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James Williams (willia4) posted a message

“Now that boxee supports Netflix, AppleTV + boxee might just be THE media center we've been waiting for.”

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All it needs is a Blu-ray drive... - James Williams (willia4)

Hope boxee eventually supports PPC systems for us poor bastards who have old Mac Minis hooked up to our HDTVs - Glenn Batuyong

Andre Pope http://friendfeed.com/ahhyea77... is testing the Boxee Beta on his MBP. He may have some interesting perspective on it. The Netflix support is awesome for sure. - Paul Reynolds

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“interesting. amazon not #1 but instead #7 for books on google http://is.gd/adXg & not their home page either. #1? google books :)”

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You think I'm gonna like this just because it has a HK watch, don't you? - Yolanda

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@Yolanda, you know you want to. - Jason Huebel

Um duh, Yolanda! - Mona N.

Hello, Hello Kitty! - Kevin C. Tofel

YOLANDA CLOSE YOUR EYES ... PLEASE don't tell me you're a fan of that...THING, Kevin! - Mona N. via IM

OK, I'm having entirely too much fun browsing Japanese crap. I need to get off of this site before I buy stuff! :-D - Jason Huebel

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“Robert is excited to pick up this week's comics after work.”

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What comics are you reading? I'm still working my way through Love and Rockets! - Zach Landes

I'm debating whether or not to go this week or wait. Secret Invasion ends today! - James Ferguson

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How long will the recession last? [Anthony Karydakis, CNN - 12/3/08]

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On the likely depth of the recession, it has been often said that this may be the most severe recession "in decades." This statement is almost certainly true but not particularly informative, as the two most recent recessions, in 1990-91 and 2001, turned out to be famously mild and short-lived by historical standards. - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

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The most intuitive, and legitimate, reference is the 1981-82 recession, which lasted a longer-than-average 16 months and led to a peak of 10.8% in the unemployment rate - by all standards, a pretty serious affair. Still, it would take an extraordinary amount of additional severe damage to today's economy over a fairly long period to drive the unemployment rate from its current 6.5% to double-digit territory. - Mitchell Tsai

A somewhat more plausible comparison to the current downturn is the 1973-75 recession, commonly attributed to the surge in oil prices at the time. That one lasted a longer-than-average 16 months and led to a 9% peak in the unemployment rate. - Mitchell Tsai

How long will this one last? The prevailing view: probably through the middle of 2009. However, the fact that the recession is now already 12 months old, and clearly not approaching its trough yet, raises the distinct prospect that it will exceed the length of the 1973-75 and 1981-82 recessions (both at 16 months), making it the longest since the Great Depression (43 months, from August 1929 to March 1933). - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell, one thing to note though is that the unemployment numbers you're quoting above do not include those who are under employed (i.e. working part time b/c they cannot find full time work, working fast food b/c they cannot find work in their industry) OR who are no longer looking for work. When those demographics are taken into consideration, 6.5% jumps to around 11% - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I love how macro economists pretend the market is autonomous and there are no humans making decisions and plans involved. - xero

Tina: Good point. That's a problem with US & foreign country unemployment numbers (everybody wanting to look good). To compare apples with apples, do you know how high the "better" unemployment numbers were in 1929-33, 1973-75, and 1981-82? Some cool stories about bear markets of the past http://friendfeed.com/e/38e835... - Mitchell Tsai

Another issue (not related to our current crash) for under-employment: We haven't created enough jobs for college grads to match the growth in BAs. It's like the creation of the "post-doc" position in the 1960s because we were churning out too many Ph.D.s for all the professor positions. Job growth is tough. For all the complaints about big business, someone has to risk creating new companies/colleges/etc... to employ people. - Mitchell Tsai

Probably longer now that they've admitted it's a recession, and backdated it to a year ago. - Prokofy Neva

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Advice to the GG: let the people decide

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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

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I skimmed this in the bookstore yesterday. Seems extremely interesting, so I'm going to have my library get it for me. - Anika Malone

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The book is dated 1999 but I think it's still relevant. BTW, go read Brave New World revisited, the 1958 edition and read the intro and take a look at today. OMFG. Talk about a recent Nostradamus. Everyone who paid attention to the election might find it interesting. Esp in light of who we are, what we 'do' and how familiar we are with the Orwell theory. - Eric Rice

Oh and then I guess when we're done with all that, we can post about Friendfeed and Twitter's biz model some more /rolleyes - Eric Rice

We can read about FriendFeed and Twitter biz models in "How We Became Post-human..." Somewhere. - Brad

Yes, I own BNW and it's was very much ahead of it's time.I remember hating that book when we had to read it in high school, but it is. I'm blanking on the the book, but there was another dystopian book that I recently read that mirrored this election too. - Anika Malone

Have you read any of the 'also suggested' books? What other books would you suggest along these lines? - Anika Malone

Aalaap Ghag posted 16 messages on Twitter

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MacRumors: Wal-Mart to Sell $99 4GB iPhone?

