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Charges dismissed against former Blackwater Iraq contractors http://www.cnn.com/2009...
huge mistake.....covering up abuses and war crimes is hardly American...or is it?
- Kimba Rudd
The spoiled of war.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Met Jim Marrs in the '90s, lives near my hometown. Wrote the book Stone's 'JFK' is based on. And he's a kook: http://sisterhoodoftherose.net
Yeah, this book is not turning out the way I hoped. It's keeping people from bothering me though.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
RT @nytriver: [NYT]: Is Google's Nexus One Phone to Land Next Week?. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) liked this
aah, they've fixed the new retweet problem...interesting.
- Aron Michalski
how so?
- Karoli
Before, the new retweet would not appear in your FF stream as you were simply a parasite on someone else's tweet. Now it comes over like an old school one.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Is this 'they' as in friendfeed? i'm guessing yes
- Chris Heath
Not sure. When the new Twitter retweet function showed up, it didn't make the round trip to FF like regular posts because it wasn't seen as an original post from your twitter account, just a hit on the original post. Now, perhaps because of the changing of the Firehose feed from Twitter to FF, it appears to be showing up in the FF stream like everything else. Either Twitter fixed the original function of the retweet or the new hose did.
- Aron Michalski
i'm betting it has to do with code on FF's side (using the new API calls as you noted)
- Chris Heath
Yeah, can't imagine Twitter doing anything to improve anyone else's experience on purpose...
- Aron Michalski
Online Ghibli - http://www.onlineghibli.com/
For Christmas I received the Studio Ghibli DVD collection, 12 films from Hayao Miyazaki and the other remarkable film makers that make these remarkable animated films. Allowing myself to be swept into the magic of the stories and the depth of the artwork has been a real gift.
- Aron Michalski
from Bookmarklet
You might know Ponyo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) or Howl's Moving Castle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... )
- Aron Michalski
My sister knitted me a new hat. Yay! http://yfrog.com/4i54psj
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Aron Michalski liked this
Looking Good Michael!
- Aron Michalski
The new Twitter retweets show up as the old Twitter retweets on FriendFeed (my Twitter client)
Karoli liked this
Yeah, I just figured this out today...the new 'hose must allow it to happen.
- Aron Michalski
Google's Nexus One Event going down on January 5th- NexusOneBlog - http://www.nexusoneblog.com/blog...
Dylan Christmas album works, totally. Never would have guessed.
Hey Aron. Merry Christmas! Love the Dylan 'Must Be Santa' video. Have you seen it? Out. Rageous!
- Sheldon Steiger
Totally cool. Thanks for the link. Happy Holidays to you too my friend...
- Aron Michalski
Someone explain to Shawn that Metallica is not Christmas music?
Kol Tregaskes, Morton Fox, Chatsohbet and 6 other people liked this
I disagree. Am I evil is a classic christmas jingle.
- Shawn Whitmire
Thank god for headphones.
- Alix Whitmire
Metallica... eh, could pass. Now if it was Slayer on the other hand...
- Adrian
Never been a Slayer fan. If I had all my Fear Factory cd's burned I switch to that.
- Shawn Whitmire
MAIDEN
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Or I could do some Korn....
- Shawn Whitmire
You mean they aren't all the same thing? /ducks
- Alix Whitmire
Come to Poland for the "Big Four" concert this summer and seethe differences/similarities for yourself...
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
i would go to that big four concert, already seen 3 of them touring together, but throw in metallica (with new bassist) and i'm good to go (thanks for sharing)
- chaz2b
Phone goes in wash by accident; Merry Christmas. Do I really want to shop for a new one on Christmas Eve?
Karoli and Cliff Gerrish liked this
"Accidents" will happen....
- Cliff Gerrish
LOL!!!!! Merry Christmas!
- Karoli
The irony is fucking killing me.
- Aron Michalski
Christmas laundry always gets something. Merry Christmas.
- Warner Crocker
Maybe try putting the phone in a bag of rice for over night (try not to open the bag up during this time). It might--just might work. I dropped my phone in a bucket of water and this trick worked for me.
- Loren Heiny
if it's any comfort, my BB survived the deep blue sea. just took it about a week to dry out, didn't want to charge after that either, but I found workarounds. :)
- Karoli
Can't pull the trigger on $400 for hardware I don't even like remotely. No mobile communications for a while.
