I've not seen this done on FriendFeed yet (have you, Kevin?), and I'm surprised. It was one of the most popular threads I started on our own Google Webmaster Help Group, and before that, on a swing dance board I co-founded. - Adam Lasnik
As for me... I'm Adam, a native S. Californian living in Mountain View (near San Francisco). I like traveling (mostly to see friends, not just sites!), social dancing (Lindy hop and Waltz primarily), eating, and geeking. Among other things :). I'm on Friendfeed, because I like having a place to vent, and I enjoy seeing others' points of views and the interesting tidbits they uncover. - Adam Lasnik
I'm Robert, a native of Washington, DC living in San Francisco (near Mountain View). I like hiking, sports, science, eating and geeking among other things. I'm on FriendFeed because I like having a way to vent too, but I also like being able to see what other people are interested about and reading and there are some very smart and thoughtful people here to discuss things with. - Robert Seidman
Since you ask :), I am an Indian living in the DC metro area. I love movies (almost all kinds), music (mainly Hindi Film Music and Ghazals), and pondering about how languages work. Web technologies, design, and usability issues interest me as much. FriendFeed to me is primarily a life-tracking mechanism. Lately, though, I have found its great potential for venting out as well. - Vinay
I am Paul from Oklahoma City near Tinker AFB. I have a wife of 19 years and two teenage sons. I love photography, amateur radio (K5GLH), and social networking. I spent 10 years in the Air Force in three countries and six states. - Paul L. McCord Jr.
I grew up outside of DC :), common thread here. I'm fond of politics, rock climbing, and painting. Friendfeed is like a link blog for me and it makes it easier to share and find new sources of information. - Michael
I'm Aaron Brazell, born in a hospital outside of Buffalo, NY and now a 19 year resident of Baltimore. With brief stints living throughout New York State and Africa, and travelling a bit in recent years I'm growing to hate Maryland more. :) I'm an amateur photographer trying to understand Thomas Hawk's photography and a blogger trying to make a living doing whatever I can on the web. - Aaron Brazell
I'm Kirk, I'm a native Illinoisan living near the space center in Houston. I like to run, read, hike, write. Lately, I've been trying to organize the debris of my digital life -- travels, photos, music, writing, etc. -- online and offline, so a fair amount of the things that show up in my feed aren't new. I'd be happy to find some other folks to follow here with similar interests; right now, I mostly follow the social media elite (which seems to be the vocal majority, understandably) - Kirk Kittell
I'm Vince from Louisville, KY - my life didn't start for me until I lived in Japan around 1999. There I met my wife and in 2003 we had our first and only child (girl), who is the absolute love of my life. By day I'm a manager of around 140 and IT's worst nightmare because I love to make my own apps in ASP.NET. The Internet and Social Networking are two things that are infinitely interesting to me - the things I've learned and the people I "meet" have given me a lifetime of knowledge. So, hello! - Vince DeGeorge
I'm Erica, 27, an Everywherian currently living in Brooklyn, NY (though soon to escape to Cali). I'm into taking pictures, playing Halo, computers, and reading. I am one of the 42 people in the world that hates cats (I know, I know). I'm a web nerd at heart but I have no coding skills so I appease the computer nerd in me by fixing computers (that's what I get paid to do anyhow). I likey the FriendFeed because I can passively discover interesting things. - Erica Baker
I'm Jordan, originally from Lincoln, NE, but now living north, in Fargo, ND. During the day, I write code for a living. The rest of the time I enjoy being with my wife, seeing what all of you are doing, taking pictures, writing more code, and many other things. I'm on FriendFeed because I get to follow interesting people and see interesting things. - Jordan Hofker
I am Mathew, but please call me Mati as my friends & family do, a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Did a prolonged stint in Nawlins as a Tulane undergraduate. Lived in a LA for a stint as an intern for Teach For America. Went into banking and then music club operations in NOLA. Returned to StL late in '90's to help home hospice grandmother and went to work in CMOS & Bond Operations for Edward Jones for 5 years. I have been in Hotel finance/accounting for the last 5 yrs or so. Hobbies are the outdoors, my friends & family, new experiences, kayaking (flat & ww), reading, photography, and living as much as I can. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Hi I'm Mona. I'm addicted to the internet and I take up a lot of pixels. FF gives me an outlet to vent FAR away from my real life. Avid 2.0er, full time SNSer, lover of all things with an on/off button. People think I'm a wild party chick but I'm just a nerd. edit: i forgot i like rubiks too... so not all things with an on/off button =\ - Mona N
