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Neat, clean and to the point. One great aspect of you post, Stephen, is just how demonstrative you're making the technology to the not so technical users. I look at a sign up and just unconsciously use what is available. If OpenID is, great, if not, whatever. Until reading your post, however, I'd not really thought about those that might be just outside this world we live in. Thanks for the insightful info.

RS, you are a god! Okay, maybe more like a cherubim. Still, your Chinese microposting during this trip, has been filtering into the subconscious. Now you've posted this. And whether the reader knows it or not, all the answers are right here. Well, at least it appears so to me.

The question I've got for you (if you have the time to answer) is how do we, Americans, deal with these revelations as it relates to the concepts of supporting the American worker? Buy American. Buy Local. How does the amazing possibilities you've outlined above affect these doctrines?

Interesting how memes just seem to gurgle up from the ether around topics. Just this past weekend shared a post/comment/tweet exchange with an ex-Twitterer that I had unfollowed, after she started using Qwitter and posted about unfollowing those that unfollowed here (again, like Michael above, via notification from Qwitter.) In a nutshell, what I find is that the beauty of Twitter and/or the rest of the social media sites/tools is that we get to use them how, when and where WE want to use them. And in the end, don't you think that's a good thing? I sure do!

If anyone would like to follow the above mentioned conversation, it is actually quite interesting and can be found at The Politics and Practice of Following on Twitter

And think about how smart you'll look to the majority of people that know little to nothing about all this stuff. Using Chris' example about the coffee, if I were in the vicinity, had gotten that tidbit of info and then suggested we go to the Dunkin Donuts just west of the hotel we were staying at because the coffee was the pits, my family and friends would think I'm psychic! Or just highly tuned into the secrets of the annotated world ;)

You can get the preview functionality in gmail by using greasemonkey and one of its gmail related functions. My apologies for not remembering the exact name, but it allows you to right click on a message and up will pop a preview window. I liked the theory of it, but the functionality just wasn't that important to me personally.

So, it basically sounds like a blogger really needs to know just what type of writer he is. Boy is that helpful! ;) I don't know what I want to be half the time. How about you? If you had three cents, E, I would have given your post far more credence! J/K, of course!

<img style="border:none;" src="http://boldlygoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/willnorrisspammer.thumbnail.png" alt="Will Norris, spammer?"/>

<img style="border:none;" src="http://boldlygoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/googlealertsfast.thumbnail.png" alt="Google spiders FAST!"/>

Chris, why don't you have your guys install you a "Series" plugin for WordPress, like, In-Series.

It has nice features including advanced configurations, plus some sidebar widgets to display TOC and latest in series posts.

This was not a paid endorsement. I actually use the plugin!

Good to hear. Just checked out your site. Love the "Gummy Bacon" product post. Now I have even more of a reason to steer clear of both "food groups"! Thanks for stopping by.

Wikipedia Commons site. What a bonanza! Be sure to check them out; I'd never heard of it before.

So, that explains the Creative Commons icons and links below the image. And that took a while, because not only did I have to stumble upon the site, but I then took it upon myself to grab all the appropriate CC images down to my computer, and then upload them to our WP server. Finally, I created the code on the page that allowed me to display the image giving its author/creator proper attribution (as per the CC license), as well as inserting the 24px icons for this particular images capabilities within the license (with links back to the Wikimedia site.)

All that took a lot of time. More than I had intended, and at the same time, the next usage of an image from WM will take next to no time at all! Clearly, however, I have to ensure there will be a next time (and a next, and next!).

Final note on this process: I decided that it might be interesting to create a "series" using a WP plugin that makes inter-linking between related posts an easy thing. I suppose that I could have waited to install the upgrade for the plugin after I had a 2nd post. But that would have been too easy! Now it's set and ready for the next "Writing on Writing" series post (tomorrow?!) We shall see!

I hear ya, Deb. Personally, I have the blog post discussions in my head (along with all the other voices ;) ) a lot! However, I'm in the starting stages of creating two new companies, one, an online media network, the other the holding company that owns the patent pending technologies I've developed over the past year and a half. As one can imagine, there's tons to do. For me, the "coming back..." has to do with just figuring out how to make the time to continue posting on things that might actually matter enough for others to want to read.

Perhaps the real title of this post should have been something like, "What does it take for you to MAKE time to create blog posts in the midst of everything else you're doing in your life!?!"

Another factor not mentioned here, or in Calacainis' recent post on 17 money saving tips for startups (where he talks about multiple, large monitors) is the concept of having multiple applications open and "at the ready". Realizing that having your email up and running is not the best, if you have it up, you don't wait for the browser to open. Same with whatever applications you use regularly. My belief is the added screen real estate (along with plenty of RAM to handle a lot of stuff running simultaneously) allows you to have your multi-tabbed browser window going, word processing, etc. I tend to usually need a graphics program regularly, access to my server to develop code (along with two or three note pad 2 docs open for editing). Other times, I may have Windows Movie Maker open on one monitor and Audacity sound editing up on the other.

So, it's not just the screen real estate that makes you "save more time", but again, I believe the fact that you aren't constantly opening and waiting for applications to start up!

Great! Does this mean that my Page Rank will go up?

A while back I started using Google's Business services (well, the free ones anyway!) Now anytime I start up a new domain for myself or someone I know, here's the process I go through:
1. I register at GoDaddy (inexpensive, all domains in one account, etc.)
2. I prefer having a separate DNS provider from my domain host (and I prefer separating my registrar for the same reason: distribute the services so a single point of failure doesn't completely kill you off. Not that one couldn't ;) )

Started using EveryDNS a long time ago, and with very minimal outage, they have been great. Key with them is to make the donation and gain control of your TTL. This allows me to get domains up and running from registration to live in minutes, not hours or days.

