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Stream o' consciousness for July 29th

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Forget the 4chan nonsense. AT&T (& Apple) doing much more damage by banning Goog Voice & Qik on iPhone. Might have to jailbreak again. [#]
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Banjo, The Best Dog Ever™: http://is.gd/1RhXI (To be avoided unless you are prepared for maudlin sentimentality and mantears) [#]
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#Twitition Apple to unblock Google Voice App http://twitition.com/xh8jk @kevintraver [#]
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I just learned from Buzz Aldrin that Supertramp is reunited and playing concerts: http://is.gd/1Rs2A #whyilovetwitter @therealBuzz [#]
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Mad Men Yourself is cooler than you know. Why it’s textbook of how brands, mktg and fans should interact: http://is.gd/1Rw9E [#]
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Horizon Realty in Chicago is a sue first, ask questions later kind of landlord: http://is.gd/1RwLw #assclowns [#]
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Listened to 27 songs.
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@dgouldin What if you want to hire fir a frontman fir your band or an oriental stealth fighter? [#]
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@dgouldin What if you are hiring a band frontman or stealth fighters? [#]
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rt @stephenfry Even to be presenter on a BBC doc you now have to complete an online "ethical training module" called "Safeguarding Trust" [#]
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Transcript of Obama, Gates, cop happy hour: http://is.gd/1SyBL [#]
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AWESOME parody of AP illustration of paywall DRM plan: http://is.gd/1SHLh #coffeespittake [#]
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@sblaskovich For the record, I only read nonfiction while driving. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 13 songs.
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@jiconoclast Still doing a post on comments? Get my email? No biggie-was just gonna post on my blog so I don’t forget it if you don’t need [#]
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@jiconoclast Saw that one. Hadn’t seen the followup. I’ll watch your feed! [#]
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RT @Sully007: Part 3 in excellent healthcare series – http://bit.ly/14cvP3 (Me = Can’t wait for finale w/ solution proposals) [#]
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Stream o' consciousness for July 28th

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RT @johnperrybarlow: The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. – G.C. Lichtenberg [#]
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Shared 2 photos.
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Really @bluefly_com? Order placed 7/21 and 9(!) sales pitches since then? + sales pitch while unsub? http://twitpic.com/bu8j6 Stay classy. [#]
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Hey @snappysalads our film guy likes you. He really likes you: http://is.gd/1Pefj [#]
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Get @seankovacs excellent iPhone Google Voice app fast. It’s about to be pulled from the store: http://is.gd/1Pkrq [#]
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@drnicomartini I learned about it from your post. Looking into it. [#]
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Listened to 23 songs.
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@drnicomartini Who/what is MavTV? They sent me the same message. I don’t get it. [#]
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Made my Mad Men avatar at http://madmenyourself.com. Go make yours! Mad Men premieres Aug 16, then every Sunday 10p on AMC. #madmen #fb [#]
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@jdunck There is no Sanctuary!!!! #logansrun [#]
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@jdunck #logansrun never got MST3K’d because it is a Great Film. Or they couldn’t get the rights. One or t’other. [#]
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My Seattle friends’ hot weather reports crack me up. #northernborderofhell [#]
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@westseattleblog Yup. And in turn, a cool rain shuts down our city. All a matter of perspective. [#]
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Anyone have good stats on rural / smalltown broadband penetration? [#]
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@gapingvoid What’s broadband penetration like in #westtexas? [#]
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@jdunck You have learned well, young Padawan. [#]
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Budweiser, Blue Moon and Becks? If Dubya was having people over for beer, at least coulda been @Shiner or Lone Star. #meaninglessgestures [#]
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BHO’s Bud order is self-consciously faux working-class. Don’t fear the frou frou Belgian ale with butterfly nectar! #whatdotheydrinkatluaus [#]
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Despite last two tweets, don’t peg me GOP. Card-carrying member of Equal Opportunity Offender Party. #ironyisdead [#]
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@johnrobinson That’s what I’m responding to. Politico says bud for pres, moon for cop, becks or red stripe for Gates. [#]
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And if we can’t agree of one beer to share together, what will we accomplish? Take up question of bottle, can or draft? [#]
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"Sorry hon. Gonna be late. Lime ickeys with the commander-in-chief." #feydrinkswithpotus #fb [#]
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"Sorry hon. Gonna be late. Lime rickeys with the commander-in-chief." #feydrinkswithpotus #fb [#]
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rt @jimbradysp To me charging for content is akin to movie scene where, after running out of bullets, a gunman throws the gun at its target. [#]
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@hotpinkpunk Yeah but he’d never serve a beer from there #urbancowboy [#]
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Yes, John Prine. It IS a crooked piece of time that we live in. #fb [#]
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No traffic in Dallas this morn. Did I sleep through The Rapture? [#]
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Oof. Spoke too soon. [#]
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Stream o' consciousness for July 27th

