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From the article: 'Although the book sounds appealing, I tend to think that people who spend their time reading such [Allen's GTD] books would be far better employed getting on with whatever they are avoiding in the first place.' Guilty as charged ! - Andy C
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Nice location. Where on earth do you work ? - Andy C
My normal office is in the grounds of the Harleyford estate, Buckinghamshire - although I spend an awful lot of time in London in big concrete skyscrapers :( - Jonathan Beckett
Probably worth pointing out that they film all kinds of period programmes around this part of the world - not hard to see why... - Jonathan Beckett
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Hmm - that looks simply delicious. I sure hope it was free. Plus the tell-tale white 'I've got an iPod' earphones. - Andy C
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Will Habari Be The Next WordPress?
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Nope - Franklin Pettit
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Of course no-one is going to be "the next WordPress", and there are many things about the WordPress project that don't fit well into the Habari way of doing things. Still, that's a pretty unequivocal answer, Franklin. Care to expand ? - Michael C. Harris
@Michael - Nope.....jk.....I will expand. I have said before what is not an original concept. Competition in the end benefits the end users you and I. But, wordpress is great platform. Much easier than MT ever has been. Competition from something fresh and new like Habari will not form a replacement but simply add pressure and ideas for the wordpress devs. So essentially will Habari be the next wordpress? Nope...but that should not be its goal. - Franklin Pettit
Thanks, Franklin. You're absolutely right, competition can only help users. And you're right about the goals of Habari's developers, it's never been about replacing WordPress, it's about making the best system possible in the best community. And having fun, of course :) - Michael C. Harris
Fun in software development? Hmmm....does that still happen? :) - Franklin Pettit
Hopefully not. That's precisely why I am using Habari. - Andy C
I long for the day when blogging softwares would have repositories of plugins and would let me do one-click plugin installs. Something as fresh as Habari should probably look at that. - sameer
@sameer - Wordpress is adding one click installs in Wordpress 2.7. :) - Franklin Pettit
Nope, I don't think so. Wordpress is da best :P - Apostolos Papadopoulos
It's possible. Popularity doesn't confer the title of best. Just look at myspace. - Mo Kargas
Yes! I've been using it and checking out the code and it blows WP away in every way. The fact that it flawless imports WP into Habari is a huge win. It's only 0.6 and it's working perfectly. There's little that it doesn't do already. Everyone saying WP is great has obviously never looked at the code. It's a horrible mess. Habari is clean and efficient. I dumped my WP blog last year because it sucked so much. I'm considering launching another on Habari because it's so nice to work with. - ·[▪_▪]·
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Don’t Guilt Me Into Being A Friend
September 29 at 2:06 pm - Link
Right on. - Robert Scoble
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But I like you! - Mark Trapp
Amen. - AJ Kohn
You're a cranky one, aren't you? - Elliott Ng
Good essay. - Phil Glockner
Pretty much my exact reaction to the O'Neill post. If I like your info, I follow you. You like mine, you follow me. If not, I won't, and don't. It's nothing personal, something the ubiquitous "friend" term blurs (side story - one of the main reasons I quit using livejournal is that the culture is much more based around friending people based on personal feelings rather than interest in their content and I got uncomfortable with that). - Jandy Stone
Elliott, you are just figuring that out?? :O - Cyndy
@Thanks Robert .... @Mark it's okay I like you to LOL :) - Steven Hodson
@Elliot who let my secret out? :) .. @J. Phil - thanks - Steven Hodson
AMEN! - Justin Korn
What? Steven Hodson is cranky? Next you'll tell me that Larry Ellison likes to buy stuff. - Ontario Emperor
No matter how cranky I may get (and I am planning a similar post later), I will never be at Hodson's level :) - Rob Diana
Blindly reciprocating "friend" requests is lunacy. I can't believe people feel it's rude not to. This isn't a numbers game, I potentially have to pay attention to the content each person I subscribe to generates. If their content is crap, I have already wasted my time and probably missed stuff I actually would have liked. - Rah™
@OE - too bad I don't have his bank account though then I could be a cranky old fart with LOTS of toys :) - Steven Hodson
@Rob LOL thanks (I think :) ) - Steven Hodson
Steven? My e-feelings are hurt because you didn't add me as a friend on Facebook. I think I might unsubscribe from you on FriendFeed for a day and re-sub tomorrow just to get your attention. ha! - Mona N.
