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"points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The d-list is the new A-list.  Viva la opportunidad to talk to whomever I want to talk to any way I want to whenver I want to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_16:12:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "fmckenna", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But will these new stars be as big as the old stars were? I don't think we'll duplicate what happened once do to the reasons I stated above.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:56:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 875337, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "878342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great points Mack.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:49:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 877917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "872839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's about time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_02:23:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Scobleizer", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I thought about not using it Steve, but there it was in the #3 google images result for Scoble. I figured it was fair game?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:51:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 876457, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "873868": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jim- interesting take on this and an entertaining read! <br><br>Not sure I completely agree; although there is definitely a leveling in the influence sphere thanks to the Internet. More so, it seems to follow a very Hollywood-esqe cycle. There's just a new generation of A-listers/Digirati whatever you want to call them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_08:53:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "gloriakt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree - the social network and the ease of the tools gives everyone the opportunity to make their point \"pimp\" their blog and have their say. The mere fact that I came to this via a \"re Plurk\" makes the point entirely. Welcome to the new age - but please learn the etiquette. That is the message - despite what we think there are rules and if broken like any form of communication you will be excluded.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:48:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "JimBob51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Very nice little post. Definitely gives the ins-and-outs of the power structures in the online world and how they change. Notice it is no different than the physical world, but online the power to spread information and communicate is not so easy to take away as it is in the physical realm. <br><br>This is why grassroots movements are so powerful and why the online world scares old media so much...they can't keep their position's entrenched anymore. Change this fast is something their entire world can't cope with, and they are quite aware that they are becoming rapidly obsolete.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_16:15:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "thePuck", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The first point about social networks is extremely cogent.  Instead of reading TechCrunch or Daily Kos, I'll read folks like Dare Obasanjo for tech and Kevin Bondelli for politics.  In many ways, with tools like the Facebook's news feed + share functionality, Windows Live What's New, Twitter, and FriendFeed; instead of reading the \"a-list\" my social network filters quality posts for me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_11:11:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "d70beaf3ce13e9f29174beb2c0a73ad2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can't be too Z-List, your showing up on Techmeme this morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_12:17:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "jshultz", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 872884, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "2nd try.<br><br>I think anything that will help the blogosphere mature is a good thing. We still need to grow up and into our own clothing, so to speak.<br><br>But I also don't think the A-listers are going to \"die.\" They will always be around - and I think Scoble knows this. Circumstances don't change overnight - so unless they all go Calacanis on us, I expect there will always be A-listers.<br><br>That said - they might be less important than A-listers are today. And that's good. Next time I run into scoble I can speak to him blogger-to-blogger instead of blogger-to-fanboy.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "digidave", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 872839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "873878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think there were many factors in the demise of these mythical creatures.<br><br>You've got the democratization of tools and technology. It's not so exotic to put up videos and podcasts anymore.<br><br>And the companies releasing the latest Web 2.0 vapor service stopped making these guys the gate keepers. The invites started going to the unwashed masses, too.<br><br>Not to mention that the \"a-list\" shifted from being cutting edge to tacky and entitled. A smarmy bunch with multiple devices on their belts and inside jokes.<br><br>In the end, they were the last to realize the punchline, for it was them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_08:55:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "affiliatetip", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "970519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wish you were right... I really do", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_17:12:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "simonstudio", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "877465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The a-list died because they became arrogant, obnoxious and gay", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_21:33:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "0d1952bd15cd6b2a24f656178e392901", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "874907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post. As someone who regularly gets called an \"A-Lister\", I wrote about the same thing just over a year ago <a href=\"http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004018.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archive...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_12:18:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6e3d9ada1514547b9fec62f3561633f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "873884": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, technically the A list isn't dead until Technorati is a permanent 404 or \"site not found\"....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_08:57:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "MarkDykeman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "880541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not sure I consider myself a geek, just an accountant who has an interest and aptitude for technology more than the average CPA.  I heard about this post from Twitter, which all of my accounting readers are scared to death of.  Except the ones at the beginning of their careers (and a few other hybrids like me.)  The 20-somethings are into everything , 24/7, and don't  call it \"social media.\"  It just is. And they don't wait for permission from anyone to reach out or to give their opinion.  I like that and they push and pull me to to do what I've always done, network, only using new tools.  Scoble, Calacanis, Arrington? Might as well be Rocky and Bullwinkle to me and to the 20-somethings.  As obscure as those cartoon characters except for the fact sometimes they show up and assume everyone is going to be entertained.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_13:57:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "fmckenna", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 878269, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, people are still paying attention to guys like Scoble. There's nothing wrong with that. I follow him and I like reading his thoughts My point was that \"his kind\" is not needed as much anymore.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:58:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 874479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "876421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a great post!  I have been so annoyed by Scoble, Arrington and Feldman lately.<br><br>They really think they are the \"A Team\".   They are the nothing team.<br><br>Because of this post I am going to stop following them on Twitter.  I suggest you do the same.<br><br>The reality is that TechCrunch is a piece of SH__ site now.  You can get much more relevant information on other blogs.  Did you see the site this week?  I thought I was on <a href=\"http://Apple.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple.com</a><br><br>Great - Great article!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:09:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3f4170cab3359bc32154337c72c25f6f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GREAT points Shawn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:59:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 873878, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "878243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The a-list died because individuals with minimual journalistic talent and/or experience adopted the blogging medium early. Because it was novel and because a lot of people were out of work due to the dot com bubble bursting, they garnered a following.<br><br>Now its five years latter. The professional journalists have adopted the medium, writing quality content on a regular basis is hard, and for most of the audience the novelty has warn off and they are back to work and don't have the time or interest to read sub par content.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:08:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a590a71bb9a8d655993a450f6b7fac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True,as social media has changed, the present 'A listers' have failed to change with it. <br><br>There's probably a natural arrogance that tends to go with being on an A list of any sort, but if those on it don't learn to flow with the tide, they go the way of the dinosaur!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:09:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ozegold", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's pretty much what I alluded to in my piece Mark, we agree.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:53:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 875963, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "874023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good points, Jim but I think platforms like Twitter and FriendFeed help reinforce, not tear down, the traditional notion of a tech/geek a-list.  It is lame that Rose, Calacanis, etc use these as personal mailing lists but people do flock to them b/c it's entertainment.<br><br>To me, the a-list is all about aggregation and sorting.  People like Steve Rubel or Louis Gray or Wayne Sutton are \"a-listers\" for me b/c of the info sorting they do.  However, they don't play the drama games, so they're not San Fran style a-listers.  Like you said, that notion is becoming very subjective.  <br><br>Regardless, my wife will always look at me like a loser when I try to fill her in on the latest exploits of Puppet Shel b/c this stuff just doesn't matter outside our little bubble.  <br><br>As Hugh McLeod (is he an a-lister?) drew, \"Change the world or go home.\"<br><br>Sam", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_09:32:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "samharrelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "882774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post and so true. The numbers game is getting kinda weak - time to put up or move aside.