- Aron Michalski
bummer. :(
- Karoli
semaphore signals to the one I <3...
- Mark Forman
Prediction for 2010: FriendFeed is going to see a resurgence.
ravi karandeekar, Adrian, Flavio and 80 other people liked this
What's the rationale?
- Pavan
Really?!
- Michael Liss
I think this prediction's outcome might fall into the hands of Facebook. We'll see what they do with the property this year.
- Andrew Dobrow
Funny that this comes from Twitter. =D
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
ROFL.
- Derrick
So is RSS if we're going to follow Robert's logic.
- Jimminy Fuller
HOW TO SPOT COMMENT BAIT IN 100 EASY STEPS — STEP 1: DID IT COME FROM ROBERT SCOBLE? STEPS 2-100: REPEAT STEP 1.
- Akiva Moskovitz
already happening, yo
- Josh Haley
it started surging (again) after ppl let the knowledge of fb purchase fall into the bits of history pages
- chaz2b
Lets cross our fingers
- polou/indigo_bow
This is SO an experiment on Scoble's part.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
WTF is FriendFeed?
- David Cohn
Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
if you say so...
- MobilAdam
Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
LOL Johnny!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Best Christmas present ever!
- Jemm
Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days.
- Russellreno
I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best).
- Kirill Bolgarov
Up
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
*slow-mo head shake*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Too funny! Johnny and Akiva -- you guys crack me up.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I would agree with a few here and say that FriendFeed is already resurging, Robert. #friendfeed
- Kol Tregaskes
AMEN!
- zʍıɔ
The stats don't agree though: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
it's like drunk dialing an ex-girlfriend...
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
i guess so too..
- Daniele - Viralavatar
so too :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Agreed wholeheartedly Robert
- Roberto Bonini
Akiva: lol, Kol: that article only looks at unique visitors, and doesn't consider user hours.
- Mike Chelen
:) @ Aron - sums it up perfectly...
- 1x29
Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again...
- Ciro
Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :)
- Louis Gray
I told you so
- Jesse Stay
Kol: the *stat* doesn't agree (note the singular)
- Jesse Stay
Well, since I'm ready organizing the elections for the best Dutch blogs I can say the resurgence already started last week. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
Kol: Here are many more stats that imply the contrary: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Excellent idea.
- Richard A.
from FreshFeed
Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true?
- Aaron Strout
I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man!
- amarquart
Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page
- Tim Jones
Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere
- Johnny Worthington
Beat ya to it Robert: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... And the resurgence is already happening.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll.
- Jason Huebel
@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture.
- Jason Huebel
Akiva wins the thread.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
let's hope so - I love the darn thing
- Arthur Coleman
I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me...
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- JSLeFanu
Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :)
- Susan Beebe
i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
Jason, OK. Good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
like Elijah
- maxilprof
I like this whole thread. ++Akiva, Johnny, JSLeFanu, Jason Heubel, Mike Chelen . . . Robert, Twitter may have geeks and famous people, but you can actually do things here. Oh, wait - I'm not here. I'm in a widget on a blog in someone's Posterous whom I don't even know, that I'm searching through to find FF peeps to subscribe to over here. Now, that's just mind-blowing!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Update: Madoff being treated at prison medical facility for high blood pressure - NYT http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
This is news?
- CW™
If his head blows off, update us. Otherwise, let the demon rot.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Mercedes set to confirm Schumi signing - http://www.planet-f1.com/story...
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Here we go...
- Aron Michalski
Hey @Friendfeed ; think about this... You ask us to "fix" our connection to FB but some of us want some control between the 2 communities. How about a switch like the Twitter one for posting?
Maria Niles, Tyson Key and Karoli liked this
The two services have an overlap but not everything I post here I want on Facebook. I'd be more likely to allow some of my stream to head over there if I could control it. Otherwise the switch is gonna stay flicked off. The community over there doesn't care for some of my noise and I would like some granularity.
- Aron Michalski
There will be no 'switching on' my FF to FB. None. Zero. Not even a little chance.
- Karoli
my ff posts are just about the only thing that populates my fb activity
- Chris Heath
Same here, Chris.
- Tyson Key
^ Which is how they want it to be. Gotta agree with Karoli.
- Self Deprecate Humor
My family and friends on Facebook couldn't care less what I think about Attention Metadata and Twitter APIs. However, you guys probably don't mind putting up with that Procal Harum video I linked to on Facebook last month. ; )
- Matt Terenzio
I dig a good music video...
