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Google Blog Search can't compete with TechMeme
October 1 at 11:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
It's missing the box in the right margin that shows you the new stuff in reverse chronologic order. That's where my eye goes first. Suggests perhaps it should be the prime real estate and the ladder (which may not change much during the day) should be marginalized, or for me it could go away altogether, I almost never use it. These days I find the political TM interesting and the tech version really boring. Just FYI. - Dave Hussein Winer via Bookmarklet
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Better yet, Google should create a TOOL whereby we can create our own TechMeme. Gabe has always said this is impossible but I do not believe it is. Then we could all iterate as much as we like till someone invents the 2.0 of this genre, which might lack some of the smarts of TM, which for me, isn't that smart (which is why it's so boring). - Dave Hussein Winer
There are three or four Mike Arringtons in the political space, people who just have to fart and their pieces go right to the top. Some of their stuff is so shallow and inane and petty (I still read it of course, otherwise how would I know). But the Algorith has lost all its mystique. - Dave Hussein Winer
Anyways -- tomorrow is a big day. Probably going to have more bank failures and the market will probably have another bad day and the House gets back in town but probably won't vote and then in the evening we Palin rears her head reminding us that a healty plurality of Americans thought she was the cats meow for about three weeks, thank god we had more than three weeks to make up our mind. And there's still a chance she pulls it out tomorrow and the last couple of weeks have been a masterful job of... - Dave Hussein Winer
...setting expectations lower than anyone ever has. There's reason to suspect that, having seen tapes of her Alaska debates, where she mopped the floor with her opposition. It's possible Biden might not see that coming? Nahhh, the Obama folk are super-smart and think of EVERYTHING. We hope. Goodnight everybody!! - Dave Hussein Winer
One more thing, FF should go all the way and turn this mofo into a blogging tool already. Geez. - Dave Hussein Winer
Dave - Why do you think Google UIs tend to have the panels / menus on the left? - Mona N.
Mona, I don't know. I've never thought about it. Will do. - Dave Hussein Winer
Me neither. Good night! See you tomorrow. :) - Mona N.
Main advantage of Google's solution is the fact that it features more than just tech news. - Dennis Laumen
any way of grabbing that data via one of the Google API's Dave? - Duncan Riley
I wish Google's solution had RSS feeds. I'm a big fan of the Techmeme firehose RSS feed. - Brian Sloane
duncan, when i look at google's apis i feel like they designed them so i would retch in disgust so i have to really be interested to to be willing to look. - Dave Hussein Winer
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Google Blog Search: so long Techmeme, and thanks for all the fish
October 1 at 7:00 pm - Link
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You're late! Morning Duncan! :) - Mona N.
morning Mona :-) - Duncan Riley
I want a "morning" :) - Allen Stern
morning allen! <--- obligatory... ;) just kidding! - Mona N.
It's missing RSS right now. If it had that, than maybe I could put it on my iGoogle page where I currently have techmeme - Brian Sloane
Can you regionialize this? I don't want US dominated news & sport. - Mel.Buckpitt
I'm sure RSS will come... - ※Fu※
Mel: "We're launching in English only today, but plan to add new features and support for more languages in the coming months, so stay tuned." http://googleblog.blogspot.com... - ※Fu※
Fu: Congrats! thanks for the info & I look forward to the new features. just a small but important point, you launched only in US English today :-) - Mel.Buckpitt
Brian, they seem to mention that RSS is not available yet so probably that means it will arrive at some point. But quite true - better sooner than later. - Svetlana Gladkova
dude. techmeme is not gonna get squashed by this change in blog search. It is a big improvement, but try using it. techmeme is much much better from a usability standpoint. google's advantage is in the sources it polls and potential traffic - Rodney Rumford
Considering I spend far too much time on Google Trends and blog search and next to 0 time on TM, this is already a done deal for me. It's more just icing on the cake. - Cyndy
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food network addict: ADAM GERTLER WINS TOO... his own show
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I'm glad he got a show too. I think I liked him more. - Brian Sloane
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Social Media: Michael posted a link
Best Friendfeed app out there
July 14 at 12:52 pm - via feedalizr - Link
looks interesting. how does this compare to other apps? - Brian Sloane
will try it and see - thanks for the post! - Cindy Opong via feedalizr
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How do I get this to show up for me? - Brian Sloane
Brian - May not work in Safari. If you enter one quote on the main page, it should start on the next page. Still working here on Firefox 3 - Charlie Anzman
Thanks. I see it now. I was expecting it to be on the main Yahoo! Finance page as well. - Brian Sloane
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“How do you know someone is smart? I've been thinking about that this morning and looking back at all the conversations I've had and one common theme is smart people talk to you about ideas, not about celebrities.”
