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McCain Names Alaska Gov. Palin as Running Mate - America’s Election HQ
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"“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said spokesman Bill Burton." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet
But, you know, she's a Hockey Mom. - Jason Toney
*screaming inside* why??? - Kamilah Gill
was she at all responsible for the pork re: bridge to nowhere? - anna
@anna according to her speech she told Congress "no thank you" on the bridge - it will be interesting to see questions like these really get vetted in the coming weeks as information surfaces - Marco
I am just WAITING for Bill Clinton to say that people with no foreign policy experience shouldn't be elected Vice President. WAITING. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Stunt casting, first thing that pops to mind. - Bluesun 2600 via twhirl
Whoever said she looked like Tina Fey needs bifocals. I'm just saying. - Cyndy
@Cyndy. hah! it depends on the angle :) http://bit.ly/3LgPX5 - ~C4Chaos
Heard that she came in 2nd in the Miss Alaska in 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... - Bluesun 2600
McCain needs to pick someone that is conservative since most conservatives see him as liberal and only slightly to the right of Obama. - Paul L. McCord Jr.
Re my Bill Clinton comment, Dave Winer went one further. Not only does Palin not have national experience, she doesn't have American experience. (Alaska is kinda weird, you see...) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Nice teeth. - Andy C
haha! @ontario - Marco
he wants to drill in her yard. THAT'S what it is! - jeneane is in the house
jeneane FTW, hardcore!! - ::Kristen::
@anna - actually, she is responsible for killing the "bridge to nowhere." She is also playing a large and public role in getting the current corrupt congressional delegation from Alaska kicked out of office. The state GOP had no idea what it was getting itself into when it appointed her head of the state oil commission... - Forrest Cox
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Football: Man United 1-2 Zenit St Petersburg | Football | The Guardian
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Paul Scholes equalises in the Super Cup to earn MUFC a 2-2 draw. Bizarrely, the 'goal' was ruled out for a suggestion of handball. - Andy C via Bookmarklet
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Probably not but just like Twitter, Jaiku has its own passionate, loyal community. - Andy C
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The story behind the Oracle forum outage. - Andy C
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Tom Raftery posted a message on Jaiku
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Tom, I think it was a big mistake for Jaiku to "re-launch" without some breakthrough thinking or features. - PaulSweeney via twhirl
@Paul +1 Also a mishtake to take 7 days to move the existing platform into a Google data center. It kind of makes you think Google aren't really that committed to Jaiku which is a shame. - Andy C
And what is with the invite thing? Wasn't it open before? - Tom Raftery via twhirl
Was limited invite. Now 'unlimited' invites but still not truly open as you can't just sign up. I predict great things for Jaiku - in 2013. - Andy C
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Back now. Apparently Oracle posted a massive picture of a Badger during the outage. Those guys are really starting to embrace Web 2.0. - Andy C
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David Duchovny Enters Rehab for Sex Addiction
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All those years of sexual tension with Scully........ - George Smith
"I ask for respect and privacy for my wife" - I suspect she will just be grateful for the respite. - Andy C
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Michael C. Harris posted a message on identi.ca
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Easy: The Mona Effect - Michael W. May (Joffi) via twhirl
Habari doesn't have any moaners. - Andy C
Hey, Mona, would you like to try a new blog platform ;) - Michael C. Harris
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'A man chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password...' - Andy C via Bookmarklet
