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Twitter losing posts

Flickr: "Our long national nightmare is over."

Twitter Blocks is the kind of thing that demos well at conferences. Not too useful in real life.

John Furrier has the transcript of a Calacanis podcast chutzpah-fest at RWW. He's a blood-thirsty samurai, so he says. "I always look at entrepreneurs as samurai. ItÕs a lonely pursuit at times and basically your life is to fight. And you get done with one fight. You clean the blood off your sword. You put it away. You walk 10 miles to another village. And then you got to clean up that village. A couple of people got to lose their arms. And then you clean the blood off your sword. You have a cup of tea and some rice. And then you walk to the next village." Really, and I thought he was the sensitive type who sulks in depression for days because he was interrupted.

Economist on who's afraid of Google.

another senior bush staffer leaves. something terrible must be coming??

dan mactough *convincingly* argues that "expanded" does not belong in opml 2.0.

apple to sell ringtones. excuse me while i yawwwwn.

sugarattack says twitter is losing posts. i noticed that too. imho they ought to use some of the $5 million to make it reliable.

I'm going to cross-post my tweets here until i notice that it's stopped losing them.

noticed that some MSM podcasts are not bothering with the length att on enclosures. not happy about this. :-(

Proposal for 'expanded' attribute in OPML 2.0. Important for people developing in-browser apps that use OPML.

Dan MacTough offers a compelling argument for not including "expanded" in the core spec. (I fixed the typos, and reworded the last two sentences per another suggestion, here.)

Michael Markman on the "perfect storm" around Scoble this week.

Nathan Rein on computer-free micropodcasting. Good idea.

TechCrunch on new features for Twitter today.

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