Yeah, thanks for subbing me. I really enjoy your photos and I might never have seen them otherwise. - Akiva Moskovitz

thomas - how long did it take to add em all? did you have some script do it for you? - Tad Donaghe via twhirl

That's some serious adding. I find that it's not terribly easy to reciprocate after the fact. What methods did you use? - Bwana McCall

TH - love your pics and your favs too - Dave Martin

Sweet, you are following ME now! Now who is the mouse and who is the cheese! - J. Phil

Wow - I use Friendfeed the opposite way. - Steve Rubel

why would you do that? Seems like way too much... I've been moving in the opposite direction - removing people I've been following so I can have far less noise - Jonathan Greene

I went from 10 to 100 a little over a week ago and it certainly made things significantly more interesting. FriendFeed is taking a lot of my attention away from Techmeme, and providing a much broader view of what's going on out there. - Larry Rubin

Tad, it took me a long time, maybe 3 or 4 hours. I don't have or know of a script to auto add reciprocity. I think Scoble had one for Twitter but I don't know of one for FF yet. Basically I went to who subscribed to me and then cmd-clicked them all into new tabs and one by one went through adding people. - Thomas Hawk

Jonathan and Steve, there is no need to remove anyone when you have the "hide" feature. If someone is too noisy you just need to hide whatever is causing the noise. I'm discovering lots of new interesting people this way. I love it. Even when someone twitters in a language I can't read for instance I can hide their twitters but still get their great flickr photos or flickr faves. selective hiding by service rocks. - Thomas Hawk

Want to add your Twitter follows to Friend Feed? Use Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer. http://tinyurl.com/4rr2fl I am looking for a scrip that will check FF against my Twitter follows. - Russellreno

Welcome to myself!! Mmm, that didn't sound right. - Daniel Llacer

That is _A LOT_ of followers. I just hit 1,500 total, and it took me more than a day and a half! - Louis Gray

Sounds like a job for iMacros - Rahsheen Porter via twhirl

please add me - www.FriendFeed.com/vmjr - thanks! - Victor Ryden

I"m still not sure how you can possibly keep up with the information blitz that comes from 1000+ contacts. I get Scoble's meme about 'noise' over 'news', but I don't know how you sort out the useful nuggets from the rubbish. - Daniel Norton

Daniel, you can't, not when you're subscribed to that many. It's like a firehose. The info just keeps coming. I honestly have no idea why Thomas and Robert and others do this to themselves. You'd need to do nothing else all day but to watch the FF or Twitter page if you wanted to keep up with it all, and even then I think you'd miss a lot of updates from people. - Raoul Pop

I don't follow thousands of people on FriendFeed or Twitter, but even with the hundreds that I do follow, I feel like I'm dipping my toe in a rushing stream. Luckily, there is search. And in FriendFeed, comments and likes keep things bubbling. - Ontario Emperor

@eric curious as to why you're posting statements directly to friendfeed. - Baratunde Thurston

I don't want to blog this stuff, my audience is more diverse than web nerds. Also, I have a full post on why I think Google is building a holodeck framework, but I'm just baiting at this point. heh. - Eric Rice

that's cool. also twitter is down. again. will be interested in your post - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl

the thing is, the holodeck only simulated stuff that you couldn't do because you were stuck on a spaceship. if you're actually on earth, why not really go whitewater river rafting or whatever, in actual reality? (shit, i'm gonna answer my own question here: sex with celebs and fake time travel.... duh. (though they did the latter on STNG a lot, for some reason they never did the former)) - Nick

Proof! Proof! :) - Alejandro S.

@nick that's present day things. I can't go back in time. And, I can't be everwhere Right Now. Let's go hang out in the Alps...ooh crap, can't gotta pick kids up from school. ;) - Eric Rice

I'm with Eric on the simulate thing. Tons of things I can't do and places I can't visit due to reality constraints. - Todd Jordan

Start with the Now. Google has a mapping/earth engine that contains relative proximity based information, in all media formats. From Street View to the laser scanning of buildings for 3D. Microsoft also does it, but they are uncool and probably can't figure this out yet hehe. So first step is to look at the current offereing and how robust it is. - Eric Rice

I mapped/toured Tokyo before I went, affecting my real state of presence there. When I got back, they actually improved the mapping, so every 3D building is rendered. I'm going to try this someplace like Paris next. I can also see the experiences of other 'patrons' via photo/audio/video... - Eric Rice

