree with you, Louis I disagree with you pretty strongly this time, The Bradley Effect refers to a 1983 incident. In 25 years an entire generation of people with one racial mindset has died off and another has come of voting age. Plus, closer examination of what happened in 1983 shws that the pollsters had not taken into account absentee ballots, which at that point in California history was an overwhelming conservative block. Since then, polls have proven quite accurate in measuring countless elections--or losses of black, women and Hispanic candidates. If there is a Bradley effect in this election why did it not come out in a single primary that we just conducted. Finally, if you lie to pollsters to get them off the phone, you may be in a minority and you do us all a disservice while you are at it.

Thanks for this. I think youmade more sense of it than I did.

Robert,

Sorry, I'm not joined at the hip on this one with you.

Each of these sites is under embargo. Each one of these sites will change this week when they embargo is lifted. For a startup, hustling to get the launch of their company going, leaving a little mess here is the usual option, even though you are right--they could have done a better job. But you core complaint is they are not telling you what you want to know when YOU want to know it, rather than when they have agreed to tell it.

Thanks for the mention. You are right, it does seem to be more about cool stuff coming down the line. But I had intended the key point to be that social media will continue to make our online interactions more and more like our real world interaction and here are three possible outcomes.

Gotta disagree with you on this one here. ne communications for has never replaced another. Radio has survived TV. Opera has survived Rock. TV is surviving YouTube. Podcasting works quite well in place where video cannot go, such as driving and road running. If I were to start doing video again, I would offer a podcast version for wider reach.

If any social media space cannot be conversational than it stops being, well social. What's the purpose?

Dollars can throw off your calculations. In China $50 K seems like a very significant Series A investment. In Silicon Valley, it's lunch money. I would also wager there are US-based companies with over half its users out of the country. Your own Twitter, I'll wager, has close to the same number of users in Asia that it has in the US.

I'm flattered to be included on this list. I'd send you a photo, by I don't seem to see an email address to send it to.

I find that traffic from large site links just passes through in the form of a numerical spike. When the issue poin ted to is over, just about all the new visitors go away. When visitors come from links of smaller blogs, a larger percentage become regular visitors. Bottom line, I'm beginning to think links from lesser knw bloggers are more valuable to me than links from the big names.

Good work, Louis. I have an idea. Let's organize a 30 day boycott of commenting on Scobleizer. Then he'll see what "blog comments are dead" really means.

I wrote that I was redefining myself as an online independent journalist. I did not say that the move of GNTV was the cause of my adopting that title. As a freelance journalist, I hope to have work in numerous venues. As far as "claiming" to be co-hosrt of WorkFast, come watch it every Friday, where you can see it live at FastCompany.TV and sponsored by SAP.

So please tell me what the spin is?

So, I better get them on the show, hunh?

Alex,

I've been waiting for someone to ask me that very question, so I'll pretend you just asked it of me. My bet is that Loren will become the lead off program on TechCrunch video. This would explain a whole lot, or so it seems to me.

Obviously, I am not Loren's greatest fan. But so far he has displayed talent and built audience. Like traditional TV in an earlier era, he's demonstrating entertainment seems to get larger viewership than more serious online video efforts. In the end, there is room for both on the internet.

Bob sounds like he should be reading me and not you. I wonder about what excites you as well sometimes. Let's discuss in front of the camera today at the WorkFast rehearsal.

Like a growing number of social media people, I personally find it useful to blame Scoble for anything that goes wrong. Dozens of people will instantly rush to support my view.

Thanks for a very fair and balanced review of this situation. My temporary ballistic trajectory was not caused by the puppets, which I have to admit, are pretty funny. My anger came from the theft of my domain name. Because I post under a different name, Loren's ShelIsrael.com will soon be on Page One for any Google Search for my name.

If Loren transferred the domain to me, it would end this matter from my perspective. He can have Fake Shel Israel and go wild. In return for that, I would give him an exclusive interview with my owl.

Dave. Yeah. I'm one of the folks that send 30-40 from a conference or during a basketball game. I'd like to be able to let people who are uninterested opt out. I thought # marks were going to do that, but they don't. There should be a way.

Glad you are enjoying Naked Conversations at any speed. But I'd like to point out Scoble is co-author of it with some other guy. I am the other guy, and when mentioning the book I worked on so hard, would appreciate, next time, your taking the time to give me the credit.

Sorry that last note was for Kevin. At my age, you forget. Craig, there's some anomaly with the vids on my blog site. It should work if you go to http://www.fastcompany.tv/global-neighbourhoods-tv.

Craig, I'm probably close to your grandfather's age. Cant much change that part. I think you better stick with dailyidea.

Er... that was Twitterville and blind--not blond. Damn anithistamines.