Does that really what atheist extremists do ? Talk about space, aliens or parallel worlds and stuff ? or this is clearly a manipulation ? and Hey check out PKK please :) The idea behind this organization is practically based on marksism & leninism so that makes them atheist as well, right ? correct me if I'm wrong. So what they do? They bomb and kill innocent people in Turkey , does not even matter if they are babies, youngsters or women.
- mcd
Seems if this was a equal opportunity parody, the Aethists would be bombing nativity scenes and Christmas trees ;)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Except I haven't heard of atheists bombing either of those things.
- ronin
I think they just throw barbed wit and strongly worded missives.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Atheists are too busy doing important things like scrubbing blessings off of highways.
- Akiva
Rene, PKK does not represent all Kurdish community in Turkey and yes, most of the kurdish people are not atheist, I agree with that and I sort of agree with the second part too, the way those govs threated kurdish people was all wrong. However, kurdish people is not my main point here, what I was trying to say and honestly I admit it seems that I am not intellectual enough to do that...
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- mcd
mcd, I don't think there are any terrorist groups that acts for the sake of atheism.
- sali
"The data show that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Why would other forms of violence be any different?
- Bruce Lewis
friendfeed'i ecnebinin kullanıyor olduğuna inanamıyorum. herkes bir kişi için ingilizce konuşuyor olabilir.
- otisaga
PKK is an islamist organisation AFAIK
- Onur Yalazı
tudor, hello, how are you? are they paying you well in friendfeed? will friendfeed close down? can you save my data for me? can you give me op?
- otisaga
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
I've finally nailed down why I don't like Google Glass. It's not the device, it's the concept. I recently have become conscious of how socially disruptive phones and tech can be. I'm guilty of this than anyone. I have been trying to work on this. The idea of communicating face-to-face but THROUGH a piece of tech seems the last straw
That's a good point. Now that we have gone through the initial phase of having an all knowing Internet connected portal fused to our hands; what does that buy us, and in what situations?
- Eric - seven eleven
I honestly don't see a big benefit to having constant augmented reality. Reality is fascinating enough as it is, if you pay attention to it. But so many downsides... the extra attachment on your head, the unnatural command interface, and especially how it dictates a new reality to anyone in its viciinty without consent (to mention just a few).
- Tinfoil 2.0
I don't know. Look at what we are able to share here. On one hand we damn it, but on the other we see the intimacy with friends and loved ones that connectivity affords.
- Eric - seven eleven
I love my tech beyond all reason BUT Sometimes I just want to sit in silece alongside my wife, hold her hand, and chat with her quietly but I also like the ability to text her cute LOL cat pics #moderationisthekey
- WarLord
But Eric, connectivity in that sense is for people in different geographies. I don't want to be talking to someone in person and have that experience mediated (on either side), particularly by a profit-seeking device.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I know you worry about those implications a fair amount more than I do. But, I'm glad you're still here. FF has helped many of us through our human failings, our lows, and allowed us to share our accomplishments and highs.
- Eric - seven eleven
Seems like overload to me.......enough is enough. People need to tune out and free up some time to get reaquainted with their own thoughts.
- American
Since electronic communication is so easy now, physical face-to-face contact is now more vital (and treasured by me). If I'm going to the effort of meeting you in a place then why do we need that electronic connection still? Human contact is still WORTH something to me. You HAVE to pick your phone up. You HAVE to look at your smart watch... If it's just there on your face all the time then... yeah, not for me
- Johnny
from iPhone
Not clear on why you draw the line here exactly, I think it's better than communicating through a phone. I expect one day Glass will look indistinguishable to standard glasses.
- Mo Kargas
That's exactly the point Mo. If I'm sitting across from you at a table, I know with a high degree of certainty that I have your attention and you are engaged in the conversation. If now our conversation has an injection of tech between us, no matter how small and unobtrusive it may appear, then what's the point of being across the table from me? Just use Skype or something else. I'm not...
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- Johnny
from iPhone
I don't think it's that all encompassing. I imagine, for instance, that you can tone down the flow of data or disable it completely, as you should if you're having a conversation that involves full attention. It depends on the user. Some people play with their phone when they talk to you and give no eye contact whatsoever, and some people will play with their Glass while talking to you. Others won't. The choice will be there.
