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clearly ustream rocks... #tc50 comcast needs to acquire them
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i've heard lots of good things about ustream but am yet to really try it out :-(
- Loc
Getting ready for the phone interview, and decided to get my hopes up and try on my suit. It fits, woohoo!
Richard pancakhaus Walker, SmiteMe (I <3 elitists), John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 45 other people liked this
And even better: no suits were snotted upon during this session. I'm a winner all around!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ha ha, good luck!
- Josh Haley
lookin' good!
- Joe Silence
Well, hello there! :)
- JA Castillo
Looking sharp! Good luck! So, you have a video phone?
- Nik
No, today's just a phone interview Nik, but I'm hoping to get called in for a face-to-face. I've had the thing since college, hence the question on whether it would fit or not. Probably needs to go to the cleaners if today goes well...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
just don't go "SNOK" while on the phone! :)
- Joe Silence
I'm going to pretty much apologize in advance if I sneeze, so hopefully she'll give me a pass on it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Dressed for success!!!
- Joe
I'd hire you based on this shot alone! ;o)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Here's hoping you won't be the only one thinking that, Mark!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well it's a good thing you dress up nice. Look good, feel good, talk smart. (ok feeling good is a problem i understand).
- Nik
good luck! :) wow
- Roldano
wowza, lady! You look great in it.
- Yolanda
*wolf whistle*
- Spidra Webster
I've realized a small problem: I don't think I own any run-free pantyhose. As we're also now out of orange juice, I guess I'll muster enough energy to go to the store for both a little later on.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Woo!
- Nation Hahn
Good Luck.
- Brent - Loving Life
*tries to not stare or otherwise act creepy* *fails*
- Joe Silence
Tina! Pantyhose? Skirt? WTF??!! Thankfully those days are gone. I'm tellin' ya.
- anna sauce
Luckily I don't think it's a pantyhose job, more a 'business casual'. But, interview in clothes a notch above the company's daily norm is what I've always heard...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I stopped wearing my skirt suit because (as this thread shows) it just sends the girlie message a bit too hard. Now I do slacks, suit jacket, and nice top underneath. Glasses not contacts. If your'e curvy (like I am, and it looks like you are) you don't have to sex up the office clothes at all.
- anna sauce
It's a really nice suit and you look great- a women's tech group I am in talk about this *all the time* and in the early 90s there was a definite shift out of the skirt for reasons above. I mean, it's all in the impression. Since I'm going for tech roles, it's a tad different. If I was going for marketing, I'd vamp up a bit more. I'm more "trying to be taken seriously," though now that I'm older that's a little less of a worry than I was in my 20s trying to get a programming job!
- anna sauce
The best advice I got was- "dress for the pay you want". You may not want to out-dress your workplace, as that may send triggers of "she doesn't fit in." It's an interesting line. For corporate environments, definitely wear a suit (dress/skirt or slacks) for small companies, I'd go more for fitting in, but definitely show that you care and put effort into it (and dress for the pay you want).
- anna sauce
Hot!
- Meryn Stol
Well, it is a corporate job so a suit is appropriate if I get a face to face interview. An unfortunately, the skirt suit is the only one I have. Without my income and without even having my first unemployment check, I'm not in a position to buy a new one right now.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Understood- good luck!
- anna sauce
Lookin' sharp!
- Laura B.
I sometimes do office visit interviews for my large IT company and I see skirts and pants. If it was my interview, I'd wear a knee length skirt.
- Sarah Miller
from iPhone
@anna "dress for the pay you want". I have to remember that.
- Nik
Wear your suit during the phone interview. You will magically come across as a true professional.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Coming late to the party - but it's gorgeous, and so are you. You'll knock 'em dead.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
*buys a kilt*
- Joe Silence
Ooooooo, DS! That would be so hawt! Mark Vandenberg promised to wear a kilt for us, but he never did. #Harrumph
- Ladybug Heather
NO PROMISES WERE MADE!!!!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I heard him promise...pretty sure.
- Josh Haley
Guys go crazy for a sharp dressed woman...
- John E. Bredehoft
Very nice! Academia must be ultra-conservative this way b/c we are told to avoid showing our knees in our interview wear. Partly because of the pantyhose/shiny knee conundrum, but also because of how it might look when you sit down. Most initial interviews are done at our big conference, either at the conference job center or in hotel suites/rooms. You never know where you might be...
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- Katy S
Thousands call for Turing apology - BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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I had no idea they forced him to get chemically castrated after he admitted he was gay. Disgusting. I hope the government officially apologizes for killing one of the great minds of that generation.
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
More here. Includes link to the Downing St. petition: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news...
- Richard Chen
how very sad.
- Sheila Taylor
Pretty bad for the "good guys" in WWII, eh? Doubly sad that it (apparently) caused him to commit suicide. So we lost one of the greatest minds in computer science in his early 40s.
- Joel Webber
What a sad story... I hope they do apologize. Here's a link to the petition, but you have to live in the UK to sign: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing...
- Shannon Jiménez
If the British government doesn't apologize for murdering Turing, they will be no better than the Nazi enemy that threw homosexuals into the gas chambers alongside the Jews and Gypsies. Wasn't he supposed to be on *our* side? The *Law* didn't think so...
- Dennis Jernberg
We're still not very nice to gays. Apologizing for the past makes a statement. Correcting the present makes a difference in people's lives. I hope we do both.
- Andrew Warner
from iPhone
The man was an absolute genius, its a pity he could not live further to expand our horizons of thinking. His abstract computing device called "Turing Machine" is for computer scientists what speed of light is for physicists, an ultimate limit of computation
- thequark
Andrew agree. This is sad. I hope we can "correct the present."
- Rick Cogley
They should apologize for throwing Oscar Wilde in the clink as well.
- Joel Webber
If we follow the line of reasoning where the current government must apologize for all previous governments then it eventually reaches the point of absurdity. Besides how meaningful is an apology on behalf of someone else?
- Adewale Oshineye
Ok, I was being a bit silly about Wilde (there are plenty of things the Victorians could apologize for). But Turing was abused by what could be argued to be the "current" government (or at least political system), and that we still think of as the "good guys" (for wont of a better term) in WWII. And it was only ~50 years ago.
- Joel Webber
ACM Statement Regarding British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Apology on the Treatment of Alan Turing ACM (09/11/09) Hall, Wendy ACM applauds Prime Minister Brown's statement on the treatment of Alan Turing, writes Dame Professor Wendy Hall, ACM President. ACM has long celebrated the fundamental contributions of Alan M. Turing not only for his instrumental role in British code-breaking...
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- ǝuǝƃnǝ
careful when you set YouTube to post to Twitter. It will send a tweet each time you favorite a video and stuff you do without advice!
Loc and Andrew Warner liked this
Too many services are abusing Twitter and their users' trust with autotweets. So far it's a good strategy because users don't complain.
- Andrew Warner
from iPhone
very useful tip, thanks! twitter(at)locspoc
- Loc
Scam of the Week: “US Commerce Association” - https://www.us-ca.org/Winner2...
