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Dear lazyweb. Which framework would you use to build a web site for a fairly large institute with several groups and why? It would need to be able to do access control to have both public and private pages, allow specific people to edit certain pages, and be able to have pages that are automatically generated from a database.

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sounds like a case for Plone: http://plone.org/ It's a CMS built on top of Zope, so it's highly extensible. But the list of CMS is long... - Michael Kuhn

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Thanks Michael :) - Lars Juhl Jensen

We were using Zope and now switched to cherrypy + cheetah: technically zope is python but depending on what you want to do you might find yourself trapped quite rapidly - Yann Abraham

This functionality is what blog3 will have - besides the science 2.0 functionality - if we get funded: http://docs.google.com/Doc... - Björn Brembs

Drupal? - Duncan Hull

it's only a personal opinion, but Plone is a hideous abomination best left alone (this is a quasi-religious prejudice, much like my one against emacs)... Drupal or Joomla will almost certainly do everything you want, with appropriate plugins (Drupal has a very extensive community behind it) - Simon Cockell

I had a long pretty bad experience with the Zope 2.x framework. Too much boilerplate code, too much under-the-hood tinkering. As a result, Plone is extremely cumbersome to maintain. Less experience with Drupal, but a far better one. If you are doing content management only, definitely look at Drupal. I heard good things about Django for deploying web-based applications. - Iddo Friedberg

Your requirements are exactly what current CMS do. I agree with Simon, dont go with plone. Drupal - http://drupal.org/ or MODx http://modxcms.com/ - Frank

I can vouch against anything like Plone/Zope. Go with Drupal or Joomla. - Paulo Nuin

A US government favorite for such purposes is SharePoint </ducks> - Brian Haugen

Sharepoint is horrendous. I have to use it every day. Don't ever mention that word again :) - Frank from iPhone

Sharepoint is the worse software from MSFT I ever used. It's worse than Me, Vista, Outlook, and any other crap they produce. Unfortunately the company I work for uses it. - Paulo Nuin

Plone is horrific. Drupal is good. I used to like Joomla a lot - but watch out for 3rd party extensions, they often have terrible security issues. A lot of wikis have CMS-worthy features too. I like DokuWiki, but TikiWiki is very full-featured - http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-in.... Compare and contrast at CMS Matrix (http://cmsmatrix.org/) or WikiMatrix (http://www.wikimatrix.org/). - Neil Saunders

Thanks everyone! - Lars Juhl Jensen

I agree with the majority that Drupal is very good, but it would be even better if it used a scripting language for customization rather than a web-based GUI. There are way, way, way too many checkboxes that you have to remember to tick and, as a result, you have to be something of a Drupal expert to get the customization right. It is a bit like one of those attempts to write a GUI for a command line program where the programmer just puts a checkbox for every single command line option. - Matt Leifer

Well, I for one definitely recommend that you *do* evaluate Plone. Your security requirements are exactly the sort of use-case that the Zope platform was designed to handle. We've had a role-based security model as a core component for about a decade now. If you want to see who else is using Plone, check this out: http://plone.net/sites - Michael R. Bernstein

Also, this report comparing different CMSs might be useful: http://www.idealware.org/compari... - Michael R. Bernstein

Drupal - Charles Tanton

Hi Lars. If you have money to spend, it seems like these guys have made nice CMS stuff for the University of Copenhagen before: http://www.magenta-aps.dk (mostly Plone and some custom CMS) - Anders Norgaard

Konrad Förstner did something with Plone (I think for the Online Symposium we had at EMBL some time ago) -- you could also ask him for his experience - Michael Kuhn

Right, I used Plone for the Online EMBL PhD symposium (a static version can be found here http://phdsymposium.embl.org/onlines...). This is already some years ago (so before Plone 3) and there were quite some improvements/changes since that. For us it worked out quite fine - the only issues IMO is that its resource demanding and it was a little bit slow on our old OpenBSD server... more... - Konrad Förstner

I'd use Drupal for this, http://drupal.org. It has a vibrant community of contributors, many of them professionals associated with high profile companies. Drupal is GPL with the exception of a few themes and of course custom modules. Access control/permissions are as fine grained as you want them to be, you can set up workflows and content types to accommodate what you state, and then... more... - Christoph Weber