July 13 at 10:32 am - Link
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would certainly agree! - Tad - the Meme Maker
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What about people who share stupid ideas? Like Free Enegery, most conspiracy theories, many political statements, etc etc... - Tad - the Meme Maker
Robert, I like this and totally agree :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Tad: even those people are still smarter than people who tell you about what Britney Spears did last night. - Robert Scoble
You could replace "celebrities" in that sentence with "names of people". In other words, it's ideas and concepts that are important, not egos. Even "nobodies" can have egos. Narcissism shuts out the world beyond the self, we can't learn if we are always holding up a mirror, never looking beyond it. - Jason Wehmhoener
My dad once told me that even the dumbest person in the world can teach you something because he probably knows something you don't. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Smart people listen more than they talk. - Randy Hall
To me the smart people are those that make a well-reasoned argument for and idea and then do two things. 1. Have the guts to put it out there to the world and 2. Have the guts to change their mind if they're wrong (or hold their ground when they know they're right) - Morgan
I think it all depends on the topic you're discussing. I'd say someone is smart if she can engage with you on the discussion and make you think about it from a different angle. - Bruno Pedro
Jason: it's one thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart had dinner at the Ritz last night." It's a whole nother thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart told me that xxxx idea is interesting and he's working on making that better." - Robert Scoble
I absolutely agree, Randy. - Jack Carlson
Duncan for example is a smart guy, but still talks about celebrities, so it's possible to do both and still be smart - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Which reminds me I need to talk to you about an 'idea' at blogher. ok. not really...more about which cam to get for the conventions. lol - Erin Kotecki Vest
I agree... This is especially obvious here in LA... although sometimes the celeb mention is the nature of the business -- or at least mention of -- as Calacanis would say -- "webebrities." - Andy Sternberg
Jason: that's true. I have yet to meet someone who is able to communicate (I have a friend with a mentally retarded son who isn't able to communicate, so we'll leave him out of this) who I couldn't learn something from. Randy: exactly. When I fail as an interviewer it isn't because I'm listening, it's probably cause I'm talking. - Robert Scoble
Andy: when you talk to the smartest people in Hollywood they talk to you about ideas. Trends. People's work. They don't talk about "I saw Tom Cruise at dinner last night" or "did you see what they said about Oprah in the tabloids?" - Robert Scoble
Robert: I agree. The point I was trying to make is that we can learn something from almost everybody, even those who we may think know less then us. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I think one can be smart and still talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic, because he's smart. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger via NoiseRiver
Dobromir: Duncan's best work is when he talks about ideas. That's why I love Duncan, cause he tells me who has the most interesting ideas, and he's very willing to debate ideas (I've debated a few with him). - Robert Scoble
I think people can be both highly intelligent and pretty stupid at the same time. Robert Anton Wilson said it better than I can, "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases." And that doesn't apply to just religious dogma - any kind including political, scientific, cultural, etc. - Tad - the Meme Maker
Robert Anton Wilson++ - Jason Wehmhoener
this is a cool thread! we need a lightbulb "intelligence meter" on FF - users vote on how smart you are based on your posts... bulb gets brighter with more votes! - Susan Beebe
Susan: fantastic idea! Now that's smart. - Bruno Pedro
I have a theory that being smart is simply a matter of the attention that you give somthing. Granted, Nobel Prize winning physicists dont grow on trees. - Roberto Bonini
smart to me is someone who knows what they know but more importantly knows what they don't know - too many intelligent people who never make it to smart because they are too busy broadcasting what they know - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
That would give credence to the old saying “if smarts was electricity that boy couldn’t light up a 10 watt bulb. “ - Earl E Morningwood
Social media is about inclusion, don't alienate too much with your labels and boxes - Michael W. May via twhirl
I've found smart people treat being smart like fight club: rule number one is you don't talk about being smart. Rule number two is you don't talk about being smart. To Jason Wehmhoener's point, smart people don't spend their time making a point of how they're wrapped up in smart things or "look what a good person I am for talking to x or doing y." - Mark Trapp