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UNLOCK IT. We don't need a $99 iPhone. We need an UNLOCKED iPhone. iPhones for any and all carriers. Boom, profit. - abacab

That will happen, after Apple wrings all the cash it can out of ATT. - Phil Boiarski

Good for Wal-Mart, good for i-Phone, good for the country. We do not need unlocked phones with tekkies clogging the waves with gadgets. Proprietary software rules. - Prokofy Neva

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@armoredtech I disagree that Nokia is not aiming at iPhone and at Google. Those are the two that have freaked out Nokia execs, not Xperia.”

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Nokia is definitely targeting iPhone customer base...that's pretty clear - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

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A Nokia exec told me that the CEO is yelling at everyone internally because of the iPhone and Google's Android. He said "Nokia is a company under stress." Steve Jobs sure disrupted them. Makes Nokia an interesting company to watch. - Robert Scoble

Hard to play catch up! Mobile market is really one of the most competitive and fastest to market with new developments. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

ha ha - Baratunde Thurston via IM

Until a real unit comes out rather than a prototype the jury has to remain out but I have my doubts about Nokia being a success. - Nick Rigby

Every mobile device maker is targeting the iPhone market though. I like the n97 look, but we'll see where it goes. I'm personally in love with Nokia products strictly from the n810 series. But, it still depends on how they market. It's not just hardware design that makes iPhone successful. It's the seamless store interaction. Same thing with iPod/iTunes. - Ben Hwang via twhirl

I think it's a mistake for Nokia to get all bent out of shape over G1 and iPhone. They should focus on other parts of the market, which is still the largest part: low-cost mass-market phones for everyone else. - Ryan Twomey

Clear willingness to compete and that's good. Too bad Nokia just announced it was leaving the Japanese market... - Paul Papadimitriou

I don't see why Nokia is trying to take iPhone head on. N97 is a high end N series device in a portfolio of zillions of mobiles they have in the market place. iPhone is only 1 of 2 phones Apple has out in the market place and they also offer the end to end service of content delivery that people have come to trust bacuse of the iPod. As for Google, they are competing - it is their open source initiative that is providing competition. the plan there is to grab a share of the community that being open brings - Mauricio Reyes

Nokia knows that iPhone is the one to beat. Beat it or it will beat you. - Phil Boiarski

Mauricio, that end-to-end content delivery ala ipod is not a good way to set things up. Let the hardware manufacturer control your access to content and you're just asking for trouble. Nokia's product slays the iphone on features, so the only reason it's losing is because of a marketing failure. When's the last time you saw an ad for Nokia product (in the US)? - Mr. Gunn

Hi Mr.Gunn, you make a valid point re: Nokia marketing in the US. I am based in the UK and my experience is with the European scene. Now I completely agree that the Apple way not the ideal way, but at the end of the day the end user just wants a product that works first time - its this experience that Apple seem to have done so well recently. iPhone is not a well spec'd device but its user experience is spot on for the non tech savvy. You always hear the classic "My mum picked one up and...blah blah blah" - Mauricio Reyes

Mauricio. Exactly. Geeks have a hard time understanding the technically challenged. Apple understands that they just want to "do" something, not "learn a new system." - Phil Boiarski

Hi Phil - I seem to remember Microsoft pitching that idea about 5/6 years ago - that users could seamlessly move from their Windows products to using their WINCE ones on the basis that everyone knew Windows. The trick to mass market appeal is not releasing a heavy weight tech beast but engaging with the non tech and releasing something they feel they can just pick up and use - focusing on good old fashioned user experience - look at the Wii as another perfect example. - Mauricio Reyes

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“Razorfish's @sszd publishes "What if Facebook Connected with Amazon" a must read http://snipurl.com/750l1”

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Definitely a view you will want to bookmark (Raul Pop's Flickr)

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Blaah. RAOUL Pop. Sorry man. - Phil Glockner

James Ferguson posted two messages on Jaiku

“I don't understand Jaiku's Feed Import feature. It has yet to work for me and it makes me angry.”

