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Takes a lot of confidence to let your employees speak their mind publicly.  Some got; some don't!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:23:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "95c26d4c9f18f9d7651e578af9cf23a3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fugere has experence speaking like an idiot...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:25:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b646ff3eeda1f01cc2b1cb86d1634f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting...when we start firing employees for being contrary, we stop growing. Is this guy calling himself a business guru? For what? The stone age?<br><br>Seriously, Robert you do your company a great service by blogging. You act as PR at the same time. They should actually be paying you twice the salary!<br><br>Tara", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:27:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "d0c6ed9e3fe3c65f39ffab5ea325679f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not sure if Brian Fugere works at or owns a company but no way I'm going to work there or for him. What he missed is that few companies take to trouble to have a mirror to look at themselves. If you live in a glass house, like Microsoft, you'd better have someone trhrowing stones. You actually upped my image of Microsoft big time, especially through Channel9 and your blog.<br>If Brian thinks that's it's simply about you being payed the critize and that it's wrong when employees are critical of their company, he is either a very shallow or scary thinker.<br>If he has a company, his employees will have to shut up or leave...... sounds like a healthy environment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:33:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "b78545b24c7fd78d9953236b448d2a67", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tara: you can be my boss anytime!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:33:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "An executive at the conference I'm attending just offered me a job \"just in case.\" I'm not too worried.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:34:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think you should start a \"Fire Scoble\" fund, where if people raise $500,000 (or whatever number you think is appropriate), then you'll be okay if (when?) they fire you.<br><br>I can see it now. Just like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, kids walking up and down the halls, saying, \"Save Scoble\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:35:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "c3a79b6f40ba93496389e42cd76ad2f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Paolo - Did you notice how even though MSFT's overall revenue increased by 6%, accounts receivable dropped by 1.4 billion in the balance sheet? That means MSFT robbed from its deferred revenue to pump up this quarter's earnings.<br><br>Check for yourself: <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY06/earn_rel_q1_06.mspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY06/ear...</a><br><br>Microsoft is robbing from the AR line to pump up revenue. It's growing slowly. And it's getting creamed in areas where it directly competes with Google. The stock prices of each company reflect these different growth patterns.<br><br>Get mad at me if you want, the market speaks louder.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:36:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "32aa780ddfc7624642dd760fd60b9d20", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If that quote is accurate (I'll check out the vid too) then he's clearly uninformed.<br><br>I haven't seen your job description, but I don't beleive you are paid to criticize MS; but rather to connect customers with those \"behind teh curtain\" in real time.<br><br>A (non-microsoft) friend of mine said it well \"Scoble has done more to put a human face on microsoft than any other individual in the company's history\". So there's one check mark in the \"do not fire\" column! And add another one from me.<br><br>Kim<br><br>P.S. You didn't meantion that MANY of those external speaker vids are made available OUTSIDE MS as well. e.g. MS Research hosts some that are publicly viewable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:37:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "13da24df872788c31f3ae1fa4dbcabed", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha, this guy is such a sensational idiot. Since when was constructive critisism a bad thing? This guy should get banned from all of Microsoft's campus. At least make some sense when you make claims, you actually connect with users by displaying common sense. Something that's increasingly rare in corporations today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f8882af049390224032c93863270db5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh no! And who would promote my beloved MS Smartphone if Scoble would be fired.<br><br>Anyway: I vote for not firing Scoble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:52:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d298a3adf3dfc66d6790d5013819644f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"What!? You actually PAY someone to come to campus to criticize Scoble? Not at my company.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:52:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "b37ef26e3e3302e1e9629237dfe2f274", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Horse Pucky.<br>Microsoft needs an ombudsman and customer advocates. Actually group-think and complacency are probably a bigger threat to Microsoft than anything you write on a blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:53:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "56649421e9c3e301529f3e69e34fc5c3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dave Winer just voted for Microsoft to fire me. But he had an ulterior motive. He wants to hire me back. Heh!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:54:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Are you sure Brian Fugure didn't write that book about himself ...   ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:56:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "d299e59fdd6247bc684854270943c0db", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, if I had the money (and a company) I'd definitively pay someone to critizise it... If you are afraid of somebody from the inside critizising your own company, it's obviously because you know you're doing really badly.<br>Besides, we all know Scoble is not paid to critizise Microsoft, he simply shows us things as they are, and that's why we enjoy reading what he posts and watching his videos in the first place ;)<br>Keep up the good work!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_18:59:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "87991cdf82a54354d3fe36921ef2aefd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the full quote, as best I could transcribe it:<br><br><br>I'm shocked that you guys tolerate Scoble.  I mean, it's like give me a break.  Here's a guy that you pay to criticize you.  And you can say, I know the other side of the argument, I'm well aware of it, it's like listen celebrate, you know, celebrate the openness and all that kind of stuff.  To me that's crap.  I think it's crap. You pay him to say the kinds of things he says?  Not in my company man, no way.  But I like the other things, the fact that you're opening up and blogging and working with your customers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:06:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "9965bf3b7cacadb134a17a4ae42367cd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A company that can't take constructive criticism from its employees (as well as its customers) isn't going to last for very long. I'm actually glad Microsoft lets its employees say what's on their minds.<br><br>I personally think you've done some fantastic things for Microsoft, especially with Channel 9. It's given a face to the company, and it's helped to get so many people excited about the stuff that's going on up there in Redmond. I know it's had a strong positive effect on me.<br><br>Keep up the great work! There are plenty of us out here who really appreciate it. =)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:06:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "33b986dd3271aa804b5826d046ef5f11", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I vote for firing Scoble so that MS can burn even faster. With Scoble on the outside, MS can continue it's race to the bottom and Scoble can go work somewhere where people will actually listen to him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:09:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb1d4648e73b80588c72699bb127050a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adam - keep in mind that revenue figure for MSN includes a 30% decrease in Narrowband Access revenues.  The only way MSN is able to offset that steep steep dropoff is all thanks to MSN's growth in both text &amp; display advertising.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:10:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffae6d30c9c9912e4a6c1ecc0b429fae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That person is really stupid, thats like saying the company does not need beta testers or MVPs. Or telling a country's citizens not to criticize the government. Scoble, you are doing a great job and what makes it special is its creative and in depth, we actually get to meet the people building the products and interact with them through Channel9 and get to help you criticize them on their mistakes. I think that person is just jealous of you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:22:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "dac7ad5f3388b281ebbe2ba7d306ac1d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PBJ - love your sandwich, btw...<br><br>That's fair enough - so it begs the question - why hasn't MSFT sold off its ISP? The fact still remains that Google is growing while MSFT is nearly standing still.<br><br>I also noticed MSFT is going to devote $19 billion to stock buybacks over the next year. NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS to buy MSFT stock because 1) they can't think of anything else to do with the money and 2) no one wants to buy MSFT stock so the company has to lower the supply to give the perception of increased demand.<br><br>I bet many of you could think of ways MSFT can spend than money instead of giving commissions to stockbrokers. Scoble talked recently about all these search related problems that are going unsolved. If there's all these problems to solve, MSFT must be thinking of letting someone else solve them because they're certainly not ramping up their R&amp;D...<br><br>Sorry to be so harsh, Scoble, but I'm only going on what I read in the news and what I see in MSFT's financial statements...I think MSFT should expand its research budget, obviously!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:23:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "32aa780ddfc7624642dd760fd60b9d20", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd fire you for being a lackey, shill, kissass. Not for criticizing: you don't do that enough. Hell, I'd fire you jsut for all the \"Wow\"ing in your silly videos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:34:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "75e414e765694f5f635c3e9c8c3ea433", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here you go, a \"Fire Scoble\" website...<br><br><a href=\"http://firescoble.ning.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firescoble.ning.com/</a><br><br>... maybe I'll build another Ning app to let people place bets on the outcome of the voting. =D<br><br>Paul", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:35:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "584dbea1a944a3fca0eda6d37a48ccef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh... reading the quote, it kind of makes sense. my interpretation is: you pay a guy for his criticism so that you can say \"look, we criticize ourselves\" to the outside world, but no one in the outside world believes it and the outside world does more and better quality criticizing from without... So why pay him for a useless exercise.<br><br>That makes sense.<br><br>Fire Scoble for being both a lackey and a critic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:37:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "75e414e765694f5f635c3e9c8c3ea433", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I absolutely want MS to keep you, but remember that I'm rooting for MS's speedy demise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:43:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f8ff21a67437febebc70afd19364e95", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert - You're going to make this guy a lot of money with all the free advertising for his products. He came to Microsoft with an agenda and you're helping him immensely. Maybe, Dave Winer will go miedieval on his rear and get him boosted higher into the Meme-o-sphere.<br><br>Keep calling 'em as you see 'em... I've never caught you being so harsh on your employer that they would benefit from canning you. There's an intangible quantity that the big accounting firms like to put in the balance sheet under the heading \"Goodwill\". You make MS seem like kinder and gentler rapacious overlords... and that's really quite a hat trick.<br>Keep working on making Scoblizing a verb that means<br>\"to try to care about all sides at the same time and to fail more often than not.\" Go figure... Even Scoble can't make everyone happy. Especially a business author that wants to see LESS BS in the world and would never pay anyone to say he's usually full of it... as are most of us.<br><br>Maryam appears to actually be pretty close to on target when it comes to avoid spouting BS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:44:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7dd5182b72baa77441d63c06465f784", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Companies need to be open to critism.  Especially when they're the size of Microsoft.  Employees need to feel able to speak their mind including critising thier company.<br><br>Good luck keeping staff at any company that fires people for speaking their mind, especially when they do such a great job serving the dev/tech community around the company like Mr Scoble does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:46:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "26b12509dc53167e8cf65ce6b86683d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adam, your accounting is faulty.  You recognize revenue when you add to accounts receivable.  