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DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Let's all publicly love each other for a bit. Say something nice about another friendfeeder.

May 14 - Comment - Like - Share

Holly Rae, FFer, Stephen Mack, ffcode and 88 other people liked this

Derrick is really cute in person, and he's funny as hell. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

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Nakachi is the bringer of words that brighten every day. - LogEx

I like that one, Logical Extremes. Again, the ability to like individual comments or posts would be good here. On topic, Ophelia, who is not that active on friendfeed but filters here anyway, is very good with words. Her updates both entertain and inspire me. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Monique posts something that makes me smile or chuckle just about every day she's active - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

FFing Enigma (aka Tina) is articulate, witty, and passionate. - Glen Mistletoe

RAPatton might be the best dad i've ever read about (my dad excluded of course) - Steve C

I still love Anika's avatar. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

I have to pick one? - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Nope. You can do it as many times as you like. For instance, I like how ha3rvey is funny and just a genuinely nice guy. :) - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Akiva's great pictures of Babby Audrey and Rochelle always make me smile (technically that was just about one person... sorta...) :D - Lindsay

"i18n" is short for "internationalization", i+<18 letters>+n. By that schema, i80and saved us all a lot of screen real estate. - DGentry

What can I say about one person? Jason Toney's posts always elicit wonder and insight. RAPatton, I feel like is just full of awesome with his insight and approach to things. Haggis is a barrel of laughs. Steven Perez (when he's not fighting with conservatives) has spawned his own catchphrase. Nicholas K. is just about the most awesome single dad I've seen in a long time. Tina and... more... - Derrick

Victor Ganata is extremely intelligent, empathetic and articulate. He has always been exceptional in understanding others whether he agrees or disagrees with an opinion, and he always treats everyone with the utmost of respect. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Jonathan Hardesty is funny and wants to have my babies. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I wish I could call everyone out. If we interact here on FF, take it on faith that I pretty much love you. - Derrick

You know me, I can't ever pick one person so I will simply say that every single person I subscribe to is smart, interesting, funny and make being on this crazy little site damn entertaining. Those that I've been lucky enough to get to know beyond the site prove to me every day that everyone who has ever said only weirdos and stalkers are online are just smoking crack. - ♥patricia♥

I'm with you there, Derrick. There are so many people here who are funny, smart, interesting, entertaining, etc. There are even a couple who make me blush. NOT NAMING ANY NAMES. And then there's that cilantro dude. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Steven Perez is a funny guy, and can cheer me up when I'm down. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

My first public skype call was with Tad, Glen and the Amber - a lovely conversation with great people. Tad was bold enough to live stream his workstation software install expedition and is a friend to all; Glen is chalk full of incisive wit and has an easy going conversational style; and the Amber was open enough to admit she's shy but worked up the courage to get on the call anyway. Like I said, great people, and quite representative of all the good people in the land of friendfeed. - Micah Wittman

Derrick tells the truth! There's so many awesome people I can't choose just one. - Rodfather

Anika Malone is as straight a shooter as there ever has been She will always tell you the truth about what she thinks. I find that to be a quality many people could use more of, and I respect her, and love her for it. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

I can't believe that there are people I'm not subbed too. - Derrick

Shevonne is a hottie, and not because she is nice to look at. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Damn, Amber. LOL - Derrick

I love how Amber unabashedly states things. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

I wrote in my 25 things that one of my laments in life is finding a woman who challenges me mentally. Tina does just that. With aplomb. There have been countless times that I was sure of myself and she will make a comment that causes me to completely rethink the issue entirely. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Louis Gray got me to think about just being myself and not allowing the tech heavy side of FF to intimidate me. - Derrick

Michael W May and RAPatton have the best tastes in music I've ever seen in my life, I applaud and covet their music collection. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Derrick and Mona and Akiva and Rochelle and Jandy and many of you make me laugh every day. - Louis Gray

Derrick is the shizzle, treated me like an old friend. That's one of 500 nice things I have to say about other Friendfeeders. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Rachel Fox takes outstanding pictures. - Louis Gray

My little pea... fierce as a woozle, indeed! So quiet and unassuming... But so poignant at exactly the right moment. The exactly right phrase to every situation. If she can' brighten your mood, nobody else can, either. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Johnny is just plain awesome - Amber, Random Time Lord

DYSP! Steven and I disagree here and there but in the end I absolutely admire his sense of humor and his passion. A truly A-Lister here on Friendfeed. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Alex Scoble, Cristo, Chris White and Thomas Hawk vigorously defend their views, but never take it (or make it) personal. - Kevin Fox

Whew... Only 642 more to go... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

I love all of you here making my day brighter :) - BeeLing

Thomas Hawk makes me want to be a better photographer. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Derrick and Monique would be my road dawgs if we lived in the same city - Amber, Random Time Lord

Robert Scoble is on a mission to close down every other social network. - Louis Gray

Tad is fun to chat with, even during the awkward moments - Amber, Random Time Lord

I love the fact that Rochelle always likes the same stuff I like. And that Akiva and I both grew up in southeast Texas. - Glen Mistletoe

I think, most of all, Derrick has redefined what it means to be yourself. I have had the distinct honor of meeting him and what you see here is Derrick. He shares his joys with us, which is easy, but he also shares his pain with us. I must say that I am jealous of his ability to be open, and I admire him immensely. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

I love everyone who gives me a reason to drop my pants... that and Josh Haley. - Johnny Worthington

I love johnny dropping his pants....o_O - WorldofHiglet

Pea has a lovely voice and makes days better. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Bow to Joe Pierce and his movie prowess. - Amber, Random Time Lord

*drops pants* - Johnny Worthington

edythe, Morton, and Kol for liking so much, they allow everyone to notice each other. - Rodfather

I can't thank April Russo enough for all the help she has given me here at Friend Feed. She is awesome in my book. - Brent Smorgen Bleg

I'd like to know how it Is I'm seem to be commenting right around the time Johnny is droppin' Pants? - Brent Smorgen Bleg

Way too many good things to say about way too many people - I don't want to leave the island - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Anna and Rodfather are great for liking the same random crap I do. - Amber, Random Time Lord

James (Tsali) you win for putting up with me all this time. Rah for being Rah. Anika for cutting to the quick in a conversation. And etc... you know you rock if I follow you. - Amber, Random Time Lord

I guess what I am saying is there are roughly a squillion people on Frienfeed of whom I am in awe and also whom I have the most respect. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

i like jim janotti. he's cool. - Trish Haley

i dig vijay and his love of all things japanese is fun. - Trish Haley

johnny worthington and his family are wicked beautiful. - Trish Haley

So are the Haleys! - Johnny Worthington

rochelle and akiva are nice in person and on FF... - Trish Haley

i would trust pea and trish r to babysit zoe. (that's saying a lot) - Trish Haley

aww. I would love to babysit Zoe! That means a lot, thank you. - ♥patricia♥

You are all awesome, but bonus props to Tina (aka) for consistently being the voice of reason in every conversation, to Derrick for being Derrick, Jandy for keeping it real, and Chris Baskind for bringing the issues, Kol Tregastes for non-stop cool stuff...man, I'm realizing I could go on...what an amazing community :-D - Louis Simoneau

Mattie Kenny is the Dulcinea to my Don Quixote. - Steven Perez

3 of you are awesome for donating to the cause of FFundercats recently. - Josh Haley

i like the conversations with katie about books. i like holly because she's a librarian and helped me with a geek problem. shevonne is down to earth and makes me want to buy boots. - Trish Haley

Holly is sweet and nice. - Steven Perez

WorldofHiglet is the Slayer. What else need be said? - Steven Perez

Josh Haley RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLES!!! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Actually, many of the people in this thread are in my "FF Favorites" list - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Every time something mildly bad happens I think to myself "DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ!" (hey, I think that's something nice to say about him ;) - Alejandro

darren heydon is good for warm fuzzies. - Trish Haley

I can't pick out one specific person. I can name a few names, but there's a specific reason why I am subscribed to every person I am subscribed to. Jandy and Lindsey all kinds of rock, fellow geek chic - so they have to. :P Johnny keeps me cracking up. Zee is my boy for sure, we'd make a ton of trouble if we lived near each other. Monique is straight up, which is win. I can't keep naming people...it would...take up way too much time. I am sure I will though. - Candace

anika converted me to munchos... yum! - Trish Haley

joey is charming. Helen is real. Penguin is adorable. - Laura Norvig

Anika has wonderful, curious kids. - John E. Bredehoft

Outsanity is one funny motherfucker -

Parth has a wonderful soul. Abby makes me giggle. Carlos and Cee Bee hotties who post some interesting material. Laura Botts and Jim's banter gives me happy feelings all day. Everyone I'm subbed to rocks. That's why I'm subbed to them. - Captain Bubbles

Robert Scoble was the first person I heard mention FriendFeed. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

High-five to Leather Donut for bringing us some tits and ass *thumbs up* -

oh, it would be so hard to list them all. FF is full of lots of interesting, hilarious, entertaining, and just outstanding individuals.that I look forward to interacting with, many of whom have already been mentioned. yes, even that cilantro lover ;) There's also a fantastic bunch of librarians who hang out here and make me proud to call myself a librarian. yeah, we kinda rule. :) - holly

Holly is right. I *adore* my collection of librarians here. - Captain Bubbles

Michael W. May for his taste in music, Abby Martin for her exceptional good taste in movies (and being a great mother), Håkan and Rutger for their photos and Robert Scoble for the geek stuff. And Esther for being both sweet and smart. But all of the people I sub to are people that brighten my day! - Baard @ Pixum

MWM and RAP and Haggis for the music mindshare, Tad and Steven Perez and Josh Haley and Worthington for cracking me the HELL up, Derrick for being Derrick so awesomely, Anika and Krynsky and Amani and other LA peeps for helping me learn the city, Abby and Joe Pierce and Logical Extremes and others for the fab movie convos, Louis Gray for apparently paying more attention to me than I... more... - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I'm just really happy to have a great internet family. :) That's what makes FRIENDFeed so awesome. - Internet's Tad

to all ppl i follow, thankyou for sharing with me too, :) - chaz2b

I feel me some Abby Martin especially b/c of her passion for sports and movies ... Jandy for not seeing me stalk her when she was drunk posting at the show ... Shey for being the first cool Canadian I have ever met ... Mona for laughing at me when i asked for advice (and then giving me good advice) ... Anika for opening up her home ... Shevonne for being a fly girl with some fire ... I'll continue in a bit - Amani

I´ll add some love for Derrick as well b/c he was the first friendfeeder to take me under his wing and show me the ropes here. BUT there has since become a handful or two more that define my good friendfeed experience. Intelligence, humour and warmth is abundant amongst you all, so thanks. - Thomas Bøhm

Amani, were you for serious there? - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Mona is incredibly thoughtful and considerate of others, not to mention AWESOME!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Agree with Holly and Anika - my librarian peeps here are amazing. And there's so many of us! - Laura Norvig

Yolanda always makes me smile. MWM and Tina are always helpful, caring, and knowledgeable. Anika is just awesome, especially her smile. Steven's singing is great. Outsanity & Tad always make me laugh (MVB often, too). Alex & Chris B. make me think. Derrick makes me feel. Jemm & Nia provide so many late night smiles. I appreciate Katie for getting me reading more, and Lindsay for getting... more... - Alix Whitmire

Jandy, I will never tell ... - Amani

Amani o_O - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

thanks for letting me hang out with you Friendfeeders(all of you) it's an honor and lots of fun! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Steve C. always makes me laugh, ALWAYS. plus everyone else mentioned here is truly awesome as well :) - Kelly

Sorry, I can't say anything at the moment because I'm still enjoying everyone's warmth from Jandy's group hug - Mark Krynsky

It's hard to pick anyone out because my total FF is made up of so many brilliant people: funny, witty, acerbic, insightful, mind-blowing, thrusting, truth-seekers, provocative, timelords (okay, there might only be one of them...). I love the tech, the LOLs (and the LOLcats), the debates, the discussions, the shared problems, the glimpses into others' lives....And Monique, you have started one of my favourite threads so special props to you. - WorldofHiglet

Monique is a clever woman to kick off such a good thread - RAPatton

Josh and Trish and Tina and Yolanda and Derrick and DYSP Steven make me smile and laugh when I need it. Johnny Worthington always hears when I post an "OMG help me!" kind of thing, and he usually responds with the most absurd and sweet message. Also, he has haiku battles with me, which is all kinds of WIN. Mark W and Fierce Lindsay make me smile, and Mark VandenBerg makes me LOL. And there are so many other sweet and funny and clever people who fill my day here on FriendFeed... thank you to everyone! - Ladybug Heather

AKA Tina is really good at putting up with my silly e-crish. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

I love the wit of many but must say MVB can make me spit drinks at the glance of his posts. - Janet

I don't even know where to begin. There are so many people who I love for different reasons. Hmmm..My LAers (Derrick, Amani, Derrick, Anika, Monique, Edythe) because they are always cooler than cool. My New Yorkers (Mona and Cee Bee) because they bring the versatility. My mothers (Abby, Rochelle, Jen, Katie) because they always remind me how great is it to be a mom. RAPatton because... more... - Shevonne

That's OK, Shevonne. I'm sure it will come to you. :D - Steven Perez from IM

You see....Steven Perez because he's funny as hell, and then there is Yolanda cause she is one of the sweetest EVER. Ugghhh too many. This is like giving an acceptance speech. =D - Shevonne

Not me! I was talking about Mike Nayyar. He's so lonely in his dumpster. :D - Steven Perez from IM

I love all of you! - joey

I enjoy everyone, but like Thomas Hawk's photos and philosophies the most, and learn more from Louis Gray than anyone else. - jcunwired

Returning the love to Amani and Abby -- you guys are two of the most honest and kindest souls on FF. Others: RAPatton probably doesn't have a single mean bone in him (ok, poor choice of words there), I could watch Dobromir's feed all day long, Shevonne is a ray of FF sunshine, Akiva is just flat out funny - Shey, Jamaican of FF

There are so many people here that make being here worthwhile that I cannot single out just one. You guys all rock in your own special ways. - Alex Scoble

I LOVE ROBERT SCOBLE! ~ just not in that way. Not that there's anything wrong with that. - sofarsoShawn

Awww thanks Shey! My favorite Jamaican. There is Pea, my fellow DCer who is one of the most genuine peeps up in here! - Shevonne

I love interacting with all the smart, funny FFolks on here! Too many to name, but among my favorites are: Lindsey (the Fierce), Rochelle/Akiva/Audrey, Derrick, Ladybug and Scott, Jim J, RAPatton, Tina (the Enigmatic)... You all rock my world! - Laura Lou Who

ceebee and RAPatton post the most interesting stuff. and even if he wasn't my boo, i'd still be all up in JT's feed for his pop culture and politics mix. love their stuff - tiffany

