BenTrem tweeted on 2011-02-06

"Premium Themes on WP.com, the backstory" > http://bit.ly/fS37e9 < via @ photomatt # WordPress (For those who care? Important.) #
Any WordPerfect geeks out there? Recall 5.2? Remember the macro language? (Now I'm down to 0.2% of PC users. heh) #
@ JohnKingCNN – Tweak text of Muslim Br'hood spokes. Not "more material civilization"; he said "humanitarian" … IMO. cheers #
@ acarvin NPR?! If I knew that, I forgot. I'm sure you're familiar with CBC. My 1st good civilian job (1975) … best employer ever. cheers! #
Hard-core question, one that has in-formed my work for years: is a string of related items a "story"? I decided not. # journalism #bricolage #
@ RobinGood I've returned to your scoop.it repeatedly since you tweeted it (y'day?). IMNSHO your name should be in <title>. Value added! #
@ ImagiRaven (@ITGeek here) "Transfer of information" is where I started in the 70s. Now? "Discourse"! see J. Habermas :-) cc: @ sabacentra in reply to ImagiRaven #
@ acarvin I'm always amazed that NPR/PBS keep ticking over. Shows me to be pessimist? ;-) keep on keepin' on! p.s. peek http://scoop.it in reply to acarvin #
@ codepo8 Familiar w/"rapporteur"? I like that function. And the product. For me "story" properly includes subjective narrative. # HobbyHorse in reply to codepo8 #
@ codepo8 p.s. as I mentioned to @ acarvin : peek scoop.it e.g. @ RobinGood 's http://www.scoop.it/t/real-time-news-curation/ … schweet! in reply to codepo8 #
CBC TV crew along with Susan Ormiston hassled and detained for hours by Cairo police. Released but encountered aggressive roadblocks. # Egypt #
@ dzigarkongtrul Khenchen Thrangu R as my b'sattva preceptor described /at length/ the treasury that came from lineage. Oh, my! *beam* _{*}_ in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
"Social Media Content Curators Are Not “Just Filters”" by @ Beckland > http://bit.ly/gXL19Q < via @ RobinGood # journalism #
@ dzigarkongtrul I'm vy happy to have come across "Elegant Sayings"; Nagarjuna's "Staff of Wisdom" + Sakya Pandit's "Precious Treasury". TD! in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
@ ChrisLaBossiere Dunno that I'd go so far as "selfless", but for sure civic duty fulfilled. Helluva work load yr after yr. Good stuff. in reply to ChrisLaBossiere #
@ danawhite HeyYa Dana – What I found good news? Gonna see Dos Santos again … and against you.know.who!! Hooaaa! in reply to danawhite #
I hope Mubarak confidants see CNN interview with Tunisia's PM Mohammed Gannuchi! # Egypt #
@ dan_munz I got "Can't find that person". heh … clehvur kidz in reply to dan_munz #
@ davidfrum – Just saw you on Rockburn Presents. "Landing strip in the jungle" indeed! Bravo … kudos. –ben #
@ andersoncooper You looked great … fabulous to see the sky behind you. best to everyone there in reply to andersoncooper #
@ dzigarkongtrul At the risk of being too cog-psych: does alayavijnana act to impose continuity? a sort of clinging to the familiar? in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
@ FullContactTMcG Sync! Your most recent tweet appears in my stream immediately adjacent the most recent by @ dzigarkongtrul ; tendrel indeed! in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ duncanriley Reward him by /not/ stressing the diff between acronym and abbreviation. :-) in reply to duncanriley #
@ dzigarkongtrul … "gotra" I feel comfortable with, from "Jewel Ornament". But "tendrel" … I don't think I've ever been clear about that. in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
@ FullContactTMcG *take 2* … it's pret'near dön season, i'n'it? in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ FullContactTMcG Well yaaaa … wouldn't be fun otherwise! *snort* You read Hesse's "Steppenwolf"? "For madmen [and women] only!" :-) in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ FullContactTMcG p.s. someone local started workshop on hospice/palliative care for volunteers. Guess where this bumbling yogin is headed. in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ FullContactTMcG "Like an over-heated elephant to the mud wallow"; your gomden getting the attention it needs? I feel vaguely hung-over w/o. in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ PBSNeedToKnow I heard a different version: "Mubarak says, "stop here!"" in reply to PBSNeedToKnow #
@ FullContactTMcG I did formal macrobiotics while training Soto Zen. Balance (w/everything) is /sooo/ important. Yin/yang, yuh know? be well! in reply to FullContactTMcG #
@ jjprojects Yumpin' yimminee … have you finished cleaning up for the floods yet?! *blink* in reply to jjprojects #
GOP pressing to refuse funding for "end of life planning". That's pure politics. Isn't it the thin edge of corruption? #
@ Drolma28 My teacher bonked me with that; there is the aspiration to do, which is fine, and then there is the doing. Not the same thing. heh #