- Aron Michalski
Cards are going out today, which is pretty late but not as late as the year we dropped them in the mail on Dec 28.
Same here. printer is in Providence, hope they beat out the storm.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
I'm not so on fire for 12/24 delivery. If they get there eventually, I'm OK. I'm also fine with getting or giving an IOU for a present that was ordered but won't be there on time. Don't pay more then the cost of the item with super-fast shipping, just give it to me on the 28th or whenever. Life is too short to sweat this stuff.
- Dave Slusher
How to cram the entire Internet Movie Database into your iPhone - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
Aron Michalski liked this
Sounds good
- Gerd Leonhard
I did not know it was an Amazon property. This will help settle many a bar bet.
- Aron Michalski
indeed;)))
- Gerd Leonhard
been trying to sign into gtalk here at airport; no love. concidering renting children for next flight in order to cut in line. How much can it be?
Some parents might be willing to let you use 'em for free, provided you assume their care and feeding on the flight, too. :)
- Karoli
Can you put them in the overhead compartment? Not sure on airline policy or PTA guidelines.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
depends on whether they fit the carry-on dimensions. :)
- Karoli
The first time I flew without my children I was both thrilled to be alone and upset I couldn't board first. It was so ingrained that when they called for people with small kids, I got up and stood in line. With everyone staring at me.
- Admiral Anika
Being child-free, I have become dependant on elite status for early boarding. Earlier this year I missed status by 600 miles and they were kind enough to offer to give it back for around $500. Honestly, between being able to have a space to put your carry on and not having to pay for checked luggage EVERY time you fly, the price is absorbed quickly. Soon service, responses to questions, seatbelts and perhaps oxygen will be premium services.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
I know @aronski hears this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Aron Michalski liked this
You bet. Like old times.
- Aron Michalski
Lunch w/ @aronski on the menu this afternoon
Karoli liked this
Jealous.
- Karoli
so? did you guys have fun?
- Karoli
Yes, very much. A cold , rainy afternoon in San Francisco made warm by good food and real time conversation with little or no latency.
- Aron Michalski
Yes, excellent conversation ranging across music, technology, comedy and where they all become one.
- Cliff Gerrish
from iPhone
Historic Berkshire inn destroyed in five-alarm blaze - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe - http://www.boston.com/news...
Toasterman liked this
what a drag.
- Aron Michalski
from Bookmarklet
So, in your opinion, be honest now...is Friendfeed still alive and kicking? (update: seemingly so. :) )
Mitchell McKenna, Alfredo, LonelyBob and 61 other people liked this
yes. very much so.
- John Wang
Yes, but has started to develop some health problems and needs a doctor's visit.
- Alex Scoble
It is for me
- Mo Kargas
Yep
- Johnny Worthington
It definitely is for me.
- Curtiss Grymala
I just got here. It's the best platform.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
for me it is .................
- VAL D. Zone
It's still kicking :). A little less a guess but still :)
- alfred westerveld
Yes.
- Jim in Real Time
hell ya ......!
- johnpiercy
Yup.
- Spidra Webster
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Yep, still kickin'!
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
Does a bear poop in the woods?
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Ok, so I don't live here anymore, but I still check in for conversation and positivity.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
for sure
- Josh Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
wow. For you maybe, Brian.
- Jim in Real Time
Yes!
- Anne Bouey
But I am still here.
- Brian Sullivan
Yep. Certainly not as crazy as it was 'back in the day' but it's definitely still kicking.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm making a concerted effort to pop in and find some great stuff to share
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
As far as I can tell, it's still alive.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
TBH, I feel like I use FF much more now that before the acquisition. So for me, yes, it's very much alive and kicking. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
Yep
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
yep
- Wayne Sutton
Yes.
- pea
Yes.
- Kamilah Gill
Yes
- Bonnie Foster
Somewhat less so than the previous old days...
- TrafficBug
being bought by Facebook has definitely dampened my enthusiasm, but yeah, its still alive and kicking
- Jeffrey Canton
Still seems pretty lively to me.
- Gordon Herd
This was asked eight hours ago and has gotten 19 likes so far. Not a resounding "yes."
- Robert Scoble
Compare to @ericschmidt who was added to 700+ lists and 12,000+ followers in 24 hours over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
But 34 comments, and nearly all "Yes".