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“Currently debating if I want to go to the comic book store tonight. Only 5 comics, but they include Secret Invasion and JSA. Hmmm.”

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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

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Terrorist LEGO Minifigs Stir Controversy - Geekologie

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wow. TACKY edit: J interviewed them back in March: http://gizmodo.com/365757/lego... - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

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I also did a post about this: http://pcnerd37.com/2008/12/04... - pcnerd37

That's the way to stick it to the terrorists: capitalism! - Pete Delucchi

pcnerd: Your site isn't opening!! - Mona N.

that's what she said - Yolanda

Naughty! - Mona N.

hmm, it seems to be working now. Try it again. Im checking the server status to see if its having issues or something. - pcnerd37

The server seems to be under a bit of load right now, but the site is up. If it doesnt work, just try refreshing. - pcnerd37

Jeff Jarvis posted a message on Twitter

“Just walked around Ditchley, learned what a "haha" is (ditch to keep cows at bay). Is that in common parlance?”

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Hey Jeff, yes it's a known term although common parlance? Not sure I've ever heard anyone say "make a left at the haha." - Evan Rudowski via twhirl

Mona N. posted a message on Twitter

“"You are a mingin douche." ;)”

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i know you are but what am i? ;) - Philip Tomlinson

I learned two new words this week! - Mona N. via IM

mingin' is a very common piece of slang here in Dublin, Ireland. I hadn't heard it until I moved here 5 years ago from Jo'burg. - Philip Tomlinson

Douche, of course, is universal ;) - Philip Tomlinson

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“@hackr Thanks for the shout out!”

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Mitchell Tsai posted a link

Is the auto industry bankrupt? Banks already think so. [David Weidner, MarketWatch - 12/4/08]

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The leaders of that embattled industry again are before Congress looking for $34 billion lifeline, but if they couldn't convince Wall Street, an industry that has depended on Detroit for decades, then the government should be even more skeptical. - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

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Wall Street thinks Detroit is dead. Sure, this is like the people at Hummer telling the Jeep guys that their time has come and gone, but in this case there's a little more at stake. Wall Street and investors are on the hook for $264.6 billion in bond debt -- and they're making it clear they don't want any more. - Mitchell Tsai

As early as 2005, GM was losing -$2,331/car. Toyota was making more than $1,400/car. - Mitchell Tsai

That year, Toyota was building reliable cars faster, cheaper and more profitably and the comparison wasn't even close. GM's average hourly wage was $73 an hour. Toyota's was $48. GM was spending nearly $1,600 in healthcare costs for every car sold, compared to $201 for Toyota. Too many brands, factories running under capacity, huge pension commitments -- inefficiencies were everywhere. - Mitchell Tsai

Even in their (Ford and GM's) heyday when they were selling a lot of SUVs and trucks, they weren't particularly profitable," said Shelly Lombard, a debt analyst with bond research firm Gimme Credit. "They were barely able to cover their interest payments. It was the bare minimum. The auto operations were really not sustainable, but they had a lot of cash and profitable finance businesses." - Mitchell Tsai

The Big Three had $181 billion in syndicated loans outstanding as of Nov. 20, $3.4 billion was to mature before yearend, a whopping $159.5 billion is set to mature inside of the next five years, according to Dealogic. Since the industry has almost no chance of repaying that debt, it will need to be replaced with longer-term financing. - Mitchell Tsai

Jeremiah Owyang posted an entry on Web Strategy by Jeremiah

Don’t get BrandJacked: Confirming Your Corporate Twitter Account

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“BBC: Leonardo Da Vinci”

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“@manuscrypts Twitter as a tool for information discovery? Same as every other social network: It Depends on who you follow.”

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James Williams (willia4) posted a message

“Stack Overflow Question: "How do I concatenate Excel files?" Potential Answer: "Well, you can access excel using the Jet database drivers..."”

