Jonathan Feldman's three tips: (1) Cross-train IT staff so that no one person alone understands and controls key systems. (2) Spread responsibility for systems over several people. (3) Adopt a practical change management process. - Ontario Emperor
Newcastle on 17 August, or a preseason game? - Ontario Emperor
I love the Premier League, but I really hope we never get to a point in American sports where we get excited about what advertiser's name goes on the jersey. Keep it to Dodgers, Lakers and Kings, thank you.... - Chris Reed
Nice blog.... It's even worse in Japan's baseball league. The Tokyo Giants were renamed the Yomuri Giants after the Yomuri newspaper (can you imaging the New York Times Yankees?) and there are the Nippon Ham Fighters, which is the name of a ballteam and the brand of ham that sponsors them. It did happen in the U.S. arena football league, where we had the Miami Hooters for a while... - Chris Reed
I suspect (excluding soccer) that minor league baseball may be the first instance in which a U.S. sports team sells its team naming rights. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
An apt analogy. Android seems to scale to smaller devices better than OS X might. While we haven't seen an iPhone Nano yet, I'll say "Advantage: Google". - Bill Sodeman
"Robert, thanks for checking into this. Subsequent information suggests that it's NOT a BeTwittered issue, but it's always good to confirm this." - Ontario Emperor
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“Trying to find the original post that started the whole "mango" thing. I know it's in my feed somewhere.”
The basic point of the writer: "[T]he level of political knowledge in the uber-geek community often seems quite shallow compared to what most of us are familiar with in traditional groups and blogs." - Ontario Emperor
Frankly, I can think of a number of FriendFeeders who don't display a shallow level of political knowledge. The first person that popped into my mind is Dave Winer. - Ontario Emperor
I don't have a wide breadth of political knowledge. What I do know is very limited in scope but rather deep there. - Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think you can make a judgment about anyone's depth based solely on FF comments. - JMS
I was the first to link to it last night -- breaking memes is fun, and even more fun when they seem silly but make a bigger point. That person had been bugging me and I was waiting for the right time to spring it. Had no idea it would take off. - Jay Tannenbaum
By the time I saw it, it was disassociated from the original post, but it was occurring often enough that I started searching to figure out what was going on. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I'm totally claiming ownership for starting the "I ate a mango" meme on Friendfeed. Unless i don't get any money/glory/interviews with Katie Couric, because then I'll just give it up to public domain. - Mark Trapp
We are with Mango. We have always been with Mango. - Derrick Burns
Hey, Mark, Jay and I were right there, too! - Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah yeah Mr. 8:24pm. I was 8:21pm! Back off my chances with Katie Couric! - Mark Trapp
I was first with the quote and the link. I found the thing on yahoo groups. First citation on FF was here: http://tinyurl.com/54ppye But let's all take credit. The guy has been "sub-optimized". The mango can be a sharp instrument. Mark, you've got dibs on Katie, no sweat. - Jay Tannenbaum
I recall that Monty Python did a routine about defending yourself against an attacker armed with fruit. I thought it was silly at the time, but it appears that mangoes are deadly. And by the way, Jane Pauley is still America's Sweetheart. Katie Schmatie. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I'm holding out for Soledad O'brien. She's cute as a button. - Jay Tannenbaum
In an attempt to add intellectual political comment to FriendFeed, I just want to say that if Milton Friedman were to become Abraham Lincoln's running mate in 2008, all of the rules of space and time would be broken. - Ontario Emperor
I just ate a web apps are not yet 100% trustworthy. - Ontario Emperor
This item, shared by Robert Scoble, is of professional interest to me (one of my associates was talking to Neven Vision before Google acquired it). - Ontario Emperor
Riya started out with a big splash. They were supposed to revolutionize photo sharing with their facial recognition software but I guess it never worked very well. Here's a TechCrunch review from August 2005 http://www.techcrunch.com/2005... Now they have moved to recognizing shoes and purses (?!) - Mike Doeff
