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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr
The perfect storm: Newspapers take a huge hit, print advertising dying
16 hours ago - Link
these are remarkable figures that even those of us who knew heritage media was dying couldn't have imagined it happening so quickly. - Duncan Riley
I don't think I've looked in the classified section of a paper for a decade - Richard Crocker
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Richard, there's not a lot left to look at - Duncan Riley
In small towns we buy them for the legals ... to see who's suing who. - Charlie Anzman
I predicted this development more than ten years ago -- but Craigslist was the real turning point. Newspapers are dead in the water. - Sean McBride
Duncan, thanks for the update. Is anyone interested in buying my car here on FF? It's advertised in the classifieds and online, but for some reason no one is interested 4.5 litre V8s any more. Thought I'd put it out there ... :-) - Richard Crocker
If all newspapers were free, they would solve their problem of circulation right there...I mean...EVERYONE needs packing material and wrapping paper every now and then. - Sean McGee
You know it's interesting. I think the SF Chronicle, NY Times, WSJ are good papers. But I remember before craiglist, the cities that I lived in had awful newspapers. And they got really bad. I think that plays a part in it. - PC Easy via twhirl
Richard - try putting 4 of the 8 cylinders up for sale. That should do it :) - Charlie Anzman
I quit getting a paper delivered last year, when I found myself reading the news online, and the paper still laying by the front door, unwrapped at dinner time. - Ian May
I do get the WSJ podcast each day. That's an interesting 50 mins or so each morning, and I can usually listen while I work on a not-too-intense project. - Ian May
Heritage? Too polite to say legacy? I'm imagining wooden beams, animatronics and preserved villages. - mattpovey
Matt, heritage media fits well :-) - Duncan Riley
Duncan puts it well. I think you'll be hard pressed to find many of us surprised by this - but the speed at which it's happening has been stunning. - Anthony Citrano
i still get la times delivered even though it's crap. habit. but with mergers and consolidation, it was bound to happen. here in la, all the local papers are owned by one company. so all the articles are same and poorly written/researched. la times is a joke, we get calendar, image, and the guide all entertainment, but they cut news staff. WTF? - faboo mama
web content ads are next... - Jason Carreira
Why hasn't anyone beaten craigs list yet? I love that site, but I used to love newspapers. - Andrew Warner
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Pete Delucchi posted a link
my name in Japanese (thanks, Lindsay)
my name in Japanese (thanks, Lindsay)
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FF, I don't get it. The image keeps disappearing and reappearing on different refreshes. What gives? - Pete Delucchi
There it goes again. Gone. - Pete Delucchi
it's back! (in Chrome) - Pete Delucchi
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Rochelle posted a message
“Bacon-Wrapped Mango”
Bacon-Wrapped Mango
14 hours ago - Link
For Mona and Akiva. - Rochelle
WOW - Shey
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eventually someone did in fact post a bacon-wrapped mango. Rochelle- your words were prophetic. ;) - Abby Martin
I fulfilled my own prophecy. - Rochelle
WANT! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
YES - Mona N.
not so kosher... i'll pretend that it's turkey bacon. - Jasmin Smith
Oh My Gosh! Mona will die! - Lindsay Donaghe
want!! - imabonehead
oh man, that looks AWESOME! - Damien Franco
The ultimate food! - Morton Fox
That looks really good. - Trish R
O HAI - Akiva Moskovitz
Since no one has obliged as of yet: NOMNOMNOM! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Bacon! - Steve Isaacs
needs moar bacon wrapped bacon - Nathan Howell
With mango! - Mona N.
