While I’m traipsing around the US the ScobleShow must go on. Today there’s a fun set of videos (demo, interview) with Maxthon’s CEO, Nathaniel Jacobson. That’s Chris Pirillo’s favorite Web browser. The demo shows off some great features that IE7 and Firefox don’t yet have.

We’re in Iowa.

Weird, I just ran into Jake Ludington. He’s a geek that works with Chris Pirillo on Lockergnome and is home for the holidays (home being Des Moines) so thought he’d drop by and see what all the hoopla is about.

I’m still sitting next to Dan Balz, of the Washington Post. I turn my computer around and tell him “Wall Street Journal kicked your butt on Memeorandum.”

“What?” he responded.

But, the Washington Post has the top post with Bob Woodward’s tapes with Gerald Ford who disagreed with George Bush about invading Iraq. Dan said “that’s as it should be, Bob has the biggest story.”

One of the campaign aides asked me “what time did you go to sleep?” I answered “around 2 a.m.”

He said something like “you couldn’t turn off the RSS tap either, huh?”

Another key moment for me? Being in a small New Orleans house with John Edwards, his campaign staff checking their Blackberries for news reports. Yes, they read TechMeme and Memeorandum. Gabe will like that. Oh, and Technorati and IceRocket.

They’ve discovered that by using “the RSS tap” they can listen and talk about what people say, even when they are getting called idiots for various things.

If I were on a campaign I’d start a blog called “the idiotic thing” which would display the idiotic thing they did and either apologize for it, or answer it.

I’d add a blog of idiotic things to my RSS tap.

Heck, I might start one. Or Maryam might start one for me. 🙂