iSteeve - Likes - FriendFeed

I share all sorts. :-) Lots of photos, photography and tech stuff though. Feel free to sub to me if you like. :-) BTW, you can see who is following you here: http://www.google.com/reader... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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http://www.google.com/reader... - Michael Hocter

Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Müjdat Korkmaz

More often I end up sharing directly through FF even if I find it on GReader, but sometimes I share there. http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.google.com/reader... Just about internet! - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long! - Michael Fidler

Michael, it's not been clear until very recently, you can see notifications here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

Love yr posts :-))))) - Johni Fisher

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lode Nachtergaele

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... ;) - alebaffa from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - OnuRC

thanks for starting this thread - here's mine http://www.google.com/reader... (mostly social media stuff, a little food, and occasional randomness) - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Slater

Kol, thanks! I wish it would tell me when they started following, I'll have to keep a better eye on it now. - Michael Fidler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Mohr

http://www.google.com/reader... - LouCypher

http://www.google.com/reader... - zsafwan 

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony C

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - hope you enjoy! - outofmyarse

Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed? - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steve Lowe

http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - M F

Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Simon Tracey

Yes it's alright I moved here two years ago, I was in West London before that - M F

GREAT FEED - I am finding so many great ppl to follow - this is great. - Liza

M F, I like to move to just over the other side of the stream from you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And your pics are great! I am going to be stuck in greader for a while! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - phil baumann

Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Kim Landwehr

Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - mridul

feedly.com :) - Zach Landes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Bryan R. Adams

http://www.google.com/reader... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

http://www.google.com/reader... #greader #whatsyoururl - Ron Bailey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Parvez Halim

http://www.google.com/reader... but everything I share in reader comes on to FriendFeed. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Daltonsbriefs

http://www.google.com/reader... - the stuff I share there is also on FriendFeed. - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.google.com/reader... mine are mostly science items - Sally Church

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Mostly Tech. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick Humphries

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ozgur Uckan

http://www.google.com/reader... - mixed up content in Portuguese (mainly), English and Spanish. - Marcos

Liza, oooh I love the post on generating Mandelbrot fractals in Excel! - Sally Church

http://google.com/reader... - Anton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Whalen

@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch... - Alex Schleber

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Leahey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Geller

http://www.google.com/reader... - Zachary TG

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lin Yong from NoiseRiver

http://www.google.com/reader... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason A. Nunnelley

http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

http://www.google.com/reader... - Travis B. Hartwell

http://www.google.com/profile... - James (!?)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Warren Butler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Brandon Ball

http://www.google.com/reader... - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Dawson

http://www.google.com/reader... - guilherme

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - dkb

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adi

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mathew A. Koeneker

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alex Scrivener

Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.google.com/reader... Google and other tech stuff, as well as other random things of interest. - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Luckhardt

http://www.google.com/reader... - Peter Ghosh

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/profile... - Kim

http://www.google.com/profile... http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Robin Barooah

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Johansson from Android

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.google.com/reader... - Arthur Guy

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathan Rein

http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek

Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shevonne

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Johnson

No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Roche

LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed. - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Bonner

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vlad Bobleanta

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ivan Pavlov

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

Don't know that I have one, as I eschew most things Google.... - Mike Shields

Not sure if I've already shared it, but my URL is http://www.google.com/reader.... - Tyson Key

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ethan

Thank you guys. - Kol Tregaskes

your welcome kol - Tony C from IM

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I think that I over-loaded my poor G-Reader by adding all of you. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Here is my feed: http://l.clipotech.com/shared - I will try to add all of you on this list :) - Svartling

Don't forget to add all out new contacts in to groups. Otherwise we cant comment on each others shared items. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Almost exclusively tech, including humor/cartoons and productivity. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people. - Dusty Edenfield

Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users. - Dusty Edenfield

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Roberto Bonini

http://www.google.com/reader... - ★Kristy

I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - David Peacock

here's mine! Love some of the new features... http://www.google.com/reader... - tomit

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ken Sheppardson

I don't think I added mine yet: http://www.google.com/reader... - LogEx

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - DGentry

Almost missed this one! http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Arwengrim

http://www.google.com/reader... - Frode Stenstrøm

http://www.google.com/reader... - Aaron Krug

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russell G

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dani Radu

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Remo

I guess I best start sharing stuff, then. :D - http://www.google.com/reader... - Bette Cooper

http://www.google.com/reader... - I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but here's mine. I share mainly technology, photography, design... and other random stuff. - Ryan - @magicofpi

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes! The list I was looking for! I'll get my info on here as soon as I get on my netbook - Kamilah Gill from email

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Hall (Australia)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gtp19

http://www.google.com/reader... - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bluesun 2600

http://www.google.com/reader... - CAJ, somewhere else

http://www.google.com/reader... - Martha

Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did! - Martha

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Logan

The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default! - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tapio Kulmala

Vince, exactly! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nik

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Daryl Hunt on FF

Not sure how I missed this thread. I share lots of tech news, some programming stuff and a little more at http://www.google.com/reader... - Rob Diana

There is also a group that collected a bunch of reader shares at http://friendfeed.com/share-y... - Rob Diana

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick B.

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Nencetti

http://www.google.com/reader... - Slappy Line

http://www.google.com/reader... - Sean Brady

http://www.google.com/reader... - Spidra Webster

http://www.google.com/reader... - Or just go to: Sharing settings on your google reader shared items and search for: Avi Joseph - Avi Joseph

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Delucchi

Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader... - Roy Herrod

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steven Perez

http://www.google.com/reader... - edythe

http://www.google.com/reader... - http://friendfeed.com/kevinar... - Kevin Arth

http://www.google.com/reader... - topics include a bit of everything, but there's a fair about of Android-related stuff in there - Chuck Falzone

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

http://www.google.com/reader... - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Reynolds

http://www.google.com/reader... - AJ Kohn

http://www.google.com/reader... - MLx

http://www.google.com/reader... - German - mostly politics and crude funny things. Maybe some new technology - JoeD

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Stay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Grant Bierman

http://www.google.com/reader... - Neal Jansons

Thank everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... I mostly share ART with a little bit this and that thrown in for good measure. - Kimber Scott

http://www.google.com/reader... - michael sean wright

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bryce Roney

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Ryo: Same here :) "completely moved to Google Reader / Twitter / Posterous" All my followers, please subscribe to me on Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader... or my lifestream: http://l.clipotech.com/lifestr... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alexander Kruel

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Hambling

http://www.google.com/reader... share various science research and news - Colby from iPod

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Moga

http://www.google.com/reader... -- nothing shared yet; still learning several social networks & services, so it might take me a while... - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adrian Scicluna

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mark O'Neill

Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back. - Dennis Jernberg

I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries. - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Imabug

easier to just follow and edit groups from search url>http://www.google.com/reader... - Ru Viljoen

http://www.google.com/reader... - John Ladd

http://www.google.com/reader... - Marko Saric

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Gilbert

Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Rob Diana

There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up. - Rob Diana

tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you very much, Rob! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Right now I'm testing it in comparison to Netvibes. It's yet to be seen if I end up making the switch. - Brad Williamson

http://www.google.com/reader... - ronin

http://www.google.com/reader... - Muge Cerman

https://www.google.com/reader... - Mo Hall

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tal Shafik

http://www.google.com/reader... Mainly photography related things. - Sven

It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds? - Paul Jacobson

My shared stream is at http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Jacobson