- Nils Sandin
Nils: sorry, that's not a resounding yes either. 34 people do not a service make.
- Robert Scoble
yes, affirmative.
- bora "head" basman
The service works for me, so I don't fret about the other new or old services. Both have their place.
- Nils Sandin
werd.
- imabonehead
Haha. I must say I'm starting to see more and more threads like this. The discussion is definitely coming back.
- Roberto Bonini
Twitter for headlines, FF for discussions.
- Nils Sandin
it is to me
- barbarars
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes!
- Iván Abrego
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Yup
- Maryam Ardakani
from FreshFeed
its going to die soon
- Farshad
FF is like a small country town. Not a big population but people stop and say "hello".
- Barak B
Yes, indeed!
- Andrew Terry
Is this a bit like a band you feel you've discovered becoming mainstream?
- plooptionary
Yes, it's very much alive and kicking!
- Michael Fidler
+Louis Simoneau (& I answered above earlier)
- Kamilah Gill
as far as I can tell, yes.
- Derek Coward
I'm here
- Jimminy Fuller
Still alive. :)
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
You bet. Still the best interface and most interesting conversations
- Alan Morris
from iPhone
Yep. Cranking along just like Jaiku.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yep, I just saw that one of those Twitter Social Media Guru's found the place and followed 4k people in 5 minutes.
- Jimminy Fuller
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- ★ Soner Gönül
yes. those who say otherwise can go somewhere else.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Hey Zee, from what platform did you originally post your question? I'm seeing it via Friendfeed by way of a friend.
- Rich Reader
@Rich on friendfeed itself
- Zee.
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- CW™
No. We're all dead. Go away.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I'm standing under the Mistletoe O_O
- Micah Wittman
Zee, regarding your question, and I'm no Godin apologist, but his '1000 true fans' comes to mind http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
- Micah Wittman
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I'm not done yet. Christopher Galtenberg http://friendfeed.com/zee... and Louis Simoneau http://friendfeed.com/zee... make great points.
- Micah Wittman
Sure is
- Herb Hernandez
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Always..!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
still here.
- Mike Nencetti
alive
- gemella
kick
- Kevin Fox
Yes. The primary thing that has changed is the content.
- Steven Perez
And it no longer buys us flowers anymore, the bitch.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think this thread proves what is fact....
- Mathew™ one of a kind
WOW - I guess so!!! May have to come off digest...
- Robyn Hawk
O Hai There! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Itachi
Through Reno. Here we go.
It should be a pretty drive down the hill this morning, I'd think.
- Karoli
Indeed. appoaching Sacramento, will depart bus at a full run. We're in good shape, it will be rushed but just fine.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
You ever get pissy about your life and then a friend has a fucking bulldozer run over theirs? One of those days.
@thematthewshow we make plans and God laughs.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Something changed when you could no longer see the grooves in the record -- the ones that separated the tracks.
Karoli liked this
I liked that they could tinker with the physical coding of the LP, the grooves wide or tight, backwards or in one case parallel.
- Aron Michalski
Take the super eclectic music test! - I got 706/1000 - http://anthony.liekens.net/pub...
Chatsohbet, Durukan Duru, Sean McBride and 11 other people liked this
"The following script takes the 50 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar artist) for this top 50. The resulting is a list of artists similar to your preferred artists. As the list is larger (maximum = 1000), your musical preference is more diverse. As a result, with this test it is harder to get a high score, as compared to the original eclectic test. And because this score goes up to 1000 (and not to confuse it with the orginal "eclectic score"), this test is the "super-eclectic" test! As this number is larger, you have a more eclectic musical preference. People with scores over 700 have bragging rights. People whose score is below 400 should consider more musical styles!"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I got 701/1000.
- Louis Gray
i got 637/1000
- Mete
752/1000
- Andrew Terry
737/1000
- Shevonne
787/1000
- Brome
745/1000 What are Akiva's and Jandy's Last.fm names?
- Matthew DeVries
865/1000
- Aron Michalski
i set up last.fm but used it once that i remember since i find pandora a much better experience (i scored a 4!) http://www.last.fm/user... check you my bands and decide how eclectic my tastes are for yourself, don't lean on the crutch of some program or script to do it for you ! haha ;-)
- Chris Heath
Mine's not going to be that diverse. Let me check it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
515/1000. I listen to a lot of music, but most of it's in the same pocket.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
698/1000
- M F
552/1000
- Molly, New Ears :P
670/1000
- Amy
769/1000. But I still admit to listening to Kelly Clarkson.
