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before going to hawaii for our vacation (other posts about that coming soon), i decided to try the itunes movie rental service. obviously, the goal was to find an easy way to keep diego occupied on the flight…so, i rented the simpsons and we watched it on the flight…twice :)

not only was the quality good, but it didn’t kill the battery. my only complaint = only one day to watch the video once you start it.

now, if only the iphone had an ebook solution that worked in offline mode!

in any event, on the way home, hawaiian air had an even better vid solution…a dvd player loaded with a number of movies and tv shows, all for $15…

first off…i love friendfeed…it’s become my rss reader, content discovery engine / daily 5 minute break, and primary way to track friends :)

i’ve been meaning to post a list of things i’d like to see friendfeed do…well, fred beat me to it. i agree with him completely and had a number of his on my list…here are a few more that fred didn’t mention, most of which focus on data (think flickr…everyone wants stats!):

1) display all my items that have activity (not just what i’ve commented on) in reverse chron order and listed by most commented and liked

2) allow me to get a daily email update of the activity - even if i’ve logged in recently :)

3) items should be deduped and global stats for each item should be front and center…explore putting it in the UI next to each item (# times this item was shared, # comments, # likes, # clicks, etc.). if it’s too cluttered, at least make “stats” a tab…

4) let me see the most popular items (shares, comments, likes, clicks, movers and shakers (”interestingness”)) over different time periods across my items, my friends’ items, and all of ff…and, turn those into rss feeds :)

5) allow me to share/rebroadcast any item directly from within ff

6) search should be full-text - ff should index the landing pages of all shared links

7) please create a smaller logo :)

re fred’s list, i especially want the ability to display thumbnails of images from blog feeds ala flickr, explode blog posts, and post comments back to flickr ala twitter…

i’ve tried all sorts of things with feedburner and yahoo pipes to create a good feed of me, and i settled on using pipes to splice flickr into my wp source feed with feedburner on the front-end (this works better than the flickr splicer in feedburner as each photo can have flare). that seems to work for my readers (i.,e not too much content), but if you want my complete exhaust, use this feed as it’s a true feed of me…

last year, i was honored to be asked by brad and david to be a mentor for the the first techstars “class.” rick, dick, and i are all involved this year and plan on being in boulder a bit this summer. should be great…

if you’re interested in getting involved (i.,e applying), do it now…the apps are due in just two short weeks…

i made my feelings known when this became an issue back in february…and, i don’t really want to call more attention to the matter. but, this is just too funny…

thanks for the link rick!

from barack’s flickrstream…how can hillary compete with this? :)

ok, i can’t justify buying one of these yet. but, i want one.

luckily, we have a few at goog…since these single-brew clover machines are 11k each, my guess is that search is profitable :)

here’s my pic of the machine in action…love the “coffee cake”

after watching SNL last night, my wife wondered what would have happened if the writers strike hadn’t happened…

in years past i don’t think it would have made much difference as the audience for SNL, letterman, leno, etc. isn’t huge. but, this election is all about youtube - possibly even more so amongst independent and young voters. most of the key debate scenes and campaign sanctioned videos have been top YT vids - many with MMs of views. so, imagine if we’d had two months of virally-spread videos like the ones below…i don’t know if anything would have changed, but….i wonder :)

video #1: weekend update with tina fey

video #2: opening sketch - the democratic debate

ps - i was too sick to stay up and watch SNL, so i caught these on YT this morning :)

makes up for the xerox comment. :)

(click here if your rss reader doesn’t display the video)

great post rick..congrats. my favorite part is your title - “elections hipster” :)

for those that don’t know, rick created a cool site to help folks understand superdelegates…here’s some CNN coverage as well…

experimenting with a few ways of doing a “feed of me”

both sam and anil game me some tips - thanks! the way i tried initially yielded some not so great results (i.e., too many items/updates)…i’m going to play around with some once-a-day summarizers next week. but for now - i’ve switched the feed back to just the blog items…

sorry if i flooded your reader :)