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ryantate

OK YES IT IS. BUT IT'LL GET BETTER.

ryantate Feeling the horror of having just followed an excellent Twitterer, and realizing he may soon be checking out mine. IT'S NOT ALWAYS LIKE THIS
ryantate If you Digg, my piece on 50 New York Eccentrics just got submitted. It will remind you of Berkeley! http://tinyurl.com/5yjeba
ryantate "Media Bloggers Association" -- gets legitimacy where? Anyone worked with this group?
ryantate @izike But doesn't Comcast block everything that would let you use that bandwidth? I thought about them but their record is SCARY.
ryantate Replace unreliable Twitter swiftly with RSS feeds guaranteeing 140-char-max posts. Simple as that. Use namespaces.
ryantate @davewiner maybe your twitter monitor could someday cover partial outages like http://tinyurl.com/5tp57h
ryantate Looks like this is my Paris design by Hausmann book: http://tinyurl.com/5tuncl
ryantate I suppose steampunkers get all their book reviews from 19th century Times: tinyurl.com/3mqqoj
ryantate @miyukijane Funny I just ran the Google search "site:nytimes.com haussman paris book"! Going thru results. (Better fact checking at NYer!)
ryantate Anyone know a good book about the design of the city of Paris? ("They let one designer build it" someone said in New Yorker)
ryantate @davewiner, for example checkbox news could be applied to existing streams from NYT, BBC et al, but they need to be taxonomied
ryantate @davewiner YES, enter the NewsChallenge, my own idea only borrows some of your concepts, but is also influenced by my present job, go for it
ryantate Dave Winer's ideas help me advance in Knight Foundation competition http://tinyurl.com/2x4kh6
ryantate My vision for the future of news http://tinyurl.com/2a2su9
ryantate @derricks if I opened a wine and "would never have guessed" it was 17 years old I'd be PISSED! It's supposed to IMPROVE with age, right?? :)
ryantate @derricks Oakland crimespotting rocks. I like the fade in/fade out effect -- I may bite that for a Google Maps project I'm working on
ryantate @anildash lost my new iPod first time out of the house this morning. Panicked. Turned out it was somehow inside the lining on my suit jacket
ryantate @derricks before prisoner
ryantate @derricks I think we'll start with the sparlking white though (from France but not from Champagne) ;-> but good to know pinot before ... ...