This isn't the one I learned from, but it's the same technique. The one I saw was an Asian lady and it wasn't in English.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from Bookmarklet
i usually cry myself to sleep every night in a half drunken stupor, but i switched up the game last night from some cheap muscatel to bloody marys
- Cee Bee
Did Bloody Mary make you not cry as much as the Muscatel?
- Janet
I spotted the problem, you are only getting half drunk. Don't be half-assed about it, Cee Bee. Just go all the way, big daddy.
- Yolanda
the 2 lumberjack-sized bloody marys were like a mike tyson sucker punch. it straight put me to bed
- Cee Bee
Wimp!! Actually, I'm one to talk... I rarely have more than 1 drink.
- Yolanda
If I ever get a dog, it's name will be Dogmeat.
- LogEx
If I ever get a mutant, it's name will be Fawkes.
- Mo Kargas
I've been doing a few side quests here and there. I'm going for a good guy this playthough, and will get everything else on my bad playthrough.
- Sparky
You have to get all the achievements or you aren't one of the cool kids.
- Alex Scoble
I'm not one of the cool kids. My gamerscore is in the 2000-3000 range.
- Sparky
I'm thinking of picking this up for the Xbox since my desktop died and I don't feel like rebuilding it at the moment. It's a good thing the achievements are the same for the PC & Xbox.
- Rodfather
Quiet important for me... but I more on twitter ;)
- PIPSGuy
IMHO this is the wrong demo to ask. There are more Facebook users than Twitter users.
- Jorge Escobar
I have reconnected with dozens of people on Facebook, most of whom I have not had contact with in 25+ years. They are far more important to me than the friends I have on Twitter.
- Mistletoe Glen
It depends on what you use it for. I could close mine tomorrow, and not really miss it. It's a secondary thing for me. I've been online so long, I've always traded email addresses with people first, and still do, if I wish to remain in contact.
- Ian May
I'm with Glen. My real life friends are on Facebook. People I will go out and have a beer with. People with whom I feel comfortable sharing my phone number and address. I can't say that about a single other website.
- Andrew
It's great for connecting with your real-life friends, but not quite as good for reaching a wider-range audience like you can do with Twitter.
- Jonathan Brown
from twhirl
I don't understand why everyone is freaking out - I can probably locate the same info on a person via google as what FB 'owns' now. Plus, all of these EULA are subject to legal review once a case hits. Last, how many people read the EULA for games, software, email, and everything else. Google owns more of your data than most know
- John Head
from twhirl
I've been online over 20 years, back when it was JUST email, so I guess that's why I've always given it more importance. It's still the thing I ask now. "want to meet up for a beer next week? Here's my email address".
- Ian May
One reason I keep my FB account is the friend suggestion feature based on mutual friends. Googling people is fine but you have to know who to google and that's the hard part, at least for me.
- KyleHase
from twhirl
LOL> I was muttering to my wife about friend suggestion, as it keeps suggesting people I don't know. They're often in my city, but there's 250K in the metro area, dunno how many on FB.
- Ian May
I keep it for staying in touch with friends basically.
- Nation Hahn
Amir H. I'd be much more inconvenienced to not have Twitter than FB. Twitter is so quick and seamless between desktop and mobile
- Ian May
FB is as important to me as those discount cards that you get from stores you don't frequent.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Only as important as your personal brand on the internet. You need to control your name and information. Even though you don't want to have a .net domain you still buy it just in case someone else does it and try to impersonate you.
- Santa CW™
The answer to that question should be a wake-up call to people who are so deeply entrenched in a closed service that doesn't respect users' rights and interests... The Hotel Facebook... You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- LogEx
Having a Facebook is not "as important as your personal brand on the internet." Does my facebook even show up in Google? It's too closed to be that powerful in building your presence. Also, nobody can impersonate you very well unless you're half-assed with your social engagement.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
The only reason I have a FB account is to communicate with my employees. Its about the only messaging system they notice.
- ThePicMan
How important are any of these accounts, really? It's a controlled simulacrum.
- deusdiabolus
It all depends on where the people who you socially network with are. If they are on Facebook very important but if they are not then it's not that important
- Rob Cairns
I do not have the FB account. I always viewed FB as "gated community". I don't see it important... as of yet :)
- Nilesh
How important? Almost all my university friends are there, almost all my highschool friends are there, many work collegues are there. It's important.
- Richard A.
It's true. Facebook is more interactive in most ways than Twitter, making it a better place to connect w/ friends.
