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I have nothing against God - Fixonomy - http://fixonomy.com/wiki...
Maggie, Abdullah, Niklas Sjostrom and 60 other people liked this
Amen! ;)
- April Buchheit
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AMEN!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
hallelujah?
- chrisofspades
Ramen!
- Gabe
I've seen a similar one that says "Dear Lord, please save me from your followers"
- Christian (Simply X)
Some of us on the other hand have something against both. http://books.google.com/books...
- Tanath
I encourage you to check out Jesus, you might like him. He said "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean." - http://www.biblegateway.com/passage...
- τorƍue
He apparently also said, "I come not to bring peace, but a sword" and "but those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." (Matthew 10:34) & (Luke 19:27). You assume religion is rejected out of ignorance. In fact, on average, those who reject religion are more knowledgeable about it than believers.
- Tanath
Tanath, many who reject Christ do so because of the hypocrisy of those who claim to follow him. As you pointed out, Jesus indeed said “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's...
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- τorƍue
The quote from Luke 19:27 could use more context. It is the conclusion to a story that Jesus is telling about a nobleman who goes to a distant country to receive a kingdom, but as he goes, the citizens send a delegation saying that they don't want him to be king. When the nobleman returns, he has the detractors slaughtered. The parable would have been familiar to the hearers, as it is...
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- τorƍue
The Old Testament God is a bit of a dick.
- Rob Haas
Amazing surf shots - http://forum.lessthandot.com/viewtop...
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Jesper Lind, kuchin, andrei_c and 56 other people liked this
The photographer's site: http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery...
- Paul Buchheit
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Those are extraordinary!
- Keith - @tsudo
Amazing.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
The illusion of sex (Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest) - http://illusioncontest.neuralc...
Meryn Stol, Lina De Martinez, siva s and 87 other people liked this
3rd place -- "In the Illusion of Sex, two faces are perceived as male and female. However, both faces are actually versions of the same androgynous face. One face was created by increasing the contrast of the androgynous face, while the other face was created by decreasing the contrast. The face with more contrast is perceived as female, while the face with less contrast is perceived as male. The Illusion of Sex demonstrates that contrast is an important cue for perceiving the sex of a face, with greater contrast appearing feminine, and lesser contrast appearing masculine."
- Cee Bee
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In other words, we've been trained that people wearing makeup are usually women.
- Ken Sheppardson
These are *pictures* of incomplete faces, these are not faces. Photographic techniques are irrelevant to the recognition of real faces. It isn't photographic contrast, but shape that is relevant. Manipulation of contrast in a picture manipulates the perception of shape.
- Peter
it's odd that they tell me how I perceive both faces
- Richard Lawler
Interesting. I used to print photos for a fashion photographer. Hundreds of them. He always had me use high contrast paper and over expose the faces. He told me that women liked it that way because it showed fewer lines and blemishes, but this shows me that there was actually another reason behind why he liked them that way.
- Robert Scoble
Peter, that's an interesting point, but I don't see so much difference in the shape of the two. I wonder could it be some of both? The contrast subtly affecting shape, and the "lightness" being more like what we perceive as the female gender? In Japan, there's a large market for "whitening" makeup products, so that made me think...
- Rick Cogley
i believe this image was related or resulted from a study about people with a rare condition known as face blindness, where they're unable to recognize or distinguish faces. the study was done by richard b russell, who is a harvard post-doctoral researcher, so i would think he's fairly credible with regard to constraints or results set forth in his findings. as far as them telling how...
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- Cee Bee
@Ken lol well said! @cee bee thanks for this its fascinating!
- Rahul Deodhar
"Lie To Me" had an interesting sequence about facial muscles as they relate to gender
- randulo
That's BS, you can't say how someone else would perceive something before you show it to them, and there's a lot more that goes into facial recognition than just contrast.
- Richard Lawler
Or given the small space within the profile pics - this is very critical understanding of our visual interpretation skills
- Rahul Deodhar
richard, what i'm saying is that the first paragraph above is simply an explanation of probable findings that resulted from testing people who weren't told of such things. for instance, if various photos of people were presented in a blind test in random order with the two above included in that bunch, i think most people would probably be compelled to claim gender in accordance to that explanation.
- Cee Bee
I disagree, and without detailed information on how it was tested, I don't accept out of hand their findings, but everything else about the example relies on that.
- Richard Lawler
IMO this works. I looked at the pictures and could see what they did there, but still could sense the effect in question. Then I read the first comment and felt vindicated.
- Karl Knechtel
now that I know the images are the same, I notice less of a difference. but at first glance, the one on the left seems more feminine - but not by much. still it's fascinating.
- tiffany
Another thing I noticed. Lip-to-face contrast in the more contrasty one, ostentatiously the "male" one, is lower, so it appears to not be wearing lipstick. Perhaps another gender indicator.
- Rick Cogley
Right, Rick. Foundation lightens the overall face, lipstick darkens the lips, eye liner and eye shadow darkens the eyes, and you get a higher contrast version of the same face. People are trained that there's a high correlation between makeup and gender, so voila... given two otherwise androgynous faces, they'll perceive a higher contrast face to be female. I'd like to see if this finding holds across cultures where makeup isn't prevalent.