M F has a great eye for great eye candy. - Mark H

there are many friendfeeders i feel particularly warmly to because something of their inner self is always coming out: Michael W. May (who has always been at the top of the list), Morton Fox, Anika/Faboo Mama, Yolanda, rap, Cecily, Tad, Akiva, Rochelle, Lindsey, Lindsay D., Beeling, Rodfather, Ginger Makela, Mark Trapp, Ceebee, Shevonne, Abby Martin, Jandy, Zach Landes, Nathan Rein,... more... - edythe

The community / user base of friendfeed is one of the biggest reasons that these days, I'm spending more time on friendfeed versus twitter. I love you all, even the people that annoy me from time to time. - Jeremy

and even yuvi, despite the fact that he used to call me Old Woman. :) and Donna Mugavero and Joanmarie and Michelle Martinez... and Silpol (now A.T.) and oh my gosh PARTH!!!! :) - edythe

and oh my gosh Shey and his jaw-droppingly lovely wife Jasmin... i like Robert Scoble, too, because he always seems upfront to me and never mean. - edythe

Additions - Cee Bee for highest quality posts consistently, Ebrahimi for pictures and translating squiggly for me, Iain for celebrity without celebrity tude, Jessie and Soup most socially conscious posts, Tina for being FF spirit leader, Lindsey online 24hours day, Anne and Jim for getting me here. :) - Steve C

I 'like' Tyson Key! And a bow toward Trish Haley, thanks for making me blush. Speaking of Haleys, Trish, Josh, and Morgan have all become favorites of mine. MVB makes me laugh like a fool, as does relative newbie Valley... he is one funny dude! Gosh, all these names are coming to mind! I'll probably have to comment more later. But for this go-round I will close by saying... if Carmen ever stops posting those daily mug shots, I'm going offline! - Jim Hearts FF

Oh, and to Monique who I guess I am not subsribed to... you completely win for putting up this post. What an excellent, excellent gift to the community! - Jim Hearts FF

Mona has gorgeous legs! :) - Beau Liening

I gotta' send some love out to the original band of hooligans who got me hooked on FF: edythe, RAP, Brandon, MWM, Louis Gray & Robert Scoble. You guys filled my world with gobs of geekiness and great interaction on SO MANY different levels. Thanks for making my addiction to FF possible. Of course, now there are so many, many, many others who help to keep me here. I can't even begin to name you all. - Lisa L. Seifert

PS: Thanks for putting up with my Twitter-heavy stream while I'm in school for this year. Eventually, I'll have time to interact more again. xoxo - Lisa L. Seifert

Alix is a wonderful caring wife who tolerates me and my annoying sleeping/eating/battlestar watching habits. I is lucky. - Shawn Whitmire

I love Akiva for bringing the comedy and the pain. I love Derrick for being as real in the OSH parking lot as he is on FF. I love Monique for being the Pied Piper of the interwebz and helping me recover my sanity. I love James for being so gently poetic. I love Rahsheen for the soft porn videos he always takes in bed. I love Johnny Worthington for being such a cuddle muffin of hair and vulgarity. I love Steven Perez for being a quicker wit than me and nicer than me all at once. - nakachi

I love Kaia for the name Baronnes Von Cut A Bitch. I love Robin (bcultural) for the science and the nation building. I love Logical Extremes and Rodfather for their quiet affirmations that never go unnoticed. I love Helen for the virtual daps she gives me whether I'm flying or firing. I love Anna Haro for all the little hearts she sends my way <3 to you, too, honey girl. - nakachi

It would take too long for me to put all my 328 subscriptions in here! If I'm following you, rest assured that you and your content matter to me. :) - Laura Lou Who

I love Rochelle 'cause momminess becomes her. And I love YOU! - nakachi

Nakachi's Facebook status updates blow my mind - Rodfather

I love this thread. We need an effing FF CONVENTION. - Derrick

This past week has not been a very good one for me and I might have lost it completely if it hadn't been for Johnny, Steven and Derrick for all dropping their pants for me. I love that there are people on here, that I have never met, that care enough to make me laugh when I am feeling way crappy. <3 And of course there are more, just giving props to those that made me feel better this week :) MWAH! - Penny

Nice Thought Monique - Two thumbs up. - Brent Smorgen Bleg

Also, Nia for her beautiful photos and Mo for making me laugh too :) - Penny

I'm ready for more. I love Nia for her kindness and her pictures. I love me some g.warbucks 'cause she's brilliant AND pretty to look at. I love tiffany for sharing the good, the bad and the tipsy. I love Chris Weige for keeping art on my mind. I love that the people who subscribe to me give a damn about what I have to say enough to take the time to read me. I'm grateful. - nakachi from fftogo

I had no idea when I started this thread that it would blow up like this. I think this is a clear example of the value of friendfeed: the relationships we build. Sure, we have differing interests, politics, social situations and opinons, but at the end of the day, what we come here for are the people. No one exists in a vacuum, and if they did, they probably wouldn't have a friendfeed... more... - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Shut up, bitch. - Derrick

Just playin'. :) - Derrick

Best two comments ever. - Akiva Moskovitz

It is hard to pick a single person but as stated...you all bring me much needed laughter. I especially LOVE the ladies room girls - you bring the essence of love. Thank you so much. - Janet

Personally, I think Akiva Moskovitz rocks. He's one of the main reasons why I use FriendFeed. If it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't even be here. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yeah, probably not. - Christopher Harley

Can I just say I love you all?? - Katie: Whelmed Overly

Monique is all kinds of sexy. From all shy and flirty to 'oh my!' and dirty! Me likes the Mo'! - Morgan Haley

Kaia is the bee's knees because she changes her name to the funniest stuff. - Ms. G.Warbucks IYN

Monique rocks because she sings off-key in supermarkets and doesn't give a damn. (She will understand this.) :) - Ms. G.Warbucks IYN

That was a fun night. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

not to sound too much like a Mutual Admiration Society, but edythe's feed was what got me hooked on this place. :-D - Karim

Ha, there are too many awesome people here to list and compliment individually; but Denton Gentry, Kevin Johnson, and Morton Fox are all awesome and extremely skilled techies! - i80and

The FF founders and employees rock pretty hard too thanks Paul, Bret, Jim, Anna etc - Steve C

browneyes - otsunegi

Lindsay D. and Kol Tregaskes are kind and respectful even when disagreeing with someone. Civility like that deserves a mention because it is not often the norm in the online world. - Jim Hearts FF

Penny for her personality and her self portraits which are awesome and so real!<3 Dobromir, Richard and Michael who always wishes good morning ^^. Manuela, because of her sense of style what becomes to art, also a very lovely person! Nakachi, Girl, you rock my world! Stay as you are - you are wonderful! L4S who is so much fun and amazing person :) Will, cause of his kindness and cause... more... - Nia

Everybody already mentioned in this thread, plus Meryn and Joelle for being really smart and inquisitive about some of things I find particularly interesting, too. Or at least the way they discuss them. Not that I don't think that way about the rest of you, just no one had mentioned them yet. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Jim, yeah there's no need to be bitchy while disagreeing. Get your point over but don't be nasty about it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bumping this, I hope. Loved this thread! - Laura Lou Who

I think Josh Haley has a very smart and charismatic older brother. No, not that one...the other one... - Morgan Haley

*bump* - Laura Lou Who

Laura Botts cracks my shit up. I'm still trying to figure out what her obsession with grits is. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

This thread was the business. *stirs grits* - Derrick

Mo, she's a Suthehn Gul. - Derrick

IIRC, it's all Barry's fault. - Laura Lou Who

Oh, and Ha3rvey's post today made me think of this thread. http://friendfeed.com/ha3rvey... - Laura Lou Who

Mo Kargas for his awesomeness. (I hope that by honoring great killer robots my death shall be quick and painless once they take over the world) - Jemm

i80and for his Linux postings, FFing Enigma for roller derbying, Mo Kargas because... the giant robot intimidates me. - DGentry

echostreamer has solid integrity and calls me on my sh!t - highly appreciated - William Harryman

How did I miss thread? It needs a comeback. Thank you LB for the bump. If you think I might know who you are, the odds are high I love you and thank you for being around (even if you have moved on, in which case you won't see this, but it is important to mention nonetheless) and thank you for letting me into your lives a little bit *hugs* - Michael W. May

MWM, this was one of the best FF threads I've ever seen. Sometimes it just needs to reappear. :) #complimentSunday - Laura Lou Who

I didn't see this the first time round either (but it looks like I was in NYC when this was happening). I have friends who I knew before FF for whom friendfeed has allowed me to know better and there are folks like RAP, edythe, and MwM whose posting and conversation have enriched my life and ignited my imagination. Thanks kids. And, of course, I love Sneezy but FF had little to do with that. - Jason Toney

I really admire Kol Tregaskes, he's always informative and gets involved quite a bit with almost everything. Quite the most selfless individual I ever came across on the net :) ... Also Holden Page impresses me everyday because he's a younger individual with tons of interest in several subjects that most older users usually get into, he shows he's not afraid to learn and keep his... more... - Tim Tunnicliff

I've met a lot of great people here on FF (I won't single anyone out). This is a diverse community that has brought some great conversations that simply could not have been done with a little blue bird and whale. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Holly Rae is the biggest FF'in promoter within a hundred mile radius of my chair. :) - Laura (hear me raura?)

I can't really say much about anyone specific, other than ya'll are the greatest and have helped amuse me through some very hard times over the past year or so, and a special thanks with much love goes out to Amber, the Random Time Lord for introducing me to FF and for putting up with me for this long. - Tsali, The Native of FF

I totally like Louis Gray - Mike Fruchter - RAPatton - Worthington - CS Techcast - and tons of other people - thanks for making my use of FF enjoyable. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Gosh! Thank you very much, Tim! - Kol Tregaskes

You're very welcome my friend :+) - Tim Tunnicliff from email

It's well deserved bro and you're very welcome :+) - Tim Tunnicliff from email

Holly Rae because she is such an awesome edugeek - always sharing and encouraging others to think. And, no one can beat her flapper Halloween costume! - Shea from BuddyFeed

Yeah, that costume was the business. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

I enjoy my time "in" here with most of my FF friends - VAL D.

Sheesh! Thanks @laurapresently and @shea for saying nice things about me. How the hell (excuse the french) did I miss that!!! Thanks Monique for starting the thread and mentioning 'the business' - Holly Rae, FFer

My turn... Laura (hear my raura) for putting up with me talking about FF endlessly on days like 'the day FB bought FF' - Holly Rae, FFer

Thanks to Shea for being generous with time and resources. He invited me to Google Wave. - Holly Rae, FFer

Thanks to Josh Haley & Johnny for creating a podcast that rocks and clued me in to so many things about FF. - Holly Rae, FFer

Thanks to Josh Haley for being the first FFer who gave me really great advice about lists. - Holly Rae, FFer

Thanks to Louis Gray for always searching up Friendfeed mentions and liking ... makes Newbies feel great!! - Holly Rae, FFer

And thanks to everyone but my Diet Coke enabler is here now. Then I have to go work again. Love you guys! - Holly Rae, FFer

:) - Josh Haley

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I would rather everyone be anonymous than no one. - jeneane sessum

Gerard: as I said in the other thread this would be impossible to enforce so I wouldn't worry about it too much. - Robert Scoble

I commented on your blog: I think anonymity is both a horrible thing and a great tool, it depends on how it's used. In some countries complete anonymity is needed, otherwise they would be put to death or jail. I find its far more respectable when someone puts a real name and face to their opinion, though it isnt always needed. - Colby Olson

Robert: I just think it's interesting that you want to abolish anonymity, that in itself is an odd thing to say, I suppose. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? - Colby Olson

Robert I think we all realize it would not be enforceable but what I'm going after is the idea behind it - that *were it enforceable*, it would be a good thing. To me, the underlying idea that anonymous speech is a bad thing and should be eliminated is rather authoritarian and terrifying. - Anthony Citrano

Colby: everything that I have seen negative on the Internet is due to anonymity. Can you link to one positive thing? Mini Microsoft but even that would be much better if the guy who wrote it would sign his name. - Robert Scoble

Anthony: well, I don't see it as a good thing. I have freedom of speech already and would die to defend that. Anonymity is for cowards. - Robert Scoble

Robert, speaking out on the internet against oppressive governments is not a bad thing. And as I have stated previously, many revolutions start in anonymity. Again, rules of absolutism don't allow for both sides. Anonymity is a tool and it can be used for good and bad. - Tim Finucane

Kind of a night of drastic comments from the Scobleizer, huh?? Everything negative on the internet is due to anonymity. Yikes thats a whole new round of overstatement. I love following you Robert and agree way more often than not but that's silly. - Cody Heitschmidt

tim: what revolution started with anonymity? Certainly NOT the American one. - Robert Scoble

It most definitely did start with secret meetings. The crown didn't know identities until after things got under way. - Tim Finucane

Robert: You just spawned numerous blog posts and threads with that one. I agree with you up to a point. One of the two that I have blocked on FF was determined to be a troll and supposedly anon. However, there are many countries that speaking up and signing on the dotted line will get both your head and hand chopped off. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Cody is right. I did overstate that and I am sorry about that. - Robert Scoble

Robert... i would follow you into the fire.. and here is why we all follow you: Your are passionate. Sometimes it gets in your way because you overstate things but then you admit you are wrong. A guy with 30,000 followers could be big headed enough not to admit something he said wasn't quite right. It's cool that a little guy in Ks can make a contrary statement at you and not just get blocked and you roll over him. Now admit you were wrong on the rule against anonymity too. lol just kidding. - Cody Heitschmidt

The Internet is and should be about choice. You should be able to choose your level of anonymity. It is not one shoe fits all. - Jauder Ho

Robert -- There is legitimate reason for anon speech, especially on the internet. What I think you really want is a "Personal Global Internet Filter" that allows the removal of the ugliest side-effects. Even looking to the American revolution, pen names and aliases were used countless times by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, et al. There is a legitimate purpose to it... the statement that no revolution was started by anonymous is a bit of a stretch. - Mark Philpot

There are a ton of reasons for a person to use a pseudonym on the internet. Especially when you look at people in other countries who can only speak by being "nameless". I even have reasons for using a name that isn't my real name. - Candace

Don't admit you were wrong on the rule unless you believe it... until you believe ! hehe lol Great freaking discussion who started this whole mess with the rule comment? - Cody Heitschmidt