<br><br><br><br>And btw - that picture is going to scar me for the rest of my life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_19:43:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "sonnygill", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spot on... I still look to folks like this for some interesting stuff, but they are really becoming like any other source of information. I do not intend to take away from what they have done, or continue to do... <br><br>Other forms of distribution have made access to information easier, but I still think people want a home base... the question is really where that home base will land.<br><br>Great post and great opinions... thanks for sharing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_11:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "changeforge", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I still think once an a-lister always an a-lister. Imagine for example what will happen if Calacanis decides to restart blogging, microblogging or whatever it is ppl do in 3 years from now. Quite likely his older 'following' will still remember him - and give him their attention. Even if as a test to begin with.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:20:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c670cd53519ec7efbde144d9d3fa6519", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL. How prophetic!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:50:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 877465, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "879277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Select blog stars will become much larger and morph into global columnists. Makes me think of HuffPo, that's not even a blog anymore.<br><br>Some bloggers will always post 10x a day, the usefulness of this schedule will become less important to most readers. Think NYT op-ed page.<br><br>People love the quickness of blogs, but I would does that help them do you job better or become more efficient or make more money? Not for the majority of readers.<br><br>Maybe I'm too focused on the post-anytime nature of blogs today, but still, I'd rather read and write longer though pieces than 150 words several times a day. Still, I think today's A-listers are brealy breaking the surface. Just wait until blog translation services start to emerge and China is reading you.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_09:30:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "daveevans", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 878358, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Z-List is the new A-List.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:00:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Scobleizer", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 874899, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PPS  After reading the comments, some people are in serious denial. These peopler didn't get to he A-list by being self-appointed. They got the traffic from somewhere. ... I am not in a tech / geek (used in the nicest possible way) industry and simply had no need to follow these people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_00:22:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "templestark", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just as proof of my point about FriendFeed and Twitter, there are more comments on Scoble's FriendFeed flow b/c of his aggregation of his Disqus comment below than there are here: <a href=\"http://friendfeed.com/e/68ccb1f2-8371-db2f-7f73-6f1a2897209b\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://friendfeed.com/e/68ccb1f2-8371-db2f-7f73...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_09:34:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "samharrelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 874023, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "872884": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Right, what took so long? A z-lister wants to know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_02:37:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 872839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "876190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Louis Gray is a GREAT case study. He came out of nowhere, he seemingly writes intelligent stuff, and thus the hype machine started around him--- that hype machine is run by people, not him, unwittingly catapulting him higher up a list. He got the attention of the A-list who, mention him to a HUGE audience, etc etc, you see how the cycle happens. Out of  20K fanboys, someone is bound to go 'oh yeah this guy's all right' and then boom. Multiplication.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_16:19:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ericrice", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 875337, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "877023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know that there ever has been an \"A-List\" - because if there were, we could all go access one site and pull them up.<br>There will always be people whose voices we listen too - and always be those whose voices are more popular at any given moment than others.<br>Internet \"A-Listers\" are not unlike Football stars - any given season, there are some who are breaking all the records and getting all the headlines.<br>But you've mentioned some names that I think more relate to \"Hall of Famers\" - because whether or not they are setting the record this season, their names will be remembered and written about for years to come.<br><br>The metaphor really works for me, because there are always hot new quarterbacks or runningbacks or receivers - but they may not live up to the hype, or they may not have had any hype, but have come from a walk-on at training camp to being MVP at the SuperBowl on any given year.  Still, it takes time to see whether or not someone will have the kind of game that makes you remember them past this season.<br><br>The \"A-list\" you mentioned were more like the Joe Namaths and Jerry Rices and Mean Joe Greens of the blogosphere.  We'll have new \"A-listers\" but whether or not they'll be Hall-of-Famers remains to be seen.,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_19:31:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "GeekMommy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Best observation you have posted lately . R.I.P. to A-List.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_09:36:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruggedlaptops", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whatever you call early adopter/leader-geeky-techy whatever, professional new media is rising out of early, quirky tech stuff. More will be revealed. I love speculative fiction, but in real life, I'm happy to wait and see what happens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:44:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "madpotter", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another angle is the A-listers have been around for a long time - and it's the fact they started early that has given them some of their A-list stature. Not surprisingly, their acts are getting tired. <br><br>Scoble is a good example. He has his 15 minutes of fame, and then some. But - and I don't mean to be at all disrespectful - Scoble's biggest advantage a few years ago was he worked for Microsoft and had extraordinary latitude in what he write about. Then, the novelty wore off so did Scoble's act. <br><br>Meanwhile, other interesting voices came on the scene that while they may not have had the same access as Scoble, they brought something different to the table. <br><br>It may not be that the A-list is dying as much as it's being supplanted or infiltrated by new people.<br><br>Mark", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_15:31:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "buckpost", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "excellent - the d-list is the new A-ist ;-) shades of but for a typo in the original, \"the geek shall inherit the earth.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:17:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "templestark", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 876164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Time to start a tribe of A-list commenters, Let's call it America's got Comments, or Comment Idol. Who gets to be the 'Hoff?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_16:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "daveevans", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 876190, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "880041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good post there..<br>This is what i agree with entirely -<br><br>The a-list died because we\u2019re tired of them and their incessant drama and posturing for attention. We all just decided enough was enough and called bullshit. It was bound to happen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_12:15:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "sizzler_chetan", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "883395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank for such a wonderful idea.really thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_21:41:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "amirulcyber", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "873028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right. It is an outstanding idea that made them dead. Don't you think they will come alive? :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_03:23:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "jackst", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Darn, that's what happens when I post before coffee. Meant to write that,\"...this couldn't happen\", not could happen.<br><br>Like everything, the..., well downward is the only word coming to mind, distribution on social networks follows a well worn path that others have faced with the increased penetration and use of that clich\u00e9, the Net. That this has happened to the a-list was inevitable.<br><br>I think this also happened because these folks were not doing anything to adopt to the changes around them--their relevance was lost to the passage of time and technology. They did not adapt but instead used the time they had, not to grow, but to indulge in, especially in Arrington's case, an themselves and who they had become.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_11:43:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "fdf2e1731db84899ac0630f92a830e12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 874621, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This post was SO right - we might need great bloggers, but we don't need celebrities. The great bloggers and writers will naturally rise to the top because of their great content, that's all it takes.<br>Thanks for this great post, just stumbled it :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_12:58:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "kolson29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "880072": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, great point Brian. Tech used to \"be\" blogging mainstream, you're right.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_12:21:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 879858, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "875337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is a big difference between an A-list and early adopters. In a year it's going to be a whole new crew, I agree with the Hollywood comment, we will create our own stars.<br><br>Look at Lewis Grey (just an example, I don't know him but his writing is ok.) Who is he and why should we care? Just because someone with a lot of followers says he is worth a read doesn't mean he's worth our time. The masses blindly follow because they are told to. Take very little reputation to sway peoples attention. Interesting to see how this will all shake out over time and we get past the ongoing echo chamber effect.