Microsoft is simply transferring AR to cash, which has no effect on the income statment (profit), only on the balance sheet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_19:51:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3700c21b4afd19047df07e50bd303113", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope they are paying you hazardous duty pay or something!  It must be tough work for you to have to take all this crap from everyone and their aunt.<br><br>All the best,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:21:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "00971a8d5fb55d151ee511154e56ec4a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619223": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The question, \"What do you think about what we are doing with blogs?\" Came from your friendly neigborhood MacBU employee, yours truely. Now that you are driving traffic to his site, I maybe I should get a cut in his increased book sales... ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:23:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "2cd9616260aa2500d7c826f39b1ded88", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, I blogged the talk <a href=\"http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/microsoft_research_talk_why_business_people_speak_like_idiots.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "b32cac73db0838ce3c291cd0fbabf32e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br> Welcome to fame. Most of these YAHOOS, yes I put it in caps on purpose, can't even crawl put of bed in the morning. Ignore them. Your dialog on this site has opened doors many didn't even know were closed.<br><br>Don't let it end. Fire you, I don't think so, give you a raise (;-))I don't think so. You are doing a job, a great one in my estimation, and that should be good enough.<br><br>When you close your eyes at night, do you feel good? If you do you won today.<br><br>Bill Faulkner", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:54:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2e09f76f62564127ae39825e2e40a0f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've maintained that Microsoft should fire you from the beginning of my trolling of your blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:54:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "faeff21e1bd483ba32e7d880cd27e81f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adam here. I'm really an idiot. Why would I compare the percent increase in revenue between an apple and an orange?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:55:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf1ed19bce4f15cab3572f2fc2c384c7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619228": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I say we should cut the guy's tires :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_20:57:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "56e6e61e34e34cbedafc3d4f64202353", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In olden days, the King's jester was allowed to say whatever was on his mind. So, whatever else people were thinking and were too afraid to say, the jester could say it. The King got the valuable feedback as to what was really happening out there, without it compromising his majesty.<br><br>Perhaps Scoble is King William's jester?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:18:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce18f10996dec80ef787c434538d948d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Man are you lucky! This is exactly the kind of activity that will elevate you to upper management even faster than we all expected. A \"tool\" like this guy seems so out of touch it's almost scary. There are still super smart people at MSFT and they already know the value you bring to Microsoft. Now with this guys talking trash you'll get even more exposure. There's really no such thing as bad press. They say that's not true, but it really is. Every exposure is an opportunity to, well, have a conversation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:24:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "7026aea0c45b6946c9765df522035c71", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble, ignore this guy. You've done more to improve the image of MSFT through your blog and Channel 9 than anyone in the history of the company.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:34:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "e4f69c4f533f9289c262a3f7e07eecfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hey Robert -<br><br>well if you DO get fired, we can always feature you on <a href=\"http://SimplyFired.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">SimplyFired.com</a> :)<br><br>(now you *HAVE* to become one of our judges for the new video contest: <a href=\"http://www.simplyfired.com/video.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.simplyfired.com/video.php</a> )<br><br>lemme know when you get think pink slip, and we'll setup a shoot...<br><br>- dave mcclure<br>  <a href=\"http://www.SimplyHired.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.SimplyHired.com</a> | <a href=\"http://www.SimplyFIRED.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.SimplyFIRED.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:36:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a10508c394791c25b33ea8420069a11", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Put me down for one of those \"Save Scoble\" t-shirts.<br><br>-k.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "41ef5d18f6055fc5c83684a02b30eb53", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm in for a Save Scoble t-shirt too.<br><br>Robert telling it like it is part of what makes Microsoft seem much more human and much less clueless.<br><br>I think that anyone who advocates only putting on their \"shiny happy corporate face\" to the public these days is part of the old guard and the old way of doing things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_21:59:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "f75a36ab165d43950ece33ef367adfe3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The funniest part for me is that he probably thinks that saying that publicly will be good for his book sales.  Just shows how NOT good of a businessman he really is.  Isn't understanding your market and target audience part of knowing how to sell something (himself in this case)?  I didn't think bold, extremist statements sold stuff these days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_22:42:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b0f7dab0021c1dadacd63b992f4bb7ef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gee, I've been telling everyone you're the best thing to happen to Microsoft in a very long time.  Are you sure this guy isn't working for the competition?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_22:50:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae72cd7ad0ec9575cb386298ecfb3a06", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's nuts. He's simply saying he would be scared if he were in Microsoft's shoes, which says a lot more about him than it does about you. Says the reverse of Microsoft, though - willing to meet a challenge head-on.<br><br>Related: <a href=\"http://www.dooce.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.dooce.com</a> - read the \"about me\" stuff. She got fired for blogging. Note: sometimes NSFW.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_22:52:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e9a44f02bef218fbd23764fc9ff6d0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brian Fugere's an idiot. Paying people to critique your products and services is nothing new; doing it in public only adds the benefit of public feedback.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_23:04:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4c759bf8a5dcd47bb632186678e4654", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As a past employee of Microsoft, and darn proud of what the company has done in spite of the media painting a bulls eye on it, I think that you are safe. After all, \"know thine enemy\" and \"keep your enemy closer\" are some serious truths. ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-27_23:49:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "04d5f845a0afaf16f72a9868e53071ff", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am with Gobbels, as you don't even take a harsh critical tone, Gay Rights issues and iPods and the occasional MSN/Tablet/Marketing/Misc. rant, are the biggest hits, big deal, those are total safe zones. Start cutting into real bone, like shareholder action and frothing up the Feds, using information to hurt rather than help, releasing beta code, and sending away big customers, ruining contracts, all that would be an instant ticket out the door. You are their puppet, faux critical pointless yabberings that look like it's internal self-criticism, but it's not even close (and as someone that has quite deadly-honest literally cost MFST mega-millions, I know of what I speak).<br><br>But how you get away with breaking the all the strict NDA convenants, is worthy of a case study itself. I guess like in politics, if you have enough friends, you become Above the Law. Or you get to speak in a 'human voice' and rewrite your own set of rules, for the 'new age of market conversations.'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_00:10:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How very un-Cluetrain of him!<br>I want a T-shirt too...<br><br>~Steve Sloan", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_01:25:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "eacdc1483362a0a660a1f4e6b639028a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get fired.  We will have a great sequel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_01:39:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "894e015dd504d5df6cd9a8f0a95100e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Context is everything.  I attended this speech, and it was actually full of references to Cluetrain, as well as admonishments that Microsoft should be more self-aware.  The whole thing was about discovering our personality and flexing our right brain.  The point about Scoble was just that we shouldn\u2019t air our dirty laundry in public.  Microsoft employees should check out the speech online.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_01:50:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "40b8045c1735090aa413b7613d06e2b5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shel: I'm not being fired.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_01:50:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's complete bullshit and everyone knows it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_02:10:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5cb44d1d720ab903d5aa53e148f7cd1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;The point about Scoble was just that we shouldn\u2019t air our dirty laundry in public.<br><br>I disagree with straight up rules like that. There are sometimes reasons to share your dirty laundry in public. Why? Oh, credibility? Gaining trust?<br><br>Look at how Six Apart handled their dirty laundry just yesterday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_02:31:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, whatever else you've done, you've put a human face to Microsoft, and the dividends it pays are enormous. And your ability to stay honest means that people trust your writing, even when you say great things about MS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_02:42:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1bdf4fd7960d56af47d66f838aeb539", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would compare Microsoft before Scoble, like IBM before the PC. Big, corperate and completely unfriendly. It's so tru what Michael Arrington says, Scoble has put a face on Microsoft, and the fact that he gets to interview people like BillG, Ballmer and Alchin just shows how much they like him aswell.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_02:52:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5cb44d1d720ab903d5aa53e148f7cd1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey its not jus about dirty laundry !!<br><br>What's wrong with someone asking for your head eh?? Nothing wrong with that. What would be wrong is that you were fired, based on single opinion and not the facts. Secondly it would a gross mistake by the corporation to do that, as it will expose them for libel and unfair practices :)-<br><br>Actually jus to be mean, I wish you get fired - msft does not deserve your loyalty and intergrity !!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_02:54:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7349a5d9d042d63d2f591cb7042407f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks guys, that means a lot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_03:01:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mamamusing has a post about this very talk, although she doesn't mention the bit about you.<br><br>Sounds like the talk was about trying to give Microsoft 'personality' (along with \"more persuasion, narrative, empathy\") - which from my point of view is almost exactly what you do - so I shouldn't worry :)<br><br><a href=\"http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/microsoft_research_talk_why_business_people_speak_like_idiots.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/micr...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_03:25:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "65993854bcb6aab0a48c714ac4e5fabf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, just ignore him.<br>He truly doesn't understand that the public opinion of Microsoft has changed lately, and part of that is due to your work.<br>You have put a familiar face on Microsoft that has been lacking. We've always had the gurus, our heroes, that we worship and adore. But we've never had a face that wasn't related to coding.<br>I was at the PDC and when I met you in the hallways it was like meeting an old acquaintance.<br>Keep up the good work!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_04:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6b75b5227af399b8b4bee1e5fee7c3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll be happy when Robert eventually leaves Microsoft, so he can stop persuading me to reinstall MSN Desktop Search when Google Desktop is still so much better! I must have have swapped between the two a dozen times now... :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_06:57:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "8fbd1902c9d786dd42a39d3e081ff778", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's face it - you'd be at Google before the day was out if they fired you, and I doubt the Microsoft shareholders will be too happy about having to buy so many chairs ..