Andrew C, Admiral Anika and Andrew Warner liked this
Hey folks - guess what? My neglected blog has won the "Best of Boston" award for "Management Services" - despite me being in Los Angeles and not offering - nor ever writing about - management services. With a web site full of content pilfered from the SBA, they send emails to business owners telling them they've won this award. They even show you a big, fancy press release. If you'll just "confirm your contact information" and send them $200+, you'll receive the framed award, to proudly hang in your home or office as a memento of your own personal stupidity.
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
BTW it's a little script. So you get this e-mail from "Ashley Carter" who is the “Selection Committee Chair” for the Association. The "draft press release" is "here" and you click a little coded link and it gens up the award and press release. Wonder how much they make off this.
- Anthony Citrano
Personally I've always found photography to be the best memento of personal stupidity, but this would come in a close second.
- Dennis O'Neil
@Dennis: I see.
- Anthony Citrano
http://twitpic.com/h1qu2 - Rare face-to-face dinner of the 'minds' behind the Magento: Yoav, Michael, and Dima
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Best of luck and strength to @drew and the #blamedrewscancer team for the 24-hour @blameathon starting at midnight EDT/9 p.m. PDT. Go Drew!
Andrew Warner, Mathew A. Koeneker, metalerik and 6 other people liked this
also make sure to get a few LIVESTRONG's in there ,,
- johnpiercy
Steel velcro that supports 35 tons/square meter | Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Sarah Miller, Loc, Ňicķ and 17 other people liked this
“Metaklett is a steel velcro-like substance created by Josef Mair and teammates at Technical University of Munich. One square meter of it supports up to 35 tons at temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
Should be called hook and loop, velcro is a trademark!
- Matt G
they also make great back scratchers, just be sure to go easy.
- Anthony Citrano
Bets are on for how long it will take until this is made into some kind of "adult" product.
- Jeff Guin
Already have a rough sketch, Jeff.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
another item for the batman utility belt ;-p twitter(at)locspoc
- Loc
RT @atomicpoet: Here is my impression of Wikipedia: "There are five fingers on the human hand [citation needed]"
Andrew Warner liked this
pubsubhubbub: @davewiner congrats on landing WordPress for rssCloud - http://twitter.com/pubsubh...
Susan Beebe, Andrew Warner and Justin Yost liked this
Chrome Market Share: One Year Later - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
Loc, mridul, Dominic Jones and 4 other people liked this
interesting stats, whilst i have chrome installed on my computer i haven't really had the need to use it that often!
- Loc
YouTube videos? Yep, recording 'em now: http://chris.pirillo.com/live/ [OCR, South Carolina Travel, & Geeky Glamour!]
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thekenyeung: NEW BLOG POST: Separating The Difference Between Influencers & Evangelists http://bit.ly/49ok65 - http://twitter.com/thekeny...
Andrew Warner liked this
FriendFeed has been almost completely blocked in Iran as far as we can tell. We have a large number of very active Iranian users, and we noticed a steep decline in activity yesterday. Graph below.
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:(
- Paul Buchheit
:( :(
- Rachel Lea Fox
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Related to the election?
- τorƍue
:(
- Ross Miller
that's so bad...
- Eren Emre Kanal
:-(
- Kevin Fox
τorƍue: Yes, as far as we know
- Bret Taylor
این نمودار نشاندهنده افت فرندفید به دلیل بسته شدن آن در ایران است
- Mycaptain
Bret: Is this based on IP numbers located in Iran, or actual activity from those users? If it's IP based, it'd be interesting to see the activity on a user basis and see if they've been able to route around the blocking.
- Ken Sheppardson
:(
- Marina Remi
Could it be related to Twitter being blocked (and therefore the twitter traffic import being blocked)?
- Stephan Osmont
):
- Jim Norris
Some users are definitely going through proxies. This is total # of unique visits from IPs originating in Iran
- Bret Taylor
That tells it's own, sad, story.
- WorldofHiglet
:(((
- Oğuz Serdar
Wow.
- Rochelle
If Twitter were blocked and FriendFeed weren't, I'd expect an uptick in FriendFeed activity, not a 92% drop.
- Kevin Fox
I.e. given all the users who've previously accessed the site from an Iran IP number, how many have been active from different numbers in the past 2 days.
- Ken Sheppardson
Sad.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Instead of "liking" this, shouldn't we have an "unlike" button?
- Steven Melfi
:( Bret: According to Stephen fry, these are the iran proxies: 218.128.112.18:8080 218.206.94.132:808 218.253.65.99:808 219.50.16.70:8080 . Can you track these IPs?
- Roberto Bonini
I knew this day was coming. Too bad.
- Robert Scoble
Steven - same feeling here. I always feel weird "liking" bad stories on FF
- Mike Bracco
How does traffic from China look? Or North Korea?
- τorƍue
:(
- Helen Sventitsky
do not like :(
- Tamara
@τorƍue Twitter has been restored in China
- Stephan Osmont
Hey... we saw issues with blogfa.com as well: http://blog.spinn3r.com/2009...
- Kevin A. Burton
like for spread but not like for the situation
- Imprenditore
I wonder what the international community can do about stuff like this. Eventually the "bad guys" will lose.
- Michiel Sikkes
Hopefully, we'll never see a graph like this for Turkey...
- Onur Şentüre
that's because the government has blocked access to friendfeed,twitter,facebook,youtube and ... after election and after protests in Iran cities !
- Farshad
Man... :( That's really a corrupt government. Hope it gets better soon.
- Peter
That's horrible.
- Barış (beyn.org)
Kheyzaran mentioned over the weekend that both Twitter and FF were blocked for Iran starting I believe on Friday. He is using a proxy when possible to keep us updated
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bret, any analysis about how many people unable to access FF directly are still able to access it via proxy?
- Daniel Dulitz
:-(
- bookmeister
:( Let the voices be heard!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
So sad...
- Luka
Sigh :(
- Havang
can you suggest a way in friendfeed to show the situation in iran to the world ? its very important
- Farshad
I doubt any regular North Koreans have computers τorƍue
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Daniel: Well, we are still getting a bunch of Farsi comments and posts. They may be Persians from outside Iran or from Iranians using proxies. We don't have a detailed analysis breaking those down at this point.
- Bret Taylor
The stigmata of evil.
- Tim Tyler
all cominucation devices are blocked .even phone & cell phones !
- MohammadReza
see this for example : http://abcnews.go.com/Interna...
- Farshad
Watching the "guerrilla cyberwarfare" aspect of the elections and reactions has been fascinating. Iran's universities are obviously full of resourceful, passionate geeks.
- John Craft
not good in terms of freedom
- Sheri Fresonke Harper
this is really bad. i hope there's some resolution to this. the people or iran have shown a lot of strength and courage to protest the illegitimacy of recent events. i don't think this will stop things
- Cee Bee
Is it possible that the same folks from Iran that are active on Friendfeed are the ones out protesting?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
please help us , we are under attack ,change friendfeed logo if you can
- فرزاد
we need a new way
- Semiramis
@MVB we all are Protests
- MohammadReza
That's sad.
- EricaJoy
:( Dislike.
- Ruchira S. Datta
:(
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
P.S. Kevin should turn the logo green in support of the Iranian's being disenfranchised.
- EricaJoy
:((
- ramin
For those that are in Iran: Have you tried http://fftogo.com as a workaround?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
make a room for us, invite your friends we will fill it with latest news
- Farshad
I'm completely for having a fair vote, but I'm not sure that I'd want to try and align FriendFeed with a particular candidate, which is what a green logo would imply.