+1 for Plone. It has great users/groups functionality and it's very easy to use. - Nate Aune

+1 Joomla, we are using it in our institute web site. - Khader Shameer

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Dan Patlansky at The Radium Beer Hall, Johannesburg, 22 August 2009 - Charles Tanton

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I'd have to change my pants if I were him. - Nurse Katie

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nice.....kitty.....don't...eat...me..... - Stephanie Segel

don't look at her...don't look... - Alejandro

Holy crap! Dude is better than me. I would have broke down crying after - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

That's a little too close for comfort! - Anne Bouey

Idiot! - Charles Tanton

This is great, makes me wish I were doing something other than sitting in an office. Maybe not THAT, though. - Lo

Robert Scoble

New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:

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Follow me! - TheHenry

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TheHenry: I already am! :-) - Robert Scoble

Please don't unfollow me!! :) - Carlo Nasuti

oh yeah! I forgot! lol! #fail - TheHenry

Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me. - C.C. Chapman

Yo... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

I think you're already following me Robert. - Andrew Leahey

well ok ) - Denverken

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Robert Kenney

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us. - Gary Prechtel

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - massagin

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - Joe

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard van Schip

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Kathy

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Anderson

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul The Raven

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark "DerBingle" J

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Adrian Scicluna

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - @katebuckjr

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Anderson

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - t i n y m

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

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Real Genius - Kevin Fox

Airplane - Jim Goldstein

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Paul Buchheit

The Woman in Red - Tony Peters

Ferris Bueller - Nils Sandin

Brazil - Jim Goldstein

The Princess Bride - Jenna Bilotta

All ZAZ films (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots) and Most Mel Brooks films (Blazing Saddle and Young Frankenstein) - Neal Krummell

Goonies - Jenna Bilotta

+1 For Lobowski! - TheHenry

Chinatown - Karl Rosaen

bottle rocket - Karl Rosaen

Factory Girl Edie - simge ungor

+1 for Young Frankenstein! (and yes, I sooo need to see Chinatown again) - Tony Peters

The Great Escape - Matthew DeVries

The Wizard of Oz - Eric Logan

Harold & Maude (& I 2ndYoung Frankenstein) - Jim Goldstein

Just watched: Waynes World ..... classic - patrick

Fight Club - Matt Ruiz

Lives of Others - Deepak Singh

Into the wild - corvin

just recently caught "Point Break" on netflix streaming, can't say I regret watching it again - Karl Rosaen

The Godfather, I, II and III - Benjamin Perdomo

Tron - Kevin Fox

Memento - Stephen Mack

Blast from the Past - Kishore Balakrishnan

star wars - chaz2b

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Jim Goldstein

Fast times at Ridgemont high. - Joe

Sixteen candles. - Joe

Spirited Away - Shirley Wu

Grosse Point Blank. - Joe

I can always watch Harold and Maude. My fave. Boondock Saints. - R1CC1

Something About Mary - johnpiercy

Shawshank Redemption - Gabe

+1 Brazil. Also Do The Right Thing - Steve Crossan

Fargo - Joe from iPod

Being John Malkovich - weird stuff. - Joe from iPod

Blade Runner - Johnny

+1 for Blade Runner - Henner Zeller

Army of Darkness...preferably with beer and friends - Alex Scoble

Alex - neither of those things exist on school nights. - Matthew DeVries

I'm not a big fan of watching something I've already seen, but I could probably watch The Last Dragon again. I suspect seeing that would be a first for most of you, since it tanked at the box office. Why? Taimak is so beautiful! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Ok, I'm looking at highlights. I know why :D - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music. - Joel Webber

+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music. - Matthew DeVries

Bridges of Madison Cou…no, never mind, I can't bring myself to that level - Mistletoe Glen

Boondock Saints - scott willeke

Punch-Drunk Love - edythe

Falling Down, Beautiful Girls, Juno, Almost Famous - Liza

Can't Buy Me Love (African Dance scene) - Liza

Matrix?! :-o - hIpPy

+++ edythe - RAPatton

Better Off Dead, 3 O'Clock High, The Killing Fields - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Rap: :) - edythe