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_07:53:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fe19b3352f366bef89ea9cdf6c0e0c9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, I commented on the talk also...although the book might be interesting, the part about you made no sense and in fact contradicted the rest of what they said. Somebody above called it \"un-Cluetrain\"...no, they were actually quoting the Cluetrain Manifesto elsewhere.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/10/business_poeple.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/10/...</a><br><br>- adam", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_08:46:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c363b1fec44f26f8c49efe512ff0787a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Although I'll point out, Robert, that you handle this pretty bloggily -- posting an article right away, based on second-hand evidence, rather than wait (as you admitted you could) a mere one day to see the tape yourself and make a more informed post. So you started with a disorted view and you had to know the comments would a) amplify the distortion and b) overwhelmingly support you. Ye gads I'm starting to sound like Christopher Coulter.<br><br>- adam", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_08:53:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c363b1fec44f26f8c49efe512ff0787a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble! I do not always agree with what you write, and would not necessarily say I am a fan of yours. BUT... Your blog has given me more respect for Microsoft than anything else they have done besides Office for the Mac. The fact that Microsoft is willing to promote open discussion of the pros and cons of their policies, marketing, and products goes a LONG way towards debunking the image of MS as pure evil.<br>Plus, for people who like MS technology, your entries make people excited about what is being developed, and anticipatory towards release. You are good for MS. And for the blogosphere. Keep it up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_09:19:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "8a6562e97359ca0aee9eff3f466a1d66", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So there\u2019s a nice big Italian family that lives in Redmond.   Grandma and Grandma come from the old country, worked their butts off to build a very successful pasta company.   Nine children, 43 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren.   The family has made a lot of money off fussilli and rigatoni, and everyone in the family has nice jobs in the pasta business.    All built from scratch, and the patriarchs are justifiably proud of what they\u2019ve created.<br><br>But the family has some problems (which ones don\u2019t?).     There\u2019s Uncle Vinny with the drinking problem.   Maria has had a couple of scrapes with the law.  And the business is having a few challenges.   There\u2019s some unrest in the family, as the family members bicker over what needs to be done to take the business into the future.   One of the grandchildren is Roberto Scobaloney, who makes a nice living from the business.   But Scobaloney sees all the problems, and is very frustrated that Grandma and Grandpa don\u2019t seem to get it.   He tries (or so we are told) to raise his concerns to Grandma and Grandpa, but just can\u2019t seem to make any progress.     So he does something unheard of \u2013 Scobaloney decides that the family would be best served if he went public with his concerns.   He writes to the local newspaper and tells the paper everything he knows about the family and the pasta business \u2013 good and bad.   He reasons that this is actually good for the company, because it will force Grandma and Grandpa to finally make some changes.   And that will benefit the whole family.<br><br>In Grandma and Grandpa\u2019s world, you simply don\u2019t air dirty laundry in public.   Particularly things that the public doesn\u2019t know about or wouldn\u2019t be aware of, like Uncle Vinny\u2019s drinking problem.    Being in the family allows you to scream and shout at the dinner table over pasta pomodoro and chianti, but nothing leaves the room. There is a contract, a code of honor.  In return for the benefits of being in the family and earning money in the business, the family asks for each family member\u2019s loyalty to each other and to the family.   When one grandchild puts himself above the family and it\u2019s code of honor, it weakens the family.  It breaks the bonds of loyalty,  shows that the family can\u2019t work out things on its own.   And it puts one person above the law.<br><br>Scobaloney thinks this is hopelessly out of touch with the modern world.   Mutters something about a friend named Cluetrain.    Grandma and Grandpa are deeply wounded by Scobaloney.     Not so much for what he has said, but because the family that they worked so hard to nurture is weakened.   Because family is everything to them.  They could understand it if a reporter for the newspaper wrote about them, but a family member?  They can\u2019t fire him, because he has backed them into a corner and that will just make them look bad.   And they can\u2019t even criticize him, because that too would make them look bad.   And some of the issues he brings up, they can\u2019t tell their side of the story because it\u2019s private, and that would hurt the family.    But they are smart,  and they just decide to wait it out.    They know that all he really cares about is seeing his name in the newspaper,  and that one day all his self absorption and narcissism will make him irrelevant.   In fact, it\u2019s happening already.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_10:49:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "aa991a5b8c4805c52bfa72fdc96f25d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brian: it's obvious you haven't followed any of my writing, any of my videos, or met me in person. It's really easy to attack someone who is doing something different. But EVERYTHING I do is aimed at bringing out the positive in Microsoft, not the negative. How many times over the past 2.5 years have I said something negative about Microsoft? Maybe 15? Out of thousands of posts?<br><br>Oh, and how do you explain the 2.7 million unique visitors on Channel 9 last month? With no advertising. No old-school PR. No links from <a href=\"http://Microsoft.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Microsoft.com</a>.<br><br>Hint: it shows off what Microsoft is doing in a real, conversational, human, way.<br><br>And traffic is going up every month.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_12:20:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ive been reading you for about a year.  Most of the \"negative\" things you say, are meant for positive purposes.  Like calling out a product group's webpage, for lack of an RSS feed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_12:39:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ae47ea7f6fd6dae57e85ddc68d07f81", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Think Different, Robert. Go to Apple :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_12:50:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "0813e6a16704001811502229ab5d7f9f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While i dont necessarily say you should be fired. I do wonder - do you do any actual work that is of a benefit to microsoft? Sure, i love your blog, and i love the insight, but do you really do anything all day long becides blog?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_13:01:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "1509d27be55fc38e467a9540ad3e3349", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andrew: I do the video blog at <a href=\"http://channel9.msdn.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://channel9.msdn.com</a><br><br>Last month it had 2.7 million unique visitors.<br><br>My bosses are VERY happy with that. And, yesterday I was pitched by executives by some very big companies who want the same thing at their companies. Don't worry, though, I ain't leaving!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_13:09:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bah, this guy is an idiot. Worry not Scobes (can I call ya Scobes? Thanks), I think you'll be growing old, holding that blog torch as long as your fingers can grasp it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:13:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "fba31218ab87a20bff08c13da0fa5d13", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brain: \"self absorption and narcissism \" ..then it takes one to recongize one ..and whats good for the goose should be for the gander too !! :)-<br><br>Its so unfortune that you still have one foot in your mouth when commenting here !! Can you take it out before your next comments ??   any Hoot do you have u read this <a href=\"http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/blogs_everywher.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">somewhere</a><br><br>\"Scobles in Siberia ?? Yes, I nearly fall of my chair laughing. Its so wierd, but so beliveably true!! This is what Blogsphere is all about.<br><br>\"When Ted Demopoulos, principal of Demopoulos Associates, an information technology consulting company, was traveling in Russia recently, he stopped in Surgut, Siberia, where he was surprised to find Scoble fans. \"I'm out in the middle of nowhere and they ask me about Scoble,\" says Demopoulos. \"To them, Scoble is the voice of Microsoft.\"\"<br><br><br>geeee.. get a life Brain !!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:18:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7349a5d9d042d63d2f591cb7042407f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh brain...while reading you might was well see Scobles ranking in terms of PR :)--<br><br>my old cull is here..<br><a href=\"http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/blogging_pr.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/blo...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:21:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7349a5d9d042d63d2f591cb7042407f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft already pays people to be critical of their products. I'm sure execs listening to this said: \"hasn't this guy ever heard about our usability testing?\"<br><br>One of the first things they tell you is: \"we aren't judging you, only what you say, so go ahead and be as critical as you like.\"<br><br>What Scoble is doing at his blog is just an extension of this type of testing that Microsoft already believes in and has been doing for quite some time.<br><br>Also, anybody that hasn't checked out the ton of videos Scoble has shot and published over at Channel 9 and is solely judging his value by what he says on his blog isn't being very thorough. He's done some exciting work over at Channel 9. He has said repeatedly that this blog isn't his job though he certainly uses it from time to time to pimp his employer.<br><br>I will admit though that some of Scoble's blog posts and comments are very contradictory. That's annoying as a reader and I wish he'd work on being a little more consistent, but that's just one reader's complaint, as I'm sure plenty of others enjoy his waffling on some things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:37:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "afef8fb894e09786c43e715e9c00b1a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope they DO fire you so you can go work for Apple and use your powers for good instead of evil :-)<br><br>Kevin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:48:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2cb359ff3ec0e0eb4426089e179ce3f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;Maybe I should start a Web site: Fire Scoble or not.<br><br>This could be the start of the Web2.0 social application. Fire xxx or not. Maybe we can cook this up in Ning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_14:56:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "b02f842303e275bacf9a66c710b2ee8a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with Kevin.<br><br>Fire Scoble!  :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_15:51:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "4b5fdbac4773ca43d566048664c6113f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And I've always thought you were the apologist for MS and Defender of the Faith regarding the horible tablet pc. I guess it depends on what side you are being view from. This guy must have the sun in his eyes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_16:32:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce9f19fd6bef01aa41d57405dc06416c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd love for Microsoft to fire Scoble, then as a Mac User I can give up any thought of freely buying an MS product again. As long as that scoundral Scoble works there I can't deny the possibility, darn him! :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_16:54:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "5306842e5343e238b66872619897c9af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's start a \"Save Scoble\" fund drive and then donate the proceeds to your favorite charity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-28_20:51:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fea38da09668e66c4cf690e114c6115", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't it obvious??  Scoble is all about Scoble.  God only knows what his job is other than to promote himself.  I mean look at the entries.  I met this CEo, this important dude, that star, got invited to this conference, spoke at this meeting, ad nauseum.  GAG ME!!  Every once in a while he writes something negative about MS to get attention, keep his street cred up, and make it impossible for MS to fire him.<br><br>I think Channel 9 is a step in the rite direction toward a real job.  That does a human face on stuff at MS.  So I guess I would only cut his salary in half.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-29_02:02:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aadaaa667d8939a35f22d07a15346e6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, can we see your job description?   I think there's a good pt about what microsoft pays you to do.  I mean, it seems like a pretty good gig to be able to just get up in the morning and post whatever you feel like.  the rest of us have to work for a living.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-29_02:18:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "2f84450abf9bc7154379317407170ecf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who cares?