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Chip Strikes Back: Finnish Label Sues Timbaland, Nelly Furtado - Peter Kirn (Create Digital Music) - http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009...
The Kid liked this
That’ll be Timbaland demonstrating that he doesn’t understand what 8-bit music (this tune is, of course, not from a video game) nor how sampling law works (video games aren’t subject to some different set of ethical and legal rules). I mean, if Timbaland were going all radical on us and declaring all content should be free, that’d be another matter.
- Miguel Caetano
TweetDeck Desktop Relaunches Tonight: New Features Galore! - http://mashable.com/2009...
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The Kid and Kol Tregaskes liked this
Finally, multiple account, and qik integration. Looking forward to the update later. Well done guys.!
- Micky
The 11 Essential Social Media Stories This Week - http://mashable.com/2009...
The Kid liked this
Social media made big waves this week. We saw several new services released to the public, while Google Wave continued to generate buzz. China tried to shut
- Caron Lyon
Question: What is a good volume to maintain on Friendfeed? Do you import everything and let people use their filters to sort them out (good for the current crowd, not so good for later adopters) or do you only import what you think are the most important items?
Kol Tregaskes, The Kid and if liked this
Import everything. After all, once you hook up a feed, the only choices are to import everything in it, or disconnect the feed entirely. You can't have it both ways. It's not too hard to figure out how to start filtering stuff out, or hiding unwanted content.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Brandon, as in external services? Like Chris says above it's either on or off so you have little choice (though I think Facebook gives you a few selections). It's really down to controlling from the external services then.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hey Guys, let me re-phrase: Do you import everything you're doing online (Good Reads, Pandora, ect.) or just the important stuff (Your blog, items you're reading)?
- Brandon Mendelson
New question. Do you say "Titties" or does it sound more like "tiddies"?
Steven Perez, Penguin It's Cold Outside, mjc and 13 other people liked this
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- Carmen
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- Jorge Escobar
I think I say tiddies. Of course, now that I am focusing on it, I won't get a good answer.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I have recently been saying 'breasticles' for some reason...
- Morgan Haley
i usually say "breasts." if i'm trying to be funny "tiddies" or "tittAYS"
- tiffany
I say "BEWBIES" and then giggle for 10 minutes. Also, I am 11 years old.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
one of my friends always says titty ball, and i laugh cause i'm 10.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
My rep in Texas uses a code when we see a particularly 'gifted' woman : He says 'Emerson, Lake and Palmer'...as in 'Them are some nice breastessess'
- Morgan Haley
I don't say that word.
- Derrick
tiddies
- nakachi
tiddies
- Rodfather
'd' sound
- Janet
TiTTies
- Shevonne
Most Americans use a "tap" for the t/d consonant between vowels. So "pedal" and "metal" rhyme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- and just about everyone says /tIɾiz/ which sounds like "tiddies."
- Stephen Mack
Geez, bet I just killed the thread, sorry...
- Stephen Mack
Usually a synonym instead.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Boobs
- Vicky
I use the terminology the mammography techs I support use: boobs
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I don't believe I've ever said it.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
is "titdies" an acceptable answer?
- mark
T.
- Steven Perez
Problem: This FriendFeed brain crack is causing me to be addicted! And it doesn't help that people keep posting interesting stuff, which leads to a blog to read, then back to FF to see what's new, then to comment, then off to subscribe to more people, then... [endless loop] Any help groups for addicts? (I'm half-way serious)
Tyson Key, Steven Perez, Stylish Eve and 15 other people liked this
Rehab? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I've just given in. I'm assimilated and lovin' it! Glad I have spare time at work to keep up!
- CAJ, somewhere else
what about just limiting the time you spend on friendfeed - say an hour in the morning and an hour at night?
- Wang Yip
Yes rehab - steer me to the nearest FF rehab - I'm getting too much of a brain fix on here
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Downloading leechblock for Firefox helps.
- xero
Unfortunately, the cure is worse than the disease :)
- Micah Wittman
It's addicting :-)
- Kevin Whalen
Wang - I don't know if I could do that! The withdrawls would be horrible
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Micah - the cure? what's the cure??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
haha ok so limit it to 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours at night then? :P
- Wang Yip
Wahg, ok, that sounds more doable
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
xero - what does leechblock do??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
How about an announcement for everyone to stop fascinating stuff during certain hours, then people like me could get bored and walk away
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Rehab for me too...
