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Cathleen Rittereiser › Comments
Has @scobleizer decided whether FriendFeed is dead or alive yet? I'm thinking it's dead, but I'm not an expert.
well, um, I'm still here:-)
- Francine Hardaway
from BuddyFeed
I'd say "define dead" since FF is not a man :)
- directeur
I meant dead like "nobody uses it". Admittedly I don't interact here much and post relatively few FF specific items, so I never got a lot of conversation going, but I used to get more comments or "likes" than I do now. Like 1 every few days rather than 1 a month. It reminds me a little of Pownce. I'm glad that you both are alive and here. I just fear this will get sucked into Facebook and be used to send us the names of people we might know.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Yes, Facebook, thank you so much for your *amazing* suggested friend feature. A grandmother type with a crazy sweatshirt and another with her pants pulled down around her ankles. I'm so impressed with your uncanny ability to find just my type of new friend.
Daryl Hunt on FF, Tsega Dinka, Steven Perez and 33 other people liked this
I thought these were suggestions made by other people not the automatic "you know their friends so you must know them" method?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Yes, the "suggested by" gives it away. It's not the "you might also know…" automated recommendation. It says more about your friends than it does about Facebook.
- Mistletoe Glen
That was my understanding too. These are friends your friends suggest. Interesting circles you run in; I can't imagine a real person putting that rear shot as a profile pic on fb.
- Kenley Neufeld
from iPhone
sometimes I acidently end up accepting these as they feel just like actual friend requests. That bottom new friend might take some explaining to my wife. Facebook ought to consider letting users turn this feature off if they'd like. I know I'd turn it off.
- Thomas Hawk
That's hilarious. I always get recommended people I already know that are new to FB
- Francine Hardaway
The really question is did you friend either?
- RAPatton
haha, no, neither. I was tempted to friend the grandmotherly type since we've got 12 mutual friends but I have no idea in blazes who she is.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm more impressed with the 305 messages in your inbox.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'm so terrible with my email/flickrmail/facebook mail. I try and try and just can't keep up with it all.
- Thomas Hawk
Im less likely to subscribe to either .. unless I know them ,,,
- johnpiercy
I have 587 unread messages in my Facebook inbox. I actually read all them through e-mail, and there's no good way to mark all as read. Facebook sucks for e-mail-like communication (as does Twitter).
- Jesse Stay
At least facebook should not show the same suggested friends again and again once we hit X on it but it does show them repeatedly. Very annoying :(
- Muhammad Ahmed
Facebook is so lame - just sayin.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
inbox 305 whatt :D this lol
- mariamaqdalena
i currently have 4647 unread messages on facebook :/ lol
- Geoff Jackson
What a contrast.
- Carolyn Chan
4647 is alot Geoff. I hate all forms of email myself actually. It feel burdensome feeling that you have to respond to someone or risk offending them. I much prefer interacting with people directly in forums like FriendFeed or DMU on Flickr in public than one on one. Email should be reserved for things that really do need to be kept private.
- Thomas Hawk
LOL...What would you do w/o FB?
- Tammy Marshall
Tamara: Use My Space? lol
- Geoff Jackson
Thomas: Yeah my Facebook is pretty hectic and I although I do read my messages on there, I can not keep up with them at the rate they come in. I rarely use email at all these days though unless it is to send files to someone. I just hope one day i will not have to find an old message on Facebook, haha
- Geoff Jackson
I am so with you. It's annoying. I spend the most time on Facebook x-ing out people I've never heard of that might be my friends. It gets better. Yesterday I got a notification - where my high priority Scrabble and Lexulous pings turn up - of some guy, never heard of him either, that had just joined FB and did I want to suggest friends. WTF?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
it seems to periodically (weekly?) refresh the suggested friends....
- Jason A. Samfield
Re: Wisdom of (this) crowd? - http://www.parkparadigm.com/2009...
Cathryn Hrudicka liked this
"First of all, I cannot believe you are turning me down in order to do this event. Especially since your plenary talk is exactly what I want you to talk about. Maybe you can pull a Phil Collins at Live Aid move and perform in Amsterdam in the morning and then fly on the Concorde to Boston to speak at my event in the afternoon. We are the world after all. I suppose I'll have to settle for replaying the tinny live streaming version. On a serious note, I am forwarding your topic to Bob R., who did a lot of work on the telecom - financial services meld in the early '80s. I promise to think about it too. My instincts tell me that when technology levels the playing field, then certain elements of defining the vertical become more important or need to be more specific. The classic concept that if everyone can use Yahoo finance to get the same information, then how do you differentiate your business and what you're doing with it? It may mean that intellectual property becomes a bigger issue..."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Handwriting Tips Penmanship (forget cursive) - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Marco Fabbri, Tyson Key, Jérôme Flipo and 39 other people liked this
"The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure. The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. ... But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic."
- Paul Buchheit
That's how I write already! I had to change from Palmer to Italic in high school because I didn't have a typewriter (pre-computer era); our papers had to be typed or handwritten in italic.
- Anne Bouey
Nice article. It actually makes me want to grab a piece of that ruled paper to slowly trace out the letters. I find that my handwriting is best when it's all caps. I wonder if I can change that?
- Todd Lloyd
I think I might play with this some this weekend. Printable PDF here: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images...
- Michael Leggett
My mother has beautiful penmanship. I even found a book about it last year and gave it to her. Mine was always ok (Can you tell I went to Catholic school yet?) but it started to go awry when I started having to write in Palm PIlot.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Oddly enough, I've been writing like this for ages. I like joining some letters, but doing so constantly and with loops always seemed strange and ornate.
- Joel Webber
The amazing thing to note in this article is how easy it is to read letters when only the top half of the line is visible (and how impossible it is to read when only the bottom half is visible).
- Mike Koss
Woke up today -- on fire. Was going to fly through my TO DO list and take the world by storm. It's now 4:45. Got two things done. Apparently, I will need some extra time to take the world by storm.
Cathryn Hrudicka liked this
This is why I keep a fire extinguisher by my bed.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
That sounds like wise planning!
- Drew McLellan
from email
I'm taking the world by drizzle
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Well, I am angling for at least a steady stream today!