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-29_04:48:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9b0137cb32be76e5a171bff7ce98da7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthteller: I only blog at nights and weekends. My day job is Channel 9. JW: if you don't think what I do is work, why don't you try doing it sometime? I am answering email, being here for customers, connecting people, writing strategy, and doing a lot more too. Oh, and it's 2:54 a.m. and I'm giving two speeches later today at the Blog Business Summit too.<br><br>Yeah, it is extremely gratifying work. It isn't doing roofing in 110 degree heat. I'm having a ball. But it isn't easy. If you think it is, I'd be happy to fly you here for a couple of days and see how well you do at it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-29_05:55:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a Saturday, no less.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-29_05:56:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nietzsche once said \"truths are but lies we agree to recite to each other.\" Quoting the Cluetrain does not mean you really understand it.  Robert, never apologize for being part of the conversation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-30_11:50:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "914dba6cb0c9936bb2d39a5fcf06838e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Strange, did you just delete my comment, Robert? Did I do something wrong?  (Confused)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-10-31_12:07:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "248a3c4ba8f2972427222d46954f9c1c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Phil: I don't delete comments, not sure what happened.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-11-01_19:59:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As the notorious author who ripped Scoble during a recent speech at Microsoft, it\u2019s been interesting to watch the conversation unfurl.    After extricating my size 9 \u00bd Nikes from their resting spot deep inside my oral cavity, I\u2019ve had time to do some research (OK, OK  \u2013 this should have come before my comments, not after).    My real interest is not whether Scoble is a good guy (he is), whether he\u2019s technically credible (he is), or whether he wears boxers or briefs (too much information).  What I really care about is whether or not he\u2019s actually good for Microsoft.<br><br>Let me start off with what\u2019s not so good for Microsoft.   One of my major issues is that sometimes it doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense to air Microsoft  dirty laundry in public.   Sometimes, it\u2019s better to keep things in the family, and Scoble (IMHO) has occasionally crossed the line here.<br><br>Scoble, you responded to this issue by referencing the recent Six Apart public apology  for issues they were having.   Agree \u2013 the Six Apart apology was a good thing for them to do.    But the apology came from its founder and president.   This represented the official view of the company, coming straight from the founder\u2019s mouth.  It didn\u2019t come from a \u201ctechnical evangelist\u201d or some other random employee.   The problem is when technical evangelists get themselves confused with founders and CEO\u2019s.   So when Scoble rails against MS for their anti-discrimination policy (for example), he\u2019s a rogue voice (regardless of how you feel about the issue) who happens to have an oversized megaphone.    Like a union organizer, he invites sympathetic voices to join him in his proletariat march.   There are plenty of outsiders who will kindly do that for you, free of charge!   I\u2019m as new age as they come when it comes to corporate conversations, but no amount of dope from the Cluetrain pipe will convince me that this type of public issue mongering is good for any company.   Sensitive issues sometimes need to stay at the family dinner table.   It\u2019s hard for me to see how backing leadership into a corner and forcing them to debate delicate internal issues in public is a good thing for MS.   Scoble has created huge stature for himself, and with that stature comes a responsibility to, well, be responsible.<br><br>The tough thing for Scoble to do, and he seems to be doing it exceptionally well, is to walk the very fine line between constructive critique and destructive criticism.   I worry that his credibility is somewhat reliant on his willingness to be critical \u2013 that creates some warped incentives.   But Scoble seems to be very very skillful at navigating that narrow balance beam.<br><br>Having said all that, I looked at the impact of Scoble overall.   When viewed in the aggregate, I must admit that what he is doing is good for the company.      The main point of our speech at MS was around their need to develop more personality as they evolve.   Feature and function superiority alone won\u2019t cut it in a world craving humanity, meaning, candor, simplicity and authenticity.  In a way, that actually describes what  Scoble is all about.    He has put a more human face on MS, and his straightforward and authentic voice seems to be changing conversations and attitudes at MS.    He pushes the company to raise the bar with its products, but does so in a way that is positive.   It is still unfolding, and much of what makes it work is Scoble\u2019s personal prowess at doing what he does.   So overall, I was wrong about his impact on Microsoft.   It\u2019s pretty clear that he is having a positive influence not only with the outside world, but perhaps more importantly inside MS.<br><br>As Yogi Berra so eloquently put it, I made a wrong mistake.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-11-01_20:13:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "aa991a5b8c4805c52bfa72fdc96f25d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, not really criticising. I didn't think you'd delete it, so probably just some technical glitch. I wonder if you have a spam filter that takes out comments with too many URLs?<br><br>Anyway, Fugere's responses here seems to back up my assertion that Fight the Bull are positioning themselves as \"the Conservative Cluetrain\"<br><br><a href=\"http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2005/10/scoble-should-be-fired-author-tells.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2005/10/scoble...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-11-02_09:45:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "248a3c4ba8f2972427222d46954f9c1c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9619286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The main point of our speech at MS was around their need to develop more personality as they evolve. Feature and function superiority alone won\u2019t cut it in a world craving humanity, meaning, candor, simplicity and authenticity\"<br><br>Aren't you behind here?  It seems like you are advocating them doing what they have been doing for over a year or so.  Isn't microsoft's push to msdn blogs, channel9 and other moves lately already make it obvious that this was planned strategy by MS to soften their image after all the monopoly talk over IE vs Netscape finished up?<br><br>I don't disagree with you but I think Scoble is the direct result of a company initiative not the seeds of a new one.  I'm not so sure they intended one person to become almost like a PR guy for uber nerds but I do think overall he was planned in general.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2005-11-02_15:55:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "b34b4c538aa51967fad49ec70dedcfa5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18392723", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": 7216383004039619038}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18392723, "num_posts": 94, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">94</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18392723" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18392723/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619191">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619191" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619191" href="http://www.nslg.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Carstens</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619191" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619191" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, somebody needs to be fired after the quarterly results MSFT just put out...<br><br>Quote Bloomberg: "Revenue in Microsoft\'s MSN unit, which competes with Google, gained 0.9 percent to $564 million. Operating income gained 3.8 percent to $83 million. Google last week said its third-quarter revenue doubled to $1.05 billion."<br><br>0.9% gain versus DOUBLING. Wow.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619192">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619192" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619192">Paolo Marcucci</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619192" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619192" class="dsq-comment-message">I notice you\'re conveniently glossing over the fact that the *increase* in revenue is twice the *whole* revenue made by Google last quarter...<br><br>But hey, why be bothered by facts?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619193">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619193">Kevin Sample</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619193" class="dsq-comment-message">Gee, tough for some people to handle putting a truly human touch on the otherwise flinty corporate facades, yeah?  Takes a lot of confidence to let your employees speak their mind publicly.  Some got; some don\'t!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619194">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619194" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619194" href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">paul</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619194" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619194" class="dsq-comment-message">Fugere has experence speaking like an idiot...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619195">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619195" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619195" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619195" href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tara &#39;Miss Rogue&#39; Hunt</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619195" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619195" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting...when we start firing employees for being contrary, we stop growing. Is this guy calling himself a business guru? For what? The stone age?<br><br>Seriously, Robert you do your company a great service by blogging. You act as PR at the same time. They should actually be paying you twice the salary!<br><br>Tara</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619196">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619196" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619196" href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/netwerk-op-de-maan" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erwin Blonk</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619196" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619196" class="dsq-comment-message">Not sure if Brian Fugere works at or owns a company but no way I\'m going to work there or for him. What he missed is that few companies take to trouble to have a mirror to look at themselves. If you live in a glass house, like Microsoft, you\'d better have someone trhrowing stones. You actually upped my image of Microsoft big time, especially through Channel9 and your blog.<br>If Brian thinks that\'s it\'s simply about you being payed the critize and that it\'s wrong when employees are critical of their company, he is either a very shallow or scary thinker.<br>If he has a company, his employees will have to shut up or leave...... sounds like a healthy environment.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619197">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619197" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619197" class="dsq-comment-message">Tara: you can be my boss anytime!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619198">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619198" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619198" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619198" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619198" class="dsq-comment-message">An executive at the conference I\'m attending just offered me a job "just in case." I\'m not too worried.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619199">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619199" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619199" href="http://www.wakingideas.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Daniel Nicolas</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619199" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619199" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you should start a "Fire Scoble" fund, where if people raise $500,000 (or whatever number you think is appropriate), then you\'ll be okay if (when?) they fire you.<br><br>I can see it now. Just like in Ferris Bueller\'s Day Off, kids walking up and down the halls, saying, "Save Scoble".</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619200">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619200" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619200" href="http://www.nslg.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Carstens</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619200" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619200" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Paolo - Did you notice how even though MSFT\'s overall revenue increased by 6%, accounts receivable dropped by 1.4 billion in the balance sheet? That means MSFT robbed from its deferred revenue to pump up this quarter\'s earnings.<br><br>Check for yourself: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY06/earn_rel_q1_06.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY06/ear...</a><br><br>Microsoft is robbing from the AR line to pump up revenue. It\'s growing slowly. And it\'s getting creamed in areas where it directly competes with Google. The stock prices of each company reflect these different growth patterns.<br><br>Get mad at me if you want, the market speaks louder.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619201">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619201" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619201" href="http://www.kpallist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619201" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619201" class="dsq-comment-message">If that quote is accurate (I\'ll check out the vid too) then he\'s clearly uninformed.