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Ozgun, Ken Morley, rikolitto and 116 other people liked this
nedir bu kedinin çilesi :) ^^
- mayamisa
çok güldüm bunlara şerseriler
- Hüseyin Usta
The Myth of Pussyphus
- Brent
nerde loop oldugunu bulabilen?
- w☻xam
kayarken değil mi.
- Akif
hatta tam dururken
- Akif
aslında kedi daha kayıyo ama annenin ağzında taşıdığı diğer yavrunun durduğu yerde başlıyo olay.
- sérdém
http://kedizekali.blogspot.com
- Rahmi Vidinlioğlu
kedi canini seni
- Burakk
kitliyo insanı valla :)
- A mean
:)
- Kadir Aybedir
eziyet döngüsü :)
- Burcu Kizak
kitliyo valla
- Mehmet Özkan
allahııımm tatlılığa baaaaakkkk :))))))))))))))
- joey
That's kinda funny.
- Paula Gail FinleyRantz
ISIRIRIMMMMM
- Anarşalı
yok böle bişiiii
- Hamdiye Esra Cevik
her izlediğimde gülerim:)
- paramecium
#kedilifeed
- !lker yoldas. )°(
oyyy sevimli
- ElifKurt
çok tatlılar :D
- Ghost
24 Aralıktan beridir nedir bu ana kedinin çilesi kardeşim :))
- Ali Oz
These are all done in Pencil.
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Brent - Yes I am, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Behnam B and 269 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Neya
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rah-PM 2012
I'm with Rah
- Shey
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris Charabaruk
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- The Real sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- Sullivan
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
Has anyone ever corrected the record and pointed out, with the exception of the Charlize Theron drawing, that these are indeed photos by Alexander Von Reiswitz?
- erik weisz
Erik, thank you for bringing this up again, but I think I already mentioned something about this in my prior comment. However, since it appears that you only signed up to friendfeed to leave a single comment, (ok, why?) I will try to summarize what I wrote previously. In brief, I learned after doing a little research that all photo-realistic drawings like the ones that I shared here,...
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- Michael Fidler
Awesome
- الکامپ
I can assure you that what are claimed to be drawings of animals, in your post here, are photos. I used a website to that allows you to do an comparison of the Von Reiswitz photos and the images you have posted here. There are no differences. Every hair matches up. As a pencil artist myself I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to get that kind of accuracy and have it look...
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- erik weisz
but... it has to be real, i saw it on the internet
- Iphigenie
Eric, it doesn't matter to me if you just joined, and I apologize if I made you think otherwise. If you have any questions regarding friendfeed, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. At this point, I would be happy if we could find someone who is an image analysis expert, and finally point this thing to rest. Every time that I look into this, all I find is a...
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- Michael Fidler
the site spammed above must all be done in pencil too, right, thats why you posted it?
- Iphigenie
I'm amazed that people are still posting these photographs of animals and calling them pencil drawings. This is at least the third case I can remember (and there are probably more) of this happening. The myth about them being drawings was debunked long ago. It's also funny that whenever they get posted the person posting them doesn't make it clear that they aren't the artist, exactly as you have done.
- canadianmaple09
@canadianmaple09 I posted these back in March, 2009 when I was beginning to use FF regularly. I ran them through TinEye hoping to find their source, but it returned no results. When I ran through again yesterday, TinEye returned over four pages of results. If I had it to do over again, would I? Yes
- Michael Fidler
The people you refer do don't join "just to slam" someone, they are concerned members of the online art community that want to see real art appreciated and fake art or photos being passed off as drawings revealed for what they really are. Artists such as Brian Duey, Armin Mersmann, Paul Lung, Zindy Nielsen,and many others do not receive the appreciation they deserve because of scams like this.
- canadianmaple09
canadianmaple09, the worthiness of your motives notwithstanding (and they are worthy, definitely) you could definitely have approached Michael completely differently by say, giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than attacking in a highly accusatory tone.