Paul, can do that but it will be out of date the moment I post it as I'm getting more new users all the time. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

Maybe someone could hook up something via Yahoo Pipes (or whatever) to automatically generate the OPML? - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Yant

Damond, I'm getting that deja vu feeling. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Whoa, hey, I'm late to this. I'm here: http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Jordan Hofker

I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think. - TobiasVerhoog.com

Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Please dont tell me I have to add everyone manually like I did with Facebook yesterday?? *sigh* - Julia Ault

http://www.google.fr/reader... - Olivier Castets

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... link to my bundle with all my feeds that i have in friendfeed too - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p - browneyes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Edmund Tay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jez Arnold

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

spread those tentacles thats what i say (I'm generally sharing comics, animation, and interesting weirdeness) : http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Greer

Exactly, Paul. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gerald Hildebrandt

There are a few people that have not added me to a group and so I cannot reply to some of your comments. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - flaimo

http://www.google.com/reader... - Charles Owens

http://www.google.com/reader... - Johnny

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenley Neufeld

http://www.google.com/reader... - OK I'm in. Late as always. Will post my thoughts, feedback and pleading requests for help over in Google Reader so please follow me over there. Eat your own dog food and all that. - Andy C

MF/Kol = I live in Kingston on Thames. It's OK apart from the traffic (continually gridlocked) and the shops (girls just lurve them). Handy for getting into London both airports and out to the Thames Valley for work type things. Richmond Park and the river in walking distance is great too. - Andy C

phew.. - Paul Greer

Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think. - Kol Tregaskes

Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Customized with numbers - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

@Kol many years ago, we made the mistake of asking an estate agent in Surbiton whether it was any cheaper than Kingston. She replied 'No - of course not. We are on the fast line to Waterloo' and looked at us as if we were dog excrement. - Andy C

I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Enjoy! - Arvin Dang

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com.au/reader... - Threepwood

http://www.google.com/reader... - jcunwired

Mine; http://www.google.com/reader... - S.D.Allen

Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - masstrovato

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... GReader, Twitter, and Delicious (plus my own sites) are my primary hubs now. Y'all please join me on GReader. - Chris Baskind

http://www.google.com/reader... late as always - Raymundo Roxas

Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - barbarars

Trying Google Reader.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (see http://ff.im/6WRIk) - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... - Claude LaFrenière aka climenole :) - Claude LaFrenière

anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site. - David Gross

Nope, sorry can't help you there, David. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Christopher A Carr

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russ jackson - Russ Jackson

Sweet! http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Baer

http://www.google.com/reader... please add! - Brendon Wadey

Jesse, I saw your share of this FriendFeed thread on Google Reader! - John E. Bredehoft

David, I use mobile Google Reader on an older phone with Windows mobile. My bookmark begins with google.com/reader/m/view - John E. Bredehoft

Here's mine...http://www.google.com/reader... - Oscar Antonio Moralí

Aloha! http://www.google.com/reader... - Ryan

check it out...http://www.google.com/reader... - Cos

Will share tech, science and skepticism, and education news stories: http://www.google.com/reader... - TC

in case anyone missed it, mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Irma Vermaat

more cool - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.google.com/reader... - Anthony Citrano

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Ferguson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Otto

I share interesting articles about Internet music, social media, open content and copyright issues: http://www.google.com/reader... - David Holmes

Your kids are so adorable. :) - EricaJoy

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Thanks, Erica. I promise they're (usually) even better in person. - Louis Gray

Can you tweet from it? - Johnny Worthington

Matthew+argyle sweater vest = well beyond epic cute :) (Merry Christmas Louis) - aden

I want that sweater vest! - Derrick from iPhone

Derrick, I think it would look awesome on you. Just a question of sizing. - Louis Gray

I say we but a couple dozen and sew them together. - Derrick from iPhone

When he's done with it, can Bert+Ernie borrow it to play? B+E are really out of hip toys to play with at the moment: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Derrick, do you want a rocking horse also? - John E. Bredehoft

I was disappointed to hear from Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr that it looks like the International Olympics Committee is playing hardball with people over photos of the Olympics on Flickr. Duncan points us to the letter at left sent from the IOC’s Director of Legal Affairs, Howard M. Strupp, to photographer Richard Giles. The letter is a legal threat against Giles for hosting images of the Olympics on his Flickrstream in what the IOC feels is a violation of the terms and conditions of his ticket. You can read a large size version of the BS letter that the IOC sent to Giles here. This really sucks. - Thomas Hawk

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I don't get this. It sounds like lawyers run amok to me. What does the IOC have to lose by people posting pictures of the events on Flickr? The official photogs are going to get the best pics, no question. If not, then they shouldn't be there in the first place. It would seem to me that the exposure (pun intended) would be good for the Olympics. Are they afraid someone is going to take a picture of an athlete shooting up before an event? Man, I just shake my head. - Kenton

Kenton, exactly. When are people going to learn that images from your event/business/etc. are largely just free publicity. That the IOC would spend legal resources to actually pursue non-commercial use like this while generating negative publicity for their organization tells me that they largely have their head up their ass. - Thomas Hawk

Or bueried in the the sand, thomas. - Roberto Bonini

What do the Terms and Conditions on the event ticket say regarding photographs or video? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

MVB according to this C&D the IOC seems to be saying that the terms say that Olympic photographs can only be used privately. - Thomas Hawk

This being the first Olympic Games as social media and sharing is so mass market, there's bound to be so many Flickr, YouTube, Ustream, Facebook, etc users who don't properly manage their media licensing and get screwed (C&D) or someone unlawfully reuses their media (happens all the time). This is going to get ugly, and mostly for the IOC's image. Is it worse for Vancouver citizens (an incredibly social media friendly city) or the innocent tourist from abroad? - Noah Bloom

So the question I have is, does simply posting images on Flickr and assigning the image an "All Rights Reserved" or CC Copyright constitute "distribution"? Or are they after him because one of his images was publisned/licenced by him to someone else? - Jeff P. Henderson

Jeff, I suspect that the fact that he licensed his images as CC and people chose to use them elsewhere is what spawned the letter. However, if you read the letter they seem to consider any distribution on the WWW as unauthorized use. - Thomas Hawk

I should have my 2010 tickets delivered this month. I'll be sure to share the terms and conditions when I get them. - Andrew Smith

Please do, Andrew. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

This link defines what you can bring into the 2008 Olympic Games. http://en.beijing2008.cn/spectat... Note item 2.5 "unauthorized professional photographic equipment" but they do not elaborate as to what this includes. - Jeff P. Henderson

Here's more from the 2008 Beijing Olympics web site: "Photographing and Videotaping Spectators may take photos and make home videos with their cameras. No disturbance to other spectators or the athletes during the competition will be permitted. No photographed / videotaped / recorded material of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games or the 13rd Paralympic Games may be used for commercial purposes. http://en.beijing2008.cn/spectat... - Jeff P. Henderson

:) - Johnny Worthington

stranger danger! stranger danger! some old guy told me to feel his 404ce! help!!! - Morgan Haley

when it comes up do you automatically repeat "This is not the page you are looking for"? - Jim Misses SP