Smart people usually start talking by conditioning everything - and the first condition is for them to say they are not an expert ... - LPH™
How do you know that someone isn't smart? - Michael J. Cohen (mjc) via twhirl
Smart folks understand questions are important, they are not afraid to admit ignorance and appreciate that learning is a process not an event. - Dave Hussein Martin
LPH: hmmm, the ultra smart like Douglas Engelbart (who really is the true visionary I've spent time with) just paint pictures in your mind of how the world will be someday. He never said he was expert at something, just talked about how this new world would work. I could listen to that guy for hours. At 82 he's easily the smartest person I've met. - Robert Scoble
Michael: that's an interesting question. The biggest way I've found? The only skill not smart people have is in ripping down other people's ideas, or, worse, trying to rip down other people altogether. - Robert Scoble
Robert, put it another way: smart people talk about the world that could be, not that the world that is? - Mark Dykeman
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster - Roberto Bonini
Smart people simply can get the job done faster and pay attention to the hidden details that others would miss. I still don't know how to best test for it, though. - Ben Parr
smart people are visionaries, humble and most likely pious too. Take a look at the peoples who are deemed as being smart. These are some of the comman attributes of these type of people.! - Peter Dawson
I think it can go both ways-Charlie Rose talks about both-ideas are great, but what is with the people behind those ideas - that's very interesting! I also think its a natural human instinct to talk about others - it depends on the context. "I saw Tom Cruise last night" is the lowest common denominator. Inquiring about the dynamic of Shell's latest barrage of public vitriol and the work ethic of others in the Valley are spurned from natural human curiosity that we all share, whether we ask it or not. - james svenson
+1 for Paul - Steven Hodson
Robert: ”Smart” here as different from ”Intelligent” – I have one story that will help us out here to identify a smart person. I had a friend at high school that knew he was not that intelligent, but he was smart: - he used to research old exams to see what the previous year tests would possibly cover on the upcoming exams. He used to collect all class notes from the top “dedicated” colleagues that were willing to share the notes. He would then select the top 10 of about 20 topics that could come up on the exams. This guy passed always and with the minimum needed to advance. What he did in my opinion was that he OPTIMIZED all his capacity to achieve one goal and that as it. He knew his weakness so well that he found ways to overcome them. He went from high school to university and to MBA: he travel to Europe for about a year and returned to get the job he wanted. - Joao
@susanbeebe: I dunno, I'd feel pretty hurt when the system took away my lightbult entirely. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger via NoiseRiver
@regila: all this for a "bob"? ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I remember my dad once telling me what Eleanor Roosevelt said... "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Brian Sloane
the first sign that someone is really smart... they will tell you they're not but they will show you they are. - Scott Lockhart
I'm not saying I'm particularly smart, but I truly find celeb gossip one of the most uninteresting things I can think of. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
I think that smart people are the people that get things done. Imagine two people that have never heard or met each other and both of them come up with the exact same brilliant idea. One person brings the brilliant idea to a reality, while the other person doesn't. Which person is smarter? - possible248 via NoiseRiver
Plug for the "highfalutin" room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hi... if you want to talk about things with depth - Ňicķ
maybe true...but everyone is smart in their own right. you might be a social media whiz but not know anything about putting in kitchen cabinets. I'm a firm believer that everyone has their sweet spots in terms of knowledge. The really smart ones, just take the time to expand that sweet spot so it's more than just a spot and more like an area. - Don Martelli
@donmartelli: Well said... - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
I think a smart person can talk about both. That way he/she can converse with all people and not make anyone feel less smart than them. - Adrienne Van Houten
Adrienne: I agree with that. But smart people never start out that way. - Robert Scoble
What an awful generalization. That's how I know when someone is smart. When he doesn't make an implied generalization like "stupid people talk about celebrities". - Jay Cruz