I am Jason, native Texan currently residing in Jacksonville, FL. by way of Louisiana and Arizona. By day, I am a Landscape Architect. The rest of my time and interests lie in photography, design and my new found interest in social media. Trying to realize a way to merge all of these in a useful manner as my background has nothing to do with coding, social media or the like. Came across FF as a means to discover new and interesting things as well as interact with many I read about or follow. - JA Castillo
I am Robert, and I am a father to Michael (10) and Alex (8). I met their mother, my wife, in Washington DC in 1989 when we were 17. She was a year a head in school and went to Tulane, I attended the University of Chicago, but switched to The Ohio State University to get a degree in CIS. We dated long distance until she moved here after college. I have lived in Columbus, Chicago, Corpus Christi, Charlotte, DC and northern NJ. To pay the bills I am a systems architect who still gets his hands dirty and has an enthusiasm for making things go fast. My other enthusiasms include college football, reading, alternative music, the autumn, thunderstorms, travel, flickr and his family. I prefer to have a few good friends, instead of many and do not care for most social situations - RAPatton
Jack (Jeber) Carlson, born 54 years ago and raised in the same neighborhood I'm living in now. I've lived and worked in D.C. (ASA/NSA), Texas and Idaho. I blog insistently, am a mod/admin for several forums including Lockergnome's and Scot Finnie's forums. I've been a help desk jocky for Gateway and D-Link. I work as an office/production/general manager for a small cartridge remanufacturing shop and serve on the national IT committee for our parent company. I love pets, plants & 'puters. - Jack Carlson
I'm Phil Glockner, aka J. Phil, aka eng1ne. I am the creator of the website scribkin as well as a IT geek, systems admin, L3 extrodinaire and decent hack rated somewhere between 'blogger' and 'writer'. I have lived in or near Austin TX now for over 12 years. I am married now for 1 year, and I am dog daddy. - J. Phil
Great idea. I'm Ray Grieselhuber, born in Columbus, Ohio. Moved to Japan in college, met my wife there. We lived in San Diego for 5 years, taking a year off to travel around the world (best trip ever). Worked at a startup then I started my own this year. Moved to Japan in Feb of this year. One son, one baby on the way. :-) - Ray Grieselhuber
Nice work starting this thread! My name is also Adam and I grew up in Chicago. Started following the web scene in '96 by reading back issues of Wired found in my uncle's house. Moved out to Silicon Valley in '05 to work at Yahoo! after taking 6 months off to travel RTW. I love FF because it allows me to see what people I'm interested in find interesting...As for me, I like learning about emerging trends (particularly on the web), remix culture, travel, fitness, and avoiding the fluff of web 2.0 noisemakers. - Adam Kazwell
and I, like a lot of others, no longer work at the big Y! :) - Adam Kazwell
Great idea, though I dont see many ages in this threat, perhaps I'm the youngin' here. The name is Colby, twenty one year old male, grew up in Santa Cruz, moved to San Jose and have been here since. Started out on MS Bob as a child and moved up and around. Spent some ill used time in IRC channels, but now enjoy being active on the social networks and writing my own blog. My AFK hobbies include spending time with my girlfriend and family, reading, writing poetry, and eating. I also attend college at Foothill - Colby Olson
Born in So Calif. raised in Huntington Beach, CalPoly SLO (Comp Sci), UCLA Grad (Law), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Project Manager (PMP). 15+ years in IT Management; started my own IT consulting firm in 1994 - still churns profitability to this day! Managed over 1,000 deployments; managed over 30 million in projects... Launching Data Center move tomorrow@ 7am.. stressed! but love my job!; married + cat! Now in Rochester, NY working for Nelnet, Inc. (CUnet.com/ Petersons.com) - Susan Beebe
