"The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need: the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 300 million visitors have given more than 500 million cups of staple food." - Michael W. May
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Hunger Site, Breast Cancer Site, Child Health Site, Literacy Site, Rainforest Site, and Animal Rescue Sites, click every day, takes a but a few moments, a good mouse finger warmup excersise to begin the morning ;) - Michael W. May
This has become my most faved photo on Flickr. Despite me being on Flickr for years, three of my five most faved shots were uploaded in the last three months, including one in the last week. This seems to have happened since I used Phill Price's advice to upload one shot a day, and blog it. Thanks for the advice Phill. It's working. Interestingly, none of these top five faved shots make it anywhere near the top of Flickr's interestingness. I think think their algorithm needs an update, because Flickr likes far worse photos than my contacts. - Chris Nixon
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What's your blog Chris? can't find it in your Friendfeed items. - Juan Pablo González
Thanks... but I'm missing something. Are you getting hits to Flickr from your blog? I can see the upload one shot a day, but if you don't have your blog here in FF, are you promoting it somewhere else? in other words, how does the blog portion been helping? - Juan Pablo González
"Reporting from Tijuana -- Mexican federal agents and army troops fanned out across this besieged border city Tuesday to replace 500 police officers, the latest move by the government to purge the troubled force of corrupt and incompetent cops. Last week, 21 officers, including two deputy chiefs, were detained on suspicion of having ties to drug traffickers and flown to Mexico City for questioning by Mexico's anti-organized-crime unit. The moves come as authorities struggle to control a brutal war among rival traffickers that has killed more than 300 people in Tijuana since late September and left residents wary of large swaths of the city." - Anna Haro
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So, lessons? 1. it's hard to get onto the top of the popularity lists and wasn't made easier when a new service came out. 2. such lists favor people who network their behinds off at physical events. 3. Participation in FriendFeed helps you move up a little bit, but only if you are both very active and throw interesting content into FriendFeed (like, say, Mona). What else do you learn by looking at this list? - Robert Scoble
Johnny: well, you might claim you don't care about them, but in aggregate I see that most of us follow people who are already popular, not people who actually participate. Of course, since FriendFeed is, at top, an aggregator, just putting your RSS feeds into here is participation, I guess. - Robert Scoble
We do subscribe to them, because they are beacons. But you also have to weigh that list by the amount of 'active' users who subscribe to them. I know of at least 5 people who are members here on FriendFeed, who subscribe to most if not all of the top 20 yet never come on here. The core group is what matters. Those who are recognizable names will always get more follows, but the core of the group http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... is what drives it. Rankings are always skewed. - Johnny Worthington
I think part of this is that many people use FriendFeed as an aggregator. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
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This list just looks like every top 100 for every mainstream (in tech) online service. It shows that in the main, the top 100 don't use friend feed but send feeds to it, I don't think that = participation, at all. - Kevin Dixie
Kevin: there is a participation effect, though. On Twitter Leo Laporte has twice the followers that I do, but not here. Why? The participation effect. I've gathered quite a few followers by participating here. - Robert Scoble
I agree - participation is key to any community see my example here (a userguide to my community) http://www.fuelmyblog.com/inde... Online has the very same rules as offline and glad you are showing that - Kevin Dixie
FriendFeed is far more of a 'community' than Twitter is, participating here counts for far more than almost anywhere else, however, participation (and how much you participate) is also a lot less visible here, in my opinion. FriendFeed (as a system) favors those who create content to import into the stream, not those who contribute to the community. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
The smart people (like you, Tina, Mona, and others) know better. The result is that being active on the community nets your rewards from the community itself, not the system. Is that a bad thing? - Aram Zucker-Scharff
Kevin : I disagree, when you are sending feeds in FF, you are pointing at us, poor human, what you find interesting. I think this is a kind of participation. Robert is doing that very well (too well ?). The only exception is twitter for me. I find it very hard to follow a twitter conversation here on friendfeed. - Olivier CASTETS
Good discussion. I interact and participate much more on FF than on Twitter. Why? Because FF is a much better tool for enabling engaging communication. I find myself being very careful conversing on Twitter because I feel it's easy to pollute the stream, whereas on FF you can do this without the same effects. - Mark Krynsky
The first thing I notice about the list is that NOBODY on FF has more than 20,000 subscribers. I reach more people through my blog on a regular basis. Is FF really all that influential? It does seem to be a great way to connect with the geek elite, but is that its only value? - Eric Hamilton
Is finally FF the blogging tool of the near future? You just posted one line and a link and the most interesting and remarkable thoughts and comments appeared in minutes from all over! - philos
"November 18, 2008—Less than ten months old, a baby chimpanzee named Mapima (pictured) was being mistreated by Congolese army soldiers until she was rescued last week by the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a post on the official blog of nearby Virunga National Park." - Anna Haro
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You missed "refresh" and "post LOLcats religiously" - ♣genieyclo♣
genieyclo- that's FF for advanced users. lol :p - Matt Musgrave
MySpace for Dummies makes sense... MySpace for smarties, OTOH would be a mystery - Sean Reiser
You know what's missing from that collection? AOL for Dummies. - April Russo
Robert Scoble says smart people are on FriendFeed, so we don't need a Dummies Guide. Ok, well, that's not what he says, but I'm just going to keep telling myself that's what he says. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
That's so wrong - what I'm waiting for is bacon bit toppings or a fudge sauce that tastes like bacon! - Wayne Schulz
You Americans have some funny traditions --- "So I candied my bacon the old-fashioned way." :P - Dave Pook
Maybe you could use bacon drippings as the topping on the ice cream. With the salty melty-ness oozing deep into the ice cream...or maybe not - Morgan Haley
Hmm, on one hand, this sounds disgusting. But on the other...intriguing. I would try it. Indeed, I would try it in a heartbeat. - Jamelle
I love bacon. I love chocolate. I once tried chocolate with bacon in it, and I almost vomited. Like actually. I assume the same would go for bacon and ice cream... - Clay B.
just listened to you on FFUndercats Mona .. sounded like fun ,, I like your laugh - johnpiercy
The waiter at Oliveto didn't recommend this dessert when we inquired about it at the Whole Hog Dinner there last year. The meal we had there was on of the best I've ever had, definitely in the top 10 (and we had things like brains and ears), and I felt the waiter didn't steer us wrong. I love bacon, I love ice cream, but not together. - Sarah
It would probably be even better if it were maple swirl ice cream. While it's still soft, gently stir maple syrup into the ice cream then pop it back in the freezer to harden. - April Russo
"We've seen the films, we can even quote the immortal lines, yet somehow we never tire of paying homage to Hollywood's old-school screen legends. So here they are again - familiar yes, but old hat, never. Garnered from the well-stocked shelves of prolific film-photography archivist John Kobal, these classic shots of Gable, Leigh, Kelly et al have all the presence, beauty, glamour and unflappable poise that we expect. The prevailing appeal of such images is partly due to wistful nostalgia of course, but if we didn't have an inkling of the monstrous neuroses, numerous affairs, foot-stamping tantrums and personal tragedies that lurked beneath these glowing veneers, would we be quite so hooked I wonder..." - Anna Haro