"How I Got In To College". Yeah, I said it. - Kevin Fox

++ to Jim Goldstein for Airplane! and to both Jim and Ricci Krassa for Harold and Maude. :) - edythe

Pulp fiction - arunthampi from iPhone

Anything by Hitchcock or Miyazaki. Almost anything by Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Tarantino, or Coen Bros. - LogEx

this is an example of a discussion prompt that got messy. So I vote for two, too: Revenge of the Nerds, Moving Violations, and anything with Kate Blanchett, I mean by Woody Allen. I mean produced by Harvey Weinstein. - Lane Rapp

The Fifth Element - Josh Haley from iPhone

Transporter 1, 2 & 3 - Mac Sharp

Dune. - Bwana ☠

Vanilla Sky - Mike Bracco

1UP Bwana - Josh Haley from iPhone

True Romance - Rick Cogley

Office Space - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Stalker. - Akiva Moskovitz

Serenity - WorldofHiglet

Riddick - Mac Sharp

Men in Black - Mac Sharp

Trainspotting - Will Higgins™

Chungking Express - Rodfather

12 Angry Men - Dennis O'Neil

+1 Will - Johnny

Sin City - Mac Sharp

Kill Bill - Mac Sharp

E.T. - Mark Evans from iPhone

Jason Bourne series - Mac Sharp

Being There - Cathryn Hrudicka

Matewan (a John Sayles film) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Mr & Mrs Smith - Mac Sharp

The Conversation - Cathryn Hrudicka

On the Waterfront - Cathryn Hrudicka

Rashomon - Cathryn Hrudicka

Men With Guns. Cidade de Deus. Not happy, but wonderful movies. - Joel Webber

A Patch of Blue - Cathryn Hrudicka

Escanaba in Da Moonlight - Matthew DeVries

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and read the book!) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Midnight Cowboy - Cathryn Hrudicka

In the Heat of the Night - Cathryn Hrudicka

Day for Night - Cathryn Hrudicka

A River Runs Through it - Mac Sharp

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Cathryn Hrudicka

Manhattan (and some of Woody Allen's other movies) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Do the Right Thing (and other Spike Lee movies) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Any of these: http://www.flickchart.com/Charts... :) - Nathan Chase

My Brilliant Career - Cathryn Hrudicka

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Cathryn Hrudicka

Chan is Missing - Cathryn Hrudicka

The Saint with Val Kilmer - Mac Sharp

My Left Foot - Cathryn Hrudicka

My Beautiful Laundrette - Cathryn Hrudicka

Gran Torino - Travis Koger from iPhone

Tomb Stone - Mac Sharp

American Splendor - Cathryn Hrudicka

Ghost World - Cathryn Hrudicka

The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and other Ingmar Bergman films - Cathryn Hrudicka

Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman - Mac Sharp

Cool Hand Luke and Hud - Bonnie Foster

The Graduate - Bonnie Foster

Easy Rider - Bonnie Foster

BrotherHood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups) - Mac Sharp

The Last of The Mohicans - Mellissa

Wanted with Anjelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman - Mac Sharp

BeoWulf - Mac Sharp

A Clockwork Orange - Gabe

It's crazy to me how consistently "Children of Men" is overlooked. - Chip Ramsey

Alien & Aliens - Rolf Schewe

Children of Men - Mac Sharp

Reign of Fire - Mac Sharp

space balls! :D - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Blazing Saddles - Mac Sharp

¡Three Amigos! - Mac Sharp

Broadcast News - Cathryn Hrudicka

King of Hearts - Cathryn Hrudicka

The Ghost and the Darkness - Mac Sharp

Kalifornia - Mac Sharp

Seven - Mac Sharp

Atlantic City - Cathryn Hrudicka

All That Jazz - Cathryn Hrudicka

The Boondock Saints - Brandon Mendelson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Lolita; other Kubrick films - Cathryn Hrudicka

Kiss of the Spider Woman - Cathryn Hrudicka

Time Bandits - April Buchheit

Vanity Fair (the BBC version and not the version with Reese Witherspoon in it - that was such a crappy rendition imho) - April Buchheit

