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Benjamin Golub updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“My senior research project has a shot at getting published!”
August 20 at 7:48 am - Link
Congrats, is there a link? - Casey Muller
Excellent! congrats. - Rob Diana
congrats!!! - Arjun via twhirl
Hustler is an excellent magazine, congratulations. :) - bob corrigan
Congrats! - Nate Pilling via twhirl
祝贺你! - suso
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Louis Gray posted a message
“NewsCred ♥ Matthew and Sarah”
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August 19 at 11:24 am - via mail2ff - Link
T-shirts courtesy of NewsCred, which launched today at http://www.newscred.com/ - Louis Gray via mail2ff
the poor kids are being pimped out for tshirts now - worked their way up from stickers - Allen Stern
Were your stickers personalized, Allen? These shirts were pretty good. :-) - Louis Gray
Future super☆s - Nice Fish Films
FriendFeed babies really get people's attention. :) - Daniel Schildt
Allen, it looks like you lost your chance at some hot recruits. - Rob Diana
rob - yea i can't compete with tshirts, i don't have vc funding. also, if the kids are going to swap brands every other day, then it's best not to be part of that - it's about loyalty and clearly these kids don't have it - what's next a google bib? yahoo booties? tesla? - Allen Stern
Allen, the answer is yes to all. These kids are the official "schwag magnets" and those brands that capitalize... capitalize. - Louis Gray
Attn all startups: Matthew and Sarah will be available for press photos using your schwag this tuesday at the san francisco mall from 2-4pm. Bring your schwag and you get signed photos, a "my schwag's with gray" sticker and your photos placed on flickr. Tipping is allowed. Schedule may change based on #2 duty. - Allen Stern
Allen: #2, duty, doodie? :-) Maybe Louis could hire the folks from DoodieDuty and outsource that (doodie) duty. :-) http://www.doodieduty.com/ - Lisa L. Seifert
Schwag magnets or not- they are stunners. Wow. You do good work. - Abby Martin
How could you not 'like'? - Charlie Anzman
went to news cred site because of this picture, .... a tough front page to read ... the moving banner doesn't help, wondering how it all can be simplified so that i want to go back there a second time. - Gregory Lent
They are adorable... we were so excited to see this on our launch day. Photos are already up on our wall. PS Allen, we aren't funded either. We just love cute babies. - Shafqat Islam
Facebook is in talks with Matthew and Sarah. That is the word on the street, - Mike Fruchter
I think we need better child labor laws here Louis! ha, ha!! Dad's learned how to market those cuties very well!! :-) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
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Allen Stern posted an entry on CenterNetworks
August 18 at 9:28 am - Link
so i'm guessing you didn't get takers on your 8/1 post suggesting a coop model for covering the startup conferences? That and hope the dr went well. - jeneane sessum
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Robert Scoble posted a video on Seesmic
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August 16 at 2:56 pm - Link
BabyScoble crawling back to the craps tables it seems. - Kevin Murray
Milan is adorable (and fast!) - karen2
Very cute Robert. Were you walking around with your laptop using seesmic, or do they have a new mobile app I'm unaware of? - Leif Hansen
Howdy Mr. Scoble, nice hanging with you in the airport. Milan *IS* sooo adorable and fast. (And I am willing to bet he will be a drummer.) And Leif, that was his laptop, but we're (seesmic) very excited to go mobile. - Thomas Knoll
so cute!!! - Christine Lu
Leif I was using my laptop for that. - Robert Scoble
looooooooooooooooooooove - ehsan11m
OMG I hope you sanitized him from head to toe - do you KNOW what's on the bottom of the shoes of Vegas air travelers? - jeneane sessum
heh, yeah, he got a good wiping down. Me? It is good for kids to get exposed to some dirt here and there. Prepares them for school. :-) - Robert Scoble
This is too cute! Why wasn't he at the expo? :) - Daynah
I agree w/you. Good to expose them to some stuff. Kids are washable. Lucian loved running around at the airport. PHX is really clean looking anyhow. You HAVE to let them do that before you get on the plane or else they can be miserable! - TheMacMommy
TheMacMommy: yeah, Milan slept the whole trip home, which was great. Daynah: it just never worked out, unfortunately. I wanted to bring him to stuff but he was always sleeping at the wrong time. - Robert Scoble
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Benjamin Golub posted a message
“RSSmeme uptime”
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August 14 at 6:41 pm - via mail2ff - Link
RSSmeme was pretty flaky a few days ago (I've been really busy) but today I made some mysql tweaks that seem to have *really* helped a lot. It hasn't gone down since I made the changes. Also http://www.pingdom.com/ is really neat - Benjamin Golub via mail2ff
Nice reports, even if the chart could be better. I'd be interested in being able to track this as well, including load times. - Louis Gray
