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Re: HowTo: Welcome to the idea of BearhugCamp!

christian — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:25:34 -0000

I would love it if there could be recordings of the sessions. Many of us that care wont be able to make it there.

Re: Twitter limiting followers to 2000 (Scripting News)

christian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:12:49 -0000

No limit, "folks, you can have as many followers as you want—there is no limit on your Twitter popularity potential" - biz
http://twitter.com/biz/statuses/885222930

Re: Will Scoble pick up his own Gauntlet?

christian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:57:55 -0000

Scoble points to blog posts all the time in his google reader shared items. I really dont think there would be much value in a guest post on his personal blog.

Re: Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain

christian — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:51:18 -0000

Not trying to flame, just getting to the crux of how we see this issue. I appreciate this dialog.

Just because we can say that SS has "run in the black" right now, does not mean that the note will come due, and our kids are going to be forced to pay for it. This is where the idea is backwards. Our goal as parents should be to work hard and save up enough so that at the end of our lives we have not spent more that we made. Hopefully we should have something to leave our kids. But with social security, the FedGov collects the savings, spends it, and then asks us to trust that they have the math worked out.

The only way you can make that math work is to have a much higher birth rate than we have now, or much more immigration. We need more workers. Which turns into a ponzi scheme or a game of musical chairs. Someone is going to lose one way or the other.

That math will never work out.

Its not just the bush spending, its been going on for years. Politicians and big government are who spent it.

The full faith and credit of the united states is in the ability to increase debt or increase taxes, thats it.

Re: Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain

christian — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:30:28 -0000

Actually he is correct. I liked Ron Paul's plan to continue to provide for those that need it, but be honest with the next generations and phase out this deceptive program.

Re: Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain

christian — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:28:01 -0000

Its a really bad use of money, period. I don't want my kids to have to continue to be forced to throw money down the toilet.

You get to apply for benefits at the right age and are paid based on how many quarters you paid int the system. But its still an entitlement http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entitlement?rdfro...

Re: Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain

christian — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:32:17 -0000

I know you are not going to like this but you are completely wrong about what Social Security is and how it works. It was spent long before the war in Iraq.

Social Security is sold to us as belonging to us, but it does not, and it is in fact an entitlement program.

It is a horrible way to "invest".

Re: The Jackie Robinson of Politics (Scripting News)

christian — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:14:57 -0000

Good post. Obama used lots of self control in dealing with Hillary. Its going to be strange to see how they put this behind them when they run together with her as VP

Re: TwitterSnooze

christian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:25:36 -0000

What I meant was that the IM commands are already in use on twitter, and if someone uses your site to snooze, you would sends those commands to silence instead of unfollow. Does that make sense. Thewn you would not be sending email when you refollow.

Re: TwitterSnooze

christian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:09:08 -0000

Why not make an IM version where the command is "To silence, send 'off andrewparker' " and then you can also use the command 'on andrewparker' to turn updates back on.

Re: My Challenge to Andrew Baron

christian — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:54:09 -0000

But he needs the cash.

Re: Why I didn't delete my Twitter account (Scripting News)

christian — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:36:21 -0000

It does seem like an extreme measure to nuke your whole account. But nuking individuals by blocking is not pruning. Blocking disallows people from following and if you block people that are following you in good faith and are not abusing you, its hard to see the point.

Re: FriendFeed now flows both ways

christian — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:06:53 -0000

I am wondering if wordpress.com will let us use disQus on our blogs. It is fun times we live in.

Re: FriendFeed moves into TwitterSpace (Scripting News)

christian — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:05:20 -0000

It is a great feature but Socialthing allows you to also reply to twitter and pownce posts. It is an arms race to deliver what we want faster than the next service. It really fun :)

Re: Comparing Twitter and Pownce for payloads (Scripting News)

christian — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:12:12 -0000

I would love to use the flickr to pownce API setup that you have there but it's not working for me. Any time frame to make it stable?

Re: Pownce API 2.0, day 2 (Scripting News)

christian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:01:05 -0000

There is a ton of sharing of mp3s on pownce, but it works just like email. So its always among friends, and if the file is hosted on pownce, they never have to worry about take down notices or people posting to pownce sharing it from their blog. You can forward an mp3 that you get to all of your friends or a set of your friends. Because of the way the RIAA works, they never will have access to those files so no need to worry about it. Its a darknet

Re: Pownce API 2.0, day 2 (Scripting News)

christian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:40:45 -0000

Also there is no way to upload and share a file to the public, only friends

Re: The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass (Scripting News)

christian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:46:18 -0000

sms is a huge cost to the people running the app. Pownce doesn't need to be twitter. It is great at what it does. Enjoy it for what it is, and use twitter for what its good at.

Jaiku has yet to get a US Shortcode for SMS. I think that they are planing on skipping it. No need for sms when we are online.

Re: The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass (Scripting News)

christian — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:24:13 -0000

Posting to pownce works like sending to a group. If you send a private message to 20 friends, those friends can comment knowing that they are the only ones in that conversation, and they can see who else is in it.

Re: The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass (Scripting News)

christian — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:16:58 -0000

I would try and go to you pownce pref page, http://pownce.com/settings/preferences/ and change your default setting to public and try it again.

Pownce spent their first months really listening to ideas from users and getting as many features would make sense. The look and style is awesome. The blend of public / private / groups has so much potential.

Re: New app, day 2 (Scripting News)

christian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:24:01 -0000

I would rather link to a podcast after I have listened to it, not before. And just post the "good" stuff to twitter. I like would share via twitter every podcast that resonates with me or provokes a thought.

Re: Nightline (01.15.08)

christian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:15:59 -0000

I do like how simple the page is laid out. listen, download, share permalink, comment.

Re: Nightline (01.14.08)

christian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:08:34 -0000

Is there a way to add rss feeds?

Re: Trade Secrets 2.0? (Scripting News)

christian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:41:08 -0000

I have been thinking about this, actually am sending thought of how you could do this to some people. Take the serendipity of twitter and start an instant hallway conversation and have it recorded.

Re: Building TwitterGram into a really big thing! (Scripting News)

christian — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:49:31 -0000

Hi Dave,
Here are my thoughts about twittergram in the form of an audio post http://www.utterz.com/~u-NDk3NjkzMw/utt.php

Here is an example of a post my friend did about computer classes in Uganda that I posted to my tumblr from utterz http://christianburns.tumblr.com/post/19811032 notice the replies from people that he does not even know.