ForestGump - sirishkumar

Cast Away — more than anything, I liked the skillful use of silence in the soundtrack, which you don't hear much in today's films. I'm biased, perhaps, because I interned with Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom, but often I choose films based on their soundtracks as well as for visual reasons or a good screenplay. - Cathryn Hrudicka

MANY Capra films: It's a Wonderful Life (try watching it outside of Xmas so you aren't influenced by that), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, American Madness, You Can't Take it With You - Spidra Webster

"The Magnificent Seven" - Thierry R. Andriamirado

To kill a mocking bird and 12 Angry Men - Shauns from iPhone

Matrix & The Beach - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Inglorious Bastards - Adrian

Apocalypto + lethal weapon I II III IV - r1lita

Apocalypse Now - Cathryn Hrudicka

Pursuit of Happyness - Nick Humphries

Paths of Glory - James (!?)

Electric Dreams (not sure if that's the name but it's where the computer comes alive) - Joe Dawson from iPhone

2001: A Space Odyssey - Willem (@wim66) ☠

I can watch "A Christmas Story" at least once a year. - Spidra Webster

The Departed. - Shawn Whitmire

@CreativeSage great pointers to underrated movies - thanks. - andrei_c

Surfs up - Mac Sharp

Ratatouille - Mac Sharp

Happy Feet - Mac Sharp

L'Eclisse, The Passenger by Antonioni - andrei_c

Conformist, Stealing Beauty, The Last Emperor by Bertolucci - andrei_c

In The Mood For Love, 2046, Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai - andrei_c

Throw Momma From The Train - Mac Sharp

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Mac Sharp

@andrei_c Thanks for mentioning some other great films—there are so many different reasons certain ones resonate and we remember them over time. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Of course Rocky Horror !! - R1CC1

Clue - Mac Sharp

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Cathryn Hrudicka

Klute - Cathryn Hrudicka

McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Cathryn Hrudicka

Paris, Texas - Cathryn Hrudicka

The Grapes of Wrath - Cathryn Hrudicka

Some Like it Hot - Cathryn Hrudicka

UHF - Peter from iPhone

Wings of Desire - Charles Tanton

Reservoir Dogs - Charles Tanton

Wild at heart - Charles Tanton

Wedding Crashers - Charles Tanton

+1 to The Big Lebowski - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

+1 Cathryn +1 Mac :) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

I mean ++Crouching Tiger ++ Rocky Horror Picture Show =P - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

+Baraka - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Seven Samurai - Andrew Terry

That reminds me .... Rashomon (by Kurosawa, the directory of Seven Samurai). Bewitching ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from IM

Top Gun? - funkyboy

+1 For Lobowski! - Özgür

Gattaca (1997) http://bit.ly/NDBBi - Michael Fidler

Goodfellas (1990) http://bit.ly/XXrwg - Michael Fidler

The Sting (1973) http://bit.ly/WUXd1 - Michael Fidler

Equilibrium (2002) http://bit.ly/gUk7L - Michael Fidler

Excalibur (1981) http://bit.ly/3HyNJI - Michael Fidler

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) http://bit.ly/prB3J - Michael Fidler

Sideways (2004) http://bit.ly/SsPh4 - Michael Fidler

12 Monkeys - Anton Tanderup

Spartacus (1960) http://bit.ly/PCOlR "I'm Spartacus" - Michael Fidler

Casino (1995) http://bit.ly/ta7Ma - Michael Fidler

Full Metal Jacket (1987) http://bit.ly/31yx7 - Michael Fidler

Legends of Fall - imran

The Warriors (1979) http://bit.ly/fwLBC - Michael Fidler

Platoon (1986) http://bit.ly/O6qoG - Michael Fidler

The Mission (1986) http://bit.ly/236QzJ - Michael Fidler

The Hunt for Red October (1990) http://bit.ly/2X0d4O - Michael Fidler

The Elephant Man (1980) http://bit.ly/D8C3N - Michael Fidler

We Were Soldiers (2002) http://bit.ly/V9Smu Excellent! - Michael Fidler

Time Bandits (1981) http://bit.ly/DCTls - Michael Fidler

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) http://bit.ly/ILnmJ I watch it when I'm sick; it makes me feel better! - Michael Fidler

