DISQUS

"Twitter guys showed up briefly before lunch."

Really good that they showed up at all. But I have to confess that the word "briefly" made me think of the late night talk show practice of Really Huge Celebrities who never stay around to sit on the couch during other guests' appearances.

>great if you wore a green-screen kind of tie...

yes, but how about a greenscreen nose? hmm?

Re: protecting kids... I have two sons in college now, net natives both, gamers, etc. IMO, the best practice is to make a place in your home where it's fun to all be on the computer together. It's our version of the kitchen table, remarking on what we see, like sharing newspaper, trading sections over breakfast.

It's when kids are squirreled away in their rooms or in a basement -- the activity completely separate from family life -- that they may be more tempted to get into various kinds of trouble online.

Looks like this would have some great instructional applications.

I thought it was telling that the Council is managed, not by one of a number of professional association management firms in Chicago, but by a WoM agency http://www.gaspedal.com/about.php -- it's linked down in the footer of the blogcouncil.org site.

"Grid" feels more right to me than "graph."

Jon Udell has a good way of describing this idea. I heard it in one of his podcasts recorded shortly after he joined Microsoft. I’m not quoting it exactly but he talked about how InfoWorld stories were a process, with reader conversation up front and afterwards, with a particularly well-baked part of the process (the published story) in the middle.

"It’s what COULD Fred do for me in the future?"

Is that what it's all about?

Good idea: stick a pitchfork in it and see if it's done.

I know! I got it!

You spell it s-o-c-i-a-l m-e-d-i-a, but pronounce it "bag full of shit."

A little alliteration goes a long way.

The cable news networks and the news magazines have been speaking about this quite frankly. Usually what's said boils down to either:

- "Americans are more prepared for a Black president than a woman president"; or

- "Sure one of them could get nominated, but can they win the general election? People might be too embarrassed to tell a pollster they wouldn't vote for an AA or a woman, but once they get in the booth the truth comes out."

But I heard a different take on this just last night that rang true to me. (Might have been on Hardball? Not sure.) A pundit said people will vote for Obama to make themselves feel virtuous.

May I suggest "Uncle Charlie" as an alternative to "mom?"

Just saw the CNN interview. I thought O'Brien was a little nasty to Edwards, starting right out with "So you made a blunder, fool," (or anyway that was the thrust of the jab, in relation to the timing of the announcement and the motivation for putting in online). I think Edwards ought to have been just as blunt and said something more like, "You got the wrong information, Myles."

He's always getting into trouble with the university, isn't he? I love it. Yay for tenure.

Let the metaphors roll. May I please me the little broken pinecomb washed up in the river bank?

Did I stretch your meaning, or did you imply you'll be having a blog wing on your mall? If so, is this something new? Will the blogs be related to podcasting or vlogging, or not necessarily?

Thanks, Mike. I'll see if I can figure out how to do that.

This is neat. It doesn't seem able to discover a feed if the site URL is anything more than just a domain name?

I had it on what I consider to be pretty good authority

http://blogs.opml.org/marty/2006/03/02

-- a guy who worked on design of teeny tablets -- that I'm going to love it. I'm thinking the size is going to make ALL the difference.