- Mo Kargas
But the non-Glass person never will know what's going on at the Glass end. I sure don't want to talk to someone wearing Glass. I don't even want to be near anyone wearing Glass.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Exactly. The choice for the other person will be there. Not me though. My only choice will be to walk away. That saddens me.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Someone who insists on wearing Glass walks into a room, and the whole dynamic of the room changes. It's now a dictatorship, with new rules imposed by the wearer, and the only choice the non-Glassholes have is to leave.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I seriously don't understand the difference between this wearable tech and a phone, especially Tinfoils objection. You don't know what people are doing on their phones either, does that prevent you from talking to them? When people using Glass have Glasses indistinguishable from standard reading Glasses, will you hide from them? I think rules of social etiquette will pop up around the devices, just like they have for other, accepted, obtrusive technologies.
- Mo Kargas
If I'm in a corner, playing with my phone, that's just me. If I'm talking to you, but playing with my phone, that's just rude. If I lift my phone and point it at you continuously, with you never really knowing what I'm doing with it, that's gone way too far. Glass is always pointed outward, always sits between the wearer and the rest of the crowd, and its content and actions and known only to the wearer. It's a power dynamic that is unfair to everyon else.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I think you are drastically overstating the effect of Glass on social interaction. If you are worried about gossip and/or evidence, gossip and eyewitness testimony has been possible for eons before Glass. I think at most wearing Glass makes explicit what was always there in social interactions.
- Andrew C (✓)
It's another creeping change in the social dynamic. This is another incremental step on the road to dehumanising contact. That may seem far fetched and overly dramatic but I don't know how else to say it. In 10 years everyone will have Glass or a Glass-like device. The social rules will amend. This post will make me seem like a Henny Penny type. I'm ok with that... I can also yearn for a time when speaking to you wasn't filtered through the collectiveness of everything
- Johnny
from iPhone
Societies change in response to technology, that's just how it works. They changed with the advent of morse code, telephones, tv, everything. But there's nothing forcing you to adopt it, and I really think we're all getting a bit hysterical about this. Glass is still more obtrusive, more visible, than the thousands of cameras that record you every day in public. Get mad at those.
- Mo Kargas
I do. But that doesn't make Glass right either. Glass is device that will change the power dynamics of any situation in which it is present. In a world where I strive to equalize power, I really don't want more destabilizing influences.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I can be angry at the "State" recording me 24/7... so I can reasonably ask "Why are you joining in?". The privacy issue has become secondary for me now. I'm into experience and connection on a real level.
- Johnny
from iPhone
It's because you're of the idea that Glass is first and foremost a surveillance device. It's not, it's merely wearable tech that uses a camera to provide contextual information - no different to a phone. Yes, a phone can do all the same stuff already, and a bit of slight of hand and it can spy on you constantly, with or without the owners knowledge. As it stands, Glass is right on the users face and social power dynamics change with technology, expecting it not to is pure folly.
- Mo Kargas
But we're back to the same two core issues: (1) Glass becomes an intermediary in a face-to-face relationship that doesn't need (or likely want) an intermediary; (2) The non-Glass partipant(s) have no idea how the Glass-wearer is using the tech, Glass gives no outward indications - am I being Googled? Am I being recorded? Am I...???
- Tinfoil 2.0
Knows it will change. Can still lament it -->
- Johnny
from iPhone
As far as disintermediated interaction goes, in a married couple's evening, if they have a baby monitor on, that's a technological intrusion. Society got along fine without such things for millennia. Shoot, the potential for a telephone to interrupt a real-life interaction has been with us for many decades now and only a few groups (Amish and the like) have responded by banning telephones from homes.
- Andrew C (✓)
So if Glass had a little red light when record was on, you'd be happy? I submit that if you can't stand this technology, toss your smartphone and anything you've got that has a camera and is mobile, because it's splitting hairs to think Glass is radically different.
