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I want to do the functional equivalent of "Like" for this, without having to say I like it. - mikl-em

I'll take a side of stint with that. - Mike Lewis

me too. Painful and joyful all at once. Strange! - Brad Nickel

It was tough, Kyle, but I lived. - Louis Gray

cute!! LOL - Louis you are really dedicated!! - Susan Beebe

amazing what something new will make us geeks do :) - (jeff)isageek

You're more man than I, Louis. It's the little things, like the Recycle Bin. Fellas, it's Trash, okay? If you wanna be Green there are other places to get all jiggy. - Marko Bon

You're brave, I haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet - Duncan Riley

Safari FTW and no i don't cloud it up with a bunch of crappy add ons i god forbid browse... - Cecil Sandus

as did i...well i did most everything else on my MBP, just used the dual-booted iMac to browse the web most of the day. - MG Siegler

I hope this ppgram makes the LS irrelevant. - Andrew Warner

my iPhone typing is getting worse. I meant to say that I hope the OS becomes irrelevant. - Andrew Warner

Ack! that's terrible! Did you wash your hands when you were done? No telling where that OS has been...Oh wait *runs to sink*... - Anthony Farrior

This is a great idea: I'm interested to see what you find out. I've been playing around with my own programme: but I think it's limited by the presentation of the FF UI. I've been trying to find things from whom I'm following that nobody has liked or commented on, particularly the blog service, and reading what's there (and commenting/liking when appropriate). There's a bunch of really interesting people out there who haven't crossed the popular threshold in Friendfeed yet. - Mark Trapp

I'd argue that maybe FriendFeed will offer a tiering, which will let you keep the big #, and also have a smaller feed. Ana referred to "good friends" in a recent note. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Louis Gray

Great idea! - Todd Jordan

It should be a fun experiment! - Bill Sodeman

Cool idea. I look forward to hearing your results. - Carrie

Robert, I often view friendfeed with my wife on her account. The scenery is drastically different ,as she follows under 20 people. It's an interesting take on the world, other then tech and social media. - Mike Fruchter

@Louis, some sort of grouping or tiering system would be an excellent solution. GM scripts are some what touching on this, but simply don't cut it. I'm referring to a GM script I use currently that groups my friends, most interesting friends etc. - Mike Fruchter

I don't read all the content that comes in, but I do check FF regularly. I read the 1 Day Summary and the first page in my stream. The cream seems to rise to the top and I don't get bogged down. - Jay Martin

this is an awesome idea! I'll be monitoring your shared content closely the next couple days :) - Tim Hoeck

I am impressed by your dedication to your followers, and the thoughtfulness you give to this short-attention-span medium! - Adam Loving from StumbleRead

What I always hated about social networks is that they finally end, as you said in the article, to be more about quantity than quality. And I have to recognize I went for quantity lately and less quality. The more time I spend reading what others say, the less time I spend experssing my own ideas. - Dan V

Robert: Check out RAPatton http://friendfeed.com/pattonr... He's one of the most active on FriendFeed (17,000+ comments/likes), yet only follows 34 people (used to be 19 people). Give the alias account a try & see what it's like. Personally I'm using the "friends" tab less & less. I'm especially curious what the "Best of" pages look-like without the "noisy" people. - Mitchell Tsai

good luck! - Justin Korn

how about only talking to people on the street - Jason Lovett

Mike - Your best piece yet! I've found that going 'outside my circle' keeps things fresh. Not sure if I would take your approach but you can easily get (new word?) 'micro-focused' by staying with the same group. For me, it can cloud my objectivity and positively keeps me from writing 'fresh stuff'. Robert was 100% right in his earlier piece. My best days are when I publish something original that makes sense. BTW - I also enlist my wife's list when doing research. - Charlie Anzman

I don't follow so many folks here in FF as I do in other social sites. Since Friend of a Friend posts will display, I don't miss much. Since there's far more content here (multiple life streams) cuttting way back makes sense. @scoble should pay attention to this. - Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah - That's interesting. I did the opposite. Turned off 'friends of friends' a while back and added more people. Eclectic mix is great! - Charlie Anzman

Having just a few friends is nice. I can see all the FFs in just a couple of pages, then it's back to the beginning again. - Ernie Oporto

Charlie thanks, the quality has been missing for me. I hope to bring away from this a more enriched and fulling experience on FF. This should be interesting, I am very excited about the out come. - Mike Fruchter