smart people think through questions and give full answers. who talks to you about angelina jolie? i agree anybody asking scoble about that is "not as intelligent," but probably nice people...unless they have no idea who you are....maybe they ask you these questions: "is veronica belmont really cute in person? or is kevin rose really a ladies man?" however, smart people are not always smart in all aspects of their lives... - Pokai
"Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people." -Jules Romains - Joe Lencioni
@Jay: You spelled know wrong. - Daniel Smith
For the record, that was a joke ;) - Daniel Smith
Thank's @Daniel Smith - Jay Cruz
You know when someone is smart when they know what they're talking about and they have a good understanding. "Smart" people grasp things better and/or have ideas. - Kevin Porter via twhirl
Smart is not about opinions ("Stupid ideas"). You can be smart and have different beliefs. I'm wondering if they are "smart" conversations or just engaging conversations. I'm much more interested in sharing ideas than sports scores, gossip, or transitory circumstances. - Barb Gonzalez
Ugh. Most of these comments seem to prescribe behavior to those who are "smart" - one of the only commonalities I've ever seen of truly smart people is that they make their own rules. To say they only talk about X not Y or they listen more than they talk or any other behavioral observation misses the mark with me. Smart people don't subscribe to other peoples' ideas of what they should be. - Lucretia Pruitt
Smart people realize how little they know but have no need to try and convince others that they know a lot. - Dossy Shiobara
Scoble, no one is "smart" or an "expert." It doesn't really matter at all. The only thing that matters is how people preceive someone to be. My blog, http://onlyjames.com/ is constantly growing, so I believe people to think I am smart. Then again, I might be a complete nutcase. :D - James Mowery via twhirl
I think you can define smart a few different ways as well. I think the question you're really asking is "How to determine if someone is INTELLIGENT?" - David
I have noticed that they seem less likely to urinate in their pants than the general population - Seth Shapiro
I wish I understood this. - Michael Hussein Markman
Takes a long time of knowing someone and seeing how they react under differents sets of circumstances. People are smart in some ways, but not in others. - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
When I hear the word "celebrity" I now think of Sarah Austin's Pop17 which come to think of it Robert, you have never acknowledged that I know of. Her site is about a new kind of celebrity. For her, and for me, the interesting celebrities are people who become famous because of their outstanding work. And she does not attempt to ask about shallow tips or favorite colors, but rather about their work. The people she tends to interview are micro-celebrities small in size, but important. - Andrew Baron
Smart people don't brag about how they can recognize smart people. - Rutger Blom
I enjoy people who talk about other change-makers in the world. People who point me towards amazing & influential musicians, dancers, physicists, politicians, chefs, etc... Sometimes the geek-world is a little heavy on ideas. I enjoy hearing about the life history & paths of unusual chemists, religious leaders, and environmentalists. Just as some of my friends have more "aesthetic sense" than others, some are unusually attuned to remarkable people, and some to innovative ideas. - Mitchell Tsai
smart people just know - Pokai
@ Scoble, once again you've hit a collective nerve with this thread. it goes back to what makes us human? "i'm not human without you"- Desmond Tutu re: Umuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...) communities like friendfeed should be a place where we explore these types of questions, there is enough pablum out in this world already, thanks for pursuing this line of questioning. - Nice Fish Films
I have an idea in that I'd love to get Britney Spears on Twitter - I think that would do wonders for her career. ;) - Jesse Stay
Is smart a measurement of intelligence or emotional quotient? One's intelligence is measured and quantified, like it or not, whether intelligence is synonmous with smart, that maybe another question. One can have emotional quotient as well i.e. street smarts and it too is measurable. Intelligence is not dribble. Intelligence, for me, is the generation of ideas with vision followed by implementation. Intelligence has many forms as well albeit plasticity or crystallized. Good nature versus nurture question. - ka3drr
I'll answer with this: the people's intelligence that I most desire and respect are the ones who are able to bring reality to the "out of the box" ideas they have. Plenty of people can speculate, but very few have the competence to bring a good idea to the rest of us. - Tony
depressingly true... - Stephen Roberts
I still have no clue who these A-listers are that people talk about but I'm interested in ideas both from other people and also sharing ones I come across. Celebrities? Phooey, give me an original thinker any day. - Sally Church
Pop culture aficionados are not necessarily stupid. I think the smartest people can carry on a conversation about nearly anything, and like it or not popular culture is a great source of inspiration for many ideas. - Lindsey Smith