- Mo Kargas
You guys have fun with your disruptive tech. I choose not to have any part of it. It's obvious to me you'll never understand my reasons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
And a person with no internet hookup (Glass, smartphone, computer) is not necessarily present. They may be thinking of their sick grandparent, or their overbearing boss, or their crush at the cafe. They may be thinking about last week or next month or a joke they half-remember from two years ago. To me, there's only a greater chance that a Glass-less person is mentally present, not a binary "they must be here and connecting because they're physically here and don't have Glass on" choice.
- Andrew C (✓)
"You guys have fun with your disruptive tech. I choose not to have any part of it." ... do you have a smartphone? A camera? I have to assume you have a computer since you're on Friendfeed.
- Andrew C (✓)
That's admirable Tinfoil, but it's always there. Don't think I like it, I merely question making distinctions about Glass when effectively there are none.
- Mo Kargas
That's just it. I do see very significant distinctions between Glass and every major mass-market tech that has come before it.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yeah, but there is a certain chance that a person with Glass would still have those things swimming in their brain. This is an EXTRA thing put on top of all those other possibilities
- Johnny
from iPhone
Laptops weren't a thing back when I was a kid. But I used to read books and magazines at the dinner table. My parents were fine with that. <shrug>
- Andrew C (✓)
I wasn't allowed to play Donkey Kong at my table.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Now that you mention it, I was allowed to play the Game & Watch at particularly drawn-out Chinese restaurant meals. Not at home though.
- Andrew C (✓)
I was sitting in a diner alone, so I looked over the other patrons - the table next to me had 4 people, obviously mom, dad and 2 kids, and all of them had a "device' in front of them. The only conversation was with waitress. In truth it might have been better with glass (eye contact) but we're already past a tipping point it seems so glass is #meh
- WarLord
Until a phone or watch or any other current tech can interact with your primary inputs (eyes and ears) without the need for removing it from your pocket or off the table, then there is a distinction. You can call it splitting hairs but I see a significant difference between having something that you must bring to your primary sensory inputs and something that always remains in front of...
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- Johnny
from iPhone
"I can place my hand over your phone" - see, it's stuff like this where I don't get why you're calling the /other/ side the dictators. As I see it, both sides want to interact on their own terms, but somehow when you want to interact on your terms and don't get your way, /that's/ when it's wrong, but noticeably not the other way around.
- Andrew C (✓)
We truly have become past generation, uni students love these and find it very handy to keep in touch and socialise!!
- Nemo
The idea of a conversation has long and established terms. The person adding a device into that is changing the terms, not me. What is the NEED for a device between us if not to amend what a conversation is?
- Johnny
from iPhone
I totally agree but you need to ask a bunch of 20 something year-old that find these stuff the necessity of their social life.
- Nemo
The idea of conversation is changing with technology. There are no longer any established terms. In the 90's people laughed at you if you conferred over the internet, yet today, you're having a conversation on it. The distinction remains arbitrary in my mind. It's also quite literally a moot point without actually using the technology as to how obtrusive it is. As for the primary inputs...
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- Mo Kargas
Change != Better/Improvement. A faith in new technology ALWAYS improving things is misguided. I have never been more connected to more people in my lifetime. The quality of a majority of those connections are worse for it.
- Johnny
Sure, and that's your subjective opinion. It is obviously not going to be everyone's experience, for some, Glass may be an enormous improvement.
- Mo Kargas
FWIW, I have lunch often with someone wearing Glass. It's not in the way, and you know when he's using it. Even just looking at it is obvious because of the unnatural eye position. I haven't found it an impediment to interaction. That said, I think it remains to be seen whether it improves or degrades interactions for the average person. You can give your attention to it faster than a phone, and you can take your attention away from it faster.
- Bruce Lewis
Interesting. As an old fart, I'll note: The use of "talk *to*" rather than "talk *with*" when the other person is diddling with a device is telling--in practice, I find that such "conversations" are already pretty empty. As for reading at the table: When my wife & I are dining *together* there's no reading going on. I hear what Mo's saying--but for some of us, conversational multitasking (and, heaven help us, driving multitasking) is like, well, most multitasking: It isn't all that satisfactory.
