Wade Dorrell

I blogged about this one and a few others a while back... I have been getting very little unsolicited paper mail since using these 3 services: http://www.waded.org/2008/06/l... - Wade Dorrell

@Peter SSN was optional when I went through this system in June. Yeah, don't give out SSN if you don't have to. Did something change? - Wade Dorrell

I guess it's not required, but it says in red text "SSN will be encrypted for your protection." I'm not sure what good is a hashed SSN, hence my skepticism. - Peter Deng

Scoble posting about bacon...? *goes off to check the time-space continuum* - Johnny Worthington

But it's all slight of hand! It says a *day* for bacon lovers but it's really only 4 hours. I mean c'mon. It's bacon! (and Mona will be here shortly, I'm sure - the lure of bacon is strong!) - Lucretia Pruitt

I refuse to believe that that there is very much approximating to real bacon in the continental US. - Simon Lucy

Otherwise it is going in the box with the other several thousand pieces of orphaned RAM. - DeWitt Clinton

Some people tried to move it. Once. Angry android was angry. - DeWitt Clinton

I'm making a wreath out of red LEDs and orphaned RAM. - Wade Dorrell

Interesting new features although a bit late to the party. The real question is though, do they lock-in your data? It's evil that they don't allow you to get your email out of Hotmail for example. - invariant

Thanks Wade, I didn't know they had POP whether paid or free. - invariant

@invariant I just now realized that POP mention in the link I provided is pretty old... stupid blog theme w/o year dates... and I do not use POP nor do I pay for Hotmail so I don't know of it's actual status. What I do know is I use Windows Live Mail (desktop client) which uses DeltaSync, and all mail data is synced & stored locally via that protocol. Should be easy enough to push all my mail somewhere else if necessary; the way one would go about it is not significantly different than a direct POP migration. - Wade Dorrell

indeed, Chris, Black Thursday is the official start of Great Depression on october 24, 1929. - Hayk

digestion day - Brian Ries

Maybe it's the name of bad things that should shift away from "Black." Did you see the latest National Geographic cover? The world is pretty lit up now even at night... dark isn't dangerous anymore. And I don't think Green Friday works... the last bill I saw wasn't very green. How about Mottled Green/Blue/Red/Brown Friday? - Wade Dorrell

But will it counter the iPhone or the G1 in terms of an open platform? - Peter Kelley

I'm guessing Flash with a good data environment. - Floyd Davenport

Andrew: it's not an iPhone killer. :-) - Robert Scoble

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - Mark VandenBerg

That surprises me--Chrome is fast and fairly compatible. For that reason, it shines is as a surfing browser (I always have Firefox open as well, for the toolbar.) - Robert Linthicum

great, frankly flash drives me nuts... - Zee.

Yes, YouTube uses Flash. - Navarr

YouTube on the iPhone uses MP4/h.264 video. Industry standards, not owned by a single corporation, FTW. - Logical Extremes

How you two get personal is now legendary. I love it. I've even used it in one of my university essays. - Sofia Gkiousou

ok... yeah. No one games Digg... oh wait... didn't I get a tweet yesterday asking me to digg something to bump it up? Trying to prevent gaming is a silly notion. These types of services invite (and thrive off of) gaming. Essentially all SEO is Gaming page rank. They may attempt to prevent abuse... but not gaming. - Brian Roy

@Josh, THANK YOU for clarifying. I was wondering how to get to see others' comments. It takes multiple clicks to see them, so it is not intrusive at all. I agree with David Soul, it's a great research tool. My only concern would be needing to log off in order to check "pure" SEO results for various terms. Not a huge burden. - Laura Norvig

Author sez "don't check your email for the first hour you're at work. Instead, immediately tackle a high-priority task" Not sure if I can kick this habit. I check my mail in bed when the iPhone alarm wakes me. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