- Chieze Okoye
When you've seen these same pictures posted multiple times by people that just find them on the internet and claim they are pencil drawings, when it has already been established on multiple occasions that they are not, the "benefit of the doubt" approach seems a little too generous. People post these images and claim they're drawings to get views for their own site or blog or page or whatever it is they post it on. It's wrong and it needs to be stopped.
- canadianmaple09
I can understand that, but you should also keep in mind that everyone is not as well-versed in the issue as you are. All I'm saying is that you would probably be more effective in this case if you weren't setting this up as a us-vs.-them, "must destroy with the validity my argument!" attitude when talking to a guy who's been actively having a discussion on the issue in what seems to me (having been around when he first posted the images and the follow up thread and what not) to be good faith.
- Chieze Okoye
Look at his first comment here. People clearly thought he drew them. He doesn't set the record straight. He also claims that they "are actually pencil drawings" and that "I have more drawings too." Later he claims that you need to look at them closer to see they are drawings and that he will "post the originals". Once again, this makes it sound like they are his. This follows the same...
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- canadianmaple09
Greg and Chieze, thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. @canadianmaoles09, for what it’s worth, I share your concerns about giving proper attribution when sharing also. However, I admit that I'm more conscious of it now than I was at the time of this post. Nevertheless, I have never taken credit for anybody's work here other than my own!
- Michael Fidler
BTW, I didn't realize it before, but I just noticed that you're new here too. I hope you like it so far and spend more time here. IMO, friendfeed is still the best thing around!
- Michael Fidler
I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both...
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- erik weisz
What a cute cake! I can't eat it! - http://www.rakuten.co.jp/milesto...
imabonehead, Mister Groonk, Andrew C (✓) and mlazopoulou liked this
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook and 179 other people liked this
16,000 down, 984,000 to go.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Not long to go!
- Andrew Trinh
And what a fine one it is! Congrats
- Michael Fidler
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
That is a great photo
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow and Congrats!!
- Vox
Dude, you're a machine.
- Zee.
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well!
- Michael VanDervort
from twhirl
Perseverance furthers.
- Michael Markman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Congrats!
- J. McConnell
beautiful, congrats!
- Carmen wBabby
Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks!
- Susan Beebe
congrats Thomas!
- Shey
Damn that is all kinds of awesome.
- Mattb4rd
<3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow, quite an accomplishment!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Great job Thomas. Keep it up.
- Andrew Smith
Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :)
- Juan Pablo González
Congratulations Thomas!
- Holger Eilhard
Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis.
- Dave Martin
Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark!
- Muhammad Ahmed
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Beautiful!!!!
- Rafael Montilla
awesome!!
- Rhoda Meek
For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode.
- Jay Cuthrell
wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now.
- Thomas Hawk
And only 971,000 to go ... :P
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
That's Awesome!
- John Holzer
Keep 'em comin' Thomas!
- Charlie Anzman
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ?
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
Turtle feasting - http://i31.tinypic.com/2zj9840...
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John Field, Prosey BUTTONS!, Mister Groonk and 10 other people liked this
is this real ? :)
- Göksel Şirin
some turtles eat meat as well.
- Joe The Sausage
this turtle is very fast, I have never seen that kind of turtle :)
- Göksel Şirin
nasıl ya?
- Aykut Önen
Freaks me out every time I see it.
- Rah-PM 2012
哇哦，是真的吗？会捕食的海龟
- 老巫
fake hadi fake tamam ben söyliyim yine :p
- Erhan Yazıcı / MimaX
There, I solved it - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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George Papadongonas, Amin, James Stratford and 10 other people liked this
Twitter Down: Twitter Doesn’t Know Why - http://mashable.com/2009...
Svartling, Kol Tregaskes, Daniel Rowley and 41 other people liked this
isn't a joke!!
- abdellah
Glad we can talk about this and see the info via FriendFeed - I almost resorted to my bookmarks to check out Mashable and TechCrunch :)
- Robert J Taylor
reboot
- Kevin Norman
Is it inevitable because of their architecture that they will continue to have these problems until a massive rewrite?