<br><br>I haven\'t seen your job description, but I don\'t beleive you are paid to criticize MS; but rather to connect customers with those "behind teh curtain" in real time.<br><br>A (non-microsoft) friend of mine said it well "Scoble has done more to put a human face on microsoft than any other individual in the company\'s history". So there\'s one check mark in the "do not fire" column! And add another one from me.<br><br>Kim<br><br>P.S. You didn\'t meantion that MANY of those external speaker vids are made available OUTSIDE MS as well. e.g. MS Research hosts some that are publicly viewable.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619202">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619202" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619202" href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/geekspeaker" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619202" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619202" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha, this guy is such a sensational idiot. Since when was constructive critisism a bad thing? This guy should get banned from all of Microsoft\'s campus. At least make some sense when you make claims, you actually connect with users by displaying common sense. Something that\'s increasingly rare in corporations today.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619203">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619203" href="http://blogs.msmobiles.com/mobilephonefan/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mobile Phone Fan</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619203" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh no! And who would promote my beloved MS Smartphone if Scoble would be fired.<br><br>Anyway: I vote for not firing Scoble.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619204">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619204">Spongman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619204" class="dsq-comment-message">"What!? You actually PAY someone to come to campus to criticize Scoble? Not at my company."</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619205">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619205" href="http://www.8bitjoystick.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jake of 8bitjoystick.com</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619205" class="dsq-comment-message">Horse Pucky.<br>Microsoft needs an ombudsman and customer advocates. Actually group-think and complacency are probably a bigger threat to Microsoft than anything you write on a blog.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619206" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619206" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619206" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619206" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619206" class="dsq-comment-message">Dave Winer just voted for Microsoft to fire me. But he had an ulterior motive. He wants to hire me back. Heh!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619207" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619207" href="http://www.komar.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alek</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619207" class="dsq-comment-message">Are you sure Brian Fugure didn\'t write that book about himself ...   ;-)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619208">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619208" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619208" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619208" href="http://diazorm.e-supinfo.net/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mauricio Diaz</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619208" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619208" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, if I had the money (and a company) I\'d definitively pay someone to critizise it... If you are afraid of somebody from the inside critizising your own company, it\'s obviously because you know you\'re doing really badly.<br>Besides, we all know Scoble is not paid to critizise Microsoft, he simply shows us things as they are, and that\'s why we enjoy reading what he posts and watching his videos in the first place ;)<br>Keep up the good work!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619209">steven</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619209" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the full quote, as best I could transcribe it:<br><br><br>I\'m shocked that you guys tolerate Scoble.  I mean, it\'s like give me a break.  Here\'s a guy that you pay to criticize you.  And you can say, I know the other side of the argument, I\'m well aware of it, it\'s like listen celebrate, you know, celebrate the openness and all that kind of stuff.  To me that\'s crap.  I think it\'s crap. You pay him to say the kinds of things he says?  Not in my company man, no way.  But I like the other things, the fact that you\'re opening up and blogging and working with your customers.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619210">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619210" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619210" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619210" href="http://kunal.kundaje.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kunal Kundaje</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619210" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619210" class="dsq-comment-message">A company that can\'t take constructive criticism from its employees (as well as its customers) isn\'t going to last for very long. I\'m actually glad Microsoft lets its employees say what\'s on their minds.<br><br>I personally think you\'ve done some fantastic things for Microsoft, especially with Channel 9. It\'s given a face to the company, and it\'s helped to get so many people excited about the stuff that\'s going on up there in Redmond. I know it\'s had a strong positive effect on me.<br><br>Keep up the great work! There are plenty of us out here who really appreciate it. =)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619211">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619211" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619211" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619211">Anonymous Wimp</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619211" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619211" class="dsq-comment-message">I vote for firing Scoble so that MS can burn even faster. With Scoble on the outside, MS can continue it\'s race to the bottom and Scoble can go work somewhere where people will actually listen to him.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619212">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619212" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619212" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619212" href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/pbj/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pbj</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619212" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619212" class="dsq-comment-message">Adam - keep in mind that revenue figure for MSN includes a 30% decrease in Narrowband Access revenues.  The only way MSN is able to offset that steep steep dropoff is all thanks to MSN\'s growth in both text &amp; display advertising.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619213">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619213" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619213" href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andre</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619213" class="dsq-comment-message">That person is really stupid, thats like saying the company does not need beta testers or MVPs. Or telling a country\'s citizens not to criticize the government. Scoble, you are doing a great job and what makes it special is its creative and in depth, we actually get to meet the people building the products and interact with them through Channel9 and get to help you criticize them on their mistakes. I think that person is just jealous of you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619214" href="http://www.nslg.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Carstens</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619214" class="dsq-comment-message">PBJ - love your sandwich, btw...<br><br>That\'s fair enough - so it begs the question - why hasn\'t MSFT sold off its ISP? The fact still remains that Google is growing while MSFT is nearly standing still.<br><br>I also noticed MSFT is going to devote $19 billion to stock buybacks over the next year. NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS to buy MSFT stock because 1) they can\'t think of anything else to do with the money and 2) no one wants to buy MSFT stock so the company has to lower the supply to give the perception of increased demand.<br><br>I bet many of you could think of ways MSFT can spend than money instead of giving commissions to stockbrokers. Scoble talked recently about all these search related problems that are going unsolved. If there\'s all these problems to solve, MSFT must be thinking of letting someone else solve them because they\'re certainly not ramping up their R&amp;D...<br><br>Sorry to be so harsh, Scoble, but I\'m only going on what I read in the news and what I see in MSFT\'s financial statements...I think MSFT should expand its research budget, obviously!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619215" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619215">Goebbels</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619215" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619215" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d fire you for being a lackey, shill, kissass. Not for criticizing: you don\'t do that enough. Hell, I\'d fire you jsut for all the "Wow"ing in your silly videos.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619216">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619216" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619216" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619216" href="http://blog.havagan.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Havagan</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619216" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619216" class="dsq-comment-message">Here you go, a "Fire Scoble" website...<br><br><a href="http://firescoble.ning.com/" rel="nofollow">http://firescoble.ning.com/</a><br><br>... maybe I\'ll build another Ning app to let people place bets on the outcome of the voting. =D<br><br>Paul</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619217">Goebbels</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619217" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619217" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh... reading the quote, it kind of makes sense. my interpretation is: you pay a guy for his criticism so that you can say "look, we criticize ourselves" to the outside world, but no one in the outside world believes it and the outside world does more and better quality criticizing from without... So why pay him for a useless exercise.<br><br>That makes sense.<br><br>Fire Scoble for being both a lackey and a critic.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619218">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619218">J. Random Poster</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619218" class="dsq-comment-message">I absolutely want MS to keep you, but remember that I\'m rooting for MS\'s speedy demise.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619219">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619219">mcd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619219" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert - You\'re going to make this guy a lot of money with all the free advertising for his products. He came to Microsoft with an agenda and you\'re helping him immensely. Maybe, Dave Winer will go miedieval on his rear and get him boosted higher into the Meme-o-sphere.<br><br>Keep calling \'em as you see \'em... I\'ve never caught you being so harsh on your employer that they would benefit from canning you. There\'s an intangible quantity that the big accounting firms like to put in the balance sheet under the heading "Goodwill". You make MS seem like kinder and gentler rapacious overlords... and that\'s really quite a hat trick.<br>Keep working on making Scoblizing a verb that means<br>"to try to care about all sides at the same time and to fail more often than not." Go figure... Even Scoble can\'t make everyone happy. Especially a business author that wants to see LESS BS in the world and would never pay anyone to say he\'s usually full of it... as are most of us.<br><br>Maryam appears to actually be pretty close to on target when it comes to avoid spouting BS.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619220">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619220" href="http://blogs.dasmirnov.net/paul" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paul Smith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619220" class="dsq-comment-message">Companies need to be open to critism.  Especially when they\'re the size of Microsoft.  Employees need to feel able to speak their mind including critising thier company.<br><br>Good luck keeping staff at any company that fires people for speaking their mind, especially when they do such a great job serving the dev/tech community around the company like Mr Scoble does.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619221">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619221" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619221" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619221" href="http://jonahb.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jonah</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619221" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619221" class="dsq-comment-message">Adam, your accounting is faulty.  You recognize revenue when you add to accounts receivable.  Microsoft is simply transferring AR to cash, which has no effect on the income statment (profit), only on the balance sheet.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619222">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619222" href="http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anita Campbell</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619222" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope they are paying you hazardous duty pay or something!  It must be tough work for you to have to take all this crap from everyone and their aunt.