- Ken Sheppardson
"In other words, we've been trained that people wearing makeup are usually women. - Ken Sheppardson" <- right on spot :D
- minus-one
they both look like women to me, in fact they look like the same person; not very subtle
- Kathryn Martyn
It seems that a "softer" face is considered feminine and a "harder" face is masculine? Interesting.
- CAJ, somewhere else
They've got me as Oggie Bad in The Sun Herald hehe - http://brightkite.com/objects...
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aak, new leadership for DP Working Group link got cut off, it's http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Francesco Levorato, Robert Scoble, Elias Bizannes and 2 other people liked this
In the time it took DP to get new logo, they could have formed a W3C WG & started a spec. Does W3C do anything relevant anymore?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Does DP do anything relevant?
- Jason Carreira
Thanks for mentioning the Open Web Foundation especially as I think it can be complementary to the policy work the Data Portability Working Group is wanting to do. I just want to stress that the Open Web Foundation is *not* developing code, rather open specifications for the web that developers can then easily implement.
- David Recordon
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Marshall thank you for covering the new official status of the project and the kind words. It is a big responsibility that i have taken on and i have been very encouraged by the responses from the entire community- so thank you all. We certainly have a lot of work in front of us, but those that are engaged have not been shy about the amount of hours that they have dedicated to the...
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- daniela barbosa
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Marshall - thank you for your excellent coverage of the DataPortability Project's progress in formalization of our governance model. With these structural questions put to bed, we are all getting back to what we set out to do in the first place: evangelize, facilitate, and evolve the conversation around data portability. Feel free to join in anytime â you're always welcome. Warmly, Brady
- Brady Brim-DeForest
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Standards efforts are not the place to "evangelize, facilitate, and evolve the conversation"... That all smacks of an immature field that's not ready for a standard. If you're not ready to pull a common set of functionality from a group of already working products, then you're just asking for a counterproductive academic solution that totally misses anything useful in the real world. That was always my impression of the direction of DP, and I'm disappointed to see that it seems to still be going that way.
- Jason Carreira
OH: "Don't be a cock, support the open web."
Elias Bizannes, Dawn Foster, Scott Kveton and 10 other people liked this
For context, we were looking at a picture of a rooster and considering whether it should stay on our mocked up homepage.
- Chris Messina
Will It Blend? - iPhone3G - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Gordon Swaby, gareth【ツ】, sirishkumar and 29 other people liked this
I've never watched one of these videos before - good stuff!
- Mark Dykeman
Damn those people are brilliant. That marketing campaign is nothing but enviable
- Ben Parr
They have actually made PR a profit center selling DVDs of their "best of'" videos. I saw a live demo at a conference this year, where the PR mgr blended a rake. Amazing to watch! We asked the obvious question, and, yes, their sales have jumped tremendously since this campaign began. Incidentally, the on camera talent really is their company president!
- Rich Casey
hilarious, that video is starting my day right!
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl
hah, cool. I was waiting for this.
- Matthew Imakyure
from twhirl
The complete Future of Media Report 2008 is launched!!! http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog...
Elias Bizannes and Paul Roberts liked this
Your scenario critical uncertainties (open - proprietary; fragmented - concentrated) are similar to Vision 20/20: future communications industry scenarios (2004/05) that I project managed (centralised - decentralised; joined-up - fragmented). I'm pleased! We must swap notes about the elements.
- Paul Roberts
awesome - look forward to diving into it
- Randal Leeb-du Toit
Look forward to hearing more about your 2020 project. I do think the open dimension is rapidly becoming one of the most fundamental (and definitely uncertain...)
- Ross Dawson
Despite all the hubbub about Blogs 'killing' mainstream media in 2005-2006, most of today's top blogs resemble mainstream media or star columnists. I say that little has changed. Agree or Disagree?
Andy DeSoto, Dan Shust, Mike Repass and 50 other people liked this
I agree...the more we change the more we stay the same. I just think some bloggers are good at not having a political or money agenda which can taint the "realness" of the content. I like how Perez Hilton doesn't hold his tongue at all.
- streetforce1
I would agree that some of the same problems exist in top blogs and top newspapers, there is a check and balance in blogging that works quicker than the newspaper system, but in general, you are spot on.
- Andrew Hyde
Agree ... it takes a little more than a couple years to build the empires that have already been build ... probably isn't even possible
- Nick O'Neill
Didn't it turn out to be Craigslist that has really hurt mainstream media? At least the newspapers. Also Google's growing dominance in advertising. It's not the journalism that's the issue, it's the revenue.
- Todd McKinney
Jeremiah, you're ignoring the fact that many MSM outlets now embrace blogging as well. No one would argue that the two have merged at the top, but it wasn't all in one direction.
- Duncan Riley
Thanks Jeremiah, I've been biting my tongue on this for a week or so now (i'm in the old trad media) now it seems like new media is the trad media which is being pushed aside by the new new media.
- Jon Dillon
Agree. It seems even The Long Tail is losing some of its punch - http://valleywag.com/5020400...
- Justin Gibbs
Agree. Just like TV killed cinema and radio, video/DVD killed TV, music downloads killed the music industry, and the internet changes everything. Each of these provides multiple different functions and experiences to different people in a variety of moods, roles and situations. The various markets will all settle to a new, if more transient, level. There will also be a home for pro versus amateur, more generalised versus niche versions.