Basically I had been overloading the database. I was crawling WAY too fast and the database was getting locked because writes are higher priority than reads. So users suffered. I've made a simple config change to make writes happen at a lower priority. It hasn't gone down since that change. - Benjamin Golub
RSSMeme is the new Twitter ;) - Jason Carreira
FYI Louis: Pingdom is free for the 1st month and does track load times as well. You can setup all kinds of alerts (email and SMS). Pretty neat service. - Benjamin Golub
Great job Benjamin. RSSMeme is a place I check daily; now with Louis Gray now joining ReadBurner I look forward to some nice developments…still RSSMeme is ahead now and I assume Benjamin will keep a closer look to ReadBurner’s future delevelopments. - Joao
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Duncan Riley posted a link
My baby is 6 today
August 13 at 4:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
OMG he's so adorable. Is that his school uniform? - Cyndy
thx. yes, full blazer + tie for winter - Duncan Riley
Congrats, thank god he looks like SWMBO ;-) - loren feldman
Loren, lol :-) Not all that good though, he has his mothers chin - Duncan Riley
I'm telling you... all kids should wear uniforms. I did and hated it but now I know why my mother loved them so much. - Cyndy
Happy birthday, young man. - Frank Roche
not wearing a uniform isn't an option here, even in State schools. - Duncan Riley
+1 for Duncan! Great photo. My son is 2 and getting more handsome every day. Cheers! - Morgan
Congratulations. Isn't that fun! - Franklin Day via fftogo
Duncan, you know he really looks like you...Don't tell him I said that though, poor fella.;) Only messin, happy birthday from me & London town. - Zee. via fftogo
awesome! 6 is such a beautiful age. My son Will is 6. - Thomas Hawk
My eldest is 6 too, she's starting to get really independent now - Glenn Slaven
My younger son is 6-1:) - Igor Poltavskiy
Nice. My son is going to be 1 soon. I can't believe it, I can see this is going to go very fast. And yes, I think he does look like you Duncan, I can see that. - jjprojects
Fantastic Duncan, congrats! :) - Steve Spalding
Cutie pie :) - mojay
Mine turned 7 last month ... They grow too fast! *cry* - tj hanton
what a handsome little guy. my girl turned 5 in april and is already talking about all the 'big girl things' she'll do when she turns 6. - Anika Malone
It seems a million years ago that mine were young and cute. My "baby" turned 17 last month and I can barley remember that I love her between bouts of wanting to strangle her! - Aura Mae
smart uniform and cute smile :) - nouhad
What a handsome young man! - Skye B.
A heartbreaker! So handsome. (It goes too fast, doesn't it? My baby is 4 and I don't know how that happened.) - Abby Martin
Wow! Good looking kid! He is going to grow up a lady killer! All girls will love him! Looks much older than 6 years old! Is he blogging already? ;-) - Igor The Troll
happy birthday to the pretty little man - marcantonio
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
August 14 at 12:46 am - Link
It will be most interesting to see how you handle the very slippery slope - Robert Seidman
Robert, I agree, so please watch and keep me honest. I'm absolutely easy to reach if you think I've made a mistake. - Louis Gray
I so don't see a mistake coming. Especially if you stick to our deal and just let me blog about the good stuff you find out. We did have a deal, right? :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
I've always found it weird that people are willing to use the phrase "opening the kimono" in an otherwise polite, decorous and respectful business context. - ⓞnor
@nor, it is weird and I almost didn't use it, but it is an understood phrase. The alternative, and even worse, term, is "a complete upskirt". - Louis Gray
I am a bit late now – but first of all my congratulations for you joining ReadBurner’s team in an advisory role/equity owner You have been doing such a great job over last months with your blog that has benefited many of us (me included), I just hope that to continue. And about monetizing your blog – I think you should do it as well, I assume you spend quite a good amount of time researching and writing in your blog and that should be compensated. I few unobtrusive ads will not bother the great majority of your blog readers, I would assume. - Joao
I'm sorry... I'm not interested in seeing what's in Louis' kimono. - Cyndy
Cyndy - You may have no choice ... It'll probably be on SmugMug - Charlie Anzman
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August 14 at 10:09 am - Link
...but it could collapse before the construction work is done - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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Jesse Stay commented on a blog post on Disqus
August 14 at 10:15 am - Link
"Thanks - I changed that last night to the correct spelling." - Jesse Stay
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
August 14 at 10:09 am - Link
Ah crap. I just swapped my 17" for an Air. Back to Craigslist I guess. - Kevin D. White
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Jesse Stay posted a message
“One of these is my 3 month old, Jesse III, and one is my 6 year old when he was the same age - can you tell the difference?”