- Drew McLellan
from email
Real-time contest. Who is doing the geekiest thing right now? Answer on FriendFeed here:
Carlo Maglinao, K.D., Bora Zivkovic and 58 other people liked this
Following FF live feed :-)
- Bo Stern
I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Converting some values on my HP-16C.
- LogEx
Setting up signatures in Thunderbird.
- John Fox
Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt
- Pon
Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix.
- Michael Groner
Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard.
- BeauGiles
watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other
- Rob Clark
running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing
- Erik Boles
Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :)
- emon hassan
I am not geeky enough.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though)
- Jason Phillips
I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77...
- Travis B. Hartwell
Erik wins so far!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Alex Linebrink
Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/
- Derrich
Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY.
- emon hassan
Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can!
- Joshua Odneal
Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes.
- David R
Derrich wins hands down
- Jodi Church
ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!)
- Mr K
Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv
- Carlton Prest
David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!!
- Erik Boles
Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar?
- Stephen Pickering
Indexing mysql databases
- Mike
I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it.
- Michael Groner
watching buffy & angel, lmao
- Brendon Wadey
Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'!
- BeauGiles
Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well.
- Daniel Zarick
Helping someone set up an IRC client.
- Danny Minick
I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it.
- Scott Voss
Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :(
- Travis B. Hartwell
Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek.
- Fred
And with the iphone still geeking out!
- Stephen Pickering
Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly
- David R
I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN.
- Rob Sterling
@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :)
- Michael Groner
TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy
- Erik Boles
:)
- Travis B. Hartwell
getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget...
- esaarem
Defending Blue Bell ice cream and telling church jokes.
- Mistletoe Glen
Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-)
- Johni Fisher
Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte
- Jeremy Lane
Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest?
- David R
David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football.
- Akiva Moskovitz
watching systm on how to build a combat robot
- Sean Montgomery
@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet,
- Derrich
I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek.
- Justin Lowery
ill take that magnet
- David R
watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob.
- geoff hines
Playing World of Warcraft and watching FriendFeed's stream at the same time.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
rebooting PC after BSD
- Phani Raj Kuchibhotla
Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo
- imperator3733
Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT
- Rohit Harshvardhan
@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness.
- Erik Boles
Playing Wow!
- Bill Skoros
installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers
- Carlos
changing my friendfeed theme to custom
- thegeniusfiles
@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower!
- BeauGiles
EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building
- Sean Montgomery
researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up
- Justin Ruckman
first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids.
- Erik Boles
@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also…
- Justin Lowery
You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings.
- Yule Heibel
watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game!
- ann glenn
Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster.
- Kenny Rayl
@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it.
- Justin Lowery
This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby....
- Sean Montgomery
and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game.
- geoff hines
David: prize? My undying respect!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF
- Derrich
• The Geekiest Thing? Well — I'm reading micro-blog posts from Robert Scoble! How can you possibly do anything geekier than that? ☺
- Richard Merritt
Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC.
- Edward Coffey
Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Installing apps for the new 3Gs
- Denverken
Keeping up with this thread
- Reyna Carlos
Babbling in writing is just pathetic.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that...
- Dean Browell
Go Denverken!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Reyna Carlos wins
- Jeremy Lane
@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :)
- BeauGiles
Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :)
- Laura Zickus
digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net
- Fred Davis
Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard!
- Adam Jackson
Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project.
- Jimmy
On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance!
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-)
- Fred Davis
Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion
- Micah Wittman
Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...]
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Watching Season 4.5 of BSG
- lisa padilla
...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-)
- Fred Davis
My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt!
- Stephen Pickering
hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far
- Denverken
Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot?
- Jerry Garcia
yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha!
- Fred Davis
Watching Android get ported onto an MID
- Netbooknews
watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island"
- monkeystick
Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper.
- Sheila Scarborough
I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas.
- Jerry Garcia
I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter.
- Fred Jones
Going thru 104 comments on this thread.
- Winston Teo
Shape Collaging FF followees http://friendfeed.com/glongma...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video
- Outsanity
I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was
- Kevin Marks
reading scoble FF
- Ruchit Garg
hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor.
- Brett Kelly
zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled.
- David Newman
Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D
- Yahya
playing with django framework
- vinod
playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it)
- Keith - @tsudo
Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts.
- lily taylor
Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF.
- Sandra Large
reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =)
- Charl Pearce
Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek?
- John Nissim
Doing open source development in C++.
- Dean Michael Berris
checking out laptops on pc mag. #
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed')
- Bill Powell
Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
LOl @Stephen P.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Playing with Google Wave
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7
- RobinDotNet
Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what?
- Brent Cameron
My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it.
- Alex Knight
running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV
- Robert Higgins
Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone
- Johnny Worthington
Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :)
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :)
- Fahim
I dont know if this comes under the "tech" category! I am currently thinking ;-) Thinking if the human mind is really an illusion!
- rampantheart
Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog.
- Tim Maly
Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim.
- Jim Connolly
Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans.
- Steve Farnworth
running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome.
- Rohit
Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete.
- Usman Bashir
Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Making a few more custom buttons for firefox.
- April Russo (app103)
Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed.
- Ben Pashkoff
from twhirl
I am listening to Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte interview Michael Foord about Iron Python.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Drinking my morning coffee.....
- Roberto Bonini
it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^
- Paul Papadimitriou
from iPhone
And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :)
- Roberto Bonini
I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :)
- Charlie Anzman
When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky?
- DGentry
Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :)
- Usman Bashir
changing the links under my flickr photos from my personal website to my twitter and facebook fan page. You've got to go where the traffic is! </geekiness>
- Edward Barnieh
Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
reading all the comments above;p
- zʍıɔ
Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post!
- Martin Bryant
We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum?
- Jeff Sayre
Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification...
- Tyson Key
I'm organizing CloneFeed/OpenFF, the open source alternative to FF. Early stages though.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm.
- jcunwired
....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in.
- Matthew Ogston
everyon'es working around me and im on friendfeed. lol
- nivcalderon
Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up.
- Courtney Engle
ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there.
- Courtney Engle
A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee!
- Jeff Sayre
Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES.
- ashish
I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!"
- Trent Hamm
from iPod
Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals!
- Frank Da Silva
Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud.
- Micah Wittman
Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter.
- Michael Pardee
I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?"
- Jimmy Walker
Configuring a Sonicwall router.
- Norm McKenzie
Writing code in Scala.