"For other devotees, however, far more could be read into the image... 1. THE FUNERAL The procession of The Beatles across the zebra crossing, say the conspiracy theorists, represents Paul's funeral. John Lennon leads in a white suit and symbolises the preacher; Ringo Starr is the mourner, dressed in black; George Harrison, in scruffy shirt and trousers, denotes the grave-digger; Paul is wearing an old suit and is the only one who is barefoot. He later explained that he began the shoot wearing sandals but, because it was a hot day, he kicked them off. The theorists believed that if this was the case, the hot tarmac would be too uncomfortable. This, they argued, was a sign that Paul was the corpse. 2. THE CIGARETTE Paul McCartney is left-handed, but here holds his cigarette in his right hand. At the time, cigarettes were commonly referred to as 'coffin nails'. This, therefore, could be seen as a message that Paul's 'coffin lid' had been nailed down and that the man in the picture was a... more... - RAPatton

Wow... I hadn't heard of this conspiracy thing before. Takes a lot of mental gymnastics to get there though. - Yolanda

Well, then there's that whole backwards "Paul's dead" thing to help the thought process along ;) - Michael W. May

Follow me! - TheHenry

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

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

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

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

Yo... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

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

well ok ) - Denverken

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

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

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

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

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

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

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

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

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

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

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

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

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

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

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

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

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

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

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

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

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

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

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

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

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

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

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

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

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

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

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

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

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

following the leader... - John Munro

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

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

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

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

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - Joe

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

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

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

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

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

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

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

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

You've piqued my curiosity. - Kathy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

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

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

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

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

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

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

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

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

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

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

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

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

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

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

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

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

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

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

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

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

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

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

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

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

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

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

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

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

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

Excellent! - Don Strickland

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

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

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

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

blah. - imabonehead

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

i'm in! - Criz

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

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

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

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

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

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

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

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

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

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

why would you do that? - james

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

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

He he :) - Richard Holas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hej hej! - Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

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

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

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

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

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

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

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

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

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

um..... - Spencer

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

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

thanks - Keith

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

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

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

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

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

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

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

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

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

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

@davidorban - David Orban

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

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

ciao Robert! - alex

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

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

Here I be - Robert

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

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

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

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

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

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

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

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

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

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

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

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

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

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

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

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

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

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

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

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

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

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

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

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

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

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

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

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

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

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

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

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

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

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

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

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

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

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

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

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

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

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

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

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

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

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

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

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

HAHAHAHA - Admiral Anika

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Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say. - invariant - farewell FF

frickin sweet! - BEX

LOL - Tibor Holoda

Yup that's exactly what it looks like from here. - Barry Sanschagrin

ROFL - Ethan

So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure? - Geoff Schultz

LOL! too funny. - John Blanton from twhirl

LOL - Roberto Bonini

Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

hahaha, that's funny! - freedom fighter mom from twhirl

What? There's another view? Please post. - Ken Morley

I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere... - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

ROTFL, "the other side" - Roberto from fftogo

Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians! - Santosh

face down and ass in the air! Love it! - John Hillestad

Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming. - Ben Hanten

Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction. - l0ckergn0me

Hilarious :-D - Ace

I literally LOL'd. - Mike Cefalo

Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

awesome - Nick Humphries

I lol´d. - Jens Christian Freund

ahahahahahahah - Adriano Mercurio

LMAO! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses - jay macpherson

Well played, jay. Well played. - Jason Huebel

*access memory: Braveheart battle scene* - Mo Kargas

Too funny! - Mark Harai

Haha... I LOL'ed for real too. - Barbara

wiping away tears. rofl - Capn' One Eye - adrift

+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o) - Ken Morley

Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle - hollyseven

How did I miss this?! HAHA - Mona Nomura

I think somebody has a wedgie! - CAJ, somewhere else

The view from Canada is the rock on the left & Lincoln's shoes. - Wade Dorrell

that is epic. ;) - Philip "dmouse" Campbell

Hilarious! :) - Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom

Awesome! - Timothy Federwitz

hahahaha wtf - tohuko

That's priceless. - Todd Libby

Teddy has a nice butt =p - LouCypher

where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it - Kathi Barrett

That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar? - dannystaple

Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada. - KyNam Doan

haha ace babes xx - abigailashleawhitaker

This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :) - John Pyper

Clever folks with clever tricks have once again found a way to enable tethering on iPhone 3.0. The workaround allows AT&T subscribers (among others) to enable tethering without hacking or paying a fee. It works by tweaking the carrier settings with an iPhone configuration profile. After installing the profile, tethering is automagically enabled! - Leo Laporte

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Worked like a charm! YAY! - Jason Huebel

Worked nicely - PR3F1X

I'm getting 2mb/s downloading - Clayton Mehring

Want to get into Flickchart before the rest of the world? Sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/flickch... - Louis Gray

Louis, thanks for your write-up on Flickchart. We really appreciate it. Hope your readers enjoy the site! - Nathan Chase

I've signed up and ranked almost 200 movies. Flickchart is fun! Here's my review of the ups and downs of the service: http://friendfeed.com/dpritch... - Daniel J. Pritchett

I love this kind of stuff. I try to explain this to my younger students. Nothing is forever. - TonyatMATC

so important to remember that everything is point in time. and time keeps on changing. - Richard Zeidel

"But at a time when other popular search sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos have all morphed into diversified entertainment portals, is there really a future for a pure, advertising-supported search tool?" - Paul Buchheit

"Leslie, have you visited our online t-shirt store?" Where is friendfeed's t-shirt store? lol - Ashwani Kumar

I don't know, but I gained instant expertdom when in 2000 I entered firstname lastname of a present party into the searchbox, pressed "I'm feeling lucky" (not a concept easily portable to non-AngloSaxon cultures btw), and landed on Firstname Lastname's dental clinic's page. While the AltaVista drew blank. Go figure. - ianf ⌘

I'm pretty sure it was that PC magazine article on Google that got me to try it. I could tell immediately that it was better than what I was using at the time, and switched to it. I spread the word around our lunch table at Bell Labs, and pretty soon we were all using it. Rob told me about Amazon, I told him about Google :) - Howard Trickey

"as good as Google was in 1998 and 1999, it ... wasn’t as good as it would later become". Measured by what? Is it possible that the results quality distance to the next best search engine might have been higher back then than it is today? - Philipp Lenssen

Philipp, you're of course aware that "results quality distance" is a pretty esoteric metric? - ianf ⌘

No, I think it's actually the most intuitive thing, though I might have failed to word it well. The quality distance to the search engine you're used to is simply the thing that 1) makes you want to switch, 2) tell your friends, 3) determines the "wow" factor, 4) determines how useful you feel it is etc. It's much less abstract than a comparison towards a hypothetical tool of the future... more... - Philipp Lenssen

Tried Google for the first time in 1998 or 1999 and never switched back to Altavista (same thing happened when switching from Archie to Altavista and sometimes FTPSearch a few years earlier). btw. according to "A Brief History of Search Engines" - http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~chip... - archie was the first internet search engine and it used the grep... more... - Amund Tveit

How long did the switch from Mosaic to Netscape take? :-) That happened before it was out of beta. - iSteeve

What I got from this history isn't that Google got better, but that all of its competitors didn't realize the value of the search engine and "killed" themselves. The big idea at the turn of the century was that portals were going to be king due in part to Yahoo's success. When all the search engines went that route and failed, Google was the only one left. If we're supposed to learn... more... - Mark Trapp

