Ok, I have 5,061 subscribers. Seems crazy high for the engagement I see on my stream. Let's see how many of you actually exist around these parts: Comment plz! (Remember when I got called out a few months ago for not participating enough on FF? It worked!)
but I'm not a subscriber :) You can't really know, because as people comment this entry, all their followers get the "friend of a friend" item in their feed. Go figure who among those participants are subscribed to you.
- Jérôme Flipo
Sarrita - You do realize you're going to pull more than just your subscribers right? We're blasting this out to all our friends of friends too.
- Matthew DeVries
I have to admit, it's pretty fun to watch you guys comment in real-time. Good thing I have nothing else to do all day. Matthew DeV- yeah, I know, not a perfect system. I guess my point is that FF sub numbers are misleading, there are a lot of DOA accounts!!
- Sarah Lane
Loved you on AOTS1000. How was the Chalula?
- GMar
I feel Marty thinks TWiF is getting to be a real pain in the butt. Maybe you could all convince Leo to move it to San Fran? I'm sure he'd get even better guests/hosts to move to a 24/7 format...?
- Jude
Hello Sarah. I think yours was the first feed I subscribed to when I joined FF.
- Thomas
just so we're clear on this... i'm not commenting because you asked... i'm commenting because i want to
- Chris Heath
Matthew DeV- I'll pass along! Jude- hmm, I'll think about that one. Chris H- FINE! BE THAT WAY!
- Sarah Lane
Well I'm not hanging on every word, but I enjoy your stuff.
- Chris Menning
I am alive and well, how are you doing?
- Gary Oswald
Thanks Sarah. You have a standing invitation to be on our show and just chat about whatever happens on FriendFeed, tech, etc. DM me if you are interested and we will make it happen. (also we have a room/group on FF http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... )
- Josh Haley
FFundercats: Diggnation minus the cult of personality?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel - there's a live thread (Real time FTW) with the podcast, and direct interaction with that thread. I usually have Friday plans, but when I don't it's a supremely fun time.
- Matthew DeVries
Hurrah! Nice to see you posting here, even if it isn't for anything interesting.
- Kenton
Hullo there...you are still in my main feed... :)
- JA Castillo
John W- oh, I'm sure they exist somewhere, just wondering if it's here, too. ;) Chris M- casual enjoyment is enough for me! Kenton- oh please, this is riveting stuff! (I'm subscribing left and right due to this conversation, so thanks for speaking up and helping me find you!)
- Sarah Lane
Yes, I remember when you got called out a few months back for not participating. It was me that called you out. I refer to that, now deleted post, as "The Emperor's New Clothes" post. After I was condemned for daring to ask why cewebrity accounts on FriendFeed were given such an inordinate amount of attention considering there's no reciprocation on the part of the poster, my question...
more...
- Christopher Harley
Sarah - I've enjoyed your posts as I see them float down the stream :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Mike N- it counts for a sub from me! Although the first thing I saw was a post about your laptop, your mom, and porn. Let's see how this relationship goes. :)
- Sarah Lane
Yet another try at creating the longest thread on FF? ;)
- Holger Eilhard
I'm listening, but I don't know what to say.
- Donald Forth
Well, this is certainly a nice hefty thread... but I think I've made the point that clearly the large majority of my followers aren't actually paying attention (for example, my BFF Kim Kardashian). :)
- Sarah Lane
She is just jealous that you get to hang with Martin on Fridays.
- Eric Geller
made the best of day.... who the hell are you?
- Noah David Simon
Sarah Lane is the wife of Leo Laporte of Twit Live. Her son is Kevin Rose of Digg fame. And she is only 30.
- Mark
...and I'm supposed to know that? how can her son be of Digg if she is 30?
- Noah David Simon
Only if you've used the internet for more than 8 minutes in the last decade.
- Matthew DeVries
twif rocks, U & sargent are halarious. ive been watching since techTv days. Martin's cadillac RIP
- echostreamer
all I know is this woman has issues that people are following her... and I wasn't following her till she had issues. what a paradox! ....wait a minute... she sounds like a feminist!