- Amir
FB and Twitter have generation gaps. Twitter is preferred by people that want to say it or comment and get on with it. This includes 30 somethings and older folks. Younger people and people that see FB as the home page and have time or want to spent time filling it with there stuff. They both service different needs and I cant tell you which will last longer in either. The fact that twitter is easier to block/hide spamers and ads also appeals to some people as well.
- walterh
However, it generally depends on how you use social networking and you views on social media.
- Amir
Facebook will last longer, it's a portal type website. With Twitter you can't even finish a thought without running out of characters.
- Richard A.
my facebook account is extremely important because it's the #1 way that I stay connected to my friends online
- Rajiv Doshi
IMHO Facebook is important for me too because the general population of the Internet (& friends) lean toward FB.
- Amir
Facebook is for people with time to kill. I find it requires way more of mine than I'm willing to give. That's why I prefer Twitter anf Friendfeed which fit into MY lifestyle rather than make me fit into theirs, as Facebook does.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
After taking a closer look at Facebook's terms of use I am not so sure about its prominence in my online space. The terms go too far and that has implications for my content everywhere. I published a post with my analysis of the problematic terms here: http://webtechlaw.com/what-fa...
- Paul Jacobson
from twhirl
Paul Jacobson: Yes. To much controversey leads me to believe that my privacy is at risk. W/ Twitter privacy becomes less of an issue.
- Amir
The reason for the existence of my FB account is because that's where my friends are.
- Amir
Atleast w/ Twitter I don't have to regard its terms of use before posting content.
- Amir
It's not important. It's just fun, nothing more. If it was important, we'd all be paying for the service. When it comes to free, I don't expect anything and take it for what it's worth
- Mike
as much or as little as you put into it
- sofarsoShawn
FB is the #1 way I stay connected online with most of my less tech saavy friends, family & colleagues. In addition to being a virtual HS & long lost friend reunion.
- Victor
I could live without Facebook quite happily.
- Kol Tregaskes
I found I could live without Facebook after 24 hrs of using it some years ago. Promptly deleted.
- Thomas Bøhm
from Friend Deck
I laugh as I say this, yeah but you're not a recent graduate and it's frustrating for you to use facebook none of your generation are there ;-)
- Richard A.
I hate facebook. Use it only to keep up with "old" friends. But it makes me feel retrospective and filthy....and not in a good way.
- Paul Greer
I don;t like facebook and don't go on there too much. Wish everyone would leave facebook and join other social networks.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
It would be important if it were the only site I checked but I am active across many sites across the Internet :)
- Joe Dawson
So you wish you'd have to surf to twenty websites rather than just one?
- Richard A.
For all those who use Facebook as a way to connect with people they lost contact with, isn't the key to that being as high up the google results as possible? I've never used facebook and do just fine. If I don't know people now, there is a reason for it and don't wanna get poked by them, or any of that rubbish.
- Dom Barnes
To everyone who keeps saying "just google them": 1) You have to actually remember their name to google them. (FB suggests friends in common). 2) For some people, without FB they won't even apepar in a google result set. Look I don't like FB that much but it's the only way I can keep in touch with some of my close friends who are far less geeky.
- KyleHase
from twhirl
To me not very important. I keep in contact with close friends in other ways.The worst is that I opened an account and within days I was invited by a couple of people I knew years ago. I don't know why they were searching for me anyway. If we have not been in touch for years there must be reasons. I just don't see the point.
- M F
Whether or not it is important really is up to you in the end. I have another opinion on some of these social networks and sign-up more than anything for security reasons. Even If I don' t participate much, at least I' ve blocked a profile for myself and can ensure (to some extent) that I am avoiding identity theft through those services.
- Thomas V. Fischer
from twhirl
Like many others here, Facebook is mostly for the people I've met in person: friends from school, work, etc. Most of them do NOT have Twitter accounts. For me, Twitter is a great way to interact online with people who share similar interests but I'm likely to never meet.
- Herb Hernandez
I don't have many friends, but I have lots of folks who follow my blogs and tweets. That is why I use Friendfeed. I don't even have a Facebook account.
- Jim Corkrum
Very important to be since all my college and high school friends are on it. They don't really get this Twitter thing. :(
- Daynah
I wouldn't lose any sleep if Facebook went away tomorrow. I don't find it especially valuable.
- Thomas Hawk
I only have an account so I can run Facebook ads... I find little to no value. Even the ads have a very poor CTR%
- andy brudtkuhl
It's been handy for connecting w/ family and some friends, but it's nothing I would lament losing.