I can't say "how long it took the world to supplant AltaVista with Google," but, in global terms, it wasn't very long, two years perhaps, before AltaVista fell into disrepute. I believe the key to Google's success was PageRank and persistence of its vision, which at the time was largely unfathomable to outsiders: daisy-chained containers filled with racks of cheap hardware doing massive... more... - ianf ⌘

:( - LB - not a snow bunneh

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Images have a different quota: "Each doc can have a maximum size of 500K, plus up to 2MB per embedded image." http://docs.google.com/support... - Ionut

I think that as cloud computing gets more popular, we are going to start seeing quotas reduce on free services. This opens the market commercial providers (like Amazon) maybe? - Jim Connolly

The limitation has more to do with performance. It's difficult to edit a document that has 1 MB of text in a browser. Think about all the JavaScript functions that process the text. - Ionut

Really? That's a little pants. So my 40-120Mb Excel sheets won't fit then. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah that's bad. - Svartling

@Kol: Google Spreadsheets has different limitations: 256 columns, 200,000 cells, or 100 sheets--whichever is reached first. You can import spreadsheets up to approximately 1 MB ( according to this very useful help page: http://docs.google.com/support... ). Excel 2003 has significant limitations for a desktop app: 65,536 rows by 256 columns. - Ionut

I hit those limits easily with the sheets I do for work. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

yes, it's really a weakness - Simone Lovati

I believe Zoho's limit is 10MB - which means practically unlimited, perhaps with the exception of huge PPT - Zoli Erdos

Finally - the pictures are now in the order I wanted them (kinda) - Mona Nomura

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I just grubbed on some Sakura Mochi. nom - Rodfather

Ooooh checking your feed! - Mona Nomura

everday is girls day :/ - chaz2b

yum.... - Bindu Reddy

One of the things I love about Japan is every month, we celebrate something - and it's themed. From the food, to decor, -sigh- I miss Tokyo. - Mona Nomura from IM

Mona, how long did you live in Tokyo? I was in Tokyo for a couple of weeks and loved it. Watching the Harajuku girls was really fun - Bindu Reddy

LOL I lived consecutively for three years but go back at least once every one to two years. I have tons of friends and immediate family there. :) - Mona Nomura from IM

Happy girls day, Mona - I'm glad we have girls :-) - Jesse Stay

girls rock! - BEX

I'm celebrating by catching up on Damages! YEAH! - Mona Nomura from IM

http://japanese.about.com/library... - Mike Reynolds

Domo. - Steven Perez

I forgot about it until my cousin called me earlier :) - Tamara

Hinamatsuri :) - vijay

Yup. HInamatsuri :) - Mona Nomura

Cute! Happy Girls, Day! - Anna Haro

You too, Haro!! - Mona Nomura

I like to know about these like other nations Days and celebrations! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Japan has a different celebration every month. :) - Mona Nomura

Actually, yesterday (3/3) was girls day in Japan. It's 3/4 in Japan today. - KyleHase from twhirl

Um well today is 3/3 in the USA. But thanks for the info, Mr. Human Calendar. - Mona Nomura

;) - KyleHase from twhirl

:) - Mona Nomura

I think you meant to say Girls' Day - Bryce Roney

امین فارسی و تهمتن فرزادنما در حالی که دارن برا هم لوس میشن :))) - atalmatal

You think or you know, Bryce? :) - Mona Nomura

Girls are awesome. - Jim Norris

Ya and boys smell. - Mona Nomura

3/3 is girls day. 5/5 was boys day (now chldrens day). Many in Japan joke that 4/4 is gays day. - KyleHase from twhirl

Then what about 6/6!!!!!!!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

@Atalmatal Unfortunately i can not understand your language , Engilish or Japanese Please - Farzad

@Farzad Zamani 6/6 is lesbian's Day - Farzad

Yes we celebrated with girls day eating out! Not kidding- we had a Japanese with us, and when I got confused over cinqo de mayo (i'm lame, I know) she goes "don't worry, it's Girl's Day!" haha - anna sauce

GASP! Love Japan and all the cute girly stuff there. - Felicia Yue

This year for girls' day in Japan, my wife and mother-in-law made "osekihan" (a sticky rice that's colored reddish purple for celebrations, especially those involving girls). I ate the osekihan and did not even realize it was girls' day. That's after getting out the hina dolls and so on. What a dolt. - Rick Cogley

Some people are truly self-loathing, Mona. - Akiva Moskovitz

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ok..I love Dr. Pepper, but that is just WRONG. ewww. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Whaaaat????? Like it is so bad, it is good? That only works for campy movies. - Martha

"You should try it hot. - Kevin Fox" BARF - Mona Nomura

Nuthin' says YUMMM like hot flat pruney tasting soda. - Joe Pierce

Too lazy to put Dr. Ps in the fridge, so I've been drinking room temperature diets all day, hah. - Brooks Bishop

Gross Brooks LOL - Mona Nomura

A buddy of mine likes to drink stale ass, warm ass, 3 week old dr pepper. gross. - Beau Liening

Beau that is hilarious - the Internet is teaching me A LOT today LOL - Mona Nomura

Some people put peanuts in their R.C. cola. - Rob Haas

some people take wieners up the pooper. it's not something i'm interested in trying, and neither is Dr. Pepper HOT. I like my pooper wiener-less and my Dr. Pepper ice cold! - Morgan Haley

ewww. I can't believe that so many people drink this stuff at anything but Ice Cold... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

ugh, hot doctor pepper? Can't even image that one. Much like deep fried twinkies, boggles the mind - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

I love Dr. Pepper. That is all. - Will Higgins™

Mona, they use it as a laxative when hot. - Michael Forian

i've had a few flaming dr. peppers in my day, does that count? - grant fox

nope...those are too cool ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Only when I'm hammered, or in the desert! - Lokei Atikus™®

Some people juggle geese. [/FIREFLY] - Steven Perez

Sounds not so good. Haven't drank this in a long time! - orionstarr

You haven't had Dr. Pepper if you haven't had it with a half habanero. Not recommended hot though. - Daniel Dulitz

Man I actually thought more people where using this fantastic service. I guess it's a little more geeky than Twitter or Facebook. I think most simply use it to aggregate their feeds and not really interact. My guess is <10% - Kasper Sorensen

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Kasper, great estimation :) It is a little bit less than your prediction. - Alp

I think that number's probably a little deceptive, given the way FriendFeed handles "friend of a friend". That is, you see everything your friends Like or comment on. Of those folks with <40 subscriptions, how many subscribe to at least one user who has >1,000 subscriptions? - Ken Sheppardson

Where is the 220,000 number coming from? - Brian Sullivan

Brian, I can't say but most probably it is between 200,000 and 240,000. Ken, you're right. Sometimes people subscribe to 10 people and have many followers. To conclude, there are ~16,000 users which are following at least 40 people. - Alp

Are you talking about followers or subscriptions? Ah... ok... I'm not talking about followers at all, just subscriptions. If the 40 people you subscribe to are each subscribed to 1,000 users, your view's pretty much the same as somebody who subscribes to 1,000 users who each follow 40. - Ken Sheppardson

Woow, I wasn't far off then. I surprised myself there, spend about 2 seconds coming up with that guess ;-). Interesting numbers anyway, sad the number of users aren't higher. I want to use friendfeed more extensively, but my worry is that it will be a trap that prevents you from exploring the less geeky social media platforms that are aggregated here. Plenty of interesting people are... more... - Kasper Sorensen

the general population already have facebook status updates, and most of their friends are already on facebook. - Joshua Schnell