The notion of being in a rendered place (and being aware you in a rendered place) does not take away from a social experience and a spatial awareness. Ask anyone who plays Warcraft, Second Life, Halo, GTA, etc... seemingly normal things (by the dollars anyway heh). Sense of place is sense of place. - Eric Rice

My theory is that our minds are being conditioned to think in that dimension. What Google is building is essentially the pre-historic framework for that. For kicks, look on Xbox for the 'making of the museum of human history', the fictional documentary of how the diorama was built. - Eric Rice

We just don't have the absolute immersive interface.. YET. Look at what people can do with accelerometers and motion sensors and cameras and infrared on game consoles alone. - Eric Rice

Let your minds wander and don't think about next week, thing about next decade. And then think of how Microsoft could be the winner if they were smart enough to stitch things together internally. Heh, doubtful. :) - Eric Rice

But we wouldn't be able to interact with that environment, right? - Alejandro S.

Addendum: Google doesn't know they are building a holodeck. heh - Eric Rice

@alejandro that depends on the interface device. Take a basic game like GTA, you can interact; take one of the PS EyeToy games (aquariums and the Tori-Maki painting), you can interact... Haptic and tactile stuff has a long way to go; this winter we're getting our hands on EEG interfaces (wearable)... Hence why I made the disclaimer at the top: 'framework'... interfaces are still coming - Eric Rice

this reminds me of that old simpsons episode where lisa imagines VR helmets in school, she puts it on and genghis khan appears saying: "Hello Lisa, I'm Genghis Khan. You'll go where I go, kill who I kill, eat who I eat!" Now that would be something! - Nick

If I had a holodeck I'd simulate a desk with a computer on it that got FF. - Geoff Schultz

I have my own holodeck in Second Life - does that count? (it's actually pretty cool!) - Tad Donaghe

Oh sure it's all fun and games till you ask the computer to create a Professor Moriarty smart enough to challenge Commander Data. - Geoff Schultz

Yes, but will it save our health records? :) - Morton Fox

Using your health records it will create a "virtual you" to kill you over and over in cyberspace. - Tad Donaghe

sex with celebrities! - edythe

What if Google can scan people with lasers (in public) to create a 3D representation of YOU. Overlay that with all the data you (and your contacts) produce. Would one be able to recreate basic facets of personality (16 of them) based on the nuanced data and clues provided by you and your network? Then you have an avatar that is strong AI that could live for generations; talking with your gr-gr-great grandchildren. Yay for sci-fi! - Eric Rice

Yes but does it have real estate yet? - Prokofy Neva

hmm let me think what that would be good for... oh yeah. porn - Noah David Simon

Well, the @ link is approximate. Oft times, it points back to the wrong thing. - Jauder Ho

Hallelujah on the replies tab coming to m.twitter.com! - Michael Beck

Agree -- it's more confusing than helpful in my mind. - Charles Barthold

it'd be nice for less ad hoc method to arise. @ replying to multiple people is kind of disfunctional, for example. - felix

LOL, half of twitter is not answering the polls in the right format. This is going to be challenging and fun. - Bwana McCall

what is the right format?? - Shey

You @reply with either a number (1|2) or a single keyword defined by the poll creator. I have my first one here: http://bwana.strawpollnow.com/ - Bwana McCall

so ... "@bwana 1" or "@bwana (1)" ? - Shey

I should have it released in the next hour or two - engtech

It lives: http://internetducttape.com/20... - engtech

You are a coding machine! - Phil Ashman

haven't been able to get it to work. it installs fine, but when i open the "friend feed importer console", after a few seconds it displays a bunch of errors ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I'll try installing it on a clean machine and see what happens... I might have a missing dependency - engtech

Ah, it breaks on machines that don't have the HOME environment variable set. I'll release a fix. - engtech

We have a winner: http://internet-duct-tape.goog... - engtech

w00t it works :) Installed fine, and is currently doing its thing. Thanks a bunch I was just thinking the other day how useful a tool like this would be. Whats it mean when it says "Can't find social graph" though? ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I put more discussion about the social graph stuff in the blog post. I'm using XFN/FOAF stuff to find the connections between people... doesn't always work well. - engtech

it is running now but is there a way to produce a simple output instead of subscribing? I am now subsribing to some people I really did not want to subscribe to. ;) or better, if that thing could just produce two lists (twitter friend / friend feed twitter list) i could do a very neat comparison in excel myself. ;) - Nicole Simon

hm okay. ran it but have no idea if it aborted or not, but given the amount of friends i haev in both, it seems like it. a pause button at the end might be a good idea. :) waiting for the next version. ;) - Nicole Simon