It's been amazing to be a part of something really powerful and scarily scattered. Yet at its simplest level, it's caring people doing really cool shit.

There's a number of KiwiFoo folk in there, but volunteers from Switzerland,…

Nooo!!

Buy it direct from Amanda via Bandcamp, where she lets you name your price and most of it goes to her.

ETA: SteveH, snap.

And yet, as I said, very well-suited to the new world of flashmobs and ninja gigs. She's really expert at making things happen around her.

The best people make things happen in every circumstance.

I kicked back against the Palmer hype in my internet with friends in Australia telling me…

Instead of paying Apple for it, why not get it here: http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-goes-down-under
$.69 USD plus whatever you feel like paying. For the entire album.

If you want some 'influences' off the new album, open a link to 'Bloom', and then open one to Pharoah Saunders 'The creator has a master plan'. Might be just me, but if I knew how, I'd be making…

And yet, as I said, very well-suited to the new world of flashmobs…

I'm with Gio on this. I could care less about how twitter looks and so in this case the design matters not a whit to me.

But as the place I have worked in has evolved from a research institute that mostly just…

I've always thought Captain Ahab would appreciate the linkage of white whale to failure...

quite another to have the technique and emotional intelligence to hold 300 people in a public square with nothing more than her voice and a battered ukulele.

Agreed. She and Jason Webley both left me with the impression they’ve had plenty of practise playing unruly spaces. And I could hear…

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that was a description of you.

I was a regular on Fark when they rolled…

Fantastic.

I prefer the solo Thom Yorke stuff with the ambient 'Hyperdubby' thing going on. Very nice and perfect accompaniment for a fairly impressive white boy falsetto. He did a nice mix show with Gilles Peterson last year. Opened my eyes to his much…

frankly, i think all you people should get a fcking medal.

Something concrete that's come directly from the enthusiasm of Webstock (and also Kiwi FOO) is…

That's a tad condescending. Am I allowed…

There are always going to be people who are genuinely distressed when a site changes its design, more due to the fact that it's changed, that it's different, not familiar, and they have to get to know it all over again.

Facebook is…

Yes, they all say that. :-)

To their credit, if you're still on the old one they at least…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_41yAymp4W4

Which is a good thing, since the Fail Whale was made by an artist called Yiying Lu, who had posted the image to iStockphoto and didn’t realise it had been picked up and used by Twitter.

(I’m not sure of the…

Fair enough. He said they were prepared for the "I hate new Twitter!" messages when they launched it,…

Me too! Thanks. I'll pass that on now.

Yes, of course. But I was meaning UI design in terms of where everything is put, the way forms are presented, etc.

What do you mean "but also colours?" Are colours not part of the design? And he didn't even come up with the whale, which favourably shaped perceptions of Twitter! I want this guy's job.

Am I free today? No, it's Tuesday, I've…

Oh yes. And her half-million Twitter followers will see her ... patting me on the head.

Oh, I see. Someone tweeted they were hoping they would come to next Webstock. Is that even a remote possibility? I’d go, FWIW.

Saw that tweet. They'd…

Principally, user-interface design, but also colours, branding, etc. One thing he expressly didn’t take credit for was the Fail Whale, which was introduced by Biz Stone and the original group of founders. He agreed that the decision to…

If the answer is "making up punn-y handles all day" I will be so jealous.

More than you'd think.