Saw this story earlier and wet mine. - Mathew Butler
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Top Ten Traffic Sources (SEO and Tech Daily)
Wednesday at 6:18 am - Link
Nice chart, Charlie. :-) - Louis Gray
Does FriendFeed work ? I don't know. All I see here is a list of Top 10 sources. FriendFeed may have referred 3 people for all I know. I could post my own 'chart' that says identi.ca refers more people to my blog than FriendFeed. Does identi.ca work ? Sure. - Andy C
I have noticed that FriendFeed does drive a good amount of traffic compared to other sites. Definitely keeping an eye on that trend. - Rob Diana
Andy - Your point is well taken in the fact that I am much more active on Friendfeed than any other social network, which no doubt is a big piece of this. - Charlie Anzman
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resharing - Steven M. Cohen
I think it's your fault - Alan Simpson
Wouldn't that be "on" FriendFeed, not "in"? Just sayin' - Steven M. Cohen
Because our shit is dynamic like that. And classy. ;) - WarMaiden
@Steven - You're either a librarian 'or' a Teacher. - Yuvi
Ssshhh ! - Andy C
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I daren't ask. - Andy C
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Akiva Moskovitz posted a message
Tuesday at 8:52 pm - Link
Not having her first date until she's 24. Ouch. - Andrew Trinh
Man, you are trying to put it off for 25 years? You really are in for torture. - Tim Hoeck
My Uncle told his daughters they couldn't date until they were 19...I don't want to tell you how they are today (in their 20s) - Candace Holly
My husband did/does the same thing. He'd like to but our daughter in the basement from when she's 10 until she's 30- just to be sure. - Abby Martin
I'd bet you'll be having that problem when she's 16. ;-) - AJ Batac
Congratulations Akiva! I'm sure no guy will match her standards :) - Zee at WeDoCreative
Feel free to call :) ... and suck up every minute. It flies by! - Charlie Anzman
I don't even have a daughter and I think about torturing the guys who come by to pick her up for her first dates in 25 years :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Hmmm, perfect age for Milan to date! (He turns 1 on September 14th). Don't tourture him too much. :-) - Robert Scoble
My wife just exclaimed, 'Our kid's gunna date Robert Scoble's kid?!' - Akiva Moskovitz
Wow- Friendfeed as matchmaker! A first! - Abby Martin
When I picked up Rachael up for our first date (12 years ago, wow) My farther-in-law gave me a single piece of paper with a number on it. He said it was the combination to his brother's safe where he keeps his shotgun. He told me (and I remeber the quote) 'This is so you have a fighting chance... but I don't like your odds, be home before 12'... :) - John Worthington
Akiva: that bad, huh? Oh well, Milan will have to turn on his big-eyed charm then. Hint: it weakens the hardest of hearts! :-) - Robert Scoble
@Akiva You're thinking about that in a soon-to-be pointless attempt to distract yourself from thinking about changing dirty diapers. - Jack Carlson
+1 Jack :) - Zee at WeDoCreative
Akiva, LMAO, 25 years. It's all in your head man, the future is coming a lot closer than you think... - Pete Delucchi
Akiva, one word: burka - Hutch Carpenter
Robert, it was said in the most positive (yet shocked) way! :D - Rochelle
Hutch, we're Jewish. What areak;fa;g;aGlkAsf;as a omgSJKGA: AOgg - Akiva Moskovitz
I picked up a folder of "Applications to Date My Daughter." It has ten applications, and only one certificate of Permission to Date My Daughter. - Denton Gentry
It starts way early man, my daughter is 2.5 and already has a friend that is a boy... - Bill Pennington via twhirl
Bahahaha. Don't get Jason STARTED, Akiva. Poor Sissy. No bikini bathing suits. No lip gloss. I got her ears pierced while he was in Texas. And the make-up for her first dance recital was a knock-down, drag-out. - Cyndy
I think Jason has the very right idea. - Akiva Moskovitz
Congratulations, Akiva! Cyndy: You guys are going to be doing some MAJOR ass kicking when Pete turns of age. Seriously. - Mona N.
My 6yo godson and his best friend kissed on the bus and now they're married. It starts early, Akiva. ;) - Ayşe E.