- Ronna Porter
Jeremiah, it's true that top blogs become media properties (albeit very niche ones), while (as Duncan said) MSM has been adopting blogs and other social media tools. So there's been movement both ways. I for one never brought into the 'blogs will kill MSM' hype, that's just nonsense. As everything, media has evolved very quickly with the Internet. So I disagree with you a bit there, because *a lot* has changed.
- Richard
It's like how Dave Winer said there's no such thing as a pro-blogger. As far as I can tell the only difference between journalists and bloggers is that journalists are supposed to stick to a code of conduct.
- Stuart Maxwell
They do resemble, but that does mean that are alike. For a start, "commenting" has transformed media into a two way conversation. Whereas "new media" vetures like businessspectator.com.au are like the mainstream media (a comment is treated like a letter to the editor, with my comments moderated because I disagreed with arguments) are a joke, other "new media" like Techcrunch and RWW are...
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- Elias Bizannes
I've said for the past year that it's becoming hard to differentiate "blogs" from other forms of online publishing. We're in big need of a vocabulary overhaul.FWIW, commenting in MSM is rarely two-way communication. It's a way for readers to vent and interact with each other, but MSM publishers and editors rarely get dirt under their fingernails.
- Chris Baskind
Totally agree when you look at blogs like Mashable and TC - sometimes it is hard to sort the advertising from the posts. No offense guys - I know you have to make money - but there are more and more "sponsored posts" and "thanks to this weeks sponsors" etc....
- Dave Gray
a few things. first, sample error. mainstream media has maybe tens of thousands of writers creating columns for newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. the blogosphere has tens of millions. the degree of variation within the blogosphere is enormous. have you seen the recipe bloggers? mommy bloggers? and the children of the blog form, the facebooks and myspaces and tumblrs, are further...
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- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
disagree, my buying practices have definitely changed, I was a two newspaper in the morning and one in the evening guy, I really can't remember the last time I purchased one, I think mainstream media is here to stay but newspapers are definitely on the way out
- Patphelan
If what you're saying is true, then does that mean the Long Tail of blogging isn't very fat? That the Short Snout still reigns? You might be right, but I'd like to know how things look like all along the curve, not just a few crowding the small head. Any numbers?
- phil baumann
next, blogging is a conversational medium. some journalists get that, some don't, and many msm organizations never will. Reading other blogs, linking to them, listening to comments, leaving comments elsewhere, responding to your commenters: these are signs of 'getting it'. to the extent that you see content that looks like a blog post but lacks any connection to the conversation is a sign of damage.
- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
agree
- sam sethi
Last, I'd like to challenge you to put something that you care about but that's off topic in your blog. a poem that touched you. your cat. an opinion about something outside your stated beat. blogging should be about the blogger, otherwise it is reporting in blogging clothes. blogging is a personal and interpersonal medium, so your blog should have a bit of you within it. it's not just...
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- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
It is difficult to move to new modes of discourse. Making them technically feasible doesn't mean they will evolve. It's not just that blogs have replicated msm modes and mannerisms, but those that do not do so - the ones that offer some dislocation, some sense of estrangement, before yielding something special - get less visible as mirroring levels discursive difference.
- tom matrullo
Blogs have given the sources a way to communicate directly without going through the media. There are far more sources of news now than there were ten years ago. "Killing" is almost always the wrong metaphor for competition, But our reliance on MSM today is much less than it was in the past. I don't see the "top blogs" as being blogs at all, they are MSM outlets that use the same CMS software as blogs do. That isn't saying much about them, imho.BTW Phil is right too. :-)
- Dave Winer
media "killing" media rarely happens. We still have movies (some shot digitally), radio (sometimes streamed), television (sometimes on iPhone) , books (sometimes on Kindle). The universe gets more intricate with old and new media supporting, promoting, commenting, and competing. Movies became fodder for Lux Radio Theatre (which is currently still available by podcast). Ad budgets shift. Revenue streams divert. Physical formats become obsolete, but not the content, the audience or the conversation.
- Michael Markman
I think the question misses the point. You're probably right that the "top blogs", whatever they are, resemble mainstream media, but _my_ top blogs give me much more what _I_ want to read than the mainstream media.
- Michael C. Harris
They're not blogs anymore ... I counsel a lot of agencies and I'm telling many of them to view the big boys and girls as MS OnlineMedia: http://www.eyeballeconomy.com/2008...
- David Weiner
Been some press lately about newspapers declining readership and predictions of the death of broadcast television. Let's look at some statistics, but IIRC the trend is DOWN. And where are people spending the time they save? blogs and youtube. You do the math.
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Um. did the hubbub of blogs killing media end in 2006? As far as I can tell, blogs have never stopped proclaiming the death of traditional media by bloggers. They love to say that all the way up until some paper or magazine buys them.
- felix
Is this not just mainstream media switching mediums. What is more interesting is the fringe stuff that would never have been published before. I think that a lot of people are now reading a bit wider range of content. Mainstream media always goes with the lowest common denominator to get maximum audience.