@Mona .. I would have definitely reciprocated except for one problem I *will not* use Facebook - Steven Hodson
Loved this post Steven. Are there really people who believe friending is a default behavior and automatically reciprocated without any demonstration of value? They don't understand the space at all... - Daryl Tay
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Informative, balanced review of Habari on ReadWriteWeb. - Andy C
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From zero to three children in 9 months. That was brave. Or the other thing. We took a long time to adapt to having one. Then, a year later, it took us a slightly less time to adapt to two. - Andy C
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“I Need Assistance: I am trying to remember the name of an English comedian. He was short and bald and had a show in the early to mid 1990. Had the style of "You know how ____ is ____, well what if _____"”
September 29 at 5:32 am - Link
I'm not sure what you mean about style, but Alexei Sayle ? - Michael C. Harris
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+OneFuckingBillion for you Michael, thank you sir! - John Worthington
Was gonna say Harry Hill - Mo Kargas
"Blaster Bates" - yes, he was a real person, yes, he was hilarious. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Favourite Alexei Sayle one-liner: "I used to help write a listings paper called What's On In Stoke Newington. It was a big piece of paper with 'FUCK ALL' written on it" - Andy C
By the way, Blaster Bates is probably not who you're looking for, but he deserves to be remembered :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Why --> http://friendfeed.com/e/d2af31... - John Worthington
Benny Hill? - Peter Simard
John, pleasure. Where can I spend my billion points ? - Michael C. Harris
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Why I’m Getting Tired of FriendFeed
Why I’m Getting Tired of FriendFeed
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From NewsGrange: "Yesterday, people posted screenshots of their desktops – the day before – pictures of themselves – tomorrow, it’s going to be a picture of their feet. FriendFeed (or at least the part that I am subscribed to) is becoming a completely self-referential community that creates less and less value for me." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
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Agree? Disagree? Let them know in the comments. (And no, this is not my site or opinion) - Louis Gray
It's a little harsh, although I do accept that there has been a serious shift with FF. Where as it was once primarily a secondary discussion around posts, today it's a full blown social network in its own right. And I might add, it's a network I'm happy to be part of, and unlike facebook, it's one I'm happy to spend time in - Duncan Riley
It's impossible to create aggregator that shows exactly the content you want. FF can be fine-tuned with lists and hides to filter, but it can't be perfect, either. I think all the meme's etc bring the community together and makes them more likely to add more useful content, too :) - Jemm
Agree - Stefano
They should subscribe to fewer people. My tech list doesn't participate in most of the memes and I don't click like on many of them either. - Robert Scoble
So come on, who's going to start the "Photo of my feet" meme? - Bec
I think tagging / categorizing would bring more value as I want to add both fun and tech content. Tags would help filtering data for my followers from my end. - Jemm
use the lists feature, which i find to be a great sorting tool on FF, and adjust your filtering strategy. personally, i don't mind the pictures of people, and their feet... it brings a little bit of humanity to what is an essentially unnatural activity...sitting in front of a computer, that is... - .LAG
FF needs to step up its filtering. None of the noise referenced on Newsgrange -- a nearly naked site, by the way -- would be evident if the author could exclude posts containing the word "meme" in the title. Beyond that: boo-hoo. Sorry to track our muddy feet across your pristine, sterile, unsocial network. People are noisy, and people have arrived.Figure out how to see what you want or move on to the next Pure Land. - Chris Baskind
I would have to disagree. Maybe its just the people but I honestly didn't see many post about the list at all. And also, sure there are many useless memes, but I see may great photos, news stories, personal stories, funny things, etc throughout the day. I don't know what Friendfeed your referring to, but its not the one I'm a part of. - Mathew Ballard
if you're only getting your feet wet with Friendfeed and playing around in the home feed, then yeah, I agree it's convoluted (although, personally that works for me). However, with just a little tuning of the rooms and lists, you can avoid most of that stuff, if you really wanted to. For me, I'm only peripherally interested in the tech news, it's everything else that goes on here that really strikes my fancy. - Pete Delucchi
Chill out dudes, it's not that serious bisnes. It's funny and nice to see what people has :) - Kristian Salonen