- Kevin Fox
Many iranians using proxies to access FF. and therefore their IPs changes to fake IP .
- آدمیرال
MohammadReza: Maryam's mom is still able to call her relatives and friends in Tehran, so they are keeping some voice traffic open, if not all.
- Robert Scoble
Farshad, I'm trying to post news here: http://friendfeed.com/world-n...
- Kol Tregaskes
No words for that...
- Frank
thanks kol :)
- Farshad
If Iran thinks they have nothing to fear, then why block Friendfeed?
- Frode Stenstrøm
Frode: because the government is like China: they believe that by retarding the flow of information they will reduce the threat of protests and governmental overthrow.
- Robert Scoble
Very reminiscent of the prelude to the fall of the Shah
- Alan Morris
I don't speak Persian, so I don't know all the searches, but there are still (luckily) a lot of Persian users posting: http://friendfeed.com/search.... If you are Persian and looking for updates, try our search engine to find the few users who still have access.
- Bret Taylor
Frode: and in Iran's case, they are run by conservative religious authorities and they don't like the fact that they are not in control of information flow like they used to be. They like to think they can still control information sources and, since they can't, they try to block places where their citizens can go to share information.
- Robert Scoble
is it a joke? iranian users seems the %90 of friend feed. it could not be real!
- Fırat DEMİREL
Firat: There are no units on the vertical axis of the chart.
- Ken Sheppardson
Firat: This is a chart of traffic from Iran, not of FF's total traffic.
- Kevin Fox
Firat, i doubt that this graph is a percentage graph... probably more likely that it's measuring hits, sessions, or total data transfered (mb, kb, etc)
- Chris Heath
Kevin: what impact did this have on FF's overall traffic?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Iran is the #6 country for FriendFeed in terms of page views per day.
- Bret Taylor
something is cooking out there...
- mehdi
Thanks all for answers. i told that it could not be real.. :) excuse me, i ve just read Bret's notice and looked at breaking point. i saw what i've missed before.. bad news for ff and iran.. :(
- Fırat DEMİREL
These statistics are incredible, especially the normally heavy useage of FF in Iran.
- Curt Mercadante
Bret Taylor, we can tag our pix and vids about iran election by an english keyword such as 'iran' or 'iranelection'. I think it will help to ff non-persian users to find out more about unrests in iran.
- آدمیرال
Iran restored cell phone service Sunday that had been down in the capital since Saturday. But Iranians still could not send text messages from their mobile phones, and the government increased its Internet filtering in an apparent attempt to undercut opposition voices. Social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter were also not working.
- Üstün Üzüm
Do *not* like. :(
- Pete Delucchi
:(
- Russ Jackson
:(
- Mitch
آقا یکی توضیح بده اینکه من(ما) لایک میزنیم! عملا دیسلایک ه ! :(
- younes
Younes says that our likes to this graph mean dislike to tehran's regime censorship
- آدمیرال
I can't find any evidence of Twitter being blocked in Iran. Anyone?
- Martin Bryant
TechCrunch just picked this up: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the translation آدمیرال !
- Ross Miller
ممنونم آدمیرال عزیز
- younes
خواهش دوست من.
- آدمیرال
martin: those words are not mine actually from a news article from washinton post.
- Üstün Üzüm
On twitter people are retweeting the IPs and ports of unblocked proxies, can we do something like that here?
- Canageek
martin, i'm from iran. twitter is blocked. what evidence you wanna? screenshot!?
- آدمیرال
yes Canageek. we use proxies for tweeting
- آدمیرال
Authorities blocking the internet are just reinforcing solidarity between people, can't they understand ?
- Stanislas Jourdan
Stanislas: not to mention they encourage their smartest and richest people to leave (the ones who have technical skills). There's a reason why Silicon Valley has 10,000 or more Iranians living here. Their government sucks and the people are getting tired of it. Of course if their government was great I would never have met my wife (who grew up in Tehran). So, there is good to come out of a crappy government! :-)
- Robert Scoble
it has always seemed to me that the iranian user base is ENORMOUS here. wow. unbelievable.
- edythe
It is interesting how much civil unrest that is brewing across the globe towards their governments. The knee jerk reactions in attempting to block certain websites shows how much they didn't expect the net to become such a widespread conduit for cutting through the bs and informing those that wish to know. I wish those who take a stand all the best.
- alphaxion
:(
- Roberto
Another way for those that are in Iran is to access through Netvibes (but I don't know if it works or if it's blocked too), adding Friendfeed, Gmail and so on such as modules
- Roberto
Thanks for sharing this, Bret. It's valuable evidence of what's going on, evidence which wouldn't have been available even a few years ago.
- Michael Nielsen
sad
- Pedro Beltrao
Very interesting...so much for democracy and voting rights in Iran...
- freedom fighter mom
If anybody in Iran feels up to it, can you temporarily disable your proxy and run a traceroute to friendfeed.com and twitter.com then post the results here?
- EricaJoy
Bret and Paul, can you let us know if the traffic comes back, which would tell us they've unblocked FriendFeed?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: absolutely, we will let everyone know when it comes back up
- Bret Taylor
from email
Steven: You Like that it was posted, not the content of the post.
- Tanath
Bret, thanks for sharing the info about the dive. Shame, but what could we have expected from the Iranian status quo?
- Jon Osterholm
البته یه چیز هم هست اونکه بعد از فیلترینگ همه با آی پی غیر ایرانی می ان فرندفید و برای همنی آمارشون اینجا ثبت نمیشه ... وگرنه فکر نمی کنم از لحاظ تعداد نفراتی که میومدن کم شده باشه ... بلکه هم بیشتر
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
Yes, it happend and we have to use proxy to access friendfeed. Look at democracy in Iran...
- Zahra (raoros)
The coversations and comments here are educational.
- Seek Ground
@بی بی, you might try https://friendfeed.com/
- Jim Norris
:(
- imabonehead
Damn.
- Steven Perez
http://mojipage.com register in this website and add ff widget! twitter is blocked in iran so I am posting twitts by a script or choqok(http://choqok.gnufolks.org/)
- ★amin.m★
from MojiPage
Good luck to all of you trying to get around the censorship. I hope the big sites are doing what they can to help out.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Looking at the potential of this event in the future for numerous causes is mind-boggling. Really amazing.
- Charlie Anzman
Come to think of it, does FF have a presence in China? I'd imagine it's blocked there. I've seen Chinese on here, but never sure if that's from China or speakers outside.
- anna sauce
Tnx Bret
- Conformist / Unforgiven
Thnaks :)
- Exir
این چی میگه؟
- Lord hozeh
ببین شب انتخاباتی چکار کردیم با این فرفر. wow!
- ali
چه همه لااااااااااااااااایک!
- ali
:((
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Damn.
- Derrick
Expected.
- Michael W. May
Yes, Friendfeed is blocked in Iran. Right now the papers and TV channels here are controlled by the government and our access to satellite channels is blocked too. Friendfeed and Twitter are quite vital for us now. Our main source of exchanging information and news is Friendfeed. Via Friendfeed we let everyone know that where people need help and where to go and how to help them and...
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- Selma
Selma: does https://friendfeed.com/ work for you?