- Joey Gibson
I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com
- Benjy Felsham
reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader.
- Fuad Arshad
OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky!
- Robyn Hawk
I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next!
- Jan Horna
Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL
- Jim Goldstein
Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . .
- MikeEllsworth
Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress.
- Michael Carnell
Ripping Hogan's Hereos DVDs to make H.264 files for later playing on Apple TV. It's good to carry on in comments here as it shows FF that there is a continuing need and use of the FF ways of doing things. If this was on Facebook, I could not send a comment to Robert unless he friended me. Things are just so much tighter and efficient here.
- Keith Rowland
About the only other thing we could ask for in comments, is comments on comments.
- Keith Rowland
playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature
- Heather
Using my phone to Skype, Friendfeeding on a netbook, playing sudoku on my ipod while watching Pulp Fiction.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated.
- Jim Peake
I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:)
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
following Scobleizer is pretty geeky
- Shari Weiss
working on new version of picollator.com
- Irina Yakhneeva
Installing IE8.
- Rob Schieber
Reading on FF instead of working...
- DAL
compiling Erlang
- Brian Hendrickson
Define "real-time."
- l0ckergn0me
_as if_ you can beat me :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting.
- Jim Connolly
OSgrid
- paniaguai
Damn. Louis Gray was right again. Visited Lazyfeed very early on .... then logged on again just now. Pretty sweet. He's got some invites here (but this was 20 minutes ago :)
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Bring it on, Charlie. I only like the good ones. :)
- Louis Gray
http://ff.im/6AjyB Forgot the link ..... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Louis - This really could change my online habits. First time in a while. Cool stuff
- Charlie Anzman
I didn't even remember I had Lazyfeed account before you mentioned it.
- LouCypher
That's what I'm here for Lou ... The downside of this is you realize how many people are blatantly ripping off your blog content ... but hey, that's always been there :)
- Charlie Anzman
I get all my best posts from your blog content, Charlie!
- Louis Gray
Man, you gave away the secret source. I'm trying to stay under the radar :)
- Charlie Anzman
is lazyfeed good then? how do i get to try it? and why use that over google reader?
- Rob Sellen :o)
At least it didn't take me four months to copy Louis Gray this time. :-)
- Robert Scoble
thanks for the heads up!
- Jay Farmington
I have 3 lazyfeed invites if anyone wants one. I posted it on Twitter and all I got was a "what's lazyfeed"?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
I like lazy feed, but I wish it just had SOME sharing options... but as it is, it's got nothing.
- Vince DeGeorge
Cathleen.. you still have one? I'd try it out..
- Rob Sellen :o)
RT @huffingtonpost Is Becoming A Farmer The New American Dream? (Gotta say, I’ve thought about it myself): http://bit.ly/2ATxUC - http://creativesage.tumblr.com/post...
Investing in farmland is a big new institutional investor trend so I guess being a farmer is the next best thing. Or it's the next new Ponzi scheme
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Just spent an hour crafting a message in a web-based Outlook e-mail I must use on a project. It logged me out when I tried to save it. Gone
That will teach you to craft things in Outlook.
- Francine Hardaway
Thanks for that. You're so right
- Cathleen Rittereiser
from email
Let's Have Some Fun With This: Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like ____ Buying _____.
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GM Buying BMW
- Louis Gray
Paris Hilton buying Thomas Pynchon.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wal*Mart Buying Macy's?
- Louis Gray
God Buying Buddha?
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Louis Gray buying the Giants.
- Mark Krynsky
McDonald's Buying Ruth's Chris?
- Louis Gray
Mark - exactly the route I want to go.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray buying sleeping tablets
- WorldofHiglet
like Lyndon LaRouche buying Barack Obama.
- Spidra Webster
The Yankees Buying the Green Bay Packers
- Louis Gray
Dell Buying Apple
- Louis Gray
Ford buying Ferrari
- Ken Sheppardson
tr.im buying bit.ly
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
QVC Buying Ebay
- Louis Gray
Boeing buying Airbus
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
China buying the Internet
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
China Buying the USA
- Bastard Operator From FF
like Microsoft buying Adobe
- Marco
Canada Buying Puerto Rico
- Louis Gray
MySpace buying Twitter
- Ken Sheppardson
like Juicy Couture buying Christian Dior.
- Spidra Webster
Some big company buying some little company
- Mistletoe Glen
+1 Spidra! LOL!
- Michael Forian
Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like POP Buying CORN
- chaz2b
McDonald's buying In-N-Out - http://ff.im/6q8Qp
- chrisofspades
CBS buying CNET. Oh... no... wait
- Ken Sheppardson
Some big GOOFY company buying some little KICK ASS company
- Marco
Techcrunch buying Engadget. /me hides behind his desk.
- Matthew Horton
The Catholics Buying the Mormons. :)
- Louis Gray
"Dell Buying Apple" - Louis Gray -- I think makes a great deal of since in this context.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
AOL Buying Microsoft
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Swatch Buying Movado
- Louis Gray
A teenager buying condoms. Awkward.
- Andrew Smith
Microsoft buying Yahoo. Wait... shoot. That's not right.
- Ken Sheppardson
Time Warner Buying AOL
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Microsoft buying Canonical
- vrjbln
Entrepreneurs buying futures
- Josh Haley
Internet Explorer buying Opera
- Marco
Yahoo buying Broadcast.com
- Cathleen Rittereiser
GoDaddy buying InterNIC
- Ken Sheppardson
Everybody Loves Raymond buying Arrested Development.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Ford buying Volvo. Oh...wait.
- wyclif
Wall Street Journal Buying Seeking Alpha?
- Louis Gray
Fox buying Revision3
- Matthew Horton
Looney Tunes Buying The Simpsons?
- Louis Gray
Techcrunch buying Mashable. Or is it the other way around?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Rupert Murdoch buying The Huffington Post
- Ken Sheppardson
Drudge Report Buying the Daily Kos?
- Louis Gray
Yahoo buying Google....in 1999
- Onur Cengiz
National Enquirer Buying the New York Times
- Louis Gray
Michael Jackson buying the Beatles.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Batman buying the x-men!