- Noah David Simon
If that's all you know, then that's all you read, but there's more to know and you've just decided not to assimilate it. Say Luh Vee.
- Matthew DeVries
martins lobster tweet was hilarious and so was your calling him out. Also "who Tila Tiquilla?" was great line. been watching since techtv. follow me if you'd like on FF and Twitter @echostreamers
- echostreamer
love to listen to your on Twit network. Since I installed FF on computer, I see your streams more. usually I click on links that people post if it seems interesting to me. usually don't comment though. keep it up!
- kent williams
Hello.You've been on my favorites list for a while now. I'm just sparatic about my interaction, and often get distracted by stuff like Sims 3 and WoW when at the computer.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
after looking at the bios in this thread, if every1 in this thread started a tech company together, im pretty sure it would replace google tomorow. im not sure i am even qualified to be in this conversation
- echostreamer
Ok, now I *have* to go participate in a Current TV happy hour. Boo hoo, unlucky me. Will check back later. Thx to everybody who reached out so far. It's great to have those of you not already on my radar, on my radar. :)
- Sarah Lane
How will I explain this to my grand children?
- barce
from iPhone
You're going to have to try a lot harder to get rid of us.
- Gus Cuddy
from iPod
I think it's safe to say that this was a success
- Steve Poland
Gus- I don't want to get rid of you! Silly Gus.
- Sarah Lane
Of course you don't. Heh. Naw, just kiddin. And you don't know how many times I've been called Silly Gus. I think it has a certain ring to it.
- Gus Cuddy
from iPod
I'm not in your stream, your not in my stream, and still everything is lively.
- Amit Morson
I am not a subscriber, nor do I have any idea what your normal content is like, but I can imagine that some percentage of your subscribers did so purely because your avatar is an attractive woman (and you have a females name). I'm not saying this to belittle your contributions; just sharing an observation of male behavior. -- huh, I just went and looked at your profile (I had never heard of you). I'll add your celebrity status as another reason people might follow without planning on engaging.
- Bill Rawlinson
Hello. I'm not a subscriber, but since someone I follow commented, I felt the need to say "Hi" too. Hello from Washington, DC. The only times I comment on FriendFeed are: 1) it's funny, 2) it's about dogs, 3) it's about cutting-edge tech. Since you called out the "lurkers" on FF, I'm here. ;)
- Ken & Kiyomi
Whew! Just catching up on all your lovely comments. Thanks everyone! Now, we're only missing about 4,600 folks. Send out the search party! Kidding, kidding.... I was just really curious as to who was actually around and paying attention. >^__^< <----- my first ASCII cat ever
- Sarah Lane
Thomas, http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... or http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... will have comment boxes at the bottom always so you don't even need to click - opening the entry/item in it's own window is the key (clicking the timestamp like josh haley said will do that) then if you want the clean embed version you just add ?embed=1 to the url, or click the timestamp again - it's that simple
- Chris Heath
The only way to follow someone is if you follow fewer than 5,061 'people'
- Terris Linenbach
Hello from Cambridgeshire, Englandshire. Now, where do I put the stamp on this thing?
- Ben Aldhouse
Terris- no, that's the number of people subscribed to me... I can't imagine following 5,061 people! Think of the real-time scrolling! Aaaah!
- Sarah Lane
Well, it *was* the number of people subscribed to me. A few more now.. hi everyone!
- Sarah Lane
Tell us about the beginning of this FF post grandpa! Well kids, when I was a young man, Sarah Lane posted a question about having five thousand followers... (long old man story) ... and the post survives to this day, in the year 2074. Back when this thread started, the machines hadn't taken over yet...
- Dave Friedel
Hey there from the back woods of British Columbia
- Trent Shields
Tender Is The Night / Fitzgerald, and The Secret History / Donna Tart
- Patrick Jordan
Anything by Neal Stephenson. Was just watching a special on PBS on Isaac newton and it was right out of his recent series.