Hmmm, how about... Methinks "smart people" think about having conversations with people (aka "intellectual celebrities") with whom they can talk about ideas and... Sigh... It still goes back to Howard Bloom: http://users.ucom.net/~vegan/P... —I'm a Zen Buddhist, but I still do think "God" is fair... As in, I can brainstorm pretty well, yes, but I'd die in the Aussie outback if you put me there. :P - kwok heng
Thats a great observation. If only we could make those ideas a reality :) You are a fun guy to talk about ideas with. - Christian Burns
Is this where we talk about Paris Hilton ? - Eric Berlin
Eric: my niece says Sean Faris is hot. I don't even know who that is. Off to the Google for me! :-) - Robert Scoble
I think I have a trump card. go look at The Inquisitr..there's some pretty intelligent posts on there and, also talk about celebrities. You can tell someone you are talking to is smart by the way they treat the subject at hand and, how they deliver their portion of the conversation. - Candace Holly
Funny you should mention him, Robert. I'm working with a website, and he's one of our celebs on it. The odd part, for me, is that we have all of these B+ list celebs, and I don't know any of them. - Bradley McSpinn
I put it to you that smart people talk about people rather than ideas - Jim Yiapanis
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Using FriendFeed is like drinking beer
July 3 at 7:29 am - via Reshare - Link
Nice analogy. "...moderate use can enhance our life, but over consumption can cause serious damages..." I'll add that just like beer, some people have a higher tolerance than others. - Brian Sloane
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Yup, pretty good analogy. For some though, getting plastered is part of the fun. - phil baumann
@bsloane: i like that. - Harry Chen
like twittering, digging, redditing and stumbling! - Alex Barredo
We can probably make the same analogy to Sex! All good things in Life become addictive! LMAO - Igor The Troll
The Leechblock firefox extension can really help with learning moderation. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Jason Wehmhoener
I like friendfeed so which beer do you recommend? Perhaps some drunk time in front of the computer will earn me a few follower... (or turn me into a troll) rofl - "Czar" DJ Peterman
lmao - Igor The Troll
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PicLens for Firefox. Awesome. Period.
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You gotta try it! - Charlie Anzman
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for some reason I've avoided this.... I can't explain why - Stefan Hayden
@Stefan -- no time better than now to try it out - Brian Sloane
Something else to take up space on the PC as a download. It is cool what it can do for you, but not necessarily needed. - Les
I totally love this thing - it's so crazy - Sarah Perez
yep, awesome, crashed FF first time round but OK after, if only they gave you some more controls, like most viewed on Youtube. - Toby Graham
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This might get me to use facebook more. - Brian Sloane
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“What is the most appropiate simile for FriendFeed?”
June 23 at 8:45 pm - Link
I think of it like a nice after dinner conversation where everyone brings their favorite news clippings for some reason. - Ňicķ
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(Tad Donaghe's post: http://friendfeed.com/e/8f5081... got me thinking about this) - Ňicķ
I'm not really sure what you mean... - Tad - the Meme Maker
Friendfeed is like a 24/7 water cooler conversation. - Mark Trapp
Yeah, like Mark says. To what would you compare the atmosphere created here? (I was thinking about the "too public" idea.... like, we're not exactly standing on a street corner shouting, but we're not exactly hanging out with friends in a private house either) - Ňicķ
Maybe like the old party phone lines where you could pick it up and chime in on the conversation? Except this one is recorded - Brian Sloane
Robert Scoble calls it (and Twitter) the world-wide talk show: I tend to think it's more personal than that. - Mark Trapp
Friendfeed is a snowmobile racing across the tundra when suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. - Mitch Wagner
+1 for Mitch Wagner. :) Brian Sloane: it is kind of like a party line. that's a good one. although Twitter might fit that description better for me. - edythe
FriendFeed is like sugar. When you're young, you love it, you can't get enough of it, but too much will make you sick. As you get older, more FF makes you fat and rots your teeth. If you overdo it, you get diabetes. And that's why Twitter is better than FriendFeed. http://heresabunnywithapancake... - Bwana McCall
Bwana - your bunny caught me off guard. Still laughing. - Russellreno
FriendFeed - it's like hang-gliding to a fish! - Tad - the Meme Maker
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What do people think of bthesite.com? Is the baltimore sun doing a good job at entering the "web 2.0" wordl.