You're not goign to let her date till 25? Man. Am I glad my first girlfirends didn't have Dad's like that :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
25 LOL - ·[•_•]·
when we found out we were having a girl (2002), my husband started investigating convents. - faboo mama
You think it's bad now, just wait until she's born. I'm trying this method for coping: Build her up. Teach her not to take anybody's sh*t. Tell her how beautiful she is every day. Tell her how smart she is every day. Teach her that men are idiots and need to be told what to do. Empower her to make good decisions and be in control of her life...did I forget anything? ;) - Chris Martin
When our first daughter had her first date I was the cool one on the outside because everyone else wasn't so cool. It was very strange for all of us. My youngest went to the window to spy on her sister. - Russellreno
Mona, Pete will have the benefit of two older brothers who will run interference. Sissy is the oldest and therefore, the first-pancake child. - Cyndy
I hope she likes Denny's. I have a coupon that expires in 2030 and I'll be looking for a date :P - Nathan Howell
Indeed, agree 100%. I have a son right now. But if we were to have another child, I'd want a boy. - Mike Reynolds
I have a daughter. I am already over the first date and now torment myself. picturing myself writing out a cheque for the wedding reception. Do you think all the guests (all 7 of them) would be prepared to toast the bride and groom with sparkling water ? - Andy C
Oh jeez. I don't even want to think about footing the bill for a wedding. You guys are killin' me over here! - Akiva Moskovitz
Then this song is for you "Cleaning this gun" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Al Degutis via twhirl
having only son's w/ girlfriends myself can say that witnessing the torture is painful but its mostly done by the girls and not their parents ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Somewhere there is a strapping young boy out there just waiting for that perfect Jewish girl. Give it 16 years and the magic will happen. - Sparky
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
Wednesday at 1:54 am - Link
Well put, Louis - I think you covered all my frustrations - Jesse Stay
2, 5, 7, 8 are my favorites. I'd also like to add the ability to hide certain post that match a keyword, e.g. McCain etc.. - Tibor Holoda
Tibor, you are right. Forgot that one. A rooms directory also seemed to small for a list of ten. - Louis Gray
Feel free to make it 11 point long, it seems everyone's a sleep still anyway ;) - Tibor Holoda
Good points. I'm particularly keen on 1, 2, 6 and 7. Reshared to Friendfeed Beta room btw. - David Young
I commented on it. Mostly love the suggestions. - Robert Scoble
1 and 10 I really like. - John Worthington
#9 is essential. - Mo Jawhari
I'd also like to see Disqus comments to be treated as comments, which by implementing Louis suggestion in point 2, will make more sense i guess. Comments are comments, posts are posts. In case there will be no link to which the comment is added, it could work like posting a link with the Disqus comment under. Btw, @Robert, you don't have Disqus hooked up in FF ;) - Tibor Holoda
Excellent post Louis. You are pretty much spot on with those 10 suggestions. - Mike Fruchter
Tibor: I don't like Disqus pulling in comments here. Often I want different communities to remain separate. I'll manually pull in comments or point out when I've made comments that FriendFeeder's should be aware of. Like I did here. - Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is a lifestream aggregator and I use it to aggregate all my various 'outputs'. Disqus comments are just one category of my 'outputs'. Therefore, Disqus comments are perfectly valid and *do* belong in my FriendFeed stream The fact, that such comments may be out of context to people bending FF into a Social Media Forum is an unfortunate consequence. - Andy C
11. add user definable font size. the new beta makes me squint :) - h1ro
#9! I hide things liberally and it does bug me, when I click on page 2, I'm seeing page 1 all over again. - Yolanda
Free booze?? - john conroy
Great suggestions Louis, I would also add: The Ability to Hide Specific RSS Feeds and Search All Entries by URL - Shey
and go-faster stripes, a background of babes in bikinis, and intermittant embedded hilarious fart noises. - john conroy
I have to so that FF has been growing well with the current feature set. Like all areas of activity contraints can sometimes be helpful. FF needs to innovate itself, rather than copy straight from Twitter (DM's), Facebook (profiles) etc. 2,4,10 are most important. The issue here is not so much what features we want as how can FF grow into a mature platform. - Roberto Bonini
Robert: I see your point, but i still think it would be a good thing to handle Disqus comments as comments, not as posts. User decides, if he wants them appear in his FF stream or not - like in your case. - Tibor Holoda
Great List Louis! #2 is my favorite one. - Peter Hoffmann
Tibor, I agree with you (Robert, when are you going to enable Disqus on your blog?). For the blog owner it's much easier to consolidate into one place if they can tie your comments straight to the FriendFeed post itself instead of an entirely new post. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
