Erik Dafforn

EPIC - Josh Haley

Love it! - Mathew A. Koeneker

tragic moment in history. - ♣genieyclo♣

yeah, but clowns are evil. I would never trust anything from a clown. Their smiles always appear to be sadistic to me. - RAPatton

That's some old-school, unapologetic sugar love. #23 looks a little like Garry Marshall getting ready for another spinoff. - Erik Dafforn

Mandigo? - Susan Beebe

Where's the "Oh no they didn't!" button? - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes

At first I figured someone was using spell check and Mandela got changed to Mandingo but I can't reproduce it. Ouch. - AJ Kohn

Where's The Fish? I think the word "FAIL" fails in this instance. - ha3rvey

Pretty bad CNN, pretty bad - Shey

WTF?! GALACTIC FAIL! - Corvida

Holy cow....just....wow. - Abby Martin

Was this confirmed by other news sources, or is someone just having some fun with HTML? If true, it ranks up there with CNN's Obama=Osama moment. Maybe we should start calling them the Klan News Network. - Karim

EPIC FAIL. How embarrassing... I thought CNN would have better QC than that. - Bill Sodeman

@Karim I think "KNN" would be Fox News, but I'll have to see how huge this particular Failure is to know for sure. (Can't see pic, it's blocked @ work.) - Kamilah Gill

LOL :) - Mike Reynolds

When was CNN acquired by FOX News? - Chris Baskind

Perhaps they wanted to write Madiba, which is a fatherly name often used for Mandela. - Dewald Pretorius

Reminds me of my other favorite : http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu... (and http://rheasilvia.livejournal.... -- though I'm just glad they didn't replace it with Sweden) - John Mueller

oh, my! that is wonderful. - edythe

i showed this to my mom this morning. and waited for the aw factor....think i'll show my sister now. there is something in us that makes us want to help disabled little animals, birds, turtles etc. esp when they are tiny and have big eyes. - Caroline

any disabled, wretched creature... Gertie... [sniff] <3 - edythe

disabled, wretched creature? you've just described 95% of the people I know - rambn

no need to be sorry, Rap. I don't mind remembering Gertie. Rambn: i guess i meant creature more in the sense of "woodland." - edythe

edythe: much prefer those types. - rambn

Sorry about Gertie, I did not think about that. - RAPatton

I love the show; was very pleased it got renewed. It's not just Hamm. What I find so compelling about the show is how all the characters reveal in various ways how impossible they've become in this day and age. Yet, it's not set that long ago. Very interesting perspective. - Madsimian

*rawr* And the show's pretty darned good, too. - Cecily

They say he is the in the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still." That will introduce him to a healthy sized audience. - RAPatton

Oh, goody. Glad to hear that he's moving into movies. - Ginger Makela

Too bad he doesn't get to say "Klaatu Barada Nikto" in it. - RAPatton

Good job. - RAPatton

Very nice. - Erik Dafforn

Very nice blog! Us fathers do go the extra mile no matter what the embarasment.. Key in point walking out of Kung Fu Panda the other night with 1-year-old throw up all over me. - Chris Reed

Worth re-sharing. Moving. - Lindsey

The word "Like" isn't enough. - ha3rvey

Agreed Harvey! I myself looked for this very post on FriendFeed after commenting on the blog, just to say how I loved it! Thanks Ginger! - directeur

Chris: Why only "US" fathers? :( - directeur

awesome picture, by the way. (in the tub for some reason. dad looking kinda bored) - Ňicķ

Consider this a way too good to let it get buried bump - Michael W. May

thanks everyone! i should have had a caption for the picture: that's a pic my mom took after we walked around washington dc all day on the fourth of july and our feet were so blistered we had to soak them in the tub. - Ginger Makela

Great post, Ginger. I miss working with you, but I'm glad your time is freed up for reflections like these. - Tödd Nëmët

oh, Ginger. That was terrifying! But worth it. And I love the picture, too. I have thought about the embarrassment I would feel if I started choking or drowning somewhere public...but I am not sure if it occurred to me that everyone might be immobile with fear. scary. - edythe

In addition to everything else said here, your brother is clearly a badass. - Erik Dafforn

Very moving post... Dad's are amazing! I am annoyed by all those brain-frozen dummies working at Arby's - Susan Beebe

@directeur Chris means "we fathers", not U.S. fathers, I believe. - Anne Bouey

I almost forgot. Buy two of these posthaste. http://www.miracleblanket.com/ - Carla Thompson

I had to create it myself so that it would have the right name: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sc... - Cyndy

