You know who might be funny is Mona... What do you think, Mona? Is Mark up for the challenge of trying to capture your unique voice? - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
Great post again Mona! I see Twitter as more microblog than megaphone. If the said example has their mind set on twitter being a personal blog, what's wrong with that? Additionally, does that FOAF have their microblog in the employers eye? I doubt it! - Mo Kargas
Mo: Google is very dangerous. Especially if you're in the tech industry... - Mona N.
Mona: I don't think Google indexes tweets? I don't think it's a problem unless you've purposely got your microblog in your employers eye and mention specifics of the job, otherwise it's simply another anonymous microblog in the crowd. - Mo Kargas
Great post Mona. +1 to Louis for posting it - Kyle Lacy
"In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.
The robbery happened about 11 a.m. on an armored truck guard at a Bank of America branch.
"He was wearing a dust mask, a particle mask. At first I thought it might be a surgical mask. I still didn't think anything was wrong, just unusual. Then I noticed he had a pump sprayer," said Mitch Ruth, who had looked out his office window and noticed the man walking into the bank." - Cee Bee
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The robber sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed a bag of money the guard was carrying and ran about 100 yards to the creek that runs into the Skykomish River, shedding clothes as he ran.
But apparently, the robber had planned ahead. In case anyone was hot on his trail, he had at least a dozen unsuspecting decoys waiting nearby, which he recruited on Craigslist. "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.
He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.
"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said. - Cee Bee
Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire. - Cee Bee
Wow..freakin awesome. I mean..the execution. If we don't start using all this fancy social media sh*t for good, this type of stuff will only get worse...LOL - Rah™
I feel a little guilty for saying it, but I kinda love creative heists like this, that is when no one gets hurt. Isn't that why we all love movies like Ocean's Eleven, etc? - Leif Hansen
"Josh,
thanks for your incredibly well thought out post. i'm glad to see it for a number of reasons. first of all, that someone is "getting us" over at mashable is incredibly gratifying. at some point early in the year, the editorial staff sat down with Pete (virtually) and said "what's our strategy going forward?"
The way you described it is almost exactly what we were shooting for.
In terms of a post like this - I've wanted to read something like this for a while - a breakdown blog by blog that discusses it in a way that isn't just inside baseball of our rivalries and actually analyzes the styles.
Good job, all around." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
What's really weird is that I saw your comment, and ended up running over there to read the post. How about a weird way. - Chris Brogan
"A diabetic Detroit man was mistaken for a drunken driver by Allen Park and Dearborn police, and brutally beaten to the point that he had to have part of his brain surgically removed, the man’s wife and their attorney allege." - Jasmin Smith
Sadly not an isolated incident (the mistaken for drunk aspect). Makes me sick. - Patricia Hanrahan
likewise Carmen. Before my mom started micro-managing my dad's diabetes it wasn't uncommon for him to circle our neighbourhood several times in his car looking for our house and not finding it because his blood sugar levels had gotten too low. - Jasmin Smith
I'm glad your mom is able to keep his diabetes under control now. It can be very scary! - Carmen
Jenn: This entire article is LOL worthy. - Mona N.
I fed this too the other day and frankly find this research borderline offensive and rather mindless. There is far better psychographic information available. Bucketing men into four areas and making 'masculinity' assumptions seems a very 50s perspective. What next, women's comportment? - AJ Kohn
I found it more jawdropping than anything else, based on the stereotypes. - Jennifer Leggio
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you. - Russellreno
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish? - Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria. - Thomas Hawk
You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =) - Jauder Ho
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Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner. - Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats. - Charlie Anzman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :) - possible248
And I don't have any share buttons, SEO thingies, and like all those fancy things people put on their blogs. My top referrer is Google! How in the heck did this happen?! - Mona N.
WP takes care of a lot of the keywords and meta data needed to get you traffic... - Tim Hoeck
For free? ...well duh. But like with every refresh, my page views goes up. It's crazy. And all my referrals are from Google. So I got indexed by Google because of Wordpress? - Mona N.
Thanks guys, but I'm kinda confused. Why do people pay for SEO optimization then? And discuss how to drive traffic if Wordpress solves all those problems... - Mona N.
We wordpress.com folks don't worry about SEO optimization. We don't have ads. - Hutch Carpenter
Of course, WP is not the end all solution, but it does help. If you want more continuous/constant traffic to your site and regular high Google rankings - instead of one-timer, keyword based traffic, than you would want to look more into SEO. But that's just my experience... where's Charlie A. when you need him? :) - Tim Hoeck
Because some of us host on our own servers, Mona. We have to do all the work WP does. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
But wouldn't that be a bigger headache? I mean it sucks I can't customize or use plug-ins and make my blog all pretty, but I would've never imagined I'd be indexed by Google or like... have as much as traffic as I do, just from Wordpress. It's so bizarre!!! - Mona N.
You don't have to be on wordpress.com for the WP software to help with SEO, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Additional SEO would just improve your stats. - Tim Hoeck
Sheesh Louise ,,, Mona your world famous ... - johnpiercy
Thanks again, everyone! But just so you guys know, I took Pixel Bits' feed off my FF stream. The referrer is Google, not FriendFeed... just saying. :) - Mona N.
Gary- Robert Bielling here. Just joined FF and trying to meet folk.That is a great picture. Maybe make a great painting as well. I would like to try and paint it with your permission. - Robert Bielling
Stunning. Where was this photo taken? Nearest Starbucks? - torque
Robert, you have my permission to paint this. - Gary Burd
torque, Google Maps says "Your search for starbucks near XXX did not match any locations." The title for this entry is a hint about the location. I took this picture in 1991. - Gary Burd
The chimneys are interesting. Mainland... and no Starbucks... mainland China? In 1991. Hmmm. Cardiff? Nope - Starbucks all around. http://www.whats-on-in-cardiff... - torque
I wanted to say that I really loved this post a lot. Great start. - Chris Brogan
Thank you! I have a whole bunch of these planned - my brain is stuffed with ideas on how to bring us out of the bubble to the real world and how to bring the real world closer to us as well. :) - Leslie Poston