One more suggestion - tagging. I want to be able to tag individuals, both in my posts, *and* my comments if I'm talking about them or something they might be interested in. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Excellent list. My top priority though, isn't on there - (as per Shey) renaming or separating "Blog" posts, so individuals can hide your blog vs. another "blog" .. I'd also like it easier to determine which services I am/am not showing per individual. Just give me some enable/disable checkboxes on the users page. Strands did this right. - Tim Hoeck
Great suggestions Louis. One clarification on #4 -- most people never see this "default" list because they were either invited by another user, or they import friends from email or facebook. The recommendations are then based entirely on who their other friends are, and will make a lot more sense. - Paul Buchheit
Indeed some good suggestions. My guess is that the reason that #2 (duplicates) has not been implemented yet, is that it is very tricky to do right. If they do manage to implement it and get it right, I will be very impressed. I would not be too surprised though, since Friendfeed has some really sharp people working there. - Robert Felty
Excellent List and some good suggestions in comments as well. I really would like to see 2,3,5,6, & 10. The share on FF bookmarklet should be more like Tumblr's. I would also like to be able to filter my feed to prevent duplicates. I would like to cross post my tumblr to my main blog and twitter but in doing so I create more noise for my FF stream. If I could filter out posts from blog or twitter that started with "XYZ" then I could cross post freely without worrying about FF noise. - tsudohnimh
@Paul, thanks for the comment. I did test by signing up to just one individual, as if they had invited me, and by changing the one person I subscribed to, the recommended friends did change. That said, if you check out recommended friends in Facebook, there's the option to "X" out people you don't want and provide more. Plaxo also does this well. - Louis Gray
Re: #1 and #8 I would like to see profile information that I can search, so I can find FF folks who are geographically near me or who are in my profession or who share a common interest with me. Great post - thanks! - Courtney McGough
Pownce should worry about #10. FF will soon have to worry about cannibalizing its data suppliers, and what that means for ongoing openness. #! & #2 are the big ones with me, and I just don't see why FF enabled fake followers. - Logical Extremes
being 1st or 2nd is all that matters in that particular field.... 3rd placings and below would normally whither away - Mark L via twhirl
I am really getting confused. I just commented on the post. Now I see the comments here as posts. Totally agree with Tibor, messing posts together with comments, be it from Disqus or anywhere else, does not increase transparency. - Jan Horna
#7 - want to make sure i understand that concept of "fake follow" - home feed contains all friends by default & you can then add them to a list/grouping to subdivide them for easier readability - to remove them from the home feed you have to actually de-select them when you add them to a list and then never go to that list again - is that what "fake follow" is - if so, way to much work for no return and only lame*ss self absorbed status mongers will be doing it - imho of course :) - mike "glemak" dunn
#5 - My thought would be to make an invitation-only private room. Wouldn't this solve the partial-distribution problem? - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, it could, and some do, but that's a room, and not a feed. Unless the room data permeates the feed, it could get missed. - Louis Gray
I like your list. One other feature I'd like to see is to filter by service in whatever view I am in. - Jeff P. Henderson
The absolute killer feature for me would be, if FF will recognize languages of the posts, or at least to differentiate between english vs. non-english and allow filtering. Would that even be possible or did my brain just farted? :) - Tibor Holoda
(sorry for cross posting) Firstly, I'd like to add to Louis' list the capability to search rooms and then to search inside rooms. Secondly, I must confess that support for a basic profile would be useful. But as always I'd encourage the reuse of data (so importing it from whatever source the user decides). DMs might be usefull, but I haven't felt the need for them so far. - Alex Popescu
I usually don't like to speak about things that are not ready, but this post was catchy. I currently have a prototype that deals with de-duping the resource links. I haven't looked into de-duping pure messages, but my gut feeling is that this might be even easier. I hope to find the time to deploy this app sometime soon. - Alex Popescu
About private messaging: at first I thought this was a silly idea for ff, until I realized that the private messages could just show up where ff items normally show up, e.g. private comments. - j1m
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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message
Wednesday at 2:21 am - Link
I guess it's because of the (erroneous) advice given to new bloggers that they have to blog regularly. There's perhaps a slight drop-off in traffic during silent weeks/months, but what matters most for traffic is quality, not quantity (speaking of the non-pro-blog here). Also, since blogging is essentially an introspective activity, exposure to comments can be overwhelming, even induce guilt at times (I experienced that the first 6 months or so). I don't think extroverts get that all the time. - Vincent van Wylick