- John Cooper
Mainstream media killed by blogs? No. Mainstream media fundamentally changed by blogs? Absolutely. *Every* major media outlet has a significant online presence featuring a large chunk of their content. Nearly all of them have integrated commenting/discussion, and many of them now have "Digg this"/"Share on Facebook"/etc. While it's not entirely a 2-way street w/outlets like CNN or the NYT, they are clearly being dragged toward interacting with their users, rather than simply broadcasting.
- Pete Brown
Mainstream is intensifying -- cutting newsroom staff, consolidating newspaper chains, etc. -- in the scramble to keep profit margins up as mass media falls into a gazillion pieces. They are not making enough in the online world to keep the mainstream machinery running, and haven't really figured out the formula for online, social media yet. Blogs are one of the many economic challenges they face, as more and more people defect from mass media, and head for the edge, where we are doing it for ourselves.
- Stowe Boyd
Thank you all, I have now collected my thoughts (much based on your comments here) and written this post and pointed back here http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
- Jeremiah Owyang
if you take the top bloggers/sites, and divide (actual) readership by staff count, it's pretty different from a newspaper...
- Bill Seitz
Agree.
- Robert Scoble
Agree
- Francine Hardaway
Agreed and its entirely changing the business model for news outlets
- Robert
Agree
- Brian Sullivan
Don't underestimate the effects of regression. Over time, the MSM will exert their advantages and become more dominant in the new medium (e.g., 5 of the top 20 Techmeme Leaderboard places are held by MSM entities), and the few independent voices with broad authority will evolve to be more like the MSM (e.g., TechCrunch adapting to the Washington Post).
- Sprague D
I'm not quite sure if I agree or not, but I know I wouldn't really care if mainstream media died out or not. Also, there will always be some type of media that has more viewers/listeners/etc than the others, and thats the one we'll call mainstream.
- The Kid
Using Facebook for the first time in possibly 2 months. It just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Niall Connellan, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Javier Valiño and 16 other people liked this
Thanks for reminding me Duncan. I'd almost completely forgotten about Facebook!
- Jack Baty
Facebook has long since lost its appeal to me. Only use it to message a few people and see some pictures.
- Kevin L
installed the FF app and my profile page is just one long syndication of my FF activity. makes it pretty low maintenance like that. although i get more emails now from people on FB commenting on stuff that's showing on via the FF app and automated status update with Ping.fm -- FB on autopilot FTW. heh.
- Christine Lu
I wish I could push dislike on friendfeed. seriously... facebook has its place. it sucks the way they were snobby last year... but they still have the best one to one mail interface out there. personal conversations go there best. stop picking on a perfectly good tool... yes they were fascists... but so is the government and we still need it.
- Noah David Simon
The same with me, but let's also remember, the tech community was not big on facebook until the apps launched. FB was massive before it got on the radar of the industry. People like us that try so many different services have a different experience than the mainstream. Just yesterday, two partners at my firm (fairly senior ones at that) joined FB - FB is mainstream AND it's still got growth potential (ie, new users they arn't fatigued). I wouldn't write it off...yet.
- Elias Bizannes
My teenage sister literally cannot go a day without checking Facebook. It's an absolutely essential part of her social life. All photos are posted on it. All messaging is done through it. All parties are organised through it. A facebook account is as indispensable as a mobile to that generation. Rivals may emerge but online social networking is here to stay and so far Facebook is the best.
- Charlie
Let's not forget that in the race to "discover" the next gold field plenty of people stop at the last one and set up a village - which in Facebooks terms is a whole country!
- Sean Kelly
i used to hit up the homepage activity screen several times daily, now i can get much better data from FF
- sean percival
agree with Noah & Charlie!
- ChaCha Fance
@duncanriley How are you going to plan your 40th without Facebook?!
- Charlie
Although a much cooler service than MySpace, it never really did it for me either. I pretty much only use it as a hitching post for people to find me and redirect them to other places. I feed my status using Twittersync and until recently my mini feed with the FriendFeed app. The problem is that most of my non techie friends are only on Facebook, so I am forced to use it in those cases.
- Mark Krynsky
I'm liking Facebook less and less everyday. I may login once every couple of weeks but there's so many stupid messages/requests I just log off.
- David Ward
My problem is that it took me 8 months to convince all my friends to join Facebook ("What's a Facebook?", "I'm not a college student") that now there is no way I'll be able to convince them to get on FriendFeed or why they need it. Then again, maybe I don't want them here - maybe FaceBook is a better place for those who don't breathe RSS.
- James Hull
FB is like an address book for me. I only go there when I need to look up a contact.
- Hao Chen
want to get friends' birthday information by RSS, without logging into Facebook? here's instructions how http://is.gd/NP6
Rick Turoczy, David Recordon and Elias Bizannes liked this
did you know that Summize's founder was the AOL employee who made the infamous user search query public? http://is.gd/NJM
Adam Javůrek, David Recordon, Peter Dawson and 22 other people liked this
Are you suggesting that he will do something similar related to the Twitter DB?
- Alex Popescu
from feedalizr
nope, I'm justing sayin' it's interesting!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.
- l0ckergn0me
yeah that was the long tail analysis "there were 21,011,340 unique queries out of 36,389,567 records in the data set." - It was just another IIT dude fingering the system..no biggie :)-
- Peter Dawson
Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...