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The thing I tell people asking about Twitter is, if you don't already get the idea of subscribing to information (RSS, etc), then you're probably not going to get much out of Twitter. You can send your Facebook status to Twitter and tell the world the minutiae of your life, but no one is probably going to care except maybe the same people you know on Facebook already and they're... more... - Kevin Kuphal

They're both over- and under- welled. They either see to much noise. Or don't know how to use tools to find the info they want. - Stephen Breen

I agree with Josh - Facebook has stolen most of the thunder away from Twitter, and most people are already following people they want to see on Facebook, and celebrities too with Pages. - Mike Nayyar

It's very interesting. Both news anchors agreed they preferred Facebook. Twitter is easier to use on the face of it but the rewards of Twitter are much more difficult to perceive. - Leo Laporte

Because it's stupid? It's impossible to convey anything useful in 140 characters. - Eric P

I don't believe the average user comprehends that Twitter goes beyond simple "status updates" and goes into conversations. This is evidenced by the commenting on Facebook status updates - the large percentage of Facebook users use status updates for that purpose exclusively, and don't really see the value or usefulness on commenting or having a conversation on what people update on Facebook. - Mike Nayyar

Facebook is not that popular here in the Philippines, Friendster is. But I have the impression that our corner of the globe was not represented well in those studies that say Twitter has a low retention rate. Unless I'm wrong. Lastly, Plurk is more popular than Twitter among Filipinos. - Jhay Rocas

Did they give a specific reason to prefer facebook over twitter ? - Kashif Khan

Because they don't hit the follow threshold that gets them enough interaction to demonstrate what Twitter offers. Twitter should have an intro page that describes how to reach that sweet spot. When I originally signed up, I didn't get it at all and my account was fallow for a year at least. Then I gave it another chance after reading more about the service. I'm glad I did. - Carolyn Jewel

But the way twitter handles conversations is not that great ( from a UI point ). Having comments under the fb status allows the users to keep track of what you were talking about. If im not mistaken tweetie for mac handles that - Kashif Khan

Geeks aside, people tend to go where their friends are currently. I think we just view the world differently then the general population. We try to find the next cool and innovative thing, whereas they just follow their friends around from one service to another. A services worth to them is directly tied into how many of their friends are currently using it. Us geeks move from one service to another at an accelerated rate when compared to the general population. - Joshua Schnell

From talking to my non-geek-but-social-web-using friends, I think Joshua Schnell nailed it. - Mark Traphagen

Facebook is just far more rewarding for personal interactions. I've heard/read this a million times - when you post something on Twitter - and you don't have loads of followers or aren't a celebrity - it's like a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it. You will generally get no responses, or just one (from your other friend on Twitter). I find Facebook more of a personal space,... more... - Larisa

It might also be worth noting that when a new user asks about twitter that get told about 20 different services that are better then twitter. - Stephen Breen

Simple. Twitter is a tool for the tech-savvy/digerati. People are still just getting their head wrapped around Facebook at this point (most of them still use MySpace). Look at the percentage of the population who still use dialup or AOL. There is a huge amount of people online that are severely behind the curve. How in the world would you expect the Oprah sheep to understand what to do with Twitter? - Fleagle

Because the new-user experience is terrible. - Dave Winer

Twitter is inane - Jonas Rudofsky

I agree with Fleagle. I would like to think otherwise, but everyone who doesn't fall into that category ends up leaving twitter eventually. Maybe 10% of all I have pitched twitter to actually stick around. - Drew Lucas

Maybe it's because Oprah gets 700k followers overnight, and hardcore twits spend over a year and don't come close. When the system is rigged *and* people are just learning to understand the medium, people flee. - Kevin Elliott

agree with Dave Winer, the new user experience leaves a lot to be desired. I've shown Twitter to friends and a lot of them just simply don't get it. - Chris Pugh

If after a couple days there isn't some strong compelling reason to maintain their presence they move on. PPL are A.D.H.D with networking. Unless they get an immediate high, they're gone. Look, I joined twitter in Feb. of 07. After a few months I left because I didn't feel community. I eventually came back because my people had moved to it. You go where you feel comfortable. - Sheryl

...I'll add my vote for the "Facebook explanation"...i have FB friends who ask me: "Why do I need Twitter if I'm already on Facebook?" - .LAG liked that

If you are a Facebook user coming to Twitter it won't make a lot of sense. Twitter is a stream is what is happening at the moment, not a cluttered mess of embarrassing party photos (aka FB). Twitter's temporal nature is fundamentally different so I think many of the new users are flocking over simply because some big names are there but don't grasp the temporal "what is happening at this moment" nature of Twitter. Like the spoken word you say something and then it’s gone in the Ether (hopefully). - Vern Hume

People are trying to use Twitter like other social networks when you cant. It has its own constraints & must be treated as so. - Damien Basile

It's a mistake to call many of these people "users" in the first place. People just want to come by, kick the tires, see what the fuss is about, and perhaps grab their user name if they're particularly savvy. It's the Twitter equivalent of "shopping cart abandonment", or not converting your "N-day Free Trial" over to a paid membership. - Ken Sheppardson

On Twitter, it's possible to build a community around an idea, and have an ongoing conversation that people can hop in and out of. The more you know about how to use Twitter, the more useful it becomes. For instance, I host Gratitude Gatherings monthly on the 2nd Sunday, and myself and may Twitter friends post daily #gratitude shout outs. It's a way to stay motivated, and connected at the same time. People don't stick around because they don't find the benefit quickly enough. - Lasára Allen

Leo, be sure to address the measurement issue! The Nielsen study only measured visits to twitter.com, excluding people using third party apps. Therefore, it's hard to tell whether the retention rate stats are accurate. But if they are, I suspect that it's the low amount of content vs. other services. - John E. Bredehoft

I believe twitter is far more valuable than most people would give it credit. The large number of my Interviews have been spawned from twitter. People connect on twitter, but real conversation is taken elsewhere. - Sheryl

There's a feeling of insecurity that if you are not a biz owner or expert in media that no one wants to read what you have to say. How do you reconcile that? - Cyndi Brigham

Cyndi: I would say quite the opposite is true. So-called 'experts' in media are those who are typically shied away from. Nobody believes there are experts anymore. If you call yourself an expert most will turn off. - Sheryl

What, huh, retort, minuscule mental capacity dedicated to your... what? Hey, that's pretty. - Jason Nunnelley

I think most of the general population simply doesnt get why they should tell the world at large what they're doing in the first place. - DawnOwar

For the majority of the population Twitter is a cute idea, but when the reality of regular updating sinks in, teamed with not having enough friends also on Twitter responding, they fall off. The stayers are people who use Twitter as part of a bigger picture, whether it's marketing, business etc - David Eedle

there's people that USE it and then there are posers... - Brian Appleby

Still hard for regular Joe to understand who to follow. Especially someone you are interested in. Then its difficult for people to take the leap and to contribute if you are not used to being out there in the public internet space. Facebook is private and a closed community of your friends, and so people are much more confortable contributing within the closed community. Twitter is more like taking a leap outside your private space and putting yourself out there. - Lawrence Di Stefano