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:25:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "daveevans", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "877616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A-list or not, I find TechCrunch interesting and even valuable sometimes. Scoble -- iditotic, self-agrandizing windbag. Calcanis, never bothered reading. Winer, read once or twice and found nothing interesting (he seemed pissed off in both the visits I made in fact). I'm not interested in celebrity in the slightest. Provide useful and interesting content that is original and not just repeating what others say (a la Scoble) and I'll read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_22:01:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "389613e6454a0a38dce7fd6f866a2d62", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "881357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shawn, tacky and entitled is SOOO true.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_16:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "9564c9f90b3ed9fec1a631d3752089e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 873878, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not all content is created equal.  The bloggers with higher sociometry will always have more hits and make more in ad revenue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:26:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Thaed", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know if I will be able to sleep tonight after seeing that photo of Shel and Scoble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:16:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "PodcastSteve", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "882258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Man you did a very good job of putting it in perspective.<br>Paul", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_18:06:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "paulmccord", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's an a-list?  Wow, ok so what happened to reading and following those who happen to have the background, experience and perhaps a little bit of difference to them that your attention is grabbed regardless of whether or not they are well-known or well-loved by all around them?  It's high school all over again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_00:04:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "sbullo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A-lists never die, they just evolve, through every industry, media type and beyond. We are animals, and we put people on A-lists whether we think we do or not.<br><br>Being considered A-List puts you in a position to get things others can not. We are deeply aware of this (especially if we don't have access to things that we want access to). And that brings up envy and greed, and a whole pandorian box of stuff to face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_16:12:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "ericrice", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for all the comments and feedback on my little rant I wrote at 2am last night on a quick thought. And yes, I do see the complete irony that this post is currently at the top of Techmeme. Haha. Welcome to all the new people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_14:36:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "876375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am the A List now, and all you Web 2.0 wankers and Social Media slackers must become my slaves and promoters. I command you now to help Loren Feldman find a girlfriend and get a real job, so I don't have to listen to sock puppets anymore. And help me find a way to get Jesse Jackson to say he wants to cut something off of me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:00:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "51ce059c95f8a33f1950b15a28afb817", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Have we all lost our minds?  Maybe I should let us all fantasize in this little bubble where everyone is famous, making no-one famous in our echo chamber or beyond.  But that just isn't human nature.  We will always look to raise some people (and their content) above the rest.  We will always make value judgments. And that's ok.  That is how we are structured.<br><br>There will always be an A-List.  We will simply replace Scoble and Calacanis with Louis Gray and Corvida.  Honestly.  It's like none of us ever suffered through sociology 101.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:01:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "PurpleCar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dangit, and I still don't show up on techmeme yet. I must be ZZ list. LOL. Oh well, I'm not too butt hurt about it. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:08:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "jshultz", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 875182, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's a simpler explanation, that I call the \"Two orders of magnitude overload conjecture\"... in a nutshell the (entirely legitimate, IMHO) leading lights, who helped improve the signal-to-noise ratio by being ahead of the pack and frequently providing insightful analyses, get swamped as the rest of the pack catches up (in this view, A-listers are heavily correlated with early adopters, though I agree with daveevans that the two are not synonynous); in general some percentage of these 'leading lights', 'thought leaders', whatever one wants to call them, will successfully find or create a new niche, and it turns out that \"merely\" following a select few can still improve the signal to noise ratio for people keen to keep up with \"what's happening\", until the noise level once again becomes overwhelming.  I wrote about this about 3 years ago in a brief guest stint on a top-rated blog (hah, now I've stopped blogging, go figure), that's in the archives here:<br><br><a href = \"http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2005/06/01/thought_leadership_and_the_twoordersofmagnitude_overload_conjecture.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2005/06/01/thought_leadership_and_the_twoordersofmagnitude_overload_conjecture.php</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:50:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "meisenstadt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "880767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What about the concept of the A-list now being supported by the media?  Mike Arrington remains large because he jumps on TV every so often.  Maybe the A-list isn't as strongly defined as it used to be, but I still think getting on CNBC is a milestone that separates you from those who haven't been on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_14:42:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "890f91fea540fa358157064f31b13dfa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "877917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Somewhere along the way, many of the (self) annointed A-Listers forgot that it's social media, and started using these wonderful tools as BROADCAST media.  They stopped promoting smart ideas, and started promoting themselves.  <br><br>And that just ain't too interesting...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_23:27:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "43d9c2bd223401dc64832600f1a24c4a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "will enjoy seeing TC slowly wilt on the vine and die<br><br>it really was just one dude's blog anyways<br><br>funny how there isn't much follow up on FF, who's afraid of big Mike Woooooooooooooo <br>perhaps an over investment in TC has happened over the last little while <br><br>i'm calling this TC50 the last one <br><br>that's not to say that Mike and JC aren't smart dude's, they are thought leaders, but they're not sergey and larry", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_18:24:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "8a55dd214dc69c8755f98e4205be31dc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The growth in the Bllogosphere is toward the local, or hyperlocal, if you prefer. There will always be an A-List, because quality rises, but the names on that list will vary from city to city.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_18:02:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Billy_Dennis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The \"A-List\" as just a made up list anyway. Another device used to create \"classes\", to discriminate, to create a fake hierarchy because that's the way humans are. <br><br>A-Lister's drinking fountains; non-A-lister's drinking fountains. It's 1950's America redux.<br><br>Good riddance to the \"A-List\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:30:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "KeithShepard", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "875112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There'll be something new...some new way to make a new A-List...I guarantee it...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_12:48:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "JTDabbagian", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "879337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Absolutely fair game, and very funny. I had the opportunity to get to know Shel at the SNCR New Communications Forum in California in April. He and I are both Senior Fellows of SNCR, so it was nice to meet in a peer setting. He's quirky, snarky, and very funny. Don't know Scoble, but he's made a very successful brand of himself.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_09:43:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "PodcastSteve", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 878345, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never thought of those guys as A-list anyway, and barely paid any attention.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_18:16:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e83e2dd3c312b212bb2a787c319425e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Depends on your frame of reference, doesn't it? To my dog, I'm an A-lister and Scoble is, well...I'd only be guessing. Most of the people I know have never heard of any of the folks mentioned in this column. But they've all heard of Stephen Colbert. Eddie Izzard is filling the Seattle Paramount two nights this weekend. Who's an A-lister.<br><br>On the other hand, Scoble has managed to hijack the the discussion of this post on FriendFeed. Someone is obviously paying attention to him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_11:04:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Michael_Markman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "878099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No freakin comments? Well, I for one enjoyed the piece. Right to the point, not a word wasted and no blame attached. I don't know if it's because I just don't care or what but these A-listers have not factored into my life AT ALL. The same as network primetime news - never watched em, never cared.<br><br>PS. oh the comments are down there below this field. Nevermind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_00:19:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "templestark", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "877937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Meh, there are far more people willing to lap up any content created by Kevin Rose than those living in the social media world. There's still an A-List (for now). I don't even see it as wounded. <br><br>In the future, I think I will see a lot of independent and niche-driven \"Mini-A-Lists\" if you will... but looking to a small group of people that end up as celebrities will never go away. It's the way of the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_23:31:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "schwegler", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "879858": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great post Jim. I think the one point you don't address is that tech used to = blogging. Now it doesn't (not even close), but the tech guys don't realize that most people could care less about geekery... blogging is not about technology, it's about people. The more \"normal\" the blogging demographic looks, the less relevant the nerd herd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_11:36:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "d7aefb483d40d6bd63ffca20a98e6bea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "875763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok, I'm officially not on any list anymore. I'm writing a letter to the commander. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_14:41:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "jimkukral", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 875182, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "875252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I too think it's about time. The blogosphere needs to grow up a bit and that won't happen if we rely on A-listers all the time. <br><br>Still: I don't think they will \"die\" - they'll just lose some influence and \"awe-ness.\" If I run into Scoble now, I don't need to be a fan boy, I can just talk to him blogger-to-blogger. <br><br>I think Scoble (above) also knows that the A-list isn't going to die. Situations and circumstances just don't disappear overnight. So - unless everyone goes Calacanis on us, tomorrow's techmeme will still be dominated by a few and I'll still feel \"privileged\" when I occasionally get on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_13:11:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "digidave", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 872839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Should I be amazed that I've been in online operations for years and never read anything by Scoble or Arrignton? However large you think the interwebz is, it's even bigger than that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_15:42:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a4052ff7e78ef6c81216d7a4146a03e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "883589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stupid question of the day. You are claiming the A-list is dead because of twitter, friendfeed and co, yet all the stats I see on twitter usage show power laws. Which to me imply the continued existence of an A-list.<br><br>Whether the a-list still includes calcanis and scoble I have no idea. In fact, I unfollowed scoble because he made lots of twitter noise that i couldn't be bothered keeping up with. His breathless excitement was off putting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_22:12:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "DomesticMouse", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "878260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a little black and white but I like Steve's answer.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_01:14:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "templestark", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 878243, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "876415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I kind of alluded to \"you don't need to be jaffe to make your mark\" in my last blog post. You said it WAY better than I could. Excellent article.<br><br>-Craig", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:08:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdaitch", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "876540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Enjoyed the sentiment of the post, but methinks that picture crosses the line of the news that's fit to print..<br><br>I hope you are right that the A list is fading away, though  I think that's too optimistic.   Link patterns really favor the initial bloggers, and they like to stick together.   That said I am a big fan of Scoble and think he has done a lot to bring new people into the mix thanks to the way he links out and produces such a huge volume of content and does not use the strategic, commercially driven linking we find at most of the other top blogs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_17:37:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "JoeDuck", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Un oh, Arrington is NOT going to like this. Could have happened to a better...(noun I can't write).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_11:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "fdf2e1731db84899ac0630f92a830e12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "938885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Until a single so-called A-lister becomes anything more than a Z-lister in the real world - I mean, really, as others have said, even within the Internet itself most of these people are complete unknowns to the majority of everyday folk - I'm not sure anything of this really matters, does it? I can't think of a single blogger who is famous outside of the blogosphere. Even Kevin Rose is a complete nobody to the non-Digg user. David Spade owns him. Heck, Freddie Prinze Jr owns him.<br><br>Relatively, we're talking 'A-list' inside a very small bowl.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-18_22:06:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sheamus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "874879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How true. Your words truly echo my thoughts entirely. The time of blogging evangelists have fallen, the knowledge is now in the hands of the people. Ding, dong the A-listers are dead.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_12:13:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1c1e04812651574c4b268bb25a01eca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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": null, "theme": 2, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "1834792", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "10017", "hash": -7017785368063147602}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "the_death_of_the_a_list_93", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 82, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 1834792, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": null, "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "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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/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
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Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


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};

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 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
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	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
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	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 {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	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 onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

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

	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 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">82</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jimkukral.disqus.com/the_death_of_the_a_list_93/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://jimkukral.disqus.com/the_death_of_the_a_list_93/">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">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		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.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 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://jimkukral.disqus.com/the_death_of_the_a_list_93/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 ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">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 '';
	};

	//
	// 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 Jim Kukral" 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:1834792" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</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'				: 'jimkukral',
			't'				: 'the_death_of_the_a_list_93',
			// 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/jimkukral/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/jimkukral/the_death_of_the_a_list_93/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 onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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/jimkukral/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_death_of_the_a_list_93'
			+ '&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/jimkukral/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_death_of_the_a_list_93'
			+ '&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/jimkukral/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'the_death_of_the_a_list_93'
				+ '&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 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 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.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jimkukral/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// 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/1834792/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/jimkukral/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/jimkukral/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-872839">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-872839" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-872839" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-872839" href="http://scobleizer.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-872839" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-872839" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s about time.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-872884">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-872884" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-872884" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-872884" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-872884" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-872884" class="dsq-comment-message">Right, what took so long? A z-lister wants to know.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-874899">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-874899" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874899" href="http://theosmblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874899" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874899" class="dsq-comment-message">You can\'t be too Z-List, your showing up on Techmeme this morning.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-875182">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875182" href="http://scobleizer.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scobleizer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875182" class="dsq-comment-message">The Z-List is the new A-List.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-875226">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875226" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875226" href="http://theosmblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875226" class="dsq-comment-message">Dangit, and I still don\'t show up on techmeme yet. I must be ZZ list. LOL. Oh well, I\'m not too butt hurt about it. :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-875763">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875763" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875763" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875763" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875763" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875763" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, I\'m officially not on any list anymore. I\'m writing a letter to the commander. :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-875252">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875252" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875252" href="http://www.spot.