great article , left some comments .. on the blog - fotographic
I'm addicted to Flickr! Great comprehensive post... I have much to learn. Thanks for this one! - Betsy Weber
this article is a start. would like to all see one that really digs into how to tag photos (suggestions for popular tags like 'colorful' / 'panoramic') and groups to share your photos. this is another way to bring in additional comments and flow to your photos. this article is a start, but we need the missing manual for flickr. - Jeff Sandquist
Jeff, missing manual for Flickr is a great idea. Wonder if someone's written something like that. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Speaking as someone who jumped head first into the world without first finishing his degree, I completely agree. I eventually finished it, but still wish I had done it first. - Allen Hutchison
Some say you only apply 10% of what you learnt in college in your career. The question I ask is, "which 10%?" :-> - Jeff Sandquist
This assumes you learn more in school than by working. Some of the smartest people I've known don't have degrees. - Chris White
Done right, I think you can learn a lot about yourself in school. I know there are exceptions in either direction. But generally, I believe a good liberal arts education, which healthy amounts of study abroad, a few opportunities for crappy manual labor or tipping jobs, and volunteer work produce quality people with good self awareness, positive dispositions, and great attitudes about collaborating with others and building things that matter. - Sacca
Don't get me wrong, I think school is great. I especially like that you mentioned a good liberal arts education. I was thinking more along the lines of computer science, and how some particular companies are so focused on academic achievements during hiring that they miss out on people that are scary smart. - Chris White
Left college my junior year to get a job and have not regretted it for one instant. And I learn more about myself every year to this day and going forward, never felt like finding oneself was something limited to college :-) - KC Lemson
trust me, the older you get, the less the degree matters. I finally finished mine, and I've never had a call for it yet - Duncan Riley
Season 2 has already attained that fine incandescent burn. Best show on TV. - Sean McBride
Why do you find the show so compelling? (Never seen it so I am curious) - Abby Martin
Abby -- Mad Men captures a moment in American history and culture with astonishing fidelity and vividness -- it's hypnotic. Acting, cinematography, writing, art direction, etc. are as good as it gets. It's difficult to overpraise this production. Matthew Weiner is the mastermind of the project. - Sean McBride
love this show. my other favorite summer series are saving grace and swingtown - Jeff Sandquist
Ok- convinced! If my daughter ever goes to sleep at a decent hour again, I'll watch it. - Abby Martin
the show is so many kinds of wrong.. but i can't stop watching! - jenna
i could write a book about my experiences immigrating to the united states. dhs lost my fingerprints, they sent appointments to incorrect mailing addresses and more. - Jeff Sandquist
My son had corrective boots with bolts on the bottom and a bar bolted across them and he succeeded in walking at 10 months (we had to take the boots off out of pity). Once they start most are absolutely determined. I am sure it won't be long. - Brian Sullivan
Nah, my son takes the impatient route. Stand up, take 2 steps, realize that this isn't moving faster than mommy anymore and drop back to hands+knees. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
At 32 years, a friend of mine is STILL trying to perfect this. It's amazing/amusing. - Akiva Moskovitz
Walking, founding a start-up company, learning how to do <insert task here> -- this rule applies throughout life. - Nicholas Kreidberg
Begin to lock everything openable in your house and under 1 mt of height. - Federico Bolsoman
I would make the kid wait until it's at least 18-years-old before it should try ecstasy, Nicholas. - Akiva Moskovitz
I had one who just took off. Darned if I can remember which one. Had to be one of the girls since the boys both had PT. ;) - Cyndy
you missed the "put video on youtube for cheap pops" piece - Allen Stern
sounds like a company or two I've co-founded - Dave Hodson
Process of learning to walk is applicable to running a business, making art, being in a relationship, doing anything well.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka
That sounds like my morning ritual walk to the coffee maker. - Steven Perez
And TotSpot is meant to keep track of this all... - for tots, not companies, that is... - TotSpot: Michael Broukhim
the story of my life - just too stupid to know when to quit! - Bill Sanders
"I got to pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again" - Peter Tosh - Larry Kless via twhirl
It's probably a good thing that nobody yells "FAIL" while you're learning to walk. - Ray Grieselhuber
I think there are two types of toddlers, when learning to walk. 1) Carefully pull yourself up on furniture, keep one hand on something solid, reach for the next handhold. If you feel unsteady, sit down immediately. 2) Lean in the direction you want to go, try to keep your feet under you, and hope for the best. - Denton Gentry
Even better, put it in your iTunes / shuffle playlist. Always great to have surprise drama while at work :) - Noah F
its in my itunes playlist, the other night it came on as a I why driving into my neighborhood. definitely made a few neighbors chuckle. - Jeff Sandquist
one of my favorite videos of all time. inch by inch. i've played it so many times that i have had to promise not to play it anymore though. ;-) - Jeff Sandquist
My friend and I had this part on replay for over an hour. Awesome speech. - Colby Olson