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Comcast buying TiVo
- Ken Sheppardson
Beige Buying The Color Spectrum (think about it)
- Louis Gray
G4 Buying TechTV
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Ouch +1 Jonathan
- Matthew Horton
CNN buying TWiT
- Ken Sheppardson
Experts Exchange buying Stack Overflow
- Brian Sloane
Google buying YouTube. ( YouTube and FF are my favorites)
- Renchin(Reina)
Microsoft Buying Quicken
- Louis Gray
Hey now, LG, Looney Tunes is frakking awesome. How about Disney buying Pixar? Oh, wait..... (and actually, that one hasn't worked out badly, so is there yet hope?)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
++ Jandy -> How about Dreamworks buying Studio Ghibli?
- LogEx
elephant buying wings
- K.D.
+1 Jandy - Guess that means there can be light at the end of the tunnel
- Matthew Horton
Microsoft Outlook Buying Google Reader
- Louis Gray
Google buyingTwitter
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Polyester Buying Silk
- Louis Gray
Larry Flynt buying Vogue
- Ken Sheppardson
Fox News buying The Onion
- Brian Sloane
+ ken
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Warner Music buying Labrador or Barsuk
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Budweiser buying Guiness
- Matthew Horton
Microsoft buying (then eating) Linus Torvald's offspring
- Slappy Line
LE, that one works. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Sam's Club buying Neiman Marcus
- LogEx
LOL @ Brian- Fox News buying The Onion
- zephyrlily
Utah Buying Las Vegas
- Louis Gray
Jimi Hendrix buying the farm.
- Adrian
Geocities buying WordPress
- AJ Kohn
USA buying Australia :)
- Matt G
Ticketmaster buying The Fillmore
- Ken Sheppardson
Polaroid buying Flickr
- AJ Kohn
lol Holden I think that sums it up
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Like Scoble buying decaf
- Eric Rice
Oops I think Eric just killed the thread
- Gilbert Harding
The Atlantic Ocean Buying the Carribean Sea
- Louis Gray
Casio buying Steinway
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
like trees buying flowers
- Marco
Baskin Robbins Buying Coldstone Creamery
- Louis Gray
The Pirates of The Caribbean (film) buying The Secret of Monkey Island
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Britney Spears buying Billie Holiday
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Bill Gates buying Steve Jobs dinner?
- Gilbert Harding
Payless buying Zappos.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
TWiT Buying FFundercats
- Louis Gray
Walmart buying Barney's
- AJ Kohn
@Jandy, or how about Amazon buying Zappos?
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Like Bud buying Cuervo
- jacky
LOL: TWiT Buying FFundercats
- Marco
Amazon's cool, though. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
USPS buying FedEx
- Ken Sheppardson
Bee's buying Honey
- Mac Sharp
@Jandy, they insulted my grandma. :P
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
+1 Mac
- Gilbert Harding
UGO buying 1up
- Matthew Horton
The IRS Buying H&R Block
- Louis Gray
New York Yankees buying ... oh, well, that doesn't work.
- AJ Kohn
India Buying Pakistan? :)
- Louis Gray
Michael Bay buying Joss Whedon
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
+1 Jonathan
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
+1 Jonathan Definitely
- Matthew Horton
NASA Buying Star Wars?
- Louis Gray
Rails 'buying' merb
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Microsoft Buying Linux
- Louis Gray
Microsoft buys Toys R Us
- Gilbert Harding
Sears buying HBC
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Valve buying Playstations
- Eric Rice
Like your grandma buying a nose ring http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- BairdWilliamson
Wikipedia buying TVTropes
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Activision (Instrument Controller Division) buying Gibson
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Apple buying Xerox Parc
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Encarta Buying Wikipedia
- Louis Gray
Huffy buying Cervélo (for you cycling fanatics)
- AJ Kohn
Richard: Waitaminute...
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Swarovski buying DeBeers
- Spidra Webster
Thompson Guides buying GoogleMaps
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Microsoft buying Digital Research
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
AJ: Or Trek buying Gary Fisher?
- Ken Sheppardson
Chevron buying the Sun
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Lucifer buying heaven
- LouCypher
Vanilla buying chocolate
- LogEx
You can tell you're still an LA n00b, Jandy. It's Thomas Guides. :))
- Spidra Webster
George Lucas buying Star Trek
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
+1 Ken - Mainly because I actually got that one ;-)
- Matthew Horton
Spidra, lol. I even started to look it up! I have a Thomas Guide somewhere, but haven't used it since I got an iPhone.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Digg buying reddit
- invariant - farewell FF
Forrester Buying Gartner
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Me buying a Mars Bar - easy, relatively cheap, good for me and ultimately the end of the Mars Bar.
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
Mike Nayyar buying his Dumpster
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Night Train buying Chateau Neuf du Pape.
- Spidra Webster
Nokia buying iPhone
- LouCypher
Starbucks buying Pete's
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
@Ken: Yup.
- AJ Kohn
Exxon Mobil buying Greenpeace
- Ken Sheppardson
The News of The World buying Twitter
- Zackatoustra
Microsoft buying Firefox.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
Australia buying Bali
- LouCypher
is like, well, there's nothing truly like it, but it might be like Myspace buying Fox....
- Mike Shields
That would possibly /improve/ Myspace
- Matthew Horton
McDonalds buying Arby's?
- Matthew Horton
Louis Gray buying China.
- imabonehead
Boeing buying NASA
- LouCypher
Coca Cola buying Starbucks !
- Nir Ben Yona
Coke buying water
- Chris Nixon
Australia Buying New Zealand
- Louis Gray
National Enquirer buying Louis Grey?
- Matthew Horton
Simon Cowell buying Radiohead
- Mark Evans
Japan buying Hawaii
- LouCypher
U2 Buying Nine Inch Nails
- Louis Gray
Mark... blasphemy! :)
- LogEx
Warner Bros buying Lucas Film
- LouCypher
Radiohead buying Muse /me runs for his life!
- Matthew Horton
Hilton buying Paris
- LouCypher
Dracula buying the Blood Bank
- Matt G
Marriott buying W hotels ...