- Dusty Edenfield
i dunno - they were coping quite well with all the growth. They did do a lot of work after thier last set of probloms. Pesonally i think its a data centre failure. Enough of the system ( or just the important bits) got taken down that its useless.
- Roberto Bonini
there's always identi.ca
- Imabug
Facebook is having issues for me to post, could it be some form of ajax update that was posted that broke things?
- Thomas Vincent
it caused by unfollowing 106,000 people by Robert Scoble)))
- obolonskyi
Scoble with his mass unfollow created a "disturbance in the force"..Twitter's servers had gotten used to that load profile and went insane upon the recent change :) Looks like Twitter took down FF with it for a moment as well (for me at least). "Twitter is down" shout outs overload? Or something about the feed input to FF hanging/bursting/etc. ??
- Alex Schleber
It's been having reporting problems for the past week, for me at least, unless I missed some new decision to reset the tweet clock. my 9000+ tweets and dwindled down to just the most recent ones
- Melanie Reed
i'm feeling really bad for the bots right now, since they are 25% of Twitter's traffic
- Kevin Norman
@cerveau / obolonskyi Haha - we were thinking the same thing simultaneously..
- Alex Schleber
Twitter's blog does mention the reporting problem. I guess this implies I don't have a legitimate account?! ;)
- Melanie Reed
Twitter/status reports they're fighting a DoS attack.
- Roger Jennings
New to Twitter? Don't treat this like texting to friends. Open up. Add a lot of people. Interact. What you give is what you get.
caitlyn starr carrington and Mister Groonk liked this
Can the media SHUT UP ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON and start covering North Korea's July 4th plans to launch a long-range missile?!
Kol Tregaskes, Anne Bouey, Adam Martin and 17 other people liked this
No, that would make sense and why should they start now ( making sense)
- Kim Landwehr
If only they could. Of course, NK can't keep a missile aloft much less feed the people that built it.
- Mister Groonk
it's unlikely because this is fuelling sales of the music.. Michael Jackson is making money again, tho for the wrong people. Why would they mess that up with some real news?
- alphaxion
nope...its all about the ratings...shame on them! bummer -_-
- Ferwin
Yup. MJ is the first artist to sell more th\n a million tracks on iTunes :)
- Roberto Bonini
Be patient, Chris. Now go get your MJ CD's out and practice the moonwalk. :)
- Steve Council
I just turned off the tv for a week and dont hear a thing, I use my pc for "filtered media", let the media do whatever they please, I could care less lol
- Kyle Weller
Eatphabet
Food Network Canada, Shevonne, Mahdi Ebrahimi and 2 other people liked this
Eatphabet by Luiza Prado. Choose a letter for your dinner here.
- alexxandra
from Bookmarklet
Finding La Dolce Vita: Swine Flu Cookies - http://findingladolcevita.blogspot.com/2009...
Mister Groonk, Cee Bee and Noosha liked this
very funny
- Cee Bee
ha
- Daniel Krech
Tacos Al Pastor with Roasted Pineapple-Habanero Chile Salsa - http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes... (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)
Mister Groonk, Casey, Akiva and 4 other people liked this
You had me at "Hello" ...
- Laura Norvig
Crispy Hash Browns Recipe | Simply Recipes - http://www.elise.com/recipes...
April, Derrick, Mister Groonk and 5 other people liked this
We have potatoes we really need to use ... but now we're talking about going out to breakfast. I like the tip in here about squeezing the water out of the potatoes, though.
- Laura Norvig
yum
- RAPatton
My hash browns never come out like this, ever.
- Michelle M
Ditto. Mine always come out charred in parts, chewy in others. I'll have to try this method.
- Jordan Hofker
Nutella Self-Frosting Cake « Carmen Cooks - http://carmencooks.wordpress.com/2009...