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August 5 at 10:34 pm - via mail2ff - Link
One of these is my 3 month old, Jesse III, and one is my 6 year old when he was the same age - can you tell the difference? - Jesse Stay via mail2ff
Jesse III is on the left. ? - Louis Gray
Louis very good - how did you know? - Jesse Stay via twhirl
What's even funnier is I even got it wrong - the one on the right isn't my 6 year old son, Thomas, but my 4 year old son, Joseph. That's what happens when you have 4 kids :-P - Jesse Stay via twhirl
they are same! - maysam shahsavari
I make mine wear name tags. Well -- okay. i don't really. but I've threatened the ones who visit the least that way. - Chris Baskind
I assumed Jesse III was on the left because the quality of the photo is slightly better and the white is a bit whiter. - Louis Gray
Chris, I could use name tags - I call Jesse Joseph all the time - the two are almost exactly identical at this age! My wife had to point out that they were two different children when she showed the pics to me. - Jesse Stay
Before I read Louis's post, I guessed correctly also for the same reason. The image on the left is much higher quality than the one on the right, which I assumed was the older photo. - Jeff P. Henderson
Jesse III on the left (less noise, looks fresh)? [Update: Just read the comment about YOUR mixup... lol] - Niv
I should have added some noise to the newer image just for the fun of it ;) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
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Louis Gray posted a message
“Thanks for the Outfits, April!”
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August 4 at 10:48 pm - via mail2ff - Link
Matthew and Sarah say thank-you to a fellow parent who knows premies well. - Louis Gray via mail2ff
Love Sarah's smile in the 2nd one... :-) Now I have that 80's song stuck in my head. "Sarah... Smile..." Hall & Oates? - Lisa L. Seifert
omgzbbq!!! How cute is that. the shirt might as well say feed feed tho. :-) - jeneane sessum
jeneane: HA! :-) Feed Feed. Love it. - Lisa L. Seifert
Their mom loves Feed Feed as well. :-) - Louis Gray
Is this a product placement? ;-) - Jan Horna
Are these the friends to be fed? :) - 9000
lol @ jeneane , and 10/10 on the cute scale... - Chris Wright
In the 2nd pic it looks like Sarah is saying "Hey peeps!" - Yolanda
shouldn't those shirts say "babyfeed" given the placement of the logo?? :-) - Stephen Roberts
CUTE -- youngest FriendFeeders yet!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Aren't there tshirts for tiny friendfeeders? - JC unwired
You're welcome!! I'm so glad it fits them so nicely. Thanks for Thomas's presents as well (Thomas the tank toy and book). Camilla took the toy and actually put it in Thomas's crib because she knew it was for him. - April Buchheit
Awww all round, to the outfits, to the cute babies, and to Camilla giving her brother his toy. - Clare Dibble
awwwwwwwwwwwww - Sarah Perez
cayooot! - Monique
Kawaii - Mike Reynolds
awwww i wuv - Gordon Swaby
awwwww!!! they're the cutest i've ever seen! my heart melts... i think i've fallen in love with them! - Zhey Chua
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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader
August 5 at 12:50 am - Link
I know Evgeny (founder of polymeme) personally and wouldnt shy off dubbing him as one of most knowledgable and resourceful guys i have ever met. Polymeme is kind of reflecting what he himself is, a polymath :) The site apparently is getting popular but it has a deeper and more intellectual approach about it and therefore is less appealing to large masses.. - Hayk
I must admit that I have basically stopped using digg and reddit because they where too samey. Polymeme sounds interesting and the top stories at the moment look a bit deeper than the usual so I may give it a go. Cheers Robert. - John Cooper
i'm so allergic to digg and the digg mentality that i cannot look socialmedian in the eye - Gregory Lent
This is very interesting. Of course, it looks like it works very differently than Digg or others. This is not open to everyone, it is an experts site. Which, considering how much there is out there, is a useful tool to have. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
August 5 at 12:23 am - Link
I am all signed up and setup at SocialMedian, but still have yet to soak in and get comfortable. looks exciting though. - Justin Korn
Thanks Louis. Signing up right now. - Larry Kless via twhirl
Must check it out. I've been registered on the site for a while, but haven't been on it much. - Hutch Carpenter
i'm slowing getting into it...it certainly has a lot of potential - Trent Olson