- Walt Crawford
Given all that, I doubt Google Glassholes (a lovely term) are worse than the Borg wearing their masters on their ears and apparently conversing with thin air...except that, when combined with walking or driving, they may be even a little more distracting & dangerous to others. Multitasking *does* degrade personal interaction, as far as I'm concerned--whether Glasses or smartphones makes little difference.
- Walt Crawford
The Madness of Multitasking | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-sense/.../the-madness-multitaskin... Aug 24, 2009 – Sue Shellenbarger, "Multitasking Makes You Stupid: Studies Show Pitfalls of Doing Too Much at Once," Wall Street Journal (February 27, 2003) Multitasking Makes You Stupid - WSJ.com online.wsj.com/article/SB1046286576946413103.html Feb 27, 2003 – A growing...
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- American
Oh, well Josh did in this thread apparently as well, because we all know that #lolscoble can't possibly refer to my brother, hehe.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I have seen videos of what it is supposedly like to use Google Glass, with it adding information to the world around you, that previously wasn't there. http://www.youtube.com/watch... I find this kind of disturbing, mainly because of the fact that Google is an advertising company (that IS how they make their money). I have to wonder how long it will be before they start...
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- April Russo
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
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
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
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
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
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
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 #TeamMomo
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 H
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
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, apparently, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls," biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School told SPACE.com in 2011. "Think about it: you have no friction, you have no resistance." In spite of the challenges sex in microgravity poses, Woodmansee thinks that the Inspiration Mars journey could motivate other couples to take advantage of less ambitious cosmic destinations, such as low-Earth orbit, should they become commercially available."
- April Russo
from Bookmarklet
If you can't figure it out, you don't deserve the reward.
- April Russo
i predict alot of grabby-squeezy in that scenario...and possible soft-core bondage.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
I'm wondering how microgravity might affect vascular physiology. I was going to Google "erections in space" but thought that might not be a great idea. Maybe I'll try Pubmed instead.
- Victor Ganata
LOL Victor...never a good idea to google stuff like that.
- April Russo
Just search for "space" first, then switch SafeSearch on before changing the query. That said, pubmed might still be more along the lines of what you're looking for.
- Bruce Lewis
Results! http://www.wizardresults.com.au/Splits... I was 3rd last out on the course yesterday (it was a wave start format so people took longer but started earlier). I came 1092 out of 1096 competitors. Last in my age category. 2nd last in the males. Guess who doesn't care? My wife and my daughter... I win :)
What do they call a guy who graduates at the bottom of his med school class? Doctor. What do they call a guy who finishes a triathlon last in his age category? A triathlete. Well done, sir.
- Bruce Lewis
Maybe you finished low in that race, but you finished. Not a lot of people in your age group or any other who could have.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
You beat me and 99% of all people I know, all of whom have never competed in a triathlon and are unlikely ever to be able to accomplish what you accomplished, Johnny.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
You certainly do win! Fabulous job. Y'know what we say: "We do not stop playing because we get old . . . " It is all about the doing.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Inspirational win - congratulations and thank you.
- Jack Norris
Question: Is that 1096 competitors or finishers? 'cause I figure there were a lot of non-finishers, and you beat them, too, right? There were 1725 entrants.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
"Google just announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, a new initiative whereby the company has promised not to sue developers, distributors, and users of open source software utilizing Mountain View's patents "unless first attacked.""
- Bruce Lewis
from Bookmarklet
I can't stop sidestepping my way into the kitchen, and it's strange being able to open the door and check the weather without blocking the doorway to prevent escape.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
"The GIF renaissance has a new patron. Congratulations, Google, you just became the Medicis of the animated internet image!"
- Bruce Lewis
from Bookmarklet
#SaturdayFF: I've shared this before, but not for a SaturdayFF post, so I'll do it today. Several years ago I finally worked up the nerve to give blood during a blood drive at my church. I was filling out the forms and then got to the part where they list what disqualifies you from donating. Because I was in the UK during a certain time frame...