<br><br>All the best,</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619223">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619223" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619223" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619223" href="http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Weiss</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619223" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619223" class="dsq-comment-message">The question, "What do you think about what we are doing with blogs?" Came from your friendly neigborhood MacBU employee, yours truely. Now that you are driving traffic to his site, I maybe I should get a cut in his increased book sales... ;-)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619224">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619224" href="http://mamamusings.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Liz Lawley</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619224" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, I blogged the talk <a href="http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/microsoft_research_talk_why_business_people_speak_like_idiots.php" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619225">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619225" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619225" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619225">Bill Faulkner</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619225" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619225" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br> Welcome to fame. Most of these YAHOOS, yes I put it in caps on purpose, can\'t even crawl put of bed in the morning. Ignore them. Your dialog on this site has opened doors many didn\'t even know were closed.<br><br>Don\'t let it end. Fire you, I don\'t think so, give you a raise (;-))I don\'t think so. You are doing a job, a great one in my estimation, and that should be good enough.<br><br>When you close your eyes at night, do you feel good? If you do you won today.<br><br>Bill Faulkner</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619226">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619226" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619226">Dvorak C. Thurrot</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619226" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve maintained that Microsoft should fire you from the beginning of my trolling of your blog.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619227">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619227">Adam Carstens</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619227" class="dsq-comment-message">Adam here. I\'m really an idiot. Why would I compare the percent increase in revenue between an apple and an orange?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619228">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619228" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619228" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619228">Orbit</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619228" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619228" class="dsq-comment-message">I say we should cut the guy\'s tires :)</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619229">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619229" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619229" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619229" href="http://www.grannybuttons.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andrew Denny</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619229" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619229" class="dsq-comment-message">In olden days, the King\'s jester was allowed to say whatever was on his mind. So, whatever else people were thinking and were too afraid to say, the jester could say it. The King got the valuable feedback as to what was really happening out there, without it compromising his majesty.<br><br>Perhaps Scoble is King William\'s jester?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619230">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619230" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619230" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619230" href="http://www.whatcounts.com/blog?pid=965AABA79286169C" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Geller</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619230" class="dsq-comment-message">Man are you lucky! This is exactly the kind of activity that will elevate you to upper management even faster than we all expected. A "tool" like this guy seems so out of touch it\'s almost scary. There are still super smart people at MSFT and they already know the value you bring to Microsoft. Now with this guys talking trash you\'ll get even more exposure. There\'s really no such thing as bad press. They say that\'s not true, but it really is. Every exposure is an opportunity to, well, have a conversation.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619231">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619231" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619231" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619231">Mike</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619231" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619231" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble, ignore this guy. You\'ve done more to improve the image of MSFT through your blog and Channel 9 than anyone in the history of the company.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619232">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619232" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619232" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619232" href="http://www.simplyfired.com/video.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dave McClure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619232" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619232" class="dsq-comment-message">hey Robert -<br><br>well if you DO get fired, we can always feature you on <a href="http://SimplyFired.com" rel="nofollow">SimplyFired.com</a> :)<br><br>(now you *HAVE* to become one of our judges for the new video contest: <a href="http://www.simplyfired.com/video.php" rel="nofollow">www.simplyfired.com/video.php</a> )<br><br>lemme know when you get think pink slip, and we\'ll setup a shoot...<br><br>- dave mcclure<br>  <a href="http://www.SimplyHired.com" rel="nofollow">www.SimplyHired.com</a> | <a href="http://www.SimplyFIRED.com" rel="nofollow">www.SimplyFIRED.com</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619233">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619233" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619233" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619233">Karim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619233" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619233" class="dsq-comment-message">Put me down for one of those "Save Scoble" t-shirts.<br><br>-k.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619234" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619234" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619234" href="http://1000flowersbloom.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Law</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619234" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m in for a Save Scoble t-shirt too.<br><br>Robert telling it like it is part of what makes Microsoft seem much more human and much less clueless.<br><br>I think that anyone who advocates only putting on their "shiny happy corporate face" to the public these days is part of the old guard and the old way of doing things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619235" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619235" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619235" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erik Porter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619235" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619235" class="dsq-comment-message">The funniest part for me is that he probably thinks that saying that publicly will be good for his book sales.  Just shows how NOT good of a businessman he really is.  Isn\'t understanding your market and target audience part of knowing how to sell something (himself in this case)?  I didn\'t think bold, extremist statements sold stuff these days.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619236" href="http://drumsnwhistles.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">drumsnwhistles</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619236" class="dsq-comment-message">Gee, I\'ve been telling everyone you\'re the best thing to happen to Microsoft in a very long time.  Are you sure this guy isn\'t working for the competition?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619237" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619237" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619237" href="http://www.kernelmustard.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Steve Dispensa</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619237" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619237" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s nuts. He\'s simply saying he would be scared if he were in Microsoft\'s shoes, which says a lot more about him than it does about you. Says the reverse of Microsoft, though - willing to meet a challenge head-on.<br><br>Related: <a href="http://www.dooce.com" rel="nofollow">www.dooce.com</a> - read the "about me" stuff. She got fired for blogging. Note: sometimes NSFW.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619238" href="http://mikeabundo.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619238" class="dsq-comment-message">Brian Fugere\'s an idiot. Paying people to critique your products and services is nothing new; doing it in public only adds the benefit of public feedback.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619239" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619239" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lorelle VanFossen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619239" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619239" class="dsq-comment-message">As a past employee of Microsoft, and darn proud of what the company has done in spite of the media painting a bulls eye on it, I think that you are safe. After all, "know thine enemy" and "keep your enemy closer" are some serious truths. ;-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619240" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619240" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619240">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619240" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619240" class="dsq-comment-message">I am with Gobbels, as you don\'t even take a harsh critical tone, Gay Rights issues and iPods and the occasional MSN/Tablet/Marketing/Misc. rant, are the biggest hits, big deal, those are total safe zones. Start cutting into real bone, like shareholder action and frothing up the Feds, using information to hurt rather than help, releasing beta code, and sending away big customers, ruining contracts, all that would be an instant ticket out the door. You are their puppet, faux critical pointless yabberings that look like it\'s internal self-criticism, but it\'s not even close (and as someone that has quite deadly-honest literally cost MFST mega-millions, I know of what I speak).<br><br>But how you get away with breaking the all the strict NDA convenants, is worthy of a case study itself. I guess like in politics, if you have enough friends, you become Above the Law. Or you get to speak in a \'human voice\' and rewrite your own set of rules, for the \'new age of market conversations.\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619241" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619241" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619241" href="http://sloantech.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Steve Sloan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619241" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619241" class="dsq-comment-message">How very un-Cluetrain of him!<br>I want a T-shirt too...<br><br>~Steve Sloan</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619242" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619242" href="http://nakedconversations.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">shel Israel</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619242" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619242" class="dsq-comment-message">Get fired.  We will have a great sequel.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619243" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619243" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619243">drew</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619243" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619243" class="dsq-comment-message">Context is everything.  I attended this speech, and it was actually full of references to Cluetrain, as well as admonishments that Microsoft should be more self-aware.  The whole thing was about discovering our personality and flexing our right brain.  The point about Scoble was just that we shouldn’t air our dirty laundry in public.  Microsoft employees should check out the speech online.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619244" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619244" class="dsq-comment-message">Shel: I\'m not being fired.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619245" href="http://jorgen.fatalt.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jørgen Veisdal</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619245" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s complete bullshit and everyone knows it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619246" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619246" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619246" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619246" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619246" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;The point about Scoble was just that we shouldn’t air our dirty laundry in public.<br><br>I disagree with straight up rules like that. There are sometimes reasons to share your dirty laundry in public. Why? Oh, credibility? Gaining trust?<br><br>Look at how Six Apart handled their dirty laundry just yesterday.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619247" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Arrington</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619247" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, whatever else you\'ve done, you\'ve put a human face to Microsoft, and the dividends it pays are enormous. And your ability to stay honest means that people trust your writing, even when you say great things about MS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619248" href="http://jorgen.fatalt.