- Bret Taylor
Nope, they have blocked all https addresses, we have had to sign in to Friendfeed via anti-filters for the past few months.
- Selma
its a shame. it was one the main media we used to inform ppl. thats why they filtered it. now many users cant sign in
- Myri∂m
Can't we "help" in some way? Providing proxies, I don't know, the kind of stuff pirates do. Pirates, and people trying to make a Revolution happen....
- Zackatoustra
It may not be long before Turkey joins the party.
- Sarp Tüzün
It's very sad to see this happen
- Michael Fidler
tnx all of you...
- emin
internet was our last hope ...but it block...and we cant use it easily...
- Opium
:(
- Caroline
I just spoke with my friend Andres, the main BBC correspondent for the Middle East/Afghanistan, and he mentioned the web is being fire walled in Iran much the same as the the "Great Firewall" during last year's Olympics in China.
- sofarsoShawn
The Iranian websites that people used to exchange information about the election protests in Iran are under cyber-attacks by the government forces and from anonymous sources. Many of them are down right now. These Iranian websites were our few last remaining channels to inform people. What can we do about that? Is there anyone out there who can help us with this?
- emin
i was 53rd active user in friendfeed until this filtering. now i can open FF with proxies and if i can fine. a Vpn but many Vpn here come from companies that have relations with security services, i thunk they allow us to bypass filternig and then, they will arrest who has wrote against their goals
- خیزران kheyzaran
Can't we transfer the data/databases of the sites you, iranian guys, use to any new domain we could buy? I want to help. Not by throwing rocks to "security service" forces, but, at least, by making possible for what YOU have to say to go public, worldwide.
- Zackatoustra
FF is a useful website for Iranian People to get reliable information about demonstration against presidential election.
- پارسـا
so so sorry for iran people... I hope they will win...
- Tanaydin Sirin
and Now Yahoo messenger and google talk blocked in iran :((((
- پارسـا
Some amazing images from Iran - http://ff.im/42pgD
- Brent - Loving Life
Does http://fftogo.com work still?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Selma: 1- I don't use a proxy but clearing all but one (deleting them all logs me out) instance of each friendfeed.com cookie name and refreshing the page always solves this for me in Firefox. Has never happened on Lunascape or IE. Good luck.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
google block fftogo for iranian users!!!
- ★amin.m★
Friendfeedがイランでblockされているというコトらしい。いったいどういう理由でだか分からないけれど……もし、国内のゴタゴタの影響であればいずれtwitterも、ということになりかねないのかも。／でも、fftogoを使えば迂回できるのかな？
- Sakurai.Catshop
What about email, amin.m? Are you able to post to FF by emailing share@friendfeed?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I don't know about email. now I am using freegate or another site like http://mojipage.com
- ★amin.m★
Could http://dev.ctor.org/f2p, http://frienddeck.com or http://peoplebrwsr.com work for friendfeed?
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Very sad.
- Parth Awasthi
The reason I ask is because if you can email a post, then try sending it to share@friendfeed and also to YourUserName@friendfeed. Then when someone comments you'll receive an email about it and you can comment back to the thread via email as well.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No wonder why !
- Pelin
+ don't use your ISP's DNS server, verify your Firewall, search for rootkits.. + If you really wanna use Tor, be 'mobile', check the onion's status, don't be too confident, continue to use encrypted protocols & 'mobile' ports. At least, read Tor's docs and articles about Tor & privacy/security..
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
now chat like gmail or yahoo messenger are blocked too
- egza
I don't know if these can help but I put them here anyway http://www.noiseriver.com/ http://moopz.com/
- M F
Alexandros: Frienddeck could work for certain parts - posts and queries against user accounts are proxied through the App Engine, searches are direct against Friendfeed so they could probably not work.
- Paul Kinlan
Thanks :((
- مـهدی معتمد
:( booooooo
- Duncan Rawlinson
:o
- FKU
DAMN!
- Vicey
whoa, NOT good
- Susan Beebe
We wish the people of Iran well in these difficult times
- Marc
Not good at all. Best wishes to the Iranian FFers. I hope this whole mess gets cleared up quickly and with as little violence as possible
- Kamilah Gill
this is terribly wrong
- Francisco Costa
A government that takes away people's Friendfeed will not last long.
- Goran Zec
WOW CRAZY
- Matt Kaufman
I like that 667 people liked this, that's 667 people hoping it all gets resolved justly and peacefully.
- Steve C
now we are 676 people who liked that =) hoping too everthing gets resolved peacefully.
- Ibrahim Tarlig
Bret, is there any update on this? Is activity still low?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, we are still being blocked
- Bret Taylor
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
:-(
- Arif Siddiquee
definitely DON'T LIKE this... >_< ...would love to be able do more than retweeting proxies
- Daniele
Best regards from Chile to all iranian people, we know a lot about bad government and human rights. Good luck, strength and courage to all of you.
- Roberto Arancibia
:(
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's to bad there is such attempts to block free flow of information, how long will it be before there is more amazing differences happening? Such limits, hmm.
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
They have to keep the militants in check. Thank goodness for the pipes that were broken.
- tony
بیا بالا ای فید من
- egza
Digg.com is block in Iran now.
- Sahandram
:-(
- Paolo Valzania
:((
- Mitchell Tsai
Interesting censorship- same can happen in America - I would like to talk to you abt Friendfeed and bringing over some large groups do you have time?
- JanSimpson
I've seen those censorship about FriendFeed (Iran). Do you know some interesting and objective blogposts about it?
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
:(
- Rachel Lea Fox
Do you have a similar graph as ff's been blocked in China?
- K.D.
And China now has a similar blockage. You should also check on it.
- Kenyth
Sometimes we forget how easy we have it than other countries. But until people revolt & I mean a HUGE revolution injustices will still go on.
- Gabriella Sannino
ای بابا این فید رو شخم زدن :))
- egza
پرلایک ترین فید فرفره این
- ramin
jeddi?
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
آره حامد آمارشو قبلا در آورده ام
- egza
che jaleb , oonvaght por comment dartarin feed kodoome? bebinim mishe feed 2khtare mardom e farzad davan davan ro be oon beresoonim?
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
حامد اینجا رو ببین http://friendfeed.com/amirsem...
- egza
ba mobile am ... to bebin bara manam tarif kon :D
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
بعد از این فید که هستمی این http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... در رده دوم لایکه ,اینجا شش هزار و خورده ای کامنت داره http://friendfeed.com/ideali... این فید از فارسی زبانان فرفر همین نیما خودمون http://friendfeed.com/nimaa... در لایک 204 تا این هم از آیدا http://friendfeed.com/elaheye... بیشتر از 2400 کامنت داره
- egza
The FriendFeed R&D lab
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This is where we do our UI design.
- Paul Buchheit
Well, that explains the gray background then!
- Akiva Moskovitz
And now the world needs to know who was sat in the empty space in the middle about 10 seconds before the camera came out :-D
- Andy Bold
Each colored group of bricks are in a separate namespace. Don't mix them.
- DGentry
I used to have a giant cardboard box with identical contents. I miss it terribly.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
OK! I think I can finally apply now for R&D. ;-)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I think I can see the namespace space, too
- WorldofHiglet
why a Blue Snowball mic?
- Joe Silence
Where are the motors and microcontrollers?