+ 1 LB. I can't give blood either because we lived in Turkey in the mid 80's. It sucks. I actually want to give blood and cant. :-(
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
I was in Germany in the late 80s and so am permanently ineligible as well. :(
- c.a.j.
I also cannot give blood because I got hepatitis giving mouth to mouth to an ER patient in the 80's - :(
- comix aka martha
I can't give blood either. You can sign up for the bone marrow registry; if you are selected they will evaluate your travels and do testing.
- joey
I can't give blood because of that whole gay thing.
- Derrick
well, the damn Red Cross is trying to get me to make up for all of y'all. Call me every 60 days without fail. I try to help out, but da-yam. They're getting like the "debt counselors" that robo-call constantly. Edit: I try to give about once a quarter. Between the company & community blood drives, it's pretty easy.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I need to go give blood while I'm still heavy enough to do it.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Moto - It's the same way here. I haven't given blood in about a year, so they seem to call me about once a week (at least) and send me postcards constantly. I like doing my part, but all of these "reminders" are almost enough to make me never want to give blood again.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I couldn't last time I tried because of birth control bumping up my blood pressure. I need to try again soon. I can't do blood marrow because I weigh too much, even though I'm perfectly healthy as far as testing goes. :/
- Pixie
I've been rejected the same number of times I've donated blood because of my iron levels. My dad gets the near stalker calls because he's O negative. He usually gives but my mom and I joke that one time they're going to drain him.
- Heather
I am also banned from donating blood. I hear your pain.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
*bump* because I discovered this week that a co-worker can't give because of the same reason. Moo.
- LB: #TeamMonique
Our local blood bank wants me bad. I gave right at the end of last year, then a week later came my diagnosis of low iron stores. Cue three months of high-dose iron and not being allowed to donate. I told this to the guy from Red Cross and he had me schedule an appointment for right after my next blood test anyway, so that if I get the all-clear I can give again asap. Of course, I'm used to being wanted. NOT.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Yes. I'm not wild about the most recent rev. I liked it better when you didn't get a pop-up (javascript?) window when trying to hit an image link. Besides using it to look for pictures to use for memes and jokes (isn't that what most people do?), I like using it to check that the hits I'm getting are about what I'm really looking for. So, for instance, I'm having to make up work on a...
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- Spidra Webster
I'm surprised you like the old version better -- the landing page with the full size image superimposed over the page it's on, then you had to press the back button and click the next result?
- Bruce Lewis
Hmm. I wonder if I'm describing it right. As I recall, I used to search on Google.com. Then I'd select "Images" tab and get a bunch of thumbnails of images with the site and the image size. And when I hit the thumbnails I could check the site. It's not that I abhor the concept of a preview. But in practice those windows (whether they're made with javascript or whatever) tend to be buggy...
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- Spidra Webster
I like being able to do reverse image searches (i.e., enter an image url and find the source). I don't always find what I'm looking for, but it's a nice feature to have.
- John (bird whisperer)
I do use it - I didn't particularly like the adjustment to the image view, mostly because it wasn't obvious the first several times that the behavior had changed (that I needed to click something to close) and it meant that I had to move the mouse around more. Other than that, I've found it pretty useful. I'd love to more easily discard results selectively, when images show up that aren't at all what I was looking for.
- Jennifer Dittrich
What John said. A reverse image search would be great but I have no idea whether it's even possible.
- Spidra Webster
Jennifer, try the arrow buttons. The discarding idea is interesting.
- Bruce Lewis
Spidra, is there a camera icon in the right side of your Google search box? I don't know if it's on all browsers. If it's there, click it for search by image.
- Bruce Lewis
It's been pretty terrible. I've complained about it several times. I dislike not being able to see snippets of the search results text and having to mouse over or click to even see which website each result comes from. I guess that new "try these, too" feature could be of some use eventually, but I'm still extremely annoyed with the latest changes.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I tend to start my Google searches using the search box at the upper right hand of Safari. I usually only go to Google's home page when there's a particular doodle I want to see. There's no camera icon there.
- Spidra Webster
Kamilah, there's a tradeoff between space for text and space for images...I wonder how hard it would be to give people a choice.