- JA Castillo
How do you delete or get your Facebook account deleted? (I don't mean deactivated)
- Paul Grav
I agree....Twitter account is more important.
- John Flynn
where I live in Canada, no one knows what Twitter is other than CNN... but everyone has a Facebook account: it's how events are planned, status messages are traded, pictures and videos are shared, and how we gossip... Twitter is irrelevant in my local community
- Brad Arsenault
from twhirl
I've actually just de-activated my Facebook - really can't be bothered with it anymore - got a lot more new sites/socail networks to work on. Facebook is becoming old IMHO!
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
I just post to it through ping.fm - love my twitter and tumblr and now blip!
- Pop Art Diva
Imagine in 30 years when all these people are trying to get jobs that have an intense scrutiny of every joint ever held, every beer ever drunk. It'll all still be there!
- Don Schuetze
Trying to construct my utopia for a post-Facebook online social world, I think it has to be based on user-controlled domains (or portable subdomains), easy setup of widgets that use open protocols for communication and sharing, and granular privacy controls (with options like Picasa's authkey AND like Flickr's login requirement). But I also have to be able to put my own arbitrary HTML and JavaScript on it (take note, Google Sites team).
- LogEx
If in 30 years, they're going to have to live in a world where a joint and a beer make so much difference, as opposed to their ability or the person they've become, then we have far more serious issues to worry about.
- Robin Barooah
@Robin - I have a feeling my parents said those exact words back in 1979. And perhaps their parents before them in 1949.
- DeWitt Clinton
duh? except the TOS wasn't revealed till now, but you must be prophet
- sofarsoShawn
Totally agree with Matt here. I don't, either.
- Roberto Bonini
I think all web properties are walled gardens to some extent. Google could flip a switch tomorrow and all my email would be gone. My data needs to live in a container I own and I give permissions to services to access it. That's how I hope (and expect) web services to evolve.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, Gmail supports easy export of your email and has for years. You can access it via POP or IMAP. Just fire up Thunderbird and you'll have a local copy of your email. Facebook doesn't make it easy to get your stuff out of FB. That's the difference in my mind.
- Matt Cutts
I'am agree. YouTube remove my videos when i delete my account, true?
- Dario Salvelli
Yes, good discussion. I get value at facebook so ... I leave my data.
- Gerd Leonhard
Facebook invited youth to get in on this bandwagon.. and they know young people are stupid.
- Jason Francis
Chris White: If you (or anyone else for that matter) have something to hide or don't want "strangers" to know about, don't share it. Can it get any simpler than that?
- Umit Namli
@dewitt - I think they are just a true today as they were then. It's absurd how much human potential is lost worrying about stuff like this. Perhaps the way to overcome it is for enough people to share about how they really live that the discrimination becomes impossible.
- Robin Barooah
@Matt - agreed, that's what's cool about gmail. but to get my full vision in action I need to have my own imap server and use gmail as the value added interface to that. for full action would need multiple imap servers synced to each other so if one goes away i have a hot backup. Now how to make that work easily for the average consumer?
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, Gmail provides the IMAP interface, so as long as you run Thunderbird, you can have a copy of all your Gmail. I think Outlook can download email via IMAP too? So I don't think the bar is too high for an average person to export their data.
- Matt Cutts
Andy, is that "(no mcdonalds) makes me sick, or "no, (mcdonalds makes me sick)" ? =) (If it's the latter, which I guess is likely, I'm with you there. McD's makes a pretty bad burger.)
- Andrew C
Omg you haters! I love McDonald's. The dangers of microwaving is the bun gets hard - fast. So I would have to inhale it, thus risking burning my mouth. Therefore, I came to the conclusion it would be better cold.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
'Not that I have ever done this' but adding sun dried tomatoes, fried mushrooms and bacon to it, wrapping it in aluminum foil and baking at 150 degrees celsius for about 15 minutes is yummers.. :P
- Johnny Worthington
I wouldn't eat anything from McDonald's warm or cold.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I don't know, probably not. I think they taste "odd" after they get cold...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I wouldn't eat a McDonald's cheeseburger smothered in money.
- Fleagle
Cal schools holding 6 out of the top 10 spots.Makes me wonder if these numbers are reflective of the schools or the job markets surrounding the schools.
- Victor
Victor, the UC system is very strong, but yes, California and Bay Area salaries likely have some impact.
- Louis Gray
Der Governator will fix this. The survey was before the latest budget crisis.