- Gabe
Sans mad scientist! Oh wait, he was taking the picture!
- Rick Cogley
you g33k guyz :)
- Alp
WIN
- Josh Haley
I think you guys need more lego pieces.
- FORA.tv
Oh... don't worry FORA... that's what's in those gray tubs :)
- Ross Miller
Release early, release often :)
- Micah Wittman
You guys got any job openings?? :)
- Roberto Bonini
@Akiva: I'm glad this set of Lego had the grey "floors" and not the green ones!
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
OMG MY EYES
- Akiva Moskovitz
I loved LEGO and I am still thinking that it influenced my wish to study natural science, which some others might have thought, too - http://portal.acm.org/citatio...
- joergkurtwegner
That looks remarkably like my kids' playroom when they were small (with the addition of some pink, white and lavender Legos)!
- Anne Bouey
Now that's my kinda lab! Where do I sign up?
- Jeff P. Henderson
OK, I'll start to compose my resume:)))))
- K.D.
I need to learn Python :( I keep meaning to, but work happens.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Heh, so that's how you built the FriendFeed server farm so quickly? Lego! ;)
- Tyson Key
Watch Facebook will have the same lab in a month.
- Robert Scoble
Nice $50 Walmart chair. I just replaced mine today with a different Walmart junk chair. That one broke. Those plastic armrests are fragile! See how I had fixed it temporarily: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Dusty Wilson
Omg are you guys hiring??? I cook and clean! :)
- Mona Nomura
Building better apps the unconventional way ! ..why now, where is additional keyboard shortcuts ?? under the carpet? .... isn't this overflow ideas cool-off roomlet containment? .... no! it's Google's 1 day - work on whatever project you want ..they got 2 grey bins, for binaries, i guess ... is it public access, though?
- Petr Buben
Hmmok
- Uygun BODUR
No one can afford to lose this job.
- ashish
Lego Heaven
- Kevin J Hatton
Wanted to make some R&D
- Ozkan Altuner
Blue Snowball mic........someone must podcast? Decent mic, for what it's intended to do.
- Gabe Taviano
Looks a little like my last office .... :)
- Charlie Anzman
This is really cool.
- Bryce the Screencaster
FriendFeed R&D needs more money Twitter R&D has more toys
- Michael Mooney
What makes you think this is the sum of our toys, Michael?
- Ross Miller
Not enough legos.
- Steven Perez
Now we know the truth: http://www.servicedesigntools.org/tools...
- Andrés David Aparicio
I knew html5 development processes were going to be weird
- dthree
BREAKING NEWS - POLLDADDY TO MAKE DIGG COMPETITOR (i think throwing digg in a headline is trying to get a cheap frontpage, you agree?)
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*yawn* Put up or shut up, I say.
- Jason Huebel
i dont know anymore - is twitter watching me? i wonder who is watching me now? the twitter sul?
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TWiT 200: Salad Daze - http://twit.tv/200
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Leo, just listened to this podcast today and thoroughly enjoyed it! Not just all the participants, who I did enjoy, but I frankly laughed my ass off during the discussion of your new recumbent bike.....the pennants on the back.....the F150 "gatorade" episode.....priceless! Still have a smile on my face!
- Bonnie Foster
JCD on top as always! Good show!
- Kevin J Hatton
10 & 12 year old siblings won't stop fighting, mom pulls over and makes them walk the 3 miles home. Am I the only who doesn't think this makes her a bad mom? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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no!! Did the same thing
- Mel Buckpitt
You are not
- alieb
My parents used to do that all the time - back then I thought it made them bad parents. Now I think they were smart.
- Jesse Stay
3 miles is a long time to have to walk next to the person you're arguing with and not say anything for a pre-teen.
- rob friedman
My wife's recipe for situations like this is to pull over and refuse to drive until the kids calm down.
- Vlado Handziski
Absolutely not! Kudos to her for disciplining her kids. 3 miles may be a bit much, but really, 3 miles isn't that far if you live in suburbia - that could be the distance from the entrance of a subdivision to your front door! I don't think enough people discipline their kids these days, everyone ends up being a slave to their child - and afraid to tell them how it's gonna be. It's like everyone forgot what parenting is...
- Jim Rubenstein
Nope. Unless it was in the snow up hill both ways, I don't want to hear any complaining!
- Alex Scrivener
3 miles? I'm surprised she's not in jail right now!
- Gabe
Nope, I know i'd rather walk 3 miles home and give a reasoned apology to my Mum than get hit for a punishment and have both of us end up feeling worse.
- Charlotte M
in my mind (and without reading the article) it really depends where she made them walk.
- Joe Silence
in general, this seems like a bad idea. leaving your kids alone on the street when you can no longer deal w/ them is a bad idea. the 'punishment' of walking in reaction to arguing is wide of the mark, too. from my POV, this is an example of bad parenting.
- MikeAmundsen
35 years ago many people would've thought nothing of it. this is not the mid-1970s, tho.
- Joe Silence
I think it depends on where they are. A suburban neighborhood would likely be safe but if this was in the middle-of-nowhere or in a really unsafe city/area, then it could be a bad idea.
- Rochelle
I think it is fine; once, during August camp two of the players on my football team got into a fight. Our coach made them spend the rest of the practice running laps on the track holding hands
- RAPatton
What really happened is the 12-year-old caught up with the mom and got a ride home. Her sister found somebody to give her a ride home. Neither of the girls had to walk very far.
- Gabe
What Rochelle said. Depends where.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
So, at 10 and 12 years old, the mom hasn't gotten to the point with her kids that they can't behave? Or at least that when she tells them something (like to stop and not touch each other), they listen? Taken in broader context ... I'm not impressed with this in the slightest. It's sort of like having someone ask you again and again and again and again for something and you simply ignore them, but then you finally blow up that last time and scream at them.
- AJ Kohn
I have a twin. Therefore it happened to me many times. And I'm fine :)
- Jérôme Flipo
first comment on the reddit page definitely gets it right. We ARE a nation of pansies. The first time we allowed a lawsuit over hot coffee split because the woman held it between her legs, we became screwed.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Possibly some necessary context: White Plains is probably equivalent to most cities outside of New York. It's not like leaving them in Anytown, USA. It also appears that the kids split up, and one didn't know the way back.
- Mark Trapp
It's a facts and circumstances inquiry. If the area was safe, it was a perfectly reasonable solution for a 10 and 12 year old. The mother who turned her in (for doing nothing wrong) is a harpie, and the judge who issued the protective order is an asshat.
- O.Shane
To Mike VanLare: in the McDonald's suit, the plaintiff actually only asked for approximately $2000 to settle her medical bills the first time around. McD's refused. And the coffee was far hotter than it should have been (even to McD's specifications). No one reasonably expects coffee to cause 3rd degree burns.
- O.Shane
Works better if you get out of the car and walk home and leave them there. :D
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
My grandfather did this to my uncle about 50 years ago...
- Zach Landes
Depends where they were, but I don't disagree with making them walk to cool down. I'd want to follow that up with a sit-down talk though.