@ bmn BTW didn't get PWD reset. (And yes, form does check / validate addy.) Am trying again. in reply to bmn #
@ acarvin WH spokes said just "Not going to get into that". NPR has it spiked as rumour still? #
@ EgyTweets Carefully: sending a whole pile of tweets at once is likely to turn people off. best –ben in reply to EgyTweets #
No kidding … Demonstrations in # Syria as well?! #
@ wilshipley I was looking for pretext to chat with BioWare … they're just down the street from me … maybe I'll pass that on! ;p in reply to wilshipley #
@ USEmbPretoria Check out @ CBCNews … a couple of ours got a right hard time. in reply to USEmbPretoria #
@ bmn NP … finding fault is my hobby. And sometimes I get paid for it! *wh00t!* in reply to bmn #
# Vancouver – Looks like I'll be passing through town early April, and back through late April. Someone wanna do coffee? GasTown? Schizilano? #
@ jjprojects I forget who's on which coast. (My daughter and her family are NE.) cheers / best in reply to jjprojects #
# SocialJustice – Lets say, something like Indymedia, but restricted to concrete cases of how corruption matters. Rubber/road. Mundane abuse. #
@ amnesty – What if we stood your mandate on its head? Almost as ombuds-people, focussing on the mundane facts of corruption in action? #
@ Ushahidi @SwiftRiver – see last 2 tweets What if we documented the minutia of how corruption is no abstraction, that it results in abuse? #
Folk in # Yemen and # Sudan and # Egypt and even # Syria aren't in revolt because of ideals. They're in revolt because corruption hurts. #
You think # Mubarak is some sort of monster? Shows just how you've been mislead and deceived! There are real psychopaths behind him. # praxis #
George Eastman spent 6yrs developing film. Then 4yrs building Kodak. 10yr startup. Nice to be wealthy! # innovation #
How trite are people, really? Folk invest time and, yes, even money on @ thedaily because *drum roll?* it's invented "from scratch" for iPad. #
Hit 2000 Following limit. Moving "geeks" list to @ ITGeek #
@ jdarrah heh … walked the length of it as a kid, in the early 70s. It's no bigger now than then. Good luck! (I can't DM. No ReFollow.) in reply to jdarrah #
@ jdarrah – Come to think of it thi's kinda symbolic: we (apparently) have so much in common, I grew up here, you don't reFollow. (No URL?) #
"I want to get rich by supporting good things." "I want to support good things. I trust I can get by." Would these 2 folk get along? # borg #
Do you believe that technology is inherently social? *bzzzt* Of course it is. That's why opportunists /dread/ tech_doc types. # matrix #borg #
"#Egypt Officials Seek to Ease Mubarak Out" > http://bit.ly/hBzON2 < (truth-out.org) 5FEB2011 #
@ KenChapman46 "Values map" … tantalizing phrase. Does that relate to an actual document / work product / artifact? cc: @ ChrisLabossiere in reply to KenChapman46 #
Most folk I know are at least 80% fulla shit. If I do not suck up / kiss ass with them, I'm cut off. Now: tell me what "corruption" means. #
My X-wife (the judge's daughter; old Boston money) once admitted (finally) that her real drive was to "knock me off my high horse". *cough* #
"Mubarak, Alone; former ambassador tells of embattled pres he once knew and respected" > http://bit.ly/hVEzck < via @ DavidFrum # Egypt #
@ JohnFMoore Someone said something on point re: Twitter/FB and Egypt: that those are /levers/. Proper description of what tech does? in reply to JohnFMoore #
@ ChrisPirillo Aw c'mon, they got $85M funding … can't be all bad, can they? Can they? *blink* OMG is what I've been saying for years! in reply to ChrisPirillo #
@ JohnFMoore Something from "We Were Soldiers": "Each of you should learn the job of the man above you, and teach your job to the man below." in reply to JohnFMoore #
@ bmn Can't stand humidity. Doing (very difficult) trades training in army (read: no air-conditioning in bldg) 95F and 95% … ghastly. in reply to bmn #
@ JohnFMoore From some workshop on disaster mgt: "Think of your most vital team member. Throw him/her out a 28th floor window. Next?" :-) in reply to JohnFMoore #
@ SmallRivers Ah, there you are! I keep thinking of paper.li (like when I discovered scoop.it) but lost track of you! cheers #
@ scottmcleod_ I'd venture this: wikipedia is quite mechanical / hard-edged. The sort of methodology that appeals to wannabe A-types. ;-) in reply to scottmcleod_ #
@ JohnFMoore What comes to mind? Re-entrant … everything connects to everything, so each should know what's on the other side of their box. in reply to JohnFMoore #
Note to self: /2/ shots of black rum in Saturday noon coffee is /1/ shot too many. *whooopeee!* #
@ vielmetti Toooo funny! Here I am dealing with the sound of fan coming loose on 5770 GPU. Good to see you, BTW! in reply to vielmetti #
@ stephenrider poo. What's free about it? Fairer to admit that "iron law of capital" holds true. Why the fear of the term? in reply to stephenrider #