- Amani
I think the sentence should end like so: Like ______ _____ing ______. I would have SEVERAL suggestions then. ;)
- abacab
"The Most Boring Man in the World" buying Dos Equiis
- .LAG liked that
Steve Ballmer buying The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Mike Arrington buying Leo Laporte
- Larry Roth
Like a fat old guy buying a mail order bride.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Fail whale buying the skater snail
- Matthew Horton
Oil buying water
- Mark Evans
Premiere Radio buying FFundercats
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Bono buying Pirate Bay
- LouCypher
LA Galaxy buying Manchester United
- Larry Roth
Like Ask buying Google
- Keith - @tsudo
Pirate Bay users buying anything
- Larry Roth
Night buying day
- Mark Evans
Lars Ulrich buying Megadeth
- LouCypher
Russia Buying Europe
- Louis Gray
Flash Buying AJAX
- Louis Gray
Lars Ulrich buying Napster
- Larry Roth
I would say you're drunk with that Flash / Ajax one but I know it's not possible unless your milk is spiked.
- Mark Krynsky
The Queen (HRH Elizabeth Windsor) buying France
- WorldofHiglet
Yahoo buying Flickr.
- Gus
Safeway buying Whole Foods
- Matt Weeks
Louis: Aussie buying NZ! that will never happen
- Geer
Jon Bon Jovi buying Van Halen
- LouCypher
Timmies buying Starbucks
- WorldofHiglet
Nike buying Converse... oh wait..
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
The Earth buying the Moon
- WorldofHiglet
U.S. buying the moon
- LouCypher
WalMart buying Whole Foods
- Dominic Jones
Italy buying Mediteranian Sea
- LouCypher
Myspace buying Facebook
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
England Buying Wales
- Louis Gray
The Yankees buying a World Series...oh wait...
- Larry Roth
Silvio Berlusconi buying English Premier League
- LouCypher
Shopper buying his necessities, (it's a business decision)
- Wins Fern
Mark Cuban buying NBA
- LouCypher
Berlusconi & Murdoch buying NPR
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Edward Lewis buying Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman
- Andrew Smith
"India buying Pakistan" rofl
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from Android
LOL @ Rishabh
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Oracle buying Sun Microsystems.
- imabonehead
Scientology buying Anonymous
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Vanhalen buying Sammy Hagar
- Mac Sharp
Robert Scoble buying Louis Gray.
- Wins Fern
The Vatican buying Hubble Telescope
- LouCypher
lol you guys :-D
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Christmas Buying Hanukkah
- Louis Gray
Swine Flu buying Tamiflu
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Monkeys buying footballs for the expressed purpose of fornicating with them.
- abacab
Nerf buying the NFL
- Keith - @tsudo
Bing buying the Google search engine
- Ian
Java buying C#
- Ian
Chris Pirillo Buying Mona
- Louis Gray
HAHAHAHAHA, LG!
- Spidra Webster
Dodi Al-Fayed buying a Mercedes
- LouCypher
Amazon buying Zappos
- Ian
AT&T buying T-mobile
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Mattel buying LEGO
- LouCypher
Philip Morris buying Club Penguin
- Dominic Jones
My school buying me, and I kick it off.
- Lizunlong
Mickey Mouse Club buying Porn. oh wait. my bad. they had us at Spears.
- TheMacMommy
SFMUNI buying the Concorde
- Spidra Webster
Bono buying into "sunglasses are not cool".
- Gilbert Harding
Delta buying NASA.
- Frankie Warren
UGLY.COM buying BEAUTY.COM
- David Newman
Tom buying Jerry :)
- Serkan Unsal
Oracle buying ... oh wait ...
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Twitter buying Facebook
- Tyson Key
Facebook buying whole web
- Jacque
Apple buying Fisher Price.
- Jemm
Mark Zuckerberg buying Bill Gates
- Jacque
McDonald's buys Telco
- Tyson
A large social media company buying a small social media company.
- Big K
Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like Google Buying Lazyfeed.
- sean808080
Walmart buying Zappos
- phil baumann
Apple buying Facebook (and believe me it's coming)
- Thomas Power
Oracle buying salesforce.com
- Dave Food
Tinker-toys buying Lego?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
*smacks MVB* How DARE you besmirch tinker toys!!! Oh, and what's up with fiddling with your name, you trying to make me get MDV and MVB confused?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Lenovo Buying IBM (PC Group).. Ops!
- Jacque
Microsoft buying Apple.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
A big fish buying a little fish
- Angelo John Lewis
Amazon buying Zappos
- Mark Essel
A man buying a sweet pretty dress, guess he pay and will never wear it himself. (some spend money just to impress others).
- abdellah
Real Madrid buying Cristiano Ronaldo?
- Faraz Mullick
Sony buying Apple?
- Tyson Key
Eric buying Sookie
- Andrew Terry
Volkswagen buying Skoda?
- Tyson Key
GM buying Ferrari
- Ladybug Heather
MySpace buying Twitter
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Macy's buying Gimble's
- Thom Kennon
The Sun buying The Guardian
- Patrick Jordan
Twitter buying the corpse of Pownce
- Tyson Key
Bacon buying Memes.
- imabonehead
IBM buying Seagate
- Tyson Key
Me buying a FriendFeed t-shirt. It will soon become a dust rag.
- jcunwired
Xzibit buying Chuck Norris (edit)
- AJ Batac
Real Madrid buying Manchester City
- Jan Mulder
Satan buying Heaven?
- Tyson Key
I liked MySpace buying Twitter.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Samsung buying Motorola
- Tyson Key
Microsoft buying Mozilla
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
The RIAA buying The Pirate Bay
- Tyson Key
Home Depot buying Bob Villa
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
HomeBase buying B&Q
- Tyson Key
Bed, Bath & Beyond buying Ethan Allen
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
BILLY MAYS buying cocaine.
- jcunwired
Axe body spray buying Old Spice
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Rupert Murdoch buying Huffington Post
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Best Buy buying Amoeba's Records
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
WoW buying LOTRO
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Huntingdon Life Sciences buying PETA
- Tyson Key
McDonald's buying StarBucks
- Tyson Key
Colleague here suggested "First blank FriendFeed, second blank...change that to Selling, and last blank...Out." Ouch?
- abacab
Hugh Grant buying Divine Brown's services.
- Jordi Soler
ITV buying the BBC
- Tyson Key
Yahoo! buying Google
- Tyson Key
Lycos buying Yahoo!