- Rick Cogley
GOOD for her! Smart Mom... kids need to learn that behavior is not acceptable. Disclaimer: Don't try this in East LA, ok... pick your discipline strategy wisely ;)
- Susan Beebe
And similarly, http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news... :-( Showing his disagreement on this kind of cases, Emilio Calatayud, a judge working with youngsters, says that the Spanish law observes rights for minors, but they seem to forget that the same law also estipulates DUTIES (i.e. respect for parents) for the same minors. No adults, even judges, seem to remember this. :-(
- Maria Jose
I love it when people bring up the McDonalds coffee thing: http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonal....
- invariant - farewell FF
Nope - that's fair...
- Kevin Nordmand
3 miles does seem like a bit much to me, but then I guess the kids should have thought of that.
- Jim Addz No Value
If I were going to make the kids walk 3 miles home, They'd walk it, but I'd stay within sight, mostly to make sure they didn't pull any shenanigans like calling for a ride.Sure it'd be a pain in my butt, but it would prove the point.
- Heather Solos
Mom should have Boondocks-slapped the two.
- Joel Robert Perez
Make them walk the 3 miles, no problem, but she should have tailed them to make sure they got home safely IMO.
- Grant Bierman
invariant - thanks for the link on the McDonald's case. nice summary
- Violet Bliss Dietz
HELP! Spent the last 50 minutes trying to explain the SIMPLEST computer issues to my mother. I need GoToMeeting or something temporarily. Where do I get something where she's the server and I'm the client? This is SO annoying. Is there a freeware GoToMeeting/VNC app out there that's easy for someone remotely to hook up?
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I think you might be able to use FogCreek's Copilot https://www.copilot.com/ for free for this purpose
- Alex Scoble
I'm trying to figure it out within Skype, but I don't know if it's interactive.
- Tamar Weinberg
Mark, I don't need to send her to Geek Squad. I need to tell her how to set up a YouTube account.
- Tamar Weinberg
there's always logmein
- Richard Lawler
Windows Live Mesh has remote desktop too. I'm not sure if she could see what you're doing like how VNC works.
- Rodfather
I'm going to try CrossLoop. http://lifehacker.com/5243257...
- Tamar Weinberg
Which OS? I've used Chicken of the VNC before, but it's Mac only, I think.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
What about Skype with a webcam and show that way..
- Rodfather
XP. But somehow, every remote server thinks I'm on a Mac. WTF.
- Tamar Weinberg
One of my friends is recommending TightVNC. I haven't tried it yet, though.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Or use Jing to share a quick video capture of your desktop
- Rodfather
CrossLoop is actually pretty useful.
- Tamar Weinberg
...but it really irks me how dumb my mom sounds when I try to explain that all she needs to do is click on a link! :o
- Tamar Weinberg
Liking for the nice software recommendations. Also, @Tamar, you have my deepest sympathy. My MiL only recently learned that a "window" on her PC is not the screen itself. And that took my significant other over an hour attempting to explain over the phone to her.
- James (!?)
get her on iChat and you can take control
- anna sauce
I haven't tried out the other ones suggested here, but Copilot really does work well.
- Andrew C
We're both XP users, anna... CrossLoop worked well. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
haha James. That is golden. Old mothers are quite interesting people.
- Tamar Weinberg
I used to use webex, or make them turn on term services and just fix it
- anna sauce
@Tamar "Interesting" is a kind choice of word. ;-)
- James (!?)
I won't use Webex on principle of all the spam I get from them. It's ridiculous.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar - let me know if you have any questions on CrossLoop.... and we can do a little more.... there are expert Helpers who can help your Mom. That is a paid service - let me know if you need a coupon. I can be reached at mrinal [at] crossloop dot com or on twitter @mrinaldesai
- Mrinal Desai
RWW recommends http://www.yuuguu.com/home
- chrisofspades
Mark, we did that. She couldn't figure out where to go once she logged in. :( Mrinal - thanks - I used to do tech support back in the day so I know what to do for her, I just wish she wasn't 1100 miles away since sometimes I'd like to reach through the screen and... uh, I won't go there :D
- Tamar Weinberg
chrisofspades - nice, thanks!
- Tamar Weinberg
How about this one? http://www.showdocument.com/ds... very easy share browser.
- Orli Yakuel
Good call also. She uses the damn AOL client tho. I gotta teach her to move on.
- Tamar Weinberg
I think they have one meant for support something like gotomyhelp or assist or something. They probably have a free trial
- Matt Young
try teamviewer if you like
- Alpay Erturkmen
I like LogMein Free. http://bit.ly/rqtGs
- Steve de Mena
Or you could use Remote Desktop, Remote Assistance or whatever it's called. Built into Windows. Setup a dyndns account for your mom, so you know what hostname to access, ensure her firewall allows Remote Assistance, and viola, you're on her PC.
- Marlin Forbes
simply use acrobat.com from Adobe and use Adobe Connect Now - very simply, no install required, all in Flash - love it, use it every day!
- Arnaud Fischer
Listen to This Week In Tech and you can get a promo code for free trial. Also TWiT rocks!
- Richard South
Microsoft has a free program very similar to WebEx. It is called Microsoft Shared View. Used it for the first time recently and loved it. We also use Windows Remote Asistance internally which only requires the user to accept my help.
- Brett G
As people begin 2 shift 2 combining their personal & professional life w/ lifestreaming, it will become much harder 2 sift through the noise
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For instance, on Steve Rubel's blog, how will I know which posts are personal, and which are professional? Do I have to just follow "him" now? How do I pick and choose?
- Jesse Stay
It may be moving in that direction. I do really like what Steve is doing though, even if it seems a little messy. Posterous is looking better and better everyday.
- Shawn Hickman
TOOLs, Filters and Search capabilities become even more critical to sorting all this out
- Susan Beebe
Jesse, you can change all the 2s to "to" here on FriendFeed. Don't speak that Textlish here. :)
- Louis Gray
I actually had to read that a couple times because of the 2's lol... So is the personal part noise or is the work part noise ;)
- Frankie Warren
Louis that's FriendFeed's issue. When I post to Twitter they should do that conversion for me :)
- Jesse Stay
Reports are saying that MJ was abusing prescription drugs. Very sad.
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Michael Jackson Dies | TMZ.com - http://www.tmz.com/2009...
Arturo Servin, Tanath, Keith Barrett and 25 other people liked this
Holy shit.
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
Ouch.
- Thomas
Oh man. Too much death this week.
- Dave Friedel
They come in waves with celebs. He makes three (Ed McMahon and Farah Faucett).
- Thomas
I am just, just, shocked.
- Mark
Whoa... Very strange day.
- Aaron Hood
Some sources are saying an overdose of sleeping pills :(
- Mark
Shock. Shock. Shock.
- Dave Friedel
I maybe over blowing this I just thought Leo Laporte would have broken into his shows to report the news. The death of Jackson is a cultural event of epic proportions.
- Mark
I'll remember where I was at this moment.
- Dave Friedel
Is this real?
- Fleagle
I was just thinking that Dave. I remember where I was whern Diana died too
- Mark
CNN.com still doesn't have confirmation on their site. Either TMZ rushed it out or CNN's late to the party again...
- Thomas
TMZ is more ballsy and has less of a reputation to protect than CNN so they took a chance I guess
- Mark
I noticed that, Thomas. We'll see! Hopefully we're not putting him in his grave before his time.