- Morten Blaabjerg
♫ I said no...no...no! ♪
- Uche Ogbuji
Uche - LOL
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I found a FF group room for addicts - http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - but it may be inactive now!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
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- Micah Wittman
Janni not calling back ...strange .. what happened?
- Petr Buben
What's that Petr? I was out running errands for a while! :-)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Everyone should be addicted. I remember when people actually argued over whether FF or Twitter was better. Well, FF users only use Twitter to be connected to the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world was on FF there would be no use for Twitter.
- The Kid
@Jannifer, you should create a room called FriendFeed Anonymous and prescribe a 12-step program. :)
- imabonehead
If you do create such a room "FFA", please include me in as a charter member. Pat pomahony2@gmail.com
- pomahony2
@Janni .. i thought, after running Micah's script, that your computer overheated, imploded and collapsed unto itself into a cloud of pyroclastic dust .. and .... - good then, you running errands .. means you do have, haven't lost, the ability to detach yourself physically from the computer equipment . good! .. // were you tweeting your run? .. or. friendfeeding it ? :]
- Petr Buben
Petr, implosion is the worthy goal of all my scripts =)
- Micah Wittman
from inside, though ... it has to start from inside out ... make it a smokeless implosion based on electrons overflowing the monitor area, with all buffers hardly defined
- Petr Buben
Find an uncomfortable chair. After a few hours or so, your back will be screaming with pain and you'll have to get up and do something else. But don't forget to take your PDA with you.
- Steven Perez
I love when homophobes don't even know they're homophobes, except for not really because I totally hate it.
nakachi, edythe, Carmen and 47 other people liked this
And I love that they tell me some trumped up ish like I *chose* to be gay. Ok, thanks for that.
- Derrick
1UP Derrick.
- Rochelle
Just like the "but some of my best friends are [blank]" comments are never seen as bigoted.
- Trish R
And I now I feel compelled to post pics of REALLY HOT GUYS in the Really Gay Room.
- Derrick
Do it, Derrick!
- Ms. G.Warbucks IYN
Do it, Derrick, and crosspost to the main feed. :)
- Rochelle
*fist bump*
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
Though the line from the Glee premiere was pretty hilarious: "I'm not homophobic, I have two gay dads."
- Kevin Bondelli
2UP
- Patrick Jordan
See, I missed what happened, but now I see. Ugh.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Wanted to comment in that other thread and say I think violence on TV is what should concern parents in my view, not the homophobic crap and any of the sexual stuff. Think Europe has it much closer to the right way round on that subject - very little tolerance for violence. Blah, that's off this topic - just couldn't be bothered saying in that nasty thread ....
- Patrick Jordan
Oh dear - I just read that. Ouch! Very male-centric, too, for that matter. Is it always just about a man's son? The whole thing just makes me want to go grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
- Katy S
I found the offending post. Worse than I thought. "I'm not homophobic, I just wouldn't invite a gay over for dinner." A little too similar to "I'm not racist, as long as they stay in their own bathrooms and schools and not in mine."
- Kevin Bondelli
For those not aware of Jamaica's culture, it's certainly interesting when it comes to gay people. And by interesting, I mean they like to stone, burn, maim and kill them. I'm not mad at the poster for not being aware. How could he be in a culture that's so pervasively homophobic? It's sad more than anything. I really feel for gays and lesbians that have to endure that kind of heat for wanting to be themselves and simply can't.
- Derrick
Derrick, IIRC, he's also fairly young. Maybe there's hope for him as he gets older. Edit: 18 years old.
- Rochelle
True, we have a ways to go, but there are other cultures where acceptance hasn't even begun.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I regret that I called it properly but backed down to give him the extra benefit of the doubt. <sigh>
- CAJ, somewhere else
If we can ever get to a place where people can admit they don't understand and open their minds a bit, there's a future. I'm so glad my kids aren't fazed in the least by gay friends or teachers, but when I was growing up, gay was something to ridicule, not accept. My mom had many gay friends, so I wasn't part of that same culture, but I sure know where it comes from. :(
- Karoli
I always think those people are gay. The more scared, are more scared of themselves. Is that mean of me, I wonder.
- anna sauce
I saw that thread. I was really disappointed. Go at it with the hot male pics, Derrick.
- Helen Sventitsky
Anna, I think the same thing.
- Rochelle
After reading that thread, I think I need to spend the rest of the night listening to David Bowie or someone else with a fluid notion of gender.