I quit when they gave up their instant messenger compatibility. - Dburdett

If they don't participate in other forms of social media (blogs, bookmarking,etc) they may not have enough skin in the game to stay. - Ms_Krista

I'd say, Internet Marketers, Already read the blogs everyone tweets, limited conversation abilities, and, "What the hell is so social about 140 characters and tinyURLS!" - Barry

Twitter takes a while to understand and use. I joined, did little for months, then went back, started playing with it, now I'm active. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Twitter requires more dedication and intelligence than FB. - Spotcher

WTH, Spotcher? :o More dedication... maybe. More intelligence? I could make a dig at Twitter users here, really I could, except that insulting myself wouldn't be all that edifying :P. But seriously, that claim seems to just come from way out of left field. Typing and (pretending to) read 140 character blurbs does not a Mensan indicate ;). - Adam Lasnik

@Leo the whole retention discussion could be moot for one very big reason - Twitter API and 3rd party clients http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index... - Steven Hodson

adam, I beg to differ. 140# is a challenge. being selective and self editing does require intelligence. I'm not saying microblogging is the only intelligent SM solution, but in the context of retention rates Twitter requires more from its successful users than other SNs - Spotcher

Spotcher, two things. 1) My cat is eating a cheese sandwich. Contrasted against a thoughtful post or article detailing information, philosophies, options, extended wit, thoughtfully crafted charts, etc. Which most likely is a greater indicator (or result of) intelligence? and 2) I think you mean "persistence." :) - Adam Lasnik

of course when it comes to earnings per user it's no contest. Twitter is around zero. FB is somewhere south of a buck per annum. ;) - Spotcher

Twitter is too hard for most plebs. - Will Higgins™

Really, Will????? - Roberto Bonini

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing nothing. - Bill Hice

Hahaha... true - Johnny Worthington

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Only now we have Tweetie for Mac so we can read even more banal tweets per second. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

best Scoble post of all time. - Jim Misses SP

Well, at least I found an update worthy of going on a Tshirt! - Chris Parton

amen - Alejandro

Wow you guys really not keen on twitter round here are you! - Scott Gould

Scott: Twitter doesn't recommend following me, and I don't recommend following it. I do use it, though, and have for years. - Robert Scoble

also, it doesn't matter if celebs are on twitter. the best part about twitter is that you only see what you want to see. you don't HAVE to subscribe to the celebs any more than you HAVE to read the tabloids every week. - girk

hahahahaha - J. Abdul-Qahhar

girk: I autofollow anyone who follows me so that my followers can send me DMs. Unfortunately that means more and more spammers and robot accounts. - Robert Scoble

i'm more concerned about all of the illiterates who are joining. it hurts my eyes and my brain and my heart to read all of their terrible excuses for the english language. same solution as before (ie don't follow them), but since my username is @melissa now, i see them a LOT in my @reply tab...... - girk

girk: yeah, luckily I'm safe from the worst of that, although I'm watching a lot of average Tweets just to see what effect the masses are having on Twitter. So far I don't see much of any effect at all. This post was halfway in jest, but it's closer to the truth than you might realize. - Robert Scoble

I know you do - and it was on your recommendation I started with FriendFeed (albeit, still getting into it) - Scott Gould

http://blog.famebook.com/fameboo... - Jan Simmonds

LOL - it's so true. Genuine connections are becoming harder and harder to come by - Scott Gould

I'm guilty in adding Ashton & Demi. I added them before Ashton had the "war" with CNN though. I also have Brent Spiner (but if he keeps it up, I'm going to unflollow him), LeVar Burton, Anderson Cooper and Stephen Fry. Stephen's tweets are sometimes amusing. *lol* I refuse to add Oprah or any other celeb though. - Molly, New Ears :P

I look back on the time that I spent on Twitter back in mid and late 2007 with mostly fond memories. Now, not so much. - Chris Parton

The biggest joke to me is Ashton's declaration of the power of social media - whilst being advertised on TV??? Excellent post for those who haven't read it: http://is.gd/sZLi - Scott Gould

I completely agree - with or without celebs Twitter is what it is and always will be. And, we can use it or not use it accordingly. So what's the big deal? - Martha

It's just as easy to ignore celebs on Twitter as it is anywhere else! - Larry Hawes

http://friendfeed.com/e... Britney Spears' is following ewing2001 on Twitter ; - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

None of my family members, close friends, or business colleagues use any of these tools (I've always been the resident propeller head), so the crowd on Twitter is actually kind of fun for me. Not at all interested in engaging with the Hollywood celebs, but the the flow of the overall discussion strikes me as worthwhile, probably because I take a pattern recognition approach, and proceed accordingly. For me, the first few go- rounds were less engaging--critical mass lacking. - Kathy Fitch

The background is by angel69light: http://angel69light.deviantart.com/art.... The Rainmeter skins by Chaebi69: http://chaebi69.deviantart.com/art... - Admiral Anika

Where is the life hack article about that, I'd like to set it up. - Whit Scott

The Lifehaker article just pointed me to the pieces I needed: http://lifehacker.com/5158878.... From this, I learned where to get Rainmeter (http://code.google.com/p...). I just searched DeviantArt for my background, anyone will do I guess, and searched DA for the Rainmeter skin by Chaebi69. The Rainmeter skins can be moved around to your liking & there's other features I didn't employ in the screen shot, like the to-do list. - Admiral Anika

yea not sure about this.. it's basically "real time view" with a better UI - andy brudtkuhl

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This is awesome! I need to start following more people NOW! - Lise

I'm trying it based on your recommendation. So far, so good! - Denise Polivy

Wow it moves real fast - coze

It's like IRC now. - Andrew Leyden

And there's always that Pause button up there to slow things down - Craig Eddy

Can I drag people to lists yet? That'd make it easier to organize. - Jordan Hofker

Hee hee, it's like being turned into a pinball! - Mark Dykeman

too awesome - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

If it's too fast, you're too old. - Justin Doub

Why use lists when the people I subscribe to are the ones I want to see? Only reason i have lists is to see specific people that I like to follow and catch up with at the end of the day. Kind of like RSS. - Uncle CW™

no one likes change ,, change is inevitable .. - johnpiercy

It's going to make HIDE much more important. - Andrew Leyden

wow! this is crazy cool - patrick

the list options create great filters. - Peter van Teeseling

FriendFeed as the same potencial than Diigo and the same problem: not easy to use... - António Teixeira

How dare you tell me how to use FriendFeed! (Except that you're right, of course; time to address my lists usage.) - Akiva Moskovitz

I think that we have to introduce segmentation in our reading :) it is fun and exciting :) - abdellah

I would like the icons back saying what type of service the post is from...possibly in the bottom right corner of the avatars. - Paul Arterburn

My parents will hate how active the page is - the next generation, who go at the pace of Wall-E, will eat it up - Christopher Galtenberg

haha, yeah I need to up my game in the lists - haven't had to use - but now I will. But I love it! - Tony

That's dangerous. Lists require lots of thought, work, organization. If there's one thing we know from running Grazr, people do not want to do that (well most non-organization obsessed people). I think essentially forcing the use of lists is a big mistake for broader adoption. - mikepk