Murat Tatar, Darren Heydon, Tanath and 310 other people liked this
This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists.
- Andrew Baron
Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The...
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- Andrew Baron
wow indeed
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
مثل ساحل لاست میمونه :دی
- Mil∂d
wow, Greattttttt
- Zahra HB
That is an amazing image
- Kreg Steppe
It's worth being subscribed to friendfeed for that photo alone. I wouldn't have found it if you hadn't been a friend of Scobleizer.
- James Robertson
Dude.
- l0ckergn0me
So becoming my wallpaper.
- Ben Parr
Very nice wallpaper for dual monitors setups!
- Éric Senterre
What a spectacular photo !!!!!
- Nellie Root
echoing what james robertson said......worth being here for that photo alone. amazing.
- carlotta fancypants
I am setting this up as a dual monitor type display between my two work systems!
- Joe Dawson
that is unbelievable. astoundingly awesome
- Paul Rj Muller
Wow! That's amazing!
- Marcus Beagley
thanks for sharing, great photo
- sean percival
Amazing!
- Jiri Fencl
from Alert Thingy
Incredible! Thanks Andrew for finding such a beautiful shot. Lovely to wake to up to such beauty on FriendFeed...
- Mitchell Tsai
Oldie but a goodie!
- Steve Rubel
Breathtaking.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
Wow ... this is incredible
- Nick O'Neill
Mind-blowing!
- David Fendley
this is really kewl...!!
- Peter Dawson
Wow
- Aaron Myers
very hip, I've seen this photo before (might have been on APOD)
- mikepk
sometimes good photography gives me goosebumps!
- Phillip Jeffrey
great image
- Pete Delucchi
incredible image
- johnpiercy
from twhirl
Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments.
- Andrew Baron
Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :)
- Charlie Anzman
Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm enamored with that lightning.
- Jason Toney
ahhh good one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction
- Duncan Riley
I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is
- Duncan Riley
Now the wallpaper on my iMac
- Adam Helweh
Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :)
- Penny
wow, just wow
- Mark Douglass
Amazing shot!
- Timo Heuer
Unbelievable!
- fbrunel
This is for sure a record post for me! 333 people liked this!
- Andrew Baron
Congrats Andrew... this is truly a unique share!! thanks! :o)
- Susan Beebe
Though I like the picture, I do agree with Brian Sullivan :(
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Crazy looking - didn't even notice the comet until reading the site...
- George Smith
Kick ass photo.
- David Risley
smoke on the water
- Harry Myhre
At 302 likes, the #1 most liked post of all time on FriendFeed. Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos.
- Mitchell Tsai
just incredible!
- Geoff K
An absolutely stunning shot.
- Brandon Wood
Still lovin this shot days later. :D
- Andrew Baron
amazing. I guess the timing for this shot couldn't be better
- Dan V
I forget which Greek philosopher said it, but "Right timing is everything is most important."
- Great Scott!
Amazing photo!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing
- Arash
F#$king Amazing!
- Michael Fidler
BTW "failwhale" is now officially a verb. As in "George Bush failwhaled the economy." #fwh
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hope the next step of "failwhale" is not "farewell"
- K.D.
If I were bringing a Twitter clone to market ...
это склисс, он ничей, Igor Poltavskiy, Tony and 8 other people liked this
I would pay users to join.
- Robert Scoble
I would get 10 celebrities (real ones, not social media ones like that Scoble guy) to join first.
- Robert Scoble
I would get Loic Lemeur to put Seesmic video comments into it.
- Robert Scoble
I would make it work with Gmail.
- Robert Scoble
I would not have a fail whale. Maybe a sexy blonde who would say "I'm sorry."
- Robert Scoble
I would get Louis Gray to either love it or hate it.
- Robert Scoble
I would (will) make it so simple, obvious, really distributed that you'll hate yourself for not being the first to have that idea! :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
get a few politicians, a few business leaders, a few fashion leaders, sports stars, etc - create a net of interest...
- j sven
I would get Dennis Howlett to proclaim that there's no way that Enterprises would use it.
- Robert Scoble
Now that is damn funny!
- Fred Grott
I would use Microsoft strategy of "embrace and extend." I would make sure it worked exactly like Twitter with one difference: all the features would work.
- Robert Scoble
I would make a deal with MySpace to hold secret concerts for people who were on it.
- Robert Scoble
I would make sure Facebook blocked it.
- Robert Scoble
I would make it a message bus instead of CMS
- Fred Grott
Robert, you're clearly having fun. What if I wrote about a company that's already introducing a way to make money off a Twitter-like service by charging to receive messages?
- Louis Gray
We could do much better than clone, though. The thing is - they're THERE - no one uses them. Use your superpowers and have Google open up Jaiku and pay people to join! It has the IM feature you adore, right?
- Vince DeGeorge
I would call it Twittr.
- Hao Chen
Louis: that sounds like a porn service.
- Robert Scoble
I would have to seriously question my own sanity.
- Ken Sheppardson
I would focus on two-way data sync with all existing services (oh, yeah, and hire my platform architects and operations team very, very carefully)
- John McCrea
and then I would sell it to Twitter.
- Hao Chen
I would hire John's team away from Comcast. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I wouldn't. Too many things like Twitter are out there already. It's time for someone to develop something even better so we can all be addicted to that.