- Victor Ryden
I'll give you three: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon; if on winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card and Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
- Alan Le
Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Pete Delucchi
I see Tad and I share one favorite (even though RAW wrote my other fav book, just not the one you mention) and Akiva and I share another. In fact Akiva is the only other person I know who has read that Calvino classic. Has to be the one book that screwed with my mind worse than acid.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
@Alan - I just read 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Ender's Game' last week/end. cool.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Ooh - that sounds good Jack! Will have to look it up. :)
- Internet's Tad
Jack, I absolutely love Calvino and that book in particular.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think I can name only two, it would just be unfair
- Justin Yost
True that, Justin. But you know if someone asked our favorite hundred books, alphabetically arranged by author, some of us would stay up for hours putting our list together. I think 2 is a reasonable limit for a quick-post medium like Friendfeed.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Armor by John Steakley
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Stranger in a Strange Land .... Shockwave Rider
- Steven Hodson
Women & Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Mark Krynsky
'Gravity's Rainbow' by T. Pynchon and... perhaps... wait, no... a lot of others. I'm especially partial to H. S. Thompson (both fiction and non-fiction) and P. K. Dick.
- Goran Zec
Our Lady of the Flowers and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
- Rick Powell
A Prayer for Owen Meany and Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Bill Bittner
Most recently: the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (fiction) and Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel Headrick (nonfiction)
- Steve Lowe
from NoiseRiver
theodore rex and andrew carnegie. Both epic biograhies about larger-than-life personalities.
- Morgan
I can probably name authors, not books. Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Italo Calvino. It would be sacrilege for me to judge between any of the splendid works of these two geniuses.
- Parth Awasthi
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Glad to see Stranger in a Strange Land, Bukowski, Stephenson, PKD and Fforde. @Akiva: Ignatius Reilly, unforgettable! And Pynchon is brilliant, I'd go with V myself.
- AJ Kohn
BTW - couldn't we do top 10 or top 100? So many to choose from. I mean, A Canticle for Leibowitz needs to be on a list.
- AJ Kohn
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card and The Stag - Stephen King
- Christian Farley
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley and White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Jason Toney
Don Delillo's Underworld and The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
- Kyle Hebert
blood meridian by cormac mccarthy and sound as thought by clark coolidge
- Tracy Ruggles
I am sure this doesn't count as "2", but I'll have to go with anything by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Carlo Zottmann
"Encore Provence" by Peter Mayle and "Green Witchcraft" by Ann Moura.
- Nia
Bloodsuckng Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore and The Stand by Stephen KIng
- Alan Simpson
From The New York Times: GADGETWISE: Marathon Tech Review By DANIELLE BELOPOTOSKY Many first-time marathoners wonder what to expect on race day. A number of sites prepare runners mentally for the physical challenge.... http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://nytimes.com/iphonei...
- Christian Farley
from email
I got an I-pod touch free with my MBP, but really not worth the cost if you already want/use a cellphone. I mean it's more $ than the i-phone (with a contract) and you lose the phone part, along with the speakers and the camera. Love, love, love my i-phone though.
- Kelly W.
With so many apps relying on location awareness, you can't really replicate the functionality with an iPod Touch.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'm a big fan of convergence. I hardly ever use my phone compared to how much i use the apps but it's nice to have it all in one. Less to carry around.
- ·[▪_▪]·
And yes, I do feel the rates are fine-both me and husband have a plan together and now have gotten rid of our home phone.
- Kelly W.
I can see that, though I read somewhere that 90% of what is available for the iPhone works on the iTouch. Esp if you have wifi.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I'm thinking if I did it, I could get away with the lowest rate plan.... especially considering everyone I know is on ATT. I don't really need the minutes. It would be about $30 more than what I'm paying now (a month).
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I would love to have an IPhone but the price point of the data plan dont fit with my budget. And now days, with all wifi hotspot, I get a very good coverage ... I only miss the coverage in the car !
- Christian Farley
I do not want either one, prefer a real keyboard..
- David Gross
I got an iPhone on a corporate affiliate plan so that I only had to pay $25/mo. on top of my existing low-minutes, no-data plan. If I had to take the $30/mo. on top for unlimited texts I wouldn't use it - I never text.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
i use my iphone as an ipod touch (4 wifi use) + have a cheap mobile for calls. data plan just isn't worth it, especially with first gen iphones like mine.
