jeremiah don't feel bad - one of the bigtime vc's called me "alan" yesterday - so i feel your pain - of course i've never heard of an "analist" either - you are so talented you make up new job titles! - Allen Stern
@Robert, I wish I could mark that comment as LOVED! - MiniMage
Another adage to go with that one: Choose your battles. - Dave Winer
Anthony - I'm not sure that's what Dave meant... You can disagree and not be nasty... - Tad - just Tad
Of course this note attracted all of FF's resident trolls. Big surprise there. :-) - Dave Winer
@Robert - nice finish! I suppose you can also finish it with "..say it on the internet under a fake name." - Candace Holly
I chose this battle. You advocate censorship and I disagree. That wasnt nasty. That was downright logical. - Anthony
What's with everyone getting so sensitive? First Scoble's filtering negative comments on FastCompany.tv, then Calacanis's departure, now Dave Winer's version of Rodney Kings famous "Can't we all just get along?". What's really going on? - Jim McCusker
Dave is showing what I have learned is the wisdom of age/survival at least that is how I see it. I felt like some geeky Don Quixote last night. Civility and common courtesy belongs everywhere. - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo
Along those lines is the old adage, don't put anything in email that you wouldn't be comfortable seeing on a 5' x 5' poster in front of a jury. - David Thomas
While the source (Jimbo Wales) makes it sadly ironic, I still love the quote: "be honest with me, but don't be mean to me." Sums up what I strive for in life communication. - Anthony Citrano
That is perfect Anthony. I hadn't heard that before. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Now that I am back inside. I agree with both of those adages if you will. - Mathew A. Koeneker
I would qualify Dave's adage: Go ahead and say it out loud, At home, in front of your computer, where no one else can hear it but you. Get it out. Then if you have a real argument to make about whatever or whomever pissed you off, do so. I guess my cliche is: Count to ten. - Rick Powell
Ya its really not classy. Now excuse me i have to poo - sean percival
troll bait tweet! ha, ha! ... also laughing at Sean's post above. - Susan Beebe
There is a time and a place for everything. One should choose one's recipients on the internet for anything that may upset carefully - i.e send any risque stuff to only those that find it funny and not offensive, just as you would (or should) in person - Ian May
with lack of power comes great lack of responsibility. - Derek Tutschulte
Mother always taught me "pick your battles..." and I tend to agree. - David
Saw a calendar hanging on a mechanic's wall, two guys shaking hands. The caption: "Courtesy is the lubricant of good business." - Jay Tannenbaum
Freedom of Speech doesn't mean that it's mandatory that you let every little thought fall out of your brain and into the world via your mouth (or keyboard.) Just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should. - Lucretia Pruitt
Lucretia! Awesome. You should run for President. Freedom of speech also includes freedom to STFU. - Dave Winer
You say something stupid, it will come back and bite your ass! Maybe you are upset with someone today for something, why not let it go! But if you willing to say it, be ready for the consequences, right or wrong is irrelevant! - Igor The Troll
I can't believe how great the quality of our trolling is here on FriendFeed! - Dave Winer
Dave we here to please! I am just going to add a "Jew" to my nic! Igor The Jew Troll. ;-) - Igor The Troll
Dave: i don't see any trolls here. Oh, yeah, I block the jerks, which probably explains why I don't see them. - Robert Scoble
Oh Robert the Jerk here! Hey Robert why did you cut the iPhone line? You are too good to wait with other people? - Igor The Troll
Robert just for curiosity, are you Trolling me? I get to see a lot of you lately! It is like a a Whale Shadow is following me. ;-) - Igor The Troll
Robert: Thanks. :) As I have only blocked 1, I think that means that I can see every comment. They have all been quality. But I wonder if the message got to the recipients that Dave intended or if they ever saw the great responses. (I know that you said no one in particular.) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew A. Koeneker when you block people based on over people opinions not your experiences with that person what does that make you? - Igor The Troll
I saw nice things to those that deserve them, I say mean things to those that deserve those and I say really, really mean things to the people who beg pretty for me too... that stuffs a privilege :) - Soulhuntre
Only thing that's put a smile on my face today with all this iPhone nonsense is the Godzilla one! Seriously funny... - John Samuelson
"Like Saddam, we're total bad-asses. We have missiles! Godzilla! Our soldiers are all armed with flaming holy scimitars! You will drown in rivers of your own blood! Stay away." - Chris Baskind
The idea that they only have a 75% success rate on something they deem as "an awesome display" is definitely something to be ashamed of. This is the best they can do, and it was barely a passing grade.' - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Louis, whilst I am amoungst those that value your opinion, that hypothetical, improbable does not lick the boots of the reality of shameful journalistic integrity, misrepresenting a nation (of people, remember), and spreading that lie as far as the eye can see. When we turn the emphasis away from the facts of what happened, we make it matter less. - Michael W. May (Joffi)
the neo cons control Godzilla. Watch out it is a Zionist threat - Noah David Simon
Louis: Three hitting your town would be a big deal, but none of these have enough range to reach your town... or any town in Israel, which is the larger concern. None of these are Shahabs http://tinyurl.com/6ch6pg. - Steve Lynch
always remember that close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear weapons. - Nathan Eckenrode