- Candace
I would seed the service with 100 valuable users - politicians, entertainers, scientists, or whoever else. Content really is King - build the content and the user base will come.
- JMaultasch
Cloning is unoriginal.
- Andru Edwards
I would make it compatible to all types of mobile
- Majento
Louis: seriously, pay to receive messages? So you can send as many messages as you want for free, but you gotta pay to receive them? That sounds very lame.
- Robert Scoble
Andru: cloning might be unoriginal but it often is profitable.Especially if you add some killer new things that the original doesn't have.
- Robert Scoble
I would make it work only on iPhone and Android.
- Robert Scoble
I would make it location & device aware / sensitive.
- Dean Terry
I would only allow fictional characters to join, such as Batman or Darth Vader. And maybe Chuck Norris.
- Mack D. Male
I would charge a reasonable monthly fee if you follow more than 500 people.
- Mike Doeff
I would match it feature-for-feature with Twitter, clone the UI shamelessly, allow users to import their Twitter messages, and use a flatfile or CouchDB-based storage infrastructure (not SQL-based).
- Eric Florenzano
I would make sure I had a day job.
- Gabe Wachob
@Robert, I'll write about it soon, and you'll see why this company thinks they're on to something.
- Louis Gray
why would you want to clone Twitter? Clone is the WRONG word. Twitter competitor, different kettle of fish. Now that's something I could heart
- Duncan Riley
I'd learn from Twitter's mistakes and hire a community evangelist *early* on. Make sure that I didn't plan service outages for peak usage times, make it simple, but make sure that @replies were easily trackable, that blocking was fully functional, that we had more servers and bandwidth than we needed right off that bat and scaled ahead of the need. Oh sheesh, I could go on...
- Lucretia Pruitt
I would hire the FriendFeed team
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@GabeW++
- Jason Wehmhoener
I wouldn't bother. It's a niche to begin with, and either Twitter will manage to rebuild and revive itself, or "the conversation" will move to FriendFeed, Facebook, or other place that already has a massive user base.
- Jeremy Toeman
If I were to do a micro-blogging / status update service like twitter I would demand that it connected to mobile phones through SMS. That one feature takes twitter from micro blog to mobile social network - and also provides the engine for IM.
- Tony
I would poll the @twitter user base and add as much of what they suggest as possible ;)
- highcenter
from twhirl
I would hire hackers to make Twitter go down...and stay down...and by hackers I mean 8 year olds with calculators.
- Mark Krynsky
@Robert, @Louis, I know a company that's doing a Twitter clone that has an even better business model, and already making money off it (and they aren't doing pay-per-tweet - hint, it's a b2b model). They don't want me writing about them yet because they're applying for the TechCrunch 50 but expect to hear about them soon.
- Jesse Stay
Now, back to the fun - I would have a kettle with frying fish for my error message. (thanks for the inspiration @duncan)
- Jesse Stay
Good tips for Identi.ca:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
We finally got job titles at FriendFeed
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Davide D'Incau, Sysop, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 175 other people liked this
Can I be the staff photographer?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome times two!
- Wm Scott Rees
where's your bret ? :)-
- Peter Dawson
"Supreme Allied Commander"
- Bret Taylor
do you get business cards with the titles too?
- Thomas Hawk
So who's getting "Final Cylon" then?
- Mark Dykeman
whatever happened to the "aggregated aggregator?"
- Marc Canter
Awww. I liked "FriendFeeder". :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
huh, that's odd, I was under the impression that you were the Senior Executive Vice *Group* Director of VP Coordination & Vision... did you not allocate your synergies properly and get demoted??
- felix
"Senior Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" and "Deputy Senior VP of Strategic Synergy" Fantastic! SEVP of VPCP and DSVP of SS...
- Mitchell Tsai
bingo? you had me at strategic synergy.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ah! Interesting :) The funniest is that these guys don't even wear shoes at work, and play with thier bicycles in the office
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
ok pauls title is really wacky - "Sr. Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" - like wtf does that mean ? SERIOUSLY !! btw what does "VP" stand for ?
- Peter Dawson
Scott Adams (?): "If it's more than two words, it's not a career"
- Philipp Lenssen
I want Senior Fetchit Boy reporting the Staff Photographer.
- Russellreno
These are beyond fantastic. Can I be your Human Branding Liaison?
- Ginger Makela Riker
ahh good quote Philipp :)-
- Peter Dawson
I know a guy who runs a 600-person company, and walks around the offices barefoot! Not even sandals. My brother works there - Rhythm & Hues Studios - http://rhythm.com
- Mitchell Tsai
Another company I helped rented a house at the beach - rather than a traditional office. Lot of fun having meetings there. They took surfing breaks for lunch.
- Mitchell Tsai
I think i need to include those in full in all posts from now on
- MG Siegler
longest title i've ever seen - you could have thrown in an acronym!
- Allen Stern
awesome job titles!
- Susan Beebe
this is hilarious :) liked it! what lies in the name of title-fame?
- Aditya Kothadiya
...China, Korea, India, WYOMING, Singapore... HA!
- Clare Dibble
Ana, what is my title?
- Gary Burd
LOL, how about numbers like in movie Brazil "010046"
- Pokai
any Historian-on-duty ? :)
- A.T.
