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Yea, so when's the FF open house meetup? During Web 2.0 conference? - Mark Krynsky

test - Adam Jackson

Thanksgiving party for FF? - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Kevin, it's only because they know they have a replacement home in Las Vegas. - Adam Lasnik

Wow. I wish I could go back and see it now. - Bill

So the problem with the <description> tag in RSS feeds is that it generally contains the full or partial content of the blog post. It would be useful to make this content available in friendfeed, but stuffing it into a comment probably isn't the right ui. - Paul Buchheit

So... don't stuff the text into the a comment. Just display the description indented under the title. I would only show the first N characters, and provide a link to read the rest of the text. Might as well use a comment, btw, and truncate. If you want the rest, click the link. The current situation is just wrong for all the reasons I outlined in my post. - Dave Winer

Doesn't that depend on the length of the post? April's blog, for example, generally contains posts with text appropriate for an initial comment. - Bruce Lewis

The problem is that the "description" is not really a description in most cases, it's the content, and automatically stuffing a prefix of all blog posts into the first comment may not be the best experience. I think perhaps the right solution is to provide a "generic rss" service that has options for all this. (and to provide a more elegant way of viewing the feed content inline) I completely agree with your objectives though -- all services should have equal access via feeds. - Paul Buchheit

Would love it if when I include images or videos in my WordPress posts they showed up in FriendFeed. Is there a trick to making that happen? - Patrick Lightbody

We already pick up on MediaRSS tags Patrick. If you do a search, there are several discussions of how to get it working with WordPress. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, thanks for the tip. Trying it out now. Very exciting times :) - Patrick Lightbody

gik! - AJ Batac

no. just no. - Mister Groonk via twhirl

ah, so *you're* the guy seeding Spiderman 3. ;-) - Karim

3% misses? Not bad. - Jauder Ho

aw, that's why friendfeed is nice and fast - Chris Lamprecht

Post values for curr_items and limit_maxbytes :) - Chris Lamprecht

geeky post! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

ACK - Bwana

cause and effect are not what they seem, in one sense there have never been managers and employers, they have all been sailing to the same wind, not caused by any of them - Gregory Lent

perfect answer...there's a solution we can all try...LOL - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Very cool. A couple of interesting articles about W L Gore and its unique work culture from Fast Company : http://www.fastcompany.com/mag... , http://www.fastcompany.com/mag... - Vikram Shenoy

I have had a logitech for years and it is great. - Sheila Taylor

I'm using this for almost a year: http://www.logitech.com/index.... I've used Microsoft sets, Logitech sets and some other brands but I think Logitech is the best. - Eren Emre Kanal

It seems like bicycles on sidewalks is much more dangerous than Segways. Can't they just put a speed limit on Segways? - Cyrus Lendvay

People fear what they don't understand. And of course there are many places in MV where bicycles are safer on the empty sidewalks than they are in the busy and narrow roads. - Kevin Fox

Yay! It's not the danger that's the problem, it's that they are so f*cking goofy! - Chris White

Better policy needs to be developed for all "not car" transpo. Skateboards, rollerskates, kick scooters, etc are all more ecological ways of getting places but our current urban planning doesn't allow for them. The vehicle codes rarely cover them specifically. - Spidra Webster

Does anyone know what MV's electric skateboard policy is? I've been wondering if I'll get a ticket for riding there with one. - Chris White

Link dead, Kev -- got a new one? - Paul Wilcox

Link's working for me... - Kevin Fox

Also doesn't work for me. - Cyrus Lendvay

Try this: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_... - Kevin Fox

Try to use this link: http://www.mercurynews.com/bre... I think mercurynews has got some kind of link prototection or something. I had same problem, but its ok after trying the link without querystrings. - Eren Emre Kanal

Another choice quote from someone who apparently hasn't seen a wheelchiar: Council Member Ronit Bryant, who helped draft the new rules, said she had trouble understanding how the state could place Segways under the pedestrian designation. "It has wheels, it's not a pedestrian," she said. "I have two feet, I am." What if you have only one foot? What if your walker has wheels? Sure a Segway isn't a wheelchair but it's dumb to cast the issue in a 'walk on two legs - good' 'walk on >< 2 legs - bad' frame. - Kevin Fox

They should add a lane in the street for Segways. So, it should go; Cars | Bikes | Segways | Unicycles | Rollerskates | Heelys - Matt Musgrave

Matt, it should be Cars | Bikes | Skateboards, all other uncool transportation is banned, including Segways, Unicycles, Rollerskates, Heelys, and Razor scooters. - Chris White