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jørgen Veisdal</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619248" class="dsq-comment-message">I would compare Microsoft before Scoble, like IBM before the PC. Big, corperate and completely unfriendly. It\'s so tru what Michael Arrington says, Scoble has put a face on Microsoft, and the fact that he gets to interview people like BillG, Ballmer and Alchin just shows how much they like him aswell.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619249" href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/pd</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619249" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey its not jus about dirty laundry !!<br><br>What\'s wrong with someone asking for your head eh?? Nothing wrong with that. What would be wrong is that you were fired, based on single opinion and not the facts. Secondly it would a gross mistake by the corporation to do that, as it will expose them for libel and unfair practices :)-<br><br>Actually jus to be mean, I wish you get fired - msft does not deserve your loyalty and intergrity !!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619250" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619250" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks guys, that means a lot.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619251" href="http://www.wackylabs.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sam Judson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619251" class="dsq-comment-message">Mamamusing has a post about this very talk, although she doesn\'t mention the bit about you.<br><br>Sounds like the talk was about trying to give Microsoft \'personality\' (along with "more persuasion, narrative, empathy") - which from my point of view is almost exactly what you do - so I shouldn\'t worry :)<br><br><a href="http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/microsoft_research_talk_why_business_people_speak_like_idiots.php" rel="nofollow">http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/27/micr...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619252" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619252">Kabbe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619252" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, just ignore him.<br>He truly doesn\'t understand that the public opinion of Microsoft has changed lately, and part of that is due to your work.<br>You have put a familiar face on Microsoft that has been lacking. We\'ve always had the gurus, our heroes, that we worship and adore. But we\'ve never had a face that wasn\'t related to coding.<br>I was at the PDC and when I met you in the hallways it was like meeting an old acquaintance.<br>Keep up the good work!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619253" href="http://technovia.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ian Betteridge</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619253" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll be happy when Robert eventually leaves Microsoft, so he can stop persuading me to reinstall MSN Desktop Search when Google Desktop is still so much better! I must have have swapped between the two a dozen times now... :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619254" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619254" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619254">Ross Jones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619254" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619254" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s face it - you\'d be at Google before the day was out if they fired you, and I doubt the Microsoft shareholders will be too happy about having to buy so many chairs ..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619255" href="http://proudlyserving.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Barr</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619255" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, I commented on the talk also...although the book might be interesting, the part about you made no sense and in fact contradicted the rest of what they said. Somebody above called it "un-Cluetrain"...no, they were actually quoting the Cluetrain Manifesto elsewhere.<br><br><a href="http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/10/business_poeple.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/10/...</a><br><br>- adam</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619256" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619256" href="http://proudlyserving.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Barr</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619256" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619256" class="dsq-comment-message">Although I\'ll point out, Robert, that you handle this pretty bloggily -- posting an article right away, based on second-hand evidence, rather than wait (as you admitted you could) a mere one day to see the tape yourself and make a more informed post. So you started with a disorted view and you had to know the comments would a) amplify the distortion and b) overwhelmingly support you. Ye gads I\'m starting to sound like Christopher Coulter.<br><br>- adam</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619257" href="http://homepage.mac.com/popemark/iblog/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">popemark</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619257" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble! I do not always agree with what you write, and would not necessarily say I am a fan of yours. BUT... Your blog has given me more respect for Microsoft than anything else they have done besides Office for the Mac. The fact that Microsoft is willing to promote open discussion of the pros and cons of their policies, marketing, and products goes a LONG way towards debunking the image of MS as pure evil.<br>Plus, for people who like MS technology, your entries make people excited about what is being developed, and anticipatory towards release. You are good for MS. And for the blogosphere. Keep it up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619258" href="http://www.fightthebull.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian Fugere</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619258" class="dsq-comment-message">So there’s a nice big Italian family that lives in Redmond.   Grandma and Grandma come from the old country, worked their butts off to build a very successful pasta company.   Nine children, 43 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren.   The family has made a lot of money off fussilli and rigatoni, and everyone in the family has nice jobs in the pasta business.    All built from scratch, and the patriarchs are justifiably proud of what they’ve created.<br><br>But the family has some problems (which ones don’t?).     There’s Uncle Vinny with the drinking problem.   Maria has had a couple of scrapes with the law.  And the business is having a few challenges.   There’s some unrest in the family, as the family members bicker over what needs to be done to take the business into the future.   One of the grandchildren is Roberto Scobaloney, who makes a nice living from the business.   But Scobaloney sees all the problems, and is very frustrated that Grandma and Grandpa don’t seem to get it.   He tries (or so we are told) to raise his concerns to Grandma and Grandpa, but just can’t seem to make any progress.     So he does something unheard of – Scobaloney decides that the family would be best served if he went public with his concerns.   He writes to the local newspaper and tells the paper everything he knows about the family and the pasta business – good and bad.   He reasons that this is actually good for the company, because it will force Grandma and Grandpa to finally make some changes.   And that will benefit the whole family.<br><br>In Grandma and Grandpa’s world, you simply don’t air dirty laundry in public.   Particularly things that the public doesn’t know about or wouldn’t be aware of, like Uncle Vinny’s drinking problem.    Being in the family allows you to scream and shout at the dinner table over pasta pomodoro and chianti, but nothing leaves the room. There is a contract, a code of honor.  In return for the benefits of being in the family and earning money in the business, the family asks for each family member’s loyalty to each other and to the family.   When one grandchild puts himself above the family and it’s code of honor, it weakens the family.  It breaks the bonds of loyalty,  shows that the family can’t work out things on its own.   And it puts one person above the law.<br><br>Scobaloney thinks this is hopelessly out of touch with the modern world.   Mutters something about a friend named Cluetrain.    Grandma and Grandpa are deeply wounded by Scobaloney.     Not so much for what he has said, but because the family that they worked so hard to nurture is weakened.   Because family is everything to them.  They could understand it if a reporter for the newspaper wrote about them, but a family member?  They can’t fire him, because he has backed them into a corner and that will just make them look bad.   And they can’t even criticize him, because that too would make them look bad.   And some of the issues he brings up, they can’t tell their side of the story because it’s private, and that would hurt the family.    But they are smart,  and they just decide to wait it out.    They know that all he really cares about is seeing his name in the newspaper,  and that one day all his self absorption and narcissism will make him irrelevant.   In fact, it’s happening already.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619259" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619259" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619259" class="dsq-comment-message">Brian: it\'s obvious you haven\'t followed any of my writing, any of my videos, or met me in person. It\'s really easy to attack someone who is doing something different. But EVERYTHING I do is aimed at bringing out the positive in Microsoft, not the negative. How many times over the past 2.5 years have I said something negative about Microsoft? Maybe 15? Out of thousands of posts?<br><br>Oh, and how do you explain the 2.7 million unique visitors on Channel 9 last month? With no advertising. No old-school PR. No links from <a href="http://Microsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Microsoft.com</a>.<br><br>Hint: it shows off what Microsoft is doing in a real, conversational, human, way.<br><br>And traffic is going up every month.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619260" href="http://www.msmvps.com/glach" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt Gerlach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619260" class="dsq-comment-message">Ive been reading you for about a year.  Most of the "negative" things you say, are meant for positive purposes.  Like calling out a product group\'s webpage, for lack of an RSS feed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619261" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619261" href="http://budi.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Budi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619261" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619261" class="dsq-comment-message">Think Different, Robert. Go to Apple :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619262">Andrew</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619262" class="dsq-comment-message">While i dont necessarily say you should be fired. I do wonder - do you do any actual work that is of a benefit to microsoft? Sure, i love your blog, and i love the insight, but do you really do anything all day long becides blog?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619263" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619263" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew: I do the video blog at <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com" rel="nofollow">http://channel9.msdn.com</a><br><br>Last month it had 2.7 million unique visitors.<br><br>My bosses are VERY happy with that. And, yesterday I was pitched by executives by some very big companies who want the same thing at their companies. Don\'t worry, though, I ain\'t leaving!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619264" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619264" href="http://www.misterorange.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Evan Erwin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619264" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619264" class="dsq-comment-message">Bah, this guy is an idiot. Worry not Scobes (can I call ya Scobes? Thanks), I think you\'ll be growing old, holding that blog torch as long as your fingers can grasp it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619265" href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/pd</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619265" class="dsq-comment-message">Brain: "self absorption and narcissism " ..then it takes one to recongize one ..and whats good for the goose should be for the gander too !! :)-<br><br>Its so unfortune that you still have one foot in your mouth when commenting here !! Can you take it out before your next comments ??   any Hoot do you have u read this <a href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/blogs_everywher.html" rel="nofollow">somewhere</a><br><br>"Scobles in Siberia ?? Yes, I nearly fall of my chair laughing. Its so wierd, but so beliveably true!! This is what Blogsphere is all about.<br><br>"When Ted Demopoulos, principal of Demopoulos Associates, an information technology consulting company, was traveling in Russia recently, he stopped in Surgut, Siberia, where he was surprised to find Scoble fans. "I\'m out in the middle of nowhere and they ask me about Scoble," says Demopoulos. "To them, Scoble is the voice of Microsoft.""<br><br><br>geeee.. get a life Brain !!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619266" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619266" href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/pd</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619266" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619266" class="dsq-comment-message">oh brain...while reading you might was well see Scobles ranking in terms of PR :)--<br><br>my old cull is here..<br><a href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/blogging_pr.html" rel="nofollow">http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/blo...