Fred Davis

Media guy, start-up junkie, gadfly, prognosticator.
@chrisheuer "Rough morning on a personal front..." Hope you find some kind of balm for that rough stuff - sounds like a true blue Monday :(.
Snobville: "You can never be too thin, or have too much money." Geekville: "You can never have too fast a processor, or too much memory."
Attention web journalists: Get your facts straight first, then you can distort them however you please. (w/apologies to Mark Twain).
Google Books is now a misnomer, it now includes magazines: http://books.google.com/books... - I remember paying a fortune to search Dialog for those!
"When faced with a choice between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." -- Mae West.
Is the Bay Bridge jinxed? Now a big-rig truck full of pears drives off it and plunges 200 ft... what next?
Droid Does: An Ad on Google’s Homepage - http://mashable.com/2009...
RT @stevenjayl NEW: Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers.
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same Dept: iPhone vs Android sure smells like a repeat of the classic Mac vs PC religious war.
I love walking up and smelling the coffee... I'm definitely a caf-fiend!
Things you may not know about @scobleizer #86677: he has a giant wall-sized whiteboard in his bedroom, usually jammed with creative spew.
Things you may not know about @scobleizer #86676: Scobie's oldest son locked @lisapadilla's daughter in the car as a prank a while back!
Yesterday I was feeling a bit list-less... hearing @scobleizer's list rant snapped me out of it... but managing them is still kinda crude.
Let's all start "Do Not Follow" lists! Please, help save me from all that noise!
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage.
Fred “Every contrivance, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article, evolved from very simple beginnings.” - Robert Collier.
Being at Robert @scobleizer's house & hearing him rant about Twitter lists shows how simple tools can be very powerful when used creatively.
RT @ivanfuyivara RT @sultancillo: Danilo Black USA Dev Team http://www.flickr.com/photos... ... the Grabbit dev team, cool!
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce.
Software is like sausage, no matter how tasty it is, you don't want to know how it's made ;-).
Content Management Systems like Drupal and Joomla are the future of the web... they create true open platforms that are like website OS's.
I mentioned @scobleizer's use of Twitter lists to track Drupal, 'cuz I love Drupal & he wasnt that interested when I mentioned it last year.
@scobleizer showed us some cool ways Twitter lists expand his awareness into areas of special interest, one example he gave us was Drupal.
Stating the Obvious Dept. - Scoble loves Twitter lists! VERY obsessively, as observed by me @lisapadilla and @pkarnig at Chez @scobleizer.
Just back from Half Moon Bay and a frenetic Grabbit meeting with @scobleizer, who had double-booked himself -- instead of his usual triple!
Twitter spam: the H1N1 of viral marketing!
Things I've Heard Too Many Times # 6629885: bad telephone hold music.
Things I've Heard Too Many Times # 6629884: "The Conference Organizer has not yet joined the call..."
I wonder if the Bay Bridge closure will lead to a bump in H1N1 transmission due to all the people cramming together in public transit?
Tabloid's wet dream: Jon Gosselin, will dump Kate for Octomom Nadya Suleman in new reality show http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip....
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