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">digidave</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875252" class="dsq-comment-message">I too think it\'s about time. The blogosphere needs to grow up a bit and that won\'t happen if we rely on A-listers all the time. <br><br>Still: I don\'t think they will "die" - they\'ll just lose some influence and "awe-ness." If I run into Scoble now, I don\'t need to be a fan boy, I can just talk to him blogger-to-blogger. <br><br>I think Scoble (above) also knows that the A-list isn\'t going to die. Situations and circumstances just don\'t disappear overnight. So - unless everyone goes Calacanis on us, tomorrow\'s techmeme will still be dominated by a few and I\'ll still feel "privileged" when I occasionally get on.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-875284">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875284" href="http://www.spot.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">digidave</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875284" class="dsq-comment-message">2nd try.<br><br>I think anything that will help the blogosphere mature is a good thing. We still need to grow up and into our own clothing, so to speak.<br><br>But I also don\'t think the A-listers are going to "die." They will always be around - and I think Scoble knows this. Circumstances don\'t change overnight - so unless they all go Calacanis on us, I expect there will always be A-listers.<br><br>That said - they might be less important than A-listers are today. And that\'s good. Next time I run into scoble I can speak to him blogger-to-blogger instead of blogger-to-fanboy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-873028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-873028" href="http://natureheal.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jackst</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-873028" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-873028" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right. It is an outstanding idea that made them dead. Don\'t you think they will come alive? :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-873868" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-873868" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-873868">gloriakt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-873868" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-873868" class="dsq-comment-message">Jim- interesting take on this and an entertaining read! <br><br>Not sure I completely agree; although there is definitely a leveling in the influence sphere thanks to the Internet. More so, it seems to follow a very Hollywood-esqe cycle. There\'s just a new generation of A-listers/Digirati whatever you want to call them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-873878" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-873878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-873878" href="http://blog.affiliatetip.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shawn Collins</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-873878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-873878" class="dsq-comment-message">I think there were many factors in the demise of these mythical creatures.<br><br>You\'ve got the democratization of tools and technology. It\'s not so exotic to put up videos and podcasts anymore.<br><br>And the companies releasing the latest Web 2.0 vapor service stopped making these guys the gate keepers. The invites started going to the unwashed masses, too.<br><br>Not to mention that the "a-list" shifted from being cutting edge to tacky and entitled. A smarmy bunch with multiple devices on their belts and inside jokes.<br><br>In the end, they were the last to realize the punchline, for it was them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878369" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878369" class="dsq-comment-message">GREAT points Shawn.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-881357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-881357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-881357" href="http://www.thinkseer.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">wil reynolds</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-881357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-881357" class="dsq-comment-message">Shawn, tacky and entitled is SOOO true.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-873884" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-873884" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-873884" href="http://broadcasting-brain.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Dykeman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-873884" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-873884" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, technically the A list isn\'t dead until Technorati is a permanent 404 or "site not found"....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-874023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874023" href="http://www.samharrelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sam Harrelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874023" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874023" class="dsq-comment-message">Good points, Jim but I think platforms like Twitter and FriendFeed help reinforce, not tear down, the traditional notion of a tech/geek a-list.  It is lame that Rose, Calacanis, etc use these as personal mailing lists but people do flock to them b/c it\'s entertainment.<br><br>To me, the a-list is all about aggregation and sorting.  People like Steve Rubel or Louis Gray or Wayne Sutton are "a-listers" for me b/c of the info sorting they do.  However, they don\'t play the drama games, so they\'re not San Fran style a-listers.  Like you said, that notion is becoming very subjective.  <br><br>Regardless, my wife will always look at me like a loser when I try to fill her in on the latest exploits of Puppet Shel b/c this stuff just doesn\'t matter outside our little bubble.  <br><br>As Hugh McLeod (is he an a-lister?) drew, "Change the world or go home."<br><br>Sam</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874032" href="http://www.samharrelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sam Harrelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874032" class="dsq-comment-message">Just as proof of my point about FriendFeed and Twitter, there are more comments on Scoble\'s FriendFeed flow b/c of his aggregation of his Disqus comment below than there are here: <a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/68ccb1f2-8371-db2f-7f73-6f1a2897209b" rel="nofollow">http://friendfeed.com/e/68ccb1f2-8371-db2f-7f73...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-874040" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874040" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-874040">ruggedlaptops</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874040" class="dsq-comment-message">Best observation you have posted lately . R.I.P. to A-List.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-874479" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874479" href="http://mickelehsoap.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael_Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874479" class="dsq-comment-message">Depends on your frame of reference, doesn\'t it? To my dog, I\'m an A-lister and Scoble is, well...I\'d only be guessing. Most of the people I know have never heard of any of the folks mentioned in this column. But they\'ve all heard of Stephen Colbert. Eddie Izzard is filling the Seattle Paramount two nights this weekend. Who\'s an A-lister.<br><br>On the other hand, Scoble has managed to hijack the the discussion of this post on FriendFeed. Someone is obviously paying attention to him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878366" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878366" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878366" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, people are still paying attention to guys like Scoble. There\'s nothing wrong with that. I follow him and I like reading his thoughts My point was that "his kind" is not needed as much anymore.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874514" href="http://robdolin.spaces.live.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Dolin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874514" class="dsq-comment-message">The first point about social networks is extremely cogent.  Instead of reading TechCrunch or Daily Kos, I\'ll read folks like Dare Obasanjo for tech and Kevin Bondelli for politics.  In many ways, with tools like the Facebook\'s news feed + share functionality, Windows Live What\'s New, Twitter, and FriendFeed; instead of reading the "a-list" my social network filters quality posts for me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874621" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874621" href="http://jdh4.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Hillhouse</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874621" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874621" class="dsq-comment-message">Un oh, Arrington is NOT going to like this. Could have happened to a better...(noun I can\'t write).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-874693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874693" href="http://jdh4.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Hillhouse</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874693" class="dsq-comment-message">Darn, that\'s what happens when I post before coffee. Meant to write that,"...this couldn\'t happen", not could happen.<br><br>Like everything, the..., well downward is the only word coming to mind, distribution on social networks follows a well worn path that others have faced with the increased penetration and use of that cliché, the Net. That this has happened to the a-list was inevitable.<br><br>I think this also happened because these folks were not doing anything to adopt to the changes around them--their relevance was lost to the passage of time and technology. They did not adapt but instead used the time they had, not to grow, but to indulge in, especially in Arrington\'s case, an themselves and who they had become.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874652" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874652" href="http://www.changeforge.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChangeForge | Ken Stewart</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874652" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874652" class="dsq-comment-message">Spot on... I still look to folks like this for some interesting stuff, but they are really becoming like any other source of information. I do not intend to take away from what they have done, or continue to do... <br><br>Other forms of distribution have made access to information easier, but I still think people want a home base... the question is really where that home base will land.<br><br>Great post and great opinions... thanks for sharing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874879" href="http://www.lostartofblogging.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tibi Puiu</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874879" class="dsq-comment-message">How true. Your words truly echo my thoughts entirely. The time of blogging evangelists have fallen, the knowledge is now in the hands of the people. Ding, dong the A-listers are dead.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-874907" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-874907" href="http://www.gapingvoid.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hugh MacLeod</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-874907" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-874907" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post. As someone who regularly gets called an "A-Lister", I wrote about the same thing just over a year ago <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004018.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archive...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875112" href="http://www.jtdabbagian.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JTDabbagian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875112" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875112" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'ll be something new...some new way to make a new A-List...I guarantee it...