I am going to stab my eyes out now, as I've now seen everything. After, of course, an air-shipped delivery of this is sent to me stat. - Pete Delucchi
No! The sweet mango! :( but wait... bacon... - Ron
I like mango & bacon, but I think something like cherries would be better - clarke thomas
Bacon: The Gateway Meat from Vegetarianism...(and, it just may convince you to forgo being Kosher too!) - Sean McGee
i said, 'bacon-wrapped mango! now this is getting ridiculous!" my husband replied, "bacon-wrapped anything is good. bacon-wrapped shit is better than regular shit.". father of my kids people. - faboo mama
salivating here. - sean808080
Clarke, no blasphemy allowed. - Rochelle
there's no way that can be bad - Cee Bee
hmm or starfruit & bacon?? mango when cooked isn't as sweet, more like an apple - clarke thomas
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Kol Tregaskes posted a link
Top 15: The most dangerous jobs in the world
Top 15: The most dangerous jobs in the world
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Mike Fruchter shared an item on Google Reader
Google Analytics Now Tracks Chrome. Our Share: 6.23%
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Pete Delucchi posted an entry on pdelucchi's Recently Played Tracks
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Pete Delucchi posted an entry on pdelucchi's Recently Played Tracks
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Pete Delucchi posted an entry on pdelucchi's Recently Played Tracks
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Mike Fruchter shared an item on Google Reader
Is Social Media Passing Your Business By?
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Morgan posted a message
“My Friendfeed compatibility 3 months later - an evolution”
My Friendfeed compatibility 3 months later - an evolution
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22 hours ago - Link
the green is from right around the date i joined friendfeed. the blue is today. I'm much happier with the blue. :) - Morgan
That is a very even pie!! :) - felix
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you'll have to click the blue >> button to see the comparison - Morgan
is it just me or is the center of that pie chart flickering? - Cee Bee
you're right felix - amazingly so, no? cee bee it flickers for me if i stare at it for too long.. - Morgan
Woah. It says 'Akiva Moskovitz' RIGHT THERE, dude!@$ - Akiva Moskovitz
I didn't even look for myself until Akiva mentioned it. Dammit man! And Morgan: do you check your compatibility with all the boxes checked, none of them, other? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I'm nowhere on the pies, but I'm Liking this because it speaks to some maturation of users' FriendFeed experience beyond the Social Media Whales. - Hutch Carpenter
Hutch++ - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
SB/Tina - this is with all boxes checked. interestingly it looks surprisingly similar w/the various check boxes. - Morgan
hutch i agree with you. much more enriching than just siphoning from the "a-list" material. - Morgan
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Kevin Fox posted a link
Sarah Palin Gender Card | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
22 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
If you watch only one Daily Show clip this election cycle, this should be it. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
If it weren't for the ho-hum interview with Ginerich, it would have been a contender for funniest episode ever. - Cyrus Lendvay
bah It wasn't funnier than the 'Obama: He Completes Us' one - David Knight
sweet. - Alan
Perfect! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
The whole partisan crap aside, catching people who should know better contradicting themselves so completely like this is comedy gold. - abacab
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Kol Tregaskes posted a link
Lightroom Users Address Concerns with the Software
Lightroom Users Address Concerns with the Software
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Kol Tregaskes posted a link
Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator
Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator
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@Mona N: You're my most compatible. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes via Bookmarklet
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Kol Tregaskes posted a link
Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed | Mashable
Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed | Mashable
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
Is Cuil Killing Websites?
Monday at 10:57 am - Link
Uncool that Cuil's indexer is abusing websites. - Robert Scoble
Yahoo has done the same. I had to place limits on the Yahoo spider for high server load. - David Risley
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Googlebot used to bring down a Yahoo! site I worked on; they would hit us from 1600 different IP addresses concurrently, wait 10 minutes, and then do it again. All of the hits were within +/- 2 seconds of each other. - Glen Campbell
Before they carry on indexing (or killing websites to try and index) they should focus on fixing their results - Nicholas James
@Nicholas I have a feeling those things might be somewhat related. - Sam Pullara
No way - Muge Cerman
We just got an apology directly from Cuil. So the disclaimer that it could be "some site purporting to be Cuil" is unnecessary. - Christopher Galtenberg
Exactly my experience. My website was in early beta testing and code was unoptimized, but users didn't complain because there weren't many of them at the time :). Then came Cuil and the website was killed in couple of hours. (Google and Yahoo indexers were less abusive and didn't cause any harm.) - andrei_c
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Steve Isaacs posted a message
“Useless Tweets: "About to get in the shower" (who cares?), "Fiddling with my blog post"(stop fiddling and post it), "Thanks for the follow"(what is this - MySpace?), "Tired" (you mean "boring"), "BriteKite ____" (I don't care if you are at the Pizza Hut off of route 45), and "Good Night Twitter".”