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"I didn’t have a chance to make this week’s TWD - the chocolate amaretti torte. I just didn’t have time to make my own and couldn’t find them in any of the stores I checked. Please visit TWDto see everyone else’s! It sounds as if everybody really enjoyed it and I’ll definitely make it in the future. A few years ago, these nutella self-frosting cupcakes were all the rage in the blog world. It was a basic vanilla cake recipe with nutella swirled on top before baking. It was one of the first recipes I ever baked from a blog, years before I ended up having my own. My husband and I are moving. To a place we’ve never lived (and never in a million years thought we’d live) and that is very different from any place we’ve ever been. It’s all sorts of things - it’s a bit scary, a bit anxiety-inducing, a bit stressful and well, a bit exciting. The idea of packing up and moving somewhere completely new where we don’t have any roots makes me feel a bit like an adventurer (and anybody who knows me knows that I’"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
مهدی نفس من بیده به انگلیسی چی میشه ؟ :))
- Noosha
AJAB SOLAHAY SAKHTI MIPORSI HA:))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
:)) اوکی اوکی
- Noosha
AMA MITONI BEGI YOU ARE MY SOUL YA YOU ARE MY BREATH :D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
:)) حالا طرف بنده خدا خیال ورش میداره فکر می کنه با اونم گناه داره جوون مردم
- Noosha
:D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Loving the new FriendFeed - it's the new Twitter. I'm looking forward to learning how to use it better. http://friendfeed.com/?bc=1.
Keith Barrett, Comptr, Kevin and 40 other people liked this
Already learned, easy as riding a bike in a tornado :-D, nah as easy as snowboarding when you're a skier :-), just takes some getting used to :-)
- Richard A.
Having just signed up to it, I find that it has a steep learning curve but I am loving being able to comment!
- Stephen Heron
Hey Leo thanks for the Tweet about this site. Very nice.
- Michele
Stephen: Are you using www.friendfeed.com or beta.friendfeed.com? I'd strongly suggest just starting with the beta if you're new.
- Ken Sheppardson
The beta shows up very nice on my iPhone
- Steve Sill
to quote vader...nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- xero
I was using the original but I am now trying the beta and it is much easier to use!
- Stephen Heron
This is the dawning of the Real Time Web. From now on, streams become as important as documents.
- Jayson Elliot
Still too entrenched on Twitter, no way I'd leave it behind. Too many people I follow don't use Friendfeed at all.
- Jens
Aw yeah, the fire-eating Laporte man is on board
- Bwana ☠
Leo: By the way, like Twitter, you can only DM people who are following you. (hint hint)
- Ken Sheppardson
YES! FriendFeed is the new Twitter! This is Sooooo much better! Threaded conversations in real time! Can anyone popping over from Twitter see this new FriendFeed? http://beta.friendfeed.com/
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Pretty Cool!
- Alita Holly
Totally +1 . I'm liking it much more than the old 'face. Seems like what we would have always wanted Twitter to be like. BTW, It's past 21:00 UTC but your live interview is not on yet, and you are streaming a recorded show with no audio :s I was looking forward to that interview with the Friendfeed team, hope it's coming.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
i will say, twitter does beat friendfeed when it comes to ease of use, but it looks interesting. Can't wait to give it a whirl
- Chris Grimm
Im with Leo
- Adam Hubbs
It's like Twitter on steroids!
- Adam Hubbs
and i hope you will me TWIT all you know :)
- mark
i still like twitter better. :P
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
I hated Twitter the moment I heard of it! FF seems like it will be more fun to watch.
- Adam Hubbs
Think its easier to catch comments on the old real-timefeed though...
- Peder Stray
Twitter is simpler...
- Scott Hubble
key word for me is Discovery .. best way to discover new ideas
- Joe Magennis
from twhirl
twitter is really great for quick buzz. FF is the bomb for more in depth conversations. and facebook is a great place to keep track of friends life doings. I really like having all three together. I can't even imagine what I did with myself before all this
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Let me be the one to say this...WELCOME TO THE FREAKING PARTY LEO! WHAWIEDWQIJD09
- Mike Nayyar
FriendFeed is "the new black"! ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Excellent summary, Rob!
- Doug
hmm this is pretty neat
- Joe
This is pretty slick! I think I'll hang out here a bit.