I suspect people will trim their subscribe list, while they adjust - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Or the pause button! - Paul Jacobson

so what's the first thing to do that's going to slow this down? - Todd Jordan

I don't mind the speed, but I think there are more elegant things they could do with the UI during live updates (ie: fading to/from colors) and of course letting the user control speed of updates and UI effects. - Ryan Stanley

when he name list, it mean filtering :) - abdellah

Hmm... a few rooms (feeds now?) I created seem to be missing or just not easy to find. Will check out the tour to see if I'm missing something - Dave Ferrick

the one problem with the speed is that what you are scanning suddenly jumps off the page. perhaps a way to "pin" what you are reading temporarily... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

woah neddy.....wouldn't tabs for search terms in the main page be a good idea... - Paul Fabretti

Yikes, is there a pause button somewhere? - Sally Church

This mega-threaded replies really do float to the top. - Andrew Leyden

I guess your world sucks then. - Brian Sullivan

I feel a bit like @scobleizer now. - Mike Reynolds

pause button in upper right corner on blue strip. - Thomas Hawk

+Joelle I think I'm benefiting by having relied on FOAF a lot more than subscribe to everyone interesting. - Micah Wittman

pause top right || - Andrew Leyden

@Sally yes - Ryan Stanley

Sally, Pause icon in top blue bar, right side. - Micah Wittman

i think we'll get used to it. I already use lists, but still it's the motion of what you are reading that is tricky - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

So is this just live in the BETA area or is it going live system wide today? - Andrew Leyden

it's amazing to see the comments pooring in here. - Peter van Teeseling

needs a keyboard shortcut for pause. Or a contextual gesture (like hovering over some part of a story). Having to scroll to the top to pause is clunky - mikepk

Wow, the likes pop up fast! - Steve Rubel

Weird when what you're reading wobbles because there are things going on above it - if the L&F remains, we can dub this the 'newquake' :) - Christopher Galtenberg

I worried that the new oh my god it refresh so fast kill the conversation in FF, I havn't to worry robert thread will be there as long or may be longer then ever - abdellah

Andrew: just in beta area. - Robert Scoble

Oh... the room I created is now under Subscriptions. Okay... - Dave Ferrick

love your new avatar!!!! - B.L. Ochman

wow, love the way the comments roll in...Robert, is your video up? good tips in it? - Richard Binhammer

Pop Up! - Jeff Stannard

I can't WAIT until the twitter-only crowd starts bitching about all of the friendfeed meta convos that are "cluttering up" their twitter streams - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

@Thomas, thank you, thank you! I was getting dizzy just trying to read anything. I hate the fugly UI and the RT speed. Going back to Twitter, at least one can read in peace at own pace there. - Sally Church

Lists are the only way to fly, it seems. :) - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

The world is a river... - Marcelo Nobrega

I use lists but for a completely different purpose. - Brian Sullivan

Hey Scoble, which desktop client do you use for FF? - David Alfaro

LISTS are the only sane way to manage FriendFeed. I've had to learn that once I past a 1,000 subscriptions - Susan Beebe

what happened to the block button - Russ Jackson

I want an RSS feed for a list - Dave Ferrick

dave!! do you want to read your FF list in an rss reader? - abdellah

It pays to be a newbie right now I guess. The speed is to slow. I actually appreciate it being slow right now, gives me a chance to better understand it - Russ Jackson

Yeah, I have my list paused now. I think we will get used to it anyway. It is fun to watch so many different reactions in so little time. - Carlos Lorenzo

Have to say -- the message threading is now very nice indeed. Love the automatic update of comments, too. As I typed this, a couple others came in and didn't disrupt. Sweetness. Now I need to learn about lists. - Anthony Baker

This is really nice so far..liking the realtime comments -DMs are a great addition. Time for more exploration :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I said the same thing, but then everyone told me I gotta use Filters instead.... - Bwana ☠

Lists are king :) Also, just figured out that ROOMS ---> "FEED" - everything is a "feed" type now - Susan Beebe

Your green aura frightens me, Mr.Grinch. - Terence

As I'm one who thinks the quality of interaction went down when lists were added, being forced to make more lists doesn't seem a positive. - Todd Hoff

I thought the whole point of FF was that you didn't have to "learn" a lot about the interface in order to enjoy the experience. Lists kinda ruined things for me, so if that's the only way to enjoy the new FF, I guess I won't be. - Jennifer Dittrich

David: I am using Safari as my FF client. Jennifer: that's never been true. This is a lot easier to learn than the old interface. - Robert Scoble

This will force me to better use lists... - Seth Meranda

You are the Captain Ahab of social media, Robert. ;-) - Chris Baskind

Hehe really fastt :) - Alp

The problem is using lists more actually decreases conversation IMHO. I dunno..... - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

There's also the pause button at the top of the page to stop the auto update. - John F Morton

Yep, agreed. Learn to use lists, use filters, ya gotta learn that sooner or later. I had to do it in Facebook some time ago. - Tom Parish

Do you have a formulas that you use for your lists? - Ed Entrepreneur

The filters are only marginally useful. I don't see any way to filter stuff out of a feed. The options for searching/filtering seem just too basic to be any real use. - Brian Sullivan

Robert, if this is how you've been following Friendfeed ever since you've started, you've become my personal hero. Either you have superpowers or you were born in Krypton. - Jordi Soler from twhirl

you need the pause button accessible from anywhere on the page. I'm 70 plus comments down on this conversation and the screen keeps pushing it down and makes the screen "jittery" to keep your eye on what you are reading. Because the screen is moving fast, you probably need 'comment' 'like' and 'hide' links on each nested conversation on anything over 30 comments - Lou Paglia

now robert may we ask you to share with us some tip about list?!! - abdellah

Brian: what would you like to see in filters? - Robert Scoble

if you think the new FF is too fast, stop trying to follow Scoble's threads ;) - Ryan Stanley

I'm gonna start on the lists :) Way too fast. - Roberto Bonini

Any way to pause on an individual user's page? - Aaron Fowler

abdellah: you need to build lists around interests and personality types. So "noisy jerks" go in one list "quilters" go in another "posts lots of bacon" goes in another "tech geeks" goes in another. Jordi: my life has been real time for more than a year now. This takes it to a new level, though. - Robert Scoble

I would like to see negative searching for one thing -- I want to see everything that doesn't have LOLcats in it for example. - Brian Sullivan

we need a keyboard shortcut for pause. Would help read comments, etc - shaun mclane

We asked for ways to better track our discussions - and now we have an improved version (due to convenient link). - Mike Reynolds

@Brian Sullivan search for cats -lolcats should eliminate them from your results - Ryan

robert, I was thinking like hope that some will not screw the schema of filtering, notice that when we filter using keyword some will may probably try to target some keyword in their feed title . - abdellah

Robert - yep - this definitely is not for the faint hearted. Must be on crack to use this! LOL - Susan Beebe

It's an interesting interface. I'll be looking to see if conversations can still occur with this type of flow. - AJ Kohn

Im curious Robert how many subscriptions do you show under your Subscriptions box. I have 9 and than 90 more. - Russ Jackson

'welcome to my world' ha ha. i think with all the love the RS gives friendfeed on a regular basis it only made sense to improve it - AJK

14221 more. - Robert Scoble

Agreed. I'm going to have to learn to make new feeds to keep using this. Also, I may have to do something to get rid of this light grey background. - Ted Roden

Would you agree that after clicking on the more link there needs to be better organization of that page or can that be organized through lists as well. - Russ Jackson

