Really very sad. I saw his last lecture and was very impressed. Always hoped, he would get through this... - Matthias Schwenk
So sad - he gave one of the great speeches of all time and in such an unassuming, selfless way. I'm glad his kids will at least have that to treasure. - JMaultasch
An inspiration to many. He will be missed - Tim Finucane
One of the finest. Some people are great a reminding us how to live, mainly by example. He was one of them. His web page doesn't seem to be loading..does anyone see where we can leave thoughts for his family and friends? - Loren Heiny
A real loss. I never met him (obviously) but I know of him through the eyes of those who did. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Fuck. fuckfuckfuckfuck. Randy was one of my favorite HCI teachers at CMU, and I'm so glad that his 'Last Lecture' got the world-wide attention that it did. I can't imagine being as brave as him in this place, and he fought off the cancer for about 6 months longer than the 4 months his doctors gave him. Even though I've known this was coming for months it's still really hard. - Kevin Fox
I keep putting off the book, which is ironically exactly the opposite of what I should be doing: moving forward and living life instead of treading water and letting life happen. Peace to you, Randy. - Kevin C. Tofel
I'm very sad but will always be inspired by the way he spent his last several months. - Dimitrios Diamantaras
I was a huge fan of Randy's; his work will live on far longer than this in the lives of those he influenced. - Aaron Krug
Inspirational. Will be watching his video many times throughout my life. Brave, wise man... - Hao Chen
What better way to go than knowing that you made every day count and that you touched the lives of so many people around the world! Even though his departure is a huge loss, we are blessed with the inspiration he leaves us with! - Gabriel Biguria
We knew this day would come but it's still sad just the same. The way the man approached his death, is an inspiration. My prayers are with him and his family today. - Peter Simard
He understood life and therefore death. He was attached to what was important in life, not to life itself. He was proof of the fact that scientists and engineers are the most spiritual of people. My thoughts are with his family - I hope they know how many are thinking of them today. - The Fat Oracle
death is overdramatised, it is the coolest thing that will ever happen to anybody, and is the culmination of everything embodiment was about - gregory lent
This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists. - Andrew Baron
Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework." - Andrew Baron
Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments. - Andrew Baron
Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :) - Charlie Anzman
Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit. - Brian Sullivan
I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction - Duncan Riley
I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is - Duncan Riley
Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :) - Penny
At 302 likes, the #1 most liked post of all time on FriendFeed. Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti/i... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos. - Mitchell Tsai
If there were an earthquake in SF, Twitter would probably go down then, too. Right now, no eqrthquake here, so what's Twitter's excuse today? ;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka
They should atleast put a note on blog.twitter.com (it seems to be running on blogger.com) to let people know it is down. - Atul Arora
oh sorry Steve, to interrupt your precious feed with our "chatter". thought the comment link was for comments. my bad. - rambn
friendfeed should buy twitter show them uptime :) - Jay Martinez via twhirl
no earthquake, just Belgium that is spliting .... no... just kidding :-) - Damien Van Achter via twhirl
FriendFeed would take over. So would Jaiku and Pownce. - Robert Scoble
It's probably due to the heat. It's so damn hot in the bay area today :( Milk would be a bad choice. - ClunkClunk
I would agree with Scoble. But if Twitter is becoming so critical, why not put servers on the East Coast and In AZ just to cover all bases? - Mike Wills
@scoble Hey what happened to Jaiku? Didnt Google buy them? I never hear anyone mention it. I get adds on other sites but not Jaiku. - Britney Mason
I'm not sure that boycotting a free service would accomplish much. - Dana Franks via twhirl
I want to participate in that event, blogged it a few minutes ago. tired of twitter's appaling level of service. - Richard Azia via Alert Thingy
Dana, at my blog you can see a bunch of the conversation we've all been having about Twit-Out http://jerseysuburbia.com Some might disagree, but a bunch of us think it's worth a try. - Andrew Dobrow
is Twhirl down too? Ah well, time for me to return to reality *shudders* - Iain Baker
I bet it does. Matter of fact, we've already got a great discussion going surrounding it. A boycott doesn't always have to "make change", it can simply spark several discussions around the topic. http://friendfeed.com/e/6a155c... My goal is to learn from the twit-out, and share that knowledge with everyone who cares. - Bwana McCall
OMG - I have hives - I am going through twitter withdrawls - Maxine Appleby
I am so badly addicted to twitter I cannot stop checking it ... need twitter now ... - Robert B. Morshe
Oh look my Twit-Out followers are back! Friendfeed for FTW! (poor twitter bird fell out of the tree again -ouch!) - Susan Beebe
Jeff, I wish there would be a Captain Quint scene (played by Robert Shaw) in which he shows up and promises to scale Twitter for the outrageous sum of $10,000. "For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing." - Karim
I think this is the first time I've blinked today... glad Twhirl has FriendFeed support - Josh via twhirl
@Karim - and Cap'n Quint is joined by Cap'n Kirk (Scotty. I need. Twitter. Now!) and Cap'n Crunch ... who's just on hand to offer sugary goodness to take the edge off this whole damn thing. - Jeff Crites
haha... I actually started reading a book in the interim... how spoilet we are to Twitter - Gilbert Corrales
There is no news and free debate without noise, Robert, don't block. - Prokofy Neva
Yeah, FF rocks... but not from my phone! Where's mobile for FriendFeed? - Mark Arend
How do we get people to stay? How do we keep people blogging? That's the problem I want to solve. - Ginger Makela
So far my clique has remained intact. There are only a handful of bloggers I've connected with, mostly because my blog doesn't really fall into any specific niche. It's just what I feel like writing about that day, or mostly what I feel like sharing with whoever passes by. - Michael Beck