- Tyson Key
Dogpile buying Google
- Ladybug Heather
Me buying the kid who copied my work at school [edit] oops, I mean the kid who's work I copied at school, lol
- Slappy Line
Google buying Jaiku / Dodgeball
- Sidharth Dassani
Dolly Parton buying breast implants
- April Russo (app103)
VW buying Porsche?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
lol except didnt porsche end up cornering the market on VW shares? That would be like friendfeed buying facebook ;)
- Frankie Warren
a Hyundai owner buying a Ferrari for parts.
- Kevin Pedraja
U of Mich Flint buying Kettering University... sorry, no one else will get that
- Kevin L
Xing buying socialmedian - let's face it, they bought the talent! I've only heard good things about Xing though:)
- Michael Fidler
Yahoo buying Delicious.... oh wait
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
Mephistopheles buying Dr Faust...
- Laurent
Jon Gosselin buying Ed Hardy...Eew
- Denise
Ted Turner buying Times-Warmer
- Houseofmax
Dumb buying Ass
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
like a cheerleader buying a software engineering book .. WHY ?! .. who will read it on facebook!
- fouad
AOL buying Facebook
- Tyson Key
N. Korea buying the US :P
- mjc
a nerd buying a condom. They'll never use it
- Jim Goldstein
China buying Taiwan
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
lol yours was the best.
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Ball Park buying Redondos
- Ron Hagenhoff
I used a "Kia bought Cadillac." analogy yesterday.
- Robert Miller
Hersheys buying Scharffen-Berger
- Spidra Webster
A bigass mofo kicking the shit out of you and then buying out the cops so he won't go to jail!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Google buying Jaiku
- Bryan Lee
Starting to freak out over how many people I meet that look so much older than me and it turns out they're younger.
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I know, I have that happen a lot, too.;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
It's really weird. Maybe I'm Dorian Grey
- Cathleen Rittereiser
We're actually getting younger while others get older as they endlessly discuss the purchase of FriendFeed by Facebook.;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I went to FriendFeed to post a comment about the sale, but decided to post it on Twitter because I know someone will see it
Sprague D, John McCrea, Joe Silence and 3 other people liked this
What does that mean?
- Admiral Anika
I think it means that friendfeed is so noisy with all the FB/friendfeed merger cruft that her thread would have gotten lost in the ocean.
- Alex Scoble
213 comments and 18 likes You never really used FF anyway so I'm not sure it matters.
- Michelle Martinez
Alex, that's so charitable of you, but Michelle is closer to the truth. My secret code name for FriendFeed was "SelfFeed" because I rarely communicated on it directly and rarely got much response to what I was posting from any other channel. I guess the latter is to be expected, given the former, but if I had felt more signs of life from anything I had done here, I might have used it more.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
I was trying to start a new paragraph put it posted instead. I was about to say that I was recently finding more conversation here, and was thinking about how I could use FriendFeed more, but I was too late to get there. I used to post my FriendFeed to Facebook and stopped because I felt like I was in an echo chamber, but had also considered doing that again. I think it's a win for...
more...
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Fortunately you send your Twitter feed to FF so I didn't miss it. :)
- Kevin Gamble
"I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat. After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my pint and noticed that everybody was staring at me. Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod."
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no... why would you go to a pub to listen to your ipod?
- Caroline
Caroline, this was a joke someone sent to me. ;)
- Derrick
HAHAHAHAHA
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
wasn't fased by the farting... just the ipoding..
- Caroline
LOVE IT
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
OMG...Hahahaha! too funny
- Bill Heslin
I saw this on a pregnancy board, but the woman was at the gym (which would make more sense about using an iPod). Funny :).
- Jaclyn
Haha... this is the 2nd time I saw this today... lol
- Kevin Whalen
i like your beat. your beat is nice.
- Trish Haley
LOL!!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
WHAT? LOL! No...LOL!
- Anna Lynn M.
Pharters are phunny!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Awesome! Probably too funny for the #badjokememe , but it looks like I hashtagged it anyway. :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Reminds me of a joke about someone who goes to the doctor complaining of their silent but foul-smelling farts. The doctor sends her for a hearing test.
- Slappy Line
So where do you share your playlist online? I need music that helps me smell better.
- Bernie Goldbach
Moar fart jokez pls.
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
I read that one but it was on a bus.
- MicahBear78
LMFAO
- Cheryl
I LOL´d.
- Jens Christian Freund
I bet they could smell the music lol
- David Gross
from f2p
Must remember not to do this!.
- Gordon Herd
I am literally ROFL. Wow. Good stuff ~ *slaps knee*
- Harold Cabezas
verynice! :-)
- Tofu De la Moore
from BuddyFeed
Well, it's got a nice beat to it but I don't think I want to dance to it.
- CAJ, somewhere else
LMAO, Derrick now that's to funny!!!
- YoYo_P
I do that all the time
- Cathleen Rittereiser
O.M.G. >.<
- Jason Huebel
LOL
- Imabug
Haha!
- Nicholas James
aha ha!!!
- Rick Cogley
nothing like a good fart joke lol
- David Gross
from email
OMFG LOL, this has to be a joke
- Nicholas Kreidberg
lol I needed a laugh and that did it.
- Brady
me too!
- Jim Misses SP
@SpaceyG @BlondeByDesign Since @scobleizer described the Great Unwashed he unfollowed as SEO spammers let's make it preening, oafish d-bag
Gordon Saunders liked this
If you're applying that characterization to @scobleizer all I can say is: join the club!
- Hieronymus Murphy
Do you mean you agree with that characterization?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
@RegScolaro I explain that in my blog post. I can't follow every smart person in the world and have to be choosy.
Roberto Bonini liked this
Not every smart person. Just me :)
- Raanan Avidor
The subject of your previous disagreements with Loic about this subject came up in a comment when you announced the Great Unfollowing. I went back and found my tweets on the subject, thought you would find them amusing - if only my side of the discussion - now http://cathleenritt.tumblr.com/post...
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Is it better to be a Marquee, Diamond, Premier, Grande, Elite, or Platinum sponsor for an event?
mjc, Tyson Key, Raphael, Raphael and 11 other people liked this
Hah! But, as a super-ultra-mega double-secret probationary sponsor X, I'm shocked and appalled we're not listed.
- Mark Trapp
It would appear as though platinum is the lowest level of sponsorship, but I would personally place platinum under diamond. Also, shouldn't a Grande sponsor be between a Tall and a Venti?