funny, it doesn't seem real, in the editing, the acting, pacino is good, but the direction, the emotion is stagey, no dirt on the uniforms ... hokey - gregory lent
@Gregory I see what you're saying. I'm there for the speech. Pacino buries the past failures and shines the light on the NOW. It can play to any team, regardless of the goal. It's all about the sublimation of the integral self for the progress of the whole. - Christopher Harley
Darnit, here I am at 2:30am in the morning, rewatching this... - Colby Olson
"Season 2 puts Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in his undershirt in a doctor’s office, where he is chided for his blood pressure, two-pack-a-day habit, five-drinks-a-day lifestyle and other forms of dissipation." I have a weird relationship with this show. I almost don't like it because I don't like any of the characters, but I am fascinated by it and keep watching it. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
It's weird how little advertising agencies have changed :) - leigh himel
I'm working my way through Season 1 right now, and I didn't realize that I didn't like any of the characters either, but now that you mention it -- I don't! :-) - Dave Winer
One of my favorite shows right now. As far as I can tell (no way I was alive, let alone my parents!) but it looks like everything (cosutumes/sets/dialog) is really consistent and accurate - Clint Ecker via twhirl
I'm the same age as the kids in the show. Everything about it is authentic. - Dave Winer
love this show... my favorite summer shows are 1) swingtown 2) madmen --- love retro. - Jeff Sandquist
Season One is coming to HULU. check out the hint from Aug 1, at http://www.hulu.com/summer . I think that hints about that!! - Paul
On a scale of 1 to 10, from awful to great, I would give The Sopranos a 10; Mad Men a 9; Dexter an 8; Deadwood a 7; and Swingtown a 6. Mad Men is pure magic, perhaps primarily because it recreates a particular time, place and culture with amazing vividness and grace. - Sean McBride
A beautiful, meticulous show. Exposes the underbelly of our consumer society the way sci-fi often illuminates current issues by placing them in the future. This show does it by placing them in the past. Racism, sexism, consumerism, advertising & PR are all shown in an unapologetic state so that we recognize their negative presence in our current lives more clearly. - Dean Terry
It's fascinating to do a Friendfeed global (everyone) search on Mad Men and peruse the results: http://friendfeed.com/search?q... One surveys these pages of items and muses, they are begging to be data mined and massaged. There are valuable patterns buried in there that need to be brought to the surface. (The comments are also valuable as they stand, arranged in reverse chronological order.) - Sean McBride
I will check Hulu for Mad Men. I was born in 1950 it feels just like I remember. I''ve watched Swingtown twice.... it makes me uncomfortable. - Russellreno
Funny how this show was outside my awareness until a recent media tour that must have finally hit all my haunts -- I think I heard a couple different interviews with Matt Weiner. I was hooked instantly, watched it on Comcast OnDemand one right after another. I was born in 54 and find it eerily familiar too. Only anachronism I've noticed is didn't the Twist show up more like 63? - Amyloo
Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them. - Jeff Sandquist
I haven't had much luck with that importer thing. Did it work for you? - Jon Galloway
i've been trying, but no luck -- it barfs once it gets to import to friendfeed. i thought it was maybe a proxy problem. i wonder if i am missing a depenency. - Jeff Sandquist
Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them. - Jeff Sandquist
this tool has promise, but it fails whenever I run it. ... 459 friends loaded from Twitter
jack: Not on Friend Feed
biz: Not on Friend Feed
404 => Net::HTTPNotFound
C:/Users/JEFFSA~1.RED/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2/lib/rubyscript2exe. - Jeff Sandquist
Amen. I'll save a thought and a prayer for his family. - William, CPU Media
a video which is a great kick in the ass, that we all can use from time to time. - Jeff Sandquist
Watching it right now...the awesomeness of him is making me want to consider going to Carnegie Mellon when i return to college, i just wish it was easy to get in ot lol...thanks for the link Loren - Andrew Fielding via twhirl
"One great man who tells you what you need to hear..." The whole thing stopped me in my tracks. His passing is a huge loss but his message lives on. Thanks for posting this, Loren. - Donna Mugavero
I followed the images to a photographer I liked Marc Silber and then on to Filoli.org in California which seems wonderful as I am now sitting in two feet of Canadian snow. I found out about Robert Scoble in the Christian Science Monitor which has very favourable comments. Good stuff Robert! - AW Lake
Whats funny is that this post still has legs after 36 hours - Christian Burns
What's funny is that people say they saw it in friend feed with the friendfeed commenting which can only be done in friend feed. I guess it's at least a clear vote. - Mick Liubinskas
in google reader. pretty cool feature to see which post my friends commented on. and the number of clicks to get to the comment via a friend from the feedreader is still to high. - Max Hartmann
Almost always on Hahlo, because I read Twitters alot through my ipod Touch. - Lisa Lee
I could say FF - but only because it hit my screen a bit earlier than looking through the twitter stream and because I had forgotten to unsub your twitter stream in FF as I follow you on Twitter. Same with links - I do click them where I see them first, but that is not indicative of a patter. [only reason to answer here? more than 140 chars ...] - Nicole Simon