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875169" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875169" href="http://katesays.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kolson29</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875169" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875169" class="dsq-comment-message">This post was SO right - we might need great bloggers, but we don\'t need celebrities. The great bloggers and writers will naturally rise to the top because of their great content, that\'s all it takes.<br>Thanks for this great post, just stumbled it :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875306" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875306" href="http://terrainnova.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dimitris</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875306" class="dsq-comment-message">I still think once an a-lister always an a-lister. Imagine for example what will happen if Calacanis decides to restart blogging, microblogging or whatever it is ppl do in 3 years from now. Quite likely his older \'following\' will still remember him - and give him their attention. Even if as a test to begin with.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875337" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875337" href="http://theprogressbar.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">daveevans</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875337" class="dsq-comment-message">There is a big difference between an A-list and early adopters. In a year it\'s going to be a whole new crew, I agree with the Hollywood comment, we will create our own stars.<br><br>Look at Lewis Grey (just an example, I don\'t know him but his writing is ok.) Who is he and why should we care? Just because someone with a lot of followers says he is worth a read doesn\'t mean he\'s worth our time. The masses blindly follow because they are told to. Take very little reputation to sway peoples attention. Interesting to see how this will all shake out over time and we get past the ongoing echo chamber effect.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876190" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876190" href="http://rezzing.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eric Rice</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876190" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876190" class="dsq-comment-message">Louis Gray is a GREAT case study. He came out of nowhere, he seemingly writes intelligent stuff, and thus the hype machine started around him--- that hype machine is run by people, not him, unwittingly catapulting him higher up a list. He got the attention of the A-list who, mention him to a HUGE audience, etc etc, you see how the cycle happens. Out of  20K fanboys, someone is bound to go \'oh yeah this guy\'s all right\' and then boom. Multiplication.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876222" href="http://theprogressbar.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">daveevans</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876222" class="dsq-comment-message">Time to start a tribe of A-list commenters, Let\'s call it America\'s got Comments, or Comment Idol. Who gets to be the \'Hoff?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878358" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878358" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878358" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878358" class="dsq-comment-message">But will these new stars be as big as the old stars were? I don\'t think we\'ll duplicate what happened once do to the reasons I stated above.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-879277" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-879277" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-879277" href="http://theprogressbar.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">daveevans</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-879277" class="dsq-comment-message">Select blog stars will become much larger and morph into global columnists. Makes me think of HuffPo, that\'s not even a blog anymore.<br><br>Some bloggers will always post 10x a day, the usefulness of this schedule will become less important to most readers. Think NYT op-ed page.<br><br>People love the quickness of blogs, but I would does that help them do you job better or become more efficient or make more money? Not for the majority of readers.<br><br>Maybe I\'m too focused on the post-anytime nature of blogs today, but still, I\'d rather read and write longer though pieces than 150 words several times a day. Still, I think today\'s A-listers are brealy breaking the surface. Just wait until blog translation services start to emerge and China is reading you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-875342">Thaed</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875342" class="dsq-comment-message">Not all content is created equal.  The bloggers with higher sociometry will always have more hits and make more in ad revenue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875363" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875363" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875363" href="http://keithshepard.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Keith Shepard</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875363" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875363" class="dsq-comment-message">The "A-List" as just a made up list anyway. Another device used to create "classes", to discriminate, to create a fake hierarchy because that\'s the way humans are. <br><br>A-Lister\'s drinking fountains; non-A-lister\'s drinking fountains. It\'s 1950\'s America redux.<br><br>Good riddance to the "A-List".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875440" href="http://mrshannigan.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lisa Russell</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875440" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875440" class="dsq-comment-message">OK- good point, but what the heck was that picture about?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875449" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875449" href="http://www.davistudio.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">madpotter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875449" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875449" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever you call early adopter/leader-geeky-techy whatever, professional new media is rising out of early, quirky tech stuff. More will be revealed. I love speculative fiction, but in real life, I\'m happy to wait and see what happens.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875483" href="http://www.clustrmaps.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">meisenstadt</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875483" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s a simpler explanation, that I call the "Two orders of magnitude overload conjecture"... in a nutshell the (entirely legitimate, IMHO) leading lights, who helped improve the signal-to-noise ratio by being ahead of the pack and frequently providing insightful analyses, get swamped as the rest of the pack catches up (in this view, A-listers are heavily correlated with early adopters, though I agree with daveevans that the two are not synonynous); in general some percentage of these \'leading lights\', \'thought leaders\', whatever one wants to call them, will successfully find or create a new niche, and it turns out that "merely" following a select few can still improve the signal to noise ratio for people keen to keep up with "what\'s happening", until the noise level once again becomes overwhelming.  I wrote about this about 3 years ago in a brief guest stint on a top-rated blog (hah, now I\'ve stopped blogging, go figure), that\'s in the archives here:<br><br><a href = "http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2005/06/01/thought_leadership_and_the_twoordersofmagnitude_overload_conjecture.php" rel="nofollow">http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2005/06/01/thought_leadership_and_the_twoordersofmagnitude_overload_conjecture.php</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875734" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875734" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875734" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875734" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for all the comments and feedback on my little rant I wrote at 2am last night on a quick thought. And yes, I do see the complete irony that this post is currently at the top of Techmeme. Haha. Welcome to all the new people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-875963" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-875963" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-875963" href="http://www.allaboutnortel.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Evans</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-875963" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-875963" class="dsq-comment-message">Another angle is the A-listers have been around for a long time - and it\'s the fact they started early that has given them some of their A-list stature. Not surprisingly, their acts are getting tired. <br><br>Scoble is a good example. He has his 15 minutes of fame, and then some. But - and I don\'t mean to be at all disrespectful - Scoble\'s biggest advantage a few years ago was he worked for Microsoft and had extraordinary latitude in what he write about. Then, the novelty wore off so did Scoble\'s act. <br><br>Meanwhile, other interesting voices came on the scene that while they may not have had the same access as Scoble, they brought something different to the table. <br><br>It may not be that the A-list is dying as much as it\'s being supplanted or infiltrated by new people.<br><br>Mark</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878348" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878348" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s pretty much what I alluded to in my piece Mark, we agree.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876015" href="http://www.1115media.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike1115</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876015" class="dsq-comment-message">Should I be amazed that I\'ve been in online operations for years and never read anything by Scoble or Arrignton? However large you think the interwebz is, it\'s even bigger than that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-876163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876163" href="http://rezzing.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eric Rice</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876163" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876163" class="dsq-comment-message">A-lists never die, they just evolve, through every industry, media type and beyond. We are animals, and we put people on A-lists whether we think we do or not.<br><br>Being considered A-List puts you in a position to get things others can not. We are deeply aware of this (especially if we don\'t have access to things that we want access to). And that brings up envy and greed, and a whole pandorian box of stuff to face.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876164" href="http://www.retheauditors.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">fmckenna</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876164" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876164" class="dsq-comment-message">The d-list is the new A-list.  Viva la opportunidad to talk to whomever I want to talk to any way I want to whenver I want to.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-878269">templestark</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878269" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878269" class="dsq-comment-message">excellent - the d-list is the new A-ist ;-) shades of but for a typo in the original, "the geek shall inherit the earth."