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And I thought I liked convoluted techniques. - James Williams (willia4)

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file.open("name.xls").Append(file.open("othername.xls")); :D - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

Screw ODBC. What you need is to write a script that parses the file's XML into a DOM tree, traverse the tree for the nodes you want and clone them into the new tree. Then just write the file out. Yeah, that's the ticket! - Paul Reynolds

Print. Tape. Done. - abacab

The easiest solution would be to farm it out to Amazon's Turk service. - James Williams (willia4)

Oooh, I like where abacab is heading. Step: 3 OCR Scanning - Paul Reynolds

Print. Tape. Keep on Wooden Table. Photograph. Transfer. OCR. Correct. Done. Ass simple ass that! ;) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Print, shred, send to document recovery service, with specific instructions on how it needs to look when done. - abacab

Photograph (film) screen by screen. Scan. Stitch. Print. Keep on Wooden table. Photograph. Transfer. OCR. Mechanical Turk. Correct :) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Yuvi - Let's ship it. - James Williams (willia4)

♫ Rahsheen ™ ★ posted an entry on SheenOnline

Why You Should Pownce on Rejaw

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dammit, still no MediaRSS love. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

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+ for the word play, Rah =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Rah... speak to this man :) http://friendfeed.com/screwthe... Got mine working in about 5 mins... - Johnny Worthington

"Yep. So you need to edit that mrss.php file. Open it in a text editor (or you can actually edit it inside WordPress). In that file, you need to cut the xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" text (leave the /* and */ alone or delete them) and paste it between the ?> and <?php Then republish! You should be good to go. I had another plug-in that was putting that xmlns tag in my feed already and so I had to take it out. - Paul Reynolds" - Johnny Worthington

And the whole post (with his tip) http://friendfeed.com/e/87510a... - Johnny Worthington

I could swear I did that. My feed validates and everything, but no photo love. What does Republish mean, exactly? Do I have to do anything special since I used Feedburner? - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I should probably use Rejaw more... it seems to be a step above Twitter... if FF wasn't what it is, I'd probably be there more already. - Lindsay Donaghe

Rahsheen, it only worked for me with new posts I published. It won't bring the magic to old existing posts (or so it seems; someone correct me if I'm wrong, please!). - abacab

If you love FF and all your other friends are on Twitter, it's kinda hard to bother with Rejaw. It's a good service that kinda has it's own niche. I think it's the perfect place for people that think FF is a little much, and Twitter is not enough. :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

abacab, this post should have pulled in an image. Wait...does the image have to be uploaded and embedded in the blog itself, or will it also include links to external images? - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I posted a blog post that had an image in it. It brought a thumbnail into FF linked to the post (along with the post title, of course). - abacab

Your direct feed looks fine to me... identical to mine as far as I can tell. Do you have FF importing from http://sheenonline.biz/feed/ or some other URL like FeedBurner? My images are on the same domain as the feed entry and yours aren't. I wonder if that matters. - Paul Reynolds

I used my blog address, not my feed address. I do use Feedburner; my feed address redirects to feedburner's as you'd expect. I moved the xmlns bit out of the plugin code as Paul had mentioned in his comments. I'd still like to be able to pull in older already-published stuff into FF finally, with images intact, tho. - abacab

I used my blog address. I do have the Feedburner feedsmith plugin installed and redirecting all feeds to feedburner, though. My images are actually external from Wikipedia and Crunchbase and stuff, so maybe that's why they don't actually show up. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I think to get the older stuff updated, you'd have to re-save the entry (to have the plug-in process it) and then re-import to FF. The good thing is FF respects publish dates and won't bump them up to the top of your timeline... I think. - Paul Reynolds

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all

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Another perspective on this would be that it gives content producers an easier way to find the people to go after for piracy by giving them direct links to cases it. I am sure the RIAA/MPAA will have this extension installed on all copies of Firefox within their control and using it for such a purpose. - April Russo

Yet another way of looking at this is that it gives the artists, perhaps ones that were bought and buried by a label, a way around the label's machine. - Mr. Gunn

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Chrome’s Extensions: The Missing Piece for Google Apps

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This might be the thing that pushes me over to using Chrome full time - Peter Kelley

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I like most things Google, but don´t care much for their UI work. - Thomas Bøhm

I'm still waiting for Chrome on my Mac. I have a feeling I'll be waiting for a long time if the vaporware GoogleTalk for Mac is any indicator of Google's priorities. - Mike English

I think they are mostly taking ideas from the mac and moving it into the windows platform under their own name. iPhoto - Picasa, Adium - Gtalk client, Safari/Webkit - Chrome, and so forth. They know mac users already have just as good apps. - Thomas Bøhm

I thought Google was going to turn into another AOL when Chrome was released & that eventually they would integrate all their stuff into it. It was quite obvious they didn't do it out of concern for the users of the internet, or they would have made the browser usable to the group of people that need a light weight, fast, secure browser the most (those running older OS's that have been abandoned by Microsoft, Apple, etc.) Google showed they didn't care when Chrome wouldn't install on anything older than XP. - April Russo