Adjust this sentence: our society is so fine and good and fair and just because we are all of us mature adults. # Zen #
@ dzigarkongtrul Does not compute; if there was no impermanence ther would be nothing like life at all. :-) Tashi delek in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
@ heathercoleman I grabbed the audio of "Tightrope" from YouTube; MP3 ain't great quality, but the tune sure is! CC: @ ChiefHotMomma #
@ support – Some good reason that Members view of List isn't in Alpha order? Simple … remember simple? *sigh* #
@ ChiefHotMomma Listening to it just now thought: wow, she could re-do classics from Supremes, Warwick, Flack … in reply to ChiefHotMomma #
@ PaintsNature heh … IIRC there was an account that ReTw'd "Stuff nobody should ever tweet". It was hilariously in bad taste. ;p in reply to PaintsNature #
@ rachelsterne I just registered PublicScholar. Recall folk bringing phil to malls? Imagine street-level issues as raw material. # RuleOfLaw in reply to rachelsterne #
@ PaintsNature My old brain sometimes takes a while to recall details. Something mnemonic will pop up. Or not. I'll let you know! in reply to PaintsNature #
@ elephantjournal Oh please. "No problem with oil. No problem with ecology. Be happy; don't worry. Just shop!" gaaawwwd in reply to elephantjournal #
Great insight into society checking to see who has 25K+ Followers. *gack ptui!* #
@ rachelsterne I can imagine applying my "Gnodal" approach to IBM's Watson > http://bit.ly/eNGIuq < Mundane matters of # governance in reply to rachelsterne #
@ igori If "philosophical discussions" are detached from "everyday experience" then they're bunk. :-) cc: @ paulocoelho #
@ jdarrah My knees are ok but an accident a while back blew my feet. No more trekking in the Rockies! *sigh* in reply to jdarrah #
@ jdarrah heh … kinda like "I wouldn't bother joining any club that would let me in"? ;p cheers in reply to jdarrah #
@ dan_munz Actual discussion is good. :-) I just muttered on Amplify how I see far fewer running threads than I did yrs ago w/less tech. in reply to dan_munz #
"virtual air guitar" … this is just WRONG, but huh huh it sure is funny! > http://bit.ly/dXoyif < via @ PaintsNature #
"An Open Government Implementation Model: Moving to Increased Public Engagement" > http://bit.ly/gpkUsF < # Gov2 0 #
@ dzigarkongtrul W/respect: "effects attachments to get involved in frivolous activities" … another formulation of this? _{*}_ in reply to dzigarkongtrul #
"We need a revolution in revolution-framing." by @ dfreelon > http://bit.ly/hnlwGe < via @ mathewi #
@ dfreelon "Political comms"?! Ooooh, me likie! Wanna talk startup? (It would be totally wrong of me to insert a smilie. *wh00t* is right.) in reply to dfreelon #
# Firefox history to HTML – The app I have for this is right clunky. Any new ones? p.s. NS3.0 had a /wonferful/ History Mgr. cc: @ firefox #
@ alainsaffel It could be worse: instead of heavy and wet it could freeze and be concrete solid! :-) in reply to alainsaffel #
@ JessieX Oh man, I just 2 minutes ago installed Google ToolBar to bookmark. My Del account go corrupted; feel like an orphan! in reply to JessieX #
@ firefox K, I Stopped FF and rebooted. With Chrome, T'bird, and FF restored (tons of tabs) 1.7Gig free. Lets watch activity drive it to .8G. #
@ JessieX No, nothing that complex. Oh god I can't count the number of systems I've tried, prolly a dozen b'marklets. I'm going back to base. in reply to JessieX #
@ JessieX p.s. I plan to implement true tree for tags / categories. So POLITICS/IT wouldn't give same as IT/POLITICS. http://bit.ly/dfSQLm < in reply to JessieX #
@ JessieX Aulde tree-hugging hippie type thinking hard on monetization and such. *G* p.s. http://bit.ly/iiky69 <> http://bit.ly/cLg6zp < in reply to JessieX #
@ monaeltahawy See Mona. See Mona run. Run, Mona, run! Don't trip, Mona! Don't trip! :-) in reply to monaeltahawy #
@ sjschubert Not sure this is what you mean, but intentional "speed bumps" is a big part of good design and docs. *Speed Kills!* in reply to sjschubert #
@ alexdc I've done a lot (read: a LOT) of reading into what I call "Mr. P". see "Without Conscience"; Robert Hare > http://bit.ly/9oqMw1 < in reply to alexdc #
@ alexdc p.s. "Without Conscience" is a very readable book, by the guy who de-confounded DSM on the topic. And heh Hare's site kinda sux. in reply to alexdc #
@ firefox – Dangest thing; having loaded few new pages (actually with fewer tabs) launched no apps, down to 1.3Gig. #
"THE PSYCHOPATH – The Mask of Sanity"; Special Research Project of the Quantum Future School " > http://bit.ly/9PSbGJ < cc: @ alexdc #
You know how conspiracy nuts are, well, flaky? This bunch aint: "The Signs Quick Guide" > http://bit.ly/9PKoOv < # TinfoilHelmets #

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