- Ross Miller
It's probably an auction process along the lines of 'Our biggest sponsor is currently X and they have an 'Elite' sponsorship. If you want to sponsor for double what they are, we'll invent a new class for you and call you a 'Grande' sponsor. Mind oyu, if someone doubles yours they'll be a 'Venti' sponsor.
- Kevin Fox
Been there done that. Gold sponsorships can often be the lowest level.
- Louis Gray
i think you should ask to be a Venti sponsor
- Cathleen Rittereiser
No two of those form a partially-ordered set. By design.
- Manas Tungare
Hmmm, Twitter won't let me follow anyone else tonight. So I guess I gotta wait for 24 hours to finish off my list.
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I thought you were going to bed?
- Travis Koger
I thought so too. But this reminds me why I FriendFeed is so much better than Twitter (reason #206). FriendFeed has never kept me from following anyone for any reason.
- Robert Scoble
You need a "follow everyone that this other account follows" function, to get the computers to do it while you sleep.
- DGentry
Your comments on the other thread were closed, I was going to try to talk you out of unfollowing me because it was my birthday yesterday. It ended up working out that it happened 8/3 instead. But it would be a nice belated birthday present for a follow back. I really don't want to have to call your voicemail and leave a bunch of messages asking you to follow me. : )
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Oh bummer, can't comment on the other thread anymore. Glad you got a fresh start! :)
- Veronica Sopher
Unfollowing so many people and starting again is such an ugly solution to something that shouldn't even be a problem in the first place.
- Dan Monsieurle
I just saw your posts on the mass unfollowing... good job! I honestly don't know how you've gone this long following that many people. I guarantee that your level of quality engagement goes way up and with that Twitter's overall usefulness to you. Look forward to hearing about the results...
- Charles
That just seems very arbitrary
- Stuart Betts
Is that why you closed comments on the earlier post. Robert? Were you doing this to promote FriendFeed? Just curious. :-)
- Kathy E Gill
Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/three-c...
"I don't know what their motivation is. I saw a Facebook blog that gave me the impression they're trying to get people to use the site more for normal stuff, like make lunch dates with each other using Events. So I think you're probably right about serving up more ads. I feel like they just can't get the little things right at all. Like you can block people from sending you apps but you can't block them from sending you events. It goes to the reciprocity thing - I don't mind friending people on Facebook, I just wish they didn't think I cared about them."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: Quid Pro No - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/quid-pr...
"Seth, Thanks so much. I think Chris does a great job of bringing these questions out in the open and having us puzzle it out with him. He helped me a few years ago when I had maybe 30 followers. I got a DM from a guy to let me know he was breaking up with me as a follower. "you're a nice girl..." I was traumatized. That's taking the real world too far, a silent unfollow was all that was needed. Glad this post introduced us."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: Quid Pro No - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/quid-pr...
"Marti - I've had similar things happen recently. I went back through my favorites - what else is there to do when you have a book to write - and found all these @replies from people and to people that I don't follow or communicate with anymore. I couldn't even tell you why. I've been feeling melancholy about it, but I end up going back to my point in my comment to Chris, some of these relationships aren't as real as you think or hope they might be unfortunately. And people get busy or don't have time, etc. One follower in particular dumped me and it puzzled me so much that I sent him an email apologizing for whatever I had said or done, but got no response. I comforted myself with another thought from my comment to Chris, that whatever it was, it was his thing not mine. The other thing I told myself is that maybe some people have started consolidating their info. Now that you can get your Twitter stream on Facebook and FriendFeed, if you use those more it might make sense not to..."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: Quid Pro No - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/quid-pr...
"Chris, Until reading this post and these comments, I had never understood the point of one of my favorite parts in the classic book, "Go Dog Go." If you recall, 3 or 4 times throughout the book 2 dogs coming from opposite directions meet on a street corner or some other locale. They have the same discussion every time: Dog 1: "Hello, do you like my hat?" Dog 2: "I do not." Dog 1: Goodbye Dog 2: Goodbye They each walk away, noses in the air, alone, in the direction they were originally headed. The last time they meet Dog 1 is wearing some badass, Mad Hatter/kitchen sink hat the size of small house. Dog 1 asks Dog 2 something like, "Now do you like my hat?" and Dog 2 says something like, "I do, I like your hat very much." They happily walk off together, arm in arm. What I like about the dogs is that they can be direct and almost rude to each other, even though they live in the same town and see each other all the time. Paradoxically it's harder to be that direct in social media where a..."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Yo @JaysonElliot if you call my cell phone at +1-425-205-1921 you'll hear how I deal with voice mails. I refuse to listen to them. :-)
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If only I could get away with that. This is one reason I like Google Voice - it emails you a text approximation of the message left on your voicemail. If you want.
- Jason Miller
i do this, and it drives my wife nuts...she still leaves them, and they all start with: "I don't know why i'm bothering to leave this..."
- Thom Kennon
Hi, have you written your voicemail "I refuse to listen" greeting anywhere? I saw this conversation awhile after it was posted so I felt kind of funny calling - especially with the time difference - but I'd love to know what you do because I need to do something. If the best thing for me to do is call and listen, let me know, I'll do it. Thanks
- Cathleen Rittereiser
My voicemail just says please don't leave a voicemail and to please email me instead.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Question: do you have any family that doesn't use email? How do you handle them?
- Bastard Operator From FF
Sean: family knows where to find me: FriendFeed!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I love voicemail. I know that makes me weird, but all the e-communication I get piles up, and voicemail cuts through the noise, usually.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
This raises an interesting point re preferred channel choosing: I've added my "FF" handle to my email signature --- over my mobile # - since this, increasingly, is the best, fastest most attentive way to reach me.
- Thom Kennon
Where's the MP3 of the message, Robert? For us oversears :)
- Diego Barros
Now I get FriendFeed! It's the conversation. Thanks for your response. PS I must be family. I knew to find you here
- Cathleen Rittereiser
from fftogo
Rock on. I just called to hear for myself. I have done something similar... I tell people they can leave a message, but for a faster response please email me.
- Ben Hanten
Robert, did you get many calls from people wanting to listen to your voicemail message? :)
- Diego Barros
Diego: about 15.