Once again Louis - a great post from you - ; as I was reading your post something come to my mind; - we are clearly moving away from posting comments on the original blog post. A story that becomes popular in any or the news aggregators will get comments in Digg, Reddit, FriendFeed, SocialMedian…ect. Soon we will need a techmeme for blog comments as comment will become more and more disperse. News aggregators will soon realize that is OK to not only grab the news from the blogs but also grab a portion of the meal by allowing users to post comments directly on their sites – I assume Gabe is already working on this one at techmeme. What I would like to see and I am sure someone is already thinking about this is to aggregator comments around top stories from all possible news or social aggregators. So that we would get all comments in just one place. - Joao
@Joao - Also, on the flip side, I would like a way to bring all those dispersed comments to my blog. I don't mind if the conversations happen at social networks (that is what they are there for), but I would really like to see them all in one place and allow my readers to see them as well. - Justin Korn
@Justin - I agree 100% with you. - Joao
Currently, SocialMedian does not have a public API, so the comments are not available. However, I know Jason G. and the team are working on this. Regarding finding the comments and getting them back to your blog, let's just say that I am working on that problem :) - Rob Diana
The problem with coments all over the place is that the discussion gets too fragmented. The social media space urgently needs a defreg pass. It doesnt matter if Comments are pooled here at FF or, at Social Median or, the blog or all at once. As long as we get to consume anad participate in the whole discussion rather than just the one local to the service you are using. - Roberto Bonini
Part of me doesn't want to get involved in yet another conversational outpost, but then, that was the same part of me that dismissed FriendFeed for months. I suppose I'll get there in a bit. Once I accept that it's another part of my morning (okay, all day!) ritual. - Chris Brogan
You mean I guess I have to go back today? That's it. Fourth Monitor. - Charlie Anzman
I have to admit, I like it a lot better now that there are people to follow. :) I've been using the email alerts since early alpha, but it's improved. - Cyndy
I think socialmedian is getting better all the time. Great place to share news and read comments. - Sean Sharp
Hey Louis, we don't care! ;) - Meryn Stol
Ok...but how do I find the conversations? - Shey
Nice post Louis, thanks. As Rob points out, we're working on getting the API's out there. We also want to help take all this comment fragmentation and bring it back together. Robert Scoble and I were noting last night that the goodness in comment fragmentation is that it is exposing bloggers' content to new audiences they were not reaching and thus extending their personal brand. That said, it would be nice to tie it all back together and Roberto Bonini suggests. - Jason Goldberg
digg chased me off any kind of voting site - Gregory Lent
socialmedian isn't about voting. it's not a popularity contest. it's designed to be more about "me" than "we" -- not about what's popular, rather about what my social graph is clipping for me and me for them - Jason Goldberg
Jason, the interface is way uglier and inefficient to use for me, and as with other services - I just do not care like I do not care about discus. to louis: guess what. there are even more pages where my postings are discussed. Which I do not follow either, and neither are you. If somebody wants to stay in their community, they will post there. if they want to be read by the poster or get an answer, they better comment where the poster is reading. - Nicole Simon
Still not sold on social median. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but it's next to impossible to find info there and my interest isn't in 'clipping' what someone else has clipped. And yes, if my favorites toolbar in FF3 actually existed, I'd probably use the bookmarklet to clip more stuff. Maybe if shareaholic added a social median feature... - Anika Malone
Not 100% sure about the site. I have been on there for a few days but we'll see how it works out. - Marcus Hamaker
Nicole, Marcus, etc. We're still very early on this one ... please pass along any and all feedback. I hear you Nicole on the UI -- we have spent a lot more time on basic functionality vs. UI at this point. We need to simplify. - Jason Goldberg
I'm enjoying it, but I created a newsfeed near & dear to my heart, email marketing... and I digg and/or clip those articles daily anyways... http://www.socialmedian.com/ne... - anna
I'm sure it's fabulous, but I'm feeling like I'm spread a little too thin as it is. How many more places besides Google Reader do I have to go to read the news? :) - Sarah Perez