The burnout in tech blogging is high. No days off. High pressure. - Cyndy
I imagine a giant fire hose where a giant mass of reader heads are flowing out like marbles. Louis Gray has this fire hose in his hand and points it at your site with an evil grin on his face. I should make this a comic, but I can't really draw :( I need more coffee. - Bwana McCall
It's fun to read something like this, but what do you mean? And what does that look like as far as impact for your blog? - Louis Gray
Louis, you have taken over as the one people look to when they want new stuff. After your 5 bloggers for May post my RSS item usage on Feedburner doubled and subscribers are increasing steadily so thank you. - Colin Walker
Colin, that's great to hear. I'm glad you're getting success. And it's not because of me. It's because you're a good writer and blogger. If I can help expose more people like you doing a great job, then I'm happy. It's what I like doing. - Louis Gray
Louis you are like Will Smith (Hitch) but for Bloggers! - Joe Dawson
I've recently jumped on the Louis Gray bandwagon, and its been a fun ride so far. I can see why there's all this positive energy around any mentions of LG! - Shafqat
Seriously, in two days my subscriber count has increased 25%. Not bad at all. - Rob Diana
Louis Gray got me onto FriendFeed and my life has never been the same since. - Robert Scoble
So, now it is finally closer to features parity with del.icio.us, could be useful to start a conversation in FriendFeed faster, when the reported problems will be gone. - Alberto Saavedra via Alert Thingy
I wish the comments would come into FriendFeed. Also, why am I seeing TONS of duplication? Plus, why is FriendFeed not putting all similar items into one cluster? This stuff all sucks. - Robert Scoble
Robert this stuff takes a bit to sort out. Between FF and Reader I expect them to have it sorted out about 10x faster than most companies. Give them a little time. - Jason Shellen
Robert: thanks for the feedback. You are not alone in your complaint, and we are working on ways to group similar items. - Bret Taylor
duplication has been one of the few problems with FF - the way I understand it is that it's a pretty hard problem to solve, because every single FF user sees a different version of the site, depending on who your friends are - so you would have to generate a new cluster for every user every time they reload the page. But I have faith in the FF team that they will sort this out over time. - Frederic
Scoble, relax. These guys are launching early and often. I think what they have accomplished in the short time they have been working on this is pretty sweet. Google Reader put out a new feature today and you expect FF to have it fully integrated already? I am confident it will happen eventually. Just take a deep breath in the meantime. :) - Sacca
Saaca this feature is VERY poorly implemented. But, I'll revisit after they fix the bugs. It's pretty clear they should test this with major users before releasing. I'm the #1 Google Reader user in the world (according to Google). Why didn't they have me in to test these features before releasing? Just to ship fast? Why, is FriendFeed taking too much market share? - Robert Scoble
Robert, the Google Reader team is strong, but small. They do a lot of testing internally, as you can imagine. I think them opening up new features to people like you and me goes against their corporate ethos, but as individuals, they would like to, I bet. - Louis Gray
I think traditional RSS readers (Google Reader included) will eventually face a simple problem: offerings such as FF will begin to attract the mainstream audience (thanks to the social aspect and overall friendlier feel and apparent ease of use) - and by doing that eliminate their need to experiment with RSS and other buzzword technologies, something that RSS reader products/services have long hoped for. - Aviv
The multi-dimensional nature of FriendFeed may be seen as a drawback by some, but Friendfeed's integration of multiple types of well-identified content is, in my view, a net benefit. - Ontario Emperor
The multi-dimensional nature of FriendFeed may be seen as a drawback by some, but Friendfeed's integration of multiple types of well-identified content is, in my view, a net benefit. - Ontario Emperor
Agreed. I seem to find myself following more conversations on FriendFeed than Twitter. It seems more beneficial. - Scott Jarkoff
I agree too. Friendfeed is way much feeding me compared to twitter. comments are invaluable. - ilteris via Alert Thingy
friendfeed is the best at making conversation around ideas and items easy - Morgan via twhirl
Spending time "only on Twitter" would be closing your mind to 99% of the Web. We all know Robert won't do that. FriendFeed is about bringing the Web to you all in one place, as you want it, and communicating with friends and peers. - via FriendFeedMachine - Louis Gray
I'm with you, Robert, and the rest - FriendFeed's awesome - Graeme Thickins
well yeah they both are really addicting - Alex Carpenter
That's a great idea I wish more people would adopt. That's not mean one might not follow both. Along these lines: people who announce their blog posts using multiple clients (twitter, ff, the blog/rss import function etc.) are starting to annoy me. It'll take a while for all of us to figure out the best use and mix of these tools, I guess. - Alex von Halem
yeah sure is a good idea .. followed ... Leo I've been missing a lot of your tweets as well .. as in they're not coming up in twhirl ..weird ...via twhirl - JohnBfromMemphis
Great idea leo... I've had to drop a few prolific twitterers (sorry Jason Calacanis!) because the sheer number of tweets was overwhelming everything else. Breaking it into catagories allows people to follow at their own level ...via AlertThingy - Nathan Manley
yep... dropping calacanis, scoble and techcrunch makes twitter suddenly manageable ...via twhirl - Jorge Luis Revilla
yeah to johnb, i'm missing lot's of people's tweets as well ...via AlertThingy - Chris Jones
“Flickr videos has a maximum time of 90 seconds. This seems absolutely brilliant to me because with one single parameter they're defining the entire spirit and purpose of the feature. It's not YouTube. It's different.”
I have to say I'm also happy about that limit. It's enough for short "family videos" and such, and enables the videos to dovetail nicely amongst the photos. - Adam Lasnik
Not sure, why 12+ peeps - flaged as "liked" ?? 2nd'ly- creative fashion w/food stuffs when half the world is in near starvation mode, jus shows the metal state of the person who did it. GROSS is an understateme - Peter Dawson