Thomas: +1 on the -1 for Google UI work. I can't put my finger on why, but much (or most) of their UIs drive me just a little batty. - Ken Sheppardson

April: I'd hope that rather than try to back-port Chrome to an older, unsupported OS (I believe MS ended support for 95/NT at the end of 2002, didn't they?) they'd allocate their resources to Mac and Linux support and on opening it up for extensions. Looks like that's what they're doing, so a thumbs up from me on that. As far as turning into another AOL, I think their have higher aspirations than that: http://www.thinkgos.com/ - Ken Sheppardson

Extensions are what would make the difference between Chrome being a dedicated Google App interface(which is how I use it now) and a full-fledged browser. @Thomas Jabber clients have been around for a while and Webkit came from KDE, so I don't think that's a supportable assertion. - Mr. Gunn

Now where's the Linux version ;) - Ian Betteridge

Phil Glockner posted a message

“Err.. where is VentureBeat? Did I miss something? http://venturebeat.com”

12 hours ago - Link

Yikes. Name servers returning no records. - Mark Trapp

It's there. Top story: Adobe laying off 600. - Louis Gray

Yep, it came back. Must not have been a long outage. - Phil Glockner

it's there - AJ Batac

Mona N. posted a link

Street cleaner faces a £10,000 jigsaw after discovering a bag of cut-up cash (That's around 20k USD)

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I'd do it in a heartbeat! - AJ Batac

I'm thinking that's worth taking a couple of days off to figure out. - Jason Huebel

Toby Graham posted a message

“As a gift for my sister I thought it might be a nice idea to create her an account on FriendFeed with all the good photo's and photographers piped in. So hit me with you recommendations please...”

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Thomas Hawk and Mahdi Ebrahimi are the only ones on my list so far - Toby Graham

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Farbod's in, some great stuff today - Toby Graham

Subscribe her to the Persian Cam room. REALLY great stuff there. - Helen Sventitsky

Justin Korn - Brian Sullivan

check eric p.: http://friendfeed.com/ejp1082 - Cee Bee

Thomas Hawk ;) - AJ Batac

Persian Cam Room, Thomas Hawk, Raoul Pop, Michael Fidler, Justin Korn - Phil Glockner

Emma, Mathias Pastwa, Chris Nixon, TH, Korn, Fancypants, JA, etc., etc. - Mona N.

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Disqus Gets Serious About Growing Comment Spam Problem

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Sometimes getting hit with spammers is an indicator that you've "made it" ;) - Christopher Golda

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I've only just started using Disqus recently, so it hasn't been an issue yet, but it seems like they're heading down the right track. Hopefully it will be enough - spammer infestations are nasty! - ilene

I didn't get any DISQUS spam until I switched to WordPress, now I get tons. I think it's an SEO thing, or maybe it's because I wrote a post saying that WordPress improved my SEO and now my site is showing up in some SEO-related search. Frustrating. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Good, I love Disqus and any improvement to the system is always welcome. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I tried Disqus, but couldn't get feedburner to accept my feed with Disqus turned on. Anyone else having, or not having this issue? - Bill Sanders

I did not have that issue, Bill. However, I setup Feedburner before I installed Disqus. Have you tried going that route? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I remember when everyone said that I should abandon the comments on my blog in favor of disqus because I hate moderating my own comments so much for spam. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas: There are 101 reasons to choose DISQUS over other comment systems: Network effects due to a comment network that's bigger than your blog, automatic email reminders and reply by email, avatars, threading, up/down-voting. Ok that's more like 5, but you're shortchanging your blog if you don't have all of those. - Daniel J. Pritchett

@Thomas, there is little spam on Disqus vs. real comments. But they do come in batches, and usually on old, once-popular posts. - Louis Gray

maybe. I worry that spam will be just as bad on disqus, as it is now most of my spam comes in batches on older popular posts. But I have to deal with it every day and now must moderate all comments on my blog. I'm not ready to move my comments to disqus because I have more confidence that Google (i.e. blogger) will be around in the future than disqus. I'd hate to put a lot of effort into disqus like I did with Pownce only to see it gone and all of my blog comments with it gone in the future. - Thomas Hawk

I understand your concern about the comments disappearing. DISQUS is nice enough to auto-sync comments back to your WordPress blog so that they're never lost but I don't know that they've done that for Blogger. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I agree with Christopher Golda - Getting spam comments for the first time was really exciting, it was an indicator that my blog was beginning to pop up on the radar - Mauricio Reyes

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