Wednesday at 5:59 pm - Link
LOL! I'm typing at the computer but I guess you don't care about that either. LOL - Colide81
hmm. I like Brightkite, so I definitely don't agree with that. - Mattie Kenny
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I also good night to my twitter pals. I don't think either of those are useless. Twitter creates a dialog and in that dialog location can become important. It's also nice after a long spurt of tweets with some of my friends to let them know I'm heading off. - Mattie Kenny
weren't you the one that twittered 'tired'? http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/9... - John Duff
I'm tired of you following me so I'm fiddling with my blog post in the shower then off to Pizza Hut....Good Night! - WorldofHiglet
I just ate a mango. - Akiva Moskovitz
/me leftclicked. - Fu_
John - me trying to be funny :) - Steve Isaacs
I just liked a post on FriendFeed. - Kaia ♥
Now I'm eating maple bacon. - Kaia ♥
I like the use of the word "fiddling". - Michael Fidler
Guilty. - Josh Lowensohn
oh, you just reminded me i had to check in on bright kite kthxbai! - faboo mama
I'm thinking about taking a dump. I'll let you know when it happens. - Pete Delucchi
...just ate a PB&J crumpet. - Bec
Someone is a bit cranky. Oh BTW, currently talking to my gf on the phone. hehe - Mathew Ballard
Kind of like the Tweet you made two hours ago... “Tired” ;-) - Kenley Neufeld
Here's an idea, let's keep body functions out of our Tweets. Nobody cares. - Larry Kless
Kenley - also kind of like the comment I replied to above about it - "joke" ;) - Steve Isaacs
Good night, FriendFeed :) - Steve Isaacs
just logged off twitter - Damien Franco
oops, logging back in to twitter to tell all my twitter friends "good night" - Damien Franco
Goodnight Friendfeed and Twitter. *kisses and hugs* (Joking) I'm guilty in posting the "fluff" tweets at time. I try not to though. - Molly
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
I Spent the Day On Windows, Just to Use Chrome
Tuesday at 7:44 pm - Link
god forbid. - Kyle Lacy
me too. Painful and joyful all at once. Strange! - Brad Nickel
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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
I'll forgive you just this once :) - Jason Kaneshiro
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
I hadn't booted into Windows for weeks. Made me feel all strange... - David Hulbert
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Ruth Ferguson posted a message
“goodness is abortion the ONLY thing these ppl care about?”
Tuesday at 7:33 pm - Link
It is the only reason my mother consistently votes Republican. - Alix Whitmire
Alix- are we related? ... because that's my mother's deal, too. - Donna Mugavero
@Alix if I had a mother like that and were female I just might make her believe I had a few just to get a rise out of her. - Michael J Cohen
wow. the only reason... - edythe
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Steve Isaacs posted a message
“I pray that Google Chrome is the final nail in the coffin of Microsoft's Internet Explorer - a bad browser that has wasted far too much of everyone's time and whose demise is long overdue.”
I pray that Google Chrome is the final nail in the coffin of Microsoft's Internet Explorer - a bad browser that has wasted far too much of everyone's time and whose demise is long overdue.
Tuesday at 4:56 pm - Link
I think we may be able to cure cancer and solve world hunger if we could get rid of having to troubleshoot rendering problems for IE. - Aaron Hood
heh. not until they have a Mac version ;) - ~C4Chaos
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Of course I'll have to wait to get my Mac version, but the conf. was great. Another One Bites the Dust. - Nice Fish Films
If there was ever a final nail in IE's coffein it was Firefox, not going to happen any time soon. - Percival Carti3r
does anyone know when it might work on Windows Mobile?.... currently it appears I'm stuck in the stone age with IE6... - Harold
Microsoft is working an a nice version of IE for mobile, but for now Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta is the only mobile browser I would consider paying for right now. - Percival Carti3r
What are we, burying IE alive? If FF was the final nail in the coffin, WTF is IE doing coming out with 8? :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Liking for the graphic alone. :) - Abby Martin
In Microsoft's last 10-Q they disclosed that Firefox was a threat and was eroding their share of the browser market, which could impact future earnings. I wonder what their thinking now? - Michael Fidler
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Michael W. May loved a song on Last.fm
Sting – If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Tuesday at 6:54 pm - Link
Free, free, set them free... - Ayşe E.