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When making film with all midget cast, must suspend disbelief on town being full of regular buildings. How else know they’re midgets? #tcm [#]
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@Candyland A little closer to freeway. No house porn, nut there’s a porn studio on Dilido! [#]
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@jdunck Clearly too subtle for film audiences of the 1940s. [#]
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"So many people to see. So many people you can check up on and add to your collection." #prescienceofelviscostello [#]
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Yes, Declan Macmanus, you are correct that it’s not very far from sulphur to sugarcane. #fb #mustremember [#]
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@CharlotteAnne @michelemclellan Unless planning on using only for travel, go pro. Air is anemic and less computer for $$. [#]
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@JoostTX Leave it to a scientist to ruin a perfectly good metaphor. #dontlettruthruingoodstory [#]
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@jayrosen_nyu @johnrobinson Greensboro has great tradition: O. Henry. Murrow. John Robinson. [#]
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Watching "Showtime," MGM retrospective of dogs in movies. Laughing. Crying. Laughing. Crying. [#]
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@JoostTX Did you expect the traditional liberal anti-bee bias? [#]
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@Candyland Not a house. A warehouse. Not sure of exact addy. [#]
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Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes – O’Reilly Radar http://bit.ly/uvmlK
(mustread) [#]
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@rossbates happy to help with #evilplans [#]
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A special report on Texas: : Lone Star rising | The Economist http://bit.ly/12DtMd [#]
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@AlexGoodall Auto DM = almost instant unfollow. I come to Twitter to talk to people, bot robots. #TWADMR [#]
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@TheNewsChick If you lived in TX, you’d find that weather report hilarious. Low 90s = coldfront. [#]
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Cancakes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come http://twitpic.com/btac1 [#]
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lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 3 songs.

Stream o' consciousness for July 26th

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Tough day. April and I and Banjo (The Best Dog Ever ™) could use any positive vibes you could send our way. #fb [#]
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I think @bretthoerner is being haunted by the Good Doctor HST. Glad the newsroom rubbed off… [#]
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Helicopters over the house again… Police scanner on Wunderradio iPhone app FTW. #fb [#]

Stream o' consciousness for July 25th

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RT @chadwatt: I’d rather be celebrating National Tequila Day http://tinyurl.com/fhz8y [#]
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OK DFW, here is this week’s complete estate & garage sale listings: http://tinyurl.com/9fofxy #dfw #garagesales (via @mikebullock) [#]
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RT @TheOnion: Why Did No One Inform Us Of The Imminent Death Of The American Newspaper Industry? http://bit.ly/QzcHf (via @cshirky) [#]
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Found intersting / good / real shops and restaurant / pub while running errand in (gasp) Plano. Worldview shattering in front of me. [#]
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Getting up off the floor. There was a Mike Orren sighting north of 635 (via @bradlarock) [#]
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@bradlarock Surely an imposter. [#]
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rt @johnperrybarlow It strikes me that everybody in the Cops vs. Gates (& Obama) Affair behaved badly. But understandably. Let’s drop it. [#]
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If I could find a place that was like Downtown Plano on the shores of a lake, w/in 30 minutes of major city & with 4 seasons, I’d move today [#]
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Sad and ironic. "The future of music" eh? http://twitpic.com/bhawg [#]
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rt @pegasusnews Three strikes law for buildings?: Square Pegs http://bit.ly/iHItU [#]
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Shared 3 photos.
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How am I supposed to work @ office when April is sending me photos like http://twitpic.com/bhllq http://twitpic.com/bhlno ? [#]
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@jiconoclast I have a LOT of ideas on commenter best practices. Won’t claim we have it foolproof, but close. Was going to write a post… [#]
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@jiconoclast … but if you’re doing a roundup, I might send you some notes instead? [#]
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Tip for FedEx drivers. Don’t piss off Mike D!: http://is.gd/1KUmR [#]
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Heil Twhitler: http://twhitler.com/ (via B3ta) [#]
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Pulling stat on comments, pretty cool: We’ve had 55,867 comments posted. We’ve only moderated 268. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 5 songs.
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Huxley was right-er than Orwell, he said tweetingly: http://is.gd/1KXXo [#]
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Eminem meets Dr Who meets Benny Hill : http://is.gd/1KY9K [#]
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@dgouldin to be expected in collegetown. [#]
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Bucket’s got a hole in it. Actually my city’s got gerrymandered dry areas. Either way can’t buy no beer. #apttuneshuffle [#]
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@rhettmiller Who is in photo on cover of HHTR?#wanttowakeupnumblikeallmyfriends [#]
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"The dollar’s weak, but it’s stronger than me." #thescottmiller [#]
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Without access to my music library for 72 hrs, would likely go catatonic or postal. #mykryptonite What’s yours? [#]
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@blues_traveler honkycrackercool. Like crazysexycool but with more harp. [#]
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What do I do when bored with errands / stoplights? Try to start twittermemes like "What is your #mykryptonite?" Please to play along. [#]
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Good to hear. NY Times: Swimming Bans High-Tech Suits, Ending an Era. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/sports/25swim.html (via @jdlasica) [#]

