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12/15/09
12/15/09
They probably counted each "email" as one email message per recipient. Meaning, one message sent by Scooter Libby to 30 recipients would count as 30 emails.
Now figure that one of those recipients responded to the entire thread; you now have 60 such emails.
If each of the 30 people on the thread sent an average of 10 messages throughout the life of the thread, that would result in a total count of 9,000 of these "emails" (300 messages sent to 30 recipients).
Now, with the statistic of 180 staffers, you could have 6 similar, distinct groups of 30 people. If each group had a similar type of email thread, that brings you to 54,000 emails.
And if each of these thread groups are busy emailing all day, which presidential staffs probably are (despite any probable lack of competence), there could reasonably be 5-10 of these types of threads going on any given day, if not more, within each group. If each group had just 5 of these threads described above, that would result in a total count of 270,000 emails.
12/15/09
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- "Hey Dick."
- "Yeah Don?"
- "Torture."
- "Yeah Don."
- "Dogs?"
- "No Don."
- "Bamboo shoots?"
- "No Don."
- "Ladies undergarments?"
- "No Don."
- "Then what?"
- "Water-boarding."
- "Oh..."
- "Yeah."
- "Bitch."
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But seriously, why is he so obssesed with trying to be twitter? specially considering FB is closer to what a real business should be.
12/02/09
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How about being able to view photo's in a group that someone posted that are of interest to you, and being able to hit the BACK button and return to the originating point -- NOT the beginning of the news feed.
How about making some upgrades to the network so that during busy times of the day when all the 40-somethings log in to check what's happening in the world that the NETWORK actually has enough gas to display pages?
Oh wait, we need to change security aspects first before blasting even more nonsense and information out to everyone on our existing systems.
12/02/09
12/03/09
And by "useful," they mean "monetizable," although the only people who've made any money off the idea would be the start-ups that create Twitter search engines and sell them to bigger companies.
Facebook wants a piece of that imaginary market. If they trick users into making all of their status updates and shared links/videos/whatevers public info, Facebook will have a mass of alleged zeitgeist they can sell to corporations. Facebook doesn't really care if some Joe Schmoe in Peoria can read your status updates; they care if Nike, Pepsi, and General Motors can.
12/03/09
12/02/09
And, the ability to add one person to multiple groups (work, school or friends, school and friends, work and school..., say).
Right now, my only option is to block ALL trinkets to a specific group, which leaves suspicious gaps on my page (Really, Mom, you DON'T want to see me doing my half-naked Jiggy Dance on the Go-Go stage at 4AM, even though you think you do).
It's such a common sense way to do things that I suspect that FB doesn't do this on purpose, all the more to propagate personal data. Which might be better for their IPO, but lousy for their long-term success since Moms (and potential bosses) are instead completely locked out.
I suspect that, like Regional settings, FB doesn't like its members to be selective with who sees what, and rather than delivering what users want, works against it. No successful company has enjoyed long-term success (without breaking Anti-Trust law).
12/02/09
If you like regions as a way to group your friends, you can create Lists representing different regions. Since Facebook allows friends to be assigned to more than one List, you can even have overlapping regions (for example, city and state membership; or, multiple cities for friends who move around).
12/02/09