ببینید این ها هم از فرفر خسته شدن ! - Milad.p
Todays "Picture of me as a child meme" makes me think that he's right. Its really getting on my nerves. - Roberto Bonini
Agree with Duncan. Also, conversations seem to start around threads begun in rooms like "Apps" or "Goodies". Where the context is set. - Stu Andrews
Totally agree - Reza D
The page is blank. :( - ☺ KevyKev ☺
ff key: separate signal from growing noise - Igor Poltavskiy
I for one appreciate the non-tech posts, just as much as the tech posts. Friendfeed isn't just for discussing OAuth... - Matt Harwood
I agree, this isn't Techfeed or Oneparticularsubjectfeed, this is Friendfeed which means that pretty much anything and everything can be shared. That is why you can connect so many different services to Friendfeed and why you have rooms based on different topics. Yes, there are some instances of noise. But, I must say that even as I've subscribed to more and more people I'm not really encountering any noise. And the only things I find myself hiding are post in languages other then English. - Mathew Ballard
on the topic, i think duncan said it well early in the thread & louis what sort of site have you linked to, its a void except for this mindless "hating" ff now that its diverse post - that's not like you... - mike "glemak" dunn
I see the point but it's simply a matter of subscribing to the people who interest you/who post articles/shares you are interested in. I don't get it. Doesn't this person know how to do this? Was FF created for tech news only? The name certainly doesn't suggest that. You can share what you like, if the reader doesn't like it then they can unsubscribe or create a friend list tailored to their needs. - Kol Tregaskes
Great buttons on FF.. Hide, Unsubscribe & Block. Don't like what someone says, just hit one of those buttons. Problem solved. :) Wish I had them in real life. Granted I probably would be as alone as Wil Smith in I Am Legend. - Bored
After joining FF, my activity on all other sites has not slightly decreased, but I am happy with FF cos' now I don't have to login to all those sites just to see what others have posted. I log into them only if I want to post something. Otherwise I carry on discussion only on FF. In simple words, I love FriendFeed! - kunwar
Mike, I saw the site left a trackback on Robert's list. It does seem to be a bit of a hit and run. - Louis Gray
Bah, whinging because of FF's increasing variety and diversity - it's still social media, so there will be social aspects. FF's slowly diverging from it's original tech bias, deal. Use the tools provided, block, unsubscribe, or use lists to remove what you don't like or simply be more discerning in subscriptions. - Mo Kargas
Talk about linkbait... well, he got what he wanted. - Sprague D
I don't find anything wrong with a random meme when you are still contributing to the tech community. If the early adopters would like a tech list to dabble in information create a room and hang out in it! I happen to like a bit of diversity on FF... it adds to the value for me. Isn't too much of a photo meme the same as me getting pissed off on the 30000 Google Chrome posts? Or the iPhone App posts that litter my home feed? You can get tired of stupid, funny postings. You can get tired of random noise and - Kyle Lacy
chatter. The last thing you need to do is get tired of FriendFeed. If you are tired of personality and a community of diversity, go quarantine yourself in Strandz. :-) This is what social media is all about. Have a good day everyone! - Kyle Lacy
Definitely Kyle, once again on the ball mate - Mo Kargas
Louis, and all, I did stop by and thank the author for sharing his/her opinion. I have no worries with listening to the opinion and am not offended. Robert is fairly accurate in his assessment, as is Mathew (and many others). I have come for conversation on all manner of topics. I am interested in more than simply tech, and I hope that my likes and comments reflect that. I have begun to really enjoy the oddball humor and many interesting recommendations that come from everyone I subscribe to. Keep it up. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
I don't understand why any of you who are involved in tech and promoting new applications would feel like the growing popularity of Friendfeed is a bad thing. Why would anyone publicly discourage the growth and development of any application in the mainstream? Is it only a great application when it's shiny and new and yet undiscovered by the masses? Personally, I get tired of reading the same tech posts linked by 20 different people. - Trish R
This happens to every social site - as the community grows, it tends to trend towards the kind of stuff that a large community can agree on, which tends to be funny pictures and dumb memes more than thoughtful commentary. Bolstering the rooms feature for more topical discussion would help greatly with this; in the meantime I'd suggest just culling your friends list. - Eric
You can't tell people what to do or share. You can just filter the people you find interesting, and make good use of the rooms and lists features. - Alejandro S.