Stream o' consciousness for July 24th

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@TEDxSMU Old Red Courthouse downtown is good for that sort of thing. [#]
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DFW peeps: Where can I find a Hefner-esque smoking jacket on short notice? Need sure thing – no time to troll vintage shops. [#]
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@reid1000 I imagine we might be a size or two apart. [#]
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Having first frappucino since the old dog walks, @joosttx. My eyes are all swirly. #desperatetimes/measures [#]
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Listened to 7 songs.
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@bretthoerner Good luck out there, man! Sorry to miss last night @ Pearl, but had dog issues. Don’t be a stranger! [#]
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RT @ckrewson: Nice to see the underdog nytimes.com pull out a narrow win in the j-lab innovation awards. http://is.gd/1Jmy8 [#]
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@scottkarp So what do you think right number to follow is? I’m pretty happy @ 300, w/ about 100 regular & 50 avid. [#]
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"In a time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey…" #fb [#]
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Realizing how much I hate "Everyone knows I’m like that" as excuse for bad/inconsiderate behavior. And how much I use. #ladyknewiwasasnake [#]
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RT @vincrosbie: Let’s face the fallacy that people value local news http://bit.ly/kVdf6 (Me: key= Local data is impt. Stories less so.) [#]
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RT @stevebuttry: By all means, let’s spend our money on lawyers. We have so much to throw around. http://bit.ly/Yg3I6 [#]
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Texting with my vet, whom I convinced to upgrade iPhone yesterday. Just got value of appt. in 1 minute of texting. #ilovethefuture [#]
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First Inglorious Basterds trailer made me roll eyes, shake head. Latest: looking for opening date, place to buy tickets: http://is.gd/1Ktov [#]

Stream o' consciousness for July 23rd

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RT @stevebuttry: "Newspapers haven’t actually charged for content since the 1830s," @NewsFuturist blogs. http://bit.ly/yFY9k [#]
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An app I’d pay for: Dedupe links in my RSS and Twitter feeds [#]
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Has anyone ever come out better by joining any organization with "consortium" in its name? [#]
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Thinking about Harland Williams’ great bit re: 7 minute abs in Something About Mary. Make a fortune with a Twitkiller. The hook = 139 chars [#]
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RT @ryansholin: Followed up on the "community" conversation w/@mikeorren via videochat just now. [#]
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Hmm. If Google Voice added video, I could delete Skype (which I use roughly 5x/ year). [#]
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@shawnpwilliams No consortiums for me. Riffing on the Yahoo, which just stabbed the Newspaper Consortium in the front. [#]
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Someone shows up at your office unannounced trying to wrangle an interview for a non-sales position. Positive, negative or neutral? [#]
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Interesting data from a customer today: We converted 80% as much business as competitor with 8x more clickthrough. Still want more of both. [#]
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rt @pegasusnews Pegasus News week in view: Reality check edition – http://eepurl.com/cAFA [#]
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Love when tech limitations are cheated. #Omnifocus simulates push notification by creating a .ics file that synchs with iPhone calendar. [#]
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Listened to 47 songs.
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@theiBlog Did I miss something? I have Omnifocus on iPhone and it doesn’t push notifications of due dates/times? Does it? [#]
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Clarification: competitor had 8x the raw clicks. Don’t know the %. We still converted 80% of the $$. [#]
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@mikebullock Different when you’re escorted. Yours was invited guest. Mine today was a stranger. [#]

