I'm alas not a romantic, and I don't want to pretend I am - and it is just me, I totally get that others get huge enjoyment out of it. It just makes me roll my eyes. We didnt have Valentines when I was young, its an import maybe thats the reason... And what value is a gift that is forced, prompted by a million reminders and following a system and not really personal at all?
- Iphigenie
yup, i had a mum who would be upset if one didnt do something for mothers day, yet took it for granted if one did, because, well, you had to, didnt you?
- Iphigenie
so I told R not to bother with Valentine's (its so close to my birthday anyway, bit silly), to do something some other random day if he wanted, when I would not take it for granted. And now and then I get him something, at Valentine's or at random.
- Iphigenie
You never really know what someone is listening to though. I listen to Whitney Houston songs almost every day, especially Moment in Time and All the Man That I Need.
- Shevonne
well I suspect you have given her a thought in the last 5 years :) this was not meant as a criticism but it is a bit sad that often we notice that we cared when it's too late...
- Iphigenie
the "try to care while they live" applies as a good rule for people you know, artists, even businesses or restaurants... I'm not saying don't tweet, I'm saying give some love to good stuff before they are dead, it's even better!
- Iphigenie
very intelligent, thank you for sharing:-)
- "Flo14wer"
That's why social conservatives rarely look good in the light of history.
- Eivind
It might be something as simple as our deep down refusal to believe that every human life has equal worth. Each of you will probably have your own answer, but for me that is it.
- mina_sydney
فک کنم یکی از دیدها جنگ و کشتار هاست که امیدوارم نسل آینده از این عبرت بگیرن.
- DArA
Smart enough to know who to copy off of at least, Mina. I guess that counts for something ;)
- Eivind
Dear Dara, Every generation participates in something that it thinks is a good thing. It is only afterwards that we might realise it wasn’t very good at all. Here is an example: Australia had a policy that forced children who were half aboriginal/half white Australian to go into special breeding programmes to eradicate the appearance of aboriginal-ness over successive generations. They...
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- mina_sydney
"Border customs agents are on the look out for many things: illegal drugs, stolen goods, smuggled liquor and sometimes even people. Add one more target: animal-borne viruses. In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS One, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the EcoHealth Alliance, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other institutions reported on the first effort to identify new viruses in wildlife products that had been smuggled illegally into the U.S. And it turns out there may be a lot of bugs hitching a ride into the country along with dead wildlife—and that could have serious consequences for public health."
- Kelli H.
from Bookmarklet
"75% of the new emerging viruses in recent history started out in animals before jumping to human beings. Think SARS, avian flu, swine flu, Ebola—all of them began in animals before somehow mutating and spreading to people. “The global wildlife trade has historically contributed to disease emergence,” says Denise McAloose, chief pathologist for the WCS. “But we’ve never really looked at...
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- Kelli H.
"The results are worrisome. The researchers looked at 44 animals altogether—nine primates and 35 rats. They then used genetic techniques to essentially fish for viruses in the sampled meat, and found simian foamy virus, cytomegaloviruses, and lymphocryptoviruses, all of which can pose a threat to human beings. We don’t know how easily those viruses might have been able to jump to human...
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- Kelli H.
Since Friendfeed is again not importing twitter (it was working for a while), I created a Yahoo Pipe that grabs it. Go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/thwarte... and enter your twitter username, then run it. Add the link for the "Get an RSS" to your Friendfeed imports as a Custom RSS/Atom.
I see the content that shows up in the RSS on your FF page. It seems FF inserts them into the stream with the date they occurred.
- Andy Bakun
Fantastic info just try it and works like a charm...really appreciate it Andy
- Greg Wilson
I'm considering modifying it to include favorites also.
- Andy Bakun
Jesus, Twitter is such shit. I modified this to remove the leading username from the entries, and I went to save it and it refuses to load any content from twitter now. I can only assume it will start working. Maybe it's Yahoo that's at fault. But since FF also can't seem to load directly from twitter, and the history I've had with twitter in general, I (in)tend to (continue to) blame twitter for this crap.
- Andy Bakun
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
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- CW✔
from Bookmarklet
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- CW✔
from Bookmarklet
“Community Manager is a title that emerged from the evolutionary tar pits of social media, but has its definition varies from company to company, person to person. Tumblr’s community manager/editorial director/dinosaur aficionado, Christopher Price (Topherchris), has become something of a cult hero among the Tumblr user-base, infusing his abstract design and love of experimentation into his wildly popular Tumblr blog.” #стайность
- Playing Well with Others
from Bookmarklet
“It’s not interesting to me to just make (users) laugh or entertain them,” said Price. “I want to set up little challenges and have them make things; have them go off, come back and throw it into the zeitgeist. To me, that’s what Tumblr’s about.” The ability to ‘make things’ is how Tumblr differentiates itself. Using the platform, one can be creative. “I’m hoping that what I can do is sort of trickle down and set a tone that this is a place of open, free expression. And creativity.”
- Playing Well with Others
(neither is as good as i wanted, but some ppl were having a medical emergency in front of my house; i offered a seat to the stressed person before his group took him further along their way)
- chaz2b
(i have no clue what was wrong with the dude, other than being drunk; something wrong with his back. his companions said they were roofers, and that he'd recently had fallen through a roof)
- chaz2b
(^^^pointed out so you wont think me a bad person for witnessing someone having a medical emergency and letting them continue on their way without calling for help for them)
- chaz2b
سلا مینای گلم .. حالت چطوره عزیز؟ باور کن دلم خیلی خیلی برات تنگ شده بود و الان خوشحالم که بعد از مدتها زیر فید زیبات دارم کامنت میذارم ... آخر هفته ی زیبا و شادی رو برات آرزو می کنم
- Gajamoo گـ َـجَـ مو