- Katy S
Katy I stopped a few in. blech.
- anna sauce
Let's talk about bread instead!
- anna sauce
Well, actually I skimmed it. The best thing I learned in grad school is the truly useful skill of selective skimming. Hooray for bread!!
- Katy S
im really not a fan of homophobes.
- Liz
I looked at that post for minutes before I finally decided to post a comment. I tapped out of the whole conversation after I saw his response to me. In my day to day life I've run across people who feel that way and I've taken the time to really talk to them but online? Things can get so out of control so fast that as soon as I saw how rigid he was, I decided I didn't want/couldn't spend time banging my head against that wall.
- ♥patricia♥
Derrick: you should open a Homophobia Treatment Center where the main treatment style is desensitization. Patients would be exposed to increased levels of interaction with homosexuals. Eventually they would either be comfortable around anyone, or they would completely freak out and slip into their tiny little hating universe, at which point you could drive them up the coast a bit and drop them off with $5 and a note pinned to their chest that reads: hi - i kick puppies. Think about it...you could make BANK!
- Morgan Haley
I love Morgan. :)
- Derrick
I just tried to use my bus card to get into the building. Again. I could really go for a universal ID, credit, debit, bus, passport card.
CAJ, somewhere else, Shawn Hickman, The Kid and Admiral Anika liked this
In the form of a sub-dermal RFID implant?
- Geoff Schultz
No. Fuck no! What? I don't want to be trackable via satellite! I'd really just like to be able to use one card for multiple purposes. Maybe I'm asking for too much :p
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
I would love the implant or even just fingerprint recognition.
- Admiral Anika
I have wanted an RFID implant for years, opening doors, paying for stuff, it would be fantastic
- Arthur Guy
I dont want that. I want to be able to disappear if I need to.
- The Kid
Using my fingerprint to pay for stuff would be awsome!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
A sub-dermal RFID isn't going to allow satellite tracking :p Not without roasting everything between the emitter and the ground at least...
- matthew john ernisse
Oh, I totally thought it allowed GPS tracking. :-/ Oopsies!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Nah, RFID is powered by the RF emitted by the reader, you would have to have a powered device to be able to be tracked as it would have to be alive between reads or the tracking system would have to be terrestrial.
- matthew john ernisse
"MUL-TI-PASS!!!" "Yes, she knows it's a MultiPass."
- CAJ, somewhere else
To really show the wrongness of the recent post that everyone is talking about replace the word "gay" with Black, Asian, Jew, Christian, etc. and then see how bad it looks. Because yeah, it's EXACTLY like that.
Anthony Citrano, Kol Tregaskes, InPerpetualMotion(Gina k) and 11 other people liked this
"I don't have a problem with Jews, but I don't want my kids to grow up to be one."
- Aaron Hood
""I don't have a problem with bloggers, but I don't want any of my kids to grow up to be one."
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
"I have social media friends, not necessarily close to them, i won't invite them over for dinner or anything."
- CAJ, somewhere else
"I don't have a problem with marketers, but I don't want my kids to grow up to be one."
- AJ Kohn
Some of my best friends are white, but I would never let them babysit.
- Trish R
Considering it's usually religious people saying these things, I really wouldn't want my kids to grow up and be one of them if it means promoting hate. Of course, people who admit that the blatant disregard for seperation of church and state is appalling, they're ok. My best friend is one of them.
- The Kid
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LOL
- CW™
WHERE HAZ CEILING KAT GONZ?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I eated him
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Eating a cheeseburger?
- joey
“I was thinking Direct Messages like twitter or something would be kool on friendfeed (private 1on1 messages). what do you think?”
Alexandros Georgiadis, Internet Strategist, Mattie Kenny and 16 other people liked this
I have the ultimate private messaging solution: it is called gmail. Please don't bring the world another lame private messaging facility like Twitter has.
- Robert Scoble
robert ok then lets say this. have an option on a users FF page where they can link to their gmail address. I am kool with that as well.
- (jeff)isageek
gmail is fine if you know the email of the person.
- AJ Batac
How about the option to have a 'mailme' link that sends a mail from your registered address to theirs. Then again, that would require something akin to a profile...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
gmail... what's wrong with plain ol' e-mail?
- Peter
Peter, because you don't know the email of the person here in FriendFeed
- AJ Batac
@Peter: nothing is wrong with plain ol email, but how do I know what your email address is?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
there is something other then gmail? huh....j/k yes any email could be used. I just use gmail so i just used it as an example.