Stream o' consciousness for July 22nd

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Note to self: Next time have bright idea to volunteer to write homepage lead based on personal experience, don’t wait 2 wks. #writersblock [#]
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Dear Apple: Next update, how about making it so I don’t have to go four clicks deep to toggle Bluetooth? kthankxbai [#]
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John Stewart (70’s singer of "Gold," not DailyShow host) seriously underrated. Recommend album "Bombs Away Dream Babies." [#]
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So, can anyone cite 1 solid example of McKinsey turning around a media company? Just asking. (Spurred by @pkafka‘s http://bit.ly/u3j9u) [#]
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@sblaskovich whom? [#]
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Thinking about giving in and going full-on Lou Grant prickly curmudgeon route. Can you be a curmudgeon under 40? [#]
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And what, prithee, @ryansholin, is wrong with Steely Dan? Do you not enjoy the shaking of the sisters from Babylon? #nevermetnapoleon [#]
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RT @therefore: @mikeorren c’mon Mike there’s got to be something between Lou Grant & leather pants for you! [#]
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Staff meeting oer Twitter as @sblaskovich and I talk @pegasusnews contribs from 10 mtrs away. Some interest here: http://is.gd/1GGFU [#]
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RT @alyankovic "Thanks for yr email, but both James and I will never approve this parody to be released on any label."#jamesbluntisassclown [#]
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@sblaskovich Sorry, can you SMS that? [#]
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OK: I’m officially dropping my MIT (mogul in training) for ELC (entry level curmudgeon). Thanks for the many replies on the matter… [#]
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@johnrobinson I have no idea who Erin Andrews is, but "peephole stills" got my attention. Good SEO! [#]
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RT @Bootsy_Collins 2 answ question left on vm: Yes it’s humanly possible 4 white ppl to have the funk..it’s only a shell we’re all the same [#]
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Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://orrenmedia.com [#]
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Loving GoogVoice @spamboy. Have even figured way to make original cell# on iPhone send vm too GV. Also using as fluid app on desktop. [#]
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@got80s Yeah. I saw potential too but haven’t had chance to use. Also like "call me" widget: http://is.gd/1GIa8 [#]
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@JasonLBaptiste Meh. I preferred Syquest drives. (Major flashback to early magazine days of getting maybe 8 pages of layout on disc) [#]
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If #FriendFeed doesn’t aggregate FB comments and Twitter replies on a simulposted item, really, what’s the point? [#]
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@ryansholin You can’t *make" readers of a news site feel anything. You have to nurture the environment for it to happen organically. [#]
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@ryansholin *How* is long treatise that I may write. Names used have been pegasi, peggers, pegnewsers, "regulars." No one has stuck… [#]
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@ryansholin With or without name, community exists or does not. (How Yoda!)… [#]
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@ryansholin Bigger question if you want to make money: How do you nurture the community without alienating the casual. Big Problem. [#]
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@ryansholin Best / worst community name I’ve seen in that it illustrates the problem in its awkwardness: Frontburnervians http://is.gd/1GKz9 [#]
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RT @johnperrybarlow: John "Marmaduke" Dawson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage rode out forever in Mexico this morning at 64. [#]
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@wmhartnett Dropped SiteCatalyst for Google Analytics a couple months back. Haven’t missed it a bit. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 83 songs.
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Nobody ever accused me of being fussy re: aesthetics, but if your site has photos out of proportion, I dismiss it as a hack job. [#]
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If I was concert promoter, I’d put on tour w/ Dan Baird, Scott Miller, Kevn Kinney, Todd Snider; make dozens of dollars, see every gig. #fb [#]
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So far I am followed by – and following – four city council candidates. None of them incumbents. (rt @johnrobinson editor of my htown paper) [#]
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Listened to 2 songs.
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Stream o' consciousness for July 21st

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Idea for real estate sites: Sort neighborhood by type/quality of nearby tweets. ie: my office is near articulate techies. Home is … not. [#]
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@kellyjkit Looks like someone changed the URL for SEO purposes. Rookie mistake: http://bit.ly/fM1mQ [#]
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@kellyjkit And the old url should work now too. Thanks for the catch! [#]
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@dgouldin Where do you see Fisher blurb? I can’t find? [#]
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@dgouldin Can you send link or screenshot? I still can’t find. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 35 songs.
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@ajkeen It’s because most of us mis-learned the meaning of the word "ironic." Probably Alanis Morrisette’s fault. [#]
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A kind shoutout from StarText pioneer Gerry Barker: http://bit.ly/EHHnH [#]
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@gotoplanb I had @gapingvoid dino print on my wall during the whole fundraising for @pegasusnews [#]
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@dgouldin aha. Can’t see that when logged in as company. Unfortunately, that’s from a third party out of date source & I can’t change. [#]
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@vedo Where were you on jury duty? Any tips? I’m doing a quick story based on my experience; going to link to your post too. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 17 songs.

Stream o' consciousness for July 20th

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Impressive! RT @pegnewsmusic How to create the cheapest weekend ever in Dallas-Fort Worth http://bit.ly/1SYqv (via @kellyjkit) [#]
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Just what the world needs: More glib, overeducated people with more opinions than testicular mass #LuckyUs (via @gapingvoid) [#]
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First mandatory scooter day in 2 years (car in shop). Reminds me of the payroll-free days @pegasusnews. They sucked in a truly awesome way. [#]
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rt @johnrobinson @DigiDave connects bloggers/musicians, can I be Elvis… http://bit.ly/psp8l (Me=Ben Folds- not afraid 2 cuss on ballads) [#]
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@johnrobinson @DigiDave But, PN’s metamorphasis has me in mind of Uncle Tupelo. Worse things than being Son Volt, but hope to be Wilco. [#]
lastfm (feed #4)
Listened to 5 songs.
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