- Aaron
Gmail. You are 5 years old. Happy Birthday. I love you. Now STOP BEING IN FUCKING BETA.
Hookuh Tinypants, Kevin, dafire and 24 other people liked this
5 years old...is that why it's not working today?
- Jordan Hofker
time to wear the big boy pants and grow up.
- Kim Landwehr
Kim: Exactly. LET'S DO THIS.
- Steve Isaacs
Even Susan thinks the Beta is too fast
Victor Ryden 美久太阿, Morton Fox, Just Katie and 10 other people liked this
Awesome pic!
- FFing Enigma
She's let her hair grow out a bit http://bit.ly/18HAh4
- Joey Gibson
Wow Joey, I wouldn't have recognized her.
- adf
liking for the blast from the past
- BEX
LOL Powter!
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
Tech TV Host Cant Stop Laughing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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he can't stop, man, why can't you stop?!?
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
National Zoo Announces Rare Clouded Leopard Birth - http://www.zooborns.com/zooborn...
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Kol Tregaskes, Tony C (Unrated), Aaron Draczynski and 4 other people liked this
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- BEX
SCI FI Channel To Change Name - http://www.buzzfeed.com/rchemel...
Dave Dugal, Marcus McCurdy, Jonathan Hardesty and 19 other people liked this
word is getting around
- Josh Haley
Wy?
- Kevin Fox
yea lamest thing ever, nice job on alienating their core audience
- Fee501st
Matthew: according to google, Siffy: infected with syphilis
- Fee501st
oh, I see what they did there. They could have imagined greater than that.
- zeroinfluencer
hate it
- Veronica
Well I'm glad BSG is almost over. :o)
- Paul Reynolds
So terrible. Fitting seeing how Sci-Fi hasn't shown much sci-fi in years.
- Kien Tran
Sylly
- Stephen Mack
Eh.. no so thrilled with this, its like WTF.
- Keith Hobin
ow That's better.
- deerstep
tell me thys ys a jok(e)!
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
Lame. I'll assume "broader programming appeal" is what has been keeping Science Fiction off SciFi.
- Alan
I never see the point of these name changes. Costs loads to make up new logos etc and the effect is well...underwhelming. Syfy = lame.
- Amy
Apparently geek cred isn't good enough and they want to be more. While alienating their core audience.
- Araceli
Their core audience was already alienated. I mean geeks love aliens, right? You're groaning, but it's my nature. See #1: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad...
- Kevin Fox
That reminds me of why is WWF on SciFi?
- Araceli
They're doing this precisely because a lot of their content isn't strictly scifi (and hasn't been for a long while). Also, it's easier to branch out into new sub-brands with the new name, eg. SyFy Kids.
- Paul Wilcox
Araceli, as far as I know they have late night wrestling on Sci-Fi because, frankly, it pays the bills.
- Paul Wilcox
After Battlestar is off SciFi I'll only have Dr Who and I can torrent those months before SyFy (yech) get around to them. Terrible move.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
Press release (http://scifiwire.com/2009...) says, "By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider range of current and future imagination-based entertainment beyond just the traditional sci-fi genre, including fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure."
- Stephen Mack
So it's still pronounced Sci-Fi. I can see why they want to have a name they can trademark. But no one seems to like this.
- Stephen Mack
.... a rose is still a rose by any other name......
- walterh
Translated: We want to show more wrastlin', MMA, and other baseline, lowest common denominator entertainment cause all yall's too stupid for real sci-fi.
- iTad
It sounds kind of different, but it isn't really, because we want to keep our core audience, but not really, cause we want to branch out...I swear to god, if this is Ben Silverman's idea, I'm going straight to NBC Universal and punching him in the face.
- Mike Nayyar
Incomprehensibly lame.
- Michael
Perhaps it's part of the economic recovery effort. In this case, putting really lame branding agencies to work.
- The original Kevin
Its a shame a la carte programming will never catch on among the cable companies, because SyFy is definitely a channel I would be getting rid of.