I believe it was started by Robert's response to Laura Fitton's question: "What one "rule" would you make about the Internet?" - Tim Finucane

i'm sorry he's wrong or right depending i've been batting this question lately and i use the internet not to shield who i am but to get people to talk to me who wouldn't do to disability. and if i ever meet any net folks in RL my hope is that they will be over it quicker due to knowing I'm capable and cool to begin with - Cecil Sandus

To all those under pseudonyms: Why? Are you truly in fear of reprisal? @Dtrizzle a link to your blog profile quickly reveals you. @Corvida do you have a reason? - Mathew A. Koeneker

@Robert Scoble (scobleizer): What's so negative about my blog? Well, other than the fact that I don't apply myself. Sorry, there've been too many firings and too many "we won't hire you" situations because of uptight control freaks in power who can't stand employees who have their own minds. Anyone who really desires it can find out who MiniMage is, but I feel the better for not broadcasting my real name, and so do my parents. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

well said Mage - Cecil Sandus

One rule for the internet is that all data is equal. The second rule is that there are no other rules. I think Scoble's idea of not anonymity is becoming more a reality with people's lives becoming intertwined with their online identity. I would like to preserve anonymity for whistle blowers, etc. Anonymity is a tool that can be used or abused. - Erik Weese

Pseudonyms mean nothing. People do find out who you are. I spent two days in a courtroom reading my blog entries aloud that were posted under a pseudonym. If you don't want people to read what you write, buy a pen and a blank journal and stick it under your mattress. - Trish R

MiniMage many many more people have been hired for their blogs than fired for them and I can't think of an instance where someone who was fired wasn't behaving stupidly. We have a whole chapter in our book about that. - Robert Scoble

yes Dtrizzle that makes sense to me and Trish as for your idea it's an oldie but a goodie... - Cecil Sandus

corvida isn't anonymous. I have talked with her on the phone. Minimicrosoft is pretty anonymous but I know at least one person who knows who he is. - Robert Scoble

Dtrizzle - The bit on your educational background while perfect for a resume can provide an easy way to start skip-tracing you. Not that I am. Just one of the little tricks I learned where tech meets accounting. - Mathew A. Koeneker

it is amazing the conversations that can start with a simple word or two. I am at a wedding with people who have left Iran to get the freedom of speech so understand well the problems with using your real name. One guy here was in Iranian prisons for years. He is not afraid to stand up in public against injustice. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Scoble (scobleizer): Do you remember the Chronicle of Higher Education article where someone talked about being on an interview committee? These EDUCATED folks attitudes were explained thus, "Several committee members expressed concern that a blogger who joined our staff might air departmental dirty laundry (real or imagined) on the cyber clothesline for the world to see. Past... more... - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

Scoble I think he was referring to the fact that I don't use my real name online at all. As for the person who asked why, because I don't want people Googling me. I like to keep my personal life separate from my online life. Same person, different interactions and I don't want them overlapping in any way, shape, or form. - Corvida

@Corvida - Why keep yourself so fragmented? Then you have to remember who you with whom. I am with Robert for the most part on this one. You instantly gain more respect from me if your are proud enough of your name to attribute ALL of your actions whether in the VW or RW to it. You are an American are you not? Unless, you have a TS like my folks then who or what are you hiding from. Telling me that it is just a personal choice is a cop out. @Dtrizzle gives some valid rationale for his decision. - Mathew A. Koeneker

There are certain place on the net that you NEED anonymity !! Take a look at some Forums that ONLY focus on vulnerability disclosures. Each and every one of them is only known by a handle. Chances that you actually associate a handle w/ real name /face is near impossible. - Peter Dawson

I could argue the same. Most in my situation do take that approach. My disease is just that a disease. It is what it is. Like I commented earlier there can be valid reasons; I just wanted to hear Corvida's rationale both from a personal interest as she is just another human being as well as from the pov of the well known blogger. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Interesting convo. I actually talked to Mark Hopkins about this. He brought his anon handle into his identity. I've kept mine apart. I don't agree with no one being anonymous; I happily existed online for years and can still write about personal issues and my children without compromising their (or my) privacy. - Cyndy

I vote for anonymity. If you are anonymous and threatening though, realize that I also support using every tracking method possible to make a community safer. People can not yell "FIRE" in a crowded room. I can not call my neighbor a "RAPIST" just because I feel like it. Regulated Free Speech is ok. Unregulated free speech is not, just as I can not go around town physically hitting anyone I want to ("Freedom of Action"). - Mitchell Tsai

The vast majority of my college friends (Harvard 1982-89, age 40-50) are still petrified of Facebook due to Corvida's concerns - and I have mostly techy friends. There are discussions on our alumni boards (on & off Facebook) about all the potential career dangers. About 30-40% of my college friends are on LinkedIn because they understand resumes & how you can control the presentation of... more... - Mitchell Tsai

P.S. I've spoken with Corvida on the phone also. We were going to visit Georgia Tech together, but plans didn't work out (and my college friend who's a professor there turned out to be out-of-town also). Bummer. - Mitchell Tsai

Assume ANYTHING you e-mail, post on the Internet, or say on a phone is recorded somewhere and scanned for verbal/textual keywords. My first company is now partially owned by the C... and we process information to find ter...... Over 10 years ago (1992-98), I attended academic data-mining conferences where people from the phone company presented the algorithms they were using to scan... more... - Mitchell Tsai

“regulated free speech”, Mitchell? Can you be serious? - Anthony Citrano

Yep. - Mitchell Tsai

well i think the concept is absurd, myself. but i'm out. also, why post 5-6 messages in a row instead of 1? it's messy and inelegant. - Anthony Citrano

Paragraph marks in a comment would work too. I don't like how everything runs together in one comment... - Mitchell Tsai

@Robert people tend to act differently online than they do in real-life, anonymous or not. They perceive a disconnect between their online profile and life. Makes people be more direct, confrontational, and sometimes hostile. They don't feel bound by the same social rules (have respect for each other). - Alexander van Elsas

I can fully understand that some wish to be anonymous on the web. But thinking that the things you do online are disconnected from your offline life is stupid. I am not anonymous online and I am aware that my interactions are always visible. - Alexander van Elsas

Resurrected because of this: http://friendfeed.com/rww... - Anthony Citrano

I'll just add here that I don't agree that we should chop off our whole arm but if someone can point the finger and label me negatively knowing full well that I am public and not hiding behind a fake avatar, I should be able to see who is doing the labeling and so should the community since the insult was brought to the community's attention by the hiding labeler/harasser. We should... more... - Jeunelle Foster

Even aside from my opinion that the Imus thing was a bunch of BS from a clueless Outrage Nation, I disagree that providers ought strip away anonymity every time someone's feelings get hurt. - Anthony Citrano

My rule would be no obnoxious bloggers. - Cristo

There are good (edit: adequate) legal processes for handling truly abusive cases. - LogEx

This is a long thread and I may have missed it in a later response, but what about people finding you in person through the internet? I play WoW and my guild leader was stalked by someone who knew only her first name, state, and profession. He called her and flew to her area to find her. This is just a simple case of a nut job, but the internet is full of them. When you bring other countries, with less freedom into the mix things just get messier. - Heather

The thing is, he never defined his terms either. Is creating a bogus account and logging in through a proxy for a one-time flame the same as using a long-term pseudonym for mostly constructive purposes? I think not. There are so many good and valid reasons for not living completely transparently. - LogEx

@Anthony it's your opinion that you found the Imus thing BS and I'm not talking about when people's feelings get hurt, I disagree in cases where someone can get physically hurt, here is an example. Blogcatalog was in heat a few months ago when some of these members who I see as negative while hiding behind fake persona, fake avatars, hiding their Ip addresses and whois information took... more... - Jeunelle Foster

WOW. I was trying to figure out why I had this pop up from a year ago. I still pretty much side with The Scoblezier with a few exceptions. If you are blogging, chatting, or even surfing on-line....odds are pretty good that a determined individual or govt entity can find you out. You may think that you are "anon" but in reality you are not at all. Plus, I have a lot less respect for folks esp in this country that are unwillling to put their real names in their posts. - Mathew A. Koeneker

I didn't feel like cutting and pasting so sorry. But if you think that your on-life persona is somehow sacred and secure from your real life identity then you have some harsh realities to wake up to. This is the information age people. - Mathew A. Koeneker

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XP, Vista and OSX - Nicholas James

OSX (mainly), Linux (various distros) - John Collis

vista home basic, vista home premium, gentoo linux, ubuntu, OSX - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Win7 and XP. Still some of my OLD stuff won't run on 7. - David Slater

Mac OS - Kevin Pedraja

We collected really good data. I hope we can collect more and then I will share results with you. - Alp

I hope you share the results.. that's a very ambiguous survey. :P - Michael McKean

apple osx - cysko

Leopard - Vincent van Wylick

Will you also publish the results on your blog or so? - Vincent van Wylick

Right now, Android (linux-based). Once I get home, Ubuntu (9.04). At work, OSX 10.5 & Ubuntu. - Andrew Perry

windows 7 - Ahmet Ercan

Easy Peasy 1.1, a customized Ubuntu with the netbook-remix interface - Andrew Currie

Work - XP, Home - OSX Leopard or XP (on my wife's netbook) - mark

right now vista or 7 ... but mostly osx - Julian Lukács

Now, Ubuntu 9.04 - Krishnamoorthy

7RC...rather impressed - Kevin Pruett

Thanks :) - Alp

desktop: ubuntu & server:centOS - Murat Küçükosman

XP home edition & ubuntu 8.04 - Reza

XP and ubuntu - ümid urmuli

Xp and Windows 7 - Roberto Bonini

xp and symbian os - Orçun the Nucro

DEBIAN! - k00pa

Vista and WMobile 6.0 - Kaan Şengül

mac - sean808080

OS X - Giovanni Piller Cottrer

Home PC #1- Win 7, Home PC #2 - Ubuntu, home server - Debian, corporate notebook - WinXP. - Один дяденька

Pardus 2009 - F. Batuhan Icoz

Interesting that this comes up to the top again. Now I'm using OS X 10.5.7, funtoo (instead of gentoo), Ubuntu, Win7(rc), and the Vista that will not die. and about to try OSx86. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

xp and win7 - Muhammet K. (oceangray)

Mainly Fedora. Sometimes Ubuntu. - Hassan Ibraheem

OS X - Лучше не знать

OS X Leopard - Nick Humphries

windows xp, i'm ...use to it... - Dragos Danescu

fistaa - Kenan Rauf Kurt

ubuntu n' also Xp - Emre 'lowrider' Savaş

fedora 11 and windows xp modified - Ahmet Soyata

You should have made a poll. :P - Logan Lindquist from twhirl

OSX on daily basis with some ubuntu on occaison - Logan Lindquist from twhirl

z/OS @work, Windows XP @home - Semra Arslan

windows 7 - Ata İsmet Özçelik

Windows 7, too. - Alp

leopard @ home, Xp @ work - Andrea from twhirl

Mac OS X - Ronald Hahm

windows 7RC most of the time,xp when my kid play games :D - misca mihaela

Linux Mint Gloria most of the time at home. Windows Vista Business 64-bit at work. - Curtiss Grymala

MacOSX 10.5.7 - Kirk Fontaine

Mac OS X 10.5.7 - Adnan Uludağ

Mac OS X 10.5.8 - Parvez Halim

Ubuntu Linux on my personal laptop, work desktop, home server, and my VPS. I'm running Debian Linux on the many thousand servers I help manage at work. - Travis B. Hartwell

Windows 7 - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Slackware -current on my main machine, and Slackware 12.2 on my printserver. - i80and

Still on XP Pro SP3, I love it's - Cobatra ♘

OS X Leopard on MacBook Pro and Ubuntu 9.04 on HP Mini netbook - Travis Smith

Xubuntu and XP dualbooted on laptop. Xubuntu on 2 other desktops. Vista on another desktop and a laptop. ChromeOS, DSL, and Crunchbang on USB. - Fulaan, inna Hebel

Justin Korn

"Justin Korn's Blog" as a title is boring...I want something fresh and unique. Ideas?

August 26, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Derrick, edythe and 12 other people liked this

I originally had "Justin's Web Hub" - Justin Korn

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Korn on the Blog - Chris Nixon

Sorry - Chris Nixon

Think of something that you really like or an overall theme and work from there. Mine is simply my name because it's more for the purpose of what I do..blog entries are just "I feel like writing". You post a lot of your photography..maybe title it a play on words from photography? - Candace

1afia;lsf;alalg holy crlak;flag ppa Chrisa l;kfs;la a laahahha dying - Akiva Moskovitz

hahaha hseriously i am afyding over herekaj gfa SEND HELP afka; 1uP - Akiva Moskovitz

Chris: Genius... - Steve Isaacs

Chris just won. - Candace

I am going to have to hide this because every time I see it I start having a laughgasm again. - Akiva Moskovitz

OMG Chris. I can't breathe! - Yolanda

Kornucopia? And yeah, I'm dying from Chris' suggestion too. - Alex Scoble

Korn Blogging, Blog Korn, Justin's Views. I don't know, my blog title sucks too. (SheenOnline? Come on...LOL) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

seriously Chris. Wow. *wipes tears away* - Yolanda

Think about how people will search Google for your blog and include those terms in your name. Use the Google AdWords Tool to research your theories: https://adwords.google.com/select... - Robert Scoble

Chris - don't apologize I can't stop laughing either and think it is brilliant - Justin Korn

Leave it to my brother to use this as a chance to pimp one of his favorite widgets, hehe. - Alex Scoble

+1 Chris! - Jeremy Brooks

Rahsheen - I like SheenOnline. It's somewhat orginal... - Justin Korn

Justin's Korn'er - Jonathan.Rivera

Not bad Jon, i like that one too - Justin Korn

I'm glad I'm not the only one doing an embarrasing LOL. Geez, Chris -- that was a hoot. - Cheryl Rice

Yeah, CHRIS that was 2 funny - Jonathan.Rivera

It's the 'Sorry' that makes it genius. - Akiva Moskovitz

And that's from someone named "Rice." Maybe we should get together, Justin ... do some kind of high-carb blogging thing. - Cheryl Rice

ROFLMAO... damn Chris that was good! funny stuff! - Susan Beebe

how about ijustin. maybe you would get some accidental traffice from ijustine. - nesman89

To borrow from lester you could do iKorn. :) - Alex Scoble

ha, iKorn...i can't believe that domain isn't even available. - Justin Korn

I am the proud owner of kornontheblog.com (not changing officially yet, but had to buy it) - Justin Korn

I dig Korn on the Blog... [Korn] Kobs of Wisdom... - Richard Goodwin from twhirl

Yeah it's still making me laugh. - Alex Scoble

That's Kernels of Wisdom - Nine

"Something Fresh and Unique" - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Nine - Like "Kernals of Wisdom" - Justin Korn

Well, at least there are too people in the world that like SheenOnline. Thanks Justin :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Korn on the Blog ftw, omg HAHA - Mona Nomura

Just In Korn! - Didier Lahely from feedalizr

http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... - Justin Korn

bumping due to this post: http://friendfeed.com/sparkto... - Justin Korn

Korn's Kettle? - JA Castillo

Thank you Justin. My most favorite thread EVAR. I laughed so much, I cried. - Yolanda

JA Castillo - I've already settled with "Korn on the Blog" --> http://www.kornontheblog.com - Justin Korn

Yolanda - This was certainly an AWESOME thread! :) - Justin Korn

LOL...Justin, I am usually late to the party! Please pardon my ignorance! ;) - JA Castillo

JA - No worries, all good in the hood :) Though, I do like the ring of Korn's Kettle. I should open a Kettle Korn shop... - Justin Korn from IM

Brian Daniel Eisenberg

wAIT TILL YOU SEE THE MEME BOMB i'M ABOUT TO DROP. i HOPE aLEX sCOBLE AND Tad, Bonded and Insured are paying attention. You got geek. Let's bring it audiophile style to begin. Game on gentlemen. #ffaudiophilememe is the stupid hashtag I just invented. Pics and commentary forthcoming. ALL are WELCOME and ENCOURAGED to join in the fun.