- Spotcher
from twhirl
I used my free iPod Touch (came with wife's macbook) for almost a year before getting an iPhone and I really liked it. Sure it doesn't have the camera or gps or speakers or microphone but for couch surfing, games, and general entertainment apps (like Kindle) it can't be beat.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't have an iPhone or an iPod, Windows Mobile ftw! :D
- Stuart Evans
buy a prepaid cell and get a Touch. use SMS and VOIP apps to stay in communication. iPhone phone packages is one of the biggest scams going.
- Jason Rundell
I had a touch for about a year before I grew tired of carrying both a cell and the touch. All I wanted was a touch that was also a phone. No data plan. I do like the data plan, but the total cost of ownership is not worth it
- stretta
from twhirl
+1 Stretta. While I used my touch more than I ever used my phone it is still quite nice not having the extra pocketful of geekery on me. All I carry now is the iPhone and my keys and my wallet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
I've a touch. Cost of the unlimited data plans makes it ridiculous for the benefit that I'd get from it.
- Rich
Rather have a good S60 phone, but AT&T isn't interested in offering me a good selection.
- dthree
I find myself using the 3G data linkup on a daily basis. It's hard to claim that most of that is "value", but I do use it everywhere I go.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
I have an iPhone and an iPod touch. both come in handy. I like both, for different reasons.
- Karoli
If the cost of the phone is putting you off, hold on until the new ones come out, then you maybe able to pick one up cheap from a friend who upgrades. Either that or eBay. Personally, I cannot live without my iPhone, best device I've ever bought.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
I was thinking about whether Mifi + ipod touch = 95% of a Verizon iphone. With the Mifi, you'd have (sharable) wifi in your car, outside, etc. No location awareness, but most apps, skype, sms, etc.
- dave burke
I love my iTouch and am tempted by the iPhone. But since I rarely leave the house I have a hard time justifying the cost of a plan. Sticking with my cheap cell phone for now.
- Matt
I like the MiFi, but would mostly use it for my laptop. I make full use of my iPhone's features so it's well worth it for me. It also helps that the iPhone plan is still less than the data/call plan I had with my windows mobile phone. @Matt Yeah that's probably the best decision. It takes a certain usage to really make the iPhone (specifically the data plan) worth it.
- Arlan Koizumi
It is *so* worth it for me. I already forgot what life was like w/out it. *shudder* ;)
- felix
The iPhone is pretty compelling. @Daniel - I rarely text. Though I'm wondering if that would change if I had an easier way to do it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I hardly ever text myself, I was just trying to figure out why Jason Rundell thought SMS plus a prepaid phone was a good idea. It sounded like maybe his texts aren't expensive like mine are.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
For me, the iPhone is totally worth it. The Touch's lack of GPS is a deal-breaker for me, and if you don't live in a large metro area, relying solely on WiFi isn't viable.
- Roger Benningfield
I love having my ipod touch, and my HTC touch on VZW. Having both lets me have the best of both worlds.
- Mitchell Hislop
I am mostly ok with my iPod Touch. There are times though when I miss the Camera+GPS of iPhone. But OTOH, I need the 32 GB that I could get only on Touch. Besides the cost of data plan is prohibitive for me. Of course lugging two devices is a minor pain too.
- Vinay | विनय
Personally, my iPod touch is enough, but no mic or camera is a pain sometimes for apps... otherwise it's great (I don't want to have to buy apple's headphones to get a microphone)
- henry
I already have a sweet phone/data plan (too low to mention ;-)) and i would never sign a new contract just to get the iPhone cheaper. I sold my iPhone 3G and stick with G1 until the end of the year. By then, prices for unlocked new iPhones are down and perhaps i'll grab one. If i find more time to play some games again, maybe i'll get an iPod touch for summer fun...
- Ralph
I went with iphone last month...I love it! having fun with apps
- Malinda Routhier
This is gonna sound completely fanboyish, but I absolutely love it. It changed my expectation of mobile devices. I wouldn't trade it in for anything out there currently.