Amadeus (1984) http://bit.ly/1ARfot - Michael Fidler

Scarface (1983) http://bit.ly/Cg7dy - Michael Fidler

Planet of the Apes (1968) http://bit.ly/17mW3H - Michael Fidler

Catch-22 (1970) http://bit.ly/QLmeN - Michael Fidler

Casablanca (1942) http://www.imdb.com/title... - vinod

Good Will Hunting (1997) http://bit.ly/18BIvZ - Michael Fidler

Groundhog Day (1993) http://www.imdb.com/title... (Again and again ;) - Jemm

Sid and Nancy (1986) http://bit.ly/DJonx - Michael Fidler

Modern Times (1936) - Trent Hamm

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) http://bit.ly/68WFY - Michael Fidler

As Good as It Gets (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title... - Amit Morson

Old School - Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom

The Pink Panther (1963) http://bit.ly/19Y7Ex - Michael Fidler

Enter the Dragon (1973) http://bit.ly/ZnoGA - Michael Fidler

Annie Hall (1977) http://bit.ly/Xj7YN - Michael Fidler

Sleeper (1973) http://bit.ly/aEbKd - Michael Fidler

Heaven Can Wait (1978) http://bit.ly/WtC54 - Michael Fidler

Shawshank Redemption - Ozgur Gercek

Defending Your Life (1991) http://bit.ly/3xqbgy - Michael Fidler

Little Big Man (1970) http://bit.ly/UPrF1 - Michael Fidler

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) http://bit.ly/AsywZ - Michael Fidler

Network (1976) http://bit.ly/14ut31 should be re-made - Michael Fidler

JFK (1991) http://bit.ly/9lg0C - Michael Fidler

My Dinner with Andre (1981) http://bit.ly/TnJN7 - Michael Fidler

Saturday Night Fever (1977) http://bit.ly/9SFMv - Michael Fidler

Old Boy (2003) http://www.imdb.com/title... - chocobo

2001 Space Odyssey - Harold Cabezas

Logan's Run - Mark Layton

Big Trouble in Little China - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Purple Rain - Tofu De la Moore from BuddyFeed

Some really good suggestions. Pi, stalker, oldboy are definitely worth to watch again. I could watch the good the bad and the ugly everyday. Mulholland drive and sraight story are my suggestion. - Mario from Android

Shine + Sling Blade - Steve C

2001 - Tsega Dinka

Primer. Quite a mind-bender. - Wade Dorrell

Some great suggestions. My personal play list now contains: The Big Lobowski, Brazil, Blazing Saddle, Young Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Waynes World, Fight Club, Memento, The Godfather, I, II and III, Fast times at Ridgemont high, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Serenity, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Dr. Strangelove, Teh Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Some Like it Hot. Blade... more... - Ken Morley

star wars series, ocean's eleven, the prestige - Ahmet Soyata

Nine Queens - bet most people have never watched it - Andy Davies

The Breakfast Club - bujio

Kikujiro - Krishnamoorthy

Alex Scoble

I'm watching the first episode of Dexter on Netflix Instant

August 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks for the heads up! - Spidra Webster

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Netflix Instant is great. We have one more episode in Dexter season 2, then it's back to waiting for DVDs. - Joe Bonner

And I'm making my way through season 1 of Heroes on Netflix Instant, plus Firefly on Hulu. - Joe Bonner

I'm still hanging on to the one real disc I have. Everything I've done on Netflix for months has been Instant. - Spidra Webster

Whoever came up with the idea of a show about a serial killer who hunts serial killers is a complete genius - Alex Scoble from IM

Let us know how it is... heard good things about this show. - Adrian

That title sequence gives me the heebie jeebies every. single. time. i. watch. it. - Derrick

The first season is quite slow and the dialogue makes me sometimes want to drink floor wax but it continuously gets better. - Akiva Moskovitz

DEXTER!! WOOT! You've been catching up on some good series lately, Alex, between this and 30Rock. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Dexter is a brilliant series (I've only watched season 3 though): great characters, dialogue, acting, and filming. The intro credits scene in Dexter season 3 is a masterpiece :-) - Charles Tanton

The writing is fantastic. It's beginning, what, its fifth season, so you know he's not going to get caught as you watch the early episodes, but I'm still on the edge of my seat thinking, "How's he going to get out of that?" - Joe Bonner