May 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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What's this now? - Alex Scoble

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never mind. nothing to see here. done in a drug and alcohol induced stupor. I had an idea and i fell asleep before I was able to launch it. Stay tuned though. I do want to attract some audiophiles to this conversation. I just don't have time to do it right now.... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

L.......O..........L - Josh Haley

*dead* - Derrick

ROFL - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

OK, but I'm not an audiophile...I'm a home theater nut. - Alex Scoble

I did get the best sleep in months yesterday. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

yeah...me too alex. so my idea. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

ROFL - Captain Bubbles

inspired by the imprmptu move of my living quarters from my current apartment/home office to an adjacent building. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

requires me to disassemble my entire 7.1 HD/DLP system - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

...and at the moment, there are dust bunnies everywhere. my idea is to capture the reassembly of my system and to post here on FF for other "audiophiles" (aka geeks aka home theater nuts) to exchange knowledge and info about their systems. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

OK - Alex Scoble

make sense? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I just got drunk before I could execute on the plan. :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Reminds me of a chat I had some years ago with a drunk guy on #fedora IRC channel :D - directeur

I see audiophile. Your idea intrigues me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. - Candace

that was you directeur? :P - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Reading this, followed by the first two comments made me laugh so hard I snorted. - Jordan Hofker

Fail. - Brent Smorgen Bleg

\ - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I'm sorry Brian - the devil made me do it - Brent Smorgen Bleg

I even followed along...but did Brian notice? NOooooooo. - Alex Scoble

I saw ur cablez and tubez alex. Did you provide detailed specs & model #s? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

https://friendfeed.com/home-th... - Alex Scoble

I posted mine way before yours :) - Alex Scoble

This is still one of the funniest threads ever - Josh Haley

I have a feeling this thread is going to haunt me forever.... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Yes...yes it shall. - Alex Scoble

THiS SOUNdS SO AWeSOMe!!! - Internet's Tad

Mona Nomura

FriendFeed's Konami code effect is FUNKY! Up up down down left right left right b a Tab enter!

May 8 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Wicked cool. - Chris Luckhardt

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What is "REMAIN P 30"? - Winston Teo

30 post characters remaining...? - Mona Nomura

WOAH! - Iain Baker

Where's my 8 bit music? - Candace

How do we turn this on permanently? - Jesse Stay

Many sites doing it now http://konamicodesites.com/ - Sam Grover

also try it on espn: http://friendfeed.com/chrisof... - chrisofspades

Sam - thanks so much for the url! I love it! Chris, they 'fixed' that a few hours after it was leaked. ;) - Mona Nomura

yeah I just tried it Mona. sucks. I liked theirs alot. - chrisofspades from IM

Mona, the 30 P refers to getting 30 lives in Contra - Louis Gray

Only getting the Remain P 30 in a black box here. Google Reader's is cute, though. - Alix Whitmire

You and me, pal, only I elected to disregard it forthwith and deny it ever... ?what? existed. - ianf ⌘

Amber, Random Time Lord

And now there is a goat at my window.

May 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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Errrrr? - Simon Wicks

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Quick! Hide your tin cans! - Internet's Tad

Well...feed it tin cans! - Candace

I am just going to ignore the goat until it goes away. Like the pig. - Amber, Random Time Lord

This post is full of randomness WIN. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Pics! - Rodfather

They took the goat in the house. - Amber, Random Time Lord

The pig was around when I still had a dog. Freaked the dog out. - Amber, Random Time Lord

???? - B. Hatin

I don't know either Kaia - Amber, Random Time Lord

I want to go play at Amber's place for sure! - Janet

o_O - Anna Haro

My apologies, there were 3 goats. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Your neighbor has goats? - Captain Bubbles

They went to buy one, ended up buying the family. It seems that they are too lazy to cut the grass. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Goats are a lot more fun to pet than lawn mowers. Plus they can be tasty... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We live on the outskirts of a suburb and the streets are set where one half of this one have 2.5 times the yard of everyone else. - Amber, Random Time Lord

This city isn't huge, but that much grass is uncommon. So they got goats. - Amber, Random Time Lord

I love goats. - Derrick

i was reading the best of days and i saw this :D - Alfredo

ha. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Me too Alfredo. :) - Alejandro

Joel Postman

Here's the problem with Follow Friday. Nearly 60 Twitter IDs posted by one person in a seven-minute period. What's the value in that?

May 14 - Comment - Like - Share

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I guess you could always use it to greek up a print layout. - Sue Radd

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That's not a problem with Follow Friday. That's a problem in the way (some) people use Follow Friday. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

The good thing about Twitter is you can use it any way you want. The bad thing about Twitter is you can use it any way you want. - Joel Postman

And one other thing. IT ISN'T FRIDAY YET! - Joel Postman

Joel, it is in Australia/New Zealand, and similarly time-zoned places. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Jandy: the user in the example above was on the West Coast U.S., was still Thursday when it was posted. I masked details as I wasn't out to embarrass any particular person. - Joel Postman

That's what I don't understand about Follow Friday. When you see lists like those, are you even tempted to click on ANY of them and follow those people? I'm not. - Trish R

That's ridiculous. - Rochelle

Not a big deal. It's just one person who's doing it a way you don't like. Well, unfollow them/block them. That's all there is to it. - Candace

It's hundreds of people, Candace, and I'm not alone in this. That was just one example. Follow Friday has driven thousands of people to FriendFeed. http://www.socializedpr.com/no-foll... - Joel Postman

Joel, oh. In that case. You're right. If it's not Friday where you are, don't post Follow Friday yet. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I'm never tempted to click on any of the multiple followfriday twitter ids, but it also doesn't bother me if other people are doing it. I generally will promote one person at a time when I get a chance to participate in that sort of thing. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

So I keep forgetting I've got this webcab doohickey. What the hell do I do with it?

May 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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Aww, cute. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

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Apparently you stare at it looking perplexed ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Why are you mirroring my face? - Mike Nayyar

I need more alcohol. Be right back. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

OH WOW I cannot judge how much vodka to put in when I put the iced tea in first. THAT BURNS. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

it will.... - WorldofHiglet

Take a gulp, and then top off with more tea. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I recommend more cocaine. - Mike Nayyar

Tina, I got used to it. Good now. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I think I'm signed up on 12seconds. And also seesmic. I just don't have anything to say. *looks at post output over the last two hours* Uh, I don't have anything to say that video would add anything to. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Having nothing to say never stopped me. - Glen Mistletoe

there's a drunk vid of me on one of those vid services... maybe the only I've done, not sure... - Michael W. May

why so serious ;-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

The half squinted eye is making me *chuckle* :P - Michael W. May

That was me trying to be confused by the webcam. Not sure it worked, even though I took like twenty-five shots before I was half-way satisfied with one. MWM, okay, now you're just trying to be cute. :p - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Uh, probably not. Sorry, LD. But you seem to find enough pictures of girls doing that without me joining them. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Oh hai Jandy! - Candace

"What the hell do I do with it?" Stare intently into it ... - Brent Smorgen Bleg

DUDE. Did I really spell "webcam" as "webcab" and not even notice it until now? #fail - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Afeered so - Busted - Brent Smorgen Bleg

Sweet :) - Nia

webcab for cutie - Pete Delucchi

What's the hourly rate for your webcab? - Josh Haley

Jandy... do you hate sandcastles? - Johnny Worthington

Josh, no comment. Johnny, no, actually I'm quite fond of sandcastles. Although tearing them down IS kinda fun, too. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

What is a webcab? and what is a doohickey? Is it treatable? - Kevin J Hatton

Johnny Worthington

Someone had fun at Grandpa's strawberry farm... Can you guess who?

September 8, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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She had on the right color shirt, it all coordinates. LOL. - Trish R

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Yeah, she had all pink on that day, even her shoes... Come to think of it the only non-pink stuff she wears is the QLD Roar soccer jersey when we go to the games :) - Johnny Worthington

Excellent :) My grandparents had fields of wild strawberries "on the the front 40" whilst I was growing up. That could be a pic of my twin :) - Michael W. May

Rach's dad has a 16 acre Strawberry farm up the road... - Johnny Worthington

I love it! - Candace

perfect! - Josh Haley

Bump cause of all this Strawberry stuff :D - Johnny Worthington

Oh good. I thought this was a current shot for a minute and I was sad to see no beard. - ♥patricia♥

YAY! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

The beard lives! - Johnny Worthington

Shevonne

Did you hate your name when you were a kid? - http://shine.yahoo.com/channel...

May 15 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes! I hated my name. We are in Panama, and my sisters' names are Anie and Kristine, while mine is Shevonne. I finally have embraced it. - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

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I've always like Robert - RAPatton

Nope! - Captain Bubbles

I hated mine when I was doing telephone tech support. People kept thinking it was "Marvin" or "Harley". - ha3rvey (needs soup)

I always wanted to be a Steve, but now I like being Alex. - Alex Scoble

No. I always liked my name. No one else had it. What I *hated* (and still do) is when someone tries to call me "Candy". - Candace

Ohhhhhh yes! Kids were not feelin' the Nigerian name in Battle Creek, MI. - nakachi

Absolutely. Other kids made fun of it, and no one could pronounce it (unlike me, most people apparently didn't learn to read by dividing up syllables). - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I did - always had to spell it for everyone. And answer the "oh, I've never heard that before, where did you get it" queries. And could never get any of the stuff with names on it - like little license plates for my bike or hairbrushes or glasses or any of that other shit. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I used to hate my name because it sounded like an old lady - Patricia. But now it doesn't bother me. - Trish R

Uh, yeah. The last name especially. Got too much static for it from the kids in the hood for many, many reasons. First name I thought was plain. I wanted to be Lisa or something sweet like that. Helen was always the name of someone's fat, eccentric aunt or grandmother. These days, I AM the fat, eccentric aunt, so I don't care. It's something I embrace. :D - Helen Sventitsky

yeah. tiffany is such a prissy a** little girl name. while i may have been a little girl, i was never a prissy a** one. i still don't like it. my name is a period name. you KNOW i was born in the 1970s or later. EDIT: funny you said that jandy. it took between 10 and 15 years before "tiffany" became a popular enough name to be featured on bike license plates. - tiffany

There was this one kid who used to call me "Heavy". We had a little wall-to-wall counseling session. He stopped after that. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

No, I have always liked it. - Rochelle

I feel you, ha3rvey. I love my name now, but to this day, a muhfuh got one time to call me "nakoochie" before the smash comes down. - nakachi

I like mine now, too, but the last guy who called me "Har-vay" nearly got to see the one they call "Bad Harvey". He was my Director. I dedicated my life to destroying him. I at least got him fired. That counts for something. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

No one really called by my 1st name when I was younger except my parents. I usually was called by a shortened version of my last name: Pidge. - Paul from twhirl

Nathalie was ok. Still is. Except when english folks (generally) from the southern part of North America pronounce the "H". - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Funny, people had/have problems pronouncing my name. I just figured they were/are defective and mock them. LOL - Captain Bubbles

@Anika I didn't know how to pronounce your name. =D The reason is that in my daughter's class, her classmate's name is Anika, but she pronounces it "Awwwww-Nick-Awwwwww" - Shevonne

I'm a twin, Michael and Michelle, Mike and Shelly, it always seemed right. - Michael W. May

Anika, how do you pronounce it? I have a tendancy of pronouncing names that "look" french in french. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

LOL @Shevonne. I give people one chance. Once I tell you how to say my name, it should firmly implanted in your head, because I'm simply unforgettable. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA Nathalie ,it's pronounced "uh-KNEE-kah". - Captain Bubbles

It didn't bother me. People can spell it. Though they were always out of the license plate things in the store, even though my name was one of them. I kind of like it now because people think of a blonde, blue eyed (definitely not black, seemingly average) woman when they see my name in print and that is not what they get. - Amber, Random Time Lord

yep. All my kids hate their names, so I guess we're even....or something...! - WorldofHiglet

I always liked my name. I've always been a bit different and it seemed right that my name was a bit different from everyone I knew. The only bothersome thing is I couldn't get the license plates, etc either since my mom spelled my name a weird way. Hated that when I was little. Plus, I have a little lisp and no one spells my name right anyways, so I have to spell out my name for everyone. - Alisha Vargas

come to think of it, I couldn't get "my" name on things either. it was always Natalie - no H. I wanted the H dammit! only place I could get things with with H is if someone travelled to France or the Province of Quebec - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Yup. I would get called every variation even Suzyanne but most often Susan. I would correct after the first time but always felt kinda bitchy to do it more than that so I just let it go. Of course my last name was Pinto so Shazam Pinto was a favorite tease. My MIL's name is Susan and I have an aunt name Sue and a cousin named Suzy so that's always fun at family gatherings. - suzanne

i cant say i ever had a problem with my name - (jeff)isageek

nope - Josh Haley

No it's aight - Rodfather

I don't think I ever really thought about. Me = Derrick *shrug* - Derrick

Yep, so I changed it. - Alix Whitmire

Kinda hated it. Tina is short for a family name, and every year the teachers would look perplexed for a minute and then manage to horribly mangle my first, middle, and last name. And ditto the "oooh, where's THAT from?" explanations. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Absolutely. I was the only Brandon and people would always spell it wrong or call me Brendan or some form of that. Now the name is everywhere. I blame Aaron Spelling and 90201. - Brandon Mendelson