3. Like you Chris, I use 1&1, but not for registration or DNS. I rent a complete box from them and run all my sites on that hosted box. Clearly, this will be outside the scope for most people, but if you're at this level, it's the best way to go (IMO). Once the domain is set up with a website directory, I have the live site accessible.

4. Now I head over to Google and sign up for their business services. Oh, forgot to mention that when I set up the DNS records I just pump out all of the Google business service records as well, for that new domain. So by the time I get to the Google set up, DNS has propagated.

From that point, I now have most of the yummy goodness that gmail users have with that new domain, and am able to access my mail anywhere by hitting http://mail.newDomain.com.

Really works out nicely, actually. I'd be happy to help anyone that really wanted to learn more about this process (and needs the help!) Drop me a line.

We all know how much you lover hosting your site on <strong>WordPress.com. And hopefully, they'll be moving more towards adopting the DiSo Project's philosophy of allowing you, the "site owner" to develop and control their own social network. A lot of what DiSo stands for and is promoting would solve many of the issues that you currently have with Facebook. Plus, with your lovely mug attached to DiSo, like you have with Data Portability, the group that could provide you with solutions might get there that much faster! Maybe you could give Chris Messina a jingle and help the cause?!?

This is where DiSo could truly lend a hand in your farm tending, Chris. One of the many integral working parts being discussed would be a "presence" widget that you, the farm owner could place on their blog. When I, just a once a week milk buyer stops buy to see your rolling hills, this presence indicator would let you, and more importantly, others know that I had been there. Much like the MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog widgets do. The main difference here being that these "friends" are directly "your" friends.

So, helping farm hands are coming in the inimitable web 2.whatever version we're up to now way!

If you really want fun, start Jason's video in one browser window (not a tab) and approximately 50 seconds or so later start Robert's video in another browser, pull them close together and watch them sync'd in close to real time. Nothing against Jason, but you might want to mute his audio since Scoble is actually interviewing Musk during the 27 or so minute ride. Very cool stuff!

Really like David P.'s "P.A.S.S." acronym and plan on using it liberally in my travels! Thinking however that I prefer the "A" to be Assess vs. Assimilate. To my brain, assimilate is how we actually implement the solution into the current systems. Given my name and obvious affinities to screen and tv shows,
"You will be assimilated"
is not the same as
"Hey, we're the Borg and we're going to assess whether or not your okay enough to become a part of the collective"

:) Heh, "Resistance IS futile" you know!

And I agree that CB's use of twitter was smart, though the simple use of twitter tools from Alex King would tweet all of his new posts automatically, without the the author possibly coming across as a little needy! Or just be patient until the RSS feed gets in front of our eyes!

Hey John Hunter. Not sure where you're coming up with your comment being deleted from this site, unless you are making a reference to Scoble himself being erased. I only delete obvious spam comments. I think I might have deleted one other legitimate one but it was so "spammy" and didn't ad to the conversation that I didn't feel too bad about it!

I thought you might be a John Hunter that I knew from back in my days pursuing the Hollywood thing. He was a writer that I've lost track of since the early 90's. Anyways, I agree with you about "trusting significant content to another site". That's one reason I always create a post for any "significant" comments that I might have for a site under someone else's control. The larger concepts here, however, are not so much content (like this post and our comments) but the information you entered into the comment form. I now have your email address, IP number web site, etc. Nothing terribly personal and private. And I think that's one of the mis-directions that all of this brouhaha is about.

If I somehow had access to your Social Security or drivers license number then that could be serious. Thanks for stopping by JH; grateful for your comments.

First off, I seriously doubt you went into all this not thinking about all the mileage you were going to be able to get out of it, regardless of getting nabbed. But that's okay. I don't have any negative feelings if you knew you'd be able to have $h1tloads of press/links written about the "experiment". In fact, I applaud you for doing it, knowing that you are smart enough to have figured out the various potential results.

Plus, you're getting ready to announce "your next move" in terms of moving your career from podtech to Scoble 2.0 (2.5?, 3.0?). Does anyone truly imagine this is "hurting" you? Come on people.

But to the bigger point: FB is what it is. If you want to be more in control of your social network, you need to be following DiSo or APML or the likes. You need to have an OpenID.

What we are experiencing right now is nothing like what we'll experience online in 5 or 10 years. NOTHING.

And if you were able to get yourself all riled up over the "shenanigans" that RS just perpetrated, I ask you this: do you have a safeway, ralphs, frys, or any other grocery store "member" card? If you do, and you use it regularly, your the fool! Why, because they know more about you than you know about you. They know more about what you do than you probably realize. And you can't get at that information. You can't pull it out of their systems.

But you all keep harping on the tragedy that has occurred here. Amazing!

Nice. So other than getting two for one, what was the cost of the chair? Makes you wonder how companies like that get as big as they do! Thanks for stopping by.

I aim to please, Matt!

Well, to be fair and balanced there are examples of good service now and then. I've had great experiences at the local AZ DMV three times since I've moved here. And I actually got a great guy at the Verizon store last week, and was able to get a new Juke (they are much smaller than you think they are!) for less than full retail, even though my contract renewal was 7 months away. Don't tell however, they might charge me more money!

Thanks for your comments, Ginger.

If qik.com is smart they would simply use the twitter api to build that functionality into their application, then those of us that carry two cell phones (pretty much just Scoble and his big head ;) ) could do it all form the same device. Plus, they need to include commenting on the web page for each video, or better just include one of the many universal comment application providers out there. That we could all comment on Scoble shooting video of wasted friends! (all in good jest, don't eat anyones shorts!)