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very kool. thanks for sharing. - (jeff)isageek

I like it yet the link is death now :( - Radek Pilich

Link is bonkers.. - Drew Lucas

I love this stuff! nice!! but the link is not working well...sorta functional! dang it - Susan Beebe

i love me some ho-made soup - Cee Bee

No comment. - Jauder Ho from twhirl

Jauder you just made me laugh really loud in my office. - Corie

lol! - Hao Chen

So ashamed to LOL at this. So ashamed. - ha3rvey (wants confit)

hope that was a mistake - Sarah Austin

Still no comment. - Jauder Ho from twhirl

Well at least they're honest about it. - ronin

Here's another. http://bit.ly/1QBLHV - Jauder Ho from twhirl

Dude, that sign is PIMPIN'! - l0ckergn0me

Jauder - EW!! - Corie

Pimp my soup. - XDpaul

wow, amazing picture. thanks for sharing. - Mark Douglass

Mark: I haven't looked for space shuttle pictures on-line yet. I bet there are some really cool ones! - Mitchell Tsai

The crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Endeavour used a 35mm still camera to record this image of Mt. Etna Volcano erupting on the island of Sicily on December 14th, 2002. The oblique, south-looking view shows Mt. Etna's dark ash plume rising above the general altitude of storm clouds over the Mediterranean Sea at sunset. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center) - Mitchell Tsai

"We Cheat Tourists N Drunks" I love it!! Hilarious. - Lisha Sterling

love the rich colors. nice work. - Don Martelli from twhirl

great shot of the escalator - Cee Bee

Nice shots. Sorry I missed out on the photowalking last week :-( Next time... - Peter Stathakos

Thomas, you have an amazing ability at capturing the astonishing in the ordinary. - Larry Kless

@Larry. Second that emotion and add "It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel" Goethe - Dave Martin

Ha ha! Thanks Chris. - Chris Nixon

You gotta watch those ankles when geese attack. ;-) - Chris Baskind

Sounds funny, where are the photos? - Joe Dawson

HAHA this all sorts of win - Mona Nomura

At the moment in Lightroom...I'll process and post them this evening (GMT) - Chris Nixon

Oh my, that happened to me as a kid--scared the bajesus out of me! - Anna Haro

Chris, I looked at your Flickr and your daughter is SO gorgeous! Her eyes are AMAZING! - Mona Nomura

I was saved when a massive dog ran down the hill at them. Everybody was muttering "they should keep that do on a leash" but I was secretly relieved. - Chris Nixon

Thanks Mona. I'll tell her that when I get home. - Chris Nixon

Geese can be mean y'all.... - Joanmarie

Geese are mean. When I was little I lived on a cemetery and the ducks were friendly, but you had to be ware of the geese. - RAPatton

Mona: Katie is an amazing young woman. She grew up too quickly. - Chris Baskind from NoiseRiver

Did they start hissing at you? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

If you think geese are mean, kayak through a flock of floating swans some day. - jcunwired

Here's a few pics that I managed to get (just about) in focus http://tinyurl.com/6552gg - Chris Nixon

Chris, those are AWESOME!!! - Mona Nomura

Mad Geese!! Thanks for posting the pics - i was curious... - Tad

This is quite hilarious! Nice work! - Winston Teo

This is so innovative. I even showed it too my mom! I showed something on friendfeed to my mom! Nice work. - Rahul Das

Very funny. It reminds me of the famous I Love Lucy and Harpo Marx mirror gag - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Mark Interrante

I saw that yesterday via BoingBoing -- love it! - Tamar Weinberg

That's what I call teamwork! - ChaCha Fance

That would just blow my mind if I walked onto that train. - Jay Martin

What a creative and fun project. would have been fun to have stumbled upon this as it was being executed. - Jeff P. Henderson

@Michael I've know a pair of twins for a long time. They were identical when we were all children but now one is reed thin and the other is huge! They aren't very identical now! - Rahul Das

That is great. I would have loved to have seen that. Some really interesting photos. - John Cooper

That just means you're not following enough people. :-) - Louis Gray

Subscribe to Paul Dawson, he dumps RSS feeds at once around this time - Mona Nomura

What's a good number you've had success with? I'm at about 300. - Hao Chen

Louis is right. I refresh hundreds of times per day. I can't remember the last time when nothing changed on the page. - Robert Scoble

My FF: Always good refresh:). See@Louis - Igor Poltavskiy

I wish there was NNTP version... - A.T.