- (jeff)isageek
How do you what someone's gmail address is? How do you know anything? Friendfeed knows, so if there'd be an option to e-mail someone, friendfeed could do it for you.
- Peter
@Peter: that's exactly my point. FF knows your email addy, so if you had a profile and had checked a box "yes, ppl can email me", then I could go to your profile and click a 'Mail Peter' link. But alas, there is no profile and no checkbox for you to say ppl can email you.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bleh, every service does not need to dup features. If you want DM's like Twitter...well...use Twitter. You should be able to contact someone just fine if necessary by looking at the info on their feed. If not, they probably didn't want to talk to you anyway.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with Scoble.
- The Kid
I'm not afraid to be called stupid for this, but I'm not using and I won't use gmail for _private_ communication since I'm concerned for my privacy.
- Opensource Obscure
there should be _some_ kind of dm feature here...what is the utility of just randomly stalking people? if you want to make a real connection, there is no system in place for that (to do directly on ff)
- Aaron McCullough
I don't have any problem with using GMail for my private communications. If it's THAT private, I don't put it in an email, Period.
- Ian May
@Opensource Obscure: There's always GPG/PGP...
- Tanath
@scoble, I wouldn't call private messaging lame on Twitter. I know you can't use it because you get deluged...but I bet that many average users are using private messaging >30% of the time. Plus really, you can't have twitter without some type of direct messaging or you would be pushing out that much more noise because it would only be replies to all...
- Pokai
if the other side does NOT give you their email, that's done on purpose and you do not qualify for communications on the level of trust, by default - stop to be direct marketing arsehole, don't assume people exist to be messaged/mailed unless they publish their mail address (and even then it is still questionable). I wish spammers (upon legitimate court decision of proven guilt in spam) shall be declared outside law protection and everyone might kill them.
- A.T.
I disagree with silpol on this one. For example, my wife and I often use Twitter Direct messaging, when I am here at the computer, and she is out and about with her cellphone. It's easier to DM from Twitter on a desktop than it is to faff about sending a text on a cellphone, however good the keyboard is.
- Ian May
@scoble one problem with your solution what if gmail goes down? Like it did very recently.
- Colide81 (James)
where is ff on this..? I don't see what the problem is. let the user check a box on their profile indicating whether or not they would like to allow direct emails, and then create an "email me" link on the users popup profile in ff
- JSNFLMNG
I think a profile with some sort of mail me facility is a good idea (just having a profile is good). It seems silly to suggest that we should stick to Gmail , 1 because the whole world doesn't use Gmail and 2, that if you wanted to mail someone you kind of need to know there address. I also think the suggestion of using another service is wrong and that it would be better to keep it in-house. Have it as a feature, set the default to off (i.e. the mail me link on you profile as off)...
- Kol Tregaskes
and have the option for FF users to turn it on and thus allow fellow FFers to contact them.
- Kol Tregaskes
agree with Robert. the only private messaging system I need is email.
- Jon Price
and frf webmail too :)
- slsrx
Just about every service that gets imported into FF has some kind of messaging or comment system. Why not use one of those?
- Tanath
How about a direct messaging system where DMs get forwarded to one's email account if one chooses to do so?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I'm all for contacting people in the way preferred by THEM, rather than assuming that one-size-fits-all. BTW, Twitter DMs can be forwarded to eMail and/or SMS, I do both.
- LogEx
FF could make Scoble and others all happy by letting us configure how we want to receive direct messages. It could offer email, or Twitter or something here that doesn't exist yet. Right now I find someone's Twitter and @ or DM them over there with the link to come back over here. That does seem convoluted.
- Internet Strategist
I second that, Internet Strategist
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Hey FF team: socialmedian users are requesting integration between socialmedan and friendfeed. it's our #1 user request! - http://www.socialmedian.com/story...
Morton Fox, sofarsoShawn, Kol Tregaskes and 23 other people liked this
Yes!!! Please!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Awesome! What's the eta?
- Scott Schang
yes please add SocialMedian integration to FriendFeed. Thank you
- David Ward
puhhhleeeeze. and thank you.
- Call me Bronco
That would be cool. :)
- Laura
indeed.
- idnan
Yes Please!
- Ian May
Yeah I just signed up for social median, that would be awesome.
- The Kid
Yes please ... it would be an awesome addition. Thx.