- Phil Boiarski
Not anymore, Caroline. =( Robot didn't want to have any little robot babies with me, and I'm not that young anymore. We had to go our separate ways.
- Anna Haro
There there, curse those damn heartless robots :)
- Mo Kargas
Non-perishable goods are the way to go when buying bulk. TP, paper towels, cleaning supplies, etc.. I've been a Costco member for 10 years and it's a big part of our monthly spending habits.
- Victor
I have tons of leftover turkey jerky... they came in giant packs with "regular" jerky. :)
- l0ckergn0me
"Mark - good call on the weak ties. It almost seems that “weak” overstates the connections. They’re simple follows based on a few tweets, and then an interaction at some later time. But this particular form of a connection is one that is growing most rapidly."
- Hutch Carpenter
Hutch: This is a great idea. It helps us deal with Dunbar limit anxiety, while pointing out the benefits of connecting with more than 150 on a "ships that pass in the night" basis.
- V Mary Abraham
"Ships that pass in the night" - well put Mary!
- Hutch Carpenter
Heehee!!! Honestly, it's great. I got mine from the cheapy store, $5 :D
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
i have one... it was an impulse item josh got from fry's... and I was thinking the same thing - parmesan cheese! works pretty well, in fact, i gotta be careful not to shave down to my nerve endings.
- Trish Haley
"After a long wait and a lot of talk, Friday saw the the premiere of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Which was ace, if you are one of the world's big Whedon-lovers. The creator of Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog and general all-round king geek of television was having another shot at primetime TV. Dollhouse is a sci-fi based on the concept of a set of agents, blank canvasses of people - dolls - onto which any information, knowledge, personality or skill-set can be overlaid, in order to get a job done. But how did it go? Well, it's some parts Yay!, Um? and Well, lets wait and see because seriously, it's got to get better than this, right? It's Whedon! But then, when expectations were so high in the months - even the year - before its debut, it's difficult to imagine how it could have been any different."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
I liked it, and like all Whedon shows, it'll probably take a few episodes to find itself - hopefully Fox will give it that chance - Buffy, Angel, and Firefly all started a little rocky but found their way by the third or fourth episode.
- William Harryman
It was a painful pilot, but I can tell what the potential is, so will stick with it either a few more eps or until it gets canceled, whichever comes first
- Josh Haley
It seemed like a Scifi version of La Femme Nikita to me. Not complaining, but not the best Whedon show
- Shevonne
"So you’ve given in to the peer pressure and signed up with Facebook. You’ve hunted down your old high school pals. You suddenly have a strong option on the Pirates v. Ninjas debate. You play Scrabulous Lexulous.It’s great. Everyone is on the Fizzy Bizzy. But then, you realize… EVERYONE is on the Fizzy Bizzy. Including your boss. Including your business partners. Including your mom. And they all now can see the Wall posts in which you refer to Gov. Blagojevich as 'that douchebag with the piece'. You have three options."
- Lisa L. Seifert
from Bookmarklet
This post by one of my Chicago friends is pretty awesome. You should read it. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
So before you change your status you should unfriend the person it will effect the most. Could have saved the life. Though unfriending might have triggered off something
- Sidharth Dassani
frankly if you are in an unpleasant relationship with someone and have left them why still have them on facebook?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
FB is taken for more seriously than it should by some..
- Hayk H.
If he reacted that way to seeing a status change, I think he'd have at least got as angry when she filed for divorce. The problem is the idiot not the technology.
- Mark Ritchie
2. If you are seeing too many things, turn off "friend of a friend." Click "hide" on one of the "friend of" items. Then click it again to see the options to hide all items like it.
- Robert Scoble
3. Hide is your friend. #2 already shows you how you can use hide in one way, but I use it to hide all Twitter messages that don't have a comment or a like. This makes friendfeed much more useful. Also, all hidden items are at the bottom of each page.
- Robert Scoble
Anyone else? Please add to the list. Lost is on, so I'll see how many I can bang out during commercial breaks.
- Robert Scoble
There are many, many good intro to FF articles. Zee has written several
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So is this going to be another 25 things you didn't know about...post ? ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Joining rooms can often cause lots of noise also if you have them showing up in your main feed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I just discovered "Rooms" today. If there's a particular topic you're interested in for example: TWIT, iPhone, Twitter, Identica, etc. - hop on over to that room - and start up or contribute to existing conversation. It's addictive!
- Cole Orton
Creating lists and grouping your friends is a good way to cut down on noise or see a focused set of posts.