@Sarah, each of the sites has a different hole to fill. Google Reader is the spigot where your hand-selected feeds flow. FriendFeed is where you can discuss and engage on feeds from all your peers, and Social Median is for finding topic-based news recommended by your peers. Each is different, and each is interesting. You can choose to participate, or just to watch, but you probably don't want to ignore. - Louis Gray
passing for now. don't have time/energy for yet another site to discuss the same content i discuss here AND on the blogs themselves. - Jeremy Toeman
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15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read | Franklin Bishop | Ultimate Blogging Experiment | Make Money Online
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August 3 at 10:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Here are “15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read.” A lot of of times bloggers, especially new ones, do not know where to look for help. Well, look no more." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
I share this only to point out how much I disagree with this article. Of the 15 blogs listed here as "must reads", I only subscribe to ProBlogger, and the rest don't look interesting. How can you make this list without TechCrunch and Scobleizer, for instance? Here's who I'm reading and sharing: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... What about you? - Louis Gray
Interesting: I've only heard of 2 on that list. Seems like an overstated blog promotion list. - Mark Trapp
Louis, not all bloggers are tech bloggers -- most of them aren't. It seems this list was aimed at "all bloggers" and helping them with thinking about blogging and the various tools, strategies etc. - Robert Seidman
So how many of them are must reads to you Robert? - Louis Gray
I enjoy Copyblogger and DoshDosh too. But this post smells of half-linkbait, half-brownnosing. - Andy DeSoto
How many of them are must reads to me is irrelevant. But, what's relevant is this: if you're blogging about "sports" or "politics", Scobleizer and TechCrunch probably aren't "must reads". I now see you for the "tech-ist" that you are. :-) - Robert Seidman
i don't know what i think yet, because i heven't read these blogs. i'll formulate an opinion long after it's relevant to comment, but a couple of them look interesting to me. note that i'm not a blogger yet (i've written two posts), so as someone who is neither a part of the superset writer nor the subset blogger, i don't think those look entirely worthless at a glance. lots of "make money" things i'm not interested in, though. - idnan
@Andy .. it is ... a screen shot of the site and a simple one or two line description the majority are making money online type blogs - Steven Hodson
Steven, don't ProBlogger and CopyBlogger have the aim of helping people figure out how to make some money too? - Robert Seidman
cool, thanks Louis!! I appreciate you sharing this. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
@Robert - never said anything against any of the blogs .. just making a statment that I - like Andy - felt the post was linkbait. It wouldn't have been so bad if the writer had included some more information about the blogs etc - Steven Hodson
@Steven: sorry about that, it was Louis and some others who had shown support for Problogger and Copyblogger. Since whatever the blog that wrote this list has "Make Money Online" branding in its page titles, I'm not particularly surprised! ;-) - Robert Seidman
Robert, I am unabashedly "tech-ist". :-) - Louis Gray
So sick of lists, - Andrew Feinberg
Nice list, but got to give it EPIC FAIL status. What it should have said is every blog a blogger who is interested in making money should read. For the record though, I read a good portion of those blogs - Duncan Riley
I can admit that I subscribed to at least half of those blogs before I read this article. I don't subscribe to TechCrunch and have only read it when linked to from somewhere else. It all depends on your goals and your blogging knowledge (I just started blogging). This list was primarily aimed at Make Money people and a couple of those blogs appear to just be friends or something...obviously no proof on that :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
A couple favorites in there, and several I find utterly spammy and unreadable. - Chris Baskind
Another angle to look at "best" blogs is perhaps in terms of their "value" http://bit.ly/89uj9 . - Hayk
I have to admit that I'm subscribed to some of these blogs, although they are not my favourites by far. It's just that I have to keep track on what's new in the Blogosphere, so that I'm able to report on that. Most of them I really hate, because it's all the time about moneymaking via blogs. I try not to mention them in my posts. :-) - Ton Zijp
+1 on Duncan Riley's comment. If all you are interested in is blogging for profit, then maybe these are must-reads. But if you are not then why read any of them? - Tom Quinn