Okay, I'll find more. In the meantime, I have fftogo open in second window because FFi doesn't have an Everyone tab. - Hao Chen

silpol ack. but i would like that for rss and such as well. hm at least for rss there are nntp gateways ;) - Nicole Simon

Does not FF refresh by itself...so there is no need to manually refresh it...right?? - Arjun

Arjun: not via mobile (fftogo and ff iphone) - Mona Nomura

true but the default is something like 2 mins. That's a long time in Internet time! - Hao Chen

Especially on the everyone page, where every few seconds the whole page has new entries. - Peter Stuifzand

When you'll stay up all night, just because you were getting a good debate going, and all the other debaters are 6 or more hours out of sync with your british ass. - Slappy Line

That's the most terrible feeling in the world... Noooooooez! - Susan Beebe

Google Reader is the big one for me as I find that on every page I view now I find myself going for the J button! - Joe Dawson

I just did that....oops - George Smith

Don't be fooled. If you are following more than 50 people, all the action is on the second page. The first page will be crowded with stories that are on an upward vector. - Phil G

I've never refreshed and nothing happened. - Aaron Myers

*joins club* - xero

Hahaha it's so true. And then you do the same thing 5 minutes later. - ::Kristen::

you know you are addicted to friendfeed when you catch yourself making a game of trying to subscribe to a second person before the page refreshes form the first subscribe (i have only pulled it off once) - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

try ctrl-f5 ;) - Nicole Simon

Or when you're sitting reading this post thinking, "I should be doing work" - xero

Heh! I have the opposite. If I'm away from FF all day, I feel like I've missed everything! - Rob Williams

You know you are addicted to friendfeed when you create a room for the addiction (http://friendfeed.com/rooms...) - Justin Korn

Justin: Joined! hehehe! Ok where's the 12 step program ?? - Susan Beebe

This is true, but I'm constantly looking for more content to add so this never happens. - The Kid

Wow. Great post Robert. Hope you & family had a fun 4th. I sure did! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Brian, thanks. we had a great time. Nice and relaxing. - Robert Scoble

Good point. That's driving good-quality participation instead of spamming attitudes. That could really improve the conversations. - Marcello Del Bono

Robert, I agree with this, but regarding your comment on Allen's thread, the fact of the matter is that there are still 9 default people that get recommended when someone signs up. It's true, there is a "participation premium", and for good reason, but the big names still get rewarded simply because they're big names. I just wish I could see active FF users get highlighted now and then.... more... - Raoul Pop

It's not a conversation if there's no participation. Good points, Robert. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Raoul: active FriendFeed members get featured all the time. You should learn how "Friend of a Friend" works. Anytime I like or comment on someone all 15,000 followers of me get to see that person's post and they can easily subscribe to them by hovering. The recommended list is totally useless for me, by the way. So I do wish they'd make it a lot better. - Robert Scoble

What's amazing to me Robert is how much influence your *Likes* have. After you like something of mine, I usually see a rush of Friend adds. It's a very interesting dynamic to watch unfold. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

This is a great post! - George Smith

@Raoul I definitely agree with you on the idea of changing who gets displayed in the first Recommended list. @Robert regardless of whether you pay attention to the Recommended list isn't really relevant IMO. The fact is that I would bet the majority of new arrivals to FriendFeed do indeed pay attention to it. - Steven Hodson

Well, there probably has to be a combination of both - you can participate all you like, but if you don't do it in a meaningful and public way, it won't really matter. Still, a heartening thought that participation can be more important than name recognition alone. Gives some power to us little people (popularity wise, anyway). - Erin

FF offers a remarkable way to participate. In fact, it's downright unique. Which is probably why FF will be HUGE. It has a pliancy of participation that's just unmatched, and it keeps getting better. Encouraging post. - phil baumann

Yep. But, isn't "Participation" your full time job description? If it isn't, what is? - Yuvi