- Jeff P. Henderson
4. You can "group" your users together into things called "lists." For instance, if you think I'm a noisy asshole, you can remove me from your home feed and put me into a list called "noisy assholes." That way you can see all your family and friends and not me. Of course, please do come over and check out your noisy asshole list, because sometimes we do say something interesting. I hope. :-)
- Robert Scoble
5. You will, most certainly, find your productivity decrease. Though your ability to be entertained and waste on the Internet will surge! :)
- Jeremy Toeman
5. This is a forum but with a couple of differences from forums you've used before. First, moderation is totally decentralized -- you can delete comments under your items, I can delete comments under mine. If you see spam or other stuff that's not good you can delete those by using the "More" menu. Second, everyone's view is different based on who they follow. So, if it's boring here it's your own fault! You aren't following exciting enough people!
- Robert Scoble
6. Items with graphics and photos generally get more likes than items without.
- Robert Scoble
take note of the photos advice - I was posting items without and completely being ignored.
- Nation Hahn
7. Rooms are very cool and it will take you a while to discover why. Hint: you can build your own ego room, and bring in RSS feeds from search engines and news services. I've built a room for Davos/World Economic Forum, for instance, where you can see this in action: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Robert Scoble
8. If you say "bacon" in your posts you will get some likes. People here go crazy for bacon. Oh, and if Tad starts a meme you have two choices: block everyone who participates or join in for the next day or two!
- Robert Scoble
9: Most of your friends will not get friendfeed. That won't stop me from talking about it, though.
- Robert Scoble
RE: #9 Or the third option, hide memes on an as needed basis. Some are more enjoyable than others.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
10. Make sure you add all your services to friendfeed. Including Twitter. Let your followers hide items or services they don't care about.
- Robert Scoble
11. To see cool stuff, click on "Best of" on the top right, but note that behaves differently depending on where you are (each list will have a different "best of" and each room, too.
- Robert Scoble
10a. Everybody expects everybody to hide services. It's not rude to use the "Hide" feature on your friends' stuff.
- Bruce Lewis
12. You can see everything you've liked or commented on, and so can all your followers (just visit the "Me" page and look in top right for the links -- or visit someone else's friendfeed account and see the same links on THEIR account!)
- Robert Scoble
"Like" means you like that a person shared something, not that you necessarily like the news itself. But for the benefit of other new friendfeed users you might comment to explain your "Like" for a plane crash item.
- Bruce Lewis
13. Looking for more people to follow? Try http://friendfeed.com/setting... but note that the recommended items will change depending on who you've followed. So, if you follow noisy assholes, it will probably suggest other noisy assholes for you to follow. :-)
- Robert Scoble
14. It is OK to ignore trolls who are trying to disrupt the conversation like Chris White is here. But if they get really out of hand block them. You do that by unfollowing them (visit their page and you'll see that link at the top of the page). After unfollowing them you'll see an option to block them. Blocking them keeps them from seeing your items and will remove everything they do from your view.
- Robert Scoble
17. If enough people comment simultaneously, the system acts a little wonky.
- Jeremy Toeman
(Note: Chris is OK, he's just playing along here, but I do block other people who get out of hand).
- Robert Scoble
18. If you hover over someone's name with your mouse you'll see whether or not they are following you (and whether or not you are following them). I can see here that Chris White isn't following me. Which means he is bad boy and should be sent to bed without dinner.
- Robert Scoble
26. Friendfeed commentors are often so eager to add to lists sequentially they barely even notice obvious gaps in list numbering (which, you'll also notice is manual, because nobody taught the google guys about the OL tag)
- Jeremy Toeman
19. Everything on friendfeed builds a feed you can subscribe to in Google Reader or other RSS readers.
- Robert Scoble
Jeremy loves messing with me. I'll get him back. :-)
- Robert Scoble
21. Morton Fox has liked 44,943 things. I have no idea how he does it cause I like a lot of things and I've only done 15,000 or so. http://friendfeed.com/mortonf... is his like feed.
- Robert Scoble
15. (yup, that's where we actually left off) It's okay to "like" something distasteful. "Like" really just means "others should read this too". It's also quite overused, much as the word "like" is overused in conversation by anyone who born after the 70s.
- Jeremy Toeman
22. You can see anyone's real-time feed, which shows you what is actually coming into their account at that time. Here's mine: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... warning, it'll make you dizzy.
- Robert Scoble
A good first lesson is; there is no chronological Friendfeed. Don't think you can keep up. Ride it out and enjoy.