I may make this my next show to watch. Oh wait! Dexter or The Wire? - Adrian

Dexter! - Alex Scoble from IM

The Wire. It is, by far, the best TV series I have ever seen. Nothing comes close. Nothing. - Akiva Moskovitz

Dexter - Alex Scoble from IM

I watched the first episode of the Wire... didn't grab me. Quite depressing, sorry to say. - Adrian

Yeah...Dexter! - Alex Scoble from IM

The Wire requires patience but the rewards are unparalleled. - Akiva Moskovitz

Dexter! - Alex Scoble from IM

Cool. I'll check it out - Rodfather

Adrian - both. Perhaps catch up on Dexter now so you can get into S4 which is coming soon I think. Then spend some time savoring The Wire which is the greatest TV show ever. - Maria Niles

Have you read the books? They're pretty awesome. - pea

I only read stuff on friendfeed, Pea. You should know that :) - Alex Scoble from IM

That's a shame. Because the books are really good. :) - pea

Maria, I do plan on watching both. I've heard a lot about the greatness of the Wire, just couldn't get past the first episode. I'm sure it will grow on me. :) - Adrian

Pea, what came first the books or the TV show? [Sorry to be ignorant!] - Adrian

Umm, no, Ryo...Dexter. ROFL - Alex Scoble

Adrian, the books. There are 3 of them now. http://www.amazon.com/Darkly-... - pea

Adrian, Cool! Then Dexter next. And your patience with the Wire will be rewarded :) - Maria Niles

Is Dexter good? I'm in Japan. We get everything waaay late. - Rick Cogley

Go Dexter! - Paul Denlinger

Charles Tanton

Prof. Wakho Spiritual Healer: "Do you think you can not clearly understand the nature of your problems?" - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

July 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

17. Get married to that lover of your life in a shot time... - Charles Tanton from Bookmarklet

Kaiser Kuo

RT @kmerkelhess: Type the phrase "i am" into Google and first suggestion in the drop-down is "I am extremely terrified of Chinese people."

July 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

my first suggestion is "I am bored"...second "I am legend" - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

was blown away by the all the cool people at last night's Drupal Johannesburg meetup - inspiring! http://www.flickr.com/photos...

July 8 - Comment - Like - Share

http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Drupal can help pay for your rent - http://buytaert.net/drupal-...

July 7 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

This is also pretty obvious in Johannesburg...not enough drupal developers. - Charles Tanton

mikestopforth

RT @kenyanpundit: #Nedbank has finally updated what was a pretty pathetic online banking experience #brandplus

July 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I've always found FNB's internet banking great, but my wife is with Standard, and her experience is really bad. - Charles Tanton

Hugh MacLeod

@1938media on fine form again: "Death of Web 2.0" http://www.youtube.com/watch...

@1938media on fine form again: "Death of Web 2.0" http://bit.ly/7lKWH

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sensationalist but I like "build something that matters...something people will pay for" - Charles Tanton

it's easier to build something that's fun, and there are other reasons why people build cool stuff, apart from money - money does make things sustainable though. - Charles Tanton

Kårín Dalzĭel

RT @billgx Sheryl Crow earned more with her first TV jingle than in two years of teaching music at school. (me: that's messed up)

July 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

teaching is undervalued everywhere :-( - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know | Trevor Davis - http://trevordavis.net/blog...

July 3 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

I thought I would give a quick tutorial, with examples, of the 6 most important CSS techniques that I think you need to know: 1. Get a Consistent Base Font Size 2. Get Consistent Margins 3. Set a Float to Clear a Float 4. Image Replacement 5. Faux Columns 6. CSS Sprites - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Dave Woods - Freelance Web Designer UK » 10 CSS Tips Every Web Developer Should Know - http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/index...

July 3 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

I’ve written a fair few articles over the past year and thought it might be useful for any new subscribers and visitors to see a summary of the most useful ones. Below is a list of hints and tips which will be useful to anyone starting out in CSS and even the most seasoned professional in the industry may find a couple of things useful. - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

A List Apart: Articles: Faux Absolute Positioning - http://www.alistapart.com/article...