You need a staff librarian. No, really, you do. I'm available, and like most librarians, I work cheap.
- cecily
Did you guys steal these titles from Yahoo?
- Eric Eldon
Is Ana still the "Chief Miscellaneous Officer" or does she go by a different title these days? Also, I'd like to know the other FFers' titles.
- April Buchheit
Did you get to make up your own? The coolest title I've seen has been for a Microsoft employee - Professional Geek (before he worked there his title was Amateur Geek)
- Craig Thomler
I actually have an outstanding diplomatic relations issue with wyoming. Who would I talk to about that?
- Phil G
So Bret, what's your title ? (This kind of culture is the kind that spawns neat stuff. Always has, always will. Keep it up!)
- Charlie Anzman
Mine is "Supreme Allied Commander." I was always jealous of NATO.
- Bret Taylor
I'm a little scared that some people don't seem to realize it's a joke.
- Alan Cheslow
And here I was soo confused thinking Bret was the CEO! hehehe (ok he really is guys!!)
- Susan Beebe
I just noticed Casey has Asian strategy in Wyoming? yo what?! - that's funny!
- Susan Beebe
Do you have any Master Squirrel Hearders (project mgrs) yet?? that's my specialty
- Susan Beebe
I really want a title too. If I bring all the Mommybloggers over...I better get one dammit
- Erin @queenofspain
So is Casey's job to reach out to those parts of the world that twitter works?
- Nancy Babyak
What's yours, Jim?
- Anne Bouey
+100
- Josh Wills
Kind of funny, but hey, that FriendFeed business card in the background looks nice.
- Daniel Schildt
@bret NATO is not cool - seen them through cross-hairs back in end-of-80s, they ain't that cool as they try to pretend :)
- A.T.
Wow!
- Yuvi
I got mine this morning: "Kevin Fox - Comptroller Third-Class, Tiger Team V" We are so going to kick Tiger Team III's ass at this year's interoffolympics!!!
- Kevin Fox
haha! I wish more work places were like this.
- Tsega Dinka
I'd like to be the senior vice associate president of all things that the senior executive vice director of vp coordination and vision doesn't see.
- Robert Scoble
Nice job title Paul! Did you try to max out the characters that would fit? :)
- Alex Barbara
Not sure what it means, and my view could be very distorted, but it might be this. FriendFeed is to Twitter as WordPress is to Blogger.
Martin Recke, Aviv, Phil G and 46 other people liked this
Nice analogy there Dave - I like it
- Susan Beebe
+1 Dave.
- Duncan Riley
Not just a nice analogy from a visual/functionality comparison, but funny given the common core and founding staff of Twitter and Blogger :)
- Elias Bizannes
from twhirl
Or as WordPress is to Tumblr.
- Chris Baskind
Or as RSS is to XML-do I wanna go there?
- Mark Forman
Not sure I'd go that far Dave. Maybe better is WP to MT.
- Jim Kukral
from twhirl
I'll second Chris and say it's to Tumblr...they are not apples to apples
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
plausible if perhaps friendfeed offered up their source in a manner similar to how WordPress does.
- rob friedman
I made that point when I realized we could do much better with the FriendFeed API than we were able to with the Twitter API. They hold back Twitter, feeling that the simplicity is where the value is. But I think it's the users. And these days the leading edge users are over here, more than they are over there. It's in that sense that it's Blogger. Sure it's big and valuable, but the forward motion is happening elsewhere. Not that FF is even remotely close to done. There are so many issues.
- Dave Winer
Rob - How would it help if Friendfeed would open its own source? It is a community syndication platform.
- Vic Podcaster
Mark Forman's analogy might be seen better reversed (ie FF is more generalized than Twitter)
- Yuvi
@rob - It's not open source that's the main reason for Wordpress being successful. FriendFeed being open source makes no sense, partly because one of it's main advantages is being centralized. Also, FriendFeed is technically much more complex then Wordpress. You can't just take the source code and run it on any server and it wouldn't be helpful to make it work that way. I love Wordpress, but I don't see value in having FriendFeed open sourced.
- sebmos
@Chris Baskind - You don't understand what Dave's saying. It's not about the application, it's about the competition. Blogger is the more popular offer, but it's a bad product. People who know both platforms will choose Wordpress, but most people only know Blogger. Funny though that the crew created Blogger, which was a lucky success, created Odeo, which basically failed and now Twitter, which again has an awful backend (like Blogger) and was only innovative in its first iteration.
- sebmos
What I don't understand is why they had to hire the developers of Blogger. I mean - didn't they fail with their first product already? Couldn't Twitter hire better folks?
- sebmos
If FriendFeed allowed me to send direct, private messages to my followers, I would ditch Twitter, but it doesn't and I really like that functionality.
- Andy Murdoch
@Andy Murdoch - You've got instant messaging, every other social network network, or simple e-mails as alternatives. Try it, you'll see that you won't miss it.
- sebmos
WordPress and Blogger are mutually exclusive --FF and Twitter aren't!
- Rubin Sfadj
I use Friendfeed and Blogger - does that make me schizophrenic? :)
- Craig Thomler
I agree with Rubin, twitter and friendfeed are not exclusive. Worpress and Blogger are...
