Eric Rice

I know how ya feel, but we gotta let it go or start editing the stuff we publish with an eye toward the audience... and personally, I'd rather stay unfiltered. - Roger Benningfield

welcome to the internet... - Ňicķ

hey, look a lolcat! here kitty, kitty... - Hao Chen

I hate it when that happens. - possible248

Write about Friendfeed, or Twitter, or Both, about how one kills the other, or not, about the tehc blog community..... Guaranteed traffic drivers, but nothing to say really. It sucks big time, total agreement here. Sometimes I really take the time to think something through and actually get it written down and then less people even know its there than one with one of the subjects above in it. It's the virtual bubble we live in here. Write about the bubble works better than looking beyond it ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Maybe you need different followers (or better material)? - Brian Sullivan

Could very well be, LOL ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Oh I know this is nothing new... I even did isolated tests on Twitter and did so in real time, and results can be duplicated. Problem is, that line of thinking is a bit nefarious--- ultimately, it walks the line of audience control, but at a psychological level. It's not difficult to know what people respond to and how they will do it... do you act on that? - Eric Rice

I like to mix it up. I've had some posts that achieve pretty good popularity here. Others don't fare so well here (e.g. some of my enterprise 2.0 posts), but they do well with my RSS subscribers. And of course, some just fall flat with everyone, but writing the post was a good mental exercise. - Hutch Carpenter

Is it possible that what you think is deep is not really all that deep? Maybe it is just not titled to get traffic? Can you provide some deep/silly sample post pointers for us to discuss? - Brian Sullivan

Brian, I think one example was asking a point blank question about emergency preparedness that was inspired from a web2.0 SAVES ALL thread vs. hacking movie quotes with the word facebook to bug scoble. I mean, I'm only commenting about it all... just cuz we're indie or something, doesn't mean the sensational mass media rules don't apply. :) - Eric Rice

I can also cite a couple examples that have to do with everyday people like you and me wanting DRM, and yet, because it exists in the context of Second Life, the stigma and humor around furries and shemales trumps a serious issue. People are predictable, heh. Just the way it is. - Eric Rice

Stephen Hawking vs. Paris Hilton, GO! - Eric Rice

Deep stuff? Write a book. - Mark Forman

Definitely write a book. Go long, go deep. I've heard you claim you have no patience for the long form, but I wonder. - Jason Wehmhoener

Persevere. Personally, I'm not yet giving much consideration to the immediate feedback to what I post here. My contributions now are more an investment - the building of a body of info better suited for future users that don't give a flip about analyzing social networks. It's gotta happen. I mean, if Joe Sixpack signs up for a FF account and all this person sees is echo chamber crap about Twitter and SEO and industry analysis? They'll run for the hills and FF will die like all the rest. - Jim Stanger

People magazine sells better than Scientific American-that'll never change. More folks hooked on sugar than honey. - Mark Forman

Yes, but the spectrum of interests will widen in the months ahead. No one's saying it would be productive bringing up 21-dimensional physics problems in FriendFeed. That's for Plurk. ;-) - Jim Stanger

Irony is Plurk commiting suicide before falling whale crushes it and it goes , "SPLAT!" OK adjusting deep settings again. - Mark Forman

Wait, there's a site with people chatting about 21-dimensional physics problems? That "plurk" thing seems to be like twitter but less popular. Anyway, I don't see a question about emergency preparedness as "deep". Any question about Second Life is going to be context-free for people who don't use it. I think "silly" and "deep" are kind of questionable labels: Everyone has different interests, and it's disturbing when that's made evident without the normal social fiction of polite attention. - ⓞnor

Higher dimensional physics being discussed on Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/e/022fe0... - Jason Wehmhoener

String theory http://friendfeed.com/e/96618e... and http://friendfeed.com/e/71270d... - Jason Wehmhoener

dark matter http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Jason Wehmhoener

But you know, we're no worse off than the mainstream media http://www.webfilehost.com/ima... (via Nick) - Jason Wehmhoener

Lolcatz I can haz string... - Mark Forman

Damn you and your "facts" Wehmhoener! :P Still, you'll get much more engagement when the masses find FriendFeed. See, this conv works, 'cept it's about a web service. There's just no getting around it...yet. - Jim Stanger

Why do I feel that J Wehmhoener was Ming the merciless in a previous life? xD - Mark Forman

Wow, that's the most evil thing anyone has ever called me. I kinda like it. ;-) But seriously, I look nothing like this http://mingthemerciless.com/ - Jason Wehmhoener

Nor: Are you fucking kidding me? - Eric Rice

See also: puppets - Eric Rice

Mark: yeah basically. - Eric Rice

You're silly stuff is cool Eric... so we droool over it!! hehehe! - Susan Beebe

i think in the deluge of information overload, we're all somewhat conditioned to respond more quickly to the trivial and prurient, because it's easy, it's knee-jerk... the deeper stuff takes effort, and then you have to make decisions about how much energy you want to expend, for what payoff? i think we all tend to go for low-hanging fruit first. 2 virtual cents. - .LAG

.Lag- $.98 back-fruit salad ftw! - Mark Forman

What's the deep / silly ratio? Tweak it a bit, share less silly, maybe? - Dread Pirate PJ via Alert Thingy

You are not alone. People are stupid. Nuff said. Have you seen the silly movie "idiocracy"? We're already there, dude. - Mel "VOTE NDP" McB