- Fleagle
660
- Mitch
748 this is cool...Looks like many other FF'ers have an eclectic taste in music. Not surprising.
- Mark Krynsky
655/1000
- Iván Abrego
811/1000
- Bren -- Designated Driver
463/1000 but I'd like to think it's eclectic enough. http://anthony.liekens.net/pub...
- Jon
Itachi, Alex Scoble, Roberto Bonini and Admiral Anika liked this
I'm not sure we really want the budget committee writing the healthcare bill. That's how reconciliation works.
- Cliff Gerrish
Exactly. It lands on the President's desk as tax/budget reconciliation, with major reforms stripped to get it thru. What concerns me is the newest press meme; that is, that health care reform is a very unpopular thing, that jobs are all that matter. Of course, they don't think far enough to figure out that jobs/health ins. are inextricably entwined...that would require...oh, third grade level thought.
- Karoli
I didn't know how it works. This is a pretty good explanation for newbies The “reconciliation” process is a fast-track process that originally was used to facilitate the passage of deficit-reduction legislation. The process was intended to protect hard-to-pass legislation that would reduce entitlement expenditures or raise taxes from a filibuster in the Senate, and thereby to ensure...
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- Linda
It's the part when the gaming element comes into place, where the whispers from the masters become amendments and the gains become status quo. Every effort to make it a hollowed out effort stuffed with currencied fluff to feed the pigs who stock the PACs and lobbies with the politicians fodder, the debt called in, the deed done.
- Aron Michalski
Aron, your pessimism is...refreshing somehow. I see I need to amplify my 9/5/09 summary of the strategic plan discussed w/congressional progressives back in September....
- Karoli
Not refreshing, actually... Invigorating. ;-)
- Karoli
The swiftboating attack is fairly basic: you have to choose between jobs and healthcare. (Although the attackers don't really have any interest in job creation).
- Cliff Gerrish
To defeat the trough riders is a goal worth embracing.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Jobs are not an issue to those who never have to look for work, never have to worry about paying a hospital bill or housing their family. The people it comes down to in the Senate don't have a personal stake in the issue; they deal with it either in the abstract or even sadder, as a party line article to defend like a goal line on a Thanksgiving football game.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Well, that's the problem, of course. For conservatives, jobs are simply the talking point of the day. For liberals, they're a major political headache. For businesses, they're the stick and the carrot. For people, they're survival.
- Karoli
Amazing that a thing that we moan about, fear losing, depend upon and sometimes wish we didn't have can be so many things to everyone else.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
During the debate on Saturday, a Democratic Senator said this: "Losing your job means losing your self-esteem, and your health insurance." I was amazed at how viscerally I reacted to that. It just cut to the heart of everything.
- Karoli
It sure does mean that. Even when it's an entire plant closure, your self-esteem takes a big hit. And healthcare - that's even scarier. 'Cause right when you're out of income, you get hit with additional costs. Brilliant system.
- Robert Blum
Carlos Gil Watching the Obama Jobs Summit on Facebook right now, the key to job creation is to hold companies that received stimulus money accountable for job creation / loss. Create a "community reinvestment act" and provide tax breaks for those companies that create / retain a certain # of jobs per year. SAW THIS POST ANDTHOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT. LINDA
- Linda
Calling Twitter’s bluff - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
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aside from the actual content, I love the photo.
- Karoli
To be clear, Twitter has made available a realtime replacement for the firehose (the replacement is called "birddog"). We have not yet started consuming that new API because we're waiting for the lawyers to come to agreement on the terms of use, which I hope will happen soon. I think Twitter's legal team is simply overbooked at the moment. Edit: To reiterate, Twitter is not blocking us. The reason we are not consuming the new API is because the fb lawyers want to review the updated terms first.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks for the update, Paul. Perhaps the open community can donate some lawyers to help Twitter out.
- Steve Gillmor
Paul - very interesting... saga continues :)
- Susan Beebe
lord knows we've got lots of lawyers...and I'm sure more than a few are unemployed right now. Perhaps one will step up.
- Karoli
Paul, do you know if any 3rd party has BirdDog implemented?
- Cliff Gerrish
wonder who will get BD up and running 1st...