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-880541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-880541" href="http://www.retheauditors.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">fmckenna</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-880541" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-880541" class="dsq-comment-message">Not sure I consider myself a geek, just an accountant who has an interest and aptitude for technology more than the average CPA.  I heard about this post from Twitter, which all of my accounting readers are scared to death of.  Except the ones at the beginning of their careers (and a few other hybrids like me.)  The 20-somethings are into everything , 24/7, and don\'t  call it "social media."  It just is. And they don\'t wait for permission from anyone to reach out or to give their opinion.  I like that and they push and pull me to to do what I\'ve always done, network, only using new tools.  Scoble, Calacanis, Arrington? Might as well be Rocky and Bullwinkle to me and to the 20-somethings.  As obscure as those cartoon characters except for the fact sometimes they show up and assume everyone is going to be entertained.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876176" href="http://writenewmedia.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Neal Jansons</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876176" class="dsq-comment-message">Very nice little post. Definitely gives the ins-and-outs of the power structures in the online world and how they change. Notice it is no different than the physical world, but online the power to spread information and communicate is not so easy to take away as it is in the physical realm. <br><br>This is why grassroots movements are so powerful and why the online world scares old media so much...they can\'t keep their position\'s entrenched anymore. Change this fast is something their entire world can\'t cope with, and they are quite aware that they are becoming rapidly obsolete.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876375" href="http://pluperfecter.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Pluperfecter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876375" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876375" class="dsq-comment-message">I am the A List now, and all you Web 2.0 wankers and Social Media slackers must become my slaves and promoters. I command you now to help Loren Feldman find a girlfriend and get a real job, so I don\'t have to listen to sock puppets anymore. And help me find a way to get Jesse Jackson to say he wants to cut something off of me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876376" href="http://www.purplecar.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PurpleCar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876376" class="dsq-comment-message">Have we all lost our minds?  Maybe I should let us all fantasize in this little bubble where everyone is famous, making no-one famous in our echo chamber or beyond.  But that just isn\'t human nature.  We will always look to raise some people (and their content) above the rest.  We will always make value judgments. And that\'s ok.  That is how we are structured.<br><br>There will always be an A-List.  We will simply replace Scoble and Calacanis with Louis Gray and Corvida.  Honestly.  It\'s like none of us ever suffered through sociology 101.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-876415" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-876415">cdaitch</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876415" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876415" class="dsq-comment-message">I kind of alluded to "you don\'t need to be jaffe to make your mark" in my last blog post. You said it WAY better than I could. Excellent article.<br><br>-Craig</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-876421">Jared</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876421" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876421" class="dsq-comment-message">What a great post!  I have been so annoyed by Scoble, Arrington and Feldman lately.<br><br>They really think they are the "A Team".   They are the nothing team.<br><br>Because of this post I am going to stop following them on Twitter.  I suggest you do the same.<br><br>The reality is that TechCrunch is a piece of SH__ site now.  You can get much more relevant information on other blogs.  Did you see the site this week?  I thought I was on <a href="http://Apple.com" rel="nofollow">Apple.com</a><br><br>Great - Great article!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876457" href="http://lubetkinsotherblog.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PodcastSteve</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876457" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know if I will be able to sleep tonight after seeing that photo of Shel and Scoble.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878345" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878345" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878345" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878345" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I thought about not using it Steve, but there it was in the #3 google images result for Scoble. I figured it was fair game?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-879337" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-879337" href="http://lubetkinsotherblog.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PodcastSteve</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-879337" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-879337" class="dsq-comment-message">Absolutely fair game, and very funny. I had the opportunity to get to know Shel at the SNCR New Communications Forum in California in April. He and I are both Senior Fellows of SNCR, so it was nice to meet in a peer setting. He\'s quirky, snarky, and very funny. Don\'t know Scoble, but he\'s made a very successful brand of himself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-876540" href="http://joeduck.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JoeDuck</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876540" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876540" class="dsq-comment-message">Enjoyed the sentiment of the post, but methinks that picture crosses the line of the news that\'s fit to print..<br><br>I hope you are right that the A list is fading away, though  I think that\'s too optimistic.   Link patterns really favor the initial bloggers, and they like to stick together.   That said I am a big fan of Scoble and think he has done a lot to bring new people into the mix thanks to the way he links out and produces such a huge volume of content and does not use the strategic, commercially driven linking we find at most of the other top blogs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-876642" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876642" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-876642">Billy_Dennis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876642" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876642" class="dsq-comment-message">The growth in the Bllogosphere is toward the local, or hyperlocal, if you prefer. There will always be an A-List, because quality rises, but the names on that list will vary from city to city.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-876711" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876711" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-876711">sabat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876711" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876711" class="dsq-comment-message">I never thought of those guys as A-list anyway, and barely paid any attention.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-876767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-876767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-876767">John</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-876767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-876767" class="dsq-comment-message">will enjoy seeing TC slowly wilt on the vine and die<br><br>it really was just one dude\'s blog anyways<br><br>funny how there isn\'t much follow up on FF, who\'s afraid of big Mike Woooooooooooooo <br>perhaps an over investment in TC has happened over the last little while <br><br>i\'m calling this TC50 the last one <br><br>that\'s not to say that Mike and JC aren\'t smart dude\'s, they are thought leaders, but they\'re not sergey and larry</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-877023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-877023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-877023" href="http://geekmommy.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GeekMommy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-877023" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know that there ever has been an "A-List" - because if there were, we could all go access one site and pull them up.<br>There will always be people whose voices we listen too - and always be those whose voices are more popular at any given moment than others.<br>Internet "A-Listers" are not unlike Football stars - any given season, there are some who are breaking all the records and getting all the headlines.<br>But you\'ve mentioned some names that I think more relate to "Hall of Famers" - because whether or not they are setting the record this season, their names will be remembered and written about for years to come.<br><br>The metaphor really works for me, because there are always hot new quarterbacks or runningbacks or receivers - but they may not live up to the hype, or they may not have had any hype, but have come from a walk-on at training camp to being MVP at the SuperBowl on any given year.  Still, it takes time to see whether or not someone will have the kind of game that makes you remember them past this season.<br><br>The "A-list" you mentioned were more like the Joe Namaths and Jerry Rices and Mean Joe Greens of the blogosphere.  We\'ll have new "A-listers" but whether or not they\'ll be Hall-of-Famers remains to be seen.,</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-877465" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-877465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-877465">Paul</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-877465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-877465" class="dsq-comment-message">The a-list died because they became arrogant, obnoxious and gay</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878343" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878343" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. How prophetic!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-877616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-877616">Parakeet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-877616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-877616" class="dsq-comment-message">A-list or not, I find TechCrunch interesting and even valuable sometimes. Scoble -- iditotic, self-agrandizing windbag. Calcanis, never bothered reading. Winer, read once or twice and found nothing interesting (he seemed pissed off in both the visits I made in fact). I\'m not interested in celebrity in the slightest. Provide useful and interesting content that is original and not just repeating what others say (a la Scoble) and I\'ll read.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-877917" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-877917" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-877917" href="http://www.theviralgarden.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mack collier</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-877917" class="dsq-comment-message">Somewhere along the way, many of the (self) annointed A-Listers forgot that it\'s social media, and started using these wonderful tools as BROADCAST media.  They stopped promoting smart ideas, and started promoting themselves.  <br><br>And that just ain\'t too interesting...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878342" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878342" class="dsq-comment-message">Great points Mack.