- Robert Couture
Those options are mostly dealing with the same thing (Atom/RSS feeds).
- Tanath
I emailed them too, y'day.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
me too
- Julian Bond
see my bookmarklet about utterli.com
- sofarsoShawn
I want identi.ca support in friendfeed. Press "Like" if you want it too. - http://identi.ca/splitbrain
Ryan Price, Arash, sebmos and 34 other people liked this
✔
- Hao Chen
Talk about bring an item back from the dead, Hao!
- Aaron Myers
:P
- Hao Chen
Bump to promote support of replying via identi.ca just like with Twitter replies.
- xero
Bump again to promote dupe detection between Twitter and identi.ca
- Cesar Cardoso
Ability to reply and the ability to detect duplicate microblogging posts in general, DO WANT.
- Voyagerfan5761
Yes, dedupe Twitter and Identi.ca! I want to keep supporting Identi.ca but been contemplating removing it because of the dupes.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Am I missing something? identi.ca is already supported. Dupe-detecting for micro-blogs is needed.
- Kol Tregaskes
“Does anyone else want to see Friend Feed import from Facebook? It's one of the biggest reasons I still use socialthing.com” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Voyagerfan5761, xero, Richard Peat and 5 other people liked this
What do you want it to import?
- Glenn Slaven
Photo activity and status updates would be nice.
- Michael Ryan
Friend status updates, photos, and wall posts
- Grant Gochnauer
you can import the rss feed from facebook...or create an imaginary friend in ff
- Rob Williams
the status updates would be good. I can see why you can't at the moment, if FB imported into FF, I think that could potentially collapse the walled garden that is Facebook.
- Steve Isaacs
@Rob - interesting idea actually. I guess the whole concept of FF where you have to manually follow individuals breaks down with facebook. I'd like it so I'd automatically follow all my facebook friends so I wouldn't have to add imaginary people for every single friend. Maybe the concept of a personal facebook room that is facebook's updates consolidated like that
- Grant Gochnauer
sorry - zero interest for me but i could see those that use facebook a lot wanting this - as long as we could hide the entire service do see a problem though
- mike "glemak" dunn
That raises an interesting question: what does the Facebook integration that's currently in Friendfeed actually do? I don't think I've ever seen a Facebook item go through my feed.
- Mark Trapp
Just found this in Google Groups, but it was written a long while ago; anything new on it? http://tinyurl.com/55mubp
- Michael Ryan
@Grant - just import the entire status feed as 1 imaginary friend: http://www.facebook.com/help...
- Rob Williams
@Rob - I took your suggestion and yeah looks like I got status updates now :). Now all I need are my wall posts and newly tagged photos of friends and new photo albums. I didn't see a feed for those unfortunately. This is better than nothing though :)
- Grant Gochnauer
@Grant: you could probably cheat by doing some email to rss option through a 3rd party site, then import that feed in with your facebook imaginary friend (you can import more than one feed for a friend)
- Rob Williams
I haven't seen anything from facebook either Mark
- Alejandro
Mark, it puts FF data into Facebook - your mini feed, as well as your friends' news feeds.
- flammable
My status, my friends status and (optionally) my mini feed and the news feed of my friend's activities. I'd also like to selectively import my Facebook friends to be FF friends.
- Jon Price
FriendFeed's current Facebook app is worthless. Just an iframe with FriendFeed in it. It *should* let me see which of my Facebook friends are on FriendFeed.
- Pat Hawks
It just seems like there should be a way to export Facebook into Friendfeed. What you'd want to export should be optional though.
- xero
In general, I think services that have an authenticated API call should do fancier things on FF. Flickr should show all my friends/contacts posts, even if they aren't on FF. FB should do some similar things with some datatypes. It currently seems to only have this behavior with a handful of services (twitter etc) that put this information out in the public sphere.
- Ryan Gallagher
Don't want. It would be just another service I block.
- EricaJoy
the option would be great, but you'd have to sort out privacy issues (in a technical sense)
- David Alvarez
Can YouTube Save Books? - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...
Jeanne Breault, The Kid, .LAG liked that and 8 other people liked this
no
- mjc
ummm... nope lol
- Jonathan Beckett
Thanks for posting this @Robert! Great find. Know many who will be interested in this. Have been watching the future of books ever since the Kindle came out and posted a very insignificant blog about that and our own little futuristic"library of Alexandria" scenario. I look forward to viewing this later.