- twitscoop
Totally disagree. Twitter and Wordpress have better visuals in common.
- Denise Young
the AFR's circulation is down 10% since 2001 http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Elias Bizannes liked this
Amazon needs a feature that says "This product has been replaced by a newer one, which you should probably buy instead of this one."
Varun "Maverick" Pitale, Grant Bierman, Nick Humphries and 57 other people liked this
Totally agree. Shouldn't Wish Lists auto-upgrade as well?
- Louis Gray
I want to subscribe to pants. Send me the same pair of jeans every year, a new package of underwear every six months. i hate shopping for clothes.
- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
They do have this, actually I just saw it the other day when viewing this item. http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N... maybe it's just not perfected yet. ;-)
- cmiper
@Phil Wolff - LOL
- JA Castillo
Phil, they do have subscriptions to some products. I bought new brushes for my electric toothbrush and they offered to send me fresh ones every few months.
- Dave Winer
I need to look into this. I didn't know they had subs for non-grocery items. This could be interesting if the price is good.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
not to mention, shouldn;t Amazoin be smart enough to know when an item on a person's wishlist has been purchased, even if not purchased from wishlist?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from twhirl
Rudy: They may, but what if you want another one? I've bought several copies of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance over the years, for myself and to give away.
- Brent Newhall
A lot of the HBC items have subscriptions available.
- Cyndy
@cmiper: Ha, the N800 is "Out of print". Suuure.
- Voyagerfan5761
except for things like movie remakes - I mean, who really wants the "new" Rollerball over the original? ;)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Amazon does infact say that if I remember correctly. At least for LCD TV's!
- Sumit Chachra
If only Amazon employed more dreamers.
- rob friedman
64% of the top 25 domains are controlled by 6 corporations - http://www.seomoz.org/blog...
Mike Reynolds, fbrunel, Atul Arora and 14 other people liked this
well, I don't *like* this, but it's interesting!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Wow.. that is VERY interesting!
- Eric Hamilton
The 'content/text' statistic is interesting. You hear a lot about 'universal search' but it's really all still text based.
- AJ Kohn
Wow, great article.
- Aaron Myers
Ralph Clevenger Photography - http://2photo.ru/2008...
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Brandon Titus, sanyam, Fa La La La Lindsay and 15 other people liked this
His site: http://www.ralphclevenger.com
- Alejandro
Oh, I like the superwide photo. Gotta try one of those myself.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, that panoramic shot is just sublime.
- Brad McCrorey
Awesome pics! Fantastic!
- Frank Martin
Fantastic pictures. That panoramic is serene, i would love to travel to such place.
- sanyam
I assume that iceberg shot is computer generated in the water.
- Brandon Titus
Social networks are like nightclubs. Mostly about the people, a little about the product and rarely about the owner's good looks.
Matt Wood, Elias Bizannes, David Petar Novakovic and 2 other people liked this
very true, and after the hubris of getting in dies down, most people realize they look far worse in the pale morning light - scraggy carpet, cigarette burns and stale smell ...
- Randal Leeb-du Toit
Serendipity: @ianwoolf points to a great article - http://bookbook.com.au/2008... then @mpesce points to @charlieperry who wrote it :-)
Elias Bizannes liked this
Internet less influential than you might think in consumer research - according to new Pew Internet survey - http://snurl.com/29j79
Bryan Landers, Elias Bizannes, Geoff Schultz and 3 other people liked this
"Music purchasing still generally means buying a CD and buying in a store. " Wow, I never saw that coming. I haven't bought an actual CD in years. I'm also surprised some of the numbers on the impact of the Internet research weren't higher. I must be way out of touch.
- Michael Pardee
I doubt a lot of us on FF buy a lot of CDs. I think it was properly qualified with "generally" meaning the majority of the public. (Though that's quickly changing) We're way ahead of the curve here people.
- Bwana ☠
Even though I love new ways of doing things, I still really enjoy buying the actual CD even if I have the mp3. But, I'm weird, that way. I like album art and liner notes. I like to see the artist's intention for the order of the songs. I like to see their complete work, not just hear the music. It's sort of like how I really, really love writing some things out -not just lists- on paper with a pencil even though I know it'd be faster to do it on the computer.
- Lisa L. Seifert
And I still own vinyl, people. And I like it that way. :-P
- Lisa L. Seifert
I just bought a CD! But only because the album isn't in iTunes U.S Store. Also, I had to order it from Japan. :-)
- Karim
Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Elettronica Open Source, Mitchell Tsai and Elias Bizannes liked this
Wow, what an argument on yesterday's Gillmor Gang.
- Robert Scoble
It was quite funny - but I really think for the debate to continue, it needs to be broken down. It's a complicated area and looking at abstract things like that require better analysis at the core issues like what is data exactly
- Elias Bizannes
from twhirl
I broke it down over on my blog. Thanks, agreed!!
- Robert Scoble
Finally posted on DataPortability: http://moourl.com/thought... Still so much more to say, but I had to get *something* out.
Tanath, Krishnan Subramanian, Anand Sharma and 3 other people liked this
Some great points, some things I don't agree with, but intelligently written and deserves consideration and a thought-full response.
- Elias Bizannes
from twhirl
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