Nice! I'll add the first item to it as a christening. - Carla Thompson

Now the real question is, are we going to add the REAL parenting advice or just the stuff you tell first-time parents so as not to frighten them? - Cyndy

OMG, some of my favorite e-mails include Carla's "observations" after her first daughter was born. The room is a fantastic idea and you have to keep it "real." - Shellee

Shellee, in the interest of FriendFEED I think you should share them. Just for giggles. ;) - Cyndy

My general rule: before they're born, keep it polite and only share the nice stuff. After: all bets are off. It's honesty time. - Carla Thompson

You're about to witness a moment of happiness that is unmatched and indescribable. Think of winning the World Series, the lottery and Scrabble on Facebook all at the same time. ... That said, the best advice now is one word: Sleep. This weekend, no alarm clock - just sleep in. Spend the whole weekend in bed if need be. It will be ages before you do again. - Chris Reed

@Chris Please define "ages." Oldest is 8.5 and the only weekend I've spent in bed I was sicker than a dog and still had to drag boxes of cereal to the children. - Cyndy

@Carla and @Cyndy... bring it on. We can have fun with this. - Louis Gray

LOL Louis. I'm not sure... I've had friends tell me that conversations with me are effective birth control. - Cyndy

@Cyndy: Ages as in I think they have to age and leave the house, then you get to sleep again. - Chris Reed

That's what I was afraid. of. :( - Cyndy

Charlie makes a really good name - Boy or Girl ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Lots of twinnage here at FF!. Our boys were born @ 34 weeks, after 6 weeks of very scary hospital-based pre-term labor. Now they're almost 4 and I can't imagine life without them. To be honest, I remember about 8 minutes of their first 6 months. I agree with Chris Reed. Take a nap. Now. Not because you want to, but because you can. Once they arrive, try to eat right, because it will be very tempting not too, and you need a lot of resources to battle your imminent lack of sleep. - Erik Dafforn

I agree with the others here..take a nap. Right now. Once your twins arrive, you'll soon be posting on - 'What is this 'rest' you speak of?' :) - Mia

hmm.. at present you've got 143 comments and 162 likes this week. my prediction is after 20 days from now you never hit these numbers again. :) - Jeremy Toeman

My wife is 30 weeks pregnant with twin girls so we're getting closer too. And we have a 13 month old daughter. Yes, we are crazy. - Jason Dettbarn

@Jason Yes, yes, you are. Certifiable even. Although I have maintained since #2 that if ANY of our kids had ever made it to 2 without me being pregnant again, we'd only have one child. ;) - Cyndy

The only things I tell myself (to stay sane) is: we get through the next year or two we'll be golden; after this we're done having kids, so why not get it over now?!; they'll all be great playmates in a short time so we won't have to entertain as much... ahh, heck, who am I kidding? We are crazy. - Jason Dettbarn

Well, golden until the teenage years. Then I'll be taking up the shooting range as a hobby to scare off the boys. - Jason Dettbarn

Before our first was born, my wife had this thing: It would be two kids or four, no odd numbers (could have been from my being a middle child for a while). So after our first son was born, she said "2!" and I knew exactly what she meant. - Chris Reed

@Jason Ohohohoho. Hee hee hee. hoo. Sorry... I laughed til I cried. Four kids here in 3.5 years. Sorry to burst your bubble, but no, sir, you will not be "golden" in a "year or two." I look back on those days with three in diapers where some stayed where they were put with great longing. - Cyndy

@Cyndy and Jason: As I sat there last night, taking my eyes off of my 1.5 year old son for only seconds to watch a small snippet of the basketball game, only to find him seconds later pouring yogurt and milk all over the coffee table, the remotes, my lap, his lap, and the floor, I also longed for the days of waking up every three hours in the middle of the night to feed the monster, change the monster, and put him down again. "Hulk Smash" has nothing on "Toddler Smash." Still, I love every minute. - Rob Reed

@Cyndy delusional? maybe. but it's all I got left. ;-) What I mean was more getting used to the routine and actually having 3 kids, without going insane and destroying our relationship first. I think if we survive the first year or two, we'll be able to handle it no problem. Thanks for the insight! - Jason Dettbarn

"getting used to the routine and actually having 3 kids" Darnit, that was another hysterical laughing fit. And I think you made me wake up the only child who is actually napping! - Cyndy

Well, I guess I'll stop commenting here... sorry to hijack your comments Louis. Obviously every family of 3+ is exactly the same, so I should stop pretending things *might* be OK. - Jason Dettbarn