- Andrew Smith
23. The "Everyone" tab is useful, but only if you figure out that friendfeed has an interesting search engine underneath. For instance, you can go to the Everyone tab and search only YouTube videos. (Click Everyone, then search for say "Daft Punk" and use the "Advanced" feature in search to constrain it to only YouTube).
- Robert Scoble
Andrew is right. Don't worry about missing stuff. I call it "media snacking." If I have time, I'll dip in here to engage. I'll check the "Best of" pages first, though, to catch up on the popular stuff (usually bacon or a photo meme).
- Robert Scoble
16. Comments cannot be nested, nor can you link to a comment, or even like a comment. You can add another comment and write "+1" to indicate you like another comment, or a higher number, such as "+10" if you very much like a comment. "+100" is to be reserved for the ultimate in commenting. Do not be silly with the "+" system, as this is worth a -4 in case you need to make Friendfeed saving throws later on. Instead, be wise and prudent with your +1s, and they will become your ally for years to come.
- Jeremy Toeman
We never talk much about the search feature. Anything outstanding about it worth mentioning?
- xavier vespa
xavier: search is a great way to find friendfeed items that you have put into the system. Click on "Me" and then search. Here's everything in my account that includes the words "how to save journalism:" http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
xavier: here's another thing search does very well. Go to "Everyone" and search on something. Now click "advanced" search. I want to know about all the BarCamps that everyone has added to their Upcoming.org site. Here's the search for that: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Search should include rooms but it doesn't.
- Andrew Smith
Unfortunately everyone is now trying out search and it goes down. It's the only thing on friendfeed that is not reliable yet. They are working on it, though. When it comes up, another thing I like about search is you can see items just from one data type. Here are all the items from just Upcoming.org: http://friendfeed.com/...
- Robert Scoble
31. If you get swept away into friendfeedland, don't try to bring others with you. They will mock and ridicule, and no matter what you say they just "won't get it." This is perfectly okay, they may change - or not - but it shouldn't impact your friendfeeding. Don't ever ask real world friends if they saw something you "liked". They didn't. Ever.
- Jeremy Toeman
Chris: you gave bad advice when you said to unsubscribe from someone if they are noisy. That's really stupid. Put them into a list instead and remove them from your main list. That way you'll be able to check on them from time to time and see if anything they did is useful. Also if things are noisy due to me it's probably due to the friend-of-a-friend feature and you can turn that off without unsubscribing (I have turned it off on my account, those hidden items are at the bottom of the page).
- Robert Scoble
Also, that way they won't think you're a jerk for unfollowing them.
- Robert Scoble
Chris is right. You can also edit your comments, or your posts. Which is often useful. But you can only delete other people's posts, you can't edit THEIR comments. And you can only delete comments under items you've started (I could delete Chris's comments, for instance, here, but not on other people's items).
- Robert Scoble
@Robert that's like leaving the Christian Rock station as one of your presets just on the off chance they'll accidentally play Sympathy for the Devil. sure, it *could* happen, but the odds suck.
- Jeremy Toeman
A product made by former Google employees with unreliable search? That's a little ironic. :)
- David Potts
David: search on real time items is a pretty tough problem. Even Google hasn't attempted that one yet. Here's a little test for you. Add a weird word to a comment. Say your son's name. Mine is Milan Scoble. Now wait a minute. Search on that name and you'll find that post in the search results. Google can't do anything close to that.
- Robert Scoble
I'm not blaming them, just pointing out the irony. You're right though, I wasn't considering the real time aspect of it.
- David Potts
29. If you work very, very hard and get more of your own content liked than anyone else's, while at the same time manage to get more followers than anyone else, you will be dubbed the King (or Queen) of FriendFeed. A ceremonial Cape, Gavel, and oddly enough Toothbrush will be sent your way to show off to your peers. You will also receive a 7% discount card good at all participating Chick-Fil-A establishments. All your content on FriendFeed will be permanently bolded. In a nutshell, you be the awesomest!
- Jeremy Toeman
Chris White got blocked by me because he deleted all his comments here. Nasty.
- Robert Scoble
Lindsay: no. Actually he was being a troll the whole way through.
- Robert Scoble
Chris White has done that several times with me, so I ended up blocking him after the fourth or fifth time. :|
- Mona Nomura
@Lindsay: they were like poetry. they were uplifting. they elevated us to a new place. and now, i fear, they are no more. those bits shalt not be seen again, possibly not in our lifetime. another way to say it might be... "I felt a great disturbance in the Friendfeed, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
- Jeremy Toeman
Mona: yeah, that kind of attitude sucks. But he demonstrated a new thing: if you behave like an asshole you will get removed from our view. (and ours from his so he can't disturb us anymore).