- Jonathan Hardesty
syfy.com states the new naming "creates an ownable and extendable brand for the future." This actually makes sense. 'Sci fi' is too too generic a term to receive trademark protections as they venture in to new areas, so they had to come up with something unique. I don't like what they ended up with, but I understand why (and how, since at least this change is only a visual change. The linguistic name stays the same.)
- Kevin Fox
#web Create Photo Mosaics Online - http://www.picartia.com/#
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Changethethought™ | Lowman Free Font: Van Bostelen - http://www.changethethought.com/lowman-...
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Why the news media shouldn’t use images from Google… (look closely) **updated with video thanks to @LouCypher** - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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alamoon20, OnuRC, TiTi and 166 other people liked this
Seriously!?! LOL!
- Meredith
LOL! Someone is gonna be fired...
- AJ Batac :)
whoops, i shared this too :) took me awhile to see what the fuss was about
- sean percival
epic!
- Adam Matthews
well...those donuts must be very good
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
OMG that is too freakin funny
- Angela P.
they are some pretty good donuts, i dunno...
- Melissa Maskevich
BWAHAHAHAHA!
- Eric
I know people doing that without donuts being involved. O_o
- Derrick
How did that make it past proof reading
- Chris Johnston
Oh my god!!!!
- Just Katie
There is no way a wheat donut is that good.
- Eric
You gotta admit, her face is like, "Dick? In my mouth?"
- Anika
Eric, the KK wheat doughnuts were pretty damn good. Tasty kinda like brown sugar, in doughnut form.
- FFing Enigma
Are most donuts... wheat donuts??
- Lix
Too Funny!!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
oh MAN if that's for real and not shopped..... looks real to me this time....
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LOL +1 Anikia
- Zee.
Not on FAILblog yet, I noticed....
- Bora Zivkovic
They are so good, if I told you right now they had crack in it, you'd go "I knew something was up, I knew these donuts were too damn good, man. Got me knocking on the window at 2 o'clock in the morning. 'Come on man, open up man, give me one more donut. I'll do anything!'"
- Victor Ganata
LMAO
- Herb Hernandez
lol @ Derrick, Anika
- Karim
Anika!! ++
- Yolanda
lol
- j1m
LOL wow, just wow. The look on the anchor's face in the still, oblivious yet still seems right. LOL
- mikepk
Hard to believe it just snuck in there. Are we sure it's not a photoshop?
- Jason Williams
No pic. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
from Disqus
@Kol: Didn't work me, either (IE8). Try the source: http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfac...
- Jemm
oh my - oh my
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
How good is that donut??
- Sean
+1
- Ambar Pansari
LOL
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
ROFL
- Mister Groonk
OMG that is not good
- Susan Beebe
wow just wow
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
LMAO. FabooMama Wins!
- Parth Awasthi
They even have a convenient hole to stack them on you know what...
- Kevin Trotman
Found the video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch... It's from 2 yrs ago
- LouCypher
LOL!
- Andrew David
Lou you Legend!
- Zee.
LOL, I was just curious :p
- LouCypher
your guess is as good as mine Nicholas
- Zee.
So, maybe she was really trying to tell us something?
- Fleagle
awesome...
- Frank Jurden
friggin. awesome.
- PalMD
omg, this is unbelievably funny!
- Chieze Okoye
omg, umm wonder how long it took them to notice?
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
knowing how stations work behind the camera, they noticed & much laughter ensued almost immediately except for the anal retentive news director, but by that time the damage was done...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Too freakin' hilarious!
- Stephanie Zimmerman
I don't care if you fake follow me. I don't define myself by who follows me, but I define myself by who +I+ follow! I follow smart people who teach me things and put interesting stuff in my view. If you stop, or prove to be a jerk or a troll, then I'll just unsubscribe.
Melle Gloerich, Thomas Power, Saurabh Arora and 90 other people liked this
All I can say to that is, you better enjoy a lot of good German brews while you're there. It's non-sequitor, and that is what you should expect from me.