- Melanie Reed
Like many I listen to podcasts, and audiobooks, but I still enjoy sitting in bed with a good book or magazine. I've toyed with the idea of a Kindle, but not taken the plunge yet.
- Ian May
Yes if authors give talks at google about them
- Ian
Cool. Good to know that folks are trying to get the word out about good books.
- Brent Newhall
Assuming book = paper pages bound no.
- Brian Sullivan
@ian +1
- .LAG liked that
It's really simpler than creating a video. It starts with children being read to at night by parents. And since we think (documented both by studies and by writers on the subject) in mental images even about abstracts, associating "stories" of categorization with them, the more we expose our children to videos of everything, we lessen their grasp and creativity. It has to be exercised by "picturing" what they are reading not seeing someone else's vision. (See Robert Schank) http://tinyurl.com/5vnhge
- Melanie Reed
Having said I enjoy books, and wouldn't want to see them disappear in their printed word format, I suppose it would help the environment if they did....
- Ian May
@melanie +2. environmental issues aside, we NEED books. better recycling practices, and more innovation around printing technology may be a few things to explore in terms of being more "green" about producing books. but do we want a future right out of -- a book -- Fahrenheit 451? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- .LAG liked that
@.LAG Agreed. Hope I didn't mislead in what I was saying so I'll say it straight out: I am for books and against turning everything exclusively into a video or electronic device. It has serious repercussions for our ability to reason and imagine as my blog piece touched upon. You're right: we need books. I'm a "coglian" when it comes to books. ;) Along with your multiple strategies to address environmental concerns, I subscribe to St. Athaneus' prescription for healthy and balanced reading...
- Melanie Reed
...for every 2-3 new books, one old book should be read. (hope I didn't get that backwords) ;) And no matter how incredible the effects of some work of humanities (ie, film, art, or book) if it offends the sacredness of life or the Creator, I pass on exercise of my personal right to read or view it
- Melanie Reed
@melanie ...i'm going to have to look up 'coglian'...but i'm with you. it seems pretty simple to me: read a book, your mind makes its own pictures and associations, and i have to believe that helps it grow stronger. watch a video or film and you're ingesting someone else's vision. what a great platform for controlling others' thoughts. ok, now back to my video game. lolz
- .LAG liked that
It might help if you google "Samuel T. Cogley" ;)
- Melanie Reed
Thanks for doing this Robert. Our company has made http://www.bookvideos.tv which are interviews with authors from top publishers. We've received a ton of good press about how video helps authors connect with readers who want to know more about the author. The videos are replacing (or augmenting) the book signing - as video on the Web can reach many more people in an engaging, intimate way.
- Morgan
request: hide a single blog
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If one person has mutiple blogs, I cannot hide one blog. I can only hide all blogs or no blogs. I want to be able to hide one blog but not the other from the same person.
- Peter
FriendFeed party - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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ana and fox
- 阿石
Nice, a little old.
- Akshay Dodeja
Craig Newmark on Internet literacy - http://rc3.org/2008...
The Kid, Brian, Sidharth Dassani and Jon McCoubrey liked this
Thoughts: I think this piece is largely an argument for why the president's advisors should be internet savvy. I don't think any of us can reasonably think that any current Presidential candidate is going to be personally communicating with voters via Twitter or email. That is not a possibility. While the reasons for this are debatable--I would argue that the job is too complex and...
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- John
from twhirl
This post doesn't argue at all why the President should be tech-savvy, only that he should be tech-savvy. And I agree with John that it isn't even about the President, but about the people the President surrounds himself with. I still see no reason why tech-saviness should be a requirement to be President.
- J. McConnell
Polymeme: the stories that Digg and Reddit miss - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
The Kid, Sidharth Dassani, Jon McCoubrey and 13 other people liked this
I know Evgeny (founder of polymeme) personally and wouldnt shy off dubbing him as one of most knowledgable and resourceful guys i have ever met. Polymeme is kind of reflecting what he himself is, a polymath :) The site apparently is getting popular but it has a deeper and more intellectual approach about it and therefore is less appealing to large masses..
- Hayk H.
I must admit that I have basically stopped using digg and reddit because they where too samey. Polymeme sounds interesting and the top stories at the moment look a bit deeper than the usual so I may give it a go. Cheers Robert.
- John Cooper
This is very interesting. Of course, it looks like it works very differently than Digg or others. This is not open to everyone, it is an experts site. Which, considering how much there is out there, is a useful tool to have.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Songbird 0.7 RC1 is out: Mozilla-based music player is growing up - http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r...