Not sure why you want to take it down, this is legit screech, no FCC words within "FART" is legit word, let it stand. I wonder how Robert will respond to this.. After all , its an open call on the web. - Peter Dawson
It looks like igorthetroll is annoyed that Scoble tweeted about the China Earthquake before official sources reported. Other than that, I don't expect Robert to do anything. I think Eric's reply video says it all. - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl
this guy is a bit off his rocker it seems. - ryangraves via twhirl
Nice. At least there's some truth in advertising in his user name. Heh. - Hooeyspewer
Really, wow...did you go for work initially, and then decided to stay? what's the 411? - Anna Haro
Mark stayed in Taiwan because he is a communist tool, I mean a great person! - Dread Pirate PJ via NoiseRiver
@DP PJ-- I didn't want to say anything, but those are the rumors... - Anna Haro
PJ-That's community tool.!Actually Taiwan tools rock. Good quality sockets and wrenches here. Stanley has a factory here as does other major tool makers. Anna-Came here with idea to work on my Mandarin and look for work opportunities. Found work,wife and established own biz. Taiwan experience has been great for me. Really is my 2nd home. My son is going to visit 1st one today in US :D - Mark Forman
This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor. - Robert Scoble
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;) - Earl E Morningwood
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it. - April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know. - Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor - Jason Carreira via twhirl
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost) - Naor
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum. - Andrew Leyden
"Yahoo is being burnt to the ground by its current management." Sad, but feels kind of true. - Hutch Carpenter
Good perspective. I'm hard pressed to feel sorry for a company with that much potential that doesn't even know who they are or what they do. I think that, before they do ANYTHING, they have to establish once again what Yahoo is. Right now, they're sounding like Microsoft when they were first trying to define what .Net was. - Bradley McSpinn
I do feel sorry a little bit, even if they didn't manage to do one thing right in the last few years, maybe because I followed them since almost day 1 and because once the MS bid was announced it was obvious that it's The End. - Naor
@Craig - I really don't think so. I mean, we all understand its implementation, but as for a definition? Not so much. The same is true for Yahoo. I know it's there, I know what it does...but it doesn't mean that I see any real value in it. - Bradley McSpinn
Can someone please put me in charge there? I would clean house and get them focused on some kind of core business. - Shawn Farner
Agreed, Robert. I've got some friends working on very cool stuff whether it's startups, VC, or bigger roles at smaller companies. The Yahoos I worked with are smart, creative, talented professionals. We're going to see some great innovation coming from Yahoo alumni soon. P.S. Glad you like our idea ;) - Ryan Kuder
of course if Icahn gets control of the board Microsoft will be lookin to pay low low low to a guaranteed seller, seems a bit daft - Ivan Pope via twhirl
Microsoft is a terrible business - we need a little sympathy for Yahoo. Slow extinction or being taken over by MS are hardly rich options. And it's hard to trigger the sense of crisis to fire your board. - Henry Winckelmann
I could never understand why Yahoo had any value from the beginning. It suprises me little that they in a downward spiral. - Brian Sullivan
Whether Microsoft gets Yahoo! or Yahoo! merges with someone else (read Time Warner or MySpace) it will be good for search in general and hopefully create an entity that can challenge Google in a meaningful way - gregory
I don't understand *why* Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo. Yahoo can't even figure out what they are. E-mail? Search engine? Social service? Not to mention the only thing that is lucrative is the search engine. The only way I can see someone benefit from buying Yahoo is if they completely re-vamp what Yahoo does, focus on one category and, market it! - Candace Holly
yahoo jumped the shark when it started being proud of releasing of the YUI libraries. companies that start treating 'helper tools' as if they were new functionality are on the downward side of the curve. - MikeAmundsen
@Mike, as a developer, the YUI libraries and developer tools are where the value of YHOO resides for me. I don't personally use any of their consumer products. - Sprague D
@Sprague D, question - does YUI increase your use of YHOO content/data? or do you use it primarily for your own content/data? my question is aimed at the monetary benefits accrued to YHOO from YUI. I see solid benefits from YHOO's work on Squid, but not YUI. - MikeAmundsen
Mike, I use their tools in projects that don't leverage their data or content. Point taken. - Sprague D
YUI libraries are the only thing worthwhile coming from that wretched place. - Patrick Sweeney
What kills me most about Yahoo is that they had so many of the most interesting and exciting places to go on the internet but then never fully realized that potential. I still can't believe that they paid Terry Semel more money than any CEO in the US in 2006 for such a miserable failure of a job. Pure stupidity. The board that oversaw that needs to go. - Thomas Hawk
But can you imagine a Microsoft owned Flickr..? - Sheila Thomson
I'm constantly amazed at how many CEO's get paid for bad jobs. And how often the board will cut employee salaries but not their own. Just look at the disaster at AT&T during the 90s: http://moourl.com/odp4g - Jason Shultz via twhirl
@Sheila, a Flickr with integrated support for PhotoSynth, Expression Media asset management and Live Mesh sharing/collaboration? Sounds good to me. - Sprague D
Hey look at the bright side for Yahoo though, their stock was up over 10% today. Helluva day! - Thomas Hawk
please no MSFT in Yahoo! please no masses of arses!!! - silpol