July 3 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

There are two popular approaches to positioning with CSS: float and absolute positioning. Both approaches have their pros and cons. My teammates and I have developed a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds. After quite a bit of experimenting and testing, it’s time to share the technique with the rest of the world and see how we can work together to improve it. I’m calling it “faux absolute positioning” after the faux columns technique that simulates the presence of a column. - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Restoring a database backup | drupal.org - http://drupal.org/node/345225

July 2 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Most site updates happen without incident and when successful the database dump you made before starting can be discarded or archived. However, occasionally things don't go to plan and when this happens more often than not the database backup must be restored while an investigation is done into what went wrong. - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Upgrading Image Module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 | drupal.org - http://drupal.org/node/342269

July 2 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

There have been some issues surrounding the upgrade path for the image module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. In order to successfully upgrade, you need to: - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Lifehacker - Five Best DVD Ripping Tools - dvd ripping - http://lifehacker.com/380702...

June 30 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Whether you want to watch a movie on your iPod or back up your too-easily-scratched DVDs, DVD ripping is a mysterious realm for many. Even those in-the-know find it difficult to keep up with the best tools for the job, especially in the face of increased copy protection. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite DVD ripping tools; today we've sifted through hundreds of comments to bring you the five most popular answers. Hit the jump for a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools, then cast your vote to determine the best ripper of the bunch. - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Platinum Server Management, Inc. - http://www.platinumservermanagement.com/

June 29 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

We support any Dedicated Server or VPS running a Linux OS and CPanel. If your server is running a different OS or Control Panel, please contact our Sales department prior to signing up. - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

George Orwell: 6 Questsions/6 Rules - http://www.writingclasses.com/Informa...

June 28 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

great drupal module for displaying secondary navigation: http://drupal.org/project...

June 21 - Comment - Like - Share

I just used it to generate content for a top level menu item which itself didn't have any page content but did have child menu items - it's fantastically easy to create a block that displays the sub menu items on that top level menu's page. I've always found that not being able to create 'null' menu items a problem - this is an easy way around it... - Charles Tanton

Charles Tanton

Question for drupal people: any hosting provider recommendations for Drupal multisite hosting?

June 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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Not cheap, but Workhabit.com is great. - Mark Krynsky

Thanks Mark - will check it out. I've also heard that it's possible to set up multisites on any host as long as they have cpanel installed. Ideally I'd like to have shell access too. - Charles Tanton

I use Bluehost.com for my personal and have setup a Drupal site there. They offer shell access but they're a shared host so I wouldn't put anything too important over there. - Mark Krynsky

Charles Tanton

http://www.flickr.com/photos... and http://www.flickr.com/photos... Professor Kendi, a boon for under-endowed men!

June 12 - Comment - Like - Share

he's a miracle worker! - Charles Tanton

Jesse Stay

I think Next may just be Nicholas Cage's worst movie

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I think Gone in 60 Seconds was way worse. I liked Next, actually. - Brome

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Ghost Rider? - John Wang

John, I liked Ghost Rider. I thought Next was really boring. - Jesse Stay

His lack of sideburns drove me crazy. - l0ckergn0me

there's "A" worst? - J. Abdul-Qahhar

I think he peaked in "Wild at heart"... - Charles Tanton

I agree with Charles. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

I'm *really* looking forward to ranking by Nic Cage films on Flickchart... I'd agree though - Next would be at the bottom, or very close to it. - Nathan Chase

That's "Academy Award Winner" Nicolas Cage - Luke Stay

Yet more proof of how broken the Academy Awards system really is... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Actually, he deserved every bit of his win for Leaving Las Vegas. He nailed that role. He also should've won for Adaptation. That was an even better performance. He's good, he just needs to quit picking these magician roles. - Luke Stay

Oh, and Jesse, watch Wicker Man, then tell me if you think it's his worst. - Luke Stay

He plays tough guy / heavy roles, and to me looks like a computer geek. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

WickerMan was just a bad movie. Regarding tough guy roles, the worst has to be ConAir. That was terrible, in a watchable on a rainy saturday afternoon kind of way. Let's also not forget how good he was in Moonstruck. - Rob Diana

Yes, Moonstruck. Raising Arizona too. - Luke Stay

Charles Tanton

Total eclipse of the heart literal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Quite hysterical...