- Pete D
Wait. Isn't Robert Scoble just Alex Scoble's older brother?
- Akiva
Pete, the correct spelling is "Mississippi." And Robert, "The Metro" and "Take My Breath Away" are really good songs. And I think you'd agree that the content that you obtain from your subscribees is more important than your subscribee count. It's a content game, not a numbers game.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Akiva: yup, Alex is my younger brother. You can't really blame him for how he is. I used to beat him up. Of course, he gave me my issues with authority. He told mom. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Pete: Rocky already found a bar that has hundreds of beers. I have a feeling we'll be seen there once or twice between now and Sunday.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, he seems to be doing all right so far!
- Akiva
Great example of being quality-centered instead of market-centered... do what you love and a market will find you...
- Justin Long
@Akiva, yeah, robert scoble uses his last name to get by on alex's gig.
- Morgan Warstler
Akiva- You are the man...that's the funniest stuff I've seen since the whole Korn of the Blog thing.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
[courtsies]
- Akiva
@Pete - I just want you to know that your non sequitur above ended up inspiring dozens of non sequiturs on FriendFeed this evening. I hope you're Melvin about that.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
LOL@Akiva!!!!
- Rah-PM 2012
That's one of the many things I like about FriendFeed: how many people follow you isn't displayed at the top level. I hope that doesn't change. I think a lot of people on Twitter (and other social networks) only obsess over their followers/friends just because everyone else can see it. I also think that's why a lot of people don't like FriendFeed... you've got to give substance to get substance.
- Paul Reynolds
@Ontario I've stopped shaking my fist, just so you know.
- Pete D
Agreed - I don't think I'll ever "fake follow". I'd rather just unsubscribe - those I follow I try to pay attention to.
- Jesse Stay
How does one 'fake follow' a person? Is it hard? Is it fun? Can I do it?
- Michael Moran
I agree with you Robert as I don't see any valid reason for me as an individual to fake follow anyone!
- Joe Dawson
Yeah @robert, how or whats "fake follow" ?
- Arjun
Agree on this, though I think from a feature perspective it's a smart one!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
That's my take on it 100%
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
NEW (February 25): Of course two weeks ago I started auto following again. Why? Cause Direct Messaging on Twitter is broken. But here on friendfeed I have a different philosophy. I am using lists to follow specific people and segregate those out from other people. So I can keep the geeks who talk tech separate from my brother, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
That said, I assume everyone is smart until they prove otherwise. :-)
- Robert Scoble
i just wish people would stop talking about following in general :P
- Terry O'Fee
This would have more credibility now Robert if you protested the capping of manual follows at 2000 until you get followers of that number and can move on now. You got to autofollow with abandon; today normal people are capped on manual follows. Unfair.
- Prokofy Neva
Holy hell, this thread is 6 months old!
- coldbrew
Who's this Goon posing as you? http://friendfeed.com/e... imitation is the finest form of flattery?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I would agree with Garin, followers/following is not important, but discussion is. BTW, Loic is very good a starting this type of arguments (must be his French side).
- Jeremy Chone
dont worry, matt. there's about five or six conversations of the same discussion now.
- Terry O'Fee
lol - I really enjoy your posts and convo - I learn many things - and thanks for the laughs too : )
- Mark Harai
I'd respond to this thread but necro-posting creates zombie threads and zombie threads eat Brrraaaiiinnnnsss! :P
- MarkCarras
Robert you have alot to teach and you seem teachable also-sign of a good journalist.
- earlewallace
LOL
- Terry O'Fee
lol
- Arjun
Skittles has changed its entire homepage to a Twitter search - brave! http://skittles.com/ #skittles
Daniel Rowley, Perfect Porridge, Chris Brakebill and 19 other people liked this
Wow, indeed very brave. Will others follow?
- Samuel Driessen
but what does it do for you? You gonna buy skittles cause they're linked up with twit? But thanks, Scoble for sharing :)
- chaz2b
incredibly brave of them!