I think the apologizing is something that belongs to the time pre-rss when you had to visit the page every day to get the updates. If there were no update you wasted your time. Today bloggers and news sites should apologize for posting too much rubbish instead. - skivan
But when blogging for a couple of years I can feel a responsibility both to my blog and to my readers. The blog sometimes can be a prison too. Use to say to the people I educate in blogging that the fatigue is coming and giving ways to cope both with the bad concious of not blogging and the responsibility to the readers. It's like having a paper - of course would you tell that "now we won't publish for some days but we're not dead" - Niclas Strandh
They are holding themselves to unnecessary, unwritten standards. There is no quota, and it's not a race. - Louis Gray
99% of bloggers start out blogging for themselves, as a release. Too many forget that once they start getting readers. Nice as they are, readers come and go - stay true to yourself and why you blogged in the first place. - Michael W. May (Joffi)
I wish I could Like individual comments on Friendfeed as well as posts (one to add to your list Louis?), these are gold... - David Young
When I started to blog, years ago, I was basically writing a digital diary and didn't expect to have readers. My blogs were notbooks for myself. Still I feel that the audience comes second. Blogging is a learning experience for me. I blog in three languages: English, Swedish, and Finnish. Frequent writing has helped me to improve my language skills. I learn a lot from other bloggers. Social media and its implications on how to virtualize business operations is my present curiosity focus. http://kknetwork.ning.com/ - Helge V. Keitel
I keep wanting to start a blog but I either can't think of what I want to talk about or when I do I don't have any way to write my thoughts down to save for later. It's nice to know I don't have to blog a regurlarly. - Colide81
Easy to fall into the trap. Like many (personal dear-diary style, unprofessional) bloggers, I did it myself. Lessons learned - don't be afraid of radio silence, never, ever post mind numbing, tedious, boring posts like 'I'm not going to be posting for a while 'cos I'm real busy right now'. Some of the worst, banal, contrived, worthless posts I ever conjured up were those when I sat down and thought 'Right - it's Thursday so I need to blog something. Now'. - Andy C
Any blogging 'rules' are dumb. Period. - Chris Selland
I have 2 blogs, one is a "private" one that is mostly written to keep familly uptodate on the happenings, the other contains my lifestream, so that it gets updated, because I rarely blog on it.. don't understand people who think you have to blog daily, it should be a diary type thing, not a job type thing - Pascal
I have six blogs, one I update daily Iuse that as a diary, another is a lifestream so I dont't have to post on that one... and the other four are about my hobbies... and I post when I feel like it on these four... - Aline
@Chris Selland if any blogging rules are dumb, then what about grammar? I thought one of the rules of blogging is to always have good grammar. However, I don't have the best grammar and when ever I write a post I wonder is there something I can do to improve my grammar in my post? But as I said my grammar isn't the best so I am afraid I may miss something in my proof reading. - Colide81
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
Tuesday at 9:52 pm - Link
Narcissism gone mad. I can sort of understand pimping your own posts in every medium available but surely how can you honestly post a Top 40 list and keep yourself at #1. - Andy C
Andy, I agree, but it's only reporting what's there. Reader won't show who is #41 if I take mine out. Should it be a top 39? - Louis Gray
Louis Gray'ed again. The man is a genius (and has great taste :) - Charlie Anzman
Some great reads I wasn't familiar with/subscribed to in here, thanks - Mo Kargas
Thanks for compiling this Louis. I need to blog more consistently. I dropped 5 spots compared to the previous month leaderboard. - Mike Fruchter
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Josh Bancroft posted a message
Tuesday at 1:10 pm - Link
I only have jkk so far. http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/ I'm not using RSS readers anymore. - Rodfather
Ooh, jkk would be a good one. Does he Twitter, or write anywhere besides his blog? - Josh Bancroft
I don't think so. Blog, youtube, and IM - Rodfather
I've created a few imaginary friends to suck in folks photo-related content (Flickr, blogs) when they're not on here. - Aaron B. Hockley
I've done it for Flickr contacts that I like to follow. - Eric
I just a made a couple for developers I follow - Craig Hockenberry, Daniel Jalkut, Wolf Rentzsch, etc. And of course I had to make an "Imaginary" list to put them in. I'm having way too much fun with the new FF beta. :-) - Josh Bancroft
many of my favorite Flickr/Zooomr photographers who haven't found their way to ff yet. - Thomas Hawk
So far, just flickr contacts... - JA Castillo
There's a new FF beta? I've been mostly offline during my vacation and don't see anything different on the iPhone page. - Cheryl Jones
Cheryl, the iPhone version is unchanged, AFAICT. But on the desktop, go to http://beta.friendfeed.com. Check the FF blog to see what's new. Friends Lists and some rearranged layout are the big ones. - Josh Bancroft
Cool, I'll check it out when I'm home. - Cheryl Jones
Twitter. No. - Andy C
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