- Veronica
BBC News Live http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- Mark
BBC are being VERY cautious about the Death thing
- Mark
The mainstream news beat Twitter on this story.
- Mark
Twitter.com is being hammered. Not suprising.
- Mark
Wouldn't be the first time FF or twitter jumped the gun...
- Thomas
CNN Live: Fire dept won't reveal his state due to HIPAA laws. Blitzer can't get confirmation.
- Dave Friedel
this is insane
- Veronica
latimes; he's in a coma, CNN: he's alive.
- anna sauce
According to LA times blog, he's in a coma as of 2:46. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow...
- Thomas
I will take a COMA any day over Death. Fuck yes there may be hope!!!!!!!!!
- Mark
I hope tmz was just jumping the gun
- Jason Tullos
I had a friend who had a cardiac arrest and was revived... but died a few days later. It's worse than a heart attack.
- Dave Friedel
Depending on how long he wasn't breathing, he may be technically alive, but...
- Thomas
We will worry about bringing him back later, if he is in a coma at least he is alive
- Mark
It's interesting that CNN isn't even mentioning the TMZ article. You'd think they'd at least reference it and say "let's wait for confirmation"...
- Thomas
thats what the BBC is doing Thomas
- Mark
"unconfirmed" etc etc
- Mark
Lets just hope he is in a coma. I mean he is either dead or in a coma right?
- Mark
Twitter is dead, too.
- Steve Hampton
CNN now going with the coma story
- Thomas
LA Times has changed from Coma to DEATH
- Mark
Is this bigger than John Lennon dying?
- Steve Hampton
LA Times is going with dead now: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow...
- Veronica
its big. Very VERY big
- Mark
CNN HLN Update: Michael Jackson is in a coma.
- John Fox
RIP Michael!
- Fee501st
Probably as big as Elvis', Lennon's deaths
- Mark
So CNN is about 30 minutes behind
- Thomas
way to go, CNN
- Veronica
They're the news leader, right? :)
- Thomas
Well, either they wait and get it right or call it early and possibly get it wrong. They're supposed to be reputable.
- aldenoneil
CNN just called based on CBS and the times
- Jason Tullos
Certainly for people around Veronica's age including me, this is probably the biggest cultural death in our lifetimes that we are old enough to understand
- Mark
MJ in Coma according to CNN!
- Divya Mistry
I'd say this is bigger than Lennon and Elvis. MJ is a huge icon in Asia. Especially in India.
- Srujan Ameda
LA Times is confirming the King of Pop's death.
- John Fox
CNN just announced death
- Thomas
@Thomas Dammit, if I'd have had it confirmed by CNN 30 minutes ago, I could have.. erm...
- Ian Betteridge
Hope you're at peace finally MJ. RIP.
- Dave Friedel
Poor guy.
- Andrew Leahey
BBC are saying its a shame cos people have tickets for his show and wont be able to go. Unbelievabe
- Mark
Last time I felt like this was 12 years ago, staying up all night when Diana passed away. The space-time continuum shifts and you always remember where you were at that moment.
- Dave Friedel
CNN just made that Diana comparison...
- Thomas
CNN is saying itll be devastating for the Jackson family. You don't say?
- Andrew Leahey
I remember Diana's death very well. I was up late watching SNL with a friend of mine during a sleepover party, and the news came on and interrupted it. We didn't know if it was part of the show or not.
- Veronica
Yeah, Twitter is not holding up well right now.
- Veronica
Yeah, I was moving at the time Diana died. The TV was the first thing I hooked up...
- Thomas
I was playing Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo when I heard about Diana.
- Mark
Not at all.
- Andrew Leahey
The threes thing is always so weird and creepy. And true.
- Veronica
Ehh, its usually a stretch Scott, since theres never a clear time-limit on the 3 rule.
- Andrew Leahey
There it goes on DIGG.com
- Mark
Wow, look at all the people gathering...
- Dave Friedel
I just got back from a friends house and my mom was crying, thats how i found out! (about Diana)
- Fee501st
No doubt most digged story in history
- Mark
This is going to be a major world-wide event, obviously.
- Veronica
Is it just me or is the internet in general feeling sluggish?
- Andrew Leahey
I am sure tens of millions of people are on the net than would normally be
- Mark
Yep, this feels just like Diana. That was worse because there was over 6 hours of waiting to find out. But it still is shuddering to see a milestone in life go by so fast.
- Dave Friedel
Micheal Jackson is/was a world wide music icon to all! Sad day in the music industry for such.
- Bryce Campbell
I remeber when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, I was in 3 grade class and we was watching it live on TV, its was scary at the time
- Fee501st
Its not just a sad day for the music ind Bryce, believe me the world will mourn
- Mark
CNN anchor was talking about how everyone always expected him to return to the top some day. Totally did.
- Andrew Leahey
Millions will take to the streets in cities around the world
- Mark
I really hope this wasn't a pill overdose.
- Dave Friedel
I'm sad for his children. What a strange, sad life.
- Veronica
Did not see that coming
- Joe Demartino
See we are about the age in which we only really knew his weird phase, not his talented phase
- Mark
Mark, agree totally!
- Bryce Campbell
I am anyway. 21 years old
- Mark
BBC just confirmed. He is officially dead
- Mark
Mark, you're making me feel very old. :P
- Dave Friedel
I was an 80's baby, so I remember the talented time.
- Veronica
this is so sad. don't know what to say. I grew up with his songs, in the 80's.
- diego morelli
I'm 23, but totally remember him for his talent. He's still on my playlists.
- Andrew Leahey
The pop icons from the 60's-80's are slowly disappearing.
- imabonehead
He was like Reagan or video games. He was the 80's.
- Dave Friedel
For any of you too young to remember or experience it, Michael was the most amazing person to set foot on a stage. He completely changed the game. IMO the most amazing performer of all-time. This is truly devastating.
- Fleagle
adding his songs to my Napster Library as we speak
- Edgar Rodríguez
whats his best album im going to download it on Spotify
- Mark
I would have loved to see him perform. I remember waiting up all night to see the live premiere of the Scream video with Janet. Loved it.
- Veronica
Mark: Thriller
- Andrew Leahey
I agree: Thriller
- Veronica
Veronica: I remember too. CBS News aired it later that night.
- Andrew Leahey
I remember seeing him in the Wiz. I think that was the only movie he starred in wasn't it?
- Dave Friedel
Oh no, the news are starting the rumours not that he was overworked for the 50 tour concerts
- Mark
Thriller was his best, he had a lot of great songs on so/so albums after that.
- Andrew Leahey
Yea, Thriller by far
- Fee501st
Man in the Mirror.
- Dave Friedel
I'm 19 but I think honestly that Michael Jackson is the most important star of the 20th century. Thriller was his best, in my opinion.
- Diego Espinoza V.
After they confirmed he was gone I turned off the news, I feel like them going on about his talent is rubbing our face in the fact that he's gone.
- Andrew Leahey
Beat It was my favourite
- Iain
Smooth Criminal for me ^____^ http://is.gd/1dxdV (havent been on friendfeed long, is this the most active post anyone has seen?)
- Anthony Kam
I know Andrew but they have to fill the air :/
- Mark
Don't forget Smooth Criminal
- Fee501st
Don't stop til you get enough
- Andrew Leahey
Say say say.
