Chris Heath

"You're exactly right. Photo tagging should be opt-in not opt-out." - Chris Heath

"Well, like victor was saying, he's on a private mailing list. They're probably not going to change, but could have a real-time private channel over on friendfeed. I do kind of get what you're saying about the WTF factor, but I would explain it as a backchannel for the backchannel." - Chris Heath

"friendfeed has private rooms - i would bet that there's a lot of very interesting stuff going on in private on friendfeed" - Chris Heath

"you're referring to the "eternal september", right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..." - Chris Heath

"FriendFeed is still the best platform online for communication (IMHO). This problem you're just now re-discovering can be dealt with on friendfeed as you explain (but as one of the reasons you were blindsided: "For two, we had decentralized moderation (I can delete any comment underneath my items, and I can hide any items that come into my view)." So the feature that can fix the problem kept you from seeing the problem? Isn't that the point of the feature? This problem isn't one that can be cured with a vaccine. And you're right that with sufficient control you can engineer it out of your site, but on a public forum you can't be friendfeed. Sounds to me like you want a large private friendfeed room." - Chris Heath

"Thanks for that Holden... just what i wanted to read after getting to the bottom of that post ... i had been putting it off since i knew what i would be in for" - Chris Heath

I know Leo and the TWiG gang talked about this a bit on Saturday, but this would be a great story for TWiT today. Plus there's a lot of good info in this story, it's very well written. - Chris Heath

Another perhaps even more important factor is that when a product is completely free, consumer expectations are low and consumer patience is high. Customers seem to really like free as a price point. I suspect they will love “less than free.” - Chris Heath from Bookmarklet

#1159028 "Today, my brother came charging into my room asking me to help him get ready. He was a pirate and I realised the costume didn't have a parrot to go with it. So I gave him my cuddly toy of Melman from Madagascar and tied it to his shoulder. An hour later I got a text saying, "Everybody loves Melman, and all the girls think I'm cute cause I watch Madagascar. Thanks!" He was at a college party. You're welcome big brother, you're welcome. MLIA" - Chris Heath from Bookmarklet

Looks like it will come down to those subjective factors that are personal, plus the apps - Chris Heath from Bookmarklet