- Robert Scoble
Seriously, I don't care if you disagree with me, just be cordial and amicable. If you type out your thoughts, stand by them - why delete? If you make a mistake, apologize or edit, if need be. That's why I like you, Robert. You are opinionated but when you feel like you're wrong, you're man enough to admit it, without resorting to personal attacks. That said, I should've listened to you from day one: block jerks.
- Mona Nomura
yes, block jerks... easy rule to follow. If jerk = block! Why would someone delete all their comments?...that makes the entire comment thread get all incoherent. That is sooo lame it's making me laugh... reminds me of grade school antics... gees
- Susan Beebe
32. Ask yourself: would you follow you if you were someone else? If the answer is "yes" ask yourself again, just in case :-)
- Cristian Vidmar
If you become overwhelmed by the amount of information in your feed try these tips for cleaning and organizing your feed. http://bit.ly/14y
- Keith - @tsudo
Best list yet Scoble. You should import the recommendations into a single post so new friendfeeders don't get put off by all of us commenting.
- Keith - @tsudo
awesome, tx for the search tips. custom search + rss = booyaka!
- xavier vespa
Wow the mashup image looks purty ... I would love something like that.
- Brandon
I'm reading the article and it looks phenomenal.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Great article but it didn't mention some of the nice attention to detail stuff implemented in the taskbar like color hot-track and progress bar animation inside of the task item. You can see the color hot-track feature in a screencast that i just did. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Alan Le
What's color hot-track? Nevermind LOL What's progress bar animation? *edit: OOOH I see it now. It's like Window's version of the doc's magnification and powering up the genie effects. Nice.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
the funny part is that one of the pictures showed he downloaded the it crowd via bittorrent, yeah! very very very funny.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Wow, looks good. Is Microsoft finally catching up? I'm all for usability races. :)
- Meryn Stol
While it is an improvement over the previous taskbar, I personally prefer Mac OS X's expose to manage multiple windows. Dock has never been more than eye candy for me anyway. (I'm a Quicksilver user so I rarely use it)
- Bwana ☠
the dock is the dumbest peace of launchy thing ever!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Am probably in a minority, but I've never liked Windows task bars and find them clunky. I'm with Bwana on Expose and I find the Mac Dock easier to use. User preferences are always interesting.
- Sally Church
As soon as I switched to a Mac, I had no idea wtf I was doing on Windows for so long but I AM excited for Win 7. :)
- Mona Nomura
I haven't been a big fan of the subtle ways the Win7 task bar does some things, especially in relation to pinned vs not pinned apps. But I think it will be really good in the end and better once I learn to use it instead of using it like the old one. I've never thought of the Windows taskbar as clunky though. But I have seen people change the settings to make it that way, never figured out why.
- xero
The taskbar is an improvement... but writing this long article about it is a bit too much... What do I use it for? Starting my favorite browser... We live the web, don't we?
- Aad 't Hart
I thought the article was too short actually, but I do user experience stuff.
- xero
I don't get Areo Peek on my VM so that's a bummer
- Outsanity
i havent laughed like this in a long time - took me a minute to get it haha thanks
- Allen Stern
Shey, if you put it on Flickr or your blog or something, we can link back to it and spread the word....
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't get .......ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL!
- Mike Lewis
you guys are retard i have seen this image 50 times on the internet somewhere....TIRED OF U PEOPLE GOING NUTS OVER SHIT THAT IS SOO BLATANTLY OLD it makes u look inexperienced
- Caroline
Holy crap, who pissed in Caroline's corn flakes this morning?
- Peter Ghosh
Caroline, on behalf of all of FriendFeed, I humbly offer our sincerest apologies for not consulting with you first to get permission to post something that you may have seen but others may have not.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I’m deliberately un-liking this and then re-liking it just to bring it to the top and spite Caroline.
- Guillermo Esteves
I've seen it before. Ive even posted it before ( to stumbleupon ), But that's ok. It's still funny as shit. I'd much rather look inexperienced than come off like I have that "shovel" she's selling shoved up my ass.....sideways.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Apparently, this is the note from the mom to the teacher: Dear Mrs. Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over...