- Joshua Schnell
not having internet access all over makes most iphone apps pointless. POINTLESS.
- mjc
I'd love to have an iPhone, but the pricing is outrageous in India. Close to US $800 for the 16GB model, not inclusive of monthly rental & usage.
- Vijay
I love my iPod touch. Don't miss a crappy camera, already have a phone that has power even if I run down my iPod, and free WiFi's not hard to find. I agree that the lack of a GPS is a drag, though. I'm about ready to move to a smart phone, will consider the new iPhone, and the Palm Pre.
- David Sky
iPhone v. Touch was an epic struggle for me. Ultimately, I went with the iPhone and haven't looked back. Many apps are not usable without a data connection and living life with one device has really simplified things for me. The iPhone is really my everything: phonebook, calendar, map, to do list, email, book reader, news outlet, etc. The phone works well enough and the camera is fine. My vote is to take the plunge and go for the iPhone, but wait until after WWDC.
- David Imielski
Hi, my name is Tim, and I have been addicted to FriendFeed for 149 days, 9 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds, or since March 28th.. (http://www.timeanddate.com/date...)
- Tim Hoeck
Not sure about the movie, but at the recent TCA (television critics) conference, a full screening of one of the TV episodes was extremely well received.
- Robert Seidman
Will definitely be catching this with my son over the weekend. w00t!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I think that the purist won't like it (those didn't even liked episode 1-2-3 either) ... but people who already love the Extended Univers are really trilled !!
- Christian Farley
I agree. I wasn't a huge fan of 1,2,3 but I could at least see where they were coming from (except for 1)
- Steve Spalding
I will see. Wasn't a huge fan of the serial on Cartoon Network.
- l0ckergn0me
I'm such a tool for Star Wars. I blame it on seeing the original at an impressionable age.
- Nine
Don't be scared... It may indeed end up sucking but I for one think it will be epic if only for Genndy Tartakovsky's influence. I would rather look forward to a Star Wars experience than fear it... Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Hayden Christensen!
- Johnny Worthington
very good :-) (but ... can't wait when frf has an ability to add an arbitrary service (user-generated catalog of services available))
- Nikolay Samokhvalov
what about the facebook status updates? I hope that's coming...
- Rahul Das
Nice work with the status, I would like to see DailyMugshot introduced!
- Joe Dawson
Great! Just added identi.ca; configuring brightkite too.
- Parth Awasthi
Paul, given Identi.ca uses the Twitter API it would be nice if we could respond via Identi.ca in the same way you can with Tweets. I presume implementing it wouldn't be overly hard (where as Plurk of course is another matter)
- Duncan Riley
@Rahul FB status would be cool, but there is no public RSS feed. There is a feed, but it requires a key, which would require you to type in your username/password.
- Hao Chen
@Duncan +1. i was thinking the same thing
- Trent Olson
Integrated identi.ca via RSS feed before. OK, now it's there but it's not that big deal to me.
- Ansgar Wollnik
Thanks for the identi.ca support ... Excellent work !
- Christian Farley
AWESOME!! Ok, I might be using Identi.ca again!!! Yippee! Thanks FF team!!
- Susan Beebe
Why are the updates called Dents, I'll Dent you later :S
- Joe Dawson
i love "status-blogging", but i still think that it destroys the flow of my friendfeed - i also blocked every twitter update from everyone here at ff...
- Dieter Schwarz
Yay, more services to add to my profile! ;P
- Aaron Myers
Comming from Montreal, I am not sure that I like to be placed in the same categorie as Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar, Sudan !!!
- Christian Farley
from Bookmarklet
It's interesting since you can't (easily) tell who's feed is feeding what entries. :) Not sure if that's a flaw or a feature but I'm definitely leaning toward feature!
- felix
I was testing the Picnik extension for FF to take some web screenshot. Then, with Picnik - Flickr integration, share it ... Seems to work well
- Christian Farley
This service is so the best and easiest file sharing site around ... and this is only a part of what it offer in term of feature ...
- Christian Farley