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Tad - just Tad posted a message
“Just watching the GOP convention... those folks couldn't be much further from me and almost everyone I know. My world is much more dynamic and diverse.”
Tuesday at 6:49 pm - Link
I'm afraid to turn it on. I'm still glowing from Obama's acceptance speech which was, for the most part, kind of crap compared to the rest of his speeches. If an Obama crap speech is going to be better than the best RNC speech, why even waste the electrons? - Akiva Moskovitz
It's difficult for me to watch. Laura is talking about how awesome W is... I think I'm throwing up a lot in my mouth. - Tad - just Tad
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I'm watching it... you know that feeling where you don't know if you should laugh or cry? That's me right now. - Eric
I sneaked a peak earlier but it seemed very dreary indeed - Sally Church
it's total comedy. there are empty seats all up in that venue and people yawning on camera. and now we have a gwb infomercial. he's sat at the "resolute" desk. ugh - Cee Bee
You know, if Obama does win, it'll be awesome to see Frank Caliendo do to Obama what he already does to Charles Barkley. - Akiva Moskovitz
Tad, my world's pretty diverse and dynamic. Who says that's limited to Democrats/liberals/libertarians/etc? - Larry Huffman
I'm just looking at the convention. It's very static and homogeneous looking to me. They're not doing a great job showing how large their tent is. - Tad - just Tad
My world is pretty large and diverse as well... enough to know that these parties are both much more complex and nuanced than either of them looks on television. - Soulhuntre
It looks like a group of people who already feel defeated. - Akiva Moskovitz
it is quite lifeless - Cee Bee
@Akiva Moskovitz - if the only criteria for judging a president is how well they give a speech then we are in serious trouble :) - Soulhuntre
they can't compete with the celebrity of Obama. I have to say tho, I have a new-found respect for McCain after hearing the truth about his POW experience.. gave me goosebumps.. then made me angry that the leftist media has ignored his story for the most part. - Jasmin Smith
I think both candidates are wrong for the job... but my vote doesn't count... I'm Canadian. - Jasmin Smith
Hey! I'm Republican.. I think I'm pretty f*in diverse. ;-) - Kyle Lacy
Soulhuntre, you got that right. - Akiva Moskovitz
1UP Kyle. I'm a moderate Republican who is pro-choice, pro-gay marriage. I'm m*therfucking diverse, yo. - Akiva Moskovitz
+1 Akiva.. brother from another..... womb - Kyle Lacy
@Jasmin Smith: I'm sorry, but who's been ignoring McCain's POW story? I need to give this person a listen. Because from where I sit McCain can't end a sentence without "POW", pundits can't refrain from mentioning it every other sentence, and even *Obama* can't friggin' attack McCain without first calling him a hero. I'm pretty sick of hearing it. - Eric
@Eric... yes, we've all heard that McCain was a POW. But what I haven't heard are the details of his heroism--the length and extent of what he endured. We can agree to disagree but what he did for your country speaks tremendously of his character and that's something I feel the media has downplayed. - Jasmin Smith
+! Jasmin - Kyle Lacy
@Jasmin: He got into the naval academy on his daddy's connections. Graduated damn near the bottom of his class. Despite a total lack of merit, he gets a highly coveted spot as a navy pilot. Then, the guy who doesn't deserve to be there were it not for his daddy gets shot down - shocking! He spent five years enduring horrible things, for which he has my sympathy. But that's neither heroic nor a qualification for the Presidency. And I think his behavior towards his first wife speaks a more to his character. - Eric
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Mona N. posted a link
Control... Escape.