- Bruce Lewis
@Spidra - there already is reverse image search. I use it via the Firefox extension "Who Stole My Pics" (maybe an overly confrontational name) which lets me do reverse image search straight from the right click context menu.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Ah. I'm off Firefox for the moment because it's been crashy for me. I was trying to remember why I most wanted a reverse search and I think it's for ID purposes. When I have a photo of some plant or something and I want to know what I'm looking at, it's my hope that matching it with the same photo or similar ones will lead me to the info.
- Spidra Webster
I use it to look up colors of different superheroes for my son when he is coloring them
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Finding the exact photo might help, but a merely similar photo, graphically, will almost definitely be of another plant.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Yeah, I figure the tech just isn't there yet. But I can dream.
- Spidra Webster
I like the new format: the ability to preview an image, go directly to the original image, and to see similar images to the one I am previewing.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
OT, but if Firefox is crashing for you, you might try turning off hardware acceleration... I've heard that's been unstable lately.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Oh, jeez, yeah, I use it all the time. I use it on the reference desk, in the way that librarians use clip art books for patrons wanting specific images. I used it got tattoo ideas. I use it to look for people. I use it to look for random, strange images to share and alter. I haven't had good luck with dragging an image to the search box. It has to be very clear and specific. I'm still adjusting to the new Images, but nothing has made me too cranky.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
I'm on a Mac and I don't get a camera icon (checked on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari). On Chrome, there's a microphone icon inside the search box. I won't be at a PC to check until tomorrow.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
When I'm in reference (and for personal searches) I use google image search all the time. We also teach it as part of Intro to Internet 2: Searching.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I wish it were easier to limit to reusable / creative commons images - since I often use it to find images for my blog or other academic illustrative purposes
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
I like seeing the preview image on a page by itself when clicking the thumbnail, and having the option to visit the source page or not..rather than an overlay on the source page, potentially exposing the computer to possible malware that may be embedded on the source page. This is going to save me a lot of time, trouble, and work removing malware from some people's computers. What would...
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- April Russo
I and several of my coworkers have it as our jobs to improve image search. I seriously consider lots of ideas, especially ones accompanied by explanations of what kinds of searching they serve better and why.
- Bruce Lewis
I use it all the time. Just yesterday I was trying to figure out whether my "juvenile hawk" photo was actually of a juvenile bald eagle. Browsing GIS made me think no, it really is a hawk. Besides, if I stopped using GIS, Radhika M would kill me ;)
- Amit Patel
I use image search; it's awesome. I use it to identify foreign words that I suspect are nouns, to get pretty images for documents. Things to change: Personal Results don't tend to be relevant; until they are, I wish it showed fewer of them... by which I mean none. (Yes, that's a search setting, but turning it off loses my "never show results from these domains" setting.) If I have...
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- Larry Hosken
I like it, including the recent changes. I use it nearly every day but mostly on desktop. Havent tried it on the tablet yet.
- Jim #TeamMonique
I just did a search for "Desmids slide" and after checking out the preview, hit the site. It took me to a completely different (porn) site. Given that I'm on MacOS, I'd be a little surprised if this switcheroo were due to a virus on my system. However, I'm afraid to try to replicate the steps in case it does lead to malware. That's the first time that's ever happened to me on Google Image Search. That is, first time a seemingly legit URL switched up to a porn one once I hit the link through Google.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, that's probably just the way the site was designed. If the user-agent comes from a search engine, it displays a fake page, otherwise it redirects to the other site (like just about any short-url service does). Probably not malware, just shady practices.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Thanks, Jimminy. I didn't understand that possibility.
- Spidra Webster
Melly, in most adult relationships, both people missed the first 10 years (childhood), so those years become an unending discovery / re-discover. But I don't know. Obviously, a gap in the middle is a major difference.
- Micah
Last time the biggest problem I had was all my gift cards expired.
- Todd Hoff
I'd say family changes, to whatever degree, and my relationship (if it still existed) with Chris. Also, that's 10 more years of unemployment, but at least I'd have a solid reason.