Born in the UK but raised in Hong Kong where I started working for Agence France-Presse. Recently moved to San Francisco for AFP after 7 years in Paris. I'm currently trying to figure out how to make news products more related to today's environment. Love cooking (Was a chef in a passed life), photography and wine but not necessarily in that order. Love FF too. - Jon Dillon
Hi, I'm Jason Toney. I live in Los Angeles, California, where I've spent most of my life. I am a senior producer for Disney Online. My team manages TV, music, games (console), and corporate websites. This works out well as I spend a lot of time with tv and music in my personal life and games on occasion (although I'm more of a casual than console gamer lately). I'm on Friend Feed far too much. I like posting non-tech stuff - music, movies, books, comic books, and quirky environmental things of late. - Jason Toney
I use Thwirl to keep track of both but FF is where I spend most of my time. I can never tell if Twitter updates are paused or not. - Larry Kless via twhirl
FF is up always at home, but so it twitter--both via Thwirl. Access to both is blocked at work. - BISQ via twhirl
Brian - That is sort of what I was thinking when I commented, then I decided I was over-thinking the whole thing. I couldn't think of a nice way of saying it, like you did. :) Thanks. - J. Phil
Wandering Eye/Big Head Syndrome sufferer here, as well. I'm thinking of naming the national support organization something like "WEBHeadS". - Roger Benningfield
“I posted this on Twitter but posting here too. Just learned the great concept of "Fnord" so as a special writing project, you should research Fnord and write a post. I will link all together at the end of the week. Tag #fnordproject”
I like Disqus, but it still doesn't seem to work like it's supposed to on the SEO side... - Andy Sternberg
comment portability makes complete sense to me, as a consumer - I want it, and I want it now. I'm not sure about the business case, though; so much of the web today relies on bringing people to "your" web page, so they see your ads. How can we, as demanding consumers, drive adoption of comment portability? - Bruce Williams
Looks like I need to do an update too. Toluu was the perfect RSS tracker for this project. - Corvida
Agreed, it actually saved me a LOT of time to just drag the Toluu links into my article than linking them up manually. Cheating, I know, but there's close to a hundred links in that article! - J. Phil
Nice post. It is what I have been doing on the sly as well. More so to grab a broader spectrum of things but that is my sphere of interest. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Glad to hear it Mathew. You didn't blog about it perchance did you? - J. Phil
Thanks Phil. I have been scribbling away in the ole moleskine and leaving audio memo's to myself ti keep track of things sans a true pc. In short not yet, I have been also learning about trying to keep the blog post to one topic at a time which is difficult at best as well as incorporating a bit more of the engaging writing style that I once had. - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo
No rush, Mathew. If you want to move from journaling to blogging, (or add it to your repertoire) that's an admirable goal, but definitely take your time and figure out what you want to blog about. - J. Phil
I want to do the opposite. Remove all my feeds and start over. - Bjorn Tipling
Thanks for the kind words about Toluu J. Phil, I am so glad to see it was helpful. I know I have a few new feeds to checkout my self now :) - Caleb Elston
"Gotcha. My tumbler is at http://flipside.scribkin.com, I use it mostly for reblogging pictures and music that I find on the internets. If I see something new I'll definitely drop you a line! Good luck!" - J. Phil
"Well, I definitely think I have the social media sphere covered at this point, just from a 'new news' perspective. If I add any more small feeds in the same category, it would be because they are writing new, unique content and not just echo-chamber-style news. I'm not trying to knock what I have, but that aspect is definitely covered in spades right now.
I don't think I'll need to weed out anything for a while yet, I think I still have a bit of room to grow." - J. Phil
"Will you be doing more writing or photos or video? I find the Tumblr is a gorgeous blog for multimedia, but fairly light for a serious text blog (more suited toward short updates).
I have had a LJ forever (http://eng1ne.livejournal.com) and it's nice, the community is good once you have invested the time to build it up, and probably the perfect place for a personal blog. BTW - my community on LJ is different from every other social site I'm on, the people there are mostly people I have met. Vox is a good alternative, very similar to LJ but run by the guys who sold LJ to the Russians.