June 18 at 8:50 pm - via Reshare - Link
I'm not crazy about it. It seems like an aggregater page with some blog posts. Just like a zillion other pages out there. Much of the stuff (when I visited) had nothing to do with baltimore. - Renee Pie
There is nothing "sticky" about the site that makes me want to keep coming back to it. - Brian Sloane
I like the fact that I'm getting a pretty good amount of blog traffic from it - Jeff Quinton
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DestroyFlickr explores alternative methods for viewing and sharing Flickr content. Its user interface provides an environment that benefits photos rather than hindering them. - Brian Sloane
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“Thomas, suppose I said that I just bought a Canon SD1100 and it's so perfect a camera that I can't imagine that anyone uses any other camera. Not a SLR, not a movie camera, not if they're making a Hollywood movie or filming an IMAX from the top of Mt Everest. This is the last camera. ”
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It kills all other cameras. The camera in your iPhone just stopped working. All the fancy gear you bought in the last ten years, pooof, it's gone! Why? Because I got an SD1100! :-) - Dave Hussein Winer
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Is it RSS-enabled? - Louis Gray
Oh Louis, you're too much. - Mark Trapp
Except Dave I don't feel that FriendFeed is the last camera. I think it's the best camera and the best way to consume news with what we have today. But innovation stands on the shoulders of giants, as they say, and most certainly something better will follow FriendFeed, possibly even innovated by FF themselves. - Thomas Hawk
The problem is that Thomas sees RSS through an aggregator and forgets it also does stuff that doesn't look like Google Reader or FriendFeed. I agree though that FF has taken over a lot of my RSS reading time, though. - Robert Scoble
A better way to phrase this would be that the new Hasselblad CF 39 beats the old Canon 5D hands down (assuming price is no object), but that almost guaranteed another camera will beat the CF 39 in the years ahead. FF is far superior to any other way to consume the news that I'm most interested in and beats any RSS reader I've ever tried, hands down -- most certainly better technology will emerge in the future though. - Thomas Hawk
Scoble: Give examples of other ways you use RSS that aren't done be GReader and FF - Brian Sloane
Brian: widgets. - Mark Trapp
Dave, the camera in my iPhone has been dead to me since the day I bought the iPhone. That's what happens when you carry a 5D and 5 L series lenses everywhere you go 24/7. But I can't make phone calls or listen to mp3s on my 5D. The 5D, of course, will be dead to me at some point in the future as well. Guarantee it. - Thomas Hawk
I view RSS through XMPP using Spoonfeedr. - Sam Pullara
I have an RSS app bring photos to my HDTV. That is something FF does not do. - Robert Scoble
it's more efficient to view news through an input device with a keyboard than an HDTV -- especially if you are going to interact with it. Any HDTV that can act as a monitor though should be able to get FF though if it has a computer and keyboard hooked up to it. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: you need a demo of what I am talking about. It is really a great way to see your photos. FF can't do it. - Robert Scoble
Defending RSS V1 in the face of social filtered RSS V2 (i.e. friendfeed) is like the old school photographer who refuses to give in to digital cameras focusing instead on the superiority of film cameras. The resistance to digital in the early days was massive. Eventually they all get there though. It just takes some longer than others. And the ones that never make it at all end up dying of old age in the end anyways. - Thomas Hawk
Man, always the way... I got the Polaroid that uses Atom - Andrew Smith
Okay, I tried -- I guess all the RSS apps I have running will insist at some point that I should appeal to the FF guys to add the necessary features so I can turn them off. I'll let you know when that happens Thomas. And good luck with your SD1100. I don't want to hear about you using an SLR! :-) - Dave Hussein Winer
Show me the way Dave, I'm always interested in a better way to consume news if it exists. Happy to try out any technology, especially when it comes with an endorsement from you. But this FriendFeed thingy is sort of addictive and damn fast and spot on for interesting content. I've tried Bloglines, Newsgator, Google Reader, and half a dozen lesser known RSS readers. What should I be using? - Thomas Hawk
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