Because blogging for profit and blogging for influence, reputation, or reach have a lot of similarities: create a lot of interesting, meaningful content and people will visit your site and happily consume whatever content you produce. - Andy DeSoto
I disagree. Most of these sites appear to be all about making money while blogging. - Corvida
sure, let's just put techcrunch on every "must read" blog list - yea that's a great idea... c'mon people. if that's the case, then certainly over a short period, the list will be one blog. probably the same in every single category. - Allen Stern
@corvida, bloggers love to blog about blogging... it's very meta... and navel gazing - Jason Carreira
I've read most of those blogs and most of them certainly do have their good points. There is certainly a heavy emphasis on how to monetize your blogging in a number of those blogs or on social media marketing. However, there's plenty of other good blogs out there if you want a good read or want to learn some new stuff. The title/theme was too overarching to match the material, IMHO. - Mark Dykeman
what's with the bitching, sure we all hate lists, but this one ain't that bad - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Making money while blogging and building a blog that is a "success" both come down to a single goal: Traffic. I'm sure nobody on this list will doubt that problogger is a good blog...so you can't just discount all the smaller blogs on the same topic. This type of thinking is why there is an echo chamber in the first place. As Morpheus said, "Free your mind" :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
@Jason Carriera That's why this list isn't the best or even in the top 50 of must reads. - Corvida
I think you're partially right, Vincent. I remember reading a comment from Chris Brogan that his posts that contained lists were always the most popular even if there were more valuable posts without lists. People like to make them and I guess like to read them even more. You go over to the IMDb discussion boards and it is ALL about making lists of favorite/best movies. They are quick to read and easy to decide whether you are on the same page as the author. - Liz
Doesn't appeal to me. But if it was called "15 blogging about blogging blogs must reads" it would be OK - Sarah Perez
Sarah, I think you should repost this list on your blog with "15 Blogs Sarah Perez Doesn't Care About" and see how that post does relative to other posts ;-) - Robert Seidman
Agree with Louis. I do not find many of these valuable. I do like looking at Smashing magazine for the design eye candy. The rest of the list I could simply and do live without. - Franklin Pettit
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August 4 at 12:01 am - Link
Best example: 37Signals. - Mohit
Another interesting one: Flickr? - Alexander van Elsas
I pay for Smugmug and Twitterrific. - Robert Scoble
I would pay for smugmug, 37signals, bitbucket and many other great services. - Augusto Becciu via twhirl
I didn't actually write it down, but I also wonder if there is a group of mainstream users that will pay a reasonable amount for a service regardless of free alternatives. The reason for this could be that they (unlike early adopters) don't want to spent time to find and try free alternatives - Alexander van Elsas
I pay for Yahoo!Mail ($20/yr for clean POP access), Picasa ($20/yr for 10 GB storage), 1and1.com ($5/month for business website). Still using Blogger for free blogs, but may switch in the future for better designs. - Mitchell Tsai
I pay for last.fm and flickr. The company I work for uses basecamp extensively. - Gez
I pay for Google Sites, Picasa (extra storage), Genealogy.com (although a bit pricey, it provides great resources for research), and LinkedIn (b/c as an independent consultant it is the absolute best networking tool, and I want it to succeed). Although the sites who offer a free trial but require a credit card upfront, and then make it impossible to cancel without a phone call...yeah, I can do without those. - cjmart
I pay for flickr. I used to upload a lot of photos there (not as much anymore). $24/year for unlimited storage seems very reasonable to me. And the fact that they have such a nice API so my photos are not locked away if I want to use them made the idea of supporting them financially much more appealing. - Lindsay Donaghe
I pay for Smugmug,Yahoo mail for Pop and Remember the Milk. - Henry Burger via twhirl
I'm thinking of paying for SmugMug, but haven't decided yet. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I think it really comes down to whether the service is good enough and close to best of breed. - Rob Diana
basecamp, icontact - Jason Goldberg
I've got to think Flickr has the highest number of paid subscribers of any pure-web service. They provide a good service that's useful for free, but if you want to be a serious user you have to move up to pro. There's a good lesson there for all of us in monetizing a w