The Kid, Trent Olson and Ray Grieselhuber liked this
Ever wanted to know the gender and age breakdown of social networks? - http://technokitten.blogspot.com/2008...
Nicholas James, The Kid, Chris Luckhardt and 9 other people liked this
How I would like tags to function on Friendfeed
Jack Frizzell, Kishore Balakrishnan, Tai and 10 other people liked this
I want tags. Did I mention that before? Yes I did. But I did some thinking. I don't want tags like on del.icio.us or something. On Friendfeed, the primary purpose would be for me to be able to find things. When I tag something, that tag should be available only to me, only visible for me. But I should be able to not tag just my own entries, but other people's entries as well. (This is why tags should be kept private, you don't want all sorts of tags on all messages.) I want a tag cloud, and when I click a tag, I want to see all entries that I tagged with that tag, all entries, not just the ones I posted.
- Peter
Interesting idea.
- Daniel Schildt
I probably wouldn't use tags (as I like the speed of sharing on FF now and adding tags would slow the process down) but I can see it being useful to others
- Kol Tregaskes
Tags make me think too much
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
AMEN TO THAT!!! Tagging is a long overdue feature request. Not sure why we can't get that. It would seriously be a big feature to release and would definitely compete with Del.i.cious and other bookmarking / tagging products
- Susan Beebe
I don't need tags.
- Carlo Zottmann
tags are generally useful in finding other similar posts. Instead I like to have a simple "related/similar" posts link for each item
- Krishna Gade
I would like a way to be able to jump to past conversations. Having them tagged would be one way to access them, so I do like this idea.
- Connie Crosby
I think tagging has a real function in del.icio.us and Flickr (tag-surfers for one), but I'm not sure it works as well in FriendFeed. For one, many services are automatically imported and left untagged. Two, your "likes" should enable you to jump to conversations you liked in the past. And three, FriendFeed's search is already pretty good, allowing you to search for any topic you like, within your stream, your friends', or everyone's, and "liking" (read: tagging) those that you want to keep.
- Vincent van Wylick
Tagging in del.icio.us is not the same as what tagging in Friendfeed should be. Del.icio.us is a collection of bookmakrs, and the tags are used to organize those bookmarks. In friendfeed, tags would act like bookmarks themselves. Like a topic index, where one word can point to several sections in a book.
- Peter
There is a basic distinction between del.icio.us and friendfeed. Del.icio.us is about permanency, to pin down the things on a spot, a location. Friendfeed is about flow, a collective life stream, where things are connected in a moment in time, in the now. It's place vs time. But still, it's useful to bridge the gap, partly. So del.icio.us has info on what time something was posted. Friendfeed could bridge in the other direction with tags (perhaps we should call it something else).
- Peter
Come to think of it, I rarely use del.icio.us for bookmarking entries in friendfeed. It's not those kind of bookmarks I want. I want indexing and cross-referencing by personal annotation. Don't think of del.icio.us tags. Think twitter hashtags, except they are not part of the entry itself, but can be added to an entrie by anyone.
- Peter
I want tags imported from other services, along with the ability to add tags in FF. I want to be able to click a tag and see what I (and/or others) have posted with that tag.
- Tanath
What's with the remote key? I understand it's a security-feature, but at least let me choose my own, as I *never* remember the letter-number sequence FriendFeed gives me.
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Yes, whats up with remote key being lil bit cryptic?? Why cant it be user selected?
- Jigar Mehta
just generate another one until its something that it resonates. initially i had the same reaction, but after i generated some i found one thats cool enough :)
- Mihai Tarmure
too late. I have already grown accustomed to mine which frankly sounds a little kinky, but at first made me uncomfortable... but hey I remember it now
- Noah David Simon
Yes, no offense but I don't really see this being that valid of a complaint.
- Tsega Dinka
Yeah it's a key so it's suposed to be a bit cryptic. If you need to remember it then copy it into a text file. I've found that a site needing the key has a direct link to the key page anyway, so not found a need to remember it
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol and Tsega: why don't you perceive this as a problem? Remote keys seem to be designed for the service-to-service level (e.g. FriendFeed to FFtogo), but I'm not a service, I'm a person who has already come up with a good password for FF. So why not let me come up with a separate password (if that's necessary) for the remote-key function also? Currently, it's just not very user-friendly.