- Alexander Kucera
I don't understand how this is useful to anyone? Seeing twitter messages for "Skittles" gets boring soon and that floating navigation menu over the twitter UI is quite annoying and distracting. First thing I wanted to do on that page is kill that floating window but it can't be done.
- Amar Shah
Amar, they also link to YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia on their subpages. It's a great way to show people what Skittles is all about without big PR. It only shows what is out there concerning Skittles. I think that's a great way to use external content for self-promotion. (The only thing is the legality of it all. Does anyone have an opinion on this?)
- Alexander Kucera
econsultancy.com did a similar thing for a day and gained 1000's of new followers for the econsultancy twitter account.
- Mark Edmondson
Bold, maybe this sort of thing is part of the business model twitter had in mind?
- Chris Brakebill
Google Me Business Card - http://picocool.com/design...
Peter Efland, polymath22, Markus Jakobs and 30 other people liked this
Pretty cool, but I like my idea better http://krynsky.com/idea-fo...
- Mark Krynsky
Actually this is really cool. It says a lot about your presence on the web. John Jantsch just wrote a posts about the dubmenow service to send your contact details direct to someone's cell phone via txt or email.... The problem I have with this is that a business card does a lot more than just give contact details, it tells the person something about you or your brand.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I like this idea better. Especially if your blogs and Soc Net profiles dominate the search results like mine do.
- Corvida
Corvida, from the perspective of getting lots of good relevant content I agree with you, but from a tech coolness factor I don't.
- Mark Krynsky
This is stupid and gives a horrible first impression. Who do you think you are? If someone gave this to me, I would not take the time to Google, sift through search results and or all the Social Media profiles to find contact information - that said, Mark's idea IS better, however w/ no URL how am I supposed to know what "@xxx" means?
- Mona Nomura
and what happens if someone manipulates the results to put an entry titled "and this is why you don't want to hire [insert name]" onto the first page? it's something totally out of your control ergo a bad thing to use as a card!
- alphaxion
+100 Lindsey
- AJ Batac :)
Lindsey, but is just a url as cool as a google beta? =P
- vijay
This works if you have good Google results, but you are branding yourself with Google rather than your personal brand. My personal domain is the #1 hit on my real name, but I think I'd still more likely go with my personal domain and nothing else on a card if I wanted pure simplicity.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Please change the google logo layer's blend mode to multiply.
- Noe Ruiz
Mona, first thing I would prob do if I got a card with @xxx is go to Twitter and type Twitter.com/xxx and assume that's the persons user name at most social media sites. Once again before everyone takes this too seriously the idea is to have this as an additional vanity card to supplement a more traditional one with.
- Mark Krynsky
Multiply would work only if the google logo bg was white not gray Noe
- vijay
Mark - there are still many many people that will not automatically correlate "@xxx" to Twitter. Yes, they are main stream, but the world is A LOT bigger than the Twitterverse. ;) The one thing I would never want to do, is to make someone I just met feel as if I know more than them by a business card. Especially, since people don't ask questions!
- Mona Nomura
Once again, I wouldn't hand this vanity card to anyone in the mainstram. I would take it for distribution to a tech conference such as SXSW where I know that hopefully 99.99 percent of the recipients would get it.
- Mark Krynsky
Vijay, give it a try, actually looks realistic.
- Noe Ruiz
Thanks for the reiteration but I can read ;) Just saying, assumptions are dangerous.
- Mona Nomura
Mona yes, I know assumptions are dangerous. I saw the Bad News Bears. When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME. (wish I could find the video to point to)
- Mark Krynsky
I think I would dump a "Google Me" business card straight in the trash, unless I was motivated enough to rip it in half right away.
- Andrew C (✓)
Seems pretentious. And requires the recipient to go on a scavenger hunt. Why not add @blah to the business card? Besides, are you sure they will like what they Google?
- Ernie Oporto
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"These days when we pay our bills, manage our bank accounts, store sensitive data in the cloud and frequently buy stuff online you should be more careful about keeping your computer secure then ever before."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a hot tranny mess. #oscars
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fierce
- no name
Oh that's mean. But funny. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
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