Sorry, Jason. Mine isn't the only big family I know and we unanimously agree that we lost our sanity LONG ago. My kids have friends in another family with 4 and two with 6 kids each and "ain't none of us right." - Cyndy

From somebody who's Internet experience has been heavily influenced by you (you were one of the first blogs I ever followed), best of luck and I look forward to seeing the results of your new opportunity! - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

yahoo won't be the same without you.. :( - Augusto Becciu via twhirl

Just to hope you all good to your new work, whatever it is. - Daniel Schildt

Where are you going? Anywhere we've heard of? - Tony Ruscoe

Jeremy. Good luck. I can only echo what Damon said above - Deepak

good luck - Andreas Gohr

shocked to know that u'r leaving. good luck. - Jansen Lu via twhirl

:) - Sarath via Alert Thingy

shocked. And happy for you :) - John Mueller

woo. crazy. all the best to you. - Josh Mings via twhirl

Congrats on a huge move, and all the best, Jeremy. You'll be deeply missed as a Yahoo, even by those of us that don't work there. - DeWitt Clinton

Welcome to the ex-Yahoo club, Jeremy, and congratulations on the move. Looking forward to seeing what comes next for you. - Ryan Kuder

Congrats! - Ginger Makela

Best of luck! - Mike Reynolds

Who's the next lucky one to hire you!? :) - directeur

Good luck! - Matt Wood

Reading this in Friendfeed. Doesn't seem appropriate to "like" it. More "ackknowledge that it is news". You seemed like a force for good in a good company Jeremy. - Scott Koon via twhirl

Congratulations ;) What's next ? Google or Own project ;) - David Berrebi via twhirl

@Jeremy startup please!! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

He said a 'smaller' company. So that rules out Google. - Adewale Oshineye

Best of luck Jeremy ! - Charlie Anzman

Good luck Jeremy, can't wait to see what your up to next. - Barry Schwartz

Wow! All the best man! - Robert Cooper via twhirl

Wow! Good luck Jeremy! - Niranjan Tulpule

The problem with having an ! in your company name is people always sound so excited when they write about leaving - Christian Anderson

oh, dear. - edythe

Good Luck, Jeremy. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

All the best to you Jeremy....I'm looking forward to the next chapter. in your book. - Jerry Chacon

Wow. So if they made it so nobody with blue eyes could become a policeman and rejected everyone with blue eyes, that's not discrimination? - Robert Seidman

I think the key is that the intelligent are not a protected class. It's pretty funny that they automatically exclude people based on IQ tests though. - Paul Buchheit

Regardless of the legality of excluding smart people, wouldn't you be pissed if you lived in New London and you found out that they were actually turning away potential public servants because they were too smart? - Keith Pelczarski

@Keith - exactly. And bypassing the whole question of legality, I'd love to see the testing and rationale behind that policy. What is it about "smart" people that makes them bad police officers? - Erik Dafforn

They'll be promoted quickly and take the top jobs from the existing "leadership"? - Dan Hsiao

Brilliant ... discrimination against smart people cuz we don't want *those* guys protecting our country. They're too smart and won't eat donuts everyday! DOH! - Susan Beebe

Blue eyes are not a protected class either, but I'd be really interested to know how they legally justify that rejecting high intelligence is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ). - Logical Extremes

Interesting. I haven't read the article but my off-the-cuff guess would be that the police dept don't want people who are too smart or clever.. a lot of police jobs are insanely boring and perhaps invite the sort of techniques you see in the movie "training day" - Phil Glockner

The thing with social media is that it takes a presence and continuing effort. My guess is that most companies will have trouble getting over their core marketing instincts. Press releases, ads, planned events with a defined duration, employee turnover and quarterly results changing the marketing approaches. Becoming a "presence" on places like FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter, etc. is really different for them. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, great post. I totally agree that this is going to require brands to change how they think -- to get out of the broadcast + "campaign" mindset -- that social media "marketing" is going to be, as you said, a continuing effort. - Ginger Makela

Let me echo Ginger's comments -- very nicely written. Agree that *sustaining* an effort and jumping into the conversation without fear and paranoia seems to be the hard part. I just don't think that most non-tech corporate hierarchies are cut out for that (yet) -- even in marketing, which is traditionally a little more experimental. You also need a company that isn't afraid to venture into a realm that isn't *instantly* measurable. Too few of those. - Erik Dafforn