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619267">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619267" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619267" href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TDavid</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619267" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft already pays people to be critical of their products. I\'m sure execs listening to this said: "hasn\'t this guy ever heard about our usability testing?"<br><br>One of the first things they tell you is: "we aren\'t judging you, only what you say, so go ahead and be as critical as you like."<br><br>What Scoble is doing at his blog is just an extension of this type of testing that Microsoft already believes in and has been doing for quite some time.<br><br>Also, anybody that hasn\'t checked out the ton of videos Scoble has shot and published over at Channel 9 and is solely judging his value by what he says on his blog isn\'t being very thorough. He\'s done some exciting work over at Channel 9. He has said repeatedly that this blog isn\'t his job though he certainly uses it from time to time to pimp his employer.<br><br>I will admit though that some of Scoble\'s blog posts and comments are very contradictory. That\'s annoying as a reader and I wish he\'d work on being a little more consistent, but that\'s just one reader\'s complaint, as I\'m sure plenty of others enjoy his waffling on some things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619268" href="http://www.feedblog.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Burton</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619268" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope they DO fire you so you can go work for Apple and use your powers for good instead of evil :-)<br><br>Kevin</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619269">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619269" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619269" href="http://www.kbcafe.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Randy Charles Morin</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619269" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619269" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;Maybe I should start a Web site: Fire Scoble or not.<br><br>This could be the start of the Web2.0 social application. Fire xxx or not. Maybe we can cook this up in Ning.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619270">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619270" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619270" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619270" href="http://todd.dailey.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Todd Dailey</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619270" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619270" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with Kevin.<br><br>Fire Scoble!  :)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619271">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619271" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619271" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619271">shaitan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619271" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619271" class="dsq-comment-message">And I\'ve always thought you were the apologist for MS and Defender of the Faith regarding the horible tablet pc. I guess it depends on what side you are being view from. This guy must have the sun in his eyes.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619272">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619272">Thomas</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619272" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d love for Microsoft to fire Scoble, then as a Mac User I can give up any thought of freely buying an MS product again. As long as that scoundral Scoble works there I can\'t deny the possibility, darn him! :-)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619273">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619273" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619273" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619273" href="http://liberalquicksand.blogs.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fourputtinski</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619273" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619273" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s start a "Save Scoble" fund drive and then donate the proceeds to your favorite charity.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619274">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619274" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619274" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619274">truthteller</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619274" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619274" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t it obvious??  Scoble is all about Scoble.  God only knows what his job is other than to promote himself.  I mean look at the entries.  I met this CEo, this important dude, that star, got invited to this conference, spoke at this meeting, ad nauseum.  GAG ME!!  Every once in a while he writes something negative about MS to get attention, keep his street cred up, and make it impossible for MS to fire him.<br><br>I think Channel 9 is a step in the rite direction toward a real job.  That does a human face on stuff at MS.  So I guess I would only cut his salary in half.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619275">jw</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619275" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, can we see your job description?   I think there\'s a good pt about what microsoft pays you to do.  I mean, it seems like a pretty good gig to be able to just get up in the morning and post whatever you feel like.  the rest of us have to work for a living.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619278" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619278" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619278">Jet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619278" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619278" class="dsq-comment-message">Who cares?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619279">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619279" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619279" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthteller: I only blog at nights and weekends. My day job is Channel 9. JW: if you don\'t think what I do is work, why don\'t you try doing it sometime? I am answering email, being here for customers, connecting people, writing strategy, and doing a lot more too. Oh, and it\'s 2:54 a.m. and I\'m giving two speeches later today at the Blog Business Summit too.<br><br>Yeah, it is extremely gratifying work. It isn\'t doing roofing in 110 degree heat. I\'m having a ball. But it isn\'t easy. If you think it is, I\'d be happy to fly you here for a couple of days and see how well you do at it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619280" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619280" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619280" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619280" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619280" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a Saturday, no less.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619281">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619281" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9619281">zenosox</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619281" class="dsq-comment-message">Nietzsche once said "truths are but lies we agree to recite to each other." Quoting the Cluetrain does not mean you really understand it.  Robert, never apologize for being part of the conversation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619282" href="http://www.synaesmedia.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">phil jones</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619282" class="dsq-comment-message">Strange, did you just delete my comment, Robert? Did I do something wrong?  (Confused)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619283" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619283" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619283" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619283" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619283" class="dsq-comment-message">Phil: I don\'t delete comments, not sure what happened.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619284" href="http://www.fightthebull.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian Fugere</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619284" class="dsq-comment-message">As the notorious author who ripped Scoble during a recent speech at Microsoft, it’s been interesting to watch the conversation unfurl.    After extricating my size 9 ½ Nikes from their resting spot deep inside my oral cavity, I’ve had time to do some research (OK, OK  – this should have come before my comments, not after).    My real interest is not whether Scoble is a good guy (he is), whether he’s technically credible (he is), or whether he wears boxers or briefs (too much information).  What I really care about is whether or not he’s actually good for Microsoft.<br><br>Let me start off with what’s not so good for Microsoft.   One of my major issues is that sometimes it doesn’t make a lot of sense to air Microsoft  dirty laundry in public.   Sometimes, it’s better to keep things in the family, and Scoble (IMHO) has occasionally crossed the line here.<br><br>Scoble, you responded to this issue by referencing the recent Six Apart public apology  for issues they were having.   Agree – the Six Apart apology was a good thing for them to do.    But the apology came from its founder and president.   This represented the official view of the company, coming straight from the founder’s mouth.  It didn’t come from a “technical evangelist” or some other random employee.   The problem is when technical evangelists get themselves confused with founders and CEO’s.   So when Scoble rails against MS for their anti-discrimination policy (for example), he’s a rogue voice (regardless of how you feel about the issue) who happens to have an oversized megaphone.    Like a union organizer, he invites sympathetic voices to join him in his proletariat march.   There are plenty of outsiders who will kindly do that for you, free of charge!   I’m as new age as they come when it comes to corporate conversations, but no amount of dope from the Cluetrain pipe will convince me that this type of public issue mongering is good for any company.   Sensitive issues sometimes need to stay at the family dinner table.   It’s hard for me to see how backing leadership into a corner and forcing them to debate delicate internal issues in public is a good thing for MS.   Scoble has created huge stature for himself, and with that stature comes a responsibility to, well, be responsible.<br><br>The tough thing for Scoble to do, and he seems to be doing it exceptionally well, is to walk the very fine line between constructive critique and destructive criticism.   I worry that his credibility is somewhat reliant on his willingness to be critical – that creates some warped incentives.   But Scoble seems to be very very skillful at navigating that narrow balance beam.<br><br>Having said all that, I looked at the impact of Scoble overall.   When viewed in the aggregate, I must admit that what he is doing is good for the company.      The main point of our speech at MS was around their need to develop more personality as they evolve.   Feature and function superiority alone won’t cut it in a world craving humanity, meaning, candor, simplicity and authenticity.  In a way, that actually describes what  Scoble is all about.    He has put a more human face on MS, and his straightforward and authentic voice seems to be changing conversations and attitudes at MS.    He pushes the company to raise the bar with its products, but does so in a way that is positive.   It is still unfolding, and much of what makes it work is Scoble’s personal prowess at doing what he does.   So overall, I was wrong about his impact on Microsoft.   It’s pretty clear that he is having a positive influence not only with the outside world, but perhaps more importantly inside MS.<br><br>As Yogi Berra so eloquently put it, I made a wrong mistake.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619285" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619285" href="http://www.synaesmedia.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">phil jones</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619285" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619285" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, not really criticising. I didn\'t think you\'d delete it, so probably just some technical glitch. I wonder if you have a spam filter that takes out comments with too many URLs?<br><br>Anyway, Fugere\'s responses here seems to back up my assertion that Fight the Bull are positioning themselves as "the Conservative Cluetrain"<br><br><a href="http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2005/10/scoble-should-be-fired-author-tells.html" rel="nofollow">http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2005/10/scoble...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9619286">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9619286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9619286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9619286" href="http://www.jonheupel.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jon Heupel</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9619286" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9619286" class="dsq-comment-message">"The main point of our speech at MS was around their need to develop more personality as they evolve. Feature and function superiority alone won’t cut it in a world craving humanity, meaning, candor, simplicity and authenticity"<br><br>Aren\'t you behind here?  It seems like you are advocating them doing what they have been doing for over a year or so.  Isn\'t microsoft\'s push to msdn blogs, channel9 and other moves lately already make it obvious that this was planned strategy by MS to soften their image after all the monopoly talk over IE vs Netscape finished up?<br><br>I don\'t disagree with you but I think Scoble is the direct result of a company initiative not the seeds of a new one.  I\'m not so sure they intended one person to become almost like a PR guy for uber nerds but I do think overall he was planned in general.</div>\
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		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=scobleizer&t=scoble_should_be_fired_author_tells_microsoft&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