- Dave Friedel
Can you imagine how popular he would have been had he not had the scandals?
- Andrew Leahey
Dave: Moonwalker: http://www.imdb.com/title..., and we musn't forget Captain EO.
- aldenoneil
I know what you mean
- Mark
Oooo, Don't stop till you get enough. Good call Andrew. I love that song. 70's!
- Dave Friedel
CNN playing MJ tunes now.
- Veronica
Moonwalker! who had the game? A friend had it, i remember playing it
- Fee501st
Beat It!
- Dave Friedel
Oh man, these songs are so good.
- Veronica
Some news channels are saying he was not upto 50 dates of his upcoming concert, but you can't predict a heart attack. A 40 year old man in perfect health can have a heart attack.
- Mark
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
- Andrew Leahey
Beat It was right before Thriller the video. The Thriller video was like a movie launch. Everyone sat around on the premiere night to see the longest video ever on MTV.
- Dave Friedel
Oh c'mon, iReport?
- Veronica
His creditors are not going to be as sad at the news as we are, thats a fact.
- Mark
Yeah thanks Mark for pointing that out...
- Dave Friedel
iReport? REALLY?
- Divya Mistry
Yay, CNN...
- Thomas
Playing Billy Jean on soptify
- Mark
Jon Stewart just did a bit on CNN giving up and using iReporters.
- Dave Friedel
I don't care about David.. WHo's this guy? Get off phone d-bag. You tell 'em Veronica
- Divya Mistry
Ah soptify - is that an new and exclusive service Mark? :)
- Iain
yep
- Mark
lol
- Iain
Jeff Goldblum died too aye?
- Andrew Leahey
CNN... you learn it in middle school "Show... don't tell" Show MJ, don't tell me about MJ.
- Divya Mistry
This is MIND BLOWING: He ultimately sold more than 750m albums worldwide and won 13 Grammy awards.
- Mark
I saw someone else report the Jeff Goldblum thing too. That had better be fake.
- Veronica
Nope, fell to his death.
- Andrew Leahey
Jeff Goldblum?
- Mark
Dude, the person I read said car accident. Rumor spreading?
- Veronica
Yep, filming in New Zealand. So much for the rule of 3.
- Andrew Leahey
Can you contemplate selling almost a billion albums? 13 grammys! I mean come on.
- Mark
Dude, that would suck. So much for the buckaroo banzai sequel...
- Thomas
Not heard about Jeff Goldblum dying - when was that?
- Iain
he sold more ALBUMS than there are VIDEOS on youtube
- Mark
Jeffs wikipedia entry has not said anything about that yet!
- Charlieray
Better be fake
- Iain
Chaos theory.
- aldenoneil
There is nothing on Google News about that at all.
- Veronica
yea i call fake!
- Fee501st
Total fake
- Andrew Leahey
Jeff story is a fake, for sure. Nothing on any news story, besides we'd hear that right away on CNN.
- Divya Mistry
Google's robots are not "that" quick i guess
- Srujan Ameda
Very suspicious that his name is in the subdomain.
- Andrew Leahey
Totally fake.
- Veronica
http://hashtags.org/search... just rumors atm
- Anthony Kam
Search twitter though, spreading like *wildfire*.
- Andrew Leahey
woa
- biggzipp
this is the michael jackson thread tho xx
- Mark
sorry mark! we'll make a new thread.
- Veronica
Did anyone load that jeff golblum link on twitter? Wondering if it's a phishing site...
- Thomas
Showing confirmed both on MSNBC and Fox News.
- Kim Landwehr
Who is this CNN lady? First of all, she's putting words in that iReporter's (?!) mouth.
- Divya Mistry
I loaded, I'm not sure. Checking out mediafetcher.com
- Andrew Leahey
Kim - Fox news confirmed, and then immediately said that their reporters are waiting out side till UCLA Med Center confirms it
- Divya Mistry
His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage. <------ I was just too young to experience that :(
- Mark
Dang, no kidding? So.....what else is going on?
- Tdubya
celebs dropping like flies, veronica you need to be careful for the rest of this week
- Anthony Kam
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Tech Crunch Says the Web is suffering from too much traffic
- Mark
9-11 was like this (in terms of net overload). FriendFeed's ajax updates make this the best source for me right now. Interesting...
- Dave Friedel
BBC confirmed it around 5 mins ago..
- Mark Aitken
Right now dozens of authors are beginning work on the Michael Jackson tell all stories hoping there book is the one which will sell millions
- Mark
The news RT's on Twitter look like a FriendFeed commercial since this gives me no results: http://search.twitter.com/search... while this does: http://friendfeed.com/search... and with much less noise...
- Patrick Mackaaij
Maybe he still has time for one more "Thriller" dance.
- Ruben
UCLA Med Ctr website is down!
- Divya Mistry
CNN had confirmation from the coroners office apparently
- Iain
Sad, sad day. :( I loved him when I was young and his music is still awesome. I always felt sorry for him too - he was clearly fucked up and it wasn't his fault.
- Amy
Man had issues, but holding the baby out the balcony... I can sleep soundly while chalking that fuck up to him.
- Anthony Kam
Like all artists, I judge him by his art, not his life
- anna sauce
A weird individual, but he encountered challenges totally unique to child stars
- anna sauce
Well said Anna.
- Mark Aitken
I also think his popularity shouldn't be underestimated- friend went to a concert 6 years or so ago in Germany and was astounded by how many showed up- 10K? or something insane
- anna sauce
Macaulay Culkin's and Corey Feldman's phones are ringing off the hook.
- aldenoneil
@baery i luld
- Anthony Kam
Live now: Dr Kiki's Science Hour with Andrew Maynard of http://2020science.org/ on Nanotechnology. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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Will you be taking calls about nano-tech on this show?
- tollie williams
please don't
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
leo which scientists decide how dangerous "gray goo" could be?
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
I have a weak connection between my optic nerve and my brain. I wonder if something like that may one day help me see properly again ...
- Filippo Dinolfo
I'm wanting to ask a question about carbon nano tubes in space to collect space debris.
- tollie williams
I know this is something I'll be keeping an eye on. It's fascinating and hope inspiring for me.
- Filippo Dinolfo
leo *don't* give politicians credit for knowing this stuff better than we do. in fact it's up to smart voters to elect smart politicians.
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
(add the word "educated" to smart)
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
not a really hopping conversation here. so... please ask the guest if we can use nanotech to reduce spam someday
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
I would rather used the tech to increase the strength of the key to open a can of spam.
- Philip Griego
The solar panel on the sun roof of the new Prius looks pretty see through.
- Philip Griego
I think the biggest fear about Nanotech is it being too transformative. Bioshock springs to mind. I know it's a game, but it pretty much encapsulated all the fear and paranoia around Nanotech.
- Filippo Dinolfo
I think advancements will happen faster and faster until the general population will be unable to make good decisions about it.
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
Facebook Slams Latest Chips From Intel And AMD - http://techpulse360.com/2009...
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Interesting. Not the first company you'd think would be making hardware criticisms, but when you consider how much of a risk downtime is to Google and Facebook, it's completely logical.
- Mike Nayyar
The only reason Google has done so well with power is because they are just using older (low power) systems, like the Pentium II and Celeron chips, because all that they need is IO bound not CPU bound.
- Wizetux
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