- Vincent van Wylick
As others have stated; the remote key is something for service to service communications. The only time you should ever see this key is when you are setting up a new client of some sort. Other than that it should remain in the background. The key should be copied and pasted into various clients and not memorized. If you feel you need to remember this key for any reason you should think about contacting the writer of the software you are trying to input it into.
- Zac Garrett
I don't mean to start a long-lasting argument here. But imagine this scenario. I go to an internet-cafe and sign into Netvibes, my rss-reader of choice. I read Twitter and FFtogo in it too. I'm asked to sign into Netvibes, fine; I'm asked to sign into Twitter, fine. I remember both passwords, and it only takes a sec. I'm asked to sign into FFtogo. It asks me for a remote key. Remote key? I have to load a different page, log into FF, copy-paste the key, etc. See the difference?
- Vincent van Wylick
I see the difference... its an issue with fftogo and not friendfeed itself. The way the service works it does not keep your account info. The key is setup to be saved in a database and not to login every time you want to use a service. They use the key in a way that is not what a remote key is designed for. I understand the issue as you see it, but it is really an issue with a third party incorrectly using a this key.
- Zac Garrett
I only encountered apps asking for the remote key while providing a link to it at the same time. That is one click in a new tab, copy and paste back, faster than I would type that exact same sequence.
- Nicole Simon
Zac: fftogo does remember your account info. But it has issues with some carriers and phones. I have not found the answer yet.
- Benjamin Golub
“Friend Feed: Give us a one line bio w. link to website and TAGS about what we write about/like!” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Ryan Gallagher, Igor Poltavskiy, Gaby K. Slezák and 5 other people liked this
added it for you melanie :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
what about everyone created a message with title bio ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Racist comments during Wayne Sutton/Corvida Interview - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Amadou M. Sall, Jon Dillon, .LAG liked that and 27 other people liked this
Click through this to see more of the spewage. It was atrocious.
- Louis Gray
Don't be afraid to "Like" this, I won't be offended.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
lol
- Cee Bee
like = 'was shocked by'
- Phil G
this is just sad. Where do people pick up these ideas anyway?
- Rahul Das
i was in the room , some really nasty stuff went on , should be some sort of report to Y 'Live made
- johnpiercy
I think that it's great that the racist asshats and pot stirrers provoke good conversation among the majority of the rational people that need to discuss these sensitive and painful issues in a meaningful manner.
- Mark Forman
It's difficult to even read this stuff. Don't have anything substantial to add...Just wanted to join the chorus of the sane condemning this kind of disgraceful behavior.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
Unbelievable. What year is this?
- jonn
I want to start a non profit that takes donations and gives the money to hitmen to kill people associated with racist organizations, child molesters, etc. That would be pretty sweet.
- The Kid
I had racist slings thrown at me my whole life - from chink, chigger, mutt, gook, etc al. It's sad that people act like that but most of the time it stems from fear - ie: fear of the unknown (because of our still segregated society).
- George Smith
And there is nothing that will change these guys' minds. They live their little anonymous lives, fearful of anything that doesn't fit into their little world, creating things to hate so they don't have to look at themselves too much. Ugh.
- Hutch Carpenter
Just showing support. We need more buttons than 'like.'
- sergiooo
Shey: Thanks for saying that, else I would have been v reluctant to 'like' something I vehemently disagree with
- Sally Church
Violence is not helpful, escalating the inflamatory language isn't helpful, it's how ignorant things get said. I agree with Mark F that rational discussion is important but also note that the people who we'd like to behave differently are not rational and aren't interested in discussion. That's why a lot of people dismiss the wackos and try to be good examples. The best way to respond to ignorance(i feel) in the long term is to not prove the stereotypes right.
- sergiooo
I got nothing. .... nothing. *disgusted*
- Yolanda
A small, heartening counternote: @owillis honors an American hero who gave up his job rather than honor the racist Jesse Helms. http://snurl.com/2w805
- Michael Markman
Like Youtube Yahoo! Tends to attract the lowest common denominator. It's just awful that they were ambushed like that.
- Steve Spalding
Depeche Mode – To Have and to Hold (Spanish Taster) - http://www.last.fm/music...
Ontario Emperor and The Kid liked this
The extended version of "Music for the Masses" has some of Depeche Mode's best songs. On the other hand, it has "Pleasure, Little Treasure," which I detest.
- Ontario Emperor
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