Friendfeed still has less than 0.1% the traffic of Facebook or MySpace. Anyway, I thought hired shills ("viral marketers") were (seriously) current best practice for social media marketing. - ⓞnor

jacksonfish.com -- I am there right now and they get it. Watch for them to participate soon. They have one of the top designers in the world working for them. - Robert Scoble

oooo. jacksonfish.com looks super cool. - Ginger Makela

@Ginger - thanks! You said it right: broadcast + campaign is what it's all about today. - Hutch Carpenter

@Robert - Jackson Fish Market has to be one of the coolest agencies out there - I love looking at their work. - Steven Hodson

@Erik - and the the thing is, it really only takes a couple of employees to get started in this. For companies with 10,000+ employees, it seems to have a fairly low hurdle to get going. The employees would have to be well trained, understand the different facets of the company's business, and have the temperament to participate. - Hutch Carpenter

Deleted a comment because of language. - Steve Rubel via fftogo

Steve, I like your action/comment above almost as much as the post. ;) - Kevin C. Tofel

First weeks I wasnt a FF-addict but now , I read less blogs and more pertinents things. - b-noud

I look forward to reading Steve's follow-up articles. - Chris Rossini

Liked. Steve, you do know how to end an article making us want more... And I empathize with your thoughts. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Facebook and similar sites, and I still hate them. FF just seems so much more natural. - Erik Dafforn

FriendFeed's conversational threads are what make it fantastic - Glenn Batuyong

Comments in blogs is always something that has been broken, because you have to either subscribe to just that posts comments to stay up to date or remember to return. FF is getting closer to offerring an aggreggation of my comments for me. - bankwatch via twhirl

Go FriendFeed!!!! EPIC WIN! - Steve Isaacs

FriendFeed was rock solid throughout. Way to go Bret, Paul, and the rest of the FriendFeed team. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I never had any doubts. Nice job, guys. - Louis Gray

Love Ya Friendfeed! - Parth Awasthi via twhirl

Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks) - directeur

very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it. - Josh Mings via twhirl

way to keep the fail whales away - Jeremy Raines

We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway. - Bret Taylor

yay scalability! - Neha Narula

Bret: Big! Congrats! You've done a very nice job ! :) - directeur

I guess that I will be hanging out with ya'll for the rest of the day. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

FriendFeed FTW! - mathew ingram

unlike the oh so much stress Twitter will be having FriendFeed will be up and running - Outsanity

I'd like to second this notion: well done Friendfeed, you guys have your shit together and I respect that. - ryangraves

Rob (Radez) actually just said the same thing. Good work, guys! - Gabor Cselle

Even wordpress hosted sites are down! FF is well hosted and manged! - Lakshman Prasad via twhirl

well done you guys. - Tsega Dinka

Me think FriendFeed cousin Googawl... - directeur

It rocked... simply the best place for live updates. - Vince DeGeorge

FF rox! - anna awesomesauce

This was great! FF had updates faster than the folks liveblogging the event. - Jennifer Dittrich

ya, man, FriendFeed Rocks! - Ralph Poole via twhirl

Kudos..It was your stress test - Varun Mahajan

nothing beats FF! - Dieter Schwarz

FriendFeed triumphs yet again - Shey

can we have some traffic stats please? - Ivan Pope via twhirl

well done! friendfeed deserves all the hype it can get! - Chris Hofmann

Does it count as hype if it's true? - Amit Patel

"Obama does not play on our fears" I think this was a pretty good statement and I wish many politicians (especially in Italy) would learn this from Obama. You need to show people the vision for a better future that is not about putting fears but life at the center. - Davide D'Incau

Doesn't it seem odd that McCain is up against him? Doesn't seem to be a fair fight for the presidency, what happened with the republican party? - Kyle Weller

McCain has the best chances against Obama. Who else should there be? Huckabee or Romney? You gotta be kidding! McCain is the Republican's best chance against Obama, but they have a serious personnel problem in general. Think about the people in the Republican party - there isn't one serious potential candidate in the Republican party for the future. - sebmos

I was a Ron Paul fan for a bit, it was funny how McCain reacted when questioned by Paul about numerous topics, he never knew how to answer his questions and always changed the subject. If this happens with Obama vs McCain it will be a joke. - Kyle Weller

I believe Obama will be the president, because McCain is a joke. I think Obama will make a fool out of him don't you? - Kyle Weller

"I think we all vote on an emotional level, whatever we say about our "reasons." " - Clare Dibble

Muzik - viki saigal

I am an Indian, living in Singapore and I think Obama rocks ! Need to get me a Yes we can tee - viki saigal

@Kyle: You don't think this country would elect a joke? - Amit Patel