Nice post. You're spot on with the analysis. The two of you use FF differently. Both of you are highly valuable to me as information sources, but in very different ways. Mike is a conversation starter. You carry and share conversations and link people that wouldn't otherwise connect. FF is smart to have both of you as recommended follows. - Christian Anderson

Yuvi i spend everyday trying to figure out what my job is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: you're doing for free what no "community manager" could ever do. I'd like to know how much engagement on FF, Twitter is directly related to the Scoble effect. - Christian Anderson

So Robert, is there a certain point where you loose interest in a site simply because of the onslaught of new users? Does the signal-to-noise ratio go down as more users discover and start to use a site from your perspective? - Jim McCusker

@Robert: Figured it out yet? ;) You are the only *classical A-Lister* whom I know as being really "approachable", as in I can tweet at you and expect to get a response (or leave a comment here and there's a reasonable chance that you'll respond). - Yuvi

It's so true, it all boils down to interaction. - Fredrik Nordmoen

Participation is key. - Thomas Hawk

Robert Scoble: I just want to let you know how much I appreciate seeing your feedback and constant participation on FF. Because of this sole factor, I would much rather meet up with you than Mr. Arrington (I follow and respect you both) over a cup of coffee or during a photowalk. To be honest, I don't know how you keep up with it all, but keep it up! - Justin Korn

Link to related conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Sprague D

what makes Robert and his posts become more viral and engaging is that he does not post and run. He engages in conversations, and unlike Arrington, he is rarely confrontational and doesn’t have the same arrogance. I have followed him for a while, but became a real advocate after his trip to DC. I thought his coverage was engaging, informative and it was awesome that he included your son. - Fred Neil

Jim: that is a question that needs its own blog post. I generally find that early adopters do tend to get bored but what gets us to leave are jerks and spammers. I think FF might be more resistant to all of these negative effects but we'll have to see. - Robert Scoble

What Justin said. - Yuvi

Great points Robert, thanks for not stealing ALL the points I wanted to make in my next post :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF

fail bird http://www.seanpercival.com/blog... - sean percival

Robert: trying to inspire new blog posts? not me! ;-) - Jim McCusker

I liike that Mike Arrington just liked this. :-) - Robert Scoble

@Robert and he left a comment on the blog post itself :) - Steven Hodson

I agree about the participation factor. But I do think that this post and the "Off of the tech entertainment train" post should both be encapsulated in <ego></ego> tags. - Tom Quinn

Robert, the thing is, you ARE a 'popular kid' in this niche, whether it's on your blog or on FriendFeed. 10x your blog readers puts you BOTH in the top fraction of blog rankings. You call it the "Participation Premium," I call it "people keep you on their friend lists if you're not dead weight." - Andy DeSoto

Robert, great read the only thing I disagree with, is the comparison to Twitter after four months and FriendFeed after four months. As the logic goes, if hundreds (maybe thousands) of Twitter users are jumping the ship, (or, as I imagine, there is quite a bit of overlap), then the logic follows that many of them would land on FriendFeed (and hence follow you). Even though I consider... more... - David Adewumi

Scobleizer theorem of social media = participate indefinitely - Kerem Ozkan

David: I don't think many Twitter users are jumping ship. I think a lot of them are finally seeing the utility of using both twitter and friendfeed together. But I do agree that it is easier for newer services to get quick adoption because of Twitter. The next big thing will happen even faster than FriendFeed did. - Robert Scoble

I think the difference from Twitter to FriendFeed is that the casual Twitter followers never made it to FriendFeed. I don't know many casual Twitter users who continue to use Twitter with all it's issues. - Sal DiStefano

Exactly right. Investment of yourself pays dividends in many ways. - John Federico

I do see the utility of using Twitter and FF together. I'm sure both will help break the hot apps of the near-future. Just goes to show that discussion is not exclusive to how many people you know, but that the internet, in many ways, is leveling the playing field in discussion and influence. - David Adewumi

Robert: BINGO BABY! you nailed it with this post... thank you for writing it! Not only is participation key for conversation, but also evangelism of the service; plus, community management. I would expect those as a bare minimum...not, "Oh gee, hey these guys are popular in the blogosphere; on some other service elsewhere so let's tell everyone to follow them here" (doesn't make sense, especially since *some* of them don't even really use FF yet except to aggregate a couple of feeds (cross-post / backup). - Susan Beebe