How could anyone be this stupid? - William Beem

"selling" votes is a violation of democratic principles and is (and has been) illegal. If you're protesting democracy by selling your vote, then you deserve the consequences. Many of the folks working on electronic voting systems for the last 20 years have had to develop mechanisms to prevent vote selling (for example, the lack of receipts) while still ensuring the integrity of the vote. Your protest is stupid, whiny, and laughable. - Glen Campbell

Oh come 'on now, millions of Americans sell their votes every election for the 'entitlement program' or 'moral value' of their choice... this kid is just more direct in saying put the money in my hand. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

Oh this is stupendous. :D I'm with Scott. Nothing new to see here, but I'm very very glad the subject was raised. P.S. The United States isn't a democracy, hate to burst bubbles. :) - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl

The del.icio.us notes feature got a lot more useful because of Friendfeed. My del.icio.us notes finally have people to read them. So when I tag now, I tend to add commentary about the link for my subscribers here on Friendfeed. Smarter bookmarking. I also have several "conventions" that I use del.icio.us tags for. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

very much so. Yahoo had an early lock on social search. But then they just couldn't put the pieces together. Amazing to me really. - Thomas Hawk

The key seems to be, giving readers the ability to add meta info to a submission and then discuss that info, rather than just the submitter adding info like del.icio.us does. (edited for clarity) - Paul Short

I've always used the notes, partly just for myself, but also because I have pulled a feed from my bookmarks into my websites for a long long time now. I'm having more "fun" thinking about how to use Friendfeed better. - Laura Scott via Alert Thingy

Two questions 1) FriendFeed is basically for the short-term. --- liked a lot (with a little sadness) On the flip-side, should FriendFeed offer an option to categorize and save links and just crush Delicious to bits? 2) "save links / saves" - is that not "share something" ? --- - Kishore Balakrishnan

So tiny and so beautiful! - Abby Martin

How can you not like this - Welcome home Sarah! - Charlie Anzman

w00t! just want to make sure that this shows up in the FF comment stream too. thanks for the info! - ~C4Chaos

@factoryjoe, I have thought about that approach as well. I may very well update the plugin in future such that your FF account can be linked to your MT login (whether native or OpenID). That would certainly make things smoother, as all your would need to enter is your openID. - Mark Carey via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I was just watching a presentation by Tapscott (wikinomics dude), with a panel of "next generation" Gen y'ers in front of big name NY execs. I was thinking it was unfair to mislead all these senior executives that they are representative of most people their age - the panel are just early tech adopters like everyone else here (rather than typical 22 year olds). But I've just come back to reality, realising how early adopters influence the masses - this is a perfect example of how a early adopter crowd influence an early adopter blog which in turns influences the mainstream media which in turn influence the mass market. News like this mark turning points for these products I think. - Elias Bizannes via twhirl

I think this is a cool feature and had to try it. I notice that some people have a blog-entry item that does inverse linking -- reporting pages that link to the blog entry. It looks like this is automated. I think that would be very useful and I am out to find out more. Wouldn't this (perhaps) solve the track-back problem. There would have to be some sort of white-list/black-list system to deal with link bait, though, wouldn't there? - Dennis E. Hamilton via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I changed the title, to remove Twitter. It's not technically correct that we're integrating Twitter -- although of course the link that attracts FriendFeed comments could come from Twitter. In this case it came from the RWW rss feed, but it also went to Twitter via Tweetfeed. The trouble with these things is they make one's head hurt :-) - Richard

Ah, now I am in FriendFeed and can see how this works from this side. Have to find the opportunity to comment in Twhirl too and I will be very happy. - Dennis E. Hamilton

@Richard: Interesting. The title doesn't change in FriendFeed, of course, but your comment about it does, which I guess is close enough for computer work. - Dennis E. Hamilton

the other cool thing is that the FF comments actually get saved to our RWW publishing software. So if FF ever went down or stopped working, the comments will still be on RWW. - Richard

I love this feature! I wish the WordPress plugin worked in a similar fashion. - Mack D. Male

Looking good! - Hao Chen

When I try to post trough Feedly, I get -error: 404 -- undefined'. Hmm... but it seems this is only true for some posts and not for others. - Kris Haamer

(Kris: thanks for the heads up. we are looking into this bug. will update http://www.getstatisfaction.co... and our blog when it is fixed). - Edwin Khodabakchian

Test post - Thomas Lundberg

who the heck gives a monkey's cuss? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

cool - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

Wow! Looks great. An elegant solution. - Chris Baskind

Good enough reason to take a second look at Movable Type - Andy Roberts

Nice work with the CC to FriendFeed, I really like the direction that this is going and FriendFeed integration with sites is definitely the way forward! - Joe Dawson via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Wow, this is cool. - Ryan Lejbak via FriendFeed MT Plugin

cool .... i swear a blog is coming that is ONLY comments, and a prize will be offered to determine what the article was about dang, startup anybody? - gregory lent via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Why doesnt FriendFeed share with other services? Instead of just gathering from other sources? - donclark

so what - isn't everyone doing that? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

Damn, I better stop writing up these press releases... - MG Siegler

also, we'd tried calling and emailing well advance, and they didn't respond. - Eric Eldon

you issued a pr about porn (xxx) ? nice! - Allen Stern

mg, press releases are fine. they just need to be authorized by the company beforehand. - Eric Eldon

hmm interesting.. - Fred Grott

Somebody get him a whamburger with some french cries. - Jake Swearingen

we just thought thigh master would enjoy the new round of press. it's been a while - MG Siegler

nothing like the july 4th weekend for celebrating the first amendment - Eric Eldon

lets see this pr - im checking all wires worldwide and haven't found any release with venturebeat on it - Allen Stern

post the name, stop being a wimp! :P - sean percival

@allen yeah, for a minute there i'd thought we'd opened up a VB PR arm, but i checked and it turns out we didn't. - Eric Eldon

@sean you might not think it from some of my tweets and friendfeed comments, but i do try to temper myself with a modicum of respect for those i disagree with :) - Eric Eldon

Ask them about the facts so you can update the news article. - Igor The Troll

@igor that's what i've already done. also, we had checked the news out enough that i'm not sure we got anything wrong. we shall see. - Eric Eldon

@Mike - Louis is a class act and truly respects the small independent blogger. - Franklin Pettit

@Charlie - I will definitely make the most of the bump. - Franklin Pettit

Very cool Franklin. You very much deserve to be "put on the map". - Hutch Carpenter

@Hutch - Thanks so much. - Franklin Pettit

congrats. it was his post that brought me by. - Rob Williams

Congratulations! I was Louis Grayed, too! We should all start a club. Or at the very least, a FriendFeed room. :) - Nathaniel Payne

@Nathaniel - Thanks I like Nerdflood. Your blog is great. Yes we should start a friendfeed room for those who have been LouisGrayed - Franklin Pettit

Sorta off-topic, but I created http://friendfeed.com/rooms/lo... - possible248

Oohhh... I am enjoying the comments here. Who's volunteering for August? - Louis Gray

Maybe I need to start a new blog... - Cyndy

You will never be obscure, Cyndy, only notorious. - Louis Gray

Duran Duran style or Biggie Smalls style? - Mark Trapp

I poppa phreakz all the honeyz... - Shey