Ugh, totally. Those damned ATT Dial down the center commercials hit right as I was in elementary school.. And Colette apparently looks enough like Call-att [especially if you butcher the pronounciation] that I had that chanted at me repeatedly. -.- I wanted to be a Caroline, or something of that nature. Nowadays...I like it. It's a rarer name than most- especially with only 1 L. - Colette

@Colette first time I saw your name in tonight, I did a mouse over to see if Toni as attached and noticed the missing "L"*chuckle* - Michael W. May

Hated it then but now I just think it's boring, despite the popularity of 24's Jack. My dad was to blame for Jack, my mom wanted to name me Maxwell, which is much cooler. But hearing Jack Be Nimble, Jack Sprat and Jackoff every day made me less sensitive about it and more confident in my inner strengths. Still, I prefer Jeber to Jack (and yes, it's Jack, not John). - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

hated my last name - there are so many possibilities for Harryman, and kids are imaginative - William Harryman

Well, it does irritate me to this day that no one is able to pronounce my name the correct way. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Nope. - Steven Perez

Gina was always used as a teasing point (VA-gina) and my initials were GAK. Kuki was cool though... - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

When I worked in customer service, there was a woman on the phone whose name was in fact Va-Gina (spelled unhyphenated, of course). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Nope - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I'm a guy named Kristen. What are the odds? - Kris Roley

Peter peter pumpkin eater was a refrain I heard a lot, so I started going by Pete. Now as an adult I'm slowly switching back b/c no matter how clearly I pronounce Pete when I answer the phone at work, I still get called either Steve or Keith. - Pete Delucchi

Did, and still do hate my middle name. Hint: Governor of California. - David Cook

I always liked my name growing up because I didn't have to worry about anyone else in my class (or school for that matter) having it. I did miss getting the "personalized" stuff that was all the rage in the 80's but I still liked being kind of unique. I remember it being such a shock when I was in my 20's in the mall and it seemed like every 4 year old girl's mother was calling my name... more... - Lindsay

My last, I did have issues with... it started as Morris until I was almost 8. Nine Lives cat food spokesman was Morris the Cat. Not fun. Then it became May. Michael May, Michael May not. etc. - Michael W. May

Yep, I did. Used to change my name at school. But eventually started liking it myself =) - Praveen Vasudev

I did :) - Murat Can Demir

No :) - Nicholas James

Hated it. People always make a joke about Gilligan's Island. - Ginger Makela Riker

On the other hand, when Walter Koenig told me I had a pretty name and asked me about the origin, I liked my name for a good 24-48 hours...and every time I remember that. *goofy Trek goober grin* - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Nope. Always have loved it, even when I couldn't find personalized stuff with my name. - Kamilah Gill

Which one? I didn't really ever get time to :-O - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Candace

Do you have an iPhone? Do you use last.fm, Pandora or Slacker for your iPhone? Or..have you used all three? If you have, I could use your help by having you answer a few questions for an article.

May 16 - Comment - Like - Share

I've got them all downloaded, but haven't used any of them enough to be useful for your article. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Yeah, I need someone who has used them a few times so they can answer some questions. - Candace

LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, Coming Up NOW

Final Firefox 3.5 update: a new logo - Mozilla Links - http://mozillalinks.org/wp...

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I like the current best. - Candace

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For me current version works best :) - Ronald

I like the current one - Ravindran Navaneethan

ya, current version works best. But in 32*32 , perhaps the current one & proposed one looks no differents. - LeON

where's the fire?! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

its down under the globe. - TrafficBug

Current one is definately the best. - Amy

i really like the proposed version, hope new logo makes it :) - Dani Martínez

I prefer the current version - TiTi

Um, yeah, big deal... ;) - Holger Eilhard

As far the .ico file goes that change wont even be noticeable. - Adi

I prefer the proposed version, but I doubt it's gonna make much of a difference - LANjackal

Thomas Hawk

Patrick posted on the world's oldest Twitter user here: http://friendfeed.com/nextweb... She's 104. Let's see who the oldest and youngest FriendFeed members are. Post your age in this thread.

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I'm 41. - Thomas Hawk

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39 here. I have to wonder what technologies we'll see if I live to 104! - Kevin C. Tofel

Ok, I'm winning as the oldest friendfeed user so far since I'm two years older than you Kevin. - Thomas Hawk

There's a FFer in his 70s on here, I just can't remember who it is... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

20. - Evan Travers

Tina, he must be present to win. OK so far Evan's the youngest at 20 and I'm the oldest at 41. - Thomas Hawk

I confess to be 62 - Gilbert Harding

Gilbert that's awesome! So so far Evan Travers youngest at 20, Gilbert Harding the oldest at 62. - Thomas Hawk

We have a FFer here who's 73. I'm 36. I'll go out on a limb and say Michael Forian is our youngest active member. - Captain Bubbles

who is 73 Anika? He/she's gotta post in this thread. So far Gilbert and Evan are winning. - Thomas Hawk

55, Gilbert has me beat by a few years. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

When my baby is born, I'll sign 'em up for FriendFeed. ;) - Tamar Weinberg

I don't remember, Thomas. We just did an age thing last week and he posted. I think it was in Alp's thread. - Captain Bubbles

54 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

does friendfeed have an age requirement in order to have an account like Flickr and other sites? - Thomas Hawk

Jack DeWitt Smith is 73 so he says. Damn it I thought I was going to win a prize here. - Gilbert Harding

37 - Alex Scoble

So Jack's 73 as the oldest and Evan's the youngest at 20. I can't believe that there are not any octogenarians on FriendFeed. You folks need to get your parents and grandparents on here. - Thomas Hawk

I am 32. - Louis Gray

Thomas: my son Patrick is on friendfeed and he's 15. - Robert Scoble

I'm neither. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Michael Forian is 14 - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Ok, So Michael Forian's the youngest at 14 and Jack DeWitt Smith's the oldest at 73. I just did the math on all mentioned in this this thread and the average age so far is 43.1 years in age. - Thomas Hawk

I am smack in the middle at 38 - holly

fetus. - Kevin Murray

Bumping the average up a little - 59 - Brian Sullivan

Bringing the average age down a bit :) I'm 21 - Roy Herrod

44 - Helen Sventitsky

25. - James Ferguson

24 - © b e e n s w a n k

Kevin, I've never met a fetus who can type. Ok the high low are still Michael at 14 and Jack at 73. The average is now 40.125. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: Milan can turn on an iPhone, can select the icon of his favorite game, and can play a game. He's not yet two years old. So, expect him to lower the friendfeed bar pretty low pretty soon. - Robert Scoble

35. Looks like I'm right in the wheelhouse. - Mike Lewis

21. - Kevin Mohr

36 - edward volkert

Robert, would FriendFeed let Milan have an account? Is there an age requirement? I think Patrick got kicked off of Second Life for being too young didn't he? Mike L, Kevin, Josh and edward just dropped the average age down below 40 to 37.6 - Thomas Hawk

33 here... - Sean Simkins

38 - Mykl Roventine

Thomas: I don't see why my son wouldn't be allowed to have an account. I'm 44 by the way. - Robert Scoble

average now = 37.70. Michael the low at 14, Jack the high at 73. - Thomas Hawk

21 - Roberto Bonini

quite difficult to type, still waiting on some fingers. also as a fetus i dont know much but am questioning the term "FFer", sounds short for something else. - Kevin Murray

45 - Peter Dawson

37 - ororodc

Kevin I'm not buying that you're a fetus. Is it warm in the womb? - Thomas Hawk

24, need to bring that average down a bit. - Michael

I'm 26 years, one month, and three days. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

27, so in the younger half. - Rochelle

41 here, and coincidentally just created an account for my son last night (2 1/2) playing with streaming his photos/activities for the grandparents. - Rick Bucich

hmmm.. Rick I'm not sure that this counts if he's not controlling the account. New average is 36.27, we're getting younger. I think that's a good thing maybe. - Thomas Hawk

25 Here, a whole quarter century - Brandon - BWC Games

venti ocho - chrisofspades

I'll bump it up at 51 - Sandra

warm yes, but pretty spotty wireless coverage. - Kevin Murray

30 here (at least for another month) - Justin Korn

27 - Candace

41 - ha3rvey (needs soup)

52/2 - Lokei Atikus™®

getting younger. Average age now 35.57. I'm starting to feel pretty old at 41. - Thomas Hawk

Akiva is AFK, but he's 37. - Rochelle

Looks like I'm sitting around the middle ground at 38. - Andy Bold

I'm 28 and I'm carrying a fetus. But I'm the one doing the typing. - Tamar Weinberg

Maybe Tamar's bundle wins...typing on FF by proxy? XD - Candace

I'm 33 and I'm carrying a fetus too! :p - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Farty one, going on farty two ... - Rene Wirtz

33 here. Tad is 40. - Lindsay

35. Remember back in the day when that was old. - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

26 - Not breaking any records here. - Tom Harrison

No way. You have to guess - Martha

I'm 56. You got a problem with that? - Ted Gilchrist

28. Suddenly I feel younger than usual. - Matt

Over 200 comments with age info here: http://friendfeed.com/tweetfe... - Micah Wittman

52 - Leo Laporte

38 - meckimac

19 - Matthew Allen Horton

average age now: 35.67 - Thomas Hawk

man, I'm getting old... over average.. - meckimac

38 - M F

41 - Tied with Thomas Hawk ;-) Update...I lied! I'm 40! for 15 more days! - Bill Scherer

23 - Jessica

31 - Peter Kruit

37 - Laura Lou Who

22 - Asankhaya Sharma

39 - Gordon Corte

I'm 21 - Charlotte M

25 ----->-- - vijay

32 - clarke thomas

new average = 35.15, still getting younger. - Thomas Hawk

46 - Hanna Wiszniewska

26 - Blake

51 - Fred Yankowski

52 - Paul from twhirl

44 - John Francis

49 (just) - jcunwired

49 - Bonnie Wren

28 - Karl Knechtel

39- My son Arvin is 2yrs old and he is about to tweet - Jacque

42 - Christopher Harley

40, but act 20s ;) - Rui Pereira

I'd love to see more data, and then a graph. - Ted Gilchrist

34 myself - Andy Tinkham

17. - Zach Flauaus

43 - Dane Findley

29 - yagami

I've got my fingers scrabbling at the edge of 39 like James Tiberius Kirk on the cliff. Unfortunately, the laws of physics require that I eventually fall. Crap. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

35 - which makes me... Average :( - James Macgill

I'm 27. Divisible by 3. - Amy H.

Phew....worried I might be the oldest, but I'm just a mere 61! :) - Bonnie Foster

29. NOT looking forward to the next birthday. - Lis Miller

26 - Alejandro

I'm 41. My 95-year-old great aunt sends emails and receives weekly FriendFeed email, but doesn't post here. - Bruce Lewis

22 - Paul Stamatiou

Not feeling too old being 40 now :) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

38 - Lu Tao

25 - Mo Kargas

42. Apparently that number is somehow significant... - Sue Radd

LOL @ Sue - Roberto Bonini

26 - Amber, Random Time Lord

36 up in here. - Derrick

40 - metalerik

37 - Bitch

Still 58. - Russellreno

43 in 2 weeks. - Mark Krynsky

I'm 21 (again) - aflow

I'm 39 - Royce Fujitani

44 - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

23 - Dobromir Hadzhiev

44 - Larry Kless

30 - Alisha Vargas

31 - Christian (Simply X)

14 - Daan Berg from twhirl

Older than a new idea but younger than a forgotten feud - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

This is about the third time this question get's the best-of-day. I ran a poll last time at http://www.s-consulting.no/polls... - Frode Stenstrøm

58 - Nick in Manila

Hey, I might win! [update: oops, tied] - Nick in Manila

21! On another note.. this question wouldn't be a problem if frienfeed had extensive profiles.. but I don't want it to become a social networking site though! - Kris

54 and getting younger day by day! - johnny

26 - Jess Lee

NewsGang Live! Get your butts over here, and bump up the average! - Ted Gilchrist

44 - BEX

35 - (jeff)isageek

13 - I might be close to the youngest. :) - Alex

I'm 47. Probably the oldest... - Karen Mohler

I'm 38. The youngest 38yo in the world. - LouCypher

33-year-young - Jemm

I'm 27. - Colide81 (James) from fftogo

21 - Lizunlong

I'm 42. Nowhere near the oldest. More the average. - Jeffrey Allan Boman

28 - Lasse Johnsen

day late and dollar short as usual :) 58 - martha

26 - Marco

I'm not the youngest or the oldest. - David Cook

73 here among the youngsters - Jack DeWitt Smith

OK here's the chart: http://img.skitch.com/2009051... Thru Jack DeWitt Smith post. - Nick in Manila

How about oldest parent of a young child, 60 here with 7 yr old - Howard Feight

Howard: 58 here with 1 yr. old. So how do you compute winner? - Nick in Manila

a young whipper snapper at 39 ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

What browser are you using? Firefox? Chrome? IE? Safari? All of the above? None of the above? Why or Why not?

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Chrome for everyday. Firefox for what won't run in Chrome. - Bradley McSpinn

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Firefox. - Rochelle

Webkit. - Akiva Moskovitz

Firefox and Chrome. I use FF at home because I have a Mac, and both at work - FF for work stuff, Chrome for fun stuff. And IE7 when the web designer makes me do a cross-browser check on something. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Firefox with IE 7 for MS specific sites like OWA and SharePoint. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Firefox on Vista, MS 7 and Mac OSX - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 Beta and Chrome 2.0.176.0. I have different passwords saved in different browsers. A few weeks ago I used Safari a lot, now I think Chrome is the most used. - Faraz Mullick

Chrome for everything, except work. For work I have to use Firefox. - Candace

Chrome...it's fast, but I also use IE 7 because some sites for work (or MSN Money) don't work well with Chrome. - Alex Scoble

Using the FF beta as my day to day brower.. tend to use all of them across win and OSX for browser testing - Bastard Operator From FF

Firefox until Chrome gets an effective ad blocker. - Tech Introvert

Tech Introvert, AdMuncher? - Rochelle

Opera 9.6 for the built in email and the fact I can throw Stumbleupon, Friendfeed, and my blog's backend into the sidebar. Occasionally, have to check Firefox because it handles my RSS. - Jimminy

Chrome and Firefox - LPH™ and his dog P™

all of them. work = IE, home = firefox - Chris Harris

Chrome, what browser are you using, Rah? - Kol Tregaskes

Firefox - Russ Jackson

Camino at home on Mac and occationally Firefox, Firefox at work, S60 Browser or Ozone on my S60 mobiles, basically A variety of Browsers mostly Mozilla Gecko and Webkit based, but never IE. - LonelyBob from twhirl

Firefox when using OS X, Safari on my iphone, and Chrome when I fire up XP. LOVE Chrome which is a big deal considering how much I love Firefox--can't wait to see something for it for the Mac. - Kelly W.

