Jericho

"Men have the misfortune of being concentrated in the two sectors that are doing the worst: manufacturing (70% male) and construction (88% male). Women are concentrated in sectors that are still growing, such as education and health care (77% female)...The manufacturing sector is in long-term decline, and construction goes through repeated booms and busts. Meanwhile women are graduating from college at higher rates than men. Some analysts even argue that men are less suited than women to the knowledge economy, which rewards supposedly female traits such as sensitivity, intuition, and a willingness to collaborate." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

"Records show that he was sentenced in San Francisco Superior Court in July on a drug conviction, but under a deal made with prosecutors, Gee was diverted to drug treatment rather than serve 10 months in jail. The conviction stemmed from an arrest in February, when officers found first a 9mm handgun in the trunk of the car he was driving, and later seven pounds of marijuana in the same trunk." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Time and time again, people found engaging in illegal activity with guns end up using those guns to kill other people. They found a 9mm handgun in this guys trunks and he served *no* jail time. People caught with illegal guns need *far* harsher penalties. Time and time again they get a slap on the wrist. Our legal system does not treat guns as seriously as they should. New gun laws are needed to better protect people like Nguyen whose children now must grow up without a mother. - Thomas Hawk

What an awful, awful story - Mike Doeff

I really like Peoplebrowsr and think it fills the gaps so many people have been whinging about. - Nicola Quinn

Great Tom Hanks reference in "Big". - Kevin Whalen

I am still yet to check out PeopleBrowsr - Joe Dawson (beta)

You can watch this on Hulu, without waiting for Netflix to deliver this. - Anika Malone

It is not too bad for me on my PC to my HD TV of course anything not in HD is kind of crappy. Hulu looks better? I will have to compare if I have time this weekend. - Michael King

The 360 will do up to HD quality, an SD movie will probably look pretty nice :oD - Paul Reynolds

The semantic web is really interesting. But I think it will take some time before it "happens". I've been using the semantic interest network Twine for awhile...quite cool, although the semantics are still a bit rough at the edges. - Patrik Johansson

"Semantic" will be defined as something much less than it is, and victory will be declared. - Cliff Gerrish

Models of social networks and semantic/conceptual networks will merge into a single knowledgebase on the World Wide Web. That is going to happen for a certainty, barring an asteroid hit or some other unexpected act of God. :) Everything is nicely on track to produce this technology. - Sean McBride

I think we have not reached the bottom until now. Worse luck! - Marcel Janus

mikepk - I completely agree... but if you are doing free to attract huge subscriber base that isn't happening. Someone I respect yesterday told me to go "free/premium". I said no. Because in this environment there is no way to cover the operational costs of the free. 1) Find a way to add value 2) Sell it - Brian Roy

Interesting conversation this is ggetting to be.. 1, increase value of what you have 2, sell it!!! sums it up.. as i been saying but in more words. :o) - Rob Sellen

"Nicknamed 'Koobface' – see what they did there? – the virus can't actually be downloaded on the site itself, but through a link to a bogus Flash player upgrade site." and how to get rid of it: http://www.facebook.com/securi... (technically, it's malware - but who cares) - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

This is a big deal - non tech ppl were asking me about it! - Sarah Perez

Wow, that's huge. - Laura Norvig

"Why dont' you make like a tree and get out of here" - Biff 1955 - Michael King

Great scott! - Samuel Lewis via twhirl

Tim is one of the most interesting people I've ever met. He does stuff I wouldn't think of doing. Like this. - Robert Scoble

Anyone watch Tim's show? Catching it on my DVR now. - James D Kirk

DVR'd, will watch this weekend. Super-interesting guy. - John Sirman

lol, funny...not real, thank god - Sarah Perez

right next to Larry and Sergey - Bob

@ryo I like Android but love iPhone. Just plain easier. And, IMHO, limitations can be liberating. A sonnet is difficult, but satisfying. It is early in the game. Apple might get more open (the kernel is there,) if the competition demands it. It is easier to open a closed system than to close an open one. - Phil Boiarski

Maybe not so much after AT&T's announce they want 1 OS (possibly Symbian) for all the (rest of the) the phones they sell. The Symbian ecosystem from cheap phones through expensive ones like the new Nokia could hold back "time to get a new phone" customers on T who have the dough to buy an iPhone. Unless of course Jobs has got a little $99 phone (w/o big subsidies, which AT&T isn't going to take up the a** anymore) in his pocket. Or, if this 1 OS is the iPhone OS itself. But that isn't what T said. - Wade Dorrell

"In a sign of the economic times, Harvard has sent a letter to its deans saying that the university’s $36.9 billion endowment fund lost 22 percent of its value in the last four months and could decline as much as 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Normally Harvard reports on the endowment’s performance once a year, but the letter signed by the university’s president, Drew Faust, and its executive vice president, Edward C. Forst, cited the “current extraordinary circumstances” as the rationale for providing an interim report." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

The smartest people in the world (allegedly) didn't see this coming. - Sean McBride

"The trick in each cycle is to fight complexity, so the growth can keep going. But you can't keep it out, engineers like complexity, not just because it provides them job security, also because they really just like it. But once the stack gets too arcane, the next generation throws their hands up and says "We're not going to deal with that mess."" - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet

Then I am an odd engineer -- I can not stand complexity. - Robert Miller

Everone seems to like this piece. Guess I'm getting pretty good at it, been writing it in one form or nuther for abt 30 yrs!! :-) - Dave Winer