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-877937" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-877937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-877937" href="http://schwegler.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Schwegler</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-877937" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-877937" class="dsq-comment-message">Meh, there are far more people willing to lap up any content created by Kevin Rose than those living in the social media world. There\'s still an A-List (for now). I don\'t even see it as wounded. <br><br>In the future, I think I will see a lot of independent and niche-driven "Mini-A-Lists" if you will... but looking to a small group of people that end up as celebrities will never go away. It\'s the way of the world.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878051" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-878051">sbullo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878051" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878051" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s an a-list?  Wow, ok so what happened to reading and following those who happen to have the background, experience and perhaps a little bit of difference to them that your attention is grabbed regardless of whether or not they are well-known or well-loved by all around them?  It\'s high school all over again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878099" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878099" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-878099">templestark</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878099" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878099" class="dsq-comment-message">No freakin comments? Well, I for one enjoyed the piece. Right to the point, not a word wasted and no blame attached. I don\'t know if it\'s because I just don\'t care or what but these A-listers have not factored into my life AT ALL. The same as network primetime news - never watched em, never cared.<br><br>PS. oh the comments are down there below this field. Nevermind.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-878109">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-878109">templestark</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878109" class="dsq-comment-message">PPS  After reading the comments, some people are in serious denial. These peopler didn\'t get to he A-list by being self-appointed. They got the traffic from somewhere. ... I am not in a tech / geek (used in the nicest possible way) industry and simply had no need to follow these people.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-878243">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878243" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878243" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878243" href="http://mac.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">steve</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878243" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878243" class="dsq-comment-message">The a-list died because individuals with minimual journalistic talent and/or experience adopted the blogging medium early. Because it was novel and because a lot of people were out of work due to the dot com bubble bursting, they garnered a following.<br><br>Now its five years latter. The professional journalists have adopted the medium, writing quality content on a regular basis is hard, and for most of the audience the novelty has warn off and they are back to work and don\'t have the time or interest to read sub par content.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-878260">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-878260">templestark</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878260" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a little black and white but I like Steve\'s answer.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-878245">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878245" href="http://allancockerill.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ozegold</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878245" class="dsq-comment-message">True,as social media has changed, the present \'A listers\' have failed to change with it. <br><br>There\'s probably a natural arrogance that tends to go with being on an A list of any sort, but if those on it don\'t learn to flow with the tide, they go the way of the dinosaur!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-878340">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-878340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-878340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-878340" href="http://aoede-jimbob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JimBob51</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-878340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-878340" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree - the social network and the ease of the tools gives everyone the opportunity to make their point "pimp" their blog and have their say. The mere fact that I came to this via a "re Plurk" makes the point entirely. Welcome to the new age - but please learn the etiquette. That is the message - despite what we think there are rules and if broken like any form of communication you will be excluded.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-879858">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-879858" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-879858" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-879858" href="http://www.copyblogger.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian Clark</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-879858" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-879858" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post Jim. I think the one point you don\'t address is that tech used to = blogging. Now it doesn\'t (not even close), but the tech guys don\'t realize that most people could care less about geekery... blogging is not about technology, it\'s about people. The more "normal" the blogging demographic looks, the less relevant the nerd herd.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-880072">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-880072" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-880072" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-880072" href="http://www.jimkukral.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-880072" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-880072" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, great point Brian. Tech used to "be" blogging mainstream, you\'re right.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-880041">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-880041" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-880041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-880041" href="http://www.thewwwblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chetan</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-880041" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-880041" class="dsq-comment-message">Good post there..<br>This is what i agree with entirely -<br><br>The a-list died because we’re tired of them and their incessant drama and posturing for attention. We all just decided enough was enough and called bullshit. It was bound to happen.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-880767">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-880767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-880767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-880767" href="http://www.jonkepler.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jon Kepler</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-880767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-880767" class="dsq-comment-message">What about the concept of the A-list now being supported by the media?  Mike Arrington remains large because he jumps on TV every so often.  Maybe the A-list isn\'t as strongly defined as it used to be, but I still think getting on CNBC is a milestone that separates you from those who haven\'t been on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-882258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-882258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-882258" href="http://paulmccord.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">paulmccord</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-882258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-882258" class="dsq-comment-message">Man you did a very good job of putting it in perspective.<br>Paul</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-882774">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-882774" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-882774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-882774" href="http://www.sonnygill.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sonny Gill</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-882774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-882774" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post and so true. The numbers game is getting kinda weak - time to put up or move aside.<br><br><br><br>And btw - that picture is going to scar me for the rest of my life.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-883395">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-883395" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-883395" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-883395">amirulcyber</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-883395" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-883395" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank for such a wonderful idea.really thanks.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-883589">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-883589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-883589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-883589" href="http://domesticmouse.livejournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DomesticMouse</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-883589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-883589" class="dsq-comment-message">Stupid question of the day. You are claiming the A-list is dead because of twitter, friendfeed and co, yet all the stats I see on twitter usage show power laws. Which to me imply the continued existence of an A-list.<br><br>Whether the a-list still includes calcanis and scoble I have no idea. In fact, I unfollowed scoble because he made lots of twitter noise that i couldn\'t be bothered keeping up with. His breathless excitement was off putting.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-938885">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-938885" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-938885" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-938885" href="http://twittercism.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sheamus</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-938885" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-938885" class="dsq-comment-message">Until a single so-called A-lister becomes anything more than a Z-lister in the real world - I mean, really, as others have said, even within the Internet itself most of these people are complete unknowns to the majority of everyday folk - I\'m not sure anything of this really matters, does it? I can\'t think of a single blogger who is famous outside of the blogosphere. Even Kevin Rose is a complete nobody to the non-Digg user. David Spade owns him. Heck, Freddie Prinze Jr owns him.<br><br>Relatively, we\'re talking \'A-list\' inside a very small bowl.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-970519">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-970519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-970519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-970519" href="http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noah David Simon</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-970519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-970519" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish you were right... I really do</div>\
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