This works if your work culture is in sync with the philosophy. I am expected to have my face in Outlook about a hundred times a day. Since I haven't been able to change that expectation, I have to live under it. - Robert Linthicum

I don't check my email all the time, only once every few hours, unless something very pressing is going on. It also helps to move clients and colleagues on to Wikis or other collaborative platforms and reduce email. I try to get at least one priority task out of the way in the morning before answering my email, at least, even if there are days when I need to read it early in the day. - Cathryn Hrudicka

RSS Hat Meme. As shot at the Chinese BloggerCon in Guangzhou over the weekend. - Robert Scoble via Bookmarklet

here is anothter. http://www.flickr.com/photos/h... - digitalboy

I got one of their T-Shirts,I should have got the hat. - Steve Chou

The Zune is a very nice device and my preferred media player. - John Denver

I bet the standalone zune is discontinued within a year. - Chris White

See what I mean. This is about getting Microsoft noticed by budget concious consumers. "yeah you can still have a great music player, cheaper" - Roberto Bonini

To stay relevant, Zune would first have to *be* relevant. - Pat Rice

What about us here in the UK. Netflix is a US only movie thing. Whats going to happen when we update to the NXE, what so we get in its place? Lovefilm? As far as i know they dont do streaming movies.. - Simon Wicks

I watched my first one last night. sooooooo happy! - David Cook

My kids downloaded the update last night I poked around with it a little. I really like not only the NetFlix feature but also the community building it's attempting to grow. Plus I can get HD movies delivered straight to my HD TV. Not bad. - Al Stevens

This would seem to be first step towards having the government regulate the content of the Internet. While one may argue the govt. already does this, the government focuses on what's considered illegal content such as various forms of pornography and "stolen" copywrighted materials. This regulation would seem to cover all of the content on the Internet. - Edmundo

Edmundo -- it's the old fight. Someone is going to control content. And it will either be the companies providing connections, that will produce a situation similar to the hell of cable, or the gov't allowing open access that spurs innovation and progress like what we've already seen. I'd like to see an example where allowing companies to handle regulation ala their vision of the 'Net has worked. - Woodrow Jarvis Hill

@woodrow, it's my understanding that a lot of it is that the cost of content is being pushed back onto carriers versus the content creators, in terms of bandwidth, back end service, etc. - is this accurate? I had heard some of this was about carriers getting stiffed for the giant content demands that consumers aren't paying for.... I have no idea, but would love to hear more. - Patricia

@Patricia -- in essence, that is true. But it's been true for every medium of communications known to man that's been "open" for general use. It's very roughly analogous, as well, to having gov't-owned roads over a toll/corporate system. The carriers can raise prices to subsidize the additional content, and since no one carrier has a monopoly (except regionally), the system will encourage actual free-market competition, rather than de-facto content monopoly like AOL and Compuserve used to do. - Woodrow Jarvis Hill

"Bayesian inference is statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. The name "Bayesian" comes from the frequent use of Bayes' theorem in the inference process." -Wikipedia - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

The "From which bowl is the cookie?" section is as lucid an explanation of the process as you'll find anywhere. It concludes, "before we observed the cookie, the probability we assigned for Fred having chosen bowl #1 was the prior probability, P(H1), which was 0.5. After observing the cookie, we must revise the probability to P(H1 | E), which is 0.6." - DeWitt Clinton

Wikipedia articles on math and science are really impressive these days. The medical false positive example is the one I usually see cited to explain the concept, and frankly, I don't think it makes nearly as much intuitive sense as the simple cookie example. - DeWitt Clinton

Paul, is there a reason your FriendFeed contains this feed? I find it pretty useless/dead-end information; I don't know whether you even like the software or not, and wakoopa doesn't tell me much about what it does/is. - Wade Dorrell

Great data from Nielsen, which complements what Compete.com put out there yesterday. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

Interesting. - Wade Dorrell

It won't happen by 2014. Need to cycle through the Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and Millenials before this is a reality. - Hutch Carpenter