Chrome at home and Firefox at work. - Baard @ Pixum

firefox because I am used to it. opera when FF gives me trouble. not crazy about safari. on those rare occasions when I fire up my PC I use chrome if it's just for something quick. firefox if I am doing dev work. FFs tools just work too well for me and because it's cross-platform I only have to keep one set of keystrokes straight. - tiffany

Restricted to IE at work. Firefox mostly, Safari occasionally at home.Will eventually try Chrome - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Firefox, for the extensions. Ones I depend on everyday: AdBlock, WebDeveloper, Firebug. Others I use frequently: Delicious, Identify, Pencil, Operator, CodeTech, FireSpider, YouTube Comment Snob, Live HTTP Headers, Read It Later. - Michael R. Bernstein

Safari. I have Firefox installed and fall back to it if I suspect a site isn't working well with Safari. - DGentry

fan of vim editor, I use firefox with vimperator plugin - David Foucher

Safari 4. - Louis Gray

Safari - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Mac OS = Safari 4; Windows = Firefox - 321

Firefox. - Ron Bailey

Firefox. I don't even have IE. - Tanath

Wyzo. I don't know. It runs smoothly and has great download tools - Matthew Allen Horton

Safari 4 pretty much exclusively. I use Firefox 3 on the work computer. - cecily

All, due to web dev purposes, but FF is my staple. - Mo Kargas

Safari (Webkit's nightly updates actually) on mac at home, Chrome at work. - Brome

Chrome at (80%) because of the side by side “panels” + Safari & Firefox depends of the need. - <<futuRINÔ>>

all of the above - IE + Flock and Camino. - vijay

Camino - ursi

Firefox mostly. Chrome for when i'm sick of Firefox's huge memory footprint - Roberto Bonini

FF and IE8 - aerobroken

chrome - metalerik

Firefox 98% of time, sometimes IE or Chrome when special needs on purpose. - A.T.

ff 3.5 all the time - Kirill Bolgarov

Firefox all the time, IE when I need to test stuff. - Mike Templeton

Firefox all the time - sometimes w IEtab - I love compact menu too - Phil Wain

Firefox 3.5b4. It seems fast enough now to compete with Safari. It's still a little slower, but for all of the value that addons provide, I can manage. - Chris Thomson

Firefox, Chrome and IE...although mainly Firefox - Nicholas James

Firefox 3.5b4 (and IE8 when I have to) - Jason Williams

Firefox 3.5b4 right now (Speed with almost no addon--can't stay far from ubiquity) else Chromium / Chrome and regular Firefox, go sometimes with K-Meleon / Maxthon / QTWeb. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Zee.

Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.

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karoo for me. - alphaxion

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America Online...wait...no. Prodigy! - Candace

WebTV. - Rochelle

sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time. - Tsali, The Native of FF

Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail. - Bradley McSpinn

AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it. - Tyler Hayes

First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout! - Jared Smith

wisc.edu - Dave Winer

ecu.edu - Beebo Wallace

Prodigy. - Oliver Ortega Chua

citiz.net - yagami

i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol - Cardeen Martinez

crikey, i've never even heard of some of these... - Zee.

A BBS in Morgan Hill. - Rodfather

1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984. - Don Strickland

A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

wow, very impressive Jason...and Don! - Zee.

Hotmail was my first email provider. - Andrew Trinh

aol - ♥patricia♥

mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today. - Vlad Bobleanta

I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now! - Rick Cogley

Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier) - Brandon Mendelson

AOL. - Laura Lou Who

AOL. I shutter at the thought - BCK

PSU.edu, 1989 - Dave Roth

Toronto FreeNet. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Michigan State University - Steve Lowe

Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore. - TkFromWestSide

My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984. - Gary Walter (gwalter)

Hotmail - Tim Keneipp

Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy. - Adam Turetzky

Prodigy, then AOL - Robert Kenney

My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-) - Ladybug Heather

AOL - Derrick

<- AOL - Costa Walcott

AOL then Juno - Violet Mae Lim

drexel.edu and compuserve - Peter Ghosh

Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992. - dthree

Pixi.net - Trish Haley

I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC. - Matthew

75106,3139 - Leo Laporte

I want to say Compuserve - BASEnet

whats 75106,3139? - Zee.

74127,2227 - Christopher Barnes

aol - Computerwhiz1

Those are Compuserve addresses Zee - Adam Turetzky

AOL - Gabe Diaz

Prodigy - Nick Smith

Oof. CompuServe! - Akiva Moskovitz

ah, interesting - thanks Adam - Zee.

My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu. - Akiva Moskovitz

webtv. - Nation Hahn

Yay Nation Hahn! - Rochelle

aol - Russ Jackson

76020,702 lol, had to look mine up! - Adam Turetzky

I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally. - Bruce Lewis

netcom - Scott Slade

A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary. - Bob M. Montgomery

Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago.. - David van Sunder from Nambu

Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-) - Dan Dashnaw

I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again. - Diego Espinoza V.

columbia.edu - Morton Fox

geez... I can't even remember. - Jim Hearts FF

umich.edu - Ken Sheppardson

Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.) - Louis Gray

Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998. - David Yarnell

AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Prodigy. - Captain Bubbles

tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast. - Jeff

crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though - Steve C

Probably Mindspring. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem. - Allen Blair

<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail. - Tom Horn

Compuserve was my first Internet email address. - Gary Walter (gwalter) from fftogo

email.com - Alex Scrivener

Hotmail I'm ashamed to say. - Daniel Drysdale from Nambu

web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Hotmail as well :( - Drew Lucas

Genie - Randy Caldwell

yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno! - BEX

Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin. - Glen Mistletoe

My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box. - Hiro Asari

ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol - Sharon McPherson

CompuServe :) - d4RKrITU4L from Nambu

@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address - Bastard Operator From FF

A local ISP called Jetlink. - Stan Augustyniewicz

Alta Vista - Brent Smorgen Bleg

My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house. - Dustin Sallings

Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that? - David Damore

Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89) - Internet's Tad

rocketmail.com - James Beake

AOL - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

stanford.edu - Paola Bonomo

aol - David Dudley

Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

My employer, Microsoft. 1983 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail - Monique

Hotmail. - Steven Perez

University in '94. didn't know what email was before that. - mikepk

*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet) - Tudor Bosman

Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times. - zephyrlily

deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/ - coffee

AOL of course - Keith - @tsudo

Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything! - Bryce Campbell

yep hotmail - Dobromir Hadzhiev

usa.net - Petr Buben

The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr. - Martin Bryant

Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :) - Mark Krynsky

usa.net (netaddres) - Toni @ NavinoT

On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net - Kol Tregaskes

Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server. - Ward Seward

Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular - Gee Ranasinha

Two at same time, utk.edu for work and hotmail for personal, I actually still use that hotmail acct. - Brytne from Nambu

Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk - Matt Hall

not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo - (jeff)isageek

AOL. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

yahoo - Alfredo

Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good... - Kristian Salonen

AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college. - mark

umich.edu - DGentry

cmich.edu - l.m.orchard from twhirl

Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first. - l.m.orchard from twhirl

erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr). - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face* - Iain Baker

Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think it was yahoo or usa.net - Shamir Ramjan

worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider) - Olivier

CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993 - Michael McKean

Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/ - Ben LaMothe

Compuserve, then Demon and well.com - Fraser Smith

It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone. - Dušan Šimonovič

Local ISP and then Hotmail. - Kevin Bondelli

OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now. - Lynette Young

Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail. - Ninh Nguyen

Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you. - Eric Fisher

Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER! - John Craft

yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now - brainno722 (Peter)

Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104). - George Brickner

BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number). - George Brickner

Hotmail - Damond Nollan

prodigy, if I remember correctly - Chieze Okoye

yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now - Richard Lawler

AOL, back in the day - Matthew Allen Horton

hotmail - Rudolf Olah

Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago. - Tamar Weinberg

AOL - Katie: Whelmed Overly

Hotmail :( - Mitra_s

uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :) - felix

mine was hotmail too. - Thom Allen

Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection. - Matt Thompson from fftogo

Juno - Martha

Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox. - Jess Lee

Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then. - howard shippin

TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net. - Wirehead

UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP. - Fred Yankowski

MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around. - James Ferguson

I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno.... - EricaJoy

Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995 - Michael K Pate

My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993. - Lisha Sterling from twhirl

aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff. - Daniel Morgan

cix UK - John Francis

cs.berkeley.edu - Piaw Na

I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail. - Jeremy

AOL *facepalm* - Mike Lewis

I think it was AOL or Compuserve - Shevonne

AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now. - jcunwired

LOL @Leo!! - jcunwired

My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom. - Lorin Olsen

not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com - Gökmen Karasu

Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink - William Harryman

The US government. - Alex Scoble

Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail" - irfan ÖZTÜRK

Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail. - josh neff, geek at large

MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period. - Anthony K. Valley ©

AOL - I HAD MAIL! - Mona Nomura

Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net). - Beau Liening

oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back) - Jorge Escobar

uh.edu, then hotmail. - Arlan Koizumi

UUCP email on unix .. circa 86 - Peter Dawson

comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny. - mike

starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL - Mike Templeton

Mindspring.com - Darrell Bell from twhirl

hawaii.edu - Josh Haley

aol - Amber, Random Time Lord

Aol huuuh - Marie Jubin from Nambu

Admittedly - AOL. - AJ Kohn

@tamu.edu - Carlos M. Gomes

AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail - Kevin Pruett

first email account was @andrew.cmu.edu & first webmail was with lycos! - Matyjas from fftogo

USA.net - Helen Sventitsky

Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today. - Jennifer Mitchell

execpc.com. haha. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

Hotmail, and I think it was 1995. - cecily

Compuserve - Bryan R. Adams

pitt.edu, then netaxs.com. - B. Hatin

Penn State University - Ernie Oporto

My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

hotmail - Dane Findley

angelfire - Rachel Lea Fox

Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now. - Michael Fidler

Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it... - Amy H.

Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it. - Rolf Schewe

Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky... - John Blossom

AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not! - Bonnie Foster

hotmail 1995 - Muge Cerman

mail.com *shrug* XD - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail - imabonehead

Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years. - Michael Forian

My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99). - Ruud van Wijngaarden

hotmail - Bill Hice

@msstate.edu, my university in 1996? - Phillip Stewart

Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL. - John Johnson

not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Yahoo. God bless Gmail! - Özgür Akman

"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them. - Marg Uerite

it was either aol or nyonline - Lynne d Johnson

Hotmail. Still have it. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail - Nicholas James

AOL for me... horrible. - Michelle

Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it... - Rich

yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail - Yant

guruvan (Rob Nelson)

We should all get together and pitch in on something for Robert Scoble to win if he can go a whole week without mentioning Celebrities on Twitter and the Suggested User List. Maybe he would put something on the line in return? He has to give the FF community some shiny new object if he can't make it. Will Robert accept?

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I vote to just hide the entries. Except...I could get something if the challenge is accepted. So, I vote that he wins a...random but potentially expensive domain name. ...I got nothin'. - Candace

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Rob: heheh. I tried to go a week without mentioning Twitter and failed, so I don't take these kinds of bets. - Robert Scoble

haha. I thought it would be fun to see what you'd say anyhow. I can't imagine you going a week without talking about twitter - that's why I left it to talking about the celebs and the SUL lol! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

there's no way i could go a week. even if i wanted to. i know id slip. - Jason Pollock

haha..Not a chance Jason ;-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

friendfeed Gamers: Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Kotaku - Is Microsoft Working on an Answer to the DS, PSP, iPhone? - xyz - http://kotaku.com/5256087... (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)

Kotaku - Is Microsoft Working on an Answer to the DS, PSP, iPhone? - xyz - http://kotaku.com/5256087/is-microsoft-working-on-an-answer-to-the-ds-psp-iphone (via http://ff.im/2VvMp)

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I'm intrigued by the possibility of a handheld from the Xbox people. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I would scream for a handheld xBox. Until then..I loves my DS. - Candace

holly

someone give me a new band to try out. GO!

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what do you usually like? - MegvMeg

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I am all over the board. lately, I've been listening to Silversun Pickups, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Killers, Bob Mould, but you know, I still listen to hair bands, so I'll try anything pretty much :) - holly

The Bird and the Bee? Adele? (Not a band, but a person.) Claire Voyant? The Magnetic Fields? - Laura H.

oh, I'd meant to check out the Bird and the Bee. see, this is my problem. I hear of bands but always forget who they are :) - holly

Hmmmmm, I will have to think. - MegvMeg

I have been listening to Say Anything's "...Is a Real Boy" over and over. It's emo? I guess? Seems far too young for me, but I'm digging it. - s t e v e

Los Campesinos can be a little twee, but they're fun. The music is lighthearted, but there's a vengeful twist to the lyrics. - cecily

Manchester Orchestra, Everything Absent or Distorted (A Love Story), and Astronauts of Antiquity are three recent discoveries that I've enjoyed. - ǎňňǎ

Beirut, Gogol Bordello, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sufjan Stevens - Bren, Not Grinchy

I've been listening to Aneela (or Anila) a Danish bhangra singer. Her albums are awesome. - Captain Bubbles

Ting Tings. - Chris Z.

ooh look at all the choices! thank you all! I love finding new music! keep 'em coming - holly

sick puppies - Trish Haley

Nicole Atkins - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Self - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

The Eames Era - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Fleming & John - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Metric - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Phoenix - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Metric (seconded) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Tokyo Police Club - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

The Flaming Lips - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Wavves. Nice list. - Holly Rae, FFer

This is a very nice list. Bonus points for The Eames Era, Sean. I have many suggestions, but I'll stick with FFeed's own The Pauses http://www.myspace.com/thepaus... and http://www.cherrypeel.com/thepaus... drumwork by Nathan Chase http://friendfeed.com/nathanc... Very good stuff, what there is of it thus far. - Michael W. May

Metric (thirded). :) Rilo Kiley. The Airborne Toxic Event. The Essex Green. Babyshambles. Los Campesinos! (seconded). Ida Maria. Arcade Fire. The New Pornographers. Stars. Bishop Allen. They're not all brand new, but all good. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Stars (seconded) - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

again, thank you all! FriendFeeders are friggin' awesome! - holly

You don't like cilantro, so I'm pretty sure you won't like my playlist. - Steven Perez

oh psshhh. cilantro can't infect music... can it? CAN IT?!?! - holly

You tell me: http://www.last.fm/user... - Steven Perez

Akiva's Bassmouse mixes ;) - mjc

http://frequencye.wordpress.com/ - Candace

also The Decembrists... couldn't think of them earlier - Bren, Not Grinchy

The Pauses http://www.myspace.com/thepaus... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Peaches - Christopher Harley

Santogold...she's awesome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Mark Krynsky

Guided by Voices (Earthquake Glue would be a good one to start with). - Jàson Puçkett

And old band, from me yout'. http://www.somethingbrothers.com/media... - Rochelle Rochelle

For some reason, I am wondering if there is cilantro in Steven Perez' Meat Loaf. - Chris Z.

i would do anything for love ... :D - Steven Perez from IM

Lunascape. - Steven Perez

Freelight (avantgarde jazz from San Francisco in the 70's, good luck finding any, few tracks still exist, Pam Tillis on vocals.) - Tsali, The Native of FF

This has been a great conversation for me to connect to the FF music contingent... yay, good job, Holly! - Holly Rae, FFer

holly, if you go down this list and make note of anyone you don't recognize or that piques interest, you'll be ok http://www.last.fm/user... ;) - Michael W. May

that is a right good idea, sir. thank you! :) - holly

Slow Down Tallahassee, The Dodos, The Lucksmiths, Mary O. Harrison, The Scourge of the Sea... - Mattie Kenny

Hey, thanks for that shout-out, Michael & Rahsheen! - Nathan Chase

Woodpeckers From Space - Morgan Haley

Shevonne to Shevonne's feed, Parenting-A-Go-Go, The Ladies Room

Should Pregnant Women Get Special Privileges? - http://www.parentdish.com/2009...