- Heather
Figuring out how to program the electric car (or jetpack) to take you to work.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Eating - I bet getting the micro oven replicator thingy of 10 years hence to work be a cast iron bitch given I an barely get my current microwave to rewarm a cup of coffee :(
- WarLord
Back taxes, dealing with Cerberus, the youtube generation getting older..
- Mo Kargas
I'd be pretty pissed off about waking up. I'd be wondering why my wishes weren't followed.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I'd be sad that HTML5 still wasn't supported by all the browsers.
- Amit Patel
If malaria, polio, leprosy, sexism, ableism, ageism etc. have only decreased 5% or so (which is the likely scenario). One would not be able to not irrationally expect them to all be greatly reduced, but past experience shows it's unlikely to in 10 years. "so we have electrical power without cables for everything, and holographic lolcats, but still only 25-35% women on boards and way more black men in jail than statistically justifiable"
- Iphigenie
Josh and the kids just left for the Coast. It's SIL Jessie's engagement party tonight, but as you can imagine, I am not up for celebrating in any way, shape or form. I need and want to be by myself. I'm off to bed with a book and some chocolate.
"Separated by the milky way, two star crossed lovers are only able to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month based on the lunisolar calendar. The legend of Hikoboshi (the star known as Alter) and Orihime (the star known as Vega) has roots in China but has been associated with Japan’s Tanabata festival since the sixth century."
- Kelli H.
from Bookmarklet
"Orihime, the daughter of Emperor Tentei, was a skilled weaver and made lovely clothes for her father. On day as she sat alongside the the river of heaven ( amanogawa – the milky way) she was overcome with sadness as she had been so busy with her weaving that she hadn’t had time to fall in love. Tentei, believed to be the ruler of the heavens, witness her woeful state and arranged a...
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- Kelli H.
"The Tanabata festival (also know as the star festival) celebrates the reuniting of these lovers separated by the milky way and the word tanabata can be translated as “weaving with the loom (bata) placed on the shelf (tana)”. During the Tanabata festival sprigs of bamboo, sometimes small and sometimes the size of a tree, are hung with tanzuku, papers upon people write their wishes. Traditionally people wish for improved technical skills and abilities in homage to the legend of Hikoboshi and Orihime."
- Kelli H.
Did you ever see the photos I took of our Tanabata Festival here? That was a fun time. Do they have a festival where you live?
- Anika
I didn't, Anika, but I saw there was a page for it on FB when I was researching. I don't think we have a large enough Asian population for this festival, but I would love to attend one day. Do you have a link to your photos?
- Kelli H.
Nice article. I like the "technical skills" angle: "During the Tanabata festival sprigs of bamboo, sometimes small and sometimes the size of a tree, are hung with tanzuku, papers upon people write their wishes. Traditionally people wish for improved technical skills and abilities in homage to the legend of Hikoboshi and Orihime."
- Bruce Lewis
So, it's a year later and I came across this post and realized you asked for pics of the Tanabata festival here. It seems I either missed it or the comment was deleted, so here are my pictures from the festival in Little Tokyo: http://www.flickr.com/...
- Anika
"I've learned that if you want to get out of the box thinking, you need to literally get out of the box. When you step outside, you give yourself over to nature, respecting its cycles and unpredictability. It keeps me more awake to what is happening around me by experiencing the extreme heats of summer, or the frigid power of winter. It makes me present to the world around me instead of being insulated from it."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
i do dishes, i do laundry. i changed most of the diapers for both our kids before they were potty trained. wife and i share cooking duties. she goes to the office, i maintain the home front. i keep the books, she does 2/3 of the grocery shopping. i kill bugs and change flood lamps, she takes the girls to swimming and tennis lessons. together we fight crime!
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Yes, and I wish he wouldn't. I am rather OCD about the dishes (he's not) and I hate finding "clean" dishes in the cabinet that really aren't. He tends to wash the inside of things, but not the outside...and he breaks stuff. He broke a fork in 2, yesterday. And he slices up my scrubbers when he cleans knives. I also wish he wouldn't do laundry. He thinks you are supposed to use bleach on...
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- April Russo
Speaking for my wife "Yes, he does a wonderful job!". ;) I am also a little OCD in this respect.
