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Good insight Dale. I also see a separate and longer thread of conversation to my tweets on Facebook. My guess for this is that Facebook's garden is where many of those users simply like to play. Or it could be that Fb status messages are more conducive to friendly replies since a whole conversation can be easily seen at a glance. Also, use cases between Fb and Twitter can be wildly different. Everyone I've confirmed a friendship with on Fb is someone whom I've met in person. With Twitter I'm more likely to add people I've never met, but also more likely to refine my list of people I follow to only those who tweets are interesting to me.

The first clue that "ur doing it wrong" is even the consideration of hiring someone who calls themselves a 'social media consultant'. Don't be fooled by the hype! Social media is such a nebulous non-term that means too many things to too many people. Are we talking about collaborative web applications? Or the interactions between people who use them? Hey, I'm leaving a comment on a blog! That makes me a 'social media practitioner' and if I do it enough, an 'expert'. That'll be $500 an hour please!

Whit: Are you a LEGAL American? Only legal Americans may collect their barrel of oil. If you are not a legal American, McTaint has a policy allowing you to become one:

http://johnmctaint.com/immigration.php

I plan on wearing blue underwear, if I do at all.

Orin: How is this "brought to you by Chevrolet"? I know Doc Pop and he's far from a corporate sell out, which seems to be your implication. Doc is one talented artist, whether he's making music, stitching jeans or printing memes. I don't see any corporate sponsorship or tie-in on any of this.

All I have to say is digg version: 3 takes. Rev3 version: 6 takes!!

I think the challenge was met, owned and returned to sender in a nice big box of THAT'S RIGHT!

congrats on the new features. looking awesome! y'all rock.

Def one of the best panels at SXSW. Here's a vid I shot of Ted Rheingold's go:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tFDBF8aYAqM

030408. never forget!

Here's a video my housemate Ryan shot of the place. The siphons look damn rad.

http://www.viddyou.com/profile?videoid=23483

Kevin:

I totally get your point, but I don't think the prank quite rises to the level of denial of service. The room is still full of people, the presenter still has the ability to address the crowd (and from what I saw the Motorola guy did pretty well under the circumstances) and the ensuing controversy and press coverage drives more attention and traffic to all those involved. I am now actually curious about what Motorola was demoing. I probably wouldn't have been otherwise.

Hey Robert. Best of luck on whichever path you choose. It was a good run and glad we got to work together for a period of time. Cheers!

Best Buy really are a bunch of clueless, strong arm n00bs. I no longer authorize, sponsor, endorse, or approve of their business and will not shop there.

Oh definitely, this iteration is def dorkbot inspired. It's a good model and I've already heard other peeps want to do it in other cities. Tonight was good despite the party conflicts and I know it'll grow. If you've got some old school VRML stuff you wanna dig out karen, would love to see it!! Next one is going to be Dec. 14th. More info soon.

Adam: Those are only first choice votes. Most people would have voted for Chicken for second place. If Newsom get's less than 50% of the vote in the first round after all the ballots are counted, then we should see Chicken's numbers shine through. If Newsom get's more than 50%, then we'll never know.

One of my first memories of the area was a VRML map of South Park and surrounding blocks. This was in 1996 or 97 before setting eyes on the city that I would soon call home. Ah, here it is (NCSA Mosaic with VRweb plugin required):

http://web.archive.org/web/19970303062445/http:...

Maybe you should create a page that lists all the fuckers that swiped your photos. You've got good google juice.

The Rig blew my mind. Only regret is not crawling through it for the full stink and sweat experience.

Marketa: You make a lot of accusations, but I have yet to see you provide ONE THING to back any of it up. How is Chicken a crook? How is creating spectacles and promoting tons of other unknown underground artists not helping the art scene? How is Chicken manipulative, unethical, unscrupulous and self-interested to a fault? What is this axe that you grind? Is it a one-handed jobbie or do you need both hands to hold it steady against the grinder? Seriously, I'm curious. Convince me.

I don't get where all this Chicken hate is coming from? What the hell has he done to merit such vitrol? Other than Josh Wolf, there is NO ONE running against Newsom who has the balls or interest in making this campaign season the least bit interesting. Do we want a boring non-existent campaign where Gavin is rubber stamped into office for another 4 years? This is an opportunity for us to at least get Newsom to address some issues that he'd otherwise ignore. That alone is worth keeping challengers in the race.

How does Chicken undermine art? What makes you think he won't debate other candidates? Are you all Newsom sock puppets? Come on, wake the fuck up and laugh a little. Laughter is cheap medicine and apparently in short supply around here.

bork bork: you can get the .mov file directly here:

http://blip.tv/file/get/Eddiedotcom-ParadiseLos...

Marshall: I did and more to come. Personalized videos for recruiting just seem to make so much sense. The MBL peeps are very cool and were awesome to work with.

I just want to say, despite the differences in direction that GETV and PodTech are moving, Irina and I are both grateful for our time at PodTech. We learned a lot, had many interesting experiences, worked with some very smart people and got to travel to exotic places like Las Vegas and Palo Alto. :)

Ah man, now how do I choose? Freak allegiance or geek allegiance? If Chicken and Josh could join as one, he'd be unstoppable. Chicken Wolf for Mayor! Josh John for Mayor!

The term "conversational marketing" really strikes me as bunch of crap. If what took place in the FM campaign was really a conversation, then where are the countervailing and skeptical voices? Would FM/Microsoft have run an ad by an A-list blogger that said something like:

'People Powered sounds like a manufactured marketing term. I had never heard of such a thing until I was asked to comment on it.'

No, they wouldn't. By being selective in what shows up in the "conversation" makes the whole idea of this as one-sided and disingenuous.