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YES - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

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Yes - Thomas Hawk

Who does it help? Women infected with endoparasties. Who does it hurt? NO BODY! so, yes, it's cool. - Matthew DeVries

sure, why not? - Nathan Rein

Absolutely - Mark Layton

Does anyone here say "no"? - Rochelle

No - Lindsey is Fierce!

Of course...not having been one...but with 3 children, I get at least half a vote - Michael

Abso-smurfly not. - Roger Benningfield

I think they should handle this with the current "disability" access system (however they handle the parking permits, etc.) because most private business are total crap at implementing something like this on their own. I don't mind walking a little extra distance at the super market, but I'm not sure why the local one needs both 20 disabled spaces an an extra 10 expectant mother spots. I think those women should get to use the disabled slots as they are rarely all used, and they're closer. - Jennifer Dittrich

Let me rephrase. Of those who say "no", have you been pregnant? - Rochelle

I don't think so. - Roger Benningfield

I can get behind Jennifer's solution of letting them just get temp disabled tags. - Matthew DeVries

Jennifer, I'm not sure about other states, but WA state does allow pregnant women to use disabled parking spots, as long as they get a temporary disability parking permit. - Rochelle

yes, especially on public transport or public parking - Steve C

K, we got that fixed. Next issue? We should have the world fixed by tuesday. - Matthew DeVries

why should they not get special priviledges eh ? after all , if somethings happens to the women, the law generally tends to smack you for injury's of 2 people.. correct ? - Peter Dawson

No. The extra discomfort is good practice for what's to come. - Mark H

Mark, what do you mean? When I was pregnant, I had my pubic bone separate. It's not an uncommon complication. However, I'm not sure how a broken pubic bone prepared me for having a child. - Rochelle

I think they should get to drive in the carpool lane. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I'm going with "no" . Only because I see too many pregnant women in public places who expect *everything* to be handed over to them, and expect to be waited on hand and foot. Yeah, I get allowing them to park close to a facility because walking is tough for them, and I understand other small things too. Special treatment? No. You're pregnant, not handicapped. - Candace

Candace, this post is about allowing them to park close to a facility, not about "special treatment". Am I missing something? - Rochelle

I skimmed the article and it basically said people should be courteous (duh), and the expectant should not take advantage of it (duh)... so what's the issue? - LogEx

I don't mind the courtesy. The sign that gives priveledges to parents of young children, I do not. It's enough to endure them in the store, in the theater, in a resturant. No breaks for you! - Mike Lewis

As with anything, special privileges should be a case by case basis. Some women are so high risk that they'll miscarry if they sneeze wrong. - Jess

Rochelle, by forcing pregnant women to park far away it helps them both to get extra exercise and to build up more of a tolerance towards the pain and anguish of childbirth. I realise it's not a popular viewpoint so I won't be suggesting it should I ever run for political office. - Mark H

I'm not even as open-minded as Candace. "Pregnant" is no more a disability than "fat ass", a "disability" with which I am intimately familiar. - Roger Benningfield

Jess: In those cases, I'd have no problem giving someone a temp disability sticker or something. - Roger Benningfield

@Mark I can see where you are going, but like Rochelle said, pregnancy can cause major discomforts to a woman that really has nothing to do with exercise. - Shevonne

Mark, that's sweet and all, but uninformed. My experience with childbirth, for example, was pain-free. No anguish involved. And like Shevonne said, exercise has nothing to do with any of it. - Rochelle

@Rochelle, I understand courtesy and think they do deserve that. Parking close to a facility is fine, or allowing them to rest somewhere, etc. etc. However, the article mentioned a woman in a restaurant and what happened with her. To me, that's what I see as pregnant women who expect special treatment. My cousin felt like the world owed her a favor when she had a baby. She wanted to be... more... - Candace

Somewhat related: Older generations were smart to tell men to give up seats to women. Today you're expected to give up your seat only if she's pregnant or elderly. That puts you in the position of judging who's pregnant and who's elderly, and you insult her if you get it wrong. Men 50 years ago only had to judge who's female, and we're adequately good at that. - Bruce Lewis

the only special privilege would be to stop the tenure/promotion clock. you cannot be expected to publish or perish while expecting - enza (aka iVenus)

Honestly, no. To me, mothering is a choice, not a right. However, I'd go with Jennifer D.'s suggestion of allowing them to use handicapped parking spaces. Everything else should be set as common courtesy. On behalf of both the pregnant women and the persons around her (if someone who's 8 months pregnant needs a seat near the door on the bus, for example, sure I'll get up for them if I'm... more... - Helen Sventitsky

I also remember when those "reserved for expectant mothers" signs first popped at this shopping center I worked near in La Jolla. I was a little annoyed. - Helen Sventitsky

actaully on second thought, that is plain wrong.. .. how does an establishment figure out a painfull child bearing vs a normal child mother mother who has no ill effects ? "Pregnant" does NOT equal "disablity" !~! - Peter Dawson

@Helen There are also the "Parent with small children" parking spots. Do those bother you as well? Just wondering @Bruce I feel sorry for men nowadays. - Shevonne

Is there no common sense don't be a dick issue we can't deconstruct and mental masturbate ourselves into overanalyzing ecstasy? Come the fuck on. It's a pregnant chick. She just wants a parking spot. Just say yes and go on with your day? - Matthew DeVries

@Shevonne, they wouldn't bother me as much, other than the necessity for them being there in the first place. Would small children pertain to two or three year olds? Carrying small kids in carriages? That I could probably understand. - Helen Sventitsky

My wife is pregnant, I'm going to go with no on this one if we're talking a bulk "You're pregnant, you can park here" type of rule. IF you're in your later stages of pregnancy, I'd be ok with the parking pass, but not for the full 9 months. - Brandon Mendelson

Matthew, IMO, it's not a "don't be a dick" issue. It's just that there are some here who wonder why certain privileges would be given to a segment of our population who chose to be pregnant. Personally, I would put pregnant women in the "temporarily handicapped" area and treat it accordingly, which, according to Rochelle, is already being done in WA. I don't think anyone's here is... more... - Helen Sventitsky

@Rochelle - that's one of the things I like about WA; I figure that puts it in the category of any other health-related issue: if it is really difficult, due to a medical condition, to do certain things, then we have an OK system in place to help handle that :) - Jennifer Dittrich

I'm ambivalent. I had to be on "modified bedrest" so on the rare occassion that I could go out and about I think a disabled permit would have been appropriate. I would rather see more family friendly parking spaces (like at IKEA) then spaces specifically designed for pregnant women though. - adf

Matthew: Why does it matter that she's a pregnant chick? What if she's just a 250lb chick? Or a 300lb dude? Or a dude with really bad allergies, who needs to get inside the store as quickly as possible? Or a chick whose "office dress" policy requires her to wear heels, even on a slippery, rain-soaked day? There are lots of people who have issues, and I'm not sure why we would single out one specific group for special attention. - Roger Benningfield

And that notsuredness is why stupid courtesy laws are needed. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: Not everyone worships the womb. - Roger Benningfield

Thus: The need for the laws, cause people won't do the right thing out of common sense any more. - Matthew DeVries

Yes - Janet

Hey, I don't drive, and I don't think I've ever gone through a public door without holding it for a woman, an elderly person, a disabled person, or even a smaller guy. Courtesy is cool. It's the whole "I breed, therefore I am" ethos to which I object. You can be a dick to virtually anyone in this society, no matter what their situation, and most people will just shrug and go on. But if there's a kid involved, people lose their frakkin' minds. - Roger Benningfield

Welcome to social contract of the country in which you chose to live. Sorry you had the wire-mother. Have a fruit roll-up. - Matthew DeVries

Y'mean the same social contract that also demands that the icky homos stick to the closet, and expects Muslims to just man up and accept that this is a Christian nation? There are plenty of flaws in that unsigned deal, and telling people to shut up and accept it never got us anywhere. - Roger Benningfield

Nope, not that one. - Matthew DeVries

See, there's yer problem... you haven't read the fine print! :) - Roger Benningfield

Roger think you're making yourself sound harsh, but above you commented that in cases where the woman is at a health risk, you would make certain allowances. So it's up to the doctors to decide who those women are. Which makes it easier for men to chose old fashioned chivalry to all pregnant women and/or kindness to a person (pregnant or not) in need. - Jess

I am oh-so-amused at how this went from "be nice to pregnant ladies" to "icky homos stick to the closet". - Rochelle

ABSOLUTELY - Tamar Weinberg

Rochelle: No, it went from "should pregnant women get special privileges" to "that's the social contract, shut up". - Roger Benningfield

And Roger in a fit of trueness decided to attach a bunch of effed up riders to the social contract, hoping the executive would sign it with them in there. Now the shit's gotta go back to committee. Oh bother. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: I didn't add 'em... they've been there all along. - Roger Benningfield

Yes. I think so. In Australia we have 'Parents With Prams' spaces close to the door, often next to the disabled spots. While they are not enforceable by fines like that of disabled spots, they are governed by the public law of "Really mate? You're in a sports car and you couldn't park 8 spots down. You're a fuckwit". This is not so much a 'privilege' so much as a safety issue. Having... more... - Johnny Worthington

Jess: I probably am coming off more harshly than intended. Because I'm cool with helping anyone in need. Pregnant, broken leg, heat sensitivity, trying to carry too many packages... you name it. But here's the ugly reality... I can't count the number of times I've seen people bitching about the obese lady who's in the disabled parking spot, or giving the whole "He doesn't look disabled... more... - Roger Benningfield

I want to know why woman complain about popping out one kid, when men have to pump out a million sperm a shot.... I mean come on??? Give me a parking spot!!! :) - Lokei Atikus™®

Wait, they let women drive these days!? What is this world coming to! - Nathan Rein

Absolutely YES! I have also seen spots designated for moms with babies only. - Elena

When I was 28 weeks pregnant, I flew from EWR to FLL on Continental Airlines. I was uncomfortable and wanted to get on the plane early to avoid being bonked by some suitcase. The agent at the gate yelled at me and said I couldn't board early because "pregnancy is not a disability." One of the mothers nearby muttered, "um, yeah it is." I, too, was appalled. I filed a complaint against the agent and corporate told me they put the agent back in training. - Tamar Weinberg

"However, I'm not sure how a broken pubic bone prepared me for having a child." Exactly, Rochelle. I'm in super pain where I walk right now and I'm not sure how this is going to prepare me for motherhood. I'm certain with all the discomfort I'm going through (33 weeks now) that life will be *easier* when the kid is born. I even expect to actually sleep. Yes, I'll *definitely* get more sleep with a kid to breastfeed given the circumstances at the present. I don't think that some people get it. - Tamar Weinberg

I wasn't going to say anything else and just let it go rather than explain to Shevonne and Rochelle but, since Tamar brought up the broken pubic bone again I suppose I should just clarify: I was not being serious when I was suggesting women should walk to get them in shape for childbirth. When it comes to some people not getting it ... well, there, I've said it. Sarcasm, I know, doesn't always come across in written form. I'm very, very sorry. That wasn't sarcasm, by the way. - Mark H

Usually I don't bitch about things, but I have to say this. People, we are on the Internet and many of us don't know one another. How can someone possibly know if someone is serious or not? Can we see your body language or tone of voice? No, so you shouldn't get pissy because we didn't pick up on your sarcasm. - Shevonne

I wasn't being pissy. I was trying to stop others from assuming I'd been serious. But thank you for telling me not to be pissy without being pissy. - Mark H

All women deserve special privelages. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) from fftogo

Most definitely. - jcunwired

I think so yes, it just makes things a little bit easier for those who might be uncomfortable at the late stages and such. I remember my friend being really emotional at about 6/7 months gone and just needing to get things done without hassle. Sometimes it was easier for everyone else too ;) - Charlotte M

Just in case anyone misunderstood me, I'm with Mark. I KNOW women are allowed to drive and I don't have a problem with it. That was also sarcasm. Though no one seems to have been either amused or offended. Nevermind. - Nathan Rein

Sorry Mark -- I made a general statement not really directed at any particular individual. In fact, I moused over your name and figured you were being sarcastic after reading your bio, but on the other hand, it doesn't seem that Roger was. I'm fairly certain that if I was a non-pregnant "fat-ass," I still wouldn't be as uncomfortable as I am right now. - Tamar Weinberg

Candace

Wow...I was told recently that my ex-husband disappeared. Indeed it seemed he had. There was even a few people who thought he might be gone (yeah...) . I tried to find him through Google, and nothing. His last known address was ours which was four years old. His name turned up *nowhere*. I was concerned until I searched on a whim for his old e-mail

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address. Xbox live's website showed up. Sure enough, there was his Xbox Live profile. Last seen online? Two days ago. He's fine...he's not around for a reason. LOL ahh the internets. I found him when no one else could. - Candace

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don't most people want there ex's to disappear?? - Lokei Atikus™®

Not when they owe you money! XD - Candace

I see. Thats when you have them wacked or bury them yourself. - Lokei Atikus™®

I'm kidding. We kept in light touch as time went on. It wasn't a friendship or anything, but we'd do the "How are you?" deal once in awhile. - Candace

I know you found him, but ZABBAsearch.com is fantastic- i've only ever used free mode. But I haven't found anything better for strings of addresses, listings of public records and hints at whether someone is on parole. - moon_shadow70

I used Zaba. That's the one that showed our last address as his. He did a good job in keeping his online trail stealthed. - Candace

Alfredo

Cockroach USB Flash Drives: Bejeweled or Realistic - http://craziestgadgets.com/2009...