- Susan Beebe
Cliff, "birddog" is just a category of statuses/filter, which is available publicly (see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami...). I don't know if anyone is using the birddog role or not. It's available to us and ready to go, but fb lawyers want the tou resolved before we activate it.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul - "tou" typo for "TOS" (terms of service) right?
- Susan Beebe
Terms Of Use, Susan, but the two are about the same I think.
- Paul Buchheit
gotcha, thanks :)
- Susan Beebe
Thanks, Paul. And thanks for the pointer. The "available publicly" part is particularly interesting.
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff - agreed
- Susan Beebe
Cliff, it's possible that it has been added to TwitTornado: http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
- Paul Buchheit
Maybe I'm mis-parsing things, but it sounds like Twitter's just offering the updates of FriendFeed users rather than the complete Twitter firehose. (see http://friendfeed.com/evhead...) If that's the case, I'm a little confused about what's holding things up. I can see how resolving rights to third party tweets might be problematic, but if FriendFeed's only being fed updates "owned" by FriendFeed users, what's the hold up?
- Ken Sheppardson
What Twitter offers anyone who needs a lot of user updates (but they don't want to give the firehose) is a streaming feed that you send to it a list of userid's (with a max # per stream.) Then Twitter will send back all updates on that stream for any userid in the list. Not exactly the firehose but it is actually very useful for most client use-cases.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ken, that's right, it's just a different api. The holdup is due to the fact that the fb lawyers want to review the updated terms before we start using the new api.
- Paul Buchheit
So the 'internet' is now in the hands of lawyers, not engineers. We're doomed!
- zeroinfluencer
indeed we are
- Thomas Power
Is the BirdDog TOU publicly available to read? (nothing on the Tw Wiki http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami... )
- zeroinfluencer
The positive thing I get from this (be it wishful thinking) is that fb is dedicating resources to having this resolved. If FriendFeed is just a floundering fish out of water, waiting to die, why would they engage lawyers... Very interesting...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
hear hear Johnny. Zucker is a serious player.
- Thomas Power
Johnny: Why dedicate resources? So Facebook can have the full stream too? If not now, then down the road as bits of Friendfeed appear on FB or in the dev platform?
- Amyloo
Either way, to me, dedicating resources = severs remaining on
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Not to get all argumentative and start throwing around the D-word, Johnny, but Facebook would really need to address this independently of whether the FriendFeed servers stay on. As Amyloo mentioned, this is an issue if they ever intend to use the new Twitter API to feed Facebook proper.
- Ken Sheppardson
Fair enough :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
a micro community as an R&D department...
- Aron Michalski
Here's the Content License Agreement for the new streaming API, by the way. You have to log into Twitter to view it http://twitter.com/help...
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken - thanks.
- zeroinfluencer
"5.ii.c - No Conflicting Uses. ... Except with the prior written consent of Twitter, you may not engage, directly or indirectly, in any business activity, if such business activity conflicts with, or places you in a conflicting position to that of Twitter or the Twitter Service, or is specifically intended to purposefully divert and/or drive audience traffic away from the Twitter Service..."
- Ken Sheppardson
....seems to me that would be problematic for Facebook as a legal entity to agree to.
- Ken Sheppardson
So you can get a feed of Twitter, but it better not be Better then twitter.
- CW™
aah, the famous "must suck" clause.
- Aron Michalski
Ken, if Facebook doesn't have short-term plans to use birddog in their big product, it doesn't make a lot of sense to sic lawyers on the tou right now. Those terms can change. For them to invest resources *right now* on the issue makes me think they care about their little product.
- Bruce Lewis
On the flip side, Bruce, one might argue that if they really cared about it they would have dealt with it by now. I don't recall when the old Twitter -> FriendFeed link started to lag, but it's been more than three months since FriendFeed became part of Facebook.
- Ken Sheppardson
Do we agree that Facebook cares more about FriendFeed than the "FF is dead" crowd thinks, but cares less about FriendFeed than we die-hard fans would like it to? If I had my way they would start migrating their userbase over here as fast as the servers could take it.
- Bruce Lewis
Almost, Bruce, but while I've been talked back off the d-word ledge, I think Facebook cares much more about FriendFeed *technology* than the site as a destination. I'll believe they care about it as a stand-alone UX when I hear somebody at Facebook who wasn't a FF employee mention it by name in public. I won't go so far as to ask that they suggest people sign up for the service... just acknowledge that it continues to exist.
- Ken Sheppardson
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