"Ah Francine, if only. It is incredible to me to listen to the viciousness emanating from my fellow citizens. It has no place in a civil society. I have a feeling it is not a majority at all but it is a vocal minority that shouts down any opposing views."
- Ginger Kenney
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- Uncle CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
Sorry to hear that April. It may not be as bad as you think though. Kids do their best to adapt after a divorce, including trying to please whichever parent they are with sometimes. It is complicated trying to figure out what may really be going on, I don't envy you
- Ginger Kenney
Update on my eye appointment yesterday. my left eye is stable; that is the one that had wet macular degeneration. My right eye has some dry macular degeneration but still has good vision. That could change overnight,always a sobering reminder for me, and a wake up call to really see what I am looking at, as there may be a time I will no longer be...
eek! what gave you the clue that you had it? and what do you do for it?
- Francine Hardaway
from BuddyFeed
I didn't have a clue, I thought something had gone wrong with my Lasik procedure which had been done several years earlier. We should talk in person about this, you are a likely candidate, and MD is the leading cause of blindness in adults over the age of 60. Yearly eye exams are really important for one thing... I am finishing a project for Alex but should have some free time later in...
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- Ginger Kenney
from email
I am sorry you have macular degeneration, Ginger, and I'm glad you're receiving care for it. My mother had it, so I'm aware of the hereditary possibilities. I didn't know you could have wet in one eye and dry in the other, though. I'm only "liking" your post as a reminder to get annual vision checkups, as I'm way behind on mine. So far, I haven't had problems with MD, but I'm wondering...
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- Cathryn Hrudicka
The flavor sounds yummy to me- licorice, anise, caramel and more. A new herbal liqueur being handcrafted in Ogden, UT. Great bottle, great label, great story, can't wait to try it.
- Ginger Kenney
I hadn't noticed that, but that's probably because I assume that any time Nixon opened his mouth he was lying. He is responsible for so much of the destruction we now see. grrrrr.
- Karoli
Oooh gorgeous! I had to enjoy on TV,I had a street full of teenagers shooting off the loudest, so I was inside trying to keep dogs calm for over 6 hours. They got a treat every time a particularly obnoxious one went off- I went through a lot of dog cookies last night!!
- Ginger Kenney
That's as close as I want to get to fireworks:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Donna Williams' Blog & Blog Archive & Getting into the groove - can rhythm and vibration help people with autism? - http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2009...
Can Rhythm and Vibration Help People with Autism? Intriguing post about a young boy who can read and talk well in the back seat of a moving car: better than he is able to at home. What is it that is creating a more favorable situation for him?
- Ginger Kenney
"Unfortunately too many people equate animal rights with animal welfare and so if they love their animals they willingly donate money, etc. The animal rights crowd does not want pet ownership to be an option any more and that is the goal they are driving toward, using millions of $ in donations that people unwittingly gave to these organizations thinking they were helping animals."
- Ginger Kenney
"Taccinations are tricky. If the puppies get them too soon, because they still have immunity from their mother the shots may not take. So they are usually given more than one set, after the first just to make sure, in case they were stil immune on some things the first time around. Ideally (jmho) the puppies can be cloistered away from any chance of contact with sick dogs for as long as possible so as few vaccinations as possible need to be given. (Though vaccinations for some things are necessary, the combo vaccines can create their own problems for the puppy. I just had a litter of pups and they got their first shots at 12 weeks, a second set at 14 weeks. I had them titered at 16 weeks to be sure the vaccintions had taken. Just one way to do it. My guess is maybe the puppy might have had a set but it might have been too early. Ask your vet what precautions you need to take in your yard. too. your little guy will be immune now, but parvo can live in the soil for a long, long time,..."
- Ginger Kenney
"Drew, you have the right attitude going into this. Hang tough and reach out to friends if need be. Cancer is all around us in so many varieties. But these days we know people living with cancer, but it deoesn't have them. I have a young friend who is about to have a stem cell transplant, 6/8 to be exact, after 2 go arounds with AML, (leukemia, which is a blood cancer.) Her attitude and her sense of humor have been a huge factor in helping her get through the rough spots up until now. She is my hero, and I know you will be another one."
- Ginger Kenney
"Steven and all the rest of your family and friends, my deepest sympathy for your loss of your eldest son. It is beyond comprenhension to understand how one can deal with the death of a child. My thoughts and prayers are with you all during this tragically difficult time. You are right to remind us to not let a day go by wihout actively letting those we love know that we do."
- Ginger Kenney
Golly, I feel out of it with my cranky 1991 clunker; plus, it seems to get more expensive every year, especially now that he's headed to college.
- Mistletoe Glen
They undoubtedly have loading and unloading area, people probably don't haul everything from parking lot. & Anyone who goes to enough shows has a trolley too, makes the load lighter when you can pile things on a trolley & wheel in.
- Ginger Kenney