There's a number of ways you could approach a new moblog.. Anyway, if you have some thoughts reply here or find me on IM (pglockner - gmail) and I'll be happy to share my knowledge." - J. Phil
I used to subscribe to everyone who subscribed to me... but it became too many people :( Then I don't get to see what my real friends are saying because it's buried between the hundreds of others. - Alana Taylor
I hear ya Alana. That's one of the big drawbacks of following a lot of people, if one of your friends updates something and they don't have many people following *them*, their update disappears unless you visit their profile page. I wonder if there is a greasemonkey script to make 'tabs' of the people you want to keep an eye on. - J. Phil
ok Dugg, commented, dugg comments and made it a favorite, hope that helps. The recommendation engine looks cool I'm gonna have to spend a little time on Digg again - David Knight
Stories can still make it after 24 hours. The chances are very low though but it can happen. - Corvida
Dugg that this morning cuz it was so dang cool!! :-) - Susan Beebe
Oh man, I've managed to go all this time without having a digg account. Done. I guess it's for a good cause :) - Todd McKinney
Dugg, and I sent a shout to all the folks on Digg as well. - J. Phil
I was number 262. TweetDeck is getting rave reviews. - James
all i know is this, if we get him on digg, his server better handle it - otherwise im sending him the largest fail whale ever - Allen Stern
i agree, i'd like to share my love of walking on the beach and unicorns with everyone on friendfeed. kidding. it's something that would be welcome. perhaps a small space to write down occasional thoughts as well - Cee Bee
How do you mow 4 months of wild growth with a mower? Sounds like a job for a bush hog. - Michael Tefft
It wasn't easy. I set the mower to the highest setting, and went over every square foot twice or more. I did a lot of tilting the mower back to tackle the higher weeds as well. - J. Phil
that does not sound fun at all. i hope you don't live in a place like arizona or something - Cee Bee
Texas. I'm hoping all that grass stuff dies in the 100 degree heat. LOL - J. Phil
Consider yourself lucky; it takes me 2 hours on a riding mower. And that's once every 5 days or so! - Kevin C. Tofel
"Did you not scroll down past the windows installation to the "Download TweetDeck beta for Linux (manual installation)" part? Like all Adobe Air apps in Linux, you must download the .air install package and execute it in order for the AIR runtime to be able to do anything with it. After that, it should work normally. No wine or crossover necessary. AIR is a Linux-native app." - J. Phil
one reason why I don't use Linux. Such a pain. - Parvez Halim
Parvez - if you consider the hoops you have to go through to play wow in Linux, adobe air is .. well, a breeze. lol - J. Phil
Don't feel bad, Aaron, because apparently hubby being a defense contractor doesn't make us rich, either. - Michelle Martinez
Welcome to the world of being an independent contractor. Save as much money as you can and, enjoy the ride. I thank God I don't live by myself some months. - Candace Holly
Ive been in a "temporary" living situation for close to 17 years now. Some day my ship will come in. THen I'll come pick y'all/ya'll up. - Adrienne Van Houten
Yeah, we're in a bad position. Going to talk to in-laws about moving in with them for awhile. This is *not* what I need at 31 years old. - Aaron Brazell
I feel for you, we're in that boat too many months ourselves. - Summer
Dude, everyone I know has been there. I'm in academia and had to leave my Ph.D. field at 37 to get a full-time job with benefits. - steplow
I feel your pain; I had to put off paying a hospital bill because other bills had eaten up whatever disposable income I had left from my paycheck. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate in good faith with the vendor at hand. I don't miss being a contractor in the least. - Helen
Sorry to hear that Aaron. I was between jobs myself just a couple of months ago, I know how you are feeling. - J. Phil
Don't tell me - you have code that won't compile because it is littered with ':wq', ':wq!' and 'ZZ' :-) - Andy C
haha, that happens all the time in Word for me - Bjorn Tipling
Those keybindings are insane. Vi FTW! - possible248
Bjorn - do you have any LISP experience? I've been told that if your brain is tuned to understand LISP, you can make sense of the madness that is emacs. - J. Phil
I can't understand how a vim may want to learn emacs! So, it's normal if you already hate it! :) (disc. I'm a vim :) ) - directeur via NoiseRiver
No, no LISP experience. Wont even try that one anytime soon. :P - Bjorn Tipling
directeur: I don't *really* want to learn it, I just don't want to use the mouse while using xcode. I blame lazyness. - Bjorn Tipling
Bjorn ;-) I see... I LOVE vim so much. I used emacs too for some months, and I coded in Lisp and even Prolog... but man! I will never ever use anything else than vim :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I tried switching from vim to emacs for a few weeks. I think it's worth it if you live there for everything, but I don't. Switched back. Wrist feels much better already :) - Jack Baty
I think I'm just going to manage the project in xcode, and actually do the coding in vim. - Bjorn Tipling
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