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- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I have never seen this and it's funny! There used to be a strip club in my town and the cafeteria workers at the school say a student used to pay for lunch with a lot of wrinkly $1 bills.
- mandyvan
"I know I need to clean the mirror. It will wait until the weekly housekeeping on Friday. This is me as I am, big belly and all. What made me take this picture is the fact that when pictures of fat women scroll across friendfeed, everyone is quick to "eww" and "hide!" instead of recognizing that there are some of us that are perfectly comfortable with ourselves and our bodies just as we are. So, this is not your typical fat girl "from the neck up" shot. This is me, shirtless, showing you my spare tire. Baring all for the world to see. Okay, not all, but you get my point. Beauty is everywhere; we have to first see it for ourselves, before others can see it with us."
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
i myself do not generally like jokes about people's weight.
- edythe
Monique, I love your outer beauty but most of all I love your wisdom about loving yourself and sharing the realization that 'media' beauty is not beauty but skin and bones and empty thoughts. Real woman, real wisdom=Monique
- Janet
Big belly? Can't see it - my eyes are scroll-locked a few pixels north.
- Kamath (नमः)
You look so serious, almost mad. Otherwise, good on ya'.
- Kenton
this post is just one of the reasons why you rock!
- jbrotherlove
like x 100! I also am really disappointed in the fat shaming/fat phobic comments I see on FF. It's equally tiring when, after I refer to myself as fat, well-meaning friends quickly say, "oh, you're not FAT!" as if I'm judging myself too harshly. I just don't recognize "fat" as an epithet, anymore (and it really takes people aback when they try to use is as such with me)! It's taken me years to get to this point, but I'm quite comfortable with who I am...fat and all!
- vicster is...
rock on. but yeah, smile next time! :)
- Paul Whitaker
What Paul Said... You need to smile more.
- Santa CW™
LOL! I didn't mean to look mad. I had tried to get the shot so many times and then I figured out I needed to a)turn the flash off and b) hold the camera higher. I'll smile next time. Thanks for all the love and support. You guys rock.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
Getting to know you through Friendfeed, I've found that you are a beautiful woman inside and out. So you're not model thin. Who cares? You're intelligent, funny, and generally worthwhile person to know. :-) I admire how you live your life with passion.
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Aww, thank you, Michelle. It feels good to hear that from one of my girl heroes. <3
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from IM
Your expression in the photo makes me want to give you a hug. Anywho, you are great but I have to hide this because you are topless, thats all.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I wish more large women were as sure of themselves as you are!
- Chrimmus Tad
Great statement, your paragraph there. I hear/see the grumblings of these comments, but I guess I'm not subbed to the wrong people, so I have no frame of reference. It's funny you posted this. I just uploaded some photos to flickr and in choosing, I was thinking, "Damn, I look fat in these." and immediately thought, "Well, if someone can't deal with it, that's their problem not mine. I still look good."
- Admiral Anika
Im glad your comfortable with "YOU" . Dont worry about what society thinks we must look like . If you are happy thats all , that matters
- johnpiercy
I think the problem is that a lot of people see themselves *first* through the filter of other people. If we could learn to just sound out the noise, I think we would be okay.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
Thank you. The last time you got stabbity, Katie kept falling and my shirt popped open. As you can see, I still haven't found it. :D
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from IM
You've got brain, beauty, and a nice rack! :o) I give you major props for "bearing all"!
- Nurse Katie
And Yes....let's not get stabbity. Last time Iw as able to fall seductively, but I doubt that will happen today.
- Nurse Katie
I admire you for doing this, and totally agree. So next time, smile large because you're standing up for YOU.
- Karoli
Dude, what the eff! I thought I had the shirtless market cornered. Now I'll have to diversify. As far as hating on the fat people pics? I'm sure you wouldn't give a rat's ass if people commented about not liking this pic and hiding it. You are confident in how you look and that is attractive by itself.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
And here I thought it wasn't possible for you to get any more awesome. :D You go on with your bad self! One of these days I'll get up the balls to post my own version of this.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
If somebody made me one of those, I wouldn't eat it. I would buy a big glass display case for it and hire a bodyguard to protect it 24/7!!!
- Mark O'Neill
And Singlehandedly, Mona starts a n AT-AT Gingerbread epidemic!
- Bill Sanders
sometimes I wonder if my friends have too much time on their hands. And then I see pictures like this and realize that some people operate on entirely different levels of awesome.
- Fraser
I'll be impressed when I see the gingerbread death star. Ok I'm already impressed..I'll be more impressed!
- Mike Lewis