- Ken Morley
love the sink with the double drainboards. Thats a keeper.
- Berthe
I'd also love double bowls. My dream sink has two drainboards, two bowls, and one of those faucets that you can pull out and spray your dishes with!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I think an uncle had a birthday today. I haven't been on FB in a month. It's just too headache-inducing.
- Anika
Hah! I think I have you beat, Anika. I was just on FB ... well ... actually about a month for me too.
- Bruce Lewis
=) BTW, it's nice to see you back around here. I've missed you!
- Anika
I actually went on vacation this month and didn't bring a computer. I've also been playing Ingress. I don't think I'll ever totally leave FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
I had assumed you were super busy with work. How was your vacation?
- Anika
Fabulous. It was my first time ever in a warm place in February -- Cancun.
- Bruce Lewis
Oh, how nice. I expect the whole family enjoyed it as well. You guys are going to get addicted. My uncle (the one whose birthday is most likely today) went to Cancun in a February 18 years ago. Now, they go down there every year.
- Anika
I don't know if we'll go down every year, but I bet we'll go down again.
- Bruce Lewis
Definitely everybody loved it. We swam with dolphins.
- Bruce Lewis
Oh wow! That is so cool. Do you have pictures?
- Anika
latimes: To be or not to be (at the office) High-profile Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer may have spent her goodwill in declaring that employees may no longer work from home. The reason? As explained by Yahoo Human Resources Chief Jackie Reses in a memo sent to employees: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
"Sources told AllThingsD that Mayer has grown frustrated because the Yahoo parking lot in Sunnyvale, Calif., was slow to fill up in the morning and quick to empty by 5 p.m. — something not typical of the hard-charging Silicon Valley rivals that Yahoo must beat to regain its perch." - IMO, if you're watching the parking lot (or butts in seats), you have terrible metrics.
- Andrew C (✓)
And if your argument against telecommuting is entirely about "intangibles"... Well, crap, aren't there intangible benefits to telecommuting too? You'd think tech companies would make these kinds of decisions with data instead.
- Andrew C (✓)
On the other hand "culture" is not something that easily lends itself to simple metrics. If you walk the halls of the building and don't see people interacting much and have a number of people who are essentially invisible to their co-workers, maybe this isn't the draconian idea it's being made out to be...
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
It's not like Yahoo was knocking it out of the park with their previous policies. I'm sure Ms. Mayer and the board felt they needed to make some drastic changes in order to reinvent themselves and increase their relevance. This falls into the "drastic change" category -- maybe it'll make sense and end up being a good move.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I think when people are jumping on this policy they are projecting what happens within a healthy focussed culture. In that environment a lot of things work that don't work when you are in trouble. She is trying to fall back to a rallying point and reorganize for another attack or a better defense. In that scenario she is making a good decision, though she should also make the same child care available that she has.
- Todd Hoff
I thought the point well made in this particular snippet is that this might hurt some of their working parents particularly hard, especially those who are single -- in a way that she won't feel herself because she's wealthy enough to build her own child care center at work. I think the idea is sound, but if they're not making moves to mitigate some of that, they're going to lose some of the people they're trying to reincorporate.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Can you imagine the backlash if she cancelled 401-k matching? Which I think is funny because my Silicon Valley tech company doesn't even offer it...
- Brian Johns
I am all for work from home employees given the right circumstances, but this answer on Quora from a Yahoo has me thinking this really is in the best interest of Yahoo!... http://www.quora.com/Yahoo... Particularly, "We are fighting to stay relevant. So getting your ass into the office and working on projects is not too much to ask. If you don't like it well too bad, the exit door is over there."
- Ross Miller
I understand that there might be some issues specific to Yahoo! that precipitated this move, but I am concerned about the effect on working parents and what influence it might have in other workplaces.
- John (bird whisperer)
Teleworking twice a week keeps me sane and saves me about $50 a week in gas. Luckily, my agency is very supportive of teleworking.
- Kelli H.
from Android
Google is supportive of working from home, but also provides incentives for coming into the office (e.g. free food). I understand not every company can do that.
- Bruce Lewis