I need to be able to post updates from a list if they're going to be encouraging me to use lists. - Jesse Stay

The lists/filters system is too complicated - DarknessFalls

The problem is that lets say a video is shared, and I'm watching the video - the page keeps going down, and I can't finish watching the video inside FriendFeed! That's not sharing, is it? - Daniel Brusilovsky

My problem is the lists and the filters create more feeds which create more need for more organization. - Russ Jackson

@Daniel Good point. Perhaps they could open Videos (and similar stuff) in a modal window, allowing the content to scroll ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I think if they auto-pause the UI while I'm mousing over it that might help. It wouldn't need to pause long, just a few seconds. - Matt Griffith

I don't foresee myself being a pioneer on the new FFeed, so hoping to see some interesting articles now that the embargo time has passed - AJK

Just clicked pause for a minute but the counter for queued items doesn't show! - Damian Holmes

Another suggestion on the new real-time updates. Give me keyboard shortcuts to pause the feed. Using my mouse is too slow in a fast-moving feed. - Jesse Stay

There's alot to complain about FriendFeed and it's UI. Still has alot of problems to address. - Chris Rodgers

+1 for Pause keyboard shortcut. - Matt Griffith

Agreed. - Russ Jackson

I think the number of comments went from zero to +100 in les then 45 minutes. - Peter van Teeseling

Ryan -- the "-lolcats" search doesn't do that from what I can tell -- it returns an empty feed. I would also like to be able to search for posts having less than a certain number of likes/comments as well as more . I would like to be able to set up searches/feeds for complex expressions ("-lolcats and -loldogs" or "-lolcats and -loldogs" from a group of people with more than 10 likes and 0 comments for instance). - Brian Sullivan

I Can only image a multi-column FF layout... - Greg Lato

it will happen Greg... has to... would probably actually lessen the jitter effect - Christopher Galtenberg

UI Tweaks, please: keyboard pause, pause button/key on every page with live updating, comment link at end of comments - Aaron Fowler

I love how fast it is going. It's really real-time. - Peter Kruit

Needs a "slow it down" toggle - maybe a slider for the speed? - Jesse Stay

OMG! I see why you bought a separate monitor. - LeighaB

or we have the option of ignoring ff just like twitter gets ignored when I tried to reciprocate even a portion of the followers - Susan Reynolds

@Leigha: Yeah, I can definitely see the need for another monitor for this version of FF. I'm considering it myself. - AJ Kohn

OK, Now I see how the lists work. Much easier to manage. - LeighaB

FriendFeed should take that as a sign - you shouldn't *need* a second monitor to use their service. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse: I view this as a better way to access the data flow - which is what I believe FF is at the end of the day. Why not have a separate place to conduct my data queries while I do other things? - AJ Kohn

@Brian The negative searches work, but you can't just search for "-lolcats". That's just a blank search. Try "cats -lolcats" - Aaron Fowler

For Twitter, the only way I listen in is via search.twitter.com or pure luck. Or via FF for that matter. I view more Twitter content on FF than on Twitter itself. - Mike Reynolds

Brian, yeah I badly want to filter out lolcats too; -cat friends:maverickny seems to work so far - Sally Church

Yeah following 11.5k people is hard. I really need to use lists - Nicholas James

Andrew Leyden is totally right. It's like IRC. - Ian Betteridge

one of my favourite descriptions of twitter: "like IRC meets the whole world" - Dean Whitbread

I'm sorry @scobleizer but your world must die ;) - A.T.

I use lots of lists and filters - I'd love to TURN OFF the real-time updating, please. - Bill Sodeman

I could use a tutorial on how to use lists but do not have the time anyway :o) - David Gross

the new friendfeed filters are awesome. even better than friend lists. - Mike Bruder

by the time i have made a list, this page would have vanished :) - Tatty Gibson

I'm back home & trying to catch up with what's up with the new FriendFeed - I'm assuming it's now live?? Also, I'm not noticing things moving too fast... is that because I'm not following as many people as many of you??? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

ill admit friendfeed looks pretty damn compelling. certainly complex at first blush. - doubledrat

how to use lists? - kang

filter is really a cool thing - kang

certainly faster than twitter right now---still down... - ChaoSurfer

so...when there are a lot of comments...it's not easy to read... - kang

many fail whales tonight - Colin Clark

Moving people from out of my home feed to a different list one at a time is extremely slow. If there's a way to move people out of a list and into a different list in bulk, I haven't found it yet. - Chuck Baggett

Is there any way to select almost everyone on your home list and move them to a different list in one operation? (Similar to how you can checkmark hundreds of messages in Gmail and perform an operation such as tagging or archiving on all of them at one time.) - Chuck Baggett

pleh. that's my reader all.year.long. - vijay

Some of these articles are so dumb: Five Things Men Notice About You First or Six Ways Not to Mess Up a First Date. Seriously? - Mona Nomura

Yes, sir. Google Reader. - Mona Nomura

Congrats to the happy couple! - Jorg Jansen

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hahaha when are you getting married? - Alfredo

Congrats! - Chieze Okoye

Haha! Good thing you decided not to shun the internet today, eh? :p - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Wow:) Congrats! - Jemm

He's already spoiling me with sweet nothings on my Facebook wall! No longer anti April Fool's ;) - Mona Nomura from IM

YAY!!! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! :-D - Ladybug Heather

Wow, that is so romantic! Congratulations and many happy returns. ;) - Martha

Mona - The Republicans will be calling you soon, to learn your degayification arts. Meanwhile, the hippies are moving to destroy you and your ability to degay the world. Everyone must choose sides now. SAVE THE ASIAN THE WORLD - Matthew DeVries

The funniest part is my real friends who have no idea who Derrick is, are IMing me like mad LOL - Mona Nomura

:D - WorldofHiglet

I will be a decent and honorable husband, mi amor. - Derrick

Jealous. - Christian (Simply X)

congratulations! Did it come as a surprise? (mine did, at the time, I made it really difficult, didnt feel like going anywhere for any surprise etc. etc.) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

it's about damned time! - Jim Misses SP

Hehe, cool. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

riiight Mona riiiight - Gordon Swaby

I fell for FIVE April Fool's stories - one of which you outright called me an idiot for. I deserve some happiness!! - Mona Nomura

Congratulations!!!! - Roberto Bonini

Awww, if true, many congratulations to you. The oversized geek is getting one heck of a gorgeous woman! - jcunwired

Jodi :) - Mona Nomura

Congrats & cheers. All the best! - Dave Martin

This was SO this morning - I am now in an Open Relationship with Erin @QueenOfSpain and attempting to get a polygamous relationship status approved. ;) - Mona Nomura

Congratulations! I noticed your Open Relationship with Erin @QueenOfSpain on Facebook. Hey, be engaged with as many peeps as you can handle.;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Well, social media is about friends... :) - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

Congratulations! - Nicholas James

Sweet!! Congrats Mona =) - Praveen Vasudev

congrats Mona!!! Thats awesome - (jeff)isageek

Mona, I live in Utah - if my wife approves you can always join us. I might get excommunicated from my faith though, so don't tell Louis. ;-) (oh, and don't tell my wife either because there's no way she'd approve) - Jesse Stay

Jesse, stay away from stereotypes. CTR. - Louis Gray

CTR :) - Trish Haley

Yes, Bishop Gray :-P - Jesse Stay

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