I like friendfeed as it has become. its a community of different people and different ideas. to qoute public enemy "bring the noise!" :) - (jeff)isageek
USEFUL CONTENT MEME! LOLzorz. - (teh)Hussein
This is what turned me off FriendFeed for awhile, and after trying to come back the same thing. I'm not going to call out any names but I got tired of seeing FUNNY PICS and just silly things that isn't new, just midly interesting, and most of it I had seen before on sites like Reddit, Digg, etc. .. My goal of FriendFeed was to be able to connect to people of like-mindedness on things I am interested in. Perhaps it's the people I'm subscribed to but even searches for things I'm interested in don't turn... - Bartek Gniado
(Continued comment) .. up very intriguing results. I've participated in one or two memes because I was bored but the FriendFeed problem is the same as any social-based network: You have your star players, they get all the attention, they post most of the links, and it becomes centered around them. It's too much effort to block/unsubscribe and filter it all out so now I'm stuck thinking how I can make FriendFeed useful for me. - Bartek Gniado
I know how you feel.. I can post a link and it'll get ignored. Someone else with a higher profile will post the same thing and it'll generate a load of activity. This is a central problem I notice across the net - it's billed as the great equaliser but it isn't, people don't have a fair shout because of human nature and its tendancy to coaless around "prominent personalities" and cliquish behaviours. I doubt this is a "problem" that can be fixed by technology as it sits much deeper. - alphaxion
@alphaxion I've had that happen a few times. At first I was kinda miffed that I'd posted something topical and relevant and got no response, and then someone else had posted the same link a couple of hours later and got 30-40 comments. Still, I still post stuff I find interesting, and that I hope others will too. If we don't post links, because we think that it will always only be the high-profilers ones that get read, then it WILL always only be theirs that get read! - Ian May
Kyle, you said "I don't find anything wrong with a random meme when you are still contributing to the tech community." The problem is when a bunch of people participate in every meme: those people stop functioning productively in the tech community. P.S. I'm glad my month-long curmudgeonry about MemeFeed has finally gotten mainstream! - Mark Trapp
There's something productive about the contributions of the tech community? News to me - a thousand people going "ZOMG Google Chrome!!!" and "Dude check out my iPhone!" strike me as being about as useful as lolcats but less interesting. - Eric
There's a tech community on FriendFeed? Where? I see a lot of talk about Web 2.0 sites and using webapps, but very very little about tech. - Jason Carreira
@Mark What is a productive tech community? - Kyle Lacy
@ian I know, I have the same philosophy with everything - I post to my site even though no-one goes to it, I produce podcasts that no-one will see nor hear. I don't care about any lack of traffic, I do it cause I want to. If someone else picks up on it, ok. If I change one persons opinion, fantasic job done. @jason we are there, it's just we don't have many subscribers to hear it ;) - alphaxion
It was just Sunday night - everyone is more relaxed over the weekend. - Jesse Stay
+1 Jesse. Thank you - Kyle Lacy
Agreed to a certain point. (I still like having fun with you all.) I will do my best to be more informative instead of entertaining. I will go for being 80% informative and 20% entertaining/fun. I don't want to treat FriendFeed like a Face Book or MySpace application or see it become one. I originally came to FF to follow some of the greatest tech minds ever and learn from them. I’m not apologizing for following the meme’s, but I will cut back from some of them. - David Cook
Breakfast is still for WINNERS! - Thomas Hawk
at this point, for most people (ie not tech bloggers who have a vested interest in staying on the cutting edge) fun and cutting up has more value than more information. I lost interest in friendfeed when it was the opposite -- when all my FOAFs became saturated with attention whores whoring after the attention of my early adopter friends with floods of links and already beaten-to-death analysis of the latest tech news quantum. I'm not including L.G. in this, but -- I'll take thedesktops and picture memes. - Jeremy Raines
I still find it to be pretty useful. I don't check it everyday mostly because it requires more time to dig through everything and involve myself in some discussions that interest me. Yes there is a lot of noise but that unless your FOF is completely unmanageable there you can often find some great stuff buried in all that noise. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl
Looks like people have made the comment I was going to make already. Namely - people will share whatever they choose on their feed. We have our own choice as to *if* and *how* we consume this. - chet
The problem I'm seeing is that people spend more and more of their time on the silly memes - which I suspect leaves little or no time to read worthy articles that are shared (often by less-popular users), and certainly almost no time to comment on them, especially considering how quickly they get buried by the meme entries. FF will need to overcome this. - Aviv