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NO. - Trish R

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YES! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

NOPE. - Mona Nomura

this is just ugh nasty - Alfredo

yes, realistic. keep peoples grubby little hands off my usb - Steve C

iiiiiiiish - روح الله مهدوی

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww - Lindsey is Fierce!

ew ew ew ew! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

I bookmarked the jeweled one. I'm buying it. o.0 - Candace

Zee.

The Circle of No Life - http://thenextweb.com/2009...

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I notice we're not on there :) - Karl Knechtel

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Karl: we're the invisible elephant in the middle. :-) - Robert Scoble

The invisible elephant that binds it all together in a single, awesome source. - Tsali, The Native of FF

...According to this chart, I have 50% of a "life" :P - Candace

The Circle of Life (revised) http://tinyurl.com/qp7z4x - Kevin Murray

Sorry guy, what's the flower for? Either I still have a life, or I missed the wolfram|alpha invitations :) - Jérôme Flipo

@Jerome it's Tumblr :) - Zee.

Thanks Zee. I could have used http://tineye.com but too lazy to save, crop and upload the image for that. And Friendfeed is faster anyway ;) Their logo isn't easy to recall IMO. - Jérôme Flipo

agreed Jerome :) - Zee.

Use all of the above (except for the flowery icon, have no idea what that is), FF addict, and still have a life thank you very much. If I'm not on my PC I'm out :P - LANjackal

World of Warcraft would consume the entire circle. - dthree

This makes me sad. lol - Eva

too much abstract and yet very true - Abhishek Tiwari

wait... isn't that life? :) - Melanie

LOL, +1 @Zee for geek #humor: The Circle of No Life.. - Alex Schleber

Since friendfeed is not there, it's definitely "The Circle of No Life"~~ - K.D.

@K.D. +1 弱弱的问下左下角那个花朵是什么网站? - 士慷

@士慷是传说中的Tumblr，看后面的链接（不过现在好像换了logo）～～ http://www.crunchbase.com/company... - K.D.

@K.D. 原来如此,多谢哈 - 士慷

Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

I can't think of a caption for this pic. Will you do me a favor and caption it for me? (Vulgarities are encouraged ;-) KThxbYe

May 14 - Comment - Like - Share

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This is MY FUCKING ACCORDION! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

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AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!!! CALL 911!!! WHY THE HELL DID YOU LET ME PLAY THIS THING NAKED?! YOU AND YOUR STUPID ACCORDION FETISH!!! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I got my man bits stuck.......help! - Janet

Veloci-cordion - Matthew

that looks like Mark E Smith... I'm scared! - alphaxion

WTF! You better not put that on the internet! - Shevonne

So far, Janet is winning the "Caption This Stupid Ass Pic" contest!!! - Brad Williamson

Thanks Janet, I'm now crying AND giggling ,-) - Jess

I'm mentally writing a whole story to try and explain WTF is going on in this picture and how it happened. Because honestly it makes no sense. "Bob's girlfriend hired the cast of Cheaters to see if her boyfriend was cheating on her. Sadly, they had to tell her he was fucking an accordion, because it had more response than her, in bed." This is an image from when Bob found out he was being filmed. - Jimminy

IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS WALTZING MATILDA AGAIN - Akiva Moskovitz

Sadly, Naked Punk Polka never really took off. Bob was force to relive the good ol' days in the comfort of his bedroom. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Akiva just won! - Candace

As a fan of Cheaters, I'm a lil biased towards James' illustration. May the game play on! - Brad Williamson

Yeah, I think Candace is right. Akiva wins. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

"WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, WE GOT FUN AND GAMES!!!..." - Brad Williamson

I think I'm going to have to go with Akiva on this one. Although, Brad, that's hilarious. - Jimminy

I feel stupid. I simply don't get Akiva's. No offense to her, of course, but could someone explain her caption to my dumb ass? If it's a crude caption (which, I think it is), please be use the most descriptive words possible. - Brad Williamson

+1 Jason. You've made me feel even dumberer. Akiva... Sorry dude / lamb in a suit. ;-) - Brad Williamson

Brad has now won the comp! - WorldofHiglet

Akiva is a man. It comes from "The Silence of the Lambs" movie. - Candace

Brad - it's a line from Silence of the Lambs. The crazy suspect holds a hostage at the bottom of a well and lowers a basket of lotion and then yells, "It puts the lotion on its skin." - Jimminy

I'm sorry, James, but that made zero sense to me. Once again, color me stupid. - Brad Williamson

WTF?? They cancelled The Lawrence Welk show???!!! - Steve

Brad - Here is the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jimminy

Nice, Steve! I had to Googlay the dude, but now I getcha! Good one! - Brad Williamson

Wow, I haven't been accused of being a female on FriendFeed since someone wanted to include me on a list of influential female bloggers. I'm pretty awesome, you know. - Akiva Moskovitz

"Who lives in a pineapple, under the SEA!!!!!" - CAJ, somewhere else

LOL!! IJSMP, Akiva! If I were you, I'd be proud of that! - Brad Williamson

Heck yeah, I'm proud! Look at my beautiful plumage! - Akiva Moskovitz

He was filled with rage when his friends told him, he couldn't be in the band, because the accordion didn't fit in a Metal band. - Jimminy

DO YOU FOLKS LIKE COFFEE?! - Candace

F#$K the Cowbell. I got a fever for some more accordion. - Steve

I love me some fucking zydeco!! - Bill Rawlinson

WATCH ME PLAY MY VIAGRACCORDION - Akiva Moskovitz

Lol, pronouncing Viagraccordion out loud makes me laugh. - Jimminy

In the end, Lyle decided to accept the job as greeter at the Musical House of Horrors. It was easy work. He got a chance to play again. And they let him scream all he liked. - MikeAmundsen

Weird Al started out like many young musicians, performing for imaginary audiences in the privacy of his bedroom, naked. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

who filled my squeezebox with JELLOOOOW ?! - bob phillips

I didn't know Gollum played the accordian..... - Stephanie Segel

'whaddya mean, YOUR instrument looks a bit different" - Paul Moss

"wtf it was'nt a dream sh!t" - eric

"The World Accordion To Garp" - Timothy Griffin

"You can take the kids, the house, the car, and the dog, but you will not take my ACCORDION!!" - zephyrlily

POLKA gone WILD: Get your first video for on $1.99 - Jonathan.Rivera

Never play an accordion naked. - Valley

So far, I'm diggin' on Candace's. It made me smile ;-) - Brad Williamson

I´m gonna DANCE WITH SOMEBODY! (just had the song in my ears when I saw this) - esther ♥ ♫

Oooooh! THAT'S A GOOD SONG, Esther! - Brad Williamson

His first naked accordion lesson was going well until the first squeeze of the bellows found his genitals in the way. - CAJ, somewhere else

yes brad, even better without accordion ;) - esther ♥ ♫

YOU CAN HAVE THIS ACCORDION WHEN YOU CAN PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS! - MikeAmundsen

SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND - Daniel Bruce

Why don't you knock, MOM! - Alejandro

is that Tim Robbins? - cooper

BOOM, Cooper! I like, I like! - Brad Williamson

Candace

He Man sings - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

May 15 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Because Jeff just posted something about He-man. - Candace from Bookmarklet

Candace

Brad's Grandpa passed away. :( He was 86 years old, lived a long and amazing life. He's Home now. No more pain. See you soon, Paw Paw Tom.

May 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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Sorry for your loss. Happy you got to know an amazing person... - Johnny Worthington

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad he had a good life :) - joey

In all honesty, it was expected. Somehow...Brad had a feeling this would be it. I think he knew that his Grandpa was tired this time, and he was just ready to go. - Candace

Zee.

i keep catching my dog staring at me like the way if a human did it it would freak you out...its freaking me out.

May 14 - Comment - Like - Share

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He is not staring, he is sending you subliminal messages about bacon. - Janet

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Link does that to me all the time. I have begun to think he may be a person in a Pit Bull's body. - Candace

Sleep with one eye open tonight ;) - Shevonne

I hate that. But at least you can look at the dog, and then tell him you're gonna bite him if he doesn't quit it - guruvan (Rob Nelson) from PeopleBrowsr

My Setter does that when it's about time for a walk. - Thomas Bøhm from BuddyFeed

Maybe you have something on your face. My dog does this then looks away real quick like she doesn't want me to see her looking at me. - suzanne

Dogs look away when you stare back because looking eye to eye is considered threatening to them. - Thomas Bøhm from BuddyFeed

Penny

My hands are sore from excessive screwing o_O

May 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I only know of one way to use a screwdriver. Is there another? :P - Penny

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If your hands are sore, Jason's right. You're doing it wrong. - Candace

Jason++ - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

You're doing the Wheelbarrow correctly. Keep it up. - Christopher Harley

Darren Williger

I find Twitter to be the most SOCIAL of all the social networks. IMO.

May 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Seriously? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

You better run for the hills now. There's a *ton* of Twitter hate here. Me? I love Twitter. It serves it's purpose for me just fine. - Candace

Thomas Hawk

Building a Better FriendFeed Suggested Users List - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

May 14 from Thomas Hawk Digital Connection - Comment - Like - Share

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Two days ago http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... Louis Gray pointed out on FriendFeed that when a new user signs up for FriendFeed that they receive 24 suggested FriendFeed users to follow. I'm one of those 24. There is no mystery to how these 24 users are selected for promotion on the FriendFeed platform, they are simply the 24 FriendFeed users with the most followers. Once a user subscribes to someone this list changes. it roughly becomes the most popular people followed by their friend(s). And while Friendfeed's objective and simplified method of promoting users to new sign ups is probably better than Twitter's much criticized subjective method of elite favoritism, it could be vastly improved yet. - Thomas Hawk

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But the "most popular" under this scheme is also self perpetuating is it not? Is that a good thing? Perhaps some sort of other automated suggestion list would be more appropriate? - Brian Sullivan

Yeah Brian, read the linked article :) He covers that sufficiently, I think... - Joel Bennett

Oh, and Thomas, maybe what you need are some imaginary friends: http://friendfeed.com/setting... (no, seriously). - Joel Bennett

I think rooms/groups or whatever they're calling it now should be featured more prominently for old and new users alike. That takes care of both the geography and the interests. - Eric P

Joel, Yeah, I've got a number of imaginary friends already set up from Flickr. But these are problematic as well. You can't share their stuff with other people on FF, you only see their flickrstream (I want to see their blog, their Flickrstream, their twitter acct, etc. all together), plus having to make these one by one is a pain. It would be much better if FF could just use the Flickr... more... - Thomas Hawk

Brian, yes, the suggested user list should *definitely* encompass more than just popularity. If you read my article above you'll see that I offer up a number of suggestions on how to improve/fix this. There are ways to deal with the self-perpetuation problem with the current system. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas this is a very good suggestion. Lets new users get out of the simple popularity based recommendations, and get more into interests and areas, which I very much like. Caters to the geeks and non-geeks alike. I especially like the "take 200 and randomize 24 out of the 200" -then even longer time users can go back to the list and get a fresh view. I think that if FriendFeed won't implement something like this, someone else should, but it would be best if we culd convince the FriendFeed crew to do so. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The Flickr API does indeed expose your contacts in terms of their user id and screen name on Flickr. FF could match this info against Flickr accounts that have been set up by FF users. - Ole Begemann

Ole, that would be my number one FriendFeed request. I'd love to be able to add all of my flickr contacts on FF that I'm not already following. I'd love to be able to invite all of those that are not here yet via the flickrmail system as well. - Thomas Hawk

The most distinct problem with the "popularity" based recommendations (here esp) is that they're totally oriented towards one group of people. If you don't like tech-journalists, you're not going to like the recommended list here now. I ALSO really like the idea about finding the new most active/popular users (the ones with less than 60days here) Great way to discover new talent. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Thomas: Not much of a flickr user, aren't flickr / yahoo contacts integrated? (I guess they must not be) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

One of the problems I see with the suggestions is they involve introducing more information requirements for the user to specify (geography, interests) which imply changes elsewhere in the system. Surely there is something simpler that can be done without that extra baggage to introduce some more randomness? - Brian Sullivan

Rob the new active/popular users tab would actually serve two purposes. it would be great for people like you and me to find new users to follow, but it would also provide valuable interaction to new active/popular users bringing them into the fold so to speak. I think some people sign up for FF and because they are new and unknown they get no interaction and get frustrated and quit. This would help them get exposure and engagement making their first impressions of the service better. - Thomas Hawk

what would be interesting is to ask the new user what they are interested in, then show the 24 people that have registered the same interests/tags in their FF stream. Like for example, Love comic books, comic book goodness, rapatton, me, and ect. That at least would be more "democratic", but then there I go thinking again :-) - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Rob, I'm pretty sure that my Flickr contacts are not integrated with my Yahoo mail. It would be cool if they were. Yahoo owns Flickr but the Yahoo mail and Flickr systems are still distinct as far as I'm aware. - Thomas Hawk

Dan, exactly. by letting us stipulate interests, friendfeed could create a suggested users by interests tab. I think you'd get a far different initial friendfeed experience if you had a tab for 24 (or even better paged) people interested in say photography than in the current 24 being promoted. Whatever your interests, music, guitar, comic books, movies, cooking, etc. I actually think... more... - Thomas Hawk

The "suggested list" should go "both ways": to subscribe and unsubscribe. Friendfeed should give me a list of, from those I follow, the one's is "less worth" following (I have everything, don't click in their links, never like or comment...) - Marcos Marado

Tina & I pointed out this deficiency a while back in April where I cited an Allan Stern article which was perhaps the first to point out this lob-sidedness wayyyy back http://friendfeed.com/sofarso... kind of fell on death ears *shrug* I'm not a blogger - sofarsoShawn

Yahoo and Flickr contacts are completely separate. Thomas: Inviting people via FlickrMail is not straightforward because Flickr doesn't expose FlickrMail via the API. Understandable IMO for spam reasons. - Ole Begemann

I agree with your suggestions, as well that a good chunk of the current 24 are not really engaging in the conversation here and whilst popular don't really deserve to be on the recommended list. It would definitely be better to see people who are engaging more here... As opposed to just having their tweets feeding through. - Travis Koger

I haven't looked at the suggested list since last year. It was something very similar even then, people with the most followers were chosen, but they aren't always the most active people. I think there could be a different way to suggest people to new users, maybe a way that chooses suggested users by interest. - Candace

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