Control... Escape.
Tuesday at 7:15 pm - Link
Why do I find that funny?? What's wrong with me?!!! - Far
I can't stop laughing either, Far!! - Mona N.
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why do we not just nominate you Librarian of FF? - Fred Grott
I love the Ctrl with his baton :-) - David Adam
A telling visual about the Shift in our societies morals... - John Worthington
Fred: I prefer a line once used on me: "Mona, you're better than Digg" ;) - Mona N.
+1 Fred - totally agree ;)~ - Susan Beebe
well thats my random dose for the day! - James Cooper
Dgg is not as fun as a hot librarian Mona - Fred Grott
Well NOW that you put 'hot' in front of 'librarian'...... HA! - Mona N.
Hot Librarian! ;-) - Randy
+1 Randy :D - BeeLing
Great! - Fu_
i want that on a shirt...or maybe a laptop bag. - faboo mama
why didn't I think of this before? - Elliott Ng
So simple, yet clever! It's a T-shirt jackpot, Elliot! - Mona N.
That makes a very nice geeky t-shirt - imabonehead
Still can't find the "Any" key - Shey
It would've funnier if it were boy / girl LOL! - Mona N.
Is there some sort of political innuendo here? - Jeff P. Henderson
I guess if you want there to be - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
How about a picture where a Win-key (flag) and Mac's Command-button are fighting... - Joni Moilanen
This entry is in the most liked list of ffholic.com! Congrats! :) - FFholic.com
Mona, you are incredible! words escape me!! how do you get all those things!!? - Hayk Hakobyan
Thank you, Hayk... um.. door number 2? - Mona N.
Mona, I like 3 ;) - Hayk Hakobyan
Alt is missing. I'm figuring he's wearing a choke collar. :D - Cyndy
Unfortunately Cyndy, Alt was Deleted :oO - Paul Reynolds
Deleted, terminated with extreme prejudice, etc - Mo Kargas
I think Ctrl is my mother and i should be like escape LOL - Cecil Sandus
Ha, this is still cracking me up a day later. :) - Ayşe E.
Haha, awesome. - Stephen Shores
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Jim Goldstein posted a link
Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation
Monday at 8:33 pm - via twhirl - Link
Yesterday a photo was released on James Kunstler’s site targeting prospective 2008 US Presidential voters with an American flag bikini clad Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin holding a rifle. It’s unclear at the moment if this is an actual photo or a manipulated photo. Either way damage will no doubt be done to her and the Republican ticket headed by John McCain. - Jim Goldstein via twhirl
Great post Jim, and the photo of VP nominee Sarah Palin looks scary real. - Damien Franco
can't be real or the airbrushed the stretch marks out, otherwise it does look eerily real, no obvious face paste on. - Ruth Ferguson
Thanks Damien. It will be interesting to see how this photo plays out. If manipulated interesting in its own right... if not... we'll see what fall out there is if any. - Jim Goldstein
Confirmed today that the photo is a fake and revised the post to include a link to the original photo - Jim Goldstein
Good article. Irresponsible of JHK to repost without an effort to verify its authenticity. When in doubt, don't repost a photo like that. Unsurprising coming from many people, but from JHK I find it strange and disappointing. - Anthony Citrano
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Mark Forman posted an entry on bbluesman=Mark Forman
Sometimes Black and White…
Monday at 6:42 pm - Link
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Robert Scoble posted a message
“I really love the FriendFeed integration on Duncan Reilly's Inquisitr: http://www.inquisitr.com/2799/... has an awesome example -- I gotta do that on my own sites.”
Monday at 6:41 pm - Link
Here, look at the comments on the post above and compare to the FriendFeed comment cluster here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/f... - Robert Scoble
I did the WP plugin, but his seems styled nicer. Mine's more chunky. - Chris Brogan
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I really love Duncan Riley's The Inquisitr. - Zee at WeDoCreative
+1 to Duncan.. +1 to Robert for leading me to the site - Kyle Lacy
unless i'm seeing different though I don't think the layout for the friendfeed area is all that. I think the avatars above the comm