The past 2-3 weeks have seen a huge upsurge in FF photo traffic, which is a direct result of the new photo feature being so easy to use now after the recent FF beta went into production (some of us were aware of how to use mail2ff app (which I think FF later acquired). So, I was expecting this increase; however, it certainly went viral when all these "meme" photos popped up. Early on, I suggested a MEME Room to contain all the madness so folks could manage their preferences to opt in/out. Cont'd....... - Susan Beebe
Cont'd....... Also, I think we're seeing a genuine interest in folks getting to know each other better. This generated the whole photos idea, which seems to have cemented new online friendships and opened the door to a plethora of new "memes" thereafter. I still think we need a "meme room" to filter in/out this new content type. In the end, this all may be just a short-lived trend. - Susan Beebe
as for the "silly meme" trend on ff, i don't mind them but haven't really participated much (i have very little time) - i have created a specialty list called "high volume" that gets most of these out of my primary feed/lists, it has cut down the noise but i still can go scan through them when time allows - works for me... - mike "glemak" dunn
Gang, is FriendFeed specifically geared towards tech, or was it simply the early adopters that found and spread the concept of "life streaming"? - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
If Newsgrange doesn't like what the people they follow are posting, they can simply change who they follow. To whine about this is a total waste of their time! Talk about ironic and not having a clue. - Dread Pirate PJ
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When Jack Flynn referred to the "games he played," was he talking about NTN/Buzztime, or the carnival? I finished my other two trip reports, by the way... - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
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"Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds Wed in Canada | Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds made it official with a wedding this weekend, Reynolds's rep, Meredith O'Sullivan, confirmed to PEOPLE." - Abby Martin via Bookmarklet
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Canadian men rock. That's why. :) - Abby Martin
Yes, we do - Shey
who? - Steven Hodson
It's as if a billion single men suddenly cried out and were silenced. - steplow is Steve
Steven Hodson- I love you for that comment. I do. :) (See Canadian men really do rock.) - Abby Martin
:) (even if they're cranky? :) ) - Steven Hodson
Don't think much of their outfits. - Andy C
Especially if they are cranky. (My husband certainly is...and so am I supposedly..err, not that I am a man or wholly Canadian. But for a half-Canadian chick, pretty grumpy.) - Abby Martin
why does it look like scarlett is struggling to carry two very large cantaloupes? if i were her hubby, i would take the chivalrous route, remove my hand from hers, and help her out... - Rob Reed
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“ha!”
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September 28 at 3:19 am - Link
An old one, but still so true... - Marcello Del Bono
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Sad but true :) - Mike Reynolds
Hah! - Kate
Nail on head. - Steve Spalding
It's just that most of the second one can be done in the one search box. - Daniel Schildt
so true - Paulo via twhirl
*hugs his beloved faceted navigation* - Steven Kaye
*sigh* Sad but true, especially of my last company, and of most library database interfaces. - ☺ Cecily ☺
Semi True. While funny, sometimes you NEED to limit the results found and then the google answer is an obscure text search syntax that 99% of users will never use, instead of "cluttering" stuff with a checkbox. - Soulhuntre
To be fair... your app may need to do more than search ;) - Dion Almaer
Just saw these in a presentation at KM World. There's another one for an Apple product. - Hutch Carpenter
They used these in a presentation? :O I found them cleaning out my external so I decided to post. And please don't ask why I have random images on my HD. I don't even know haha. Brb, gonna Google for the Apple one! - Mona N.
funny, sad, and oh so true. - Alan
That's just because Google (Big Brother) already has all that information about you. - David Cook
The Mac version of this only consists of a HUGE button. - Thomas Frütel
I'm in the software business, and I say this is true. I approve my statement. :) - imabonehead
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“Appreciating Andrew Weldon's "merchant banker" rhyming slang reference.”
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Yeah - this term is getting a lot of use in the current financial crisis in the City of London - Ferraris being returned, people carrying IronMountain boxes around etc. - Andy C
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Wow. Matt Mullenweg should watch this. Woman with cerebal palsy talking about how Wordpress has changed her life. - Robert Scoble
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Matt's already referred to this video in his blog. - Andy C
Robert, I got this from his blog. Amazing story, and PR. Inspiring - I wish more people would pay attention to accessibility. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Oh, I missed that. Thanks! - Robert Scoble
Uhm...Wordpress is so accessible? Wow! I don't know...so, it's very important as the game accessibility. - Dario Salvelli
Very nice. Good for her. - Dawn
I'll be using this in my web development class in two areas - blogging and accessibility. Perfect. - Kenley Neufeld
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