- Robert Scoble
Robert would love to buy you lunch if you ever get to the North/Central Florida area
- Robert Burgin
I prefer a voicemail over an email. I'm more auditory than auditory digital. Different people prefer different modalities.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Re: Streaming Kills Piracy - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Thrillist.com sent this email today http://www.thrillist.com/nation... Izria.us for sharing and streaming music. On closer look it may be the antithesis of what you're talking about, but thought you would find it of interest."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: Streaming Kills Piracy - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Fred, I thought you would be interested in this story from the FT, because you write often about how your teenage children are using and consuming tech and media. Coincidentally, it's related to your subject today. Morgan Stanley TMT bankers in London had a 15 year old intern write about his and other teenagers' media consumption. MS found it so revealing, they published it as a research report and received more responses than usual. Here's a link to the story http://is.gd/1xgTd and a link to the report http://is.gd/1xhiZ (also in the story)."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
can someone explain why so many are putting a period (.) before a @so-and-so ? like ".@moo hi cow" ? thanks
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how now brown cow?
- Yolanda
I think it's because of Twitter's rule change that only allows the person addressed to see replies that start with @ (later changed to allow people who follow both users to see the message).
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
yea john - some others replied on twitter - it seems if you do ".@moo" instead of "@moo" then everyone can see it
- Allen Stern
oh great email voyerism
- Weird Shanghai
Allen, is http://www.centernetworks.com/ a bit like TechCrunch in style?
- Mark
See this is why I don't like the argument that FriendFeed is harder to use than Twitter. It just has less exposure.
- Ryan Massie
very cool. thanks Dave
- Sam Levin
John, When did Twitter change the rule and then change it again? It passed me by...
- david
.@centernetworks is .@ontosomething
- Louis Gray
Awhile ago, if you wanted to, you could put Twitter in "promiscuous" mode. It was an option you could check off and they warned against doing this due the "volume" of tweets you might see in your feed (your friends replying to people you're not friends with). Twitter claims only 2% of users ever turned this on and it was causing too much data overhead for them so they took the option...
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- Adam Turetzky
Since Twitter lists all @yourTwitterusername mentions on the side, I've been putting the person's name in the body of the tweet so that they and others will see it. I'm assuming that has the same result. Anybody have an argument for using the .@ vs just burying it in the tweet?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Wow, if only twitter would add metadata, work around wouldn't be required. So now, you're down ANOTHER character in your message. 140 just keeps seeming like less and less.
- Andy Bakun
Cathleen, your solution produces the same result, and I've seen others do it, and I think creates a more "literarily" pretty result compared to the .@
- Adam Turetzky
.@ = fix replies
- rob friedman
I think ~ makes more sense than @, in general, but I'm old school internet.
- Andy Bakun
people are also using exclamation i've seen i.e. !@centernetworks but i prefer to put the name in the body of the comment. overall though, if you're using a client and not the twitter site proper, you'll still see all the @s
- Lynne d Johnson
This is interesting.
- Kol Tregaskes
One more reason to use Friendfeed, it will show you the @replies. For people who don't have a FF account you create an imaginary friend.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
A few of my friends are using the jerkcity reply addressing format. "T @username Reply here". It's an extra character but it makes me laugh every time I see it. (Jerkcity itself is rude, crass, offensive, and NSFW, so look this up at your own peril.)
- Richard Soderberg
This is not quite correct. 1. Use the reply function to generate the "@username" (instead of typing it in) and and only that user and those that follow you and them will see it.2. If you type in the "@username" then everyone will see it.
- Dave
I'm not sure why . is needed in the middle of the tweet when I'm going to see the tweet anyway if I'm following the twitterer. . at the beginning lets everyone see it (instead of just the person being replied to).
- Char James-Tanny
gothca! That's really handy (and really clever). But I was under the impression, that like Dave said — public vs. private reply was a function of you pressing that 'reply' button, not beginning the tweet with an @name.
- Joey Baker
at this point, I'm considering importing all of my twitter follows that don't have ff accounts as imaginary friends and using ff as my main twitter interface. I've already done so with my personal contacts on Twitter. It would be useful to have a tool that allowed us to do this en masse.
- Bill Kinney
Got my hair done.
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your hair seems so much longer now.
- Marie Domingo
francine - looks great!
- Bruce Lerner
Francine, it looks great! Saucy and sophisticated. Cool!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Is that your daughter? ;)
- Ryan Kuder
Beautiful. That is a good hair day
- Cathleen Rittereiser
I like!! Very flattering cut!
- Ginger Kenney
Re: Think the Recession is Bad? See Great Depression Photos on Flickr - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I got a head start on Flickr and have been using Great Depression pictures to compare to and comment on conditions today. My photo-toons take a humorous and irreverent look at current events as seen through these old, classic photos. The idea is to make this current Depression a great one! http://www.flickr.com/photos......"
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: Twitter is our id, Facebook is our Ego - http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2009...
"I completely agree with the way you and Howard Lindzon differentiate between how Twitter and Facebook are used. Your id vs. ego comparison is apt. I think it's borne out by the difference between my friends that are new to social networking. Few are on Twitter and most think they're being wild and crazy by being on Facebook. I mostly use Facebook as my Personal Life ego page - so it still has id elements. That must make LinkedIn the Superego. The differences between Twitter and Facebook are one of the reasons so many of Facebook's design changes that make it more Twitter-like bother me. I have always seen and used the two as complements to each other. Now, they're not really competing, they're less complementary and there's a lot more rmuddling. Half the time that I comment on a Facebook entry I learn that it was a tweet and I missed the chance to get in the Twitter conversation. I guess that's where FriendFeed comes in. The number of comments disagreeing with you initially surprised..."
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: louisgray.com: You Have Entered a No Retweeting Zone, Please Proceed - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"Jesse, I have heard others compare Retweeting to using Digg or Stumbleupon. Interestingly, I've greatly reduced my use of both those services of late as well. I don't send my likes from FriendFeed to Twitter either, because I've always tried to keep my noise level on Twitter low."
- Louis Gray
I commented on your blog too, thank you for saying this. I did a whole series of tweets that mocked ReTweets here's the link http://is.gd/uBns
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Re: louisgray.com: You Have Entered a No Retweeting Zone, Please Proceed - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
"I love you!!!!"
- Cathleen Rittereiser
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