Rebkin, thank you. Few hours in and it's already become very enlighting :-) - Mike Fruchter

Commented on the blog, going through the best of the day and I wanted to bump this. First official bump from me, so don't think I do this all the time ;) - Phil G

Mike: wow, this is neat! I love that BLOG roll you created over here --> http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

Suan, that blog roll became MASSIVE, OMG! - Mike Fruchter

Mike. I understand where this is coming from. It is an interesting experiment and might work out great. The hesitation I feel comes from a gut feeling that you are hitting on a core problem with aggregators like Friendfeed. Everyone loves the interaction, but it is impossible to maintain a decent level of it once the # of subscribers passes 100 or so. I think another way of dealing with this is not to decrease the # but instead see FF as a river of content that passes by. You dive in every once in a while. - Alexander van Elsas

and then use it at that point the way it was intended. The benefit of that approach might be that you can broaden horizons (although this is difficult here in the early adopter scene). Will be interesting to see what your experiences are. Good luck ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Mike - YEA it did huh?! awesome list!! I am gonna chomp thru that list tomorrow - day 1 of vacation! woo hoo! om nom nom nom!! - Susan Beebe

Good luck with the project. We'll be watching to see how happy you are with the results. - Chris Baskind

This points out the need for user-created-GROUPS-of-friends again. Robert shouldn't have to set up a whole new account just to try this. It'd be easier for Robert to define a new group-of-50 people and call it "Test Group". (1) Maybe "Test Group" could show up in a tab? (2) Or it could show up in the "friends" tab, and you switch groups with a pull-down menu (to your preassigned groups). --- Then you could opt between various "firehoses" and more "sedate" groups. Make science, photo, tech, humor groups. - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell. well said. I use GM scripts for this now, it helps but is not a final solution. This needs to be implemented on FF.Louis mentioned a tiering solution, were you could still keep your high #'s and still maintain a small feed. - Mike Fruchter

Mitchell Tsai: let's say you're the head of product development at FriendFeed, would you focus on developing to satisfy those extremely enamored with social media, or would you prioritize development for people who really will just use the service to follow their real friends? - Robert Seidman

The likeys look like a whos who of Friendfeed early adopters :) - Charlie Anzman

A really deep insight here about what is driving a revolutionary civilizational change in text media: print is INERT. Digital is globally interactive 9,999 ways to Sunday. - Sean McBride

This is new media madness! - Mike Lewis

Books aren't "info gathering" but rather something deeper. As far as ephemeral media goes, I do still read Harper's magazine. The nice thing is they've put their entire archive online in PDF form for subscribers, so if I really need to discuss an article with a friend, I can send it to them easily. - Jason Wehmhoener

I assume you're talking about news only.... - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

speaking of that, anyone know of a good, reliable pen scanner? - joneilortiz

At least for me books, magazines, and other printed material definitely have their place. Technical books are handy for a quick reference when I'm at home and for some things I like the ability to mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter, fold it up, and stick it in my pocket with out having to worry about losing, it breaking it, or it's batteries running out. I do however, get most of my info via the web and other electronic means. - Michael Zitek

@stephenandrewlynch I wouldn't restrict this to news only at all. - Hal Rottenberg from twhirl

@andyc I still read a book at night, but my wife reads fark.com with my Windows Mobile phone. :) - Hal Rottenberg from twhirl

We (my wife and I) read in bed often. We have no tv in the bedroom because watching tv is not what bedrooms are for ;) - Ray Slakinski from twhirl

I read each night as well. I am reading on a Kindle now though, and I often make notes as I read. I would love a way to tag, bookmark or share things. I subscribe to and read Slate on my Kindle, and often fire up my computer to share an article I liked. I agree with your statement Leo. - Sean Brady from twhirl

I read ebooks in my bed before going to sleep nearly every night -- and in nearly every other conceivable place (including supermarket checkout lines). Another point: the "deepness" of books is entirely independent of whether they are presented in print or digital formats. A shallow or deep print book will be a shallow or deep ebook. - Sean McBride

it sounds like a cliche but it's true - Marcel Weiß

newspapers are dead to me personally. - Thomas Hawk

If it wasn't for Sunday coupons, I would never buy a newspaper. Everytime I look at a paper, I think, "That's yesterday's news. I've already heard that." - ha3rvey (wants confit)

I also subscribe to the Sunday paper because I would feel "guilty" reading its FREE RSS feeds if I didn't at least subscribe. They tried to give me a 7-day subscription at NO EXTRA CHARGE, but I turned them down because I didn't want any more paper piling up in the house (I usually don't look at the Sunday paper unless I'm looking for a coupon) so they can't even GIVE THEIR PRODUCT AWAY FOR FREE! - Thomas Ho

Although, newspaper makes for great and cheap packing materials. just sayin' - Yolanda

I will always prefer to read anything beyond a paragraph on paper. I prefer the feel of the book in my hand and I can annotate a book far faster with a pen than pulling up any program on my computer. I am an avid user of OneNote but again that's really a secondary activity. Reading, analyzing, correlating, reflecting are all activities that require time -time that you can't collapse by way of the web and the tools associated with it. It has its place, but it is only a tool. - Melanie Reed

As regards the Kindle, that boggles the mind with all the permutations of actions , some good, many bad, that will associate with it in time. Nobody's going to steal your newspaper on the bus or the subway. But wait till Kindles become de riguer and the Nike shoe thefts will pale in comparison. But that's just one example. - Melanie Reed

I don't know. I had a neighbor who would drive by my house in the early morning to steal my paper before I woke up. I am sure people would do the same on the bus. :) - Sean Brady from twhirl

True. You are my newspaper ;-) - Benedikt Koehler

It is easier to markup a book; however, personally I never go back to the markups. Tags are way more useful to me. - Bryan Clark

What did the newspaper office say when you asked for a replacement...or did you? :) - Melanie Reed

This was happening for about 2 months, almost every weekend (we only have Sat/Sun delivery). We would call, they would send a replacement. Finally, we saw the person who was doing it, confronted him and it stopped...for us. We saw him nab someone elses paper the following week. :) - Sean Brady from twhirl

Ach, so it was a worth/risk/benefit scenario. As long as confrontation could be delayed, sleeping in was worth losing.;) I think that will get upped with a kindle. I think there are some who will risk direct confrontation for a kindle that they wouldn't risk for a newspaper in an enclosed space. Cheap licensing for the downloads but the upfront initial and replacement cost would seem to make it a target like other things of that nature. And what of library scenarios for the poor ? - Melanie Reed

I was revisiting "Finding Forrester" on DVD the other night so this is all a little heavy on the mind right now. - Melanie Reed

That's interesting. I tend to read print when I need to give my eyes a rest from the pixels, dogear anything I like and send the digital version to friends later. - Cat Laine from twhirl

Melanie - I find digital tools to be superior to paper tools for organizing notes. For instance, I can instantly retrieve very specific notes among thousands of notes on hundreds of books I've read over the last decade with simple text files and a text searcher like dtSearch or Examine32. Attempting to retrieve these notes by eyeballing hardcopy notebooks would take hours or days, not seconds. There is a huge leveraging factor in using digital over paper. - Sean McBride

More magazines need to sign up for Zinio. I love reading my Business week on my mac or pc. - Tad from fftogo

Hi Sean, I use digital tools quite a bit as well. (CIT background) I find them useful for large researches but I bring a LA mindset to a geek education. :) The process that I find works better for me is to marry the two. I use OneNote when writing and researching online quite a bit. BUT then I have and I find that there are things of interest and importance that are not online. Comprehension decreases for me with online and increases offline. - Melanie Reed

By the time the news hits the paper it's already stale. All my daily news reading is online too. I still read some trade mags but that is dwindling. - Larry Kless from twhirl

I find I read the front news section of the paper less, but still read the in depth articles. I do wish I could 'hide' articles about Tony Mokbel though. - Michael C. Harris

@leolaprote That sucks Leo, might be something you can report to FF's tech staff. If they can add you themselves to your facebook it might verywell be a bug. - Raymond C from twhirl

While *much* of my info gathering is online, I'm still a heavy consumer of print as well. I'm curious about other people's RECALL re: online/digital vs. print -- reason I raise it is because despite a good photographic memory, I've found that my recall strength seems to vary with the font and stronger with paper vs. onscreen. I'm curious if that's perhaps conditioned (PCs didn't start... more... - Casey

The Hunter / Gatherer (of info) speaks well; feed me some more...I'm hungry. - mark dekruyter

AMEN to that! - Susan Beebe

that is great, i HATE that on camino - MG Siegler

Um... you pegged it... - Ross Miller

Actually, I was just thinking the same thing. I waited before committing to "Remember", but figured the little pop-up would disappear. Very pleased it sticks around until after log-in. - Hutch Carpenter

yes, I like that the remember password box hangs at the top now instead of bothering you. - Tim Hoeck

one-click bookmarking: Just click on the star in the awesome bar - Stephen Mack

fonts look awesome - paulm

Non-continuous text selection is cool. - Vinay | विनय

Still playing around, but i like how the pop-up blocker "Allow" flow is much smoother now. - Dan Hsiao

No memory leaks. I didn't notice the password thing yet but that's great. As a minus though are the UI on Mac and missing Go buttton in address bar - Andrew Smith

yup, absolutely - Shey, Jamaican of FF

It's so hard to tell which is the best feature. It would have to be a tie between the awesome bar and the save password bar. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Memory is MY favorite improvement... I'm still with 512MB on my ibook :-( - directeur

I ALWAYS pause to make sure the password works. Such an EPIC feature! - Anthony Farrior

When I bookmark something that is already bookmarked, it doesn't double bookmark. - nadim

i'm now on safari full time. FF is too slow. - peter

Wonderful context search while typing in address bar - Alexey Ivanov from twhirl

Definitely much faster rendering pages. How about triple clicking to select a paragraph, or pasting in multiple lines of text automatically coming in as one line in a one-line text area such as Google maps? So much great stuff. - Stephen Mack

I wish it was still a pop-up box though - I can't just press a letter on the keyboard anymore to respond. (Is there a hack to change it back? let me know @sarahintampa) - Sarah Perez

totally. - Chris Pallé

toss up between much faster page rendering and the awesome bar. - Chieze Okoye

I *love* the feature where it doesn't crash if I open one tab too many! - felix

Each tab has its own session, so I can finally log into multiple gmail (and other) accounts in different tabs. Very useful for sites where I have multiple accounts on the same site that I want to login to without opening up another browser. Especially useful for web app dev where you need to login as multiple users, etc. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Let me repeat... I have man love for Firefox 3 .... Though lord knows Firefox 4 will be out by the time the IT folks at the office install it at work.... - Chris Reed

directeur - right there with you. my classic mac mini has 512mb of ram as well. - Phil G

I'm not sure about that...I just think there is so much going on in FF itself that Rooms are just too much..... - Snay Trivedi

yeah, like my new room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - info, members, no convo - Sarah Perez

I'm still having a hard time naturally embracing rooms. I spend 98% of my time on FF simply refresting friendfeed.com over and over and over again. Not sure why I'm not gravitating to rooms more. - Thomas Hawk

I joined your Room Sarah, now i'll just sit around and wait for god knows what...and you wait for me to do something as well.... - Snay Trivedi

Would love to participate more in rooms, but need to prioritize time for work and life. Only have time to chime in occasionally, but it's great to follow what conversations are happening. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I like the idea that rooms create a FF community based around a common interest rather than your social network. Not sure it's quite working for me yet though, I wish FF had a way to browse & search rooms (unless I'm missing it?) - Costa Walcott

I do believe that people just don't see any value for themselves to contribute to the groups they did not create - they have enough things to do and discuss but for a group to become interesting, it must really be based around some common interest people are passionate about, not around a product that the creators want people to communicate around. - Svetlana Gladkova

@costa I don't think there is a way to browse rooms. Which is strange... - john conroy

It's true that most people aren't capable of "drinking from the firehose". The part of all this that I like is that with Friendfeed, I can easily "plug in" to people who have the time to engage in the world Alexander is envisioning. I can set my own filters and priorities, and get relevant information on my own terms. Finding time is difficult, and these services are about freeing up time for me, not sucking up more of it. - Jason Ellis

Alexander, the answer is B. I didn't hit the Diet Coke until I got to work. :-) - Louis Gray

I'm With Jason Ellis. I'm only following ~100, and I find it manageable, useful, entertaining, useful and entertaining. They'd have to consider privacy functionality but there's no reason in theory that people couldn't easily build private networks that were extremely manageable within the FriendFeed type of environment. - Robert Seidman

we dont need noise filters, we need better trust filters... but even then, some people will have huge audiences following them, with many really smart people in those audiences. While I have been saying that Humans Dont Scale for the past few years, our limits are finally being reached as edglings. This is actually one of the reasons I